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karabaic

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John Karabaic's account. he/him. BLM.

NYC MIT WPAFB CIN PDX, kinda in that order

Virtual plumber to https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic

Breakfast on the Bridges volunteer https://social.ridetrans.it/@bonbpdx

Working for tech companies since they made hardware.

The gurney is the reward, as my NeXT colleagues put it.

Expect book and media reviews, comments on science and technology policy, frequent #NoirAlley #TCMParty posts.

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kimlockhartga, to books
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@bookstodon In my quest for physical copies of several out of print books, I have had some success with BookFinder, Abe, Thrift Books, Bookshop, and Better World Books. Are there other services I should try?

I'm trying to expand my Stephen Graham Jones collection in particular, and it's daunting, esp. finding THE LONG TRIAL OF NOLAN DUGATTI in print. Ha. Maybe it's my long trial.

karabaic,
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@kimlockhartga for those that have isbn numbers, isbn.nu is a good meta-search.

There are private listservs and old-fashioned bbs’s that rare book shops use to talk amongst themselves. If you have one in your town, make friends with them & they can post and keep an eye out for you. Significant Books in the Oakley neighborhood of Cincinnati (may their memory be a blessing) used to be my hookup.

majorlinux, to random
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Maybe you can find the thief during all this

Apple wants thieves to jump through hoops to steal iPhones - Desk Chair Analysts

https://dcanalysts.net/apple-wants-thieves-to-jump-through-hoops-to-steal-iphones/

karabaic,
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@majorlinux The implication here is that  is trying to undermine carriers? You can buy online through your carrier. I’ve done this for the last 10 years, and was grateful for it during lockdowns.

Is another assumption that you may need to enable Significant Locations, which is something you can currently turn off?

karabaic,
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@majorlinux Then who is the “thief” that the author is implicating? I concluded, from your post, that  was “stealing” business from carriers through adding friction to in-store sales via this feature.

I then proposed they were stealing your privacy by monetizing SL, currently opt-out but maybe required for this feature.

Maybe this is too subtle for me. Do you know what the author is implying through that sub-hed?

karabaic,
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@synxiec @majorlinux that subhed is anything but direct. “Maybe you can find the thief during all this” is a kind of rhetorical twist that’s combined with the single use case where it can go wrong: the carrier store & buying direct as a solution. The sunhed appears to be a commentary on the feature, saying it’s stealing from…the carriers?

Probably just me reading too much into the subhed, but I don’t think I’m alone…

steely_glint, to random
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'The reason Tesla hasn't "worked all the bugs out yet" is that the company is run by people who hold established best practice in ideological contempt'

https://defector.com/youre-supposed-to-be-glad-your-tesla-is-a-brittle-heap-of-junk

karabaic,
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For those hoping to fix this at their own companies or startups, might I recommend the excellent “The Innovation Delusion” by the scholars of technology & history Lee Vinsel & Andrew L Russell? https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/576816/the-innovation-delusion-by-lee-vinsel-and-andrew-l-russell/

futurebird, to random
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Here is an interesting experiment design (I couldn’t do since it makes me too sad.)

2 sets of ants. The control group is washed, placed alone in the territory of another colony (one at a time) until they are attacked— but then they are rescued via asperator washed again and returned home.

The test group is washed & disguised with alien pheromones and returned to their home colony until they get attacked by their sisters but then they are rescued washed again and returned home.

karabaic,
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@futurebird @ariadne Do ants know when they, themselves, smell “wrong”? Could you add a step in this experiment where you isolate ants before and after foreign chemicals are applied to determine self-detection?

heidilifeldman, to random
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Anderson v. Griswold, ruling that Trump is ineligible to appear on Colorado’s Republican primary ballot, is about 200 pages. I’m attaching it here, with my annotations, to help folks through the material. I’ve highlighted different sections in different colors and underlined or otherwise indicated particularly important passages. All the opinions are clear and important to read for yourself, whether or not you are a lawyer. https://drive.google.com/file/d/13peW_zaZVZOcbL_mlhdEagIdEUS-Dxck/view?usp=drivesdk

karabaic,
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@Popehat @Teri_Kanefield may be of interest ^^^

Mrfunkedude, to random
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WTF is up with the OnlyFans spam I'm getting in my Mastodon notifications today???

Report/Block
Report/Block
Report/Block
Report/Block

Let me make this simple for all of the spammers out there...

I have NO money. None. I don't have a bank account. I don't have a credit card. I have nothing.

You are casting your fishing net onto a dry lake bed. Fuck off.

karabaic,
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@Mrfunkedude are you running into Threads spam? There’s a post on how to block Theads.net. I’ll post it in a reply

enobacon, to cargobike
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archive, Oct 2018, edition

https://twitter.com/enobacon/status/1052434720431198215

karabaic,
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@enobacon so cool! Do you have plans or a vendor source for that sidecar?! I have a Radish this would be perfect for.

Jtmoriartywriter, to bookstodon
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Dear friends,

@bookstodon etc. Here is my Tentative reading list for 2024. I am for 12 novels a year, but life, writing, my family, it can all get in the way. For '23 I read 12 things, but they weren't all novels, so thats a half pass. The list:

Any sequels I'm up to (3 trilogies in this case), lotr i read recently but I loved it so much I'm thinking of doing it again. Dispossessed was on 23s list.

