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moh_kohn

@moh_kohn@mastodon.scot

Democratic #Socialist #SNP member.

Web development consultant. Convenor of https://mastodon.scot/@gobikeglasgow

Amateur #synth musician. Big fan of #urbanism and #cycling. Love a bit of political economy. #Buddhist. Sometimes write for Bella Caledonia.

#Glasgow #Scotland

Anwar Shaikh stan account.

Join a #union.

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moh_kohn, to random
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moh_kohn, to CSS
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Can I detect clamp support using @supports?

moh_kohn, to random
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Sturgeon was such a catastrophe:

  • legal troubles obvs
  • prevaricated over GRA, tried to compromise, leading to the terfs having space to organise
  • made Kate Forbes finance minister and now she'll end up leader
  • deliberately didn't cultivate a successor because of being paranoid / power hungry
  • feared the mass movement of 2014 and wound it down
  • ran a stupid lib set of policies undermining her own working class vote
moh_kohn, to random
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The SNP actually managed, for a period, the holy grail of western social democratic politics, welding disaffected graduates together with a major scheme vote AND a "new petit bourgeois" suburban vote

It's not been a stable coalition elsewhere though, maybe part of what we're seeing is that same instability hit home here

moh_kohn, to random
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The right of the SNP are a real brain trust. Geniuses.

moh_kohn,
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@Loukas collapsed their own government. They decided all their woes were the fault of the centre-left Greens, broke the coalition by surprise, and just assumed the Greens would still keep them in power. The Greens are saying they'll vote no confidence.

moh_kohn,
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@Loukas yeah they've been arguing for that since the day it was signed

moh_kohn,
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@Loukas nobody knows at this time

moh_kohn, to random
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Post-pandemic, the SNP and Greens were faced with a Hobson's choice of fighting the unions to the death or cutting core services, and chose the latter. Now the left hates them and we'll probably get a right wing Labour government for a term or two. I wish the conversation could be honest and straightforward.

moh_kohn,
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Sturgeon's government wasn't great at policy either, too much triangulation, not enough vision. And it failed to preserve the Yes movement, its greatest asset.

moh_kohn,
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The indy left needs to reflect on its failure to preserve a real grassroots movement. Too many egos, too many conspiracy theories, too many centrists. Where did the fire go? Populism has been abandoned to the right.

moh_kohn,
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No side deserves all the blame, it's a collective failure.

moh_kohn, to random
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Scotland has a political consensus: carbon emissions must be cut urgently, but it must not affect MY life in any way no matter how minor

moh_kohn, to random
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Heating engineer people: we will be there between 12 and 2
My autistic brain: they will arrive at 12 and leave at 2

But no they are arriving between 12 and 2 and staying for an indefinite amount of time.

There are lots of programmes to help disabled people in this country that have no accessibility designed into the process at all! It's nice that I am getting heating upgrades from the government but not nice that it has involved lots of inaccessible interactions.

moh_kohn, to random
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I am currently fascinated by internet capitalism. Specifically, data as a commodity and as capital. It is all over the business press but massively undertheorised in economics as far as I can see. Usually that means something is ideologically inconvenient.

Google makes like £140bn a year from advertising which is clearly a really big deal but it's odd because what is actually being produced?

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moh_kohn, to random
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Currently fascinated by "data" as a commodity and a form of capital. I think this is hugely undertheorised. It's all over the business press but only sporadically examined by economics which is usually a sign that something very important but ideologically inconvenient is going on.

moh_kohn,
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The EU apparently counts "data" as 8% of GDP

moh_kohn,
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Capital is dead labour; data is capital; LLMs are a compression algorithm that gives voice to data-capital; LLMs are undead labour?

skinnylatte, to food
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Ahahah an old friend from India was texting me after a long while. ‘I said I haven’t visited in a long time’ and he said ‘every biryani place here misses you’

Biryani is perhaps my favorite food group. But it’s gotta be good. Like the ones in my favorite biryani cities in India

moh_kohn,
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@skinnylatte some genuinely great biryanis here in Glasgow. Mmmmmmm

inquiline, to random
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Are we allowed to be glad Lieberman is dead on here

(affirmations only)

moh_kohn,
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@inquiline this place is hoachin with libs

Brendanjones, to UX
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I've long seen people question why there's a perception that Mastodon is hard to use.

Let me use a really concrete example I just came across that breaks the maxim "don't make me think":

Bluesky just added keyword muting, and it's way easier than doing it here.

While viewing any feed/post:

Moderation > Muted words and tags > type in word (the focus is in text field, no click required) > hit enter > click back button twice to return to where I was.

That's 4 clicks.

moh_kohn,
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@Brendanjones yeah lots of small things. I think the default web client UX feels really unstable because of how images load as you scroll.

Also Bluesky has a lot of things that look identical to twitter. Coders underestimate how hard it was for users to learn something like twitter in the first place, the last thing they want is change.

moh_kohn, to random
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Talk of "political games" can fuck right off. It's so cynical. Either parliament represents the nation or it doesn't. If it does, what happens there matters. We could do with more earnestness because all the so-clever-cynicism just abolishes accountability.

misc, to random
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Is there any evidence that Bluesky has worse moderation than (for instance) mastodon.social, or is that all just based on gossip?

moh_kohn,
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@misc my understanding is they don't really have the tools. Instead users are expected to subscribe to blocklists.

moh_kohn, to random
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Quite concerned that a lot of journalists/politicians don't realise that a high % of twitter replies are now bots and other influence operations.

moh_kohn, to random
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Outstanding by @notjustbikes - this is one to show people who just don't get the issue with car-centric planning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHZwOAIect4

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