Rowley @Rowley@qoto.org

@morgthorak I think you might want to make sure you don’t follow me.

Because your “woke communist propaganda” comment makes me think you’re a moron of the first order.

I strongly suspect I am one of those “woke communists” you worry about. But you probably couldn’t actually explain what either of those words actually mean, could you?

I’m a card-carrying atheist, I think a woman’s right to choose is very important, I think that “well regulated militia” means that guns should be carefully licensed and not just randomly given to any moron with a pulse, and I couldn’t care less if you decided to dress up in the “wrong” clothes or decided you’d rather live your life without feeling tied to whatever plumbing you were born with.

And dammit, if that all makes me “woke”, then I think anybody who uses that word as a pejorative is a f*cking disgrace to the human race. So please just unfollow me right now.

if it's any comfort, we just need to get through a few more weeks of "uncontrollable wildfires" season, and then we can sit back and enjoy "record-setting hurricanes" season and "people freezing to death in their homes" season before the fires start up again

Hell is rejoicing today because Pat's coming home!

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/06/pat-robertson-dead-hell-plans-massive?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=75540

Anyone fancy pooling together to buy a newspaper? Telegraph’s up for sale and i think what the world needs right now is a newspaper fun by a collective of union activists, cat girls, knitters and queer programmers.

You can neatly divide the GOP presidential field into Donald Trump, former sycophants of Donald Trump who Donald Trump tried to kill, people Donald Trump has not tried to kill yet and a few people Donald Trump won't bother to try killing.

Where are you on the political scale? Please boost wildly!* 😃​

(*) Yes I mean Wildly not just widely

cursed sentence

We've been through so much, with so many bad actors, that it's easy to forget that Susan Collins is still a piece of shit.

#SusanCollins #GOP #POS #VoteBlue

Chuck Todd presuming to take a victory lap after the all the absolute fucking horror he blithely stenographed and bleached over ten years is like Judith Miller taking a victory lap over all the mass graves she helped dig in Iraq.

The both of them can fucking rot.

I was hanging out with a bunch of college buds last weekend and - as a cultural frame for the reader - we went to school in the mid-1980s, and at some point someone started looking up the ages of the B-52s and just one small and seemingly insignificant nugget of advice I want to impart to people is maybe don't fucking do this.

You have so much information in your pocket, available with a few clicks - don't use it to be sad.

One of my favourite British traits that I’ve held onto over the years: if I buy a product and it’s crap, I’ll often buy the exact same thing again if I need another one, rather than taking a chance of finding a better alternative, just because this time around I’m prepared for the level of crapness, and won’t be disappointed

Fans of the #Sopranos will remember the #BustOut as a mob tactic in which a business is taken over, loaded up with debt, and driven into the ground, wrecking the lives of the business's workers, customers and suppliers. When the mafia does this, we call it a bust out; when Wall Street does it, we call it #PrivateEquity.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version to read/share, here's a link to pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/02/plunderers/#farbenizers

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I'm currently making a program that displays pride flags on an embedded system, by modifying a copy of doom.

this may be one of the most foone things I've ever done. if I deliver the binary by floppy disk, I think I'll win at fooning

A few months back, I had a question: If Dobbs was the Supreme Court reversing itself on the right to abortion — essentially taking a right they had codified — what other rights do we hold based on past S.C. rulings, and where do current justices fall on them?

@ProPublica has a guide for that now: https://projects.propublica.org/supreme-risk/

6 (!) years ago, @timnitGebru put forward a profound idea for AI research: document your training data. To say she was treated like shit would be putting it lightly. If she had been respected like her male peers were, imagine what a different path AI could have taken.

i too am a volatile organic compound

apparently I’m getting some class action compensation from Zoom, haven’t been following the case but can only assume it’s for the emotional distress of having heard “can you all see my screen?” 72 million times over the past 3 years

An Octopus sits down at table on the outdoor patio of a coffee shop. The Octopus turns to the Cow at the next table and says, "Hey, wanna hear a joke?"

The Cow is wary, never having met the Octopus before, and knowing all the ways that this kind of thing might go bad, but the Octopus is in good colours, displaying inviting and cheerful concentric rings, so the cow decides to chance it and says, "Sure, why not."

"All right," says the Octopus, "and stop me if you've heard it already: So it seems that dozens of women, Black people, disabled people, LGBTQIA+ folx— just a bunch of marginalized folx, across the board— well they were trying to tell everyone about the social and philosophical implications and potential horrors of technology, both as a general thing, but specifically about what people think of as 'A.I.,' in specific. Then six white dudes walked in— several of whom were the direct cause of so many of those horrors—and, though not acknowledging those marginalized folx even a little bit at all, said the EXACT same things."

Here, the Octopus' coffee arrives, so the Octopus stops and sips at the very hot, very well-prepared Cubano in its tiny cup, and stares off into the distance.

After a few moments, the Cow is a little confused and says "…Is that it? How's the rest of it go?"

Startled, the Octopus looks over at at the Cow and, sadly smiling, says, "Oh. About like you'd expect."

Oh no! Look at all these Old Montréal businesses not generating any profit because of the streets being closed for cars. Utterly devastating move by the city to prevent people from accessing these businesses by having nowhere to park. How dare they doom the economy like this?

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#urbanplanning #montreal #cities #fuckcars