Mastodawn

"If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it 'neighborism'—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme. Vice President Vance has said that “it is totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next-door neighbors and say, ‘I want to live next to people who I have something in common with. I don’t want to live next to four families of strangers.’” Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu. That is, arguably, a deeply Christian philosophy, one apparently loathed by some of the most powerful Christians in America." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/the-neighbors-defending-minnesota-from-ice/685769/

Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong

The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.

The Atlantic

Mark Jan 9

New semester started. AI prompting, Legal Issues in Information Security, then 2 network classes culminating in my CompTIA Net+ cert.

#school #IT #cybersecurity #wgu

Mark Sep 24, 2025

Ethics in tech is done! Finished a couple weeks ago and have been deep in the weeds for my Scripting/Programming class. This one's certainly different from what I'm used to.

#IT #school #scripting #study

Mark Sep 18, 2025

Burning thru these classes a lot faster than I expected. Class 2 completed in about 1.5 weeks. Class 3 is my Programming & Scripting course. Anyone here ever used Coral? Idk if I'm just not getting it because I don't get scripting, or if Coral is just a terrible way to learn. I've used PyCharm before and had a lot of luck that way, but Coral just isn't doing it for me

#school #IT #programming #scripting #coral #coding

Mark Sep 4, 2025

Nearly done with class number two. Waiting on my final grade for the 2nd ethics paper I submitted to learn if I passed or not. #silksong has been acquired and I'm gonna let myself relax and dive into this new game.

#IT #cybersecurity #ethics #gaming #steam #pcgaming

Mark Sep 4, 2025

Jammed my finger pretty good so I'm forced to learn to play FPS games with a controller. The reaction time just isn't there

#gaming #pcgaming #fps #overwatch2 #cod #blackops6 #steam

Mark Aug 27, 2025

I don't think I've read this much philosophy/social theory since my last attempt at an anthropology degree. This ethics in tech class is giving me flashbacks

#school #studying #philosophy #ethics #IT