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rberger

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... PC Revolutions, C compilers clacking huge Floppy Disks , Lisp Machine Nirvana, Unix Wars, building an early ISP, Metro Wireless, #Startups that went down, Hardware Image Processing, Objective C training from Brad Cox, first C++ Conference, unreadable Perl, lots of Python, Ruby, #Clojure and now back to #Python, #DevOps, #AWSCommunityBuilder, #Serverless, #Sourdough Software System and Cloud Architectures. Not time to die!

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rberger, to random
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We are living in a time where the actual traitors and enemies of our country are running our courts and legislatures.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/justice-alito-upside-down-flag-jan-6/678410/?gift=E9o0y7Rlfcfv2OQ1sSVCEgyTH5SBod-uxrw5KW6Ww4g&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

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Finally, there was the eye-popping story broken by Josh Dawsey and Maxine Joselow in the Washington Post on Thursday, revealing that last month, at a private meeting with about two dozen top oil executives at Mar-a-Lago, Trump offered to reverse President Joe Biden’s environmental rules designed to combat climate change and to stop any new ones from being enacted in exchange for a $1 billion donation.
... (1/2)

rberger,
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Chief White House ethics lawyer in the George W. Bush administration Richard Painter wrote: “This is called bribery. It’s a felony.” He followed up with “Even a candidate who loses can be prosecuted for bribery. That includes the former guy asking for a billion dollars in campaign cash from oil companies in exchange for rolling back environmental laws.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/may-12-2024?r=103mi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email (2/2)

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#GiftArticle

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/11/opinion/campus-protest-police-violence.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rU0.Z_M2.o5enDh98SaQO&smid=url-share

rberger, to random
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Heat Death of the Internet

You want to order from a local restaurant, but you need to download a third-party delivery app, even though you plan to pick it up yourself. The prices and menu on the app are different to what you saw in the window. When you download a second app the prices are different again. You ring the restaurant directly and it says the number is no longer in service. You go to the restaurant and order in person….

https://www.takahe.org.nz/heat-death-of-the-internet/

mekkaokereke, to random
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If you got upset at me for pointing out that more people died of Covid under Biden than Trump, in large part because Biden rolled back common sense restrictions that were in place under Trump...

Then you'll hate me pointing out that Trump introduced a 25% tariff on Chinese EVs, and Biden is upping that to 100% tariff.

https://insideevs.com/news/719283/chinese-ev-tariffs-biden-quadruple/

We can't allow the US to get off of fossil fuels... unless US billionaires win! 🤡

Fear the BYD Dolphin! (an EV car for $12K)
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/T3nfyO_UHjk

rberger,
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@mekkaokereke What China has that the US doesn’t is actual Industrial Policies and huge government investment in companies that didn’t make Cars before but could make high tech equipment. Also they have an industrial base built up when our financial overlords sent everything overseas and destroyed the US manufacturing base. We have decades of catchup and the opportunity to leap frog China if we actually took appropriate action.

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Enshittification arises when the everyday mediocre sociopaths who run tech companies are freed from the constraints that act against them. When the web - and its browsers - were a big, contented, diverse, competitive space, it was harder for tech companies to collude to capture standards bodies like the W3C to secure even more dominance. (1/2)

rberger,
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As the web turned into Tom Eastman's "five giant websites filled with screenshots of text from the other four," that kind of collusion became much easier - @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/07/treacherous-computing/#rewilding-the-internet (2/2)

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All this highlights the increasing divergence between the UK and the US when it comes to labor rights. Under the Biden Administration, @NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo has promulgated a rule that grants a union automatic recognition if the boss does anything to interfere with a union election:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/06/goons-ginks-and-company-finks/#if-blood-be-the-price-of-your-cursed-wealth… (1/2)

rberger,
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In other words, if Amazon tries these tactics in the USA now, their union will be immediately recognized. Abruzzo has installed an ultra-sensitive tilt-sensor in America's union elections, and if Bezos or his class allies so much as sneeze in the direction of their workers' democratic rights, they automatically lose.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/06/one-click-to-quit-the-union/ (2/2)

rberger, to random
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By making a series of cuts and folds in a sheet of paper, Baker found she could produce two planes connected by a complex set of thin strips. Without the need for any adhesive like glue or tape, this pattern created a surface that was thick but lightweight. Baker named her creation Spin-Valence. Structural tests later showed that an individual tile made this way, and rendered in steel, can bear more than a thousand times its own weight.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/04/23/1090915/emily-baker-architect-materials-disaster-zones-design/?truid=*%7CLINKID%7C*

