Urzl

I'm a programmer, I help people clock out and go see their kids.

Just for context - In the US, SW Missouri currently.

General: Technophile - 3d Printing, DIY electronics and programming enthusiast.
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Politics: I despise neo-feudalism.

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2026-03-12 15:53:58 UTC

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My bulbs are all LED. My thermostat only heats us up to 64 degrees. I WFH and never drive anywhere but the elementary school across the highway where it isn't safe to walk or bike and appointments in a town with no meaningful bus service.
I'm running out of things to cut down on. Personal responsibility *won't* get us through this, *real* corporate accountability is the way forward but the government has no interest in pro-humanity causes.

2026-03-04 22:53:27 UTC

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I knew Germans had an anti-Arab thing going back at least to the Ottoman Empire but I didn't think it would render them this stupid.

2026-02-05 17:27:50 UTC

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When I'm feeling charitable, I kind of think of them as a yet higher level language tier.
We still have assembly programming happening at the same time as we have Python and Blockly.
You still have to know what you're doing with Python to make it work well but without knowing asm there are some problems you won't tackle.

2026-01-31 16:46:58 UTC

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"One day they will all have been against this" is how I see it going. The USA has a long history of refusing to process their issues and this will go on the backlog along with everything else since slavery.
They'll take their hurt feelings, disconnection and feelings of displacement and spin them into a "South shall rise again" narrative they'll pull back out of the closet when they're feeling plucky again.

2026-01-29 19:27:00 UTC

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On further reflection, it's just that the GOP is using "1984" as their model and the Democrats are working from "Brave New World".

2026-01-29 19:24:02 UTC

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Same ownership, slightly different approach.
Republicans - The lower class must be brutally released.
Democrats - We don't think it needs to be *brutal*.

2026-01-27 22:25:31 UTC

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The GOP is very comfortable with "guns for us but not for you". I can't see this moving the needle.

2026-01-27 17:39:00 UTC

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"I know commercialization of everything, industrially corrupted food supplies, unavailable inferior healthcare and brutal workloads are killing people now. Is there any way we could speed it up though?"

2026-01-17 13:39:02 UTC

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I have to suspect that the block encodes the make and model in addition to the serial number of the specific device.
So there's some safety in a "clean" printer only insofar as the exact serial number isn't known in the wild but it's still a pretty narrow search space.

2026-01-09 22:01:15 UTC

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I am not responsible for what the worst people on Earth willfully project onto me and my words.
There is no possibility of being so careful that they will stop being evil.

2026-01-09 18:24:39 UTC

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We need to know who is on their target list. No doubt they're using facial recognition on crowds and individuals to identify specific targeted people.

2026-01-09 17:46:26 UTC

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I have always been aghast that anybody denies this happened.
I grew up knowing my grandfather and two of his sisters had volunteered to be teachers in the camps for the kids who had been uprooted. I don't remember ever *not* knowing about it.

2026-01-09 01:53:40 UTC

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The entire point of the "bad apples" saying is that you must dispose of the bad apples before they ruin the other apples.
You don't tolerate them.
You don't transfer them to ruin another different batch.
You don't minimize their impact by talking about how few of them there are while keeping them.
When you know they're bad, you immediately and permanently remove them. No negotiation. No compromise. No delay.

2026-01-07 19:13:57 UTC

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Some of us will be shot. This is the nature of fascism. They never go quietly and you can't argue with them.
They must be physically stopped from doing harm, nothing less will get the job done.

2026-01-07 16:42:44 UTC

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It's important to remember there aren't any American reporters, just sycophantic bloggers and stenographers.
They are there to reinforce their images and not to report the truth or confront inconsistencies.
They absolutely are not there to afflict the comfortable.

2026-01-07 14:15:14 UTC

Adding an LLM to a product like a browser is a strange decision. The thought process that leads to "Our product could be improved if we added the ability to be confidently wrong about a wide variety of topics" is hard to understand.

