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gdinwiddie

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Software development coach and consultant ● I try to learn from everywhere. ● I follow those who enter into interesting conversations with me. ● He/him/they

Interests: #softwareDevelopment #VirginiaSatir #SatirModel #systemsThinking #humanity

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gdinwiddie, to random
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I just heard that Junior Waysouth has taken his last ride home. RIP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spOVuD2YOrs

VeroniqueB99, to random
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gdinwiddie,
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@VeroniqueB99
Are you teaching people to avoid phishing attacks? ;-)

jmax, to random
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The real trolley provides is that there are no trollies.

gdinwiddie,
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@jmax
Not around here, there aren't. Public transportation in Europe is such a delight compared to the US.

gdinwiddie, to random
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Overheard:
“My apathy is at an all-time whatever.”

VeroniqueB99, to random
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gdinwiddie,
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@VeroniqueB99 🤣

gdinwiddie,
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@VeroniqueB99
I never got a tattoo because I could never think of ANYTHING I would want on me the REST OF MY LIFE.

gdinwiddie,
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@VeroniqueB99
My introduction to tats at a young age was seeing the old vets hanging out in front of the YMCA with their purple blobs on their arms.

gdinwiddie, to random
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"Social scientists have long understood that the reduction of prejudice and the fostering of understanding take time and require sustained, equal-status contact that is interdependent, favorable, and intentional."

https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/opinion/community-voices/colleges-unrest-polarization-kurt-schmoke-J5ZEERL26NEFPBPOX4HYFWMVZQ/

jmeowmeow, to random
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Where have you gone, Norbert Wiener? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

(review of an early copy of Dan Davies' The Unaccountability Machine; the cybernetics of orgs which have outsourced governance to the stock market): https://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2024/05/12/the-unaccountability-machine-by-dan-davies/

gdinwiddie,
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@jmeowmeow
Good article! Thanks for calling it to my attention.

gdinwiddie, to random
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Boarding the plane for home while listening to “Plane Wreck at Los Gatos/Deportee.” What opportune timing for random shuffle play!

mekkaokereke, to random
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If you got upset at me for pointing out that more people died of Covid under Biden than Trump, in large part because Biden rolled back common sense restrictions that were in place under Trump...

Then you'll hate me pointing out that Trump introduced a 25% tariff on Chinese EVs, and Biden is upping that to 100% tariff.

https://insideevs.com/news/719283/chinese-ev-tariffs-biden-quadruple/

We can't allow the US to get off of fossil fuels... unless US billionaires win! 🤡

Fear the BYD Dolphin! (an EV car for $12K)
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/T3nfyO_UHjk

gdinwiddie,
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@mekkaokereke There are no heroes in politics. They are humans just like the rest of us.

bethsawin, to random
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You know this planet with auroras and eclipses? It has orchids, grass snakes & mangoes too. Rainbow trout and diatoms and self-organizing college students and star fish. What are the odds of it all & how about a just and equitable economy and then living lives of awestruck peace?

gdinwiddie,
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@Trifolium

I think you are speaking to a troll who has never been a student. As a bystander, I do appreciate your attempt to engage.

gdinwiddie, to random
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Amiright?

VeroniqueB99, to random
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One of the titles I still remember reading in a cash register line: "Diver gets ra**d by sea turtle"... with a pic of a very angry sea turtle and a very surprised diver...

This is that.

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@VeroniqueB99
The funniest Inquirer headline I ever read in the grocery store was "Baby born wearing ancient bracelet; proof of reincarnation."

I though it was more likely proof of kinky sex.

EricAlper, to random
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It’s 1987. Which movie do you go to?

gdinwiddie,
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@EricAlper Radio Shack was the best movie on that sign.

gdinwiddie, to random
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How about them Os, hon!

18+ VeroniqueB99, to random
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Writing

gdinwiddie,
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@VeroniqueB99 🤨 😂 🤣

gdinwiddie, to random
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Bette Midler's new hit song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfvUyOFgVZI

rayckeith, to random
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Judge Aileen Cannon Responds to Claims She Did Not Disclose 'Luxury' Trips

"Sean O'Driscoll
Published May 02, 2024 at 9:35 AM EDT
Updated May 04, 2024 at 3:11 PM EDT
Aileen Cannon, the judge overseeing Donald Trump's classified documents case, has said she declared two "luxury" resort trips to Montana that were mentioned in a National Public Radio investigation.

"Cannon, herself a Trump appointee, attended two seminars at a luxury resort in Montana, but the privately funded seminar disclosures for both events were not posted online until NPR began making inquiries," NPR's online investigation states.

"Clerk of court Angela Noble told NPR in an email that the absence of the disclosures was due to technical issues and that 'Any omissions to the website are completely inadvertent," it adds."
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-aileen-cannon-classified-documents-case-miami-florida-montana-trip-npr-1896480

gdinwiddie,
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@rayckeith
"Inadvertant" meaning "she didn't realize anyone would notice."

sashag, to random
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Be kind with yourself. This can be something as small as buying a bouquet of flowers 💐

Actually I love to buy flowers for myself.

gdinwiddie,
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@sashag
You must not have a cat in the house!

gdinwiddie,
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@sashag
🙀 One of our cats eats any flowers, and knocks over the vases.

GottaLaff, to random
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Via Ben Wikler:

Absorb this graph—but note that the final year is 2018, the year of Trump’s tax cuts. That’s #Trump’s big goal, always has been: to rip off working people and hand huge bags of cash to the ultra-wealthy, like himself and his Mar-a-Lago buddies.

Rutger Bregman:

Stunning graph: the plummeting tax rates of the richest Americans. For the first time in history, billionaires have a lower effective tax rate than working-class Americans.

gdinwiddie,
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@GottaLaff @Npars01 … and if it wasn’t for those meddling kids. 😁

grimalkina, to random
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"Finally, all of these terms—virtues, traits, competencies, or skills—have the disadvantage of implying that they are consistently demonstrated across all possible life situations. But they are not (Fleeson & Noftle, 2008; Mischel, 1968; Ross, Lepper, & Ward, 2010; Ross & Nisbett, 1991; Wagerman & Funder, 2009)."

(source: Duckworth & Yeager 2015)

gdinwiddie,
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@grimalkina
I think everyone could benefit from distrusting what they think they know and holding their conclusions lightly. You don't have to be doing replicable science to get value from that.

This is an area I've been idly exploring for a few years.

gdinwiddie,
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@grimalkina Yes, and it's sad to me that people take that to mean it's only important in those fields.

I think part of that is discomfort with uncertainty. Many people let uncertainty undermine their sense of worth. That's why so many self-help slogans try to boost projecting confidence.

inthehands, to random
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JFC, job references going the way of grad school applications.

Grad schools, employers, HR departments: a form like this is an invitation for me not to think carefully about my answers. Quantity over quality? Fine, ask and ye shall receive.

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@inthehands
Thanks for digging out the link.

I agree that other categories of functional design bear a lot of similarities that are not obvious to the casual observer. Everyone thinks someone else’s job is simple.

I wouldn’t blame it on DeMarco, though. Defense contractors were having big conferences to “make software more like engineering.” I think DeMarco was trying to communicate with them using the mental models they already had. (In L Pearce Williams bio of Faraday… 1/

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