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cpurdy

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Husband, father, male swimsuit model, programmer, world famous actor, executive. Creator of the Ecstasy programming language and the xqiz.it cloud platform; previously creator of Tangosol/Oracle Coherence. Trying to be a decent person.

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arstechnica, to random
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Judge halts Texas probe into Media Matters’ reporting on X

Texas attorney general remained silent on claims of First Amendment retaliation.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/judge-halts-texas-probe-into-media-matters-reporting-on-x/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

cpurdy,
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@arstechnica "Texas attorney general ..."

You spelled "Texas criminal and corrupt politician" wrong.

arstechnica, to random
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Google kills “One” VPN service, says “people simply weren’t using it”

Did anyone want a VPN from the Internet's largest data collector?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/google-is-killing-off-its-one-vpn-service/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

cpurdy,
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@arstechnica Yeah, the KGB also is having problems attracting users to its VPN.

QasimRashid, to random
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Boomer: At your age in 1970 I paid off college and bought a house with hard work.

Millennials: At your age in 1970 college was 5% of median salary—Now it’s 44%. A median home was $24K—Now its $417K. The top marginal tax rate was 70%—Now its 37%. You worked hard—and then closed the door behind you.

cpurdy,
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@QasimRashid Truth.

Meyerweb, to random
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Error 04/04: Day not found

cpurdy,
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@Meyerweb In other news, the other Eric Meyer is suing (but he's not suing you):
https://wapo.st/3vABxu7

arstechnica, to random
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Missouri AG sues Media Matters in lawsuit echoing Elon Musk’s complaints

Media watchdog slams "meritless, expensive, and harassing investigations."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/missouri-ag-sues-media-matters-in-lawsuit-echoing-elon-musks-complaints/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

cpurdy,
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@arstechnica I for one welcome our new South African emerald mine owning overlords.

tzimmer_history, to random
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What Makes “Project 2025” So Dangerous

Will the Right be able to implement these radical plans? Is Trump on board? What happened to traditional conservatism? Let’s tackle some of the key questions surrounding “Project 2025”

A thread, based on my new piece:

🧵1/

https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/what-makes-project-2025-so-dangerous

cpurdy,
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@tzimmer_history I wish they'd stop calling fascists "Christian" and "conservative", when they are just fascists. Nothing Christian or conservative or evangelical about these people.

This country had a reasonable conservative movement, and a reasonable liberal movement, and (as always) some extremists on either end, and lots of people in the middle who didn't care.

Now, we have moderates (including Democrats) and extremists (Republicans), and basically no one is permitted to not "take a side".

arstechnica, to random
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That moment when you land on the Moon, break a leg, and are about to topple over

"We hit harder than expected and skidded along the way."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/that-moment-when-you-land-on-the-moon-break-a-leg-and-are-about-to-topple-over/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

cpurdy,
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@arstechnica If only there were a game that simulated this, then they might have prepared better.

cpurdy, to random
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Not new news, but nice to see it covered by another major paper: https://wapo.st/42YuMyl

Daojoan, to random
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Modern work:

you get a message in Slack with a link to the Confluence doc to prep for the meeting on Zoom, where you take notes in Notion, and track project progress on Monday and then update the Trello and you get to the end of the week and instead of doing fucking anything you've just moved bits of information around in 17 different databases and each one costs $15 a month per user...

cpurdy,
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@Daojoan I feel judged.

DemDifference, to random
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• Inflation down

• Real wages up

• 14.1 million jobs added under Biden

• Unemployment at just 3.7%; it's now been under 4% for 22 straight months, the longest stretch of super-low unemployment in over 50 years


cpurdy,
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@DemDifference It doesn't matter. As long as the choice is betweeen a traitor and Biden, I'd vote for Biden. Even if he were already dead.

Real Americans don't vote for traitors.

lovelylovely, to random
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👍

cpurdy,
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@lovelylovely People who vote for Trump do so precisely because he's going to (in Trump's own words) "terminate the constitution". The "we want a stupid, corrupt, and cruel dictator" movement seems oddly out of place in America, doesn't it?

We not-insane people assume that Americans around us are not insane, and every time we are sadly proven wrong.

Popehat, to random

I don't post on here much any more, or monitor it much, so probably better to find me on Bluesky if you need me.