2026-01-06 17:36:41 UTC

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The normies can't wrap their heads around rape being about control and power, consequently they "can't understand" these crimes.
They don't know that this is happening *because* kids are vulnerable and *because* these criminals and monsters are protected.
Nobody should ever be so insulated from the consequences of their actions as the rich are now. That impunity breeds depravity.

2025-12-17 17:31:57 UTC

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Does anybody in the wider media establishment understand that it's too late?
We need education how to survive the fascist takeover rather than palace intrigues about how fucked we all are.
Nothing will come of this either. The GOP is all in on human extinction for profit and will not be deterred by anyone or anything. The Democrats can't be moved to adopt any pro-humanity platform so even if they did get power it wouldn't save us.

2025-12-17 17:20:51 UTC

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I think multiplayer shouldn't be underestimated either.
I resent it like hell that they want me to pay extra per account to enable multiplayer on PlayStation. My kid and I can't play together with them upstairs and me downstairs on the other TV without both of us paying a monthly premium in 90% of games.
It's not just games, they're charging us for access to each other.

2025-12-17 17:01:32 UTC

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Console makers also aren't holding up their end of the bargain.
We gave up flexibility in exchange for guarantees of performance, stability, compatibility, etc. Now they're trying to segment into tiers with stuff like PS5 Pro while also failing to release bulletproof software.
"Unstable at release but if we sell enough, we'll bother to fix it" is a losing proposition for people who already agreed to be locked in the walled gardens.

2025-12-12 14:33:08 UTC

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Similar to Twitter, Meta is never going to get better. Their core values and culture are anti-human.
They will never make the pro-human choice without duress.

2025-12-10 16:40:53 UTC

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They stole her wedding ring? What possible justification do they have?

2025-12-10 00:25:13 UTC

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They know exactly what they're doing. They have never once even accidentally done the right thing, none of this is random. It's a coordinated assault by the global oligarchy with Russia leading the charge.
They intend to destroy the USA as a global power.
They intend us to die in uneducated filthy misery.
They don't care if the county is a smoking crater as long as they get to own the crater and lord it over the rest of us.

2025-12-07 00:06:52 UTC

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I remember the smell of this stuff. It came highly recommended for chapped nipples when my wife was breastfeeding our babies.

2025-12-05 14:56:34 UTC

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They were only ever better because the market told them they had to be. No company has any real conscience of its own or other internal limits on their behavior, only the market consequences of their actions ever keep them in check.
They will never be better than they have to be and they don't have to be better right now.

2025-12-03 01:36:12 UTC

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I love a dark sky too but there's something about the warmly lit, quiet cocoon around the whole city in winter.

2025-12-03 01:18:44 UTC

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I love the deep winter with low clouds and snow on the ground. They both muffle noise but reflect light. It's never fully dark on a cloudy night in winter because of city lights.

2025-11-19 12:46:45 UTC

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So they don't verify the payload on receipt and this is going to happen again, on purpose next time, now that the vulnerability is revealed.

2025-11-10 18:23:43 UTC

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They think strategy should drive policy instead of policy driving strategy and it's an absolutely fatal flaw.
Find your principles and never betray them for anything or anyone. *That* is the strategy we need. Show us we can trust you to hold true to the fundamentals and we can argue later about the details and implementation.

2025-11-03 20:15:05 UTC

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The balancing act here is being able to maintain "not perfect but actively moving towards perfect" and it's been a long time since people felt that politicians of any stripe were actually aligned *towards* perfect.
I think that the real crux of the thing is distinguishing between perfect candidates versus imperfect candidates aspiring to perfect.
Aspiring to mediocrity and reelection doesn't inspire anybody.

2025-11-03 20:00:14 UTC

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It's not hard to see why people are discouraged. Their record makes it really difficult to convince people "this time the Democrats are definitely the better choice" when Schumer and Pelosi committed so hard to preemptive compromise for so long.
It's not a good enough reason to sit out but we need something affirmative to offer to bring people back and I'm not sure what that is going to need to be. "Better than Trump" is such a low bar, nobody's impressed by it.

