@Strandjunker I understand the sentiment. The constant hypocrisy makes me so angry. However, I feel like we need to collectively move past calling it out. These people have shown, over and over, that they are completely immune. They can hold mutually exclusive beliefs at the same time with no cognitive dissonance. I feel like there is no possible "gotcha" big enough to make any of them change their perspective about anything.
I used to write about this stuff as well. I stopped when I realized that all I was doing was making myself madder. I wish I had a better answer for what to do instead. I keep hoping that my frustrations will lead to some insight, or some spark of brilliance.
I am trying to encourage others to do the same. I'm hoping that someone wiser than me will be able to give me some alternative that will actually make a difference.
New job opening at Bluesky (part-time; multiple positions available).
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Previous work on Web 2.0/3.0 essential.
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Conway’s Game of Life With Physical Buttons
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/20/conways-game-of-life-with-physical-buttons/
Underappreciated story: Trump and Bondi have decided to disregard the constitutional requirement that US Attorneys require Senate confirmation. In state after state they install unqualified apparatchiks, and it's up to the courts to discover that these stooges are serving illegally.
Which the courts have done, again and again. But the Trump regime simply ignores the courts and the law. All the work of these US Attorneys' offices is at risk. (1/2)
F-Droid: Google Android verification is existential threat to alt stores. Open source maintainers must de-anonymize or exit. Security framing hides anticompetitive reality. 📱🔒
“If you're using print calls to debug your Python code, consider using f-strings with self-documenting expressions instead.”
Read more 👉 https://pym.dev/debugging-with-f-strings/
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