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Picard programming tip: When the holodeck malfunctions, stay in character. Don't piss off the computer.
Dear Canadians,
I have learned that you can make the federal government mail you tax forms for free.
I have asked for English AND French. I wonder if this counts as malicious compliance.
There is a Republican Congressman whose face I want to make fun of so badly. I don't normally make fun of peoples' faces. But if you saw his face you would understand
URLのいっぱいあるdiffをSlackに貼ったらもりもりプレビューを付けられて💢
Disclaimer: Fuck it. I’m never going to get this essay to a point where I’m satisfied with it, so I’m going to post it in parts like a serial because I don’t have the spoons to set up a proper blog. I’m sick with what is probably covid (again [yay retail life]) and I’m just so goddamned tired.
The following will delve into matters quite dark and gloomy such as mortality and severe depression; but it also will allude to positive developments born from this same gloom and doom.
I hesitate to share this because it describes some very personal feelings and experiences, but my hope is that by doing so, it will resonate with and provide comfort to someone else out there on this gigantic blue marble.
I began drafting this prior to the 2024 U.S. Presidential election from a place of darkness edged with optimism; however, since that time it’s become difficult to return to my former writing stride in the face of.. well, the results of said election, becoming functionally homeless, and so forth.
I had intended for this to be one of my most polished writings – a triumphant manifesto of sorts; regrettably, like most aspects of my life, present circumstances have forced me to accelerate preparation and release of this essay prior to what I would consider an acceptable result.
Well, if you need something to do to keep your spirits up during these trying times, why not learn to draw with this 1913 book.
https://archive.org/details/whattodrawhowtod00lutz
Via https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/what-to-draw-and-how-to-draw-it-1913/
You ever go to link a blog post and realize you never actually finished the post? That happened to me yesterday with my #FOSSBackstage talk. So today I finished/published said post.
I present: Six Ways to Onboard New Contributors
https://relational-tech.com/blog/six-ways-to-onboard.html
It rounds up my best suggestions for welcoming newcomers:
- context-building tasks
- FRAME tasks
- tasks that utilize newcomer ignorance
- tasks that utilize newcomer expertise
- pairing
and most important: letting new contributors "just be"
Lets talk about why we have less accounts lately (a thread)
I basically added a 3 month allowance for discovered instances to grow. If the instance did not grow in post count, it becomes ignored from the count. This is quite different from previous versions of this script that seemed to treat a shrinking instance as some kind of anomaly (same with instances that grew "too quickly" but that's somewhat fair given bots etc). This is and will be "normal" though.
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Picard programming tip: When the holodeck malfunctions, stay in character. Don't piss off the computer.
Sir Terry Pratchett was one of two people who I quoted directly in my dissertation. This line from Feet of Clay was the motto for my introductory chapter:
"This is where we’ve filled ourselves up with so many questions that they’re starting to overflow and become answers."
It resonated with me, because this is what doing research often feels like for me.
#GNUTerryPratchett #AcademicChatter #PhDLife #AcademicMastodon #Bookstodon #Fiction #Discworld #DiscworldQuote #FeetOfClay
カニサラダ
current wizard levels are 96%
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current wizard levels are 96%
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おやしみ
Where are the AI CEOs giving their employees a 4 day work week or spending political capital advocating for a universal basic income?
Nowhere? Cool cool
So even if they believe in the capabilities of generative AI to massively increase productivity they are unwilling to advocate for the purported benefits of that increased productivity.
Cool cool.
ねむねむ
気合いがこもってていいかんじ
体がだるいのでGPTに応援してもらおうと思ったらバグっちゃった
猫バッグさんまだ届かないな…
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Hubs is in the process of checking the age of all the computers in his company, to see what needs upgraded.
He keeps saying things like:
"My lord, she's 10 years old, time to recycle her!"
"Oh dear, this old lady is a security risk!"