2025-10-28 13:20:03 UTC

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The Paperclip Maximizer already exists but because it's making money instead of paperclips, we don't recognize it.
The Corporation is already the out of control competing intelligence killing humanity. It's not an autonomous collection of robots that will do us in, it will be humans supporting the will of The Almighty Employer.
We're actively converting everything inherently valuable in the world into money which has zero inherent value.

2025-10-23 20:16:36 UTC

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I am not good at that but I have been pretty consistent about saying that just about everything we were taught to hate about the USSR or China was about the authoritarianism rather than the economics.
Nothing about our economy protects us from the abuses inflicted on their people, it's only our democracy that did that (not particularly well).

2025-10-07 23:09:41 UTC

If you ever want to see a neurotypical person lose their shit at work just imply however lightly that their ego-driven, authoritarian and imprecise communication style is the problem.
They really don't want you to engage unless it's to be deferential and polyanna.
#corporatismKillsHumans #bullshit

2025-10-03 16:02:53 UTC

In AI training at work. In a lab, I asked the bot to respond to "Where to rabbits go when they die?"
So of course it came back with "Certainly! Let's explore whether a patient with chronic hypertension and diabetes should be offered a standard health plan or a specialized chronic care plan though a multi-faceted evaluation process."
Silly me thinking it might refuse to answer rather than just make up its own wild shit.
#AI #corporate #bullshit

2025-10-03 15:33:28 UTC

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"Retail Therapy" let's us feel in control in some small way when nothing else feels that way.
"At least I can still have a nice thing" feels better than "I'll try to go see what good is left in the public domain after the book bans, bathroom segregation, lynchings and gestapo..."

2025-10-01 17:59:19 UTC

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I think it's a perverse complicated thing happening here. In America we're all supposed to be "doing okay". It's some weird badge of honor to be middle class, not "out of touch rich" and not "too lazy to live poor". Since it's what we aspire to, it's what TV pretends to be and these hosts forgot that they were pretending.
They're rich. They don't have middle class problems or perspectives but they *think* they do.

2025-09-30 18:41:42 UTC

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We need to be similarly prepared to oppose them with literally anything and everything we can muster.

2025-09-29 18:24:59 UTC

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I assume Apple just intends to launch iSteam and pretend nobody's ever created an online gaming marketplace.
The Apple drones will faithfully repeat this mantra until they've forgotten Steam and crow about how Apple invented gaming.

2025-09-29 15:49:28 UTC

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No for all the privacy reasons and also because I'm not even legally allowed to share the information for my work because of HIPAA and other liabilities.
Moreover, everybody's moved to SSO so there's no difference between giving them the keys to the kingdom vs just giving them the paystubs.
This will never be okay, there is no lesser mitigation worthy of discussion, it's just a full-stop no.

2025-09-24 20:45:32 UTC

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The topic was "pyrex as windshield glass".

2025-09-24 20:38:44 UTC

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Two possible outcomes - the windshield doesn't break but the passengers do when they hit it or the glass explodes into a nightmare of flying razors.
I'm sure it's fine either way.

2025-09-11 13:22:13 UTC

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He told us it was fine and right for people to routinely be shot to death because it served his political agenda; it'd be completely unethical to exclude himself from the rule.

2025-09-09 23:37:46 UTC

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The trick, which we never seem to be able to pull off, is to ignore them and tax them out the ass anyway.
The robber barons of the Gilded Age made generational dynastic wealth under a top tax rate that hit 100% under some conditions. There is zero evidence that taxing the rich leads to them fleeing the market that feeds them or any of the other bullshit that gets floated.

2025-08-26 21:13:22 UTC

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Messy, painful and illegal.

2025-08-26 21:02:08 UTC

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It's already closed. They elected him POTUS to make him a dictator for life and they will fight to defend him.
There's no legal way out of this and the midterms will absolutely be rigged.
What comes next won't be debates and politicking.

2025-08-26 12:15:54 UTC

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*whether they're peaceful or not, it's still true.

2025-08-22 13:38:42 UTC

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They're going to pretend to find evidence that can't be revealed publicly for national security reasons and declare him a traitor.
They will pick a handful of loosely related targets and start up the mock trials and executions.

