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inquiline, to random
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Another day, another do not feel like working

richpuchalsky,
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@inquiline

The key is to put off every kind of task by doing a different kind of task

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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Is it "unjust" and "mean" to not let Pica lick (but not even eat) my mozzarella sicks?

Facts:

  1. She has done this before
  2. She won't even eat them, just mouth them.
  3. She has a strong opinion about doing this.
richpuchalsky,
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@futurebird

In my household we traditionally let all household members vote on these questions (with humans winning ties), and as children grow up and move out and as we get more cats the votes sometimes get a big dicey. For a while we had to play off the dog vote against the cat vote.

inquiline, to random
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Kolektiva, come get your person.

There's someone arguing in my mentions that the student protesters haven't succeeded in any way bc there aren't "celebratory parades" in honor of US/universities ceasing to support the Gaza war.

richpuchalsky,
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@inquiline

Direct people to my month-long poem about this: all the ideas are there, and it will take them so long to navigate it that they probably won't come back.

richpuchalsky,
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@inquiline

Here's the link:

https://mastodon.social/@richpuchalsky/112022669158621670

inquiline, (edited ) to Palestine
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A variety of pretty interesting thoughts in this Peter Beinart podcast (I skimmed transcript):

"among Jewish students who were involved in pro- organizing, it is awakening a kind of much greater interest that they had in what it means to be Jewish"

"the more powerful they grow, the more the repression we will see... the US government at state & federal level will start to punish these universities even more severely"

https://peterbeinart.substack.com/p/the-campus-protesters-are-winning

richpuchalsky,
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@inquiline

"the organized American Jewish community will essentially abandon the liberalism of these university projects altogether essentially by starting to divest from them in terms of their dollars, and also by bringing in the force of people in government, especially authoritarian Republicans."

Contemporary university systems are part of neoliberal support of empire and if this causes them to fall, then that's good.

richpuchalsky,
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@inquiline

There are no good options remaining. The two main options are:

  1. attempt to keep propping up an ever worse system, or

  2. work towards what you actually want, even if it involves the current system failing.

When we're at the point of "we can't have campus protests because big money donors will leave and authoritarians will take over" I think it's time for 2) above.

impermanen_, to random
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The neighbor mini donkeys are here this morning. They have a big pasture and can roam all over it but they prefer to come eat right at the fence line just to taunt our animals. Cutest little brats.

richpuchalsky,
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@impermanen_

The one on the left is clearly a radioactive mutant

bagder, to random
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It has been a long time coming, but I've made it official:

"Daniel no longer answers questions on stackoverflow. Use a dedicated public curl forum for accurate and timely answers about anything . "

(yes, speaking about myself in 3rd person)

https://stackoverflow.com/users/93747/daniel-stenberg

richpuchalsky,
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@bagder

Understandable and good, but a question: is there a "dedicated public curl forum"? The whole reason why people went to Stack Overflow in the first place was because it answered not individual questions but the "where do I even look for a forum on this" question.

futurebird, to random
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Everyone running around excited a non-human primate "used medicine to treat wounds"

I'm just over here looking at ants who have been doing this since before you were an inkling on the evolutionary tree and wondering what the big deal is.

Whatever it is ants did it first.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-ants-can-diagnose-and-treat-their-comrades-infected-wounds-180983526/

richpuchalsky,
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@futurebird

Cool, but it's not tool use. The ants are using medicine that they evolved to secrete -- that's different than using a plant leaf

futurebird, to random
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I just re-read Neuromancer for some reason and... I still don't really get it.

Though I'm not certain it's making any particular statement. The hero mall-ninja. The wasp nest of big money. It's like a bunch of dream images each with their own resonance rattling around in what would be unfair to call 90s pastiche... because to be fair to Mr. Gibson, he invented what was later imitated.

But, yeah. I still don't really get it.

richpuchalsky,
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@futurebird

It's a D&D quest: they have to get together the fighter, the magic user, the thief and the cleric.

inquiline, to random
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"police raids do not serve a university’s own interests in maintaining peace and civility on campus. The 1960s made that crystal clear. Bringing law enforcement to campus invariably intensifies protests, fuels acrimony, and creates a climate of distrust. Police involvement doesn’t dampen protests; it accelerates them, often with devastating consequences"

https://www.chronicle.com/article/college-presidents-behaving-badly

Can fw if anyone doesn't have access

richpuchalsky,
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@inquiline

For access, use good old archive.ph, which works on the vast majority of paywalled things.

https://archive.ph/Sioqk

richpuchalsky,
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@inquiline

I've never had archive.ph fail to work, so I don't know.

augieray, to random
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"I'm so angry at Biden over Isreal/Gaza that I'm going to help Trump destroy democracy, weaponize the Justice system, send millions to deportation camps, lower the taxes on the wealthy and shift the burden to the middle class, cut Social Security, track and prosecute women having abortions, pardon the people who violently attacked Capitol police, dismantle NATO, help Russia, AND ON TOP OF ALL THAT do even more harm to Palestinians" is a take--it's just a really awful take, IMO.

richpuchalsky,
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@augieray

"I'm going to vote for genocide" is also a take.

