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Sharing advice and assisting with the great migration, plus various thoughts and perspectives.

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LukaszOlejnik, to random
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"The theft-prevention system installed in Seattle rental cars by a car-sharing company was designed to prevent cars being towed away by thieves. It disabled the cars remotely if they were detected to be moving with the engine off. Renters taking the boat ferry found themselves unable to restart their cars when the ferry docked. An anti-theft system in a car caused major delays to a regional ferry system" https://www.ft.com/content/178ab808-21ff-4ac2-a81f-f831326c22d4

mastodonmigration,
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@LukaszOlejnik

Ooops

Nonilex, to Electricvehicles
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What promised as he asked them for $1B for his campaign

Trump pledged to scrap President ’s policies on & , as well as other initiatives opposed by the industry.

As he sat w/some of the country’s top execs at his Mar-a-Lago Club last month, one exec complained how they continued to face burdensome despite spending $400M to lobby the admin…


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/09/trump-oil-industry-campaign-money/

mastodonmigration,
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@gulovsen @Nonilex

Trump seems to have perfected the art of committing crimes in the open like that.

SteveThompson, to random
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"The Nasty Problem of Cleaning Up Space Junk at 17,500 Miles Per Hour"

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-space-junk-problem/

"To fix Earth’s tricky orbital debris problem, startups and governments are testing everything from kamikaze satellites to robotic grappling arms."

mastodonmigration,
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@SteveThompson

And yet the government continues to allow Elon Musk to launch thousands of Starlink space junk satellites every year.

KathyReid, to stackoverflow
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Like many other technologists, I gave my time and expertise for free to because the content was licensed CC-BY-SA - meaning that it was a public good. It brought me joy to help people figure out why their code wasn't working, or assist with a bug.

Now that a deal has been struck with to scrape all the questions and answers in Stack Overflow, to train models, like , without attribution to authors (as required under the CC-BY-SA license under which Stack Overflow content is licensed), to be sold back to us (the SA clause requires derivative works to be shared under the same license), I have issued a Data Deletion request to Stack Overflow to disassociate my username from my Stack Overflow username, and am closing my account, just like I did with Reddit, Inc.

https://policies.stackoverflow.co/data-request/

The data I helped create is going to be bundled in an and sold back to me.

In a single move, Stack Overflow has alienated its community - which is also its main source of competitive advantage, in exchange for token lucre.

Stack Exchange, Stack Overflow's former instantiation, used to fulfill a psychological contract - help others out when you can, for the expectation that others may in turn assist you in the future. Now it's not an exchange, it's .

Programmers now join artists and copywriters, whose works have been snaffled up to create solutions.

The silver lining I see is that once OpenAI creates LLMs that generate code - like Microsoft has done with Copilot on GitHub - where will they go to get help with the bugs that the generative AI models introduce, particularly, given the recent GitClear report, of the "downward pressure on code quality" caused by these tools?

While this is just one more example of , it's also a salient lesson for folks - if your community is your source of advantage, don't upset them.

mastodonmigration,
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@KathyReid

Simple question. Would it be allowed under the license terms to scrape the entire Stack Overflow dataset and recreate the entire thing as a fedi app?

AkaSci, to random
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Incoming! A severe G4 Geomagnetic Storm is expected to arrive around 02:00 UTC Friday night / Saturday morning.

At least 5 Coronal Mass Ejections took place over the past 24 hours, directed towards Earth. These originated from a large and magnetically complex sunspot cluster (NOAA region 3664).

There is potential for disruption of communications, the electric power grid, navigation, radio and satellite operations.

And bright auroras as far south as Alabama!

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
1/n

mastodonmigration,
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@AkaSci

Thanks to SpaceX Starlink we have never had so many satellites whizzing around in LEO (Low Earth Orbit) during such an event. Would think that the risk of loss of navigation control resulting in collisions and the potential for a Kessler Syndrome event is heightened during this period.

dangillmor, to random
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Not the Onion (though if it was on that site we'd all have a good laugh at the fine satire).

Sadly, but predictably, it's in the New York Times.

"Stormy Daniels as We Had Never Seen Her

During her time on the stand in former President Donald J. Trump’s criminal trial, the adult entertainer dressed for history — and a jury."

h/t @jeffjarvis

mastodonmigration,
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@dangillmor @jeffjarvis

FFS 🤦‍♂️

GottaLaff, to legal
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NEW 🧵 starts HERE.

