nitpicking

pbump, 12 days ago to random

A White guy from a Southern state decided to compare Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of Trump to justice in the Jim Crow South. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/04/bishop-trump-alabama-1950/

lowqualityfacts, 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago) to random

MAGA people: You just opened Pandora's Box. This means all presidents can be convicted of crimes. Republicans or Democrats. Bet you didn't consider that, did you?

Reasonable people: Yes idiots, that's the fucking point.

cstross, 19 days ago to random

If you live in the UK or USA, you need to understand one thing about the coming election:

You need to vote defensively.

Neither of the main parties are appealing. But if you don't vote for the lesser evil you may end up helping a totalitarian horror get elected.

Hold your nose and goddamn vote, dammit. THEN go on protests. Because if you don't vote for the lesser evil, the victor will welcome your protests with bullets.

The prize for political purity this time round is a shallow grave.

peter, 24 days ago to random

damn, that is brutal. https://infosec.exchange/@chrismerkel/112495797916386580

rbreich, 25 days ago to random

The Appeal to Heaven flag isn't just tied to Jan 6.

It's a Christian nationalist symbol.

Christian nationalists believe that the law of the land is not the Constitution, but instead the law of God as they interpret it.

Do you see the problem with Alito flying this flag?

luckytran, 25 days ago to random

A new gold standard review of 100 studies finds:

• masks are effective in reducing transmission of respiratory diseases

• N95 respirators are significantly more effective than medical or cloth masks

• mask mandates are effective in reducing community transmission

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/cmr.00124-23

pjol, 25 days ago to DuckDuckGo

Time to block #DuckDuckGo as my timeline is getting flooded... 😂

Yes, DDG is down
Yes, DDG uses Bing (among others)

Protip: If a service you are using behaves strange do a hashtag search, example #DuckDuckGo as step one before posting, that might answer many questions you might have 😆

#Bing #SearchEngine

chrisgeidner, 25 days ago to random

Justice Sam Alito actually is, to turn the phrase on its head, a politician in robes.

On Alito, Roberts, and the latest crisis his court is facing — whether he likes it or not: https://www.lawdork.com/p/sam-alito-is-a-problem

GottaLaff, 30 days ago to random

Oh look.

Via Aaron Fritschner:

Justice #Alito says his wife Martha-Ann Alito had an altercation with neighbors about a "'Fuck Trump' sign that was within 50 feet of where children await the school bus in Jan 21."

Except... FCPS and ACPS were all remote in January of 2021. No children were waiting for buses

Washington Post 2 EDUCATION ‘I'm so glad you're here: Students return to Fairfax County classrooms for the first time in months ' By Hannah Natanson February 16, 2021 at 7:12 p.m. EST
EDUCATION Alexandria City Public Schools sets date for reopening: Arlington refuses to follow suit ' By Hannah Natanson February 5, 2021 at 3:25 p.m. EST

GottaLaff, 1 month ago to random

He blamed “Mrs. Alito”!🤦🏻‍♀️

At Justice #Alito’s House, a ‘Stop the Steal’ Symbol on Display

An upside-down flag, adopted by #Trump supporters contesting the Biden victory, flew over the justice’s front lawn as the Supreme Court was considering an election case. #SCOTUS

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/us/justice-alito-upside-down-flag.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sU0.Ul57.KzkpFSD-0V_Z&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

jdnicoll, 1 month ago to random

Unvaccinated child dies of easily preventable, highly contagious disease.

https://www.cp24.com/news/ontario-sees-first-measles-death-in-more-than-a-decade-after-young-child-dies-1.6890989

QasimRashid, 1 month ago to random

Virginia GOP banning fiction novels about slavery because they’re allegedly traumatic to white kids but renaming their schools to Confederate terrorists despite their documented trauma on Black kids, aren't protecting children or education, they're protecting white supremacy.

idoubtit, 1 month ago to random

There is NO good reason to drink #rawmilk. If you are doing this, you have been seriously misinformed or uninformed about how pathogens work. Seek help now, especially if you have children, because you have really upped your chance of hurting or killing them. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/anti-pasteurization-crowd-reaffirms-love-of-raw-milk-despite-bird-flu-outbreak/

mhoye, 1 month ago to random

Both incredible and 100% unsurprising that StackOverflow would choose to burn down their community in favor of AI-generated slurry, when their community was the only path and the only tool they had to differentiate themselves from any goddamn site made of AI-generated slurry.

wdlindsy, 1 month ago to random

"ProPublica won the prestigious public service Pulitzer Prize for what the judges described as 'groundbreaking and ambitious reporting that pierced the thick wall of secrecy surrounding the Supreme Court to reveal how a small group of politically influential billionaires wooed justices with lavish gifts and travel, pushing the Court to adopt its first code of conduct.'”

~ ProPublica

An excellent choice by the Pulitzer folks.

#ProPublica #SupremeCourt #corruption

https://www.propublica.org/article/pulitzer-prize-announcement-propublica-supreme-court

TechConnectify, 1 month ago to random

Real thought:

What depresses me most about the state of the world at present is that we've stopped caring to live up to the spirit of our ideals.

When we fail them and are pressed, we can rationalize our terrible actions based on technicalities - and large swaths of our culture have normalized doing this very thing.

It is my most sincere hope that we can walk our way back from this. I see some signs of this, but would prefer to see many more.

danjac, 1 month ago to DuckDuckGo

PSA: #duckduckgo has succumbed to FOMO and now uses "AI assist" by default (sigh).

You can disable this crap here: https://duckduckgo.com/settings#duckassist

TechConnectify, 1 month ago to random

I don't know who needs to hear this (that's a lie: ~80% of drivers) but when you're in a turn lane or an exit only lane, you should still signal to confirm to those around you that you are aware of the lane you're in and where it's about to go.

dgar, 1 month ago to random

I have a joke about trickle down economics, but 99 percent of you won’t get it.

miclgael, 2 months ago to ai

To turn off "duck assist" #ai you can go to settings#duckassist and switch it off manually. Doing so will set 2x cookies; "be" and "bd" in your browser.

#DuckDuckGo #Ai #Enshittification

https://duckduckgo.com/settings#duckassist

brucelawson, 2 months ago to random

Enjoy these two concentric circles

maxkennerly, 2 months ago to random

If you work in education, please please please educate your colleagues that "AI detectors" like TurnItIn are all scams and none of them can reliably detect AI-generated content.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/comments/1bwojmm/comment/ky7o8m4/

A teacher comments that TurnItIn deemed their own writing to be 94% AI written.

futurebird, 2 months ago to random

(via: https://www.tumblr.com/dont-fuckle-with-the-shuckle/747014658588917760?source=share)

space_cadet, 2 months ago to random

Economics: "Humans only value things monetarily."
Sociology: "Uh, | don't..."
Economics: "Humans are always rational and value is calculated by complex internal calculus."
Sociology: "Uhhh, Psy, can you help?" Psychology: "That's not how humans..." Economics: "ALSO MY SYSTEM WILL GROW EXPONENTIALLY FOREVER!!"
Physics: drops teacup

arstechnica, 2 months ago to random

101 studies flagged as bogus COVID cure pusher sees career unravel

It's a past-due reckoning for French microbiologist Didier Raoult, critics say.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/101-studies-flagged-as-bogus-covid-cure-pusher-sees-career-unravel/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social