@sundogplanets
Our local food bank is dialed in to the logistics of need here, and can also get food to other direct service providers who cook and feed people. 🙏🏼

@meg I do give authors I’ve read before a little more leeway. But sometimes no matter how well reviewed a book, it just doesn’t merit finishing.

@woozle Ha!

@mttaggart

"Thanks" but it's "thanks" like if you punched me in the face to stop a mosquito from biting me.

In #NewMexico, a statewide network of grassroots activists is working to educate and support voters to make sure NM’s elections are FREE and FAIR. We want massive turnout,to make crystal clear NM rejects the fascist authoritarianism Trump is trying to establish. Subscribe to https://landofaction.org to keep up.

One of the challenges of public politics - whether you're a politician, candidate or activist - is that you're up against a gotcha industry of reputation launderers. Whose entire job is to make people who work in the public interest - and thus against ruling interests - sound mad, and out-of-touch.

Either you just say 'damn the torpedoes', as I do, limiting your impact. Or, every aspect of your public messaging has to be obsessively crafted to make the reputation launderers' job harder.

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@evacide like in their 2022 Privacy Not Included list, Mozilla clearly have a thing for Euki. I don’t remember if Drip was around back then, but not to include it in the list now feels like a serious omission.

The Human-in-the-Loop Is Tired

https://pydantic.dev/articles/the-human-in-the-loop-is-tired

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48942000

#HackerNews #HumanInTheLoop #AI #Ethics #Automation #Fatigue #TechnologyInsights

Omg you don’t like the textiles that are available? Just go shear a sheep, gather stinging nettles, skirt the fleece, rett the stalks to get at the bast fibers, make a spindle, spin the fiber, build a loom, disassemble a bike wheel to make knitting pins, weave your own cloth, knit your own socks, sew a tunic, go live in a bog without any human contact because all of this takes too much time for being social.

This post is about technology.

Starship Flight 13 Scrubbed

What is really fascinating is that SpaceX tried and failed to launch their Starship rocket today. The attempt was scrubbed after four engines failed to light, and there is almost no news coverage of the event. It's very weird.

https://spacenews.com/spacex-aborts-starship-flight-13-launch-attempt/

What I find bizarre: GOP all over the country breathing a sigh of relief cuz the speech was just a straightforward recitation of the same old lies.

@strypey I have spent 43 years in the Internet sector and initially saw it as a force for good, allowing us all to communicate more freely. I saw the innovations and great ideas and competition touted as ways to solve some of the world's biggest social and environmental problems and my question is this.

Like "trickle down" economics, when the fuck is it going to start working?

Argentina is in the World Cup finals on Sunday.

What do Messi, Maradona, neoliberalism, dictatorship, anarchism, and uprising have in common?
Why is the World Cup so important in the collective national consciousness of Argentina?
How are its deep footballing roots intertwined with the history of working class immigration and what was once the largest anarchist movement in the world?

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So Apple sux, I go over to using Linux.

“Linux has never been a social warrior project.

If you don't have technical reasons, you don't have reasons.

So keep your ethics where they belong - in your personal life. Don't
try to enforce your ethics on others.”
–Linus Torvalds

😵‍💫

This entire thread is hella stinky. 💩
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/CAHk-=wi7KN9_DYdmaE2chC92EhTrO=Wtx1bPBER-EQfAZ8FREg@mail.gmail.com/

Me: Do we have any cocoa?
Cyan: ?
Me: Chocolate milk. I thought I bought some.
Cyan: *Smiles guiltily*
Me: You drank it???
Cyan: I can't control what I do when I'm upset~
Me: But you don't like chocolate!!!!???
Cyan: Sometimes I don't have a choice!

I’m not likely to get through the docs he mentioned (on whitehouse.gov) tonight, though there may be some interesting stuff in there. It’s been a long day already.

If you've been enjoying the World Cup, Seattle vs Portland is the best American soccer rivalry, it's going to be a great time and it's about to start. Included with an Apple TV subscription, which you might already have. https://tv.apple.com/us/sporting-event/seattle-sounders-fc-vs-portland-timbers/umc.cse.5cw7l5bwlgwukvj03rexh9iv0?ctx_brand=tvs.sbd.7000

@jpm My 'I am definitely not working on growning brain-free organ sacks' T-shirt is raising questions already answered by etc etc

@DeliaChristina I didn't watch, of course, there was a, uhhh, it was a, I had a really important dentist appointment. And my grandma died.

But as far as I can make out, it was an absolute *nothing*. A recitation of every other thing he's said about 2020.