Please remember I don’t reply while live-posting. Plz use NFL (Not For Laffy, but no hashtag) so I can ignore those replies.

1/

McB:

...At 2:14 p.m., Trump walks in, entourage in tow.

Boris Epshteyn just handed a piece of paper with a photo on it to Kaitlan Collins.

I thought he maybe said "Conway" to her, but I'm not exactly sure.

mastodonmigration,
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@GottaLaff

Awesome, riveting, amazing.

Thank you!

GottaLaff, to legal
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starts HERE.
Please remember I don’t reply while live-posting. Plz use NFL (Not For Laffy, but no hashtag) so I can ignore those replies.

1/… Bower:

Trump enters the courtroom. Before arriving, he lingered for a moment in the doorway, talking to his lawyers, Emile Bove and Todd Blanche. He had a piece of paper in his hand, which he waved around as he spoke.

Wait for it….

mastodonmigration,
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@GottaLaff

NFL... Props for "Millenial vocal fry"

GottaLaff, to climate
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“Billions of people are using different kinds of energy each day and 2023 was a record-breaking year for renewable energy sources — ones that don’t emit planet-warming pollutants like carbon dioxide and methane…

For the first time, 30% of electricity produced worldwide was from clean energy sources as the number of solar and wind farms continued to grow fast.”
https://apnews.com/article/2718fce0ed37232dc25dbf46fff87955

mastodonmigration,
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@GottaLaff

It is easy to become despondent with all the relentless bad news, but in some important ways the arc of progress still bends toward goodness.

mastodonmigration, to random
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Seems like petitions to remove Aileen Cannon have become a thing. Newsweek reports that over 300K signatures have been gathered.

These may not have any force, but it is something tangible you can do to register your disapproval. Another is to channel this anger into electing Democrats.

Here are four of the petitions to remove Aileen Cannon:

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-judge-aileen-cannon-must-recuse-herself-from-trumps-case?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=

https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/remove-biased-judge-cannon-from-u-s-vs-trump-case

https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/forms/sign-the-petition-judge-aileen-cannon-must-recuse-herself-from-trumps-case-2

https://www.thepetitionsite.com/819/262/485/demand-judge-aileen-cannon-recuse-herself-from-the-trump-case/

Newsweek article: https://www.newsweek.com/remove-aileen-cannon-petitions-300k-signatures-1898410

Nonilex, to DaftPunk
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Rep on Wednesday officially triggered a vote on her motion to remove House .

There were audible boos from lawmakers in the chamber as Greene spoke at length about her grievances with Johnson on the floor.


https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-triggers-vote-motion-oust-speaker/story?id=110043228

mastodonmigration,
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@KatM @Nonilex @JonChevreau

Democrats support should be interpreted as support of normal order, not of Mike Johnson. Unfortunately, the media seems to deliberately misconstrue these things.

mastodonmigration,
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@KatM @Nonilex @JonChevreau

Agreed.

dangillmor, to random
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Stack Overflow joins Twitter and Reddit in demonstrating control-freak contempt for the people who made the platform what it is.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

The company will probably get away with it, because people seem unable to fight back in effective ways, at least in numbers that make a difference.

mastodonmigration,
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@dangillmor

Perhaps this is the lesson these platforms have learned from Elon Musk's actions with Twitter. Once the base is sufficiently invested in the platform, they will endure most any deprivations and not leave.

SteveThompson, to random
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"This Isn’t Justice"

https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2024/05/this-isnt-justice-legal-experts-blast-cannon-for-postponing-trump-case-indefinitely/

“This is news but it’s hardly unexpected..." Joyce Vance wrote. “Judge Cannon seems desperate to avoid trying this case. This isn’t justice. defendants aren’t the only ones with speedy trial act rights, we the people have them too.”

“After the election,” professor of law and former chief White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter commented, “if Trump wins Jack Smith gets fired, the case gets dismissed, and Judge Cannon is ready for SCOTUS.”

mastodonmigration,
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@PJ_Evans @SteveThompson @DrJay

Not surprising. He's a total ass, and if he were still in power he would likely bow to the ring, but it is a measure of how thoroughly reprehensible Trump is, that even Paul Ryan won't support him.

mastodonmigration, to random
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For those losing their heads over today's actions by Judge Cannon, take a deep breath. This was always going to happen. The writing has been on the wall since Judge Cannon was drawn for the case. Getting all worked up about it is only going to make you crazy and desperate. The way we will rid ourselves of this menace is at the polls in November.

