SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, FOSTA, SESTA, the investigatory powers bill, David Cameron's porn filter bill, FISA and warrantless wiretapping, mass surveillance, manufactured consent, to name a few.
@BlackAzizAnansi The user partition filling up because half the users built emacs and/or TeX in their home directories because I fell behind keeping the /usr/local versions up to date.
What are some numbers in your field that anyone else in the field would identify without even thinking about it, but folk outside may have no idea. Just the numbers, no explanations. Yet.
FYI - I worked on 2 different #RealityTV shows in #Canada & after those lived work experiences - told everyone I could - don't agree to go on these shows. It's almost all scripted, not reality. Crews are forced to put pressure on voluntary participants - who rarely know WTF they're signing up for & producers exploit naivety. Don't chase easy fame/easy money - they both come at high personal costs. Don't agree to be traumatized on TV, for money. You'll regret it.
@RickiTarr I too love all the Treks; it takes a galaxy.
I’m just wondering when the timelines will get as obscured as in that early oughts low-budget sci-fi thriller we all forgot but are going “Oh, YEAH!” about, in unison.
@RickiTarr What makes me sad: Paramount+ ending series with less promised new works in the pipeline. At their peak, five series at a time per year. Now, I'm not sure that will ever happen again. (They clearly aren't interested in elevating one series to a full season commitment of 23 episodes. That would at least be a sign of good faith if they can't run more than a couple of shows.)
What doesn't make me sad: Faith of The Heart. I still love Enterprise, even if the presence of theme song lyrics made it weird.
Serious question: when and in which contexts did calling people "individuals" emerge as a common practice, as a synonym for people? Or "an individual" for "a person"?
I ask because I'm noticing it in student writing, and I associate it with police-speak. I don't know if it's in some corners of social science or medicine too
@RickiTarr
> If the gods exist, it's mighty presumptuous to think they have our best interests at heart, or even think about us at all
If Terry Pratchett's Small Gods is to be believed, they think about nothing else, but they care about our interests only when it serves their own best interests.
"the United States is committed to serving as a model in the international community in promoting and protecting the collective rights of #indigenous peoples as well as the human rights of all individuals."
The contention that using high-filtration masks to prevent transmission of respiratory disease is “unscientific” and “lacking evidence” when we have reams of aerosol and transmission studies is a display of either unawareness/scientific illiteracy (super fixable! non-shameful!) or of an intentional disregard of the evidence for emotional or ideological reasons (common but troubling).
@GottaLaff Its only complicated for her because she can’t figure out any way to interpret the law or twist the legal proceedings in a way where Trump isn’t plainly guilty of illegally retaining top secret classified information. 🙄🤷♂️
@flexghost The press needs to start asking republicans who have condemned trump serious questions like: "Do you think trump is a threat to democracy? Do you think trump will get hundreds of thousands of people killed again? Do you secretly admire trump for being incompetent yet still getting votes? If trump launched nuclear weapons at NYC would you cheer?"
#NikkiHaley is supporting #Trump’s 2024 White House bid, she said Wednesday in her first public remarks since exiting the Republican presidential primary more than two months ago.
@GottaLaff There has to be a word specifically for people like Hayley who sell their souls to someone like t. Lost just isn’t even close and too kind and whore, is for someone who at least provides a service for money. These people don’t do it for the money. They do massive damage to an entire country and the world. Need a word. Cross between self-serving, syncophant, ass-kissing, selfish, traitorous, slimy crud….cant find the word…maybe there isn’t one.
@GottaLaff You guys aren't going to believe this but Mr. Alito and his wife also have a pesky neighbor on Long Beach Island, NJ. They have some of the worst luck with neighbors.