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janxdevil

@janxdevil@sfba.social

"Hey now. We devils can do a lot of damage in a classroom armed with nothing but the clothing God gave us. Sometimes all it takes is a carefully chosen pronoun or a noteworthy historical date and next thing you know it's blood and guts everywhere."

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eniko, to random
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Ah, it appears liberal cis straight white dudes are advocating for freedom of speech for nazis who want to genocide certain minorities again. If you're the type of person who says "I may not agree with what you say but I'll defend to the death your right to say it" I invite you to read up on the paradox of tolerance because saying shit like that is how fascism proliferates. Do you want fascism to proliferate?

Original post by @Impossible_PhD: https://hachyderm.io/@Impossible_PhD/110664473950896111

janxdevil,
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@eniko At this juncture I would like to give a high-five to the many cis-het white men I know who are not former US federal prosecutors with a blind spot for anti-trans fascism.

b0rk, (edited ) to random
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i’m tired of clicking “open in browser” in my mastodon client to see all the replies to a post / look at a user’s profile who i don’t follow

is there any mastodon client with a “fetch more data” button or something which will automatically do this for me and show the posts to me in the client?

(right now I’m using Ivory)

janxdevil,
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@b0rk I’m confused by this post. I use IceCubes, and it seems to me like it’s doing what I read you saying you want it to do. I visit a profile for someone I don’t follow whose account is on another instance, and it shows me their posts just by scrolling down. I also see the replies to a post just by swiping. I must be missing something?

ZLabe, to random
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sea ice remains on its own this year compared to any other July in our satellite record. Keep in mind when looking at this graph that the y-axis interval is 1,000,000 km². This is a massive deviation from the previous record for the date.

janxdevil,
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@ZLabe Welp, we needed a bigger y-axis and now we have a bigger y-axis.

maxkennerly, to random
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One neat feature of America for the rest of your lives is that, when you go to federal court, a coin will be flipped to see if your judge is an experienced civil rights lawyer or some right-wing weirdo who barely practiced law and worked at a slush fund for a creepy billionaire.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/biden-faces-tougher-road-judicial-appointments-after-progressive-picks-2023-07-11/

janxdevil,
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@maxkennerly An extra fun feature is that the coin weighted so it comes up Asshole more often than not.

pluralistic, to random
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Ther's lots of ways to slice the coalition, but one important axis are the self-styled adults-in-the-room, who declare themselves realists, and the party's left wing, who are dismissed as idealists who don't understand politics: neither how to win elections nor how to wield power.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/10/thanks-obama/#triangulation

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janxdevil,
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@pluralistic I have been saying “STOP!” to every Democrat who contacts me looking for donations, volunteers, enthusiasm, whatever for pretty much the last three years, and they haven’t stopped. It’s been a consistent drumbeat of “I want to do it, but damn you don’t you dare try to make me do it,” for all that time. Nothing has changed. I believe nothing will change. I think Deliverism has not just died. It’s been forgotten too.

ceejbot, to random

Me, emerging from reading the source of a thing: This code is so bad.
David, looking at it: Yup.
Me: Programming is hard enough without making it harder on yourself by writing code like this.
David: Get used to it.

But why get used to it? People can do better than this.

janxdevil,
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@ceejbot Me, after reading every coderpad.io log for an employee candidate: WHY DID YOU USE INHERITANCE FOR THIS?

flexghost, to random
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Some Republican women are switching parties from outrage at Ron DeSantis

Hold up.

I’ll translate from Republican to English:

Desantis signed SB 1416 into law ending permanent alimony. Money is now based on the length of marriage

So they’re not outraged for:
Inspecting youth genitalia
Destroying trans rights
Human trafficking migrants
Destroying Florida’s economy
Attacking teachers
Rampant insurance corruption

No. Something happened to them, personally

And it’s about money

janxdevil,
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@flexghost It’s also not about the spousal support they are currently receiving. It’s about the spousal support they expect to receive.

StillIRise1963, to random
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Have they beaten the fight out of you? Do you actually believe there's no hope, that fascism and white supremacy are just our lot? Seriously, ask yourself this question. If so, you've fallen for the propaganda and gaslighting. SHAKE IT OFF.

janxdevil,
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@StillIRise1963 Nope. They have not beaten the fight out of me. I’m more of a mind like that of Mad Dog in KELLY’S HEROES, who considered himself “strategic reserve” you know, in case the Nazi make a surprise blitzkrieg attack on The Castro Theater. We’ll be waiting for them with traps set.

janxdevil, to mastodon
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Here is a thing I hope instance administrators will consider doing in response to the new app from : pay very close attention to account migration.

Don’t enable account migration to Threads on any instance at which accounts are unable to migrate from Threads. I think a quid pro quo on this point is absolutely necessary.

Don’t let Threads take accounts unless they let people come back if they don’t want to be there anymore.

janxdevil, to animals
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Look at this ridiculous goob.

janxdevil, to random
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So that was amusing.

Just caught a new dark pattern at play in the ongoing war against people who exercise their right to opt out of tracking cookies on web sites.

