joshsusser

@joshsusser@neurodifferent.me

not your typical neuron.
de gustibus non est disputandum.
black lives matter. trans people are people.
pronoun: he.
d.e.i.

#ActuallyAutistic #autistic #ADHD #AuDHD #neurodivergent #neurodiversity
#queer #SciFi #webdev #RubyProgramming #pastafarian
AKA @joshsusser

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joshsusser, to random

I haven't heard anyone else speculate about this particular angle on the Mar-a-Lago documents scandal, and it's been bugging me for months. Since the story broke, pundits and reporters have been scratching their heads over why Trump didn't give back all the classfied documents and Presidential records when asked, because that would have avoided most of this mess. (Pence and Biden both did that, and neither seems to be in legal trouble over their inadvertent retention.) So, why did he go to such extreme lengths to hang onto the docs? He still probably has a bunch hidden away at some other location, from some reporting.

My guess is that he took some of the docs because they contain evidence of his own crimes. He sure did crime a lot from the White House, and some of that must have left a paper trail. Selling pardons may be the least of it. But there's no way Trump would turn over anything that could be used to convict him of a crime, so he'll fight forever to keep that from happening. That doesn't mean he didn't steal other docs for other nefarious purposes, and he apparently had other reasons too, but it does perhaps explain why he's been so resistant to returning anything he took.

Does this make sense, or do I read too many spy novels?

Jeremiah, to random
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: There now are 2 crying emoji.

🥲 Smiling face with tear

😢 Crying face

Double check to make sure you are not sending the wrong message.

joshsusser,

@Jeremiah 😭

seldo, to random
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I am not a particularly thrifty person but I will wear a 50-cent bar of soap down to its last transparent sliver before starting a new one.

joshsusser,

@seldo does that make me a satanic ablutionist?

joshsusser,

@seldo Not really. I thought my magic all-one-god-faith liquid soap would avoid all that.

Jeremiah, to random
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Asking for subjects, er, citizens of Great Britain and its present-day-still-somehow colonies to swear allegiance to a king feels so, so bizarre to me as someone raised in the US.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-65435426.amp

joshsusser,

@Jeremiah Remember, the British Monarchy is also a Theocracy. He rules by divine right!

juddlegum, to random
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First, CNN systematically purged anyone on the network who was deemed too anti-Trump.

Now this.

joshsusser,

@juddlegum I recently heard that Fox has been planning to buy CNN, saving up cash for the purchase. Is that true? And does that mean CNN has been working to become a better acquisition target, and that's why they keep going more rightwing?

tenderlove, to random
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I feel like fully charged batteries have a lot of potential

joshsusser,

@tenderlove a very anodyne sentiment

stevesilberman, to random
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This defense of Applied Behavior Analysis against criticisms from the community - appropriating the language of - is one of the most bizarre things I've ever read. But the distortion is typical of ABA rhetoric. https://iejee.com/index.php/IEJEE/article/view/2054/618?fbclid=IwAR1gFkb-cL9bdx3gBeZtkGqfO9QA-bdaIk1CaFbnwPVSmnSQ59fyPnGJoFk

joshsusser,

@stevesilberman Completely disrespectful of the community they purport to serve. I doubt they believe that mocking us autistics will win us over, so it's just more bullying to get us to shut up dressed up as a research paper.

joshsusser, to random

A small detail about the production values for : The show dialog is in Swedish, of course, because the show is from Sweden. I usually prefer to watch a show with English subtitles and the original dialog, even if it's in a language I don't know, because the emotional performance is usually so much better than the dubbed audio. But most of the cast speak English fluently, so the actors recorded their own dubbing, and wow that makes such a difference. I'd say it's the best dubbing for any show I've seen. Actors lips still don't match the dialog a lot of the time, but that's not a big deal, and the vocal and emotional performance are completely right and don't detract from the show's impact. So if you're like me and usually avoid dubbed audio, this is a good one to take a chance on.

danarel, to random

So Bluesky has its first outright Nazi member and not a real strategy on how to handle that. You can’t block users, only mute them so it leaves the community in danger that you can’t outright stop that user from seeing you.

This is where these systems fail, when they are so scared of censorship they put users in danger.

joshsusser,

@wiredfire @chris @danarel I think we have seen this exact thing happen for long enough on enough social platforms that it should not be unexpected or something you figure out a solution for in beta. Anyone trying to launch a social network platform in this day who doesn't foresee this issue and have a way to deal with it is not someone we should trust to run a platform.

joshsusser,

@wiredfire @chris @danarel I'm trying to find a way to interpret that charitably, because it sounds like you're saying that you don't care if something is built in a way that harms people if you think it's interesting enough.

joshsusser, to animals

Meelo being helpful

joshsusser, to random

A little good news to start the week: season 2 will arrive on August 3, with the return of the entire season 1 main cast. (article contains mild "what will the season be about?" spoilers that are easy to skip over)
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/heartstopper-season-2-everything-you-need-to-know

But if you're really jonesing for some more Heartstopper, did you know Alice Osman started updating the webcomic again recently? Of course the comic will "spoil" the TV show, so make your choice about which medium you want to surprise you more.
https://heartstoppercomic.tumblr.com

joshsusser, to random

That finale posed an important question but just left us hanging. What is Seven's version of "Engage"?

My guess: Comply!

joshsusser,

@scy oh thats good. also "warp speed will now commence" could work 😉

joshsusser, to random

In America, the most important part of helping people is making sure you don't help anyone who doesn't deserve it.

joshsusser, to programming

"Composition is better than Inheritance" is already a cliché, and it's usually even true. Today. But it wasn't always the case. Back in the early days of Object-Oriented Programming, computers were pitifully show, memory was tiny, and OOP languages only worked acceptably because of aggressive optimization in implementation.

Inheritance itself is mostly an optimization. (I don't have room for the explanation here, but buy me a coffee and ask me some time.) In Smalltalk-80, sharing behavior by composition was several orders of magnitude slower than inheritance. With inheritance, there was a VM optimization to make it go as fast as possible. But for composition, you had to do all that work in Smalltalk code, which involved message sends, stack frame allocations, and all the rest. Even then, inheritance felt restrictive, and I spent quite a bit of time writing hacks to enable performant compostion by tricking the Smalltalk object system.

Modern object languages don't have to fit within the same restrictions as earlier efforts, and that changes how we design software. Early Smalltalks only supported 16K objects because object pointers were mapped through a fixed size Object Table. Even when we had enough RAM, we couldn't allocate 20K strings! When the first modern "OT-less" Smalltalk appeared with an unlimited number of objects, it changed everything.

OOP is polymorphism + encapsulation + inheritance by class. Of those three, class inheritance is the least critical and the most replaceable. Now that we can enjoy good performance with other kinds of behavioral composition, we can throw off the itchy wool sweater of class-based inheritance.

joshsusser, to random

In a century or two, when records of this era have been reconstructed, an obscure figure known as Elon Musk will be remembered mainly as the inventor of the gatling footgun.

joshsusser, to random

We simply should not let people become so rich that their personal issues become society's problems

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