@quinn What's triggering this bill is anti-Israel rhetoric. And it got rushed through largely by the kind of Christian millenarians who support the State of Israel because, in their interpretation of prophecy, the apocalypse happens when all Jews go there, and it loses the battle of Armageddon, during which the Jews who refuse to convert then literally die in a fire. (The "Left Behind" books which some of these folks read in lieu of actual scripture depict this explicitly.)
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Robert Thau (rst@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 21:29:49 JST Robert Thau
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Robert Thau (rst@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 21:04:13 JST Robert Thau
@quinn Well, in the analogous situation, some of the most vocal and fervent supporters of the anti-blackness bill would be whites who wanted to all American blacks to go back to Africa, to fulfill a prophecy that says that if they don't convert to white once they're there, they will all die in a fire and then suffer eternal damnation.
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Robert Thau (rst@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 01:21:51 JST Robert Thau
@cstross Netanyahu's been doing a lot of that lately. Funny how the deaths of foreign aid workers are a major scandal, but targeted hits on Palestinian doctors, scholars, and journalists have been universally shrugged off.
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Robert Thau (rst@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2024 11:51:49 JST Robert Thau
@dalias @leftpaddotpy @alanc @raito But something would still have to fetch those versions or re-run them, or someone malicious, along the lines of "Hans Jansen"/"Jia Tan", could commit a malicious script decorated with plausible lies about how it was produced. Perhaps easiest to just have the build hosts run autotools themselves, and ignore any purported build artifacts that happen to be present.
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Robert Thau (rst@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2024 04:54:38 JST Robert Thau
@leftpaddotpy @raito @alanc @dalias Easiest way to do that is to check whether it actually *was* generated by autoconf, by re-running autoconf from the checked-in config files, and seeing if you get something identical to what's in the tarball (modulo embedded timestamps and the like). Which would mean that what you got corresponded to checked-in source... but, say, custom tests in that are obscure enough to provide an alternate route for trying to sneak something through.
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Robert Thau (rst@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 08:46:59 JST Robert Thau
@DeanBaker13 @mmasnick Let's turn this around. Elon's explicit plan for Twitter is to pivot from ad-based revenue to subscription services, including add-ons like payments. (Their revenue from sale of user data is negligible.) That won't work for Elon because he's insane. But it might work for Zuck.
Would you be happy if it did? Of course not, because your goal is to hurt Facebook and Twitter. And you're so maniacally focused on that that you don't care if it kills any plausible competition.
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Robert Thau (rst@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 03:55:24 JST Robert Thau
@mmasnick @DeanBaker13 Dean keeps saying your business will be unaffected just so long as it abandons its revenue stream. What businessman can possibly object to that?
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Robert Thau (rst@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Apr-2023 12:52:06 JST Robert Thau
@thomasfuchs I favor a slightly stricter version of Thomas's approach of interpreting the 2nd Amendment exactly as in the time of the founders - limiting any grant of rights regarding firearms to possession and use of muzzle-loading smooth-bore muskets.
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Robert Thau (rst@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Apr-2023 00:31:22 JST Robert Thau
@mcc It might make sense to be a bit wary of Gboard (the Google keyboard for smartphones), for similar reasons.
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Robert Thau (rst@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Feb-2023 09:47:14 JST Robert Thau
@thomasfuchs Here's an American reporter gushing about the experience of riding a train, having apparently never taken one before in her life. (She was *astonished* at the size of the luggage racks.) https://www.businessinsider.com/rode-first-class-european-train-160-better-than-flying-thalys-2023-2