Steve Holmes

@bottyguy@triangletoot.party
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WhereDurham, NC USA
HowSometimes I ride my bike to work, it feels good.
CaveatsExcept for when a car hits you
Steve HolmesMar 29
Ars TechnicaMar 29
What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase.
A safe and proper rewrite should take years not months.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-doge-to-rapidly-rebuild-social-security-codebase/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase.

A safe and proper rewrite should take years not months.

Ars Technica
Steve HolmesNov 14, 2024
Jeff JarvisNov 14, 2024
Der Spiegel beats the #BrokenTimes and #BrokenPost with its appropriate news judgment. I don't think this needs translation.
Steve HolmesNov 9, 2024
Randahl FinkNov 9, 2024
The GDP of Russia is 2.2 trillion dollars. That is an economy about half the size of California. That is who the USA is now surrendering to in the Ukraine war. That is how much of a coward Trump is.
Steve HolmesNov 9, 2024
jwzNov 9, 2024

Some wingnut I've never spoken to before (or again (foreshadowing!)) accused me of living in an "echo chamber" because I block people.

Fuck the "echo chamber" discourse. I reject it entirely.I am not here to wear an ascetic's hair shirt because you think that surrounding myself with dickheads builds character.

Block early and block often. I expanded on this in some detail in my "On Blocking" post from a few years back, but it bears repeating. Especially now.

https://jwz.org/b/ykcn

Steve HolmesNov 9, 2024
Show threadjwzNov 9, 2024
Honestly, "Google couldn't verify your identity" is probably the nicest thing a corporation can say to you.
Steve HolmesOct 17, 2024
emptywheelOct 17, 2024

Hen in the Fox House: Jorge Velázquez and Ramiro González Better Served Democracy than Bret Baier

https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/10/17/hen-in-the-fox-house-kamala-harris-alludes-to-what-you-and-i-both-know/

Hen in the Fox House: Jorge Velázquez and Ramiro González Better Served Democracy than Bret Baier - emptywheel

Bret Baier's interview of Kamala Harris was probably only the third most important TV yesterday. On Univision, before a viewing audience that includes far more undecided swing voters, Trump refused to answer three questions few journalists have ever asked him, including why he did nothing as his rioters attacked the Capitol and how mass deportation will lead food prices to rise.

emptywheel
Steve HolmesSep 28, 2024
Jeff JarvisSep 28, 2024
Screenshot showing many stories on polls, one tiny headline on policy
Steve HolmesSep 27, 2024
TheWholeTruthXX 🎨 ❤️ 🍁 🛡️Sep 26, 2024

So it was only a hundred years ago - 1924 - when someone figured out the Sun, and all the rest of the stars, were made mostly of hydrogen with some helium. All the other elements were in trace amounts.

She was a student at Harvard named Cecilia Payne.

At the time the consensus was stars were made up of pretty much what Earth was made of.

It took 4 more years for a man to confirm the discovery before it was widely accepted, with him as discoverer.

It's all hers now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Payne-Gaposchkin

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin - Wikipedia

Steve HolmesSep 17, 2024
JA WestenbergSep 15, 2024

No. Fucking fuck this.

Her defiance didn’t kill her. “It” didn’t kill her.

He did.

He fucking killed her.

How is this hard?

Steve HolmesSep 13, 2024
Jeff JarvisSep 13, 2024
Fucking George Will. His "optimum" outcome is Harris as President & a Republican Senate, thus what "conservatives" always want: deadlocked, ineffective government.
Post-debate, the optimum 2024 political outcome comes into view https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/09/12/kamala-harris-presidency-republican-senate/
Post-debate, the optimum 2024 political outcome comes into view

A Harris presidency, tempered by a Republican-led Senate, might finally revive a more normal politics.

The Washington Post
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JA WestenbergSep 15, 2024

No. Fucking fuck this.

Her defiance didn’t kill her. “It” didn’t kill her.

He did.

He fucking killed her.

How is this hard?

Show threadAnnelies Kamran, Ph.D.Sep 15, 2024
@Daojoan I contacted @Reuters about that this morning for that very reason - *HE* killed her. The headline makes it seem like her "defiance" killed her.
Show threadPaul McO'Smith IIISep 16, 2024

@akamran @Daojoan @Reuters that is precisely what it says.

it doesn't matter what you think you're saying; the casual browser sees "if you're a woman, defiance will get you killed".

f*ck's sake.

Show threadmav Sep 16, 2024

@pavsmith @akamran @Daojoan @Reuters

counterpoint: when I first saw the graphic, I couldn't figure out why they were referring to her her ex as "it", and didn't get it until I read the post text.

The point I'm trying to make: Some may read the headline and assume she is dead because she defied her ex. In reality, she is dead, she defied her ex, and the two are probably but not necessarily related. In another timeline, where she didn't act as defiantly, she may have been just as dead. That's how partner abuse often plays out.