The window opens to show the specific switches that you have to click to opt out, with the settings showing them as opted in, and you start clicking them, then just as I was about to click CONFIRM MY CHOICES, all the switches toggled to show that I had just toggled them from opted out back to opted in, forcing me to click them again.

I’m gonna stop reading anything from The New Republic now. You’ll let me know when it’s safe to read them again, right?

janxdevil, to random
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Interesting to note where in Texas the crimes are clustered: dense urban areas where LGBT people are more visible.

From: @TexasObserver
https://texasobserver.social/@TexasObserver/110616673271904581

janxdevil, to SanFrancisco
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So dear locals. My favorite automobile mechanic retired and closed shop a couple years ago, and now I need to find another. Used to be there were independent customer experience rating services that you could rely on to help you choose where to go for things like that, but the last several times I’ve tried to use one, the experience was not good. I think they somehow got enshittified.

So two questions: anybody know a good car mechanic? Also, anybody know a good referral service for things like that?

DeanObeidallah, to random
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The failure to prosecute Donald Trump swiftly after Jan 6 has allowed the fascism of MAGA to grow stronger. As a result, our Republic is more at risk today than ever before in our lifetimes.

janxdevil,
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@DeanObeidallah Now do what will happen after we fail to indict him for seditious conspiracy— much less achieve a conviction.

timkmak, to random
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Good morning, readers: Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. But, last night the city endured its first air raid in 12 days. As Ukrainians deal with the 493rd day of war, some turn to escapism in the form of tabletop role-playing games. http://counteroffensive.news

janxdevil,
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@timkmak I agree with you. I will figure out how to become a paid subscriber.

cks, to random
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Hot take: packaging open source software is actual work (and is sometimes what we demurely call 'non-trivial' in this field). I say this as a sysadmin who has sometimes had to deal with the results of not packaging software and then not keeping up with the state of the software we didn't package but installed anyway.

(Sure, sometimes you get lucky and the packaging instructions are easy to write (Debian rules, RPM specfiles, whatever Arch uses, etc). And sometimes they aren't.)

janxdevil,
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@cks You’ll get no arguments from me. Build and integration is full of complicated problems. It requires serious engineering.

seachanger, to random
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I literally get more texts from random democrats across the country asking for money than I do texts from my own elected democrats asking me to help organize my neighborhood, that’s a problem

janxdevil,
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@seachanger Moreover, the last several times somebody made a real attempt to build that inside the Democratic Party here, they all got smeared as Communists by the local DCCC officials and every last one was ratfucked completely out of local politics by their fellow Democrats. So yeah, count me the fuck out.

brianbilston, to random
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The English language is weird.

Here’s a poem called ‘Neither Rhyme nor Reason’.

janxdevil,
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@brianbilston the language is perfectly normal— it’s the romanized orthography that was the mistake.

ct_bergstrom, (edited ) to random
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My colleague Kevin Gross and I have a new preprint up on the arXiv.

Just for fun, rather than a simple text explainer, a thread with some slides for a talk I'm giving at https://www.icssi.org/ tomorrow.

Here's the paper itself: Rationalizing risk aversion in science. https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.13816

janxdevil,
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@ct_bergstrom Deinitely admiring the risks taken in conducting the research that went into this paper.

paul, to random
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Hello members! Meta/Facebook has plans to join the Fediverse (https://mastodon.social/@fediversereport/110011775459235299). Many instance admins have committed to block any FB-run instances; others feel that federation will lead to growth of non-commercial social media and provide FB users with more choice.

To be honest, I'm conflicted. FB as a company is irresponsible and untrustworthy (https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-facebooks-systems-promoted-violence-against-rohingya-meta-owes-reparations-new-report/). Their content moderation policies are questionable at best, their business model exploits users.

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janxdevil,
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@paul I would consider blocking image services hosted by Meta.

janxdevil,
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@paul I meant the latter.

doctormo, to Facebook

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    @doctormo Block images hosted by Meta from inline expansion.

    kentindell, to random
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    janxdevil,
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    @kentindell As a young child I watched my grandmother, who was born in 1908, encounter ELIZA running on the Apple II my father brought home and become progressive convinced she was corresponding with a real human being.

    rbreich, to random
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    The debt ceiling deal has passed.

    But it is a disgrace that Republicans brought us so close to the edge of catastrophe.

    Moving forward, we must abolish the debt ceiling so that no party can use it to threaten the livelihoods of Americans for political gain ever again.

    janxdevil,
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    @rbreich Again, as you very well know, Bob. The GOP never had a credible threat that they could force the US to default on its debt. It was always entirely within the unchecked power Congress already granted to the President to and render the debt ceiling irrelevant. Everyone knows this. Lordy, you’ve even demonstrated that you know this. So, we can maybe dispense now with the fiction that the GOP brought us anywhere near the brink of catastrophe. They simply did not have the power to do that. Only President Biden did, and he wisely chose a path that avoided it.

    ceejbot, to random

    And now the hard decision: Destiny 2 or Skyrim for my Friday night?

    janxdevil,
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    @ceejbot Did you play all the way through HORIZON: FORBIDDEN WEST?

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