体がだるいのでGPTに応援してもらおうと思ったらバグっちゃった
Huh. I got this email and it does seem to be sent by paypal, but the To field is not my email address or one I know. I checked my paypal account and there's nothing about this. Any idea how I got this email? I'm assuming it's a scam.
撫でまわされたさ
にゃあ
おふとんになってる
Study (N=5,000) finds 82% agree with pro-diversity statements, like "Racial diversity benefits the country" & "It is OK to use my taxes to fund scholarships for minority students." When asked if fellow Americans were in favor of DEI, the % fell to 55%.
https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/you-are-probably-wildly-underestimating-how-many-americans-support-dei-new-study-shows/91157848
Just found out my client contract is unexpectedly ending at the end of this month, and that puts me at risk of a layoff at my consulting firm after that.
So I'm trying to get ahead of things and find a new team to utilize my almost 10 years of experience in Web and software engineering.
**About me:**
🌐 I have professional experience with TypeScript, Vue, Nodejs, Elixir/Phoenix, Ruby/Rails and more. Plus I enjoy exploring a language or framework I've not used before, and I have proven I can ramp up my comprehension quickly.
🧭 I am based in the US Central Timezone (or UTC -5) and am looking for remote roles that work well with that.
👨💻 I have worked up and down the stack and am open to a variety of position focuses.
**About my new team:**
🧠 They value competency and critical thinking over specific stack experience, prioritizing open collaboration and knowledge sharing.
🔧 They take standards and best practices seriously, not reaching for the quickest solution for its own sake.
🌎 (ideally) They seek to help solve problems that impact major issues of our time.
**About you:**
👋 You have connections to folks I should talk to, or you *are* someone I should talk to.
‼️ You know of or have seen roles that might be worth looking into.
🔁 You can boost this to try to connect it with folks who might fit one of the first two points 😁
I'm grateful for your input. Thanks y'all.
Hello everyone! We're launching this bot, which posts reports on police activity in the public transit and bike route networks of Montreal and its suburbs.
You should know that the information posted here hasn't been verified.
Freeway (1996) is one of the darkest but also funniest films I’ve ever seen, and it’s the movie that made Reese Witherspoon a star.
And this is shocking stuff. It’s Reese Witherspoon like you’ve never seen her. I don’t think she’d ever take on a role like this again. She was 19 when the movie was released, and she displays an impressive range—really hits the high notes—that few actors ever achieve in their entire careers.
Let’s be real: this movie isn’t high art. It can be lowbrow at times. But it has something to say.
Freeway is an urban retelling of Little Red Riding Hood—except here, Little Red Riding Hood is Vanessa Lutz (Reese Witherspoon), a 14-year-old girl who can’t read. Her mother is constantly turning tricks on the corner outside their house, and her stepdad is a drug addict who won’t stop trying to have his way with her. But when her mom gets arrested, and shortly after, her stepdad too, Vanessa is left alone. She’s about to be taken in by Child Protective Services when she gets an idea: she’ll go live with her grandmother instead. So, stepping out on her social worker, she heads down the freeway—and that’s where she meets Bob Wolverton (Kiefer Sutherland), who exudes an impressive menace. And, as his last name implies, he’s the wolf in this retelling.
As you can probably imagine, Vanessa and Bob collide in a battle of wills. But Vanessa, a victim of the system, does things no 14-year-old in a healthy environment would ever do. This film is as much about her descent into criminality as it is about the world that made her this way. Because Freeway makes a point: girls like Vanessa don’t just happen. They are created. They are products of an unjust world. We already know what kind of person Vanessa is going to become because the system makes her. When you grow up like that, you’re just trying to survive. And sometimes, the only thing keeping you alive is your will to live. That’s what this film is about.
Now, I have to mention the supporting cast—because they’re amazing. Brooke Shields plays Bob Wolverton’s wife, Mimi, and wow, is she obnoxious. I wanted to slap her a few times. Brittany Murphy has a short but memorable role—she grabbed my attention right away, and honestly, it’s too bad she didn’t get a longer career. RIP, Brittany Murphy. Wolfgang Bodison and Dan Hedaya play the detectives, and they are riveting.
