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tkinias

@tkinias@historians.social

Assistant professor of history & #histodon. Research race and whiteness in the British Empire (especially Queensland & British Columbia). Teach European & world history with a focus on colonialism & empire.

Previous careers include teaching English as a foreign language and a variety of IT jobs (from Web dev to pulling cables).

Linux geek & SF nerd.

Views my own and probably ill-informed.

He/him.

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rysiek, to random
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Unheard of! Disgraceful discrimination of the most productive members of society! Pure socialism, plain and simple! This could have been any one of us owners of >75m superyachts!

> A superyacht owned by Bernard Arnault – the world’s second-richest man – has been banned from docking in Naples owing to a new regulation that has left multibillionaires “thoroughly disappointed” about missing out on staying at the southern Italian city.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/25/billionaires-disappointed-superyachts-banned-from-naples-mergellina-port-bernard-arnault

tkinias,
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@rysiek
I somehow doubt that a ship of that size lacks any boats that could be used to come into the harbour...

tkinias,
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@rysiek yeah 😔

tkinias, to random
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I will never understand what makes people think it’s acceptable to have conversations on speakerphone in a public place.

nyrath, to random
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How to create a game using hyperbolic geometry?

https://roguetemple.com/z/hyper/dev.php

tkinias,
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@nyrath
I gotta bookmark this to come back to when I'm not on my phone...

nixCraft, to history
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NCSA Mosaic (web browser - 1993–1997) running on

tkinias,
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@nixCraft
that brings back lots of fond memories...

tkinias, to random
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Warming trend for Colorado (U.S.A.), 1895–2022 <https://showyourstripes.info>

adamgreenfield, to random
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What troubles me still, a year and some after finishing “The Ministry For The Future,” is that this kind of just-so handwaving on Stan’s part was taken seriously – remains, if anything, the current gold standard for thinking through the contours of our crisis in speculative or imaginative form. But it’s ducking every question that matters, every last one.

tkinias,
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@adamgreenfield
yeah, I really didn’t understand how breezily he handwaved away Hindutva—it made it hard to take the rest of it at all seriously

ricci, to random
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Today in mistakes: encouraging a student to google powertop. They did not get the Linux power-reporting tool.

tkinias,
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@ljrk @not2b @ricci
yeah, when I search it as two words in an incognito tab almost the whole first page of results has to do with queer sex – the Linux util is result 7

rolle, (edited ) to internet
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If Facebook and Instagram were to join the Fediverse and you could follow users from that world from your instance, would you do it?

Boosts appreciated. I'd like to know the current consensus of the Fediverse.

tkinias,
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@rolle
Honestly, I’d probably follow the various people I know who are only on FB or Insta. It would let me keep up with those people without having to use those awful apps...

rolle, (edited ) to internet
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I've never heard of a company who can work in a building they don't own or pay rent for. This is bizarre.

Elon Musk told a Twitter advisor at 4 a.m. that the company would only pay rent over his 'dead body,' lawsuit says https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-lawsuit-he-never-planned-to-pay-rent-2023-5

tkinias,
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@rolle @WTL
I’m kind of curious how they justify it to themselves. That is, do they have some justification that makes them feel like they’re morally in the right, or is it just a crass “I can get by with this so I will.”

chrismessina, to random
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Welcome to OnlyTwits, where subscriber-only tweets appear at the top of your "For you" feed.

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tkinias,
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@chrismessina
hard to believe that this site was so central to our networking just a few short months ago...

sarajw, to random
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Huh I see there's an option to "Block direct messages from people you don't follow" which would save me the spam, buuuut would a normal friendly person know why their DM hadn't got a reply?

I'm thankfully not having to fend off a bunch of unwanted messages, so actually I'd rather people weren't ghosted by me without understanding why. But it'd also be nice to throw the switch to kill off spam DMs...

tkinias,
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@sarajw
Did you find out what a blocked sender sees? I also would not want a well-intentioned stranger to get just ghosted without my knowing...

tkinias,
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@sarajw thanks!

GWillow, to random

Twitter somehow gets worse week by week--right now it is an unusable swamp of right wing conspiracy theory, wave after wave of racism (there is currently an "invasion" underway at the southern border that must be stopped by lethal force) crypto bros, and bots selling high-follower accounts. Amazing really.

tkinias,
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@GWillow
this is intriguing to me, as “well-regulated Town Square” (referred to in the screencap downthread) to me implies a public service, not a privatized commons like Bluesky—wouldn’t socialists and leftists generally prefer a nonprofit collective or co-op over a capitalist project, even if their first choice would be a public enterprise?

rysiek, to random
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RIP Metaverse
An obituary for the latest fad to join the tech graveyard
https://www.businessinsider.com/metaverse-dead-obituary-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-tech-fad-ai-chatgpt-2023-5

> Zuckerberg declared in a March update that Meta's "single largest investment is advancing AI and building it into every one of our products." Meta's chief technology officer, Andrew Bosworth, told CNBC in April that he, along with Mark Zuckerberg and the company's chief product officer, Chris Cox, were now spending most of their time on AI.

:chefkiss:

h/t @intelwire

tkinias,
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@rysiek @intelwire
do we know how much money Zuck actually burned on this whole “metaverse” scheme?

the article mentions tens of billions, but do we know anything more precise than that?

tkinias,
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@FediThing @kuba @rysiek @intelwire
I mean, this is the kind of money that even the US DoD has trouble making just disappear.

jeffjarvis, to random
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I wake up to the damned coronation. I find it offensive.

tkinias,
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@jeffjarvis
I woke up to my TL full of snark about it, but I am choosing not to watch any of it.

Though I might revisit Hobsbawm & Ranger’s Invention of Tradition after our graduation ceremony today...

tkinias, to random
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Someday I will have students who can consistently distinguish peasants from pheasants.

Today is not that day.

tkinias,
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@jrefior
now this is starting to sound like a Black Adder scene

tkinias,
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@Atexjam
you may have a point

esther, to random

Imagine my face when I learned in my 20s, as I heard more from people in other countries, that other places had free school lunches and the German system where lunch would cost about 2€ per day (in today’s €, adjusted for inflation) was just another neo-liberal hellscape.

tkinias,
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@esther
my memory of state schools in the US (late 1980s) was that we had punch cards or something like that – I definitely remember that if you didn’t have your card you didn’t get lunch

by high school it was all à la carte and on a cash basis rather than being a prepaid fixed menu—but at least back then it was still being operated by the school itself instead of being contracted out to a for-profit company

Richard_Littler, to actuallyadhd
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I'm so my autie 'special interest' is affected by hyperfocusing on not getting things done in a very thorough way.
Case in point: This A.M. I was trying to focus on work. Instead, I got distracted by this film frame because it says FOCUS and I felt compelled to colour-correct and restore it.
@actuallyautistic
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Film frame affected by ageing red tint, but now corrected. Text: FOCUS

tkinias,
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@Richard_Littler @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd
relatable!

tkinias, to random
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Vaguely intrigued by how my TL is evenly split between people cheering the Ukrainians for the apparent drone attack on the Moscow Kremlin and people saying the attack was obviously fake or false-flag.

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    tkinias,
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    @jens
    I find it intriguing that in English we have four words that literally mean more or less the same thing: extraordinary, outstanding, egregious, and abnormal, all basically meaning “different from the usual” but two are nearly always positive and two are uniformly negative.

    nixCraft, to random
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    tkinias,
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    @nixCraft
    OK that’s legit funny

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