Frances Larina

Parent, spouse, sewing geek, data engineer & modeler. I'm on most platforms under the same name. I am a Friend of Tylenol & my Blåhaj's name is Cassandra

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2025-01-23 19:34:18 UTC

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The thing about fascists is, they don't care if an order is illegal. If they have people who will follow the order then it doesn't matter if it's illegal.

2025-01-21 03:02:03 UTC

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That "Protecting women" executive order also declares that personhood starts at conception.

2024-12-19 03:30:11 UTC

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Me too. I'm kinda mad at Lucille Ball and Gene Roddenberry right now for setting unrealistic expectations.

2024-12-17 06:57:59 UTC

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Instead, it looks like Senate Democrats decided to neatly split their dissent out into an amendment to be voted on separately. That way, they can vote FOR the main bill and when the amendment fails, shrug their shoulders and say, "Well, we tried!".

2024-11-22 05:22:46 UTC

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Thank you for these, your photos always give me a few moments of escapism where I imagine I'm there.

2024-11-20 18:10:23 UTC

Mike Johnson has banned trans women from using restrooms at the Capitol today, on the day we trans people mourn and honor our dead.
Johnson cited "scripture" when explaining his position on the matter.
This was an open attack on Sarah McBride, the first trans person in Congress. And any trans staffers and visitors as well, but they have no visibility.
I figure this is going to tell us how much we trans people can rely on the Democratic Party over the next four years.
Because if they won't fight for her - one of their own - in Congress, well then the rest of us have no reason to hold out hope they'll fight for us, either.

2024-10-15 01:47:51 UTC

"Google to buy power for AI needs from small modular nuclear reactor company Kairos"
I don't get it - where is the ROI on AI?
But also, given that nuclear seems to be AI's power source of choice, now might be a good time to revisit or even join one of the citizens radiation monitoring sites. They're sorta like the airplane tracking sites but for background radiation levels. The information they provided proved very practical in the aftermath of the Fukushima-Daiichi meltdowns fourteen years ago. Especially since the EPA decided to reset their monitoring stations in the days after the initial explosions & fires, making before & after comparisons iffy.
The company they're hiring to provide, and I assume operate the adorable little nuke plants of potential death is a start up owned by Kairos Power, which received its funding from the DoE and venture capital + private equity. I hope you will please forgive me for not feeling all warm and cozy about that knowledge.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/google-buy-power-small-modular-nuclear-reactor-company-kairos-ai-needs-2024-10-14/

2024-10-05 04:02:33 UTC

"Donations uncovered by the Wall Street Journal reveal that Musk has spent millions to back anti-immigrant and anti-transgender initiatives."
If you are trans or a trans ally, or a supposedly neutral government agency - get off Twitter. You are helping to fund and promote the attacks against us.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/elon-musk-wsj-trump-stephen-miller-donations/

2024-09-30 23:40:06 UTC

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"My efforts were rewarded handsomely."
Well, that's what it's all about, isn't it? I mean, he can say he's contrite now that he's ready to happily retire, and do it with a clean conscious because he's sorry.
It helps to have this looping while reading the Mother Jones article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84TB8C50nos&t=50s

2024-08-24 21:44:42 UTC

No corporation should ever be trusted and they should be treated appropriately.
Self-reporting, self-monitoring and self-inspecting are ridiculous concepts when capitalism and governments are involved. Especially governments that legalize money passing from corporations or investors to individuals in government or political parties.

2024-08-20 15:20:43 UTC

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That's why it's so important to have autistics as part of the hiring process for jobs in which we excel.

2024-08-13 01:17:19 UTC

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It reportedly started locking new connections out at about 100k users.
But this gives them time to edit out some of Trump's worst incoherence. And then the news media will report on it as if it was him speaking live.