Rowley @Rowley@qoto.org

@ProPublica
"Roughly 20 years ago, Martin, Thomas and the Crows went on a cruise on the yacht in Russia and the Baltics, according to Martin and two other people familiar with the trip. The group toured St. Petersburg in a rented helicopter and visited the Yusupov Palace, the site of Rasputin’s murder, said one of the people. They were joined by Chris DeMuth, then the president of the conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute."

They always end up visiting russia at some point 🤔

Happy #StarWarsDay. Please take a moment to appreciate Count Dooku's balcony in Attack of the Clones (2002).

Kiss the night sky goodbye https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/06/elon-musk-china-starlink-pla China’s military aims to launch 13,000 satellites to rival Elon Musk’s Starlink #astronomy #pollution #militarization

Hello, world!

Following recent changes at Twitter, the new home of the X.Org Foundation is here on Mastodon. Please follow for the latest in the Linux graphics world and the freedesktop.org community. Going forward, we will no longer post to Twitter, but we're so excited to join the Fediverse!

Get excited folks: on this week’s OTM it’s a @pluralistic takeover! It’s Enshittification: radio-edition.

Remarkable that I've given more money to Fox News in the last 5 years than I have to all political candidates in my life.

https://unfoxmycablebox.com/

I saw someone point out today that to a French speaker “ChatGPT” reads like “Cat, I farted” (« Chat, j’ai pété ») and now that is what I am going to think of every time I see it mentioned.

I'm not arguing w the fact that AI poses risks. I AM ceaselessly annoyed by the pattern

This is not new or novel. It was women -
@timnitGebru, @mmitchell_ai, me, et al - who rang the AI alarm years ago & were retaliated against, pushed out for doing so.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html

N.B.: @nytopinion no longer publishes @realJennyBoylan's writing about trans issues, b/c they would rather publish anti-trans bilge from cis morons.
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RT @froomkin
"No one who embarks upon a life as a trans person in this country is doing so out of caprice, or a whim, or a delusion. We are living these wondrous and perilous lives for one reason only — because our hearts demand it." By @realJennyBoylan
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin…
https://twitter.com/froomkin/status/1653104906549567493

no shade to anyone, but for all of the leftists who have a dream of buying a piece of land and living on a commune somewhere out in the middle of nowhere, it would be nice if there were a few more whose dream was to move into the same apartment complex and organize a militant tenants union

Nobody follows me on my robotics account 🥲

follow me at @froggo@frcsocial.me and if you like robots or are affiliated with first/frc/ftc/fll in any way pls register https://frcsocial.me

@BlackAzizAnansi white person here so can only speak to what I saw and what I heard Black folks saying but the extreme desire of early adopter Mastodon users to have anything political or possibly upsetting CWed and the strong belief that keeping things unable to "go viral" or spread easily was good made it like it was a bunch of liberal white neighborhoods that believed *they* could never be racist but also didn't want to have to think about all that upsetting racism out there.

No matter how mundane they appear, never for 1 second believe your stairs aren't just waiting for the right time to kill you "accidentally."

The same people who are trying to force us to pledge allegiance are, themselves, becoming citizens of foreign countries in order to remove wealth from the United States.

https://theintercept.com/2023/04/25/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-citizenship-st-kitts/

B/c it was not enough to silence her voice on the House floor, #Montana Republicans have banished Rep. #ZooeyZephyr from the state legislature for the rest of the session. She will not be permitted to represent her 11,000 constituents who elected her to speak for them. GOP lawmakers misgendered Zephyr & accused her of violating decorum by opposing their anti-trans bills & saying they would have “blood on their hands”. Protesters who supported her were arrested. This is what #fascism looks like.

If I were to set up an instance targeted towards FRC students, mentors, and teams, would there be interest? I feel it would be a really cool thing to do, especially as it seems like there's not a lot of robotics going on #onhere

Please repost if you know anyone who would be interested

#FRC #FRCRobotics #FIRSTRobotics