Notices by Asta [AMP] (aud@fire.asta.lgbt)

@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io I spent some time in Germany, and I would buy stuff from the stores catering to the Turkish population there, which is where I got to try dates that medjool or deglet

and I realized I'd been cheated out of delicious date varieties my entire life 😭 I don't recall the name of it, now, but there was one that tasted strongly of caramel and it just ugh so good

aaaaaaaaalso now I'm curious about that combination soy/nut milk maker and smoothie maker... does it do the heating phase in there??

@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io recently, you posted something about cooking while depressed and trying to make things easier for yourself... and you said, "don't wash the rice". And somehow, that was the thing I needed to hear to break through my wall of depression and start cooking more. Starting with, well, the rice that I kept thinking, "Gotta make sure I do the rinse and wash on the rice first".

So, thank you.

@dalias@hachyderm.io I do hope there's a hell specifically so that Edison and Musk spend eternity being electrocuted by Tesla on his holiday jaunts from a better place.

@killyourfm@layer8.space https://trace.umd.edu/peat/In general, web or computer content will not provoke seizures if (...) the following is true: There are no more than three general flashes and no more than three red flashes within any one-second period...the video is two seconds; the flashes start around the 1 second point, and seems to have four transitions in a 1 second period from what I can count:

yellow -> black
black -> yellow
yellow -> black
black -> yellow (ends/loops)

I'm doing real lazy analysis here but I can't help but feel there is something remarkably "on brand" about Mozilla putting a potentially unsafe video on their "choose humanity" website where they pretend that making an LLM browser is pro-human.

@killyourfm@layer8.space you know, I'm not an expert, but their choice of animations feels remarkably not epilepsy safe.

If you know someone working at Palantir, shame them. Disinvite them from stuff. Don't deliver their groceries, don't let them into your book club, refuse them service, don't wish them happy birthday. Boycott them from everything.

doing what I can to strike here from Portland, today. Fucking solidarity for everyone else doing the same, particularly in Minnesota. Everything I'm seeing is inspiring as hell.

We need to abolish ICE, now. We need to forcibly reform the DNC into a goddamn opposition party. We need a general strike and if it's gonna happen, today is surely the first step.

Any politician who doesn't swear on something sacred to them that they'll work hard to abolish ICE, eliminate the oligarchy, denazify the US and deconstruct the carceral state can get fucked.

People hiding in their homes or those dying in ICE custody can't wait until mid-terms for action... and that action can't be "oh, we'll train them more"

They're being trained to do exactly what the federal government wants them to do. Anyone selling "more training" needs to be forced out of government.

@cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev It really, really, really did not fucking need a rewrite. And for the love of fuck, if you WERE going to rewrite it in React, do it properly

I cannot count the number of times clicking on something has sent me to fucking la la land or unnecessarily hard refreshed the page (oftentimes getting rid of where I clicked "show more" before, and...)

not to be all conspiracy theory headed but does the github PR experience (including how it diffs item) getting worse

(the conspiracy part of this would be me ascribing it to a purposeful worsening to get people to accept "AI reviewed code" rather than bothering with the shitfuck diff algorithm they're using)

you could not make a worse diff view if you tried.

@cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev a more plausible, less "requires active malice" theory might be that they're actually fucking vibe coding the github UI and that's why it's becoming shittier, somehow

@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-this sounds exactly like something I have wanted to do for years

I can't let go of the bug that analytically evaluating neural nets and other ML models would be quite worthwhile.

Little upset that I'm not at a place in my life where a PhD in Ireland is something I can do. Sigh...

@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io this is one of those moments where I briefly wish I could live forever so that I could study and learn and contribute without a time limit.

@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io After these last few weeks... I'm gonna be looking into pet insurance, too. Bleh.

Pretty sure this is directly a consequence of private equity taking over vet clinics.

@evacide@hachyderm.io the ICE agent screaming "go home to your children, did you not learn from what just happened?!"... and people saying in the comments this is not the first video they've seen where ICE says that.

Unholstered pistol, fucking with the door, yelling in his face, recording him...

I just, like, how much more fucking cartoonishly villainous can you be? "The nazi salute giving half-trillionaire who cut aid programs for the poor runs a child porn site that is powered by poisoning a Black neighborhood"

May as well tell us to put our heads between our legs and kiss our ass goodbye. Fuck you.

I asked him to stop confirming Trump's nominees and to maybe consider cutting the budget (in a sarcastic tone). Whatever. I was as polite as I could be. "Don't riot" You can count the number of citizen-started riots that have happened in the US on one fucking hand in modern times, I bet. Christ.

sorry to whatever staffer at his office is going to hear the (more polite) version I just left on his office's answering machine. I asked what he's doing, because everyone has protested peacefully and ICE is shooting people and JD Vance just said he wants ICE to come around to everyone's door while Schumer and Jeffries won't even consider the idea of defunding ICE. Fascists don't need a reason to do this shit, they just need an opportunity.

So tell me, Jeff. What are you doing about it, huh?

"Giving Trump what he wants" yeah, like a huge ass gestapo budget or something? Or immediate confirmation of all his totally inept goose stepping administration picks?

Newsflash, fuckers: we've BEEN peacefully protesting and they're still disappearing people and shooting people. Shut the fuck up.