Notices by Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫ (petealexharris@mastodon.scot)

@bifouba @aral

Exactly. It's not about how many, it's about who was killed and with what intent and rhetoric.

If there was any safe number of an ethnic minority countries were allowed to murder before it was officially a genocide triggering sanctions under international law, you can be sure some countries would be killing that many minus 1 every year.

The problem is Israel has realised there may be no number of Palestinians they can kill that will cause any meaningful pushback by the West.

A dragon sitting on a pile of treasure is a profoundly amoral being.

You don't slay it to get the gold "back", you slay it because otherwise there is no end to what it will demand as tribute. It'll burn a city to increase its pile even by a small amount, and it will *never* not demand the pile get larger.

All spaces should be safe for all women.

Any attempt to designate specific safe spaces for women as a benevolent gift of the patriarchy (outside of which boys will be boys) harms women.

Any attempt to carve out exceptions to who counts as sufficiently a woman to deserve safety as a woman (especially legislated for by the governments and courts of the patriarchy) harms women.

If a 56-year old white man can understand this, anyone who claims not to is a liar or a dimwit.

If #Musk is allowed to say "#CivilWar is inevitable", we're allowed to say revolution and the uncompensated nationalisation of the assets of billionaires is inevitable.

@christineburns

This speaks of an alarmingly public inability to just fucking *get over* anything that has pricked his narcissism.

Having effectively unbounded material resources to keep going no matter what is not helping him as a person.

@jenniferplusplus @polotek

(I hate ORMs and like databases)
Nah, actually I hate that every time I've looked at using one, I've already done the DB design and the ORM just wants to fight me about it instead of being a nice wrapper that stays out of the way. Last time was a while ago now, so maybe it's not like that these days.

@Shivviness "as the world continues to warm", by itself, for mysterious reasons, presumably. It'd be silly to blame anyone for *weather* right? Just try not to die yet, and keep producing shareholder value.

#WritersCoffeeClub 12 Jun
Which social media do you use as a writer?

I'm only on mastodon, after Twitter became too toxic and wasn't fun any more. I had an ello account but ello imploded, and I was never on facebook in any meaningful way.

Which [best feeds your pathetic thirst for validation]?

Just this one is plenty for now. I've considered separating my political/shitposting and writer social media by making a second account, but I don't know if I'd bother with both, so I probably won't.

@Lazarou

Strange how countries that suffered historical genocides are more against ongoing genocide than countries that did historical genocides, isn't it?

One gratifying thing about the AI hype wave is watching "consulting" companies desperately trying to find real companies that make or do real stuff to give them money to "explain" the opportunities of AI and get them "AI ready".

And binning their emails as spam, which feeds the main known-successful machine learning algorithm: Bayesian spam email detection.

LOL and indeed LMAO.

@michaelgemar @jeffowski @LillyHerself
No.

Controlled flight into terrain.

Rapid unscheduled disassembly.

Spontaneous fluorination of apparatus.

Unplanned prompt criticality.

Disadvantageous zoological interaction.

End-anthropocene event.

Monday.

@cstross
There's something so essentially missing from a person who gets rich from selling books to children and then decides some children are the Wrong Sort of children and shouldn't have rights.

@CloudyMrs
I guess it's not directly relevant why a PM puts any particular grifter in the House of Lords, since it isn't possible for there to be a good reason.

@kaia
Original effects footage from Sharknado.

@CloudyMrs I suppose what I'm saying is, an *allegation* is powerful. Spin that out as long as you like, no smoke without fire, the longer you can delay clearing the target's name, the longer they're placed in check.
But a *smear* isn't like that. The smoke dissipates quickly if nobody can say what fire there is even supposed to be.

@CloudyMrs But *what* becomes true? What *specifically*? A smear is an easy broad-brush campaigning tool but has a short half-life if no juicy details are forthcoming, and it's not as good as a concrete allegation, which there isn't.

@CloudyMrs They grabbed at something that looked like an opportunity, too late to discredit the FM, way too long before the next important election. They got one by-election result out of it maybe, but it's spent. The smear can only be smeared out so thin.

@CloudyMrs Just because something was imagined as a Machiavellian power move doesn't mean it wasn't in fact a Baldrick cunning plan when it met the light of day.

@CloudyMrs it's already boring though. It isn't news any more. And it's asymmetric: it can't be used to allege any particular wrongdoing because saying anything specific about an "ongoing" investigation isn't allowed.

But anyone can say "it's been all this time and money and they haven't found anything in their little forensic tents, it's pure theatre" and that's legally fine as well as having a ring of common sense and plain speaking.