This is a guy from the 18th century speaking his thoughts about his time, which was quite violent. There is no reason to believe he was a prophet seeing 250 years into the future of the nation he helped create, or even that he was some kind of ultra-insightful historian who understood all the cycles of the world better than all the historians before or since his time.

He was just a guy in a time. A smart one, but just a guy.

Not having true vectorization and having to regularly code that into Python helps even the odds.

This has got to be the best, most legitimately funny programmer/computer joke I’ve seen in years.

I’m sure this might be interesting, but the video is letterboxed so aggressively that even on fullscreen my laptop screen is 80% black with a postage-stamp of video in the middle that lasts about 3 seconds.

Yes, critical thinking is hard.

Wait, in the first one it looks like the S has a cape.

This goes a bit deep. Seems like it’s going to be about customers being too stupid to figure things out, but it ends up for me a story about engineers not accurately anticipating customers’ needs.

If I believed in a god I’d ask them to save me from the baby communists who see a sickle and hammer on a flag and insist they must have represented utopia.

First, I dig this meme. I’ll probably share it elsewhere.

Second… “POV” just means “hey look at this,” now?

So this is saying Palestine originated with Nazis and Soviet-style communists. I guess some people just missed all that critical thinking we keep trying to put in the education.

Not in my experience. Liberals criticize their parties and communities constantly, at least in the circles I know. The criticism is most often about treatment if others in ways that don’t affect the person themself. Sometimes it even seems like status seeking and gets obnoxious. But I’ll take a movement where status can be had by advocating for others over over where it comes from selfishness.

They have access to it if they threaten/indimidate/blackmail you into giving them access. Dummy phones are a real thing; saw a post today on masto by a company… person (?) who said they keep a stash of clean burner phones for when employees travel through US borders. These are all reasonable, and maybe even CalyxOS’s decoy partition (does it still have that?). The larger problem is that few people will use these things, not even bringing a clean phone. And once they start threatening your family and your long-term safety and freedom, it’s highly likely you’ll give them access, if they know there is any access to be had. Which they increasingly do, because universal surveillance blah blah.

This is a great list and thanks for posting it.

Also, the pixelfed guy needs to give up full control of his project (no matter how nicely or reasonably he argues “not yet”). I have asked on mastodon and nobody seems to know of anyone else who truly understands the project so if he dies or gets disappeared the project… Dies? Maybe? More concerningly, it isn’t open source. He cotes good reasons for this (the massive labor to refactor and whatever else goes into open sourcing a functioning project), but he also occasionally humblebrags about being offered huge sums of money to sell it to corporations. I suspect it will become corporate at some point if he doesn’t open source it soon.

This is the best thing I have seen all week

The lack of a Scottish American heritage month is a serious injustice.

The tories can go cry in a corner, though. Fucking white house burners.

(OK, mostly being a dick for lols, but honestly don’t feel bad that the former colonial power we rebelled against to even have a nation doesn’t have a special holiday)

1080p less than content?

Even Muad’Dib started out small.

You’re doing the dangerous thing: identifying fascism where Americans have been taught it’s clearly not possible because it’s “our team.”

You’re right, of course.

You win the “most mind-numbingly predictable reply all day” award. Congrats.

Yeah, people who grew up with boomers as parents, teachers, bosses, weird aunts, etc. Find the ultra- reductiveness to be very silly. The labeling of the entire post war generation as incompetent neocons has never fit well except in the minds of people whose only knowledge of history comes from tiktok. Where do they think their anti- establishment ideas came from? Do they think the hippies and civil rights activists were millennials or something?