Notices by Dr Andrew A. Adams #FBPE 🔶 (a_cubed@mastodon.social)

@thejapantimes
Stop sanewashing DOGE. Musk is a bull in a china shop, destroying US government effectiveness and efficiency, particularly regulatory agencies which cover his businesses. This is a regime, not an administration.

@WarnerCrocker @StephanieMoore
Given that the current US regime is a scam perpetrated on every Repug voter (a disproportionate number of whom are elderly), well, they would cancel this, wouldn't they?

@inthehands @briankrebs
"People forget that the first country the Nazis invaded was their own."
Dr Erskine in Captain America, The First Avenger.

@gamingonlinux @cascheranno
https://pluralistic.net/tag/every-pirate-wants-to-be-an-admiral/

@jwildeboer
Place if birth is not a memorable thing for many people. Japanese people applying for a UK visa get surprised by the question. Some do not actually know beyond, usually, Japan, because it's not a thing here.

@cstross Introsection? Introspection? He could do with a good cranial introsection, though.

@JennyList @pluralistic
Signed

@inthehands
Coding is teaching a really, really dumb student how to solve a problem.
Teaching something is the best way to understand it properly.

@jwildeboer But are you able to send to GMail and Hotmail/MS Outlook online servers (now wel over 50% of accounts seem to go through there). MS and Google seem hell bent on forcing all small mail servers out with opaque DNSSec and DMARK demands that only work part of the time even if you stringently follow their published rules.
I've seen lots of long-time self email hosters give up due to "embrace, extend, extinguish" on the email protocols.

@DrALJONES @pluralistic Nothing says confidence that you're not committing war crimes like telling your soldiers they need to conceal their actions...

@br00t4c @WastelandWandrr
Shades of Putin's shirtless horseriding.
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@phaedral @aspragg @pluralistic @d2718 This is exactly the same as many private hire operatipns in the UK, except the drivers and cars ,usy be licensed and insured properly. the firms used to be call centers/radio dispatvhers and ate now app based for drivers and often for passengers, too.

@aspragg @pluralistic @d2718
I've been teaching this for years in my ECommerce course. For example, Uber/Lyft are just unlicensed private hire cars, not an innovation.

@atomless @pluralistic
It's related to but a compounding factor that rich people tend to be surrounded by "yes people" which atrophies their cognitive abilities, particularly their ability to realise when they are or have been wrong.
e.g. https://www.oveo.org/fichiers/power-changes-how-the-brain-responds-to-others.pdf

@cstross @blades Hmm, I still remember a conversation with you and Mary at a con sometime in the 90s about sysadmining as the basis of a fantasy quest. I definitely get the feeling that some of those concepts worked their way into the Laundry Files.

@davidtheeviloverlord @cstross Copilot is the new Clippy!

@lxo @pluralistic UBI is the primary proposed solution. Economists have email been writing about this since at least the 90s.

@jwz @DemocracyMattersALot
Apple's and trees coming to mind for some reason.