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    richpuchalsky,
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    @inquiline

    I've looked at the replies to this as well as I can on Mastodon (i.e. I have no idea whether I'm seeing what you're seeing) and half of the them are not good. Basically, don't trust Grayzone: they are indeed apologists for China, Russia, and Assadist Syria: also do not trust most of the links that go off on Grayzone because those sites are themselves not trustworthy and label Grayzone as bad because they label anyone disagreeing with American propaganda as bad.

    richpuchalsky,
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    @inquiline

    Credible leftists and anarchists do object to GZ, but so do liberal/US-foreigh-policy good people. I didn't look at the links here in depth but any generalized anti-bias or anti-fake-news site is a liberal/US-foreign-policy good site.

    For this particular article, GZ's general reputation has little to do with it. It makes a claim about a specific person which can be checked by watching a youtube video of a mayoral press conference (which I didn't bother to do). 1/2

    richpuchalsky,
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    @inquiline

    The question here is whether you think it's important that a professor at the university is working with the police. I kind of assume that every large university has at least one professor who is an active cop.

    plaguepoems, to random
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    I’ve seen the polls
    the ones that say
    that 12% of Americans
    typically wear a mask in public
    yes, I’ve seen the polls,
    but what I haven’t seen
    is 12% of Americans
    typically wearing masks in public.

    richpuchalsky,
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    @plaguepoems

    depends on where in the US you are

    SallyStrange, to scifi
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    10 authors, of whose books I've read at least five:

    Ursula Le Guin
    Kim Stanley Robinson
    Octavia Butler
    N. K. Jemisin
    Becky Chambers
    Iain M. Banks
    Martha Wells
    M. R. Carey
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    Vonda McIntyre


    @bookstodon

    richpuchalsky,
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    @SallyStrange @bookstodon

    I have read too much for this list, but I'll read off the first 10 in Z-A order that I've read at least 5 books from, looking at my account on LibraryThing (which is more complete for SF):

    Roger Zelazny
    Gene Wolfe
    Margaret Weis
    Lawrence Watt-Evans
    A. E. Van Vogt
    Jules Verne
    Jack Vance
    Leo Tolstoy
    JRRT
    Steph Swainston

    (not a recommendation in all cases)

    richpuchalsky, to random
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    “Shit, if only they’d have moved like that when my son was being murdered,” the father of a murdered Uvalde child tweeted above footage of Texas DPS officers in riot gear storming toward unarmed students at UT Austin. “But what do I expect….1 AR-15 keeps 376 officers at bay.”

    https://www.momleft.com/p/the-kids-the-guns-are-for

    inquiline, (edited ) to random
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    students have begun a Solidarity encampment

    *ETA, both and USC's private police force are on the scene. One student allegedly detained.

    https://dailytrojan.com/2024/04/24/gaza-solidarity-occupation-to-at-alumni-park-live-updates/

    richpuchalsky,
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    @inquiline @JeanPDeliet @paninid

    (me tearing off mattress warning tag, being arrested by cops, neighbor with "In This House We Believe" lawn sign yells through the window "this is your fault for not caring about Uyghur")

    inquiline, to Columbia
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    "It is never appropriate to call in armed police to arrest peaceful student demonstrators....

    The faculty of Columbia University has every right – and, in my view, a duty – to protect peaceful free expression at with a vote of no confidence in Shafik’s leadership and seek to have her presidency terminated"

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/23/israel-gaza-campus-protests

    richpuchalsky,
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    @inquiline @dschwarz

    arrested for code violation (at home, I slowly pull off a tag attached to a mattress... as the last thead parts, cops jump through all of my windows and kick down my door)

    futurebird, to random
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    In other "news" Tucker Carlson went on "The Rogan Experience" and denied that evolution by means of natural selection explained the diversity & history of living things on earth.

    Said there was "no evidence" humans could have evolved "from a single cell organism"

    It's impossible to know if he's just saying this for attention.

    I've always said science would be next. Tucker is the vanguard of the far right. Give it five years and you'll have congress members wanting this in your schools.

    richpuchalsky,
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    @futurebird

    I hope they go whole hog and try to set pi to 3 again

    inquiline, to random
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    Whoops, I'm in the LA Times:

    https://www.aol.com/news/free-speech-campus-safety-collide-100039656.html

    richpuchalsky,
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    @inquiline

    at least it's for a prepared statement, not a social media post

    richpuchalsky, to animals
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    I have an indoor bike right next to my couch for daily exercise. The exercise consists of gently pulling on this cat's tail to wake her up so that she kneads her paws in the air.

    kellogh, to random
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    The Attack Turkey

    this morning on the run i got to the top of the hill and was resting, bc i'm out of shape, and off in the distance i see a bird trotting my way

    as it gets closer i realize it's a turkey. it had a big red gobbler and its neck was iridescent. It was actually really pretty, so i just watched as it approached

    richpuchalsky,
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    @kellogh

    Awesome thread: was it a domestic turkey running wild or an actual wild turkey? Wild turkeys are great and so massive: I saw a line of 5 of them scratching for bugs in leaf mold in a forest. I would sort of have liked for them to chase me but they did not.

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