Notices by Taran Rampersad (knowprose@mastodon.social), page 2

@br00t4c wake me up when we have candidates.

@br00t4c "... A senior Israeli official, speaking on Saturday on condition of anonymity to discuss ongoing negotiations, played down the prospects for a full end to the war. The official said Israel was committed to an offensive on Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city, and that it would not agree in any circumstance to end the war as part of a hostage-release deal... "

#palestinian civilians will still be at risk.

#Israel #hamas

@BeAware @bob Activism has it's place. Humanity needs saving. Leave 'em be.

They're gonna have to live with it, and when they realize it, they may change tack.

I don't think we #GenX had the hubris for the sort of activism we're seeing, but it's not necessarily a bad thing.

I did as much as I could without doing harm. That's the line I think they haven't figured out.

@BeAware @bob If you're misinformed, you're normal now.

The media is doing it's job. 👀

But no, I've found that people who are really passionate about something don't worry about stuff they should worry about.

@bob @BeAware I was at the first MobileActive Convergence when they started talking about using stuff like that for activism and I thought, "Where is the weed and why didn't anyone share?"

Worse yet, at the time, it was pretty clear everything was gonna get tapped because of the Patriot Act. They were oblivious then.

Almost 2 decades later, here we are, still oblivious.

@BeAware @gimulnautti I'd have to look at the code to be able to say. 'Well funded code' does not mean 'good code', just like saying the government is spending $X doesn't mean one sees commensurate improvement.

What I can say is that startup code I have dealt with made me adopt the title of software archaeologist. .

@BeAware @gimulnautti I think you have it backwards. I have seen startup code. 😂

@BeAware @gimulnautti Well, those aren't *real* devs. Those are people copying and pasting code or crawling in dumpsters studying other people's code. 😂

@BeAware @gimulnautti I'd hate to think that's true. 👀

Two very, very different personality types I would hope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp4-jacnyH4

@gimulnautti @BeAware Well, yes. Emotions are evolutionary shortcuts that often don't fit well into the world we live in.

Xenophobia is not dissimilar in that regard.

More than likely the people developing the stuff know, and the people marketing the stuff don't care to know or don't care to show they know.

@BeAware I guess it beats spoon.

because there is no spoon. 👀

@BeAware Sew a dress with a shovel?

😂

@BeAware I get it. I took yesterday and today off from writing about AI because there's more marketing than actual technology right now.

There's some good stuff on AI out there. The trick is finding it, thinking about it, and generally explaining why it's bs or explaining why present use of it is not sustainable.

@BeAware

"My AI disagrees with you!" 😂

Like yelling at a wall.

@br00t4c great article. Trump does play to emotions (and not rationality), the mainstream media generally tells my generation and older what to think... Which is weird because my generation built the foundation of social media, citizen journalism, etc

Trump shows the dangers of emotive, Biden faces the dangers of rationality. That was a very good piece.

@br00t4c This is not going to help our planetary Yelp review.

@BeAware That's fair.

I scribble sometimes in a notebook or on a keyboard to a local file and look at it the next day. Notes to nowhere.

@BeAware You could dust off that blog. lol

@BeAware @sandwich @beaware.live I use *asterisks* to that end for *similar* reasons. As it happens, that gets picked up by some editors and is interpreted as bold.

But.

Sometimes people just read what they want to read, even if yoylu did not write it. 👀🙄

@br00t4c I'd heard a doctor say similar things - Dr. Karan? - about resistant starch.

I'm at an age where I look at these things.