Now, to say this film is offensive is an understatement. It is wildly offensive. If I had known some of the scenes that were coming, I might not have watched it at all. At one point, Vanessa utters the N-word, and I was furious that the scene even made it into the movie. It was inexcusable. There is no situation where a white person should ever say that word, and it came with a hard R. Had I known, I wouldn’t have watched the film.
And yet—I have never seen a movie like this before, and I don’t think a movie like this will ever be made again. I don’t think Reese Witherspoon will ever play a character like this again. It’s kitschy, maybe even trashy. There were moments where I laughed and immediately felt like I was going to hell for laughing—but it was funny. Especially when Vanessa, pointing a gun at someone, drawls in her thick Southern accent (I think it’s Southern, not sure if it’s Texan—my ear for American accents isn’t great):
“Do you accept Jesus into your heart as your personal Lord and Savior?”
Come on. That’s funny.
Do I regret watching this movie? No. Did I laugh? Yes. Did it give me a lot to think about? Absolutely. Is Reese Witherspoon an incredible actress? No doubt.
But the one thing that keeps me from recommending this film is that N-word scene. I just don’t think there’s ever a reason for that word to be said.
All I can say is, I wish more films like Freeway could be made. It’s just too bad about that N-word, though.
ねるのめんどくさい！
にゃ～～～
電話会社の高所作業車さんケーブルを敷設する作業をしてるっぽくて、かごに人を乗せたまま移動してくのはアリなんだねえ
Little known fact: 
@evanEvan Prodromou and I worked at a startup in 2020 that never launched. It wasn't a great experience for me, but I loved the team we had hired, including Evan. I didn't know much then about #activitypub or the social web.
I went back to 
@Flipboard in 2021 and in 2023 I started to learn about #federation because of 
@mikeMike McCue's vision. Fast forward to 2025, Flipboard + 
@surf are organizing #SXSW's first #FediverseHouse. Evan was one of the first people to sign on, which created a snowball from there, which helped the event be a success.
This week, we got to meet IRL for the first time! So when I think about "the purpose" of that hard 10 months at that startup, I now know what it was.
Where are the AI CEOs giving their employees a 4 day work week or spending political capital advocating for a universal basic income?
Nowhere? Cool cool
So even if they believe in the capabilities of generative AI to massively increase productivity they are unwilling to advocate for the purported benefits of that increased productivity.
Cool cool.
ここら辺の処理めんどくさいんだろうなぁと
Omg 
@phanpy finally added in-page enlargable profile pictures! This was one of the first issues I filed when I started using it as my main client and switched from Elk
おちごとちようね 
aff5182375 (upstream/main) Update dependency rubocop-capybara to v2.22.1 (#34153)
98d703ac91 Update dependency pg to v8.14.0 (#34141)
c59890cda3 Update dependency rails to v8.0.2 (#34145)
2454a81e71 Update dependency axios to v1.8.3 (#34146)
41e8eaa872 Update babel monorepo to v7.26.10 (#34144)
a704e1991c Further refactor reply fetching code (#34151)
f71a855e2d Add coverage for `standard` params on push subs create (#34092)
fef446d22c New Crowdin Translations (automated) (#34136)
966b816382 Refactor `ActivityPub::FetchRepliesService` and `ActivityPub::FetchAllRepliesService` (#34149)
9db26db495 Refactor reply-fetching code and disable it by default (#34147)
46e13dd81c Add Fetch All Replies Part 1: Backend (#32615)
2fe7172002 Dockerfile: Limit Yarn copy operations to reduce cache impact (#34094)
Happy #FetchAllReplies day to those that celebrate (everyone)
@pcottle idk if you're noticing this in the stats but these new "enforced ad breaks" in instagram just result in me closing the app because it feels broken
かんぺきになりたさがある
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