Dave T-W @davoloid@qoto.org
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Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL
Joined Oct 2022
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Hundreds of thousands of books with irrevocably broken links.
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So that's a million academic citations deleted.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?start=90&q=%22https://goo.gl/%22&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5
Perhaps I'm late to spot this, but I have only just noticed that the logo for the Paris Olympics is a flame, but also silhouette of a woman's face with "chic" haircut and lips.
Slightly amusing: The Republican National Convention is the "Superbowl of Grindr".
https://www.pride.com/republican-national-convention-grindr#rebelltitem9
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Today is the day of finding out who runs on #Microsoft #Windows ...
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There's a reason decades of psychiatric research and feminist theory eventually converged on: "Fuck it, who cares what gender is. Just let people do what makes them happy."
Because the alternates were untenable and always ended up being abusive and oftentimes deadly.
To which the conservative response has been: "But we like that."
Behind every "family values" conservative is the belief that them having power over someone else is more important than that person's happiness. And that's evil.
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Ten reasons I’m happy to be autistic 😎
A thread...
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"Good data is not cheap to collect — but it is good value, especially when thoughtfully commissioned or built into policymaking by default." Tim Harford on the warped priorities that have been handed to the Office for National Statistics.
https://econtwitter.net/@TimHarford/112808830670751890
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We are delighted to introduce…The McBollard!!
#WorldBollardAssociation 🍔🍟
Lovely little film, one for my fellow misanthropes.
https://www.orartswatch.org/sometimes-i-think-about-dying-qa-with-the-director-rachel-lambert-and-actor-dave-merheje-of-the-oregon-shot-film-starring-daisy-ridley/
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Look, having goals is great.
Working towards something can give your life meaning and direction. But the self-help industrial complex has turned goal-setting into some kind of extreme sport. It’s not enough to have goals anymore. You need to have SMART goals, stretch goals, 10-year vision goals. And you better be crushing them, smashing them, absolutely obliterating them.
What happened to just doing your best?
When did that stop being enough?
Similar time, similar story:
Trevor Brooking:
"I think a lot of older players in the system are damaged goods because technically they're not able to cope with the demands," he conceded.
"If you can't play it from the back, or in tight areas, it doesn't matter how good the coach is, you're not going to make it."
Yes, it's the Daily Mail, yes, it's 2007, but doesn't this sound familiar?
"#England and the #FA get themselves in this position because they do not learn the lessons of history and are thus destined to repeat them.
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Never mind the performances of its foreign-driven club sides, the English game is on its knees. It didn't need its own governing body to kick it when it was down."
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-502576/Same-old-England.html
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You read this and it gives you hope the #Olympics in #Paris2024 may actually be a sustainable and lasting celebration of sports and its infrastructure
#green #architecture #Sport
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/jul/15/french-revolution-can-paris-deliver-the-leanest-greenest-olympics-yet
Unpopular opinion: Apart from the one manager who led England to victory in the 1966 England World Cup (side eye), Southgate has been the best #England manager ever: WC QF and SF, two Euro finals.
Via reddit:
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#TimothySnyder : Political Violence: Reflections from the 1920s and 1930s
"Nothing in recent American political life resembles Trump’s call for “Second-Amendment people” to kill Hillary Clinton, his mockery of Paul Pelosi after an attempted murder, his belittling of Gretchen Whitmer after a kidnapping attempt, the stochastic violence he directs against critics to intimidate them and against his fellow Republicans to keep them in line..."
Frustrating to hear BBC doing the "both sides" thing as if there hasn't been years of violent language and activities from the Trump crowd, and absolute violence in the policies they espouse.
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How does the relationship a developer has with the computing resources around them change when climate and ecology are brought into the picture? Does this produce unexpected other changes, for instance, I speculate without evidence that it might reframe your interactions with technology to be less abstract. Despite the massive crisis of climate concerns, is there a protective effect from this? Might this make some technology work feel less alienated from the world?
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If you feel very powerless, try not to express this on to those people who have even less power than you.
Even if that's usually the only way that you can express how powerless you feel 🥺
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Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL
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