Show threadFediThing 🏳️‍🌈Sep 16, 2024

@Daojoan

Unbelievable. 😞

Show threadFediThing 🏳️‍🌈Sep 16, 2024

@Daojoan

The headline on Reuters is similarly passive, as if it was her fault for failing to protect herself, and the murderer isn't even mentioned.

Show threadrevphilSep 16, 2024
@FediThing @Daojoan where did her life go? Our news staff is baffled!
Show threadMichał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦Sep 16, 2024
@FediThing @Daojoan infuriating.
Show threadGary ParkerSep 16, 2024
@FediThing @Daojoan Reuters’s purpose is to report facts as blandly and unemotively as possible. Other news outlets (newspapers, TV, radio, web, etc.) pay Reuters to use their news feed, and add flavour and opinion to it as befits their publication style and politics.
Show threadChaucerburntSep 16, 2024
@witewulf @FediThing @Daojoan surely "he killed her" is the most straightforward take here. Suggesting that her defiance was what killed her *is* inserting opinion.
Show threadAriaflameSep 16, 2024
@chaucerburnt @witewulf @FediThing @Daojoan They'd probably have to stick an 'allegedly' in there.
Show threadChaucerburntSep 16, 2024
@ariaflame @witewulf @FediThing @Daojoan I gather he's dead, so can probably skip that bit
Show thread𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓹𝓪𝓽𝓱【ツ】☮(📍🇸🇮)Sep 16, 2024

@ariaflame @chaucerburnt @witewulf @FediThing @Daojoan

making up excuses for reuters?

Show threadAriaflameSep 17, 2024
@serapath @chaucerburnt @witewulf @FediThing @Daojoan Just a comment on journalism's tendency to stick in 'allegedly' for any criminal who hasn't been formally convicted.
Show threadBeady Belle FanchannelSep 17, 2024
@ariaflame @serapath @chaucerburnt @witewulf @FediThing @Daojoan which is good they have to do that, because innocent until proven guilty
Show threadAriaflameSep 17, 2024
@Profpatsch @serapath @chaucerburnt @witewulf @FediThing @Daojoan In the eyes of the law certainly.
Show threadBeady Belle FanchannelSep 17, 2024
@ariaflame @serapath @chaucerburnt @witewulf @FediThing @Daojoan I know, anticipatory penalties are all the rage recently, and isn't that nice
Show threadChaucerburntSep 17, 2024
@Profpatsch @ariaflame @serapath @witewulf @FediThing @Daojoan The legal presumption of innocence is an important principle, but given that he managed to kill himself in the process of murdering her, perhaps not one that needs to be argued in this thread?
Show threadChloe Kelly fan accountSep 16, 2024
@witewulf @FediThing @Daojoan what Jordan Peterson shit is this?
Show threadFediThing 🏳️‍🌈Sep 16, 2024

@witewulf @Daojoan

She was deliberately burnt to death by her violent ex-boyfriend, that's what they should be putting in the headline.

"Hours later Cheptegei's former boyfriend, Dickson Ndiema Marangach, doused the runner in petrol and set her on fire, according to her family and police."

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/olympic-runner-cheptegei-defied-her-violent-ex-she-lost-her-life-anyway-2024-09-14/

Show threadKChernecky For DemocracySep 16, 2024
@FediThing 😭😭😭
Show threadrevphilSep 16, 2024
@Daojoan you forgot to blame her for being a woman
Show threadJargogglesSep 16, 2024

@Daojoan
What in the *fuck?!*

They might as well have just said "she was asking for it."

Show threadRiaResistsSep 16, 2024
@Daojoan the patriarchy is alive & well.
Relationship & substance abuse need to be included in school curriculums. Early.
Abuse women cannot simply decide to leave.
It’s complicated.
Show threadWoman of Many HatsSep 16, 2024
@Daojoan especially incredible headlines in this day and age!
Show threadRobert HSep 16, 2024
@Daojoan
Blaming the victim.
Show threadJay StephensSep 16, 2024
@Daojoan Ugh, that really is an egregious one.
Show threadMirishuliSep 16, 2024
@Daojoan You wouldn’t want to blame the MAN, now would you?
Show threadNicole ParsonsSep 16, 2024

@Daojoan

When an unfair system wants to keep pay inequity...

Keep a system of threats & intimidation to disenfranchise women...

Keep an exploitive social hierarchy with a permanent bottom rung...

To bolster the egos of the mediocre...

To force women into silence & even compliance in suffering using forced birth...

To thwart any progress that advances women like literacy & schooling...

Building a malign influence narrative that "women brought it on themselves" is how injustice is grown.

