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guyjantic

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Father, partner, teacher, mentor, researcher, data scientist, music maker, photo taker, art dabbler, thing creator, disc hucker.

Social science professor in the US, deeply burned out from trying to be a professor in what our system is becoming.

Formerly religious. Now sweary. Also sometimes drinky. Ask me about my one weird trick (if you want to be disappointed).

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ah. well.

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@molly0xfff AFTER ALL OF AMERICA YELLING AT US FOR FIVE YEARS WE INVESTIGATED OURSELVES AND YOU CAN LEARN WHAT WE FOUND FOR SIX EASY INSTALLMENTS OF $19.99

@catswhocode@mastodon.art avatar catswhocode , to actuallyadhd group

actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group You know what I hate? When people say, "Oh, everyone is on the autism spectrum," because that is definitely not true. I get this reaction when I tell people that I'm autistic sometimes, because I'm low support needs and it's not immediately obvious, but I definitely struggle with many things. Maybe I should be more specific? How do you all handle this?
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@catswhocode actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group actuallyadhd@a.gup.pe icon actuallyadhd group "Fifi and I were barely able to asked a third summer home so we are basically poor, too."

"I got 2 separate jokes published in Boys' Life magazine so it is fair to say Margaret Atwood and I are both professional writers."

"I now have glasses for reading so believe me I know what it is like to be blind."

Yes, all behaviors, tendencies, symptoms, etc. are rooted in common human experiences and functions. That does not mean having broccoli and enjoying weighted blankets makes a person autistic.

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@catswhocode actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group actuallyadhd@a.gup.pe icon actuallyadhd group They can be soothing! My point was that having a few characteristics somewhat in common with many autistic people is not the same as having autism. Everyone has some characteristics that are like every possible psychological condition, developmental divergence, etc. because we're all human, but the extent of those characteristics, their pervasiveness, their pattern, etc. matter a lot.

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@catswhocode actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group actuallyadhd@a.gup.pe icon actuallyadhd group There's a place for that "hi, fellow kids" meme.

@guyjantic@c.im avatar guyjantic , to random

Harvard students were punished by the university president for expressing unpopular opinions.

They STUDIED for an hour in a LIBRARY, with political messages taped to their laptops.

What if it had been only one student? What if the pro-Palestine message had been half as big? What if it had been half an hour?

There is no narrative worth the pixels it takes on a screen that makes this anything but direct, pure suppression of dissent. The students followed every rule, didn't do any of the things bullshit campus rules penalize in order to stop protests. They didn't block sidewalks, light candles, chant, march, or even (apparently) make anyone the least bit uncomfortable.

So the Harvard admin just flat-out punished them for expressing a political opinion.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/10/3/students-suspended-library-palestine-protest/

@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social avatar gamingonlinux , to random

A really annoying thing that absolutely needs to stop:

  • "More info in the discord!" / "Changelog in the Discord!"

STOP THAT.

Discord is a closed, proprietary platform. Post your stuff on the actual open web where more people will see it.

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@gamingonlinux I'm a tech doofus and even I had no trouble installing a self-hosted forum back in the day. Also... gitlab etc. exist.

@mhoye@mastodon.social avatar mhoye , to random

Exhibit 1: Cops protecting the bottles of water in a wrecked truck from their fellow citizens in the aftermath of a disaster. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/09/29/helene-wnc-storm-north-carolina/

Exhibit 2: Steinbeck's "The Grapes Of Wrath" https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/752923-the-works-of-the-roots-of-the-vines-of-the

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”
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@mhoye what next, pushing people back into the flood surge if they climb out on private property?

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@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar lowqualityfacts , to random

CEO: We need to cut costs.

Accountant: Okay. We paid you $50 million last year. We spent $10 million on your private jet flights and luxury hotel accommodations. For some reason you are being paid $1 million for this 45 minute meeting.

CEO: I see. Who's that in the hallway?

