tripu @tripu@qoto.org

“To condemn the #rioting—which I believe to be a moral and political imperative—is not at all the same thing as opposing the #protests. Many observers have been reluctant to do the former because they wish to avoid the latter. I maintain that this is a grave mistake. […] #Progressive intellectuals who make excuses for #streetviolence, even in the face of the awful killing of #GeorgeFloyd, are making a monumental moral and political error.”
— #GlennLoury

https://quillette.com/2020/06/03/condemn-this-violence-without-equivocation/

https://soundcloud.com/nettwerkmusicgroup/ladytron-destroy-everything

There are universal #web sites that don't include #JavaScript at all. There are accessible, progressively-enhanced sites that use #JS sensibly. There are crappy web apps that rely too much on #JavaScript.

…and then there is #LinkedIn, which is a blank page unless you keep its tab focused while https://www.linkedin.com/feed/ is loading and stare at it attentively and in reverential silence.

I think @bert would be even more appalled than me about this 😉
#badweb #antipattern

@pganssle, same story here (mastodon.technology → qoto.org).
For me, the alarm went off in December last year, when I shared a quote (verbatim, without commentary) from a Scientific American article, and ashfurrow@mastodon.technology replied privately:
“Spreading sexist misinformation violates our code of conduct. This is your only warning that this isn’t acceptable on this instance.”
After that, when I tried to migrate my followers, I discovered about his blocking qoto.org.

@design_RG, are discussions still at an impasse?
Just curious. To be honest, at this point I think it'd be best if mastodon.technology simply suffered the consequences of its own bad policies — I want to see the smart users migrating away from it.

I am three days away from a 2-year-long streak on #Duolingo: learning a tiny bit of 🇯🇵 #Japanese and/or 🇩🇪 #German each and every day since June 2018 — and I've been travelling, out of the country, off sick…
Maintaining the streak is a silly thing, but this kind of challenges help me keep motivated and going.
I finished the German course long ago, so now I am just “practising” and not learning new stuff; and I've reached a point in Japanese where I'm not learning well (I should be properly studying grammar, vocabulary and kanji instead). On the other hand, losing the streak would be a pity, and I'm not confident that I would study regularly if I switched to my textbooks…
Mastodon: what should I do?

https://mastodon.technology/@tripu/102208612300210016
https://www.duolingo.com/profile/tripu.info

@btcprox@mstdn.io
Ah, yes… Indeed. Many of us have found ourselves in that quandary already. The #DecentralizedConundrum, I call it.
/cc @Gargron

#EricWeinstein on how to learn what's necessary to think from first principles:

1. #EvolutionaryTheory (eg “The Selfish Gene”, “The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution”).
2. #Economics (“markets are the continuation of natural and sexual selection by other means”).
3. Offbeat #history (regular history, Howard Zinn's version, conservative versions, etc).
4. #Psychology (the most durable parts).

Then: #mathematics, #physics, #chemistry, #programming…

https://jamesaltucher.com/podcast/472-eric-weinstein/

#Marvel:
“#Safespace […] can create forcefields, but he can only trigger them if he's protecting somebody else. #Snowflake is #non-binary and goes by they/them, and has the power to generate individual crystalized snowflake-shaped shurikens. […] A post-ironic meditation on using violence to combat bullying.”
Post-ironic indeed!
https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/introducing-the-new-new-warriors

Los mejores análisis políticos de #EEUU en #español siempre vienen de #RogerSenserrich, «egocrata», a través de #Politikon. El último:
https://politikon.es/2020/05/25/inundar-la-zona-de-basura/

Apparently, this did happen. Too hilarious.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-greece-lesbians-court/greek-court-considers-lesbos-vs-lesbians-case-idUSL1120797420080611

Just listened to the last episode of the #MakingSense podcast. Quite a few interesting ideas there.
I disagree with a bunch. eg, I don't understand how #taxes (which are compulsory) could be called “solidarity” (which is voluntary by definition). And I'd remind #DanielMarkovits & #SamHarris that some #billionaires donate very little, or to irrelevant or self-aggrandizing causes — but that many others are in fact effective altruist.
On the positive, this conversation will make me question the merits of our meritocracy (pun intended), which doesn't seem to work as well as I assumed. And I think it'll help me find arguments to support my growing intuition that a cap on extreme individual #wealth may be morally justified and socially beneficial (I mean a 100% marginal tax rate for wealth above $10B or the like, ie affecting the truly super-rich only).
https://samharris.org/podcasts/205-failure-meritocracy/