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Wob0 Jan 28, 2024

Another major miss is the examination of the wrongfully convicted and how pardons are used to right those wrongs. She decides “pardons” as acceptance of guilt but this is not true. Most federal pardons are given to the wrongfully convicted. (5/8)

An excellent proposition could be “Should the wrongfully convicted forgive the juridical system?” but they are never expressively mentioned in the book. (6/8)

There is a hint that Khadir (a convicted political terrorist) may have been coerced into a confession of murder. But does not consider that critically important and that’s the most about the wrongfully convicted. (7/8)

Overall, it’s a good book, I just disagree on one of the author’s opinions and the book is missing multiple things I thought would be important to the topic. Cross-posted to Twitter. (8/8)

Wob0 Jan 28, 2024

Time for a book review. This time it's "When Should Law Forgive?" by Martha Minow. I was waiting to read this book for months so I am glad I got around to it. (1/8)

The book’s overview of child soldiers was well done but there is a problem. The book equates child soldiers with violent youth gang members. (2/8)

They are not the same, child soldiers often forced to fight due to violent victimization, threats, basic survival or protection from rape and murder.
Some youth gang members join for perceived protection but that is a rare reason. (3/8)

Most join for economic riches, doing much better than “basic survival”. They also live in a society that have limited but existing social welfare and respect for rule of law. Child soldiers exist in societies ruled by lawless and violent governments. (4/8)

Wob0 Dec 10, 2023

Toby Dec 9, 2023

On this day in 1968, Dr. Douglas Engelbart gave a tech demo in San Francisco. It became known as "The Mother of All Demos" and was the first time people outside of Engelbart's development lab would see working concepts like:

- a computer mouse and a GUI
- windowed tasks and documents
- real-time remote audio/video conferencing
- real-time remote document collaboration
- hypertext / document linking
- revision control
- WYSIWYG document editing

Much of the demo was recorded and you can watch it on YouTube. There were serious technical issues with recording the event -- it *was* a demo after all -- so some segments of the event weren't captured, but what was recorded is still a shocker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos

The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)

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Wob0 Dec 4, 2023

Jeff Dec 3, 2023

Good morning

Update: Tilly the Newscat has decided to finally return to the house quite loudly at 2:15AM

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Tilly the News Cat has been missing for 24 hours now.

Totally bummed here.

Missing #catsofmastodon

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Wob0 Nov 14, 2023

Also, here's the halfway point for 2023 as I never uploaded it to Mastodon.

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Wob0 Nov 14, 2023

Here's the 2022 tier list.

Wob0 Nov 14, 2023

I finished the results-oriented tier list for Smash Ultimate. The next highest after Steve is G&W with score of 12,300. Kazya is the only character in-between 6000 and 7000. Snake is the only character in-between 4K and 5K. Mewtwo, Ridley and Ike had low results last year. In the replies I will post the other tier lists.

Wob0 Nov 5, 2023

George Takei

🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Nov 4, 2023

The GOP has introduced a bill to EXPEL Palestinians from the United States. I cannot read such things without remembering what happened to my own family after Pearl Harbor. After we and 120,000 other Japanese Americans were incarcerated in prison camps for years, without charge or trial, my own mother was very nearly expelled to Japan because of racial prejudice and hatred. Only the brave actions of a civil rights attorney saved her from being sent away. #NeverAgain

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Wob0 Nov 5, 2023

@ZekuZelalem Happened to the USA in regards to the Second Iraq War and the Afghanistan War.

Wob0 Nov 5, 2023

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Zecharias Zelalem Nov 4, 2023

3 years on, nobody won the war. The factions signed a peace deal and are working together to protect it. The dead remain dead. The country is destroyed.

There is a collective effort by the former pro war partisans, from prominent people to the everyday person, to delete tweets, posts, video footage and photos they took at pro war rallies from this period. People are suddenly apologetic, rueful or opponents/critics of the state. NOW everyone is unanimous that war just wasn't worth it.