We could probably do better.
he/him or they/them
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myrmepropagandistThe way people like Mr. Levin want this to work is he says the key words "Iran" and "Nuclear" and then every person in the US starts crying and shaking in fear and is willing to let the government do anything to protect us.
But really this whole war, the way it's destroyed diplomacy and forced Iran to act out is the only thing scaring me. It needs to stop.
✧✦Catherine✦✧i don't think "techbros need humanities" is a solid action plan (even if it may make a good slogan you reassure yourself with); Peter Thiel has a BA from Stanford and that didn't make him any less of a ghoul. maybe more if anything
mccA thing that never stops being funny to me is that electoral reform is stymied by the fact there are separate camps who want instant-runoff voting, Condorcet ranked voting, and proportional representation, and they don't cooperate. Seriously one of the funniest things to happen in human history. First Past the Post has a plurality of support so it wins every engagement. First Past the Post wins by First Past the Post rules.
The vast majority of people who will be impacted by trans bans in sports will be little girls with short hair or arms that are "too muscular."
It will also mean that when a woman is good at her sport the disgusting grumbling and whispering about "may she is he" gets taken more seriously.
This happened with Paula Radcliffe for running marathons too fast. If it helps you to think of a white cis woman being the victim of this.
Of course little black girls will take the brunt of this. As ever.
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@grahamperrin @dch @ltning I have been telling folks here in mastodon and in real life, for months about #FreeBSD's draft policy against LLM code contribution. I resumed using FreeBSD after having spent years away, due in large part to positive indicators like that.
AND in the past couple days multiple FreeBSD committers have alternatively told me "no decision has been made" or discussed at length in replies of how soon LLM in code reviews by some members will be done, and describing generative AI in floss as an arms race that FreeBSD cannot afford to loose out in.
FreeBSD has already made one popular list of FLOSS software accepting LLM code. (Rightly or wrongly).
I am frustrated that there is no clear communication on this point to the "people in the pews" who are concerned about this; and a little tired of feeling like people are telling me I am wrong for expressing my disappointment, in the midst of this chaos.
Users are trying to figure out how to keep their software stack slop free today.
Fabian GiesenAs an aside, we use impossibly bright, impossibly blue light to inscribe tiny runes on sand, producing constructs that obey our commands (well, sometimes...) and communicate with us through literal liquid crystals.
This is not a fantasy setting. I'm just describing the real world
(well I'm leaving out 1000s of in-between steps, but still)
Vee
Adrianna TanEven in California, whenever someone says ‘this neighborhood is nice’ or ‘this town is safe’, I always look up redlining. Almost always, the nice, safe places are places where Black, Asian, Hispanic, Native and other people were not allowed to buy homes. This is recent history.
I am so allergic to anyone who says words like nice and safe.
Learning about redlining helps me see why
‘Safe’ is almost always a perfect match for the places where non-white people were banned from living
Human Brain EnthusiastLooks like we’re gonna have a national general strike in the US on May 1st!
That will be interesting.