For a sober discussion on this topic this exchange today between @Teri_Kanefield and @JonChevreau is highly recommended:

https://mstdn.ca/@JonChevreau/112401937598899929

mastodonmigration,
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@eurobubba @JonChevreau @Teri_Kanefield

It's not just the judiciary. The US system of government is under attack from a determined domestic fascist insurgency. Focusing on any one component can lead to loss of perspective on what needs to be done to secure our future. If we stipulate that SCOTUS is currently very problematic, the conclusion must be to elect Biden and a solid Senate majority to move the needle back in the right direction. It's the same corrective for the other ills.

mastodonmigration,
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@eurobubba @Teri_Kanefield

Kind of a non-apology apology. You are putting words in peoples' mouths and kicking your strawman. Suggest a better approach would be to express your thoughts about the state of things or reply to specific comments of others.

mastodonmigration,
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@eurobubba @Teri_Kanefield

If you are truly sincere in really wanting to know where Teri is coming from, a very good place to start is right here: https://terikanefield.com/musing-about-books-law-and-politics-blog/

mastodonmigration,
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@Teri_Kanefield @eurobubba

Please don't. These materials are an invaluable resource.

This whole exchange does however highlight one of the big deficiencies of social media. Perhaps because of the brevity of the medium people seem to seize on simplistic characterizations of complicated matters and respond with simplistic responses. Nuance and complexity are lost in the ensuing rapid fire exchanges that then devolve into rage inducing rants.

more...

mastodonmigration,
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@Teri_Kanefield @eurobubba

Would suggest that the solution is not to give up on the medium, but to continue to use it, in spite of its deficiencies, to hammer home the message that there are not simple quick solutions to complex issues, and that we need to become better at delving deeper and thinking strategically based on informed understandings of these complexities.

More on nuance and truth in this seminal post by Caroline Orr Bueno @rvawonk >>> https://newsie.social/@rvawonk/111366568806409784

mastodonmigration,
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@onpubcom @MaggyWells @Teri_Kanefield @JonChevreau

If it makes you feel better to mischaracterize the post and then refute your own strawman go ahead, but the substance of the discussion is lost when you do so.

mastodonmigration,
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@onpubcom @MaggyWells @Teri_Kanefield @JonChevreau

Sounds good. And let's work like hell to unrig it, both between now and the election and going forward.

mastodonmigration,
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@onpubcom @MaggyWells @Teri_Kanefield @JonChevreau

It certainly is a mess. Lots of work to do to even begin to clean it up. But we can do it. We have to do it if we want our children and grandchildren to live in a free country. Failure is not an option.

newsopinionsandviews, to news
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Glenn Kirschner:
Stormy Daniels testifies at Trump's criminal trial about details of intimate encounter with Trump

“What did...Trump's defense attorneys highlight by... arguing that Stormy Daniels' testimony was so bad, so harmful… ? they were highlighting the motive in the case, ...that Donald Trump really had a reason to make hush money payments... so it wouldn't hurt his chances of being elected in the 2016 presidential election.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EpSe5oA4dw

#News #Politics #Trump #Democrats

mastodonmigration,
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@newsopinionsandviews

Was wondering about this too. Everything they were freaking out about just drives to motive to keep the information from the American people both now, before this election, and in 2016.

davidtoddmccarty, to random
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Here are your options.

Biden gave a speech on remembering the Holocaust. Trump fell asleep listening to a porn star testify about having unprotected sex with him while he was married with a young child at home.

Those are your options.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/07/us/politics/trump-trial-biden-speech-holocaust.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

mastodonmigration,
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@davidtoddmccarty

This is rich coming from Peter Baker, the principle person at the New York Times, with the possible exception of Maggie Haberman, to capitalize on trading normalizing, humanizing, coverage of Trump for access.

Nonya_Bidniss, to random
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat: "To normalize extreme ideas, you get them circulating through institutions and the public sphere, aiming for prestigious platforms that offer maximum legitimacy. Enter the Supreme Court, which is making itself the tool of bad actors who want issues that should be settled in a democracy seen as up for discussion–including whether a head of state can order an assassination of a political rival and pay no consequence." #SCOTUS
https://lucid.substack.com/p/information-warfare-and-the-supreme

mastodonmigration,
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@Nonya_Bidniss

Brilliant piece. These are the stakes in this election. This is emblematic of the fascist insurgency we need to overpower with our votes. It is not just one element. It is a confluence of corruption that must be defeated.

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