Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org
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Software Engineer, mostly in the Pacific Northwest of late
Medical Informatics - Carrier-Grade Network Video Distribution - Real Time Clinical Telemetry
Formerly: Motorola, Tektronix, Intel, HP, Qualcomm, Nintendo; others you're less likely to have heard of.
Will code for pie. 🥧
Joined Dec 2022
#musk removes fact check, aka "community notes" from his tweet.
I've decided I'd like to be be British, but I can't work out how to be played by Terry-Thomas in an American movie from 1964.
Imagine if the police came and talked to you because you told a cosplayer he wasn't really Spider-Man.
I wonder if Musk chose the name X in honor of all the cartoons of a blue bird lying still on the ground with Xs for eyes that have appeared since he took over.
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Man who insists Christians shouldn’t have to serve gay people outraged that banks don’t want to serve twats https://newsthump.com/2023/07/20/man-who-insists-christians-shouldnt-have-to-serve-gay-people-outraged-that-banks-dont-want-to-serve-twats/
The reason following hashtags doesn't work very well is that -- as anyone who's been on the twitters will confirm -- the overuse of hashtags correlates inversely with having anything to say. For example, as soon as I started following the hashtag #Ukraine, I started getting flooded with posts that had every hashtag under the sun, but not much content other than the occasional rant.
Perhaps it works better for less topical hashtags, but this isn't working out well at all... the amount of noise --- a considerable proportion of it rancid -- is pretty high.
Another great victory for the #Ukraine war: it's turned the far right into card-carrying socialists overnight. So many impassioned calls from them now to provide public assistance to America's homeless and drug-addicted; I never thought I'd see the day.
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@mashbooq @Lengsel@mastodon.social On one of the tech forums I use, someone got a PM berating him for using a Ukraine trident icon in his profile. He posted a public question to the mods asking what the policy on that kind of off-topic harassment was... and dozens of people responded by putting Ukrainian symbols in their avatars. The abuser was never seen again.
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Good stuff from Kurt Volker in FT: “#Ukraine is doing #Nato’s job for it"… "it is hard to see how Nato can accomplish its mission of defending Europe without accepting Ukraine as a member. This is the contradiction that needs to be addressed urgently..."
via Anders Åslund
https://www.ft.com/content/7f5b42e3-024c-4b1b-a98a-e1e884341b30
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“In our research we found no age was the right age to be a woman leader. There was always an age-based excuse to not take women seriously, to discount their opinions, or to not hire or promote them. Each individual woman may believe she’s just at the wrong age, but the data make the larger pattern clear. Any age can be stigmatized by supervisors and colleagues to claim that the woman is not valued or is not a fit for a leadership role.”
https://hbr.org/2023/06/women-in-leadership-face-ageism-at-every-age
#leadership #bias #discrimination
If there's something you're not supposed to tell anyone, be sure to say "I'm not supposed to tell anyone this, but," before you tell anyone.
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To the President of the #CanaryIslands, the EU and governments everywhere:
We’re calling on you to reject the plan to build the world's first industrial octopus farm in #Spain and #BanOctopusFarming in the #EU and around the world, including its #import and #financing. Octopuses are intelligent, sentient and fascinating #animals. Let’s avoid creating more animal suffering for unsustainable and short-term human profit.
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@pieist OH do I EVER have things to say about those hairy schmoos! https://teamtrash.substack.com/p/save-the-galaxy-eat-a-porg
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I'd like to live in the world where the pedestrian lights are green by default, and the drivers have to press a button and wait ages for the lights to change.
If in a post- Sarah Everard universe, UK police are trying to indicate they take violence against women seriously, they're going the wrong way about it.
I'm old enough to remember when Yahweh, AKA "Jehovah", was a subordinate war god in a proto-Judaic pantheon.
If anyone's going to use AI for anything, Amazon should be using it to discard non-answers to product questions. I've just been looking some questions where every single answer, faithfully auto-published by Amazon, boils down to "I don't know."
IRL I've taken to cutting off people who lead with an unsolicited opinion on complex topics I've no reason to believe they understand particularly well. I've no patience for it anymore, and it's just constant nowadays.
Star Wars prequel 1: "That was pretty terrible."
Star Wars prequel 2: "My god, that was unspeakably bad."
Star Wars prequel 3... "wait, I know, how about simply not going to see it at all?"
Repeat entire process for The Hobbit trilogy.
I have a similar rationale for not trying out Threads.
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"Piracy can't be stealing if paying for it isn't owning"
This is increasingly how it feels, when streaming shows disappear for tax reasons and things you "own" digitally become inaccessible.
Thank you @Illuminatus for this quote.
- Enthusiasms
- 🏍️ 🪂 🚀 🎷 🔬 🔭 🎞️ 🐧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
- Credit
- A Quinn-Martin Production
Software Engineer, mostly in the Pacific Northwest of late
Medical Informatics - Carrier-Grade Network Video Distribution - Real Time Clinical Telemetry
Formerly: Motorola, Tektronix, Intel, HP, Qualcomm, Nintendo; others you're less likely to have heard of.
Will code for pie. 🥧
Joined Dec 2022