Have you read any of these, what's your take? Any suggestions or definite 'don't read that!'

Cat tax, Elspeth hiding behind a Christmas tree. A naughty torti up to no good.

karabaic,
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@Jtmoriartywriter @JonSparks @bookstodon

My local PDX SF book club is doing a 13-month The Dispossessed slow read, one chapter per month.

karabaic,
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@Jtmoriartywriter @JonSparks @bookstodon Nah, we just get together & drink & talk

karabaic, to random
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Apparently, Michael Cohen's attorney, David Schwartz, used generative AI to write a petition for end of MC's supervised release.

will edit with direct link to doc when it's available.

cc @alex @emilymbender for MAIHT3K

HT @jdotj

https://bsky.app/profile/jdotj.bsky.social/post/3kgeyvp3ass2z

see link in post for full text

karabaic, to random
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What was the first Norman Lear show you ever saw? When? How old were you? How did it affect you? https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/norman-lear-dead-dies-tv-legend-all-in-the-family-1235823995/

All in the Family, first run, 1972. I was 9. I realized folks I agreed with (Meathead) could be unlikeable, and folks I disagreed with (Archie) were human. And I had a crush on Gloria.

karabaic,
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should’ve just been called the show, but every cast member # amazing in it. It reminded me of my Corona, Queens neighborhood and the junk shops in adjoining Willets Point. I learned that LA had neighborhoods just like mine in NYC.

karabaic, (edited )
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@thepoliticalcat Of course, and vice versa, sometimes. Steptoe and Son didn't feature Black protagonists, and a case could be made for courting risk-averse network execs by choosing an adaptation for a Black sitcom. (It was a licensed adaptation, not plagiarism or a rip-off.)

And the American Office >> the British Office. I will die on this hill.

karabaic, to random
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“ said it also is collaborating with and to apply data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence to HISA’s vast data sources to analyze the factors contributing to injuries and inform potential interventions to reduce them in the future.”

@alex @emilymbender this might be a story to keep an eye on.

https://www.horseracingnation.com/news/HISA_issues_report_on_cluster_of_Laurel_Park_fatalities_123

laen, to random
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Comcast still "requires" you call them and give them a reason for disconnecting service-- they won't move on from that question until they get an answer.

Luckily, "The squirrels are using my Wi-Fi to plot against me" seems to be an acceptable reason that results in no further questions.

karabaic,
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@laen the only worse disconnection experience is natural gas, here into the pacnw. You have to have them disconnect from the street and remove the meter, otherwise you're still charged monthly for the gas connection. Took a friend 3 tries over almost as many months.

Mrfunkedude, to random
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Currently watching “Scavengers Reign “ episode nine. I seriously don’t know why more people aren’t turned onto this show?

Beautiful animation.
Well crafted science fiction.
Great voice actors.

It is by far the best sci-fi show that’s on streaming at this moment. If you have Max (HBO) you’ve got to check it out.

karabaic,
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@Mrfunkedude it’s absolutely amazing, a combination of influences from the naturalism of Miyazaki to the weird nonlinearity & landscapes of Fantastic Planet. So much fun!

karabaic, to random
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If only they could have used a racial slur to stop it.

From: @patrickcmiller
https://infosec.exchange/@patrickcmiller/111479614405393160

gamingonlinux, to random
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With all this talk of Chrome messing up adblockers, please don’t use Brave. They do so much shady shit you should stay away.

karabaic,
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@gamingonlinux Thanks for this article. I knew about the Prop 8 stuff, but was fuzzy on the ad-blocking tech.

It's interesting to me that, rather than replacing behavior-based advertising with the proven content-based advertising model, Brave decides to double-down on enshittification by adding shady crypto to the mix. This was the connection I needed.

A pox on Google and Brave. Fuck em all.

karabaic, to OpenAI
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Good start, . Now fire the rest of the company and give the investors' money to a worthwhile cause.

georgetakei, to random

The media is finally starting to report Trump’s statements for what they are: Fascist. He’s using Hitler’s own words about “vermin” and immigrants “poisoning the blood” of Americans. He’s calling for mass detention of migrants and threatening to come after his political enemies and seek retribution if re-elected. He must never be. America’s future is on the line. We all must do our part and vote.

karabaic,
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@strypey @georgetakei I kinda like the way it eventually turned out, though. https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/today-in-labor-history-army-seizes-montgomery-ward-hq/

karabaic, to random
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, but for rich assholes. https://www.koin.com/news/crashes/drives-slams-mclaren-720s-sports-car-into-portland-office-building/

karabaic,
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@johnefrancis can the rich asshole lane markings use this signage

tubetime, to random
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this is a Nuvistor! it's a super-advanced vacuum tube that could have beaten the transistor.

karabaic,
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@tubetime reminds me of the Robert Symons quote in this piece on cold-cathode traveling wave tubes:
“If the transistor had been invented first, the vacuum tube would have been invented immediately afterwards.”

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-quest-for-the-ultimate-vacuum-tube#toggle-gdpr

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