2025-08-18 19:58:28 UTC

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Give Ukraine the permanent veto spot in the UN that the USSR vacated. There's no reason Russia should have inherited that without serious discussion.

2025-08-17 21:54:05 UTC

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When the victim is a beautiful camera-ready blonde white girl, it's a heinous crime.
When the victim is a white boy, it's a shameful curse on all involved.
If the victim isn't white, it's not even considered news.
And absolutely nothing in the USA is unforgivable when it's a rich white guy doing it.

2025-08-08 14:48:07 UTC

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It's this block I'm looking to populate for various applications under NextCloud. nc4nix was recommended on that page as the way to collect the required data.
It still appears to be the best way to make that happen for arbitrary NextCloud applications but the bridge from here to there is really sketchy.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/993/683/845/972/044/original/6e68503969d21918.png

2025-08-07 15:40:22 UTC

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The rich do tend to close ranks if they can see us coming. There's some subtlety required for us to get those wedges in place but it's definitely in our favor that they consistently underestimate the non-rich.

2025-08-05 21:08:53 UTC

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So are they just inviting RFK Jr with this?

2025-08-04 21:11:50 UTC

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If they're not paying for labor, they're just laundering money.

2025-08-04 21:08:03 UTC

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He runs 4 companies, right? Did they pay him enough to quit his other 3 full time jobs or is CEO just a part time gig now?

2025-08-03 18:17:01 UTC

Has anyone actually used nc4nix in #NixOS to get #NextCloud stuff set up?
Their site has *zero* documentation and other pages point me to it as *the* tool for setting up NextCloud apps. I don't understand how the go-to utility can have zero documentation and still be the go-to.
It made me set an environment variable with my NextCloud version before it would even run and now that it is running, I have no idea what it's actually trying to do.

2025-07-31 20:43:51 UTC

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They could start really small - explain which AI is going to harvest our crops *now*.
That's not a future problem, we're short farmworkers *now* and can expect that to get worse as time goes on.
Going forward, if the tech can't feed us or otherwise make the Earth more generally livable it doesn't have a place.

2025-07-29 13:08:53 UTC

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"If you're not eating the seed corn, what are you even doing this for?"

2025-07-22 13:26:33 UTC

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I saw the story some time ago about how they don't 100% know how the quantum computing stuff works and someone had a theory that it was stealing energy/compute/information from elsewhere in the multiverse.
Rather than "wow!" I went "oh, so we might be clear-cutting the multiverse too?"

2025-07-21 19:01:05 UTC

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I grew up with the Quaker informed perspective on the matter.
If I tell you something and you don't believe me because I'm a liar, what magic power do the words "promise", "swear" or "oath" have to give me back credibility? It's pointless theatre.
Honest people can be trusted without an oath, dishonest people can't be trusted with one.

2025-07-01 21:15:05 UTC

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Just to increase the spectacle, we should goad him into deporting SpaceX and Tesla.
It doesn't really make any sense but that's never been a concern of Trump's.

2025-07-01 17:30:44 UTC

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Every human Trump can't find another way to exploit is going into the camps one way or another.

2025-06-23 20:10:20 UTC

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I think it's everybody's duty to humanity to seal and otherwise destroy these anywhere they can be uncovered.

2025-06-22 16:41:57 UTC

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I think it goes further. I think hypocrisy is a fascist virtue because it demonstrates dominance over the rubes who believe them.
Every breach of decorum or ethics is a demonstration how they're "too strong" to be bound by virtue or principle.

2025-06-17 19:49:08 UTC

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20 years later I'm still getting life insurance pitched at my dead mother.
Nobody *ever* stops getting advertising.

2025-06-16 17:57:30 UTC

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When will they stop accepting legal tender? It's coming, I just don't know how fast.

2025-06-14 16:26:16 UTC

My wife is at the local protest and I'm always conflicted. Do I protect my family by staying home or do I protect my family by going to the protest?
We need coverage on the home front to protect my kids.
We need coverage in the streets to protect my kids.
#NoKings #Parenting #Conflict

2025-06-12 20:59:19 UTC

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There are only a hundred senators. DC security forces should recognize all of them.

