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kcivey

@kcivey@mastodon.social

computer/politics geek, on steering committee of DC for Democracy, former cohost of DC Drinking Liberally. #DCPolitics #DCElections

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taylorlorenz, to random
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“There was a lot about this condo that was really unique,” Nick says. “All of these unique things are unique because they’re illegal.” https://www.washingtonian.com/2024/05/23/they-bought-a-new-dc-luxury-condo-it-could-collapse/

kcivey,
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@taylorlorenz "Meanwhile, the homeowners allege in their lawsuit, Seifu was assuring a second pair of buyers, the architects, that the downstairs unit they had their eye on was built to code. Seifu told Washingtonian he never made that assurance."

The builder's defense is that he never claimed the construction adhered to the building code?

JoshuaHolland, to Israel
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If they continue on this trajectory, Israel is gonna turn itself into another right-wing culture war item and that will not serve them well.

“The tone of this letter is not reflective of the fact that the U.S. is the primary guarantor of Israel’s security. An unaware reader would assume that is the superpower in this relationship and the U.S. the recipient of aid.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/israeli-ambassador-blasts-democrats-letter_n_6644fde3e4b00df0c6b6cba5

kcivey,
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@JoshuaHolland Israel has been on this path since at least Netanyahu's speech to Congress in 2015 to undermine Obama, intensifying as he cozied up to Trump. Netanyahu gambled that allying with the Trumpists would help him politically, and clearly he doesn't care about whether it helps Israel.

dangillmor, to random
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Big Journalism's timidity is never more obvious than when, confronted with a blatant lie from a (usually Republican) politician, the news org then frames the lie as a mere mistake.

Example today from ABC News -- headline:

"South Dakota Gov. Noem admits error of describing meeting Kim Jong Un in new book"

Come on, journalists, this just makes you look ridiculous.

kcivey,
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@dangillmor It was clearly just a typo. Her finger slipped and somehow hit the keys to produce "I remember when I met with the North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. I’m sure he underestimated me, having no clue about my experience staring down little tyrants (I’d been a children’s pastor after all)."

ColinTheMathmo, to random
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I can see a problem here.

(Found by @ghira ...)

kcivey,
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@Edent @OscarCunningham @ColinTheMathmo @ghira And apparently because without it people are more likely to fill in the current date by mistake.

dangillmor, to random
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In Republican-controlled legislatures, cruelty is policy. Latest:

"A Louisiana House committee voted Thursday to repeal a law requiring employers to give child workers lunch breaks and to cut unemployment benefits — part of a push by Republicans to remove constraints on employers and reduce aid for injured and unemployed workers."

https://www.nola.com/news/politics/legislature/la-lawmakers-vote-to-remove-lunch-breaks-for-child-workers/article_ef234692-fd9e-11ee-99f5-771c7366107a.html

kcivey,
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@dangillmor Hmm: "First-term state Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs, who sponsored the child labor measure and owns Smoothie King franchises across the Deep South, said he filed the bill in part because children want to work without having to take lunch breaks."

andybaio, to random
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"Consent Mode is off by default" should be the unofficial motto of the tech industry. https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/15/24130832/limitless-ai-pendant-wearable-meetings

kcivey,
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@disquiet @andybaio So the brand is much like Soylent and Palantir.

cstross, (edited ) to random
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I have seen part of, one, or both of the Doctor Phibes movies (The Abominable Dr Phibes, and Doctor Phibes Rises Again):

kcivey,
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@cstross Need a GIF of Vincent Price as Phibes selecting Brussels sprouts.

taber, to random
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do appreciate about Virginia how it’s the only state that stamps car license tags in a serif typeface

kcivey,
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@waldoj @taber This page says Virginia's are the only fully serif license plates in any Western country.
https://www.leewardpro.com/articles/licplatefonts/licplate-fonts-nam-class.html

verge, to random
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Google is working on a ‘lookup’ button for unknown callers on Android https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/6/24123044/pixel-lookup-button-unknown-callers-gemini-ai-summaries

kcivey,
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@verge How often do you get anything useful by googling a number that called? Almost always it's just a bunch of index spam pages full of fake names and addresses. Making it easier to get to that doesn't solve any problem.

jwz, to random
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Some Andreesen-Horowitz Crypto-Bro bloviates on a vision of Fascist San Francisco.