Show threadKevinOnEarthSep 16, 2024
@Daojoan
Where was this?
This actually takes a deliberate effort. "How do we remove *him* from any suggestion of an actual crime?🤔"
Show threadlapisliozuliSep 16, 2024
@Quantillion @Daojoan wouldn’t be surprised if some of the editors were thinking he was a victim of relationship issues just like her and that absolves him of his violence
Show threadJustRosy 🇺🇦Sep 16, 2024
@Daojoan "It" is appropriate here. It dehumanizes and immasculates that bastard. And yeah, that's an "incorrect" usage of the word "bastard" too. It's called irony. He's a "fatherless SOB." Another term that's probably not literally correct either. It's called sarcasm. It's when someone is properly put in their place, and in this case, I think it was very well played.
Show threadLi ~ Crystal SystemSep 17, 2024

@JustRosy @Daojoan dehumanizing bad people puts everyone at risk, it gives the impression that people who do shit like this are some super evil maniacal monsters or whatever when in reality they usually *seem* like normal people

Also just issues surrounding dehumanizing people in general and all the absolutely atrocious shit that’s lead too …y

Show threadCanadian CroneSep 16, 2024
@Daojoan #misogyny at its finest
Show threadViral ObscuritySep 16, 2024

@Daojoan this type of victim blaming really pisses me off

I get big "This wouldn't have happened if she had obeyed her man and been greatful" vibes from this headline. They can piss off with that kind of bullshit

Was the author a man by any chance?

Show threadFish Id WardrobeSep 16, 2024
@viralobscurity @Daojoan Hmm. We don't know it wouldn't have happenned. Maybe he was always going to find an excuse.
Show threadJupiterSep 16, 2024

@Daojoan

The headline and imputation is disgusting, agreed.

But, who/what was the source publication?

The editorial staff need to be called out.

Show threadJillSep 16, 2024
@Daojoan Damn right! 🤬
Show threadMr. Lance E Sloan (IRL) 👤Sep 16, 2024
@Daojoan , agreed. You should give a link to the article, so that everybody may complain to the publication.
Show threadJean Luc am GrimmstenSep 16, 2024

@Daojoan
And where did that happen? In the famous country of "Africa".
🤦

Ignorant f*ckers

Show threadRuth O’DaySep 16, 2024

@Daojoan

I did a search for the phrase, in quotes:

“Rebecca Cheptegei defied her violent ex. It killed her”

It came up with a link to one person.

I did that same search on LinkedIn.

It came up with a post by that person and by someone else.

Both LI accounts seem a bit odd.

Both posts added a hyphen after the search term.

IMO the phrase is clickbait.

Show threadandrei!Sep 16, 2024

@Daojoan This is one of the examples where malice looks like incompetence but is not. The wording is intentional.

Not sure what exact hidden agenda this wording chases but am sure it makes me nauseous.🤮

Show thread3da0db086Sep 16, 2024
@Daojoan good catch
Show threadxs4me2Sep 16, 2024

@Daojoan

Exactly…

Show threadLyricismistSep 16, 2024
@Daojoan Is there a link to the article?
Show threadElz de KorteSep 16, 2024
@Daojoan Jesus, yes.
Show threadrve.rcSep 16, 2024

@Daojoan and yet if you contact them and say “You need to correct your dangerously misogynistic headline. If you decide to refuse, it might get you killed”, you would be accused of making threats to kill, and probably be arrested.

I wonder what the difference is?

Show threadRicki Yasha TarrSep 16, 2024
@Daojoan That is the most blatant piece of victim blaming I've ever seen. If she had been sweet and obedient, she would have been fine? WTF?!
Show threadGJ Groothedde 🇪🇺Sep 16, 2024
@Daojoan Also, she was actually from Uganda, not Kenya. But who cares? @RickiTarr
Show threadSunandaSep 16, 2024
@Daojoan this sort of messaging is exactly why women develop a fawn response. We are made to believe that it'll all be so much better if we play nice and not "provoke" men. And then when women do that, they're giving "mixed messages" or "friendzoning" and that's the excuse made on behalf of men when they kill us anyway.
Show threadStoneface VimesSep 16, 2024
@Daojoan hear hear. Weak language. Say it like it is - he murdered her.
Show threadPxl PhileSep 16, 2024
@Daojoan I misread this as Rebecca ChatGPT and it really didn't make no sense. But this is even worse
Show threadTyto TenebricosaSep 16, 2024

@Daojoan

Oh god, and so what is the message here ? Don't defend yourself and everything will be fine ?

WHAT.

Damn it, words are important !

Show threadgenstar.serviceSep 16, 2024
⬆️ https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/113144265410344887
Show threadkaiaSep 17, 2024
@Daojoan please don't misunderstand the mandatory policy of not defying your ex 
Show threadChris “nickname” VreelandSep 18, 2024
@Daojoan “Violence was used.”