Notices by John Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺 (johnlogic@sfba.social)

@jcriecke @TheWarOnCars

How about automatic photo enforcement?

For example, London uses automatic cameras to send citations for speeding and not maintaining safe following distances.

I'd add that if a camera catches a driver with a phone in their hand or earbuds in, they should be cited too.

If a license plate reader detects a fake plate, that should trigger a real-time notice to police to pull over and arrest the driver.

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon

"HELP STAMP OUT THINGS THAT NEED STAMPING OUT"

@madies @br00t4c

Reduce
Reuse
Recycle

One out of three is still a step in the right direction.

@hakan_geijer

Let's think of it not as "guns are scary" but "the unknown is scary".

Over the years, I learned about guns and I now have advanced instructor certifications.

I've also learned enough first aid and CPR to earn the same state certification that peace officers receive (for "load and go" via CCPOST). I refresh this training as often as practical.

Politically I lean solidly left, and I'm glad to have the training.

I think most people would find the world much less scary by learning how to handle and use guns safely, and by being able to keep someone alive long enough for an ambulance to arrive.

"The Guy Who Tried To Mansplain The Handmaid’s Tale To Margaret Atwood

'One now-deleted reply was so special, it instantly entered the running for most screengrabbed post of the month. [on Twitter]'"

By Ed Scarce
November 5, 2024

"Only a Trumper would try to explain to the author that her book was actually about Islam and not Christianity, and therefore presumably could never happen here. ..."

https://crooksandliars.com/2024/11/guy-who-decided-mansplain-handmaid-s-tale

"Seth Meyers just uploaded the comic book version of Project 2025 online, and said: 'Project 2025 is too long to read which is why it's great that a bunch of comic book creators got together to show you exactly how scary is.' Here is a link to the comic book version of Project 2025. You have to do a bot verification first to see it, but it's worth it."

https://stopproject2025comic.org/
#Project2025

(from Facebook)

@deepmud @br00t4c

Comedy is in the eye of the beholder.

GOP: "The Holocaust was a gas!"

everyone else: "Umm..."

@br00t4c

This is everything I could have hoped for:

"In fact, the report not only notes that it [the upcoming movie about The Oregon Trail game] will be a comedy—it says it will be a musical, too. ... 'You have died of dysentery.'"

@aral @gerrymcgovern

There's a better article linked in the original post:

"‘Thirsty’ ChatGPT uses four times more water than previously thought

Using a chatbot for up to 50 queries consumes about two litres of water
Using a chatbot for up to 50 queries consumes about two litres of water"

by Mark Sellman, Technology Correspondent | Adam Vaughan, Environment Editor
Friday October 04 2024, 3.15pm BST, The Times

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/article/thirsty-chatgpt-uses-four-times-more-water-than-previously-thought-bc0pqswdr

@br00t4c

"The district has defended its dress code, which says its policies for students are meant to 'teach grooming and hygiene, instill discipline, prevent disruption, avoid safety hazards and teach respect for authority.'"

That's some authoritarian bullshit right there.

That, and that Texas had to pass a law that took effect in September 2023 to bar "employers and schools from penalizing people because of hair texture or protective hairstyles including Afros, braids, locs, twists or Bantu knots."

Texas has problems.

@br00t4c

"Vote for the party with the power to control the weather" has a nice ring to it...

as does "Democrats reign and Republicans get rained on".

"Thousands of Linux systems infected by stealthy malware since 2021

The ability to remain installed and undetected makes Perfctl hard to fight."

by Dan Goodin
Oct 3, 2024 4:42 PM

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/10/persistent-stealthy-linux-malware-has-infected-thousands-since-2021/

#InfoSec #malware #cryptocurrency

Best response to "Do your own research!"

(stolen via Facebook)

@goatsarah @atomicpoet

I think that was the 20th APM. I heard that because it was a big anniversary, it wasn't held at its usual location, which had been described as better and more historic. Still, it was nice to visit Cambridge.

@goatsarah @atomicpoet

I agree with much of the original post.

I worked for the Tramiels at Atari in 1987 and for Bushnell in 1988-1989.

I interviewed at Sega while I worked at Activision, where I was during its takeover.

Sony sent me to an annual ARM Partner Meeting in 2010 while I was designing an ARM-based PlayStation for Brazil. (Long story short: it was too good and they said it would cannibalize sales from more profitable products and they killed it.) My boss had come from Intel, so he had me first evaluate its Atom, which just couldn't cut it.

Good times.

Wouldn't it be fun to replace the saying "not for all the tea in China" with something like "not for all the Republicans on Grindr"?

"Trump Admits He Played MAGA For Fools

Demented Donald threw cold water all over his supporters who were conned by him into believing massive voter fraud stole the election away from him."

By John Amato
September 26, 2024

https://crooksandliars.com/2024/09/trump-admits-he-lost-2020-election-little

"Trump’s Net Worth Jumps $200 Million After He Says He Won’t Sell DJT Stock"

by Antonio Pequeño IV
Sep 13, 2024 05:37pm EDT

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2024/09/13/trumps-net-worth-jumps-200-million-after-he-says-he-wont-sell-djt-stock/

Key take-away: "the former president’s net worth increased $217 million to $3.9 billion"

This only secured Trump's place as a *marginal* businessman.

Assuming he had inherited $400MM when he was 18 (60 years ago), simply adjusting for "the time value of money" (keeping up with inflation), it would be worth 10.5 times as much today, or $4.2-billion.

What was true about Trump in 2021 seems to hold true today:

"It’s Official: Trump Would Be Richer If He Had Just Invested His Inheritance Into The S&P 500"

by Dan Alexander
Oct 11, 2021 06:30am EDT

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2021/10/11/its-official-trump-would-be-richer-if-he-had-just-invested-his-inheritance-into-the-sp500/

It turns out that Donald Trump is little more than a tax cheater.

(One of my degrees is in accounting, with a taxation emphasis, so I know the difference between "tax avoidance", which is legal, and "tax evasion", which is not.)

"Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father

The president has long sold himself as a self-made billionaire, but a Times investigation found that he received at least $413 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire, much of it through tax dodges in the 1990s."

By DAVID BARSTOW, SUSANNE CRAIG and RUSS BUETTNER

Oct. 2, 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html