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“Enclosed flaring is, in truth, probably less efficient than a typical flare. It’s better than venting, but going from a flare to an enclosed flare or a vapour combustor is not an improvement in reducing emissions.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/may/02/methane-emissions-gas-flaring-hidden-satellite-monitors-oil-gas

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McNerney's big idea was to get rid of "phenomenally talented assholes" and outsource the Dreamliner's design to Boeing's suppliers, who were utterly dependent on the company and could easily be pushed around (McNerney didn't care that most of these companies lacked engineering departments). (1/2)

rberger,
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This resulted in a $80b cost overrun, and a last-minute scramble to save the 787 by shipping a "cleanup crew" from Seattle to South Carolina, in the hopes that those "phenomenally talented assholes" could save McNerney's ass.

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The Republican Party has become the party of fascism, oppression, hatred and cruelty The only policies they propound are ones that hurt the poor and the middle class and give more power and money to billionaires. It is completely subservient to the Orange Jackass no matter how many moors, laws, democratic norms and truths he smashes.

At this point there is no doubt that this is what the Republican Party is: the enemy of peace, freedom and the American Way. (1/2)

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“We are devolving into a democracy, because congressmen and senators are elected by the same pool,” was how one GOP delegate put it to the convention. “We do not want to be a democracy.”

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/the-wa-gop-put-it-in-writing-that-theyre-not-into-democracy/

rberger, to random
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Ukrainian Troops Staged A Daring Three-Night Raid To Steal A Russian Tank Fitted With A New Drone-Jammer
(actual article)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/04/15/ukrainian-troops-staged-a-daring-three-night-raid-to-steal-a-russian-tank-fitted-with-a-new-drone-jammer/?sh=1382ed7973d4

rberger, to USpolitics
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The White House may soon be recaptured by Donald Trump, who called the climate crisis a “hoax” and even when backing off that assertion insisted, “I don’t know that it’s man-made.” He has demonstrated his thinking again and again, as when he told a scientist, “It’ll start getting cooler, you just watch.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/20/opinion/trump-biden-climate-election.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mE0.l_78.U66Rw9H1EzCW&smid=url-share… (1/2)

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“Conflict is a reliable way to know whether or not you're a leftist. As Steven Brust says, the way to distinguish a leftist is to ask "What's more important, human rights, or property rights?" If you answer "Property rights are human right," you're not a leftist. Leftists don't necessarily oppose all property rights - they just think they're less important than human rights.”

“ Hate ”

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/18/in-extremis-veritas/

rberger, to random
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The Supreme Court has a history of its own obstruction of justice and process.

They put their finger on the scale for Bush in 2000 setting in motion the Republican takeover of Democracy.

Upheld "Citizens" United that gave corporations and billionaires infinite power.

The majority perjured themselves in Senate hearings declaring Roe vs. Wade settled law then going against the law and the will of the people to strike it down. (1/3)

rberger,
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Of course they are going to stand with the insurrectionists. One of the justices wife is one of them!

Well, the Supreme Court has a history of its own obstruction of justice and process.

They put their finger on the scale for Bush in 2000. Upheld "Citizens" United that gave corporations and billionaires infinite power.

The majority perjured themselves in Senate hearings declaring Roe vs. Wade settled law an then going against the law and the will of the people to strike it down. (2/3)

rberger,
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Of course the majority on the Supreme Court are going to stand with the insurrectionists. One of the justices wife is one of them!

The Supreme Court is no longer supreme or or just. They have a corrupt majority of political operatives in collusion with billionaires and Trump to destroy Democracy in the USA. (3/3)

StillIRise1963, to random
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New rules: All wars will now become duels fought between leaders.

rberger,
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@StillIRise1963 I think Iron Chef competition would be better than duels

rberger, to USpolitics
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As The Economist has noted, “the arsenal of deceit is highly effective at keeping malign leaders in power, which is perhaps why global democracy has been in retreat for the past decade.” That’s why the media needs to call a lie a lie, and not worry if doing so appears partisan, while making clear that Trump’s authoritarian agenda would mark a radical break from America as we know it. This isn’t just another normal presidential race.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/donald-trump-2024-election-none-of-this-is-normal

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I know this is really obvious to most of us but as someone who witnessed the rampant racism, sexism, anti-gayness etc of even the 80s and 90s, it’s pretty clear that the current culture war is just a response to us emerging from those patterns! watch any movie from 1990 or around there and it will blow your mind what was common & totally acceptable. We are waking up from a very deep sleep, and some folks can’t handle it

rberger,
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@asbestos @seachanger Humans are so ridiculous

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