2025-06-10 15:15:04 UTC

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What does he think "colonize" means exactly?
The space travel requires new physics to make it happen within 5 years and we would need to already be building the hardware for a mission to even *start* in 2030.
I can't categorically rule out the AI thing because it rides on more advancement in thinking and software which don't have the same lead times involved in deploying a breakthrough tech. It won't be an LLM or descendant thereof though.

2025-05-28 20:42:45 UTC

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He's going to sell your data directly instead of taking advertising contracts.
He likes the image of decentralization so he talks it up despite being 100% bullshit. None of the mitigation for abuses that he describes are currently in play. There aren't any usable forks, non-corporate instances or anything else to suggest they matter.

2025-05-21 17:18:38 UTC

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That's the interface as it's designed, not that there's any redemption to be found in it.
Working with CoPilot is like having a pair programmer who is wildly insane, didn't read the project documents and may or may not be a spy.
The syntax is usually solid, it's the logic and design that's absolutely bonkers.

2025-05-21 11:38:57 UTC

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That's Russia's problem to solve for itself away from the negotiating table.
"We've overcommitted and regret it!" isn't a particularly strong position and one has to question the leadership who brought them to this point.

2025-05-19 21:17:41 UTC

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The terms can be made really simple. Russia leaves all Ukrainian territory to Ukraine.
It's literally 100% easier for Russia to stop than to continue and they refuse to consider that option.

2025-05-16 18:37:45 UTC

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The pieces all clicked. I need a new job somewhere else.
The liability for HIPAA violations is potentially $250k and 5 years jail and I'm expected to use GitHub CoPilot on legacy codebases containing God-only-knows-what in an environment where nobody has secure test platforms with dummied test data. It's not even about what *I* directly put into it.
I'm not accepting that liability. I get my ducks in a row and GTFO.

2025-05-16 16:38:00 UTC

Demo yesterday explicitly told us to turn off GitHub CoPilot any time we're working with PHI, PII or any other kind of officially sensitive info.
My work is *entirely* data driven.
There is no robust test platform, no dummied up claim data, nothing to support us in avoiding real data for testing and development.
If I can't use it for sensitive work and all my work is sensitive, WTF am I supposed to do about being required to use it?
#corporate #ai #copilot

2025-05-13 15:20:59 UTC

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With the trajectory looking like "unrolling everything since the 13th Amendment, possibly everything since 1619" it will be no surprise to find out the birthright citizenship denials will be focused on PoC.

2025-05-12 17:22:38 UTC

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The only upside to the deregulation mania in play is that it lets projects like this exist.
If you can't make or service your wheelchair without paying tribute to some oligarch, that's an unreasonable barrier.

2025-04-24 15:22:01 UTC

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So Trump's going to run a moonshot project to nowhere at all?

2025-04-23 15:56:36 UTC

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It's all hierarchical to them. There are two classes of people - those who must be obeyed and those who must obey. In their view all of civilization depends on keeping people in their places and making it very clear who is above and who is below.
They genuinely believe the world will fall apart without this strict hierarchy.

2025-04-18 18:26:50 UTC

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Right? BlueSky is a different colored ball perched at the top of the same chute as Twitter went down.
The users are all convinced that nobody is ever going to give them that tiny shove that starts the downhill run even as it caves to Turkish government pressure.

2025-04-16 20:17:19 UTC

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Do they pay that themselves or can Putin just bankroll a straight up colonization?

2025-04-15 19:18:27 UTC

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The Puritans came to North America because everybody in Europe told them they couldn't force other people to be Puritans.
We were founded on the "freedom" to impose religion, we just lied about it to children for hundreds of years.

2025-04-15 18:50:03 UTC

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I've said repeatedly that the race of immortal, inhuman aristocracy we're afraid will eventually replace and consume us already exists and it's called a corporation.