Accountant: That's Greg. He is the only thing keeping this company from falling apart. We pay him in nickels and Grubhub gift cards.

CEO: Fire Greg.

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@lowqualityfacts This is my university right now, but on a smaller scale. The president, provost, deans, and various directors make between 3 and 5 times the median faculty/staff salary, and there are so many of them. Most of them have generous expense/travel accounts, remodeling accounts (apparently), beefed-up benefits packages, staff, and (rumored) occasional golden parachute packages hidden in the College Foundation (not open to transparency laws).

They harangue the rest of us for "waste", reducing scholarly and teaching workers by the year (scholarship and teaching are literally the only key services we provide), and making life less fun every month. All travel has been frozen for non-management. We apparently can't afford printer paper. Department secretaries and building maintenance staff have been pared to skeleton crews with low morale to "reduce payroll costs through attrition." Every month there seems to be a new and bizarre method of hamfisted micromanagement. And the president has started eliminating programs that look "wasteful" to him even when solid accounting shows they are solidly "profitable" (in the weird semi-true way that applies to public universities in the USA).

So yes. Day after day being told the sky is purple and the moon is cream cheese, silently daring anyone to challenge them on this and begin a nasty fight with the authoritarians who sign all the paychecks.

The USA is not OK in many areas. Public universities are one of those areas.

@itsfoss@mastodon.social avatar itsfoss , to random

Linux mint is now 18 years old!!! 🎂 🥳
Share your story with Mint! 💚

guyjantic ,
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@itsfoss OKAY so this one time I installed Mint

and I still use it!

Maybe you wanted more exciting stories. But I like Mint.

@guyjantic@c.im avatar guyjantic , to random

I've been thinking about 's speech at the DNC (1st night) for a few days. OK, the part about , specifically.

I decided to annotate my thoughts with terrible graphic design.

Note: the part on Gaza/Israel was about 200 words, just over 5% of the speech. It was placed 4/5 of the way through the speech.

I believe Harris emphatically promised to never stop selling weapons to Israel, but maybe that's just my interpretation.

I think this speech was carefully crafted to walk a fine line: expressing sympathy for Palestine while never implicating Israel in Gaza's destruction and reinforcing Kamala's commitment to .

A very messy annotated version of the 200-word segment. Mastodon won't let me put all the words in here. My summary: Mentions of the genocide in Gaza are mostly in passive voice, as if nobody in particular were causing the violence, though the Palestinian people are humanized and given sympathetic presentation (though they are apparently victims without an aggressor). Israel is portrayed in light of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, labeled as a terrorist organization with implication that they are linked to Iran and "tyrants." There is no mention of the fact that Israel is the entity causing suffering in Gaza. Harris uses 1st-person active voice to take ownership of Israel's goal of defending itself and achieving "security," as well as gaining release of the hostages. She says she will always ensure Israel has the ability to defend itself, which I interpret as her promising to never stop selling Israel weapons. The speech ends, somewhat bizarrely, with Harris swearing to defend "our forces" (American soldiers? in Israel? IDK) and "our interests" (your guess is as good as mine) against "Iran and Iran-backed terrorists." She then immediately swears she will not cozy up to "tyrants and dictators" like "Kim Jong-un" (WTF), because they are "rooting for Trump."
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@QasimRashid@mastodon.social avatar QasimRashid , to random

Only 34% of Americans support Biden’s management of Israel & 55% of Americans oppose Israel’s siege on Gaza.

This proves stopping the genocide is not just the morally & legally smart call—it’s the politically smart call. VP Harris should do exactly that.
https://t.co/zjBnLDZCYm

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@RememberUsAlways @QasimRashid It's not a difficult question at all, and the answer isn't the troll answer you're pulling for.

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@RememberUsAlways @QasimRashid

"Would there be screams of genocide if Hamas was winning the war in Palestine???"

That wasn't your question.

Start with clear premises and we can perhaps move from there.

