LoriHC @lorihc@qoto.org

79 years ago, patriotic Americans went to France to throw out the Nazis. This year, all you have to do is go to the polls and vote.

It's batshit crazy that the world's largest company is in the shitter because it needs to grow double-digits every year. Give me the world where a company can just make its good shit and prosper without burning the world to the ground.
https://mastodon.social/@markgurman/112309830986871698

The Swift API guidelines are really good. They’re worth reading even if you’re not interested in Swift just to see an example of how to communicate this kind of information well. https://www.swift.org/documentation/api-design-guidelines/

Browsers should refuse to respect paste-disabling. This is not something that any user wants.

What is that Tanya? The environmental reforms you promised have unexpectedly travelled over the rainbow bridge? How sad. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/apr/17/tanya-says-the-urgent-environmental-reforms-the-alp-promised-have-been-put-on-hold

I find it distasteful and almost unethical to posit that reviewers are responsible for the health of a company after they launch a busted, terrible product.

This is why VC and Silicon Valley is broken. They take the sanctity of "be nice to corporations" over making something worth actually selling.

I’ve been struggling with a technical problem at work. Really struggling, and sitting in front of the computer doesn’t help. Plenty of lessons but the main ones are:

1. Take more breaks
2. Visualize before you build
3. Get off the freaking computer and go for a walk

Very exciting news! The Authentication Experience team at Apple, which brings you Apple’s contributions to passkeys, AutoFilling of one-time codes from Messages, Apple’s password manager, and more, is hiring a software engineer!

If you are interested, please apply through the website. The team is particularly interested in folks with strong SwiftUI skills, but folks with any and all backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

The role is in Cupertino, California. https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200546861/authentication-experience-engineer?team=SFTWR

Bay Area folks: it’s #electronicsfleamarket day! The market is always an adventure. I’m sad to be far away it!

http://www.electronicsfleamarket.com/

"Hollywood liberals didn’t destroy the family farm, college professors didn’t move manufacturing jobs overseas, immigrants didn’t pour opioids into rural communities, and critical race theory didn’t close hundreds of rural hospitals. When Republican politicians and the conservative media tell rural whites to aim their anger at those targets, it’s so they won’t ask why the people they keep electing haven’t done anything to improve life in their communities."

https://newrepublic.com/article/180570/trump-rural-white-resentment-honest-assessment

#Rural

Computers as tools for humans are so useful exactly *because* they can’t think and do tedious work like calculations or information storage and retrieval for humans in a *deterministic* way.

It took like nearly 90 years of digital computers to make them powerful enough to run a wasteful algorithm that pretends to think (but doesn’t) and to deliver bullshit non-deterministic results while using absurd amounts of computational and environmental resources.

76% of those opposed to abortion are men. 100% of them will never be pregnant. — These numbers tell the whole story, sisters.

“The [Arizona] decision should serve as a warning for the rest of the country…In the hands of a far-right court, a dead, openly misogynistic, wildly unpopular abortion ban can spring back to life with a vengeance.”

~ Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern

#Trump #Republicans #abortion #women #ReproductiveRights #Arizona
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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/04/arizona-abortion-ban-trump-wins-2024-comstock-lan.html

Another way to put this is a 0.12% wealth tax on billionaires would raise a billion dollars to end food insecurity and with a 1.2% wealth tax on billionaires we could do the same for 100 such causes.

https://masto.ai/@rbreich/112255077822574258

whenever a community tests ubi or free housing for the homeless the result is always "holy fuck this works incredibly well and costs less than existing solutions!" and then all the politicians do this

“How can you listen to a kid who wants to change sex? My kid wants to be a dinosaur!”

Because unlike wanting to be a dinosaur, there's decades of science showing kids with persistent gender dysphoria:
1. Rarely grow out of it
2. Continue to suffer if not treated
3. Suffer lifelong pain if they go through the wrong puberty
4. Are at significant risk of suicide/self-harm if untreated
5. Thrive as well as cis kids if they are supported by family/friends and given gender-affirming care