Jeff Dutky

@jsdutky
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Just another refugee from the cyanotic bird place
Jeff DutkyJan 22, 2025
Show threadTaylor LorenzJan 18, 2025
With Meta and X outright embracing right wing ideology, and YouTube becoming increasingly saturated, progressive creators who found a haven on TikTok, now face the near impossible task of rebuilding their communities on platforms that are hostile to their content. Most will fail. https://www.usermag.co/p/the-great-creator-reset
The Great Creator Reset

The TikTok ban isn't just a platform reconfiguration, it will reshape the political leaning of the creator economy and permanently alter whose voices get heard online.

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Jeff DutkyJan 22, 2025
Angus McIntyreJan 22, 2025

Donald Trump's superpower is that he makes people unmask themselves.

The Republicans are fully revealed for what we've always suspected them to be: cruel bigots, greedy for power at any cost. With a few honorable exceptions, the Democrats can now be seen to be complacent, compliant & inept. The tech bros & billionaires are showing themselves to be literal fascists. Millions of Americans are vicious thugs.

But he has also created the opportunity for each of us to be unmasked as an actual hero.

Jeff DutkyJul 8, 2024
Josh CollinsworthJul 8, 2024
I don't think you should bench your starting quarterback over one bad game under any circumstance, but especially not when it's very obvious the other team would love that.
Show threadJeff DutkyJul 6, 2024
@jasongorman I would agree, except that I saw native English speakers unable to read and summarize three paragraphs when I was in college in 1995. My mother reported seeing the same thing when she was in college in 1965. In all cases these were students pursuing technical degrees.
Show threadJeff DutkyJul 6, 2024
@jasongorman another thing that’s not covered by the ability to build automated tests is basic reading comprehension: you can’t know what to test if you have not read and understood the requirements or specifications.
Show threadJeff DutkyJul 5, 2024
@rechelon a story as old as time: digging through endless setting dialogs in a freshly installed M$ product to find every last stupid non-feature that they decided to cram down everyone’s throat. That they added the garbage to Notepad is a new twist, but entirely in character.
Jeff DutkyJul 5, 2024
James BennettJul 4, 2024

On Independence Day, the New York Times ran an op-ed by a literal right-wing monarchist insisting it's bad to vote and people shouldn't do it.

Also, public records confirm he does vote. He just doesn't want *you* to.

If you needed any further evidence that their "Biden must go" coverage is rooted in hatred of democracy, this should be it.

Show threadJeff DutkyJun 28, 2024
@antnisp @Patricia no, if they were just astrologers there would be no wrong answers, but Piketty was peddling wrong answers, so wrong that he had to cheat on the math in his spreadsheet to get to them. My opinion is that nobody should be reading Piketty because you have to assume that everything he claims is wrong, and if anyone brings him up as support for some garbage policy they should be countered with the bogus spreadsheets.
Show threadJeff DutkyJun 28, 2024
@Patricia that's the thing: whether or not the field is bullshit, Piketty's cheating makes it look as if it's all dishonest, and then it doesn't matter if anybody else is trying to do honest work. I'm not sure I'd call it "astrology" but lots of economists are just political hacks who gin up plausible-sounding excuses for whatever their side was already planning to do.
Show threadJeff DutkyJun 28, 2024
@Patricia it sure mattered at the time. The book got rave reviews when it was first published, but the revelation of hanky panky with the underlying data squashed everyone's enthusiasm. I mean, the same people still pushed their stale, austerity policies, but they stopped using Piketty as justification. I'm just surprised we're talking about it now, as it was pretty thoroughly discredited.