De gustibus etc. No platform is perfect. But I feel more comfortable there, and less like I'm likely to get screamed at for using Latin without a CW or something.

cpurdy,
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@Popehat For anyone else who (like me) had no idea what a "CW" was: https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-content-warnings-cws-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/

And to Ken, I'd post an image with some grade school Latin in it with no alt text, but I don't know how to do that? 🤷‍♂️

cpurdy, to random
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I'm really not sure what's worse at this point: the fact that he's a traitor, or the fact that he's a Nazi who wants to use the power of the United States government to exterminate those who do not worship him. With enthusiastic and violent followers (perhaps as many as 30% of Americans, a similar percentage as supported Hitler's rise in 1930s Germany), we need to prepare for the worst.
https://wapo.st/47rE7Qi

cpurdy, to random
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To me, Smalltalk always seems to be like walking with a Smalltalk developer in New York and crossing a street and almost getting run over and the taxi blows his horn and the Smalltalk developer rolls his eyes and says, ... (continued)

cpurdy,
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... "In Smalltalk, we use a symphony instead of a car horn. The conductor orchestrates the angelic music by sending a message in the form of a baton to each of the musicians, who then in concert produce a melody clean and pure enough for the ears of God himself (or perhaps herself), which then is carried as messages to the pedestrian object, who then can choose to .." and at this point we are crushed by the oncoming taxi.

stuartmarks, to random
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We're having our house painted, so the painters are moving around the house covering up the windows with plastic film. They're covering the sliding glass doors too. It feels like the walls are closing in.

For the love of God, Montresor!

cpurdy,
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@stuartmarks The're not bricks ...

cpurdy,
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@stuartmarks ... nor a cask ... 🤣

georgetakei, to random

What do folks think of this?
https://www.comicsands.com/houston-dine-and-dash-gratuity-2666062998.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

cpurdy,
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@georgetakei Shocking. Absolutely shocking that something like this could happen in a civilized place like ... um ... Houston. 🤦‍♂️

georgetakei, to random

One of the most conservative Democrats in the House, Jared Golden from Maine, has apologized for opposing a ban on assault weapons in the wake of the deadly shootings in his state. It shouldn’t have to take a tragedy in your own state to come around, but we welcome Rep. Golden in the fight to ban these weapons.

cpurdy,
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@georgetakei We don't even need to ban these weapons. The problem in Maine is that no license is required to buy one, and you can't get one taken away even if you are psychotic and committed to a mental institution involuntarily for threatening to kill lots of people with that same weapon. FFS 🤦‍♂️

VeryBadLlama, to random
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begging dudes like this to realize that no-fault divorce and equal pay laws are the only reason that they don’t know what coffee tastes like when it’s sweetened with antifreeze

cpurdy,
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@VeryBadLlama ... would be a great intro text on Fetlife.

georgetakei, to random

He just won't stop. https://www.comicsands.com/santos-niece-chinese-communists-kidnapping-2666063720.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

cpurdy,
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@georgetakei He learned from the best.

georgetakei, to random

Now it looks like the No. 3 Republican in the House, Tom Emmer, is the new nominee for Speaker. This comes after McCarthy was deposed, and Scalise and Jordan both failed to get to 217 votes. Emmer asked for a roll call vote among his conference, and he looks like he is still more than 20 votes short. And look, Democrats would work with Emmer if he would agree to bring the budget and Ukrainian funding to the floor for a vote. But so far, he doesn’t want to dance with any Democrats. A bipartisan solution remains elusive, so the Speaker’s chair remains empty.

cpurdy,
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@georgetakei

video/mp4

davidho, to random
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At some point, we should ask how this enhances our lives.

cpurdy,
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@davidho If only the AI could use humans as a power source ...

cassidy, (edited ) to random
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For people working on actual privacy-preserving technologies like sandboxing apps from one another and your data, it’s pretty infuriating that Google is steaming ahead with the extreme misnomer “Privacy Sandbox”.

It’s a system that tracks everything you do on your device or browser—the opposite of privacy—then gives a profile of you to any app or site that asks—the opposite of a sandbox.

It’s telling that it’s mostly adtech companies who are on board.

https://privacysandbox.com/#ecosystem

cpurdy,
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@cassidy Wait, Google has a browser now? (Adds that to list of things to avoid.)

cpurdy,
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@cassidy Is that part of Reader? 🤣

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