John R. Marks, IV, Technically an attorney; practically I teach IT at FSU for a living.
I run a nonprofit that teaches stem; for a while my company Vivergent managed the official website for the Black News Channel, RIP.
Huge FOSS/Linux/Free Software guy as well. Harvard undergrad, Columbia law.
Also I like the old school rappity rap.
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Fair to me, I was arguing against someone who wanted *criminal* charges and that was the compromise
Industry people got big mad at me when I was like..so?
Gamed the system, whatever. *Definitely* not worth criminal charges. Make dude pay back and be done with it.
Idea I've floated over there (and on twitter) that I want to float here:
ATProto / Bluesky for social media is *bad* actually. Worse than here and even Twitter, precisely for the reason people might think it's better.
By "verifying" and rebroadcasting everything in a more precise way, you make it more dangerous by creating "better surveillance"
Mastodon ends up being better due to plausible deniability
#twitter #mastodon #bluesky #socialmedia #atproto #privacy #surveillance
@audubonballroon As a black man, it took me a while to sort of realize
hey, wait a minute, a *lot* of these "to be a woman" takes really really strongly apply to black men as well
Today, tech people discovering what black voters already knew about Bernie Sanders
@dnkboston @dzwiedziu @benroyce @[email protected] @moz @idahobucks
"The South" is a strong proxy for "Black People" -- the voting backbone of the party.
And if you suck at getting that, you suck at the job, period.
Again, I voted for him in the primary, but he proceeded to fail so hard...
@dzwiedziu @benroyce @[email protected] @moz @idahobucks
Clowns can't distinguish between "suppressing their own voters"
and
STRATEGY.
I assure you, people who liked the idea of Bernie also liked the idea of Fetterman
(and I say this as someone who did vote for Bernie in the primary. But nah, HE couldn't get it done because HE IS BAD AT POLITICS)
"being visibly popular" is only half the job. Maybe less.
you're just going to say this about everything
"oh they overturned the tariffs SEE ANOTHER DISTRACTION"
Take the W, be happy, get you some ice cream
In places like this, I see a whole lot of far-left criticism of the "moderates" i.e. "liberals/democrats" et al.
And a thing I hadn't seen much of (IMHO, because "liberals/dems" are not much spending their time online and actually out there getting things done --
but now a lot of "moderate" pushback happening on Twitter.