I hesitate to even give oxygen to a story like this, but it's just so fucking whack-a-doodle. It sounds a parody, or an April Fools joke, or a stand-up comic doing a...
https://jwz.org/b/ykOm

kcivey,
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@jwz Maybe allowing individuals to have as much money (and thus as much political power) as cities full of ordinary people isn't a path to a sustainable society.

genehack, to random
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I sat down to throw together a quick blog post with an image dump from my recent NYC trip with @west_winds and somehow there’s no trivial CLI tool to batch web-optimize and resize images that allows you to say “make the bigger dimension X pixels wide and preserve the aspect ratio”? So now I’m gonna be writing something to detect landscape vs portrait orientation.

I swear I wrote this before in, like, 1998, how is this not a thing.

(Also how is ImageMagick still the best tool for this JFC…)

kcivey,
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@genehack @west_winds Why doesn't ImageMagick count as trivial? Isn't it "convert old.jpg -resize 1024x1024 new.jpg" or something? It preserves the aspect ratio by default.

w7voa, to random
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Donald Trump shares an image of Joe Biden with hands and feet tied. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/29/donald-trump-joe-biden-bound-and-gagged/

kcivey,
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@Snowshadow @w7voa The person driving the truck with the image on it is presumably an average citizen, so we'll see.

lauren, to twitter
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NTSB head just told reporters to monitor the NTSB feed for more info on the collapsed bridge. I understand that they really do have to use Twitter to have maximum public reach, but I'm really glad she didn't call it X!

kcivey,
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@lauren They may need it for public reach, but they ought to be posting the info somewhere else too.

dangillmor, to random
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Journalism observers are saying NBC's craven hiring of Trump world apparatchik Ronna McDaniel "crossed a line" of some kind.

https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/nbc_hire_ronna_mcdaniel_todd_welker.php

This is absurd. Big Journalism crossed the line in question long ago.

The only difference this time is that a few high-profile media personalities said something about it, publicly.

Even if/when she's kicked to the curb, there will be plenty of right-wing liars on network TV "news" and quoted incessantly in "news" coverage.

kcivey,
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@dangillmor If NBC dumps her, CNN or one of the others will be happy to pick her up.

peter, to random
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fwiw, my mother, who voted for Trump twice, now hates him and believes he poses an imminent threat to American democracy and the rule of law (I did not do this, she doesn’t really listen to me)

kcivey,
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@peter I hope there are a lot more people like her, though I'm mystified about what significant new information they have since the last time they voted for him.

kcivey, to random
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How is this real?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/19/jared-kushner-gaza-waterfront-property-israel-negev

ckr, to AllStarTrek
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I think Spock just testified, under oath, that he is a Vulcanian.

kcivey,
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@socprof @ckr @allstartrek Someone from Jordan isn't a Jordan. "Vulcan" would make more sense for someone from Vulc or Vulca.

kcivey,
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@socprof @ckr @allstartrek No criticism intended. And I'm sure people at the time made the same arguments I have, and clearly they lost.

kcivey, to random
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I guess I'm going to have to help my parents shop for a TV when I don't actually have a TV myself. I hope there are still options that aren't complete "smart" garbage.

kcivey,
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@ebooksyearn Sigh. They have a new Chromecast with Google TV, so really they just need something to plug that into and use cable with (though getting off cable is another one of their goals). No smartness needed.

kcivey,
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@acdha @ebooksyearn You mean they still work without being connected to the Internet and reporting in? Surely that situation can't be allowed to continue much longer.

lauren, to random
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Just saw an ad for a doctor app where a woman is asking for advice from the large rash on her arm, which is responding to her by displaying its answers in a rash font. I find this concept disturbing.

kcivey,
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@lauren Does she ask the rash to write a short Python program or instructions for making a bomb?

kcivey,
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@lauren I guess the rash is suicidal, like all those pigs advertising barbecue joints.

lauren, to random
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Used the word "cowardice" on one post and "cowardness" on another. Then suddenly wondered if the latter was correct. Yeah, it is, just "out of favor" these days.

kcivey,
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@lauren You can use "cowardliness" for the third post.

dangillmor, to random
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Random people off the street have more compassion for the homeless than Houston law enforcement, which is no surprise at all.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/housing/article/food-not-bombs-trial-busted-jury-panel-homeless-18617041.php

kcivey,
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@dangillmor So a jury drawn entirely from the tiny fraction of the population that thinks a $500 fine for feeding the homeless is perfectly OK would be what they're calling an "unbiased" jury?

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