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@RememberUsAlways
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Again, that wasn't your question. Please show that you understand the question you originally asked so I know you're not playing switcheroo.

I can't have a meaningful discussion with someone who is either unaware of their most recent statements or insists on shifting them to suit some rhetorical agenda.

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@RememberUsAlways @QasimRashid

Yes, the first is the question I referred to. And, as you probably suspect, genocide is genocide no matter who is winning a particular war. Genocide is not war; it is genocide. The victor doesn't matter in the definition.

Thanks, that's what I came to discuss. Not to respond to leading questions about how I feel about Hamas vs. the IDF.

@arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar arstechnica , to random

Motorola’s mid-range Edge 2024 packs a 144 Hz display for $550

Motorola's Pixel 8a fighter is headed to a carrier store near you.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/motorolas-mid-range-edge-2024-packs-a-144-hz-display-for-550/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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@arstechnica Does it have a headphone jack?

@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

Privacy is dead, and all of your data, including medical information, is constantly being sold to the highest bidder. This is a terrible situation, and there should be strict regulations for those who are breaking the law. Source https://www.threads.net/@thebrianpenny/post/C6y2ckfxaDj/

@thebrianpenny writes: “Go to therapy,” they said. So I did, and they sold that data to advertisers. The news article reads and is attached to the post as follows: Because of a settlement between the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and BetterHelp, you are entitled to a refund. BetterHelp agreed to pay $7.8 million to settle charges brought by the FTC. BetterHelp offers online counseling through several websites, including: BetterHelp, MyTherapist, Teen Counseling, Faithful Counseling, Pride Counseling, Regain, Terappeuta etc. The FTC says that BetterHelp promised to keep users' information private but revealed data to Facebook, Snapchat, Pinterest, and Criteo for advertising purposes. This data included email addresses, IP addresses, and personal answers to health questions. Our records show that you paid for services from a BetterHelp website and are entitled to a refund
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@nixCraft Fucking hell.

I'm guessing there's some slippery loophole that says they didn't violate HIPAA 100 million times.

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“Crypto researcher Molly White skewered [Chris Dixon’s Read Write Own] with the delight of Pete Wells after downing an Almond Joy cocktail at Guy Fieri’s Flavortown.”

😂

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-05-06/silicon-valley-crypto-investor-chris-dixon-wants-to-overhaul-the-industry (paywall)
https://archive.ph/BDP2I (archive)

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@molly0xfff I had to prove I wasn't a robot just to get to the paywall :(

@QasimRashid@mastodon.social avatar QasimRashid , to random

BREAKING: House passes bill to criminalize criticism of Israel — a bill opposed by numerous Jewish groups, numerous Jewish members of Congress, and the ACLU.

My latest: https://qasimrashid.substack.com/p/breaking-house-passes-bill-to-criminalize

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@RememberUsAlways @markmevans
By that standard, Islamic nations get to bomb Israel into the ground. Israel takes Palestinian hostages almost daily, in contravention of international law.

By your logic that means another nation can kill tens of thousands of Israelis.

Follow your own sense of "proportion" and see where it leads.

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Faith schools in England will no longer have to offer up to half of their places to children who don’t belong to their religion, under changes to state school admissions rules sneakily announced by the government, after serious lobbying by the Catholic Church.

I propose, therefore, that the 100% funding they get from the state is also scrapped. I don't object to faith schools. I do object to them being funded by the state.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/may/01/england-scraps-50-rule-on-faith-school-admissions?CMP=GTUK_email

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@junesim63 Sometimes I think all the social and political problems/bullshit in England are the same as those in the USA, just with a fun accent.

@maxim@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar maxim , to random

Day 36, Sci-Fi Adventure devlog

A couple of days ago I showed the implementation of a scanner based on Niagara and static mesh, I decided to make another variant that requires less resources and can be configured - to transfer random positions from a Spline

video/mp4

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@maxim Is the breast-based laser an important component?