2025-04-09 12:51:38 UTC

This is a maybe weird angle to take this but... You're allowed to suck at things you enjoy. You might be the world's shittiest knitter or sculptor or cook but if you enjoy doing it, that's still enough reason to continue.
Don't be this idiot who's insatiable and pitifully wounded ego is tied to being omnicapable instead of being a good person.
#suckAtStuff #maker #cooking #gaming
https://mastodon.social/@tofugolem/114305526031207710

2025-04-07 15:33:09 UTC

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*except a way to actually contribute
"It's Open Source because you can see the source, not because it's got the documentation, polish or even project layout necessary for someone to help with it." - Too many projects

2025-04-04 13:08:05 UTC

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When studying business, researchers observed that failures were inevitable. Success came to the people who could sustain the most non-lethal failures over time rather than to someone who had a one-off lucky shot.
It's not just patiently waiting, it's *surviving* that's going to matter.

2025-04-03 13:47:46 UTC

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I think calling it delusion is giving him an unreasonable benefit of the doubt.
The oligarchs want to inflict pain until we give in to their demands to deregulate everything and become their serfs. He's just delivering their plan and most of us are dumb enough to think we can vote them out of control by elevating their Plan B party.

2025-03-27 15:31:39 UTC

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The "group admin" things is a little loose in Signal with options to allow other people to send invitations too.
It's very well suited to secure communications with people you can trust not to do stupid shit but that's clearly not this crew.

2025-03-27 15:29:12 UTC

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I use it regularly with a weekly video call with my family spread all over. We're on a mix of Apple, Android and PC devices so I'm using this specific functionality pretty regularly.
This specifically is what bothers me about the guy who was literally in the Kremlin during the chat. Do the Russians now have a device under their control with his credentials attached? It seems likely.

2025-03-27 15:16:11 UTC

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Signal lets you log in from multiple devices.
We only know someone with his device added the journalist. There's no difference indicated in the chat which device is which.
These idiots may have just added all their devices to the chat and one temporarily unlocked phone or laptop is all it takes to make it insecure.

2025-03-27 11:21:59 UTC

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Instead of that, stop using unofficial channels for official business.
Legally the correct answer isn't "use Signal better", it's "don't use Signal".

2025-03-25 19:32:02 UTC

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Pay living wages for every job and you'll stop having this kind of crisis.
Workers are locked into their jobs by the combination of high cost of living and low available wages. They would move more freely between jobs if they had any security and then the supply and demand would become more fluid.
Or you can just substitute in another group you consider subhuman like women or children, I suppose.

2025-03-24 02:58:29 UTC

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Is she trying to Streisand Effect her bad choices by pretending to agonize every time she wants to do something evil?
She wants us all to witness her moral failings.

2025-03-20 18:43:29 UTC

In our town hall meeting this morning, an executive told us that they plan to give all software engineer jobs to Al.
When asked what he might have to say of any comfort to us, he said there are still lots of projects to be done in the meantime.
He ended the call by telling us he's uncomfortable with AI coding, knows that we're all uncomfortable with it, and that's exactly where he wants us to be.
#capitalism #ai #wtf #executivesDGAF

2025-03-12 23:06:59 UTC

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Everyone aligned to Trump is openly an enemy of humanity. We take nothing from them, there can be no peace between humanity and the Right.

2025-03-11 21:30:39 UTC

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He doesn't deal in good faith though, there's no deal to be made with him that doesn't end with him continuing his megalomaniacal campaign.

2025-03-11 21:24:31 UTC

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Literally "concession on energy tax" in the linked media.

2025-03-11 21:05:12 UTC

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Nobody should concede any ground to Trump like this, he needs to be destroyed utterly.
Yes it would hurt vulnerable people but we're out of options that won't.

2025-03-11 13:18:42 UTC

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They've conflated intelligence with knowledge. They think better than average so they assume that's the same as knowing better.
That then also translates back into taking an ego hit every time they don't know something because they think it means they're not intelligent and then their ego protection kicks in and shuts down rational thought.

2025-03-04 14:50:14 UTC

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No, but most of us alive today were born after Nixon destroyed accountability and Reagan destroyed any sense of fairness or noblesse oblige.
We've never lived in a society where hope was justified or rewarded.