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My "We don't allow bets on assassinations and murder" ad campaign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the ad campaign

John Ripley 11h ago

The bothersome thing about the Cesar Chavez erasure is not that he got erased (well-deserved), but that everyone who was so very angry has now packed up and gone home, probably via a bunch of streets named after similarly awful, but white, people.

"Back in my day"

Managed to cram the radio board into 1x2" with every pin routed to a header or test point, in just 2 layers. One more thing I don't need from adafruit. Now I just need to figure out the zone fills, and the silly RF trace impedance.

John Ripley 1d ago

Dr. Maddkap, Werepsychologist 1d ago

I’m rewatching old Star Trek episodes to see which ones pass the B’kdel Test:
(1) Two named Klingons
(2) Talking to each other
(3) About something other than honor

John Ripley 1d ago

Jackie Fielder being called “SF’s most progressive supervisor” is in a nutshell why SF doesn’t have anything progressive going on.

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John Ripley 1d ago

It’s easy to see how all the tech billionaires are TESCREALs, because it takes a certain mindset to burn billions in R&D without blinking. “What we’re doing is good for people” is how you’re supposed to look at it. Sure, that’s often true. But it’s also conveniently aligned with receiving a paycheck. If you’ve had an extensive career of doing this, while usually failing upwards, naturally you’re going to have a god complex. (Or that’s why you came into the business in the first place)

John Ripley 1d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116313265332639169

There’s this narrative many (including ex-colleagues) have: it doesn’t matter if it doesn’t come to anything useful, because people are getting paid, staff for cafes, etc. This is bullshit. I know so many small businesses who don’t get their funding, because stupid billionaires like Zuckerberg soaked up all the VC. Some of that $80B went to salaries etc, but most was likely resources which are now consumed, or useless. That could have funded many cities’ worth of school.

John Ripley 2d ago

mhoye 2d ago

“Because you were never scared of me,” the scorpion whispered in its ear. “You were never scared of dying. In a past life you wore a shell and sat in judgement. And then you were reborn: soft-skinned, swift, unburdened, as new and vulnerable as a child, moving anew through a world of children. How could anyone ever be cruel, you thought, seeing the precariousness of it all?” The scorpion bowed its head and drank. “How could anyone kill you without killing themselves?”

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A scorpion, not knowing how to swim, asked a frog to carry it across the river. “Do I look like a fool?” said the frog. “You’d sting me if I let you on my back!” “Be logical,” said the scorpion. “If...

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John Ripley 3d ago

Gotta feel great, seeing the team responsible for 98% of Apple’s bad press get retention bonuses, while the folks quietly keeping the ship afloat get bonuses based on how much they report liking AI.

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