Notices by FeralRobots (feralrobots@mastodon.social), page 6

@freemo @cturnbow @lizstl13
Did they indeed? Well then consider me TOLD!

@freemo @cturnbow @lizstl13
You're illustrating the underlying problem people here seem to have with your initial post: If we are to believe your follow-on posts, the initial one (& several following ones) aren't clearly expressing your views. Because several of us are not reading them the way that you say we should.

When one decides that a large segment of your audience is misunderstanding one's intention, there's a good chance one's communicating it poorly.

@freemo @cturnbow @lizstl13
What's a 'libertarian sounding argument' is you doubling down on the numbers when I point out that people are still gonna get hurt in large numbers.

@freemo @cturnbow @lizstl13
I have read yoru explanation & no, I did not misunderstand.
Yes, at a minimum 90% of them can go out of state because interstate travel is lawful in the US. That fact loses some meaning when one's state can & does aggressively pursue information that would allow it to prosecute abortion-seekers for murder.
*My* main point is you're doing a lot of work to cast doubt on that number, by making some suspiciously libertarian-sounding arguments about freedome of choice.

@freemo @cturnbow @lizstl13
90% seems rather a high estimate of the number who "probably did," given that many of those women will be lower-income & might not be able to afford to travel, & some unknown percentage are residents of a state which might prosecute them for murder if they did.

@NiftyLinks
SFnal folks tend to weight Heinlein heavily & that may be right - he's less well known in the mainstream, which is a bit weird to us on the inside, but SO MUCH of the worse stuff in the TESCREAL bundle is so much like the worst stuff from Heinlein.
@HistoPol @adriandaub @davetroy

@inthehands
This is fair & it's a really important charitable perspective.

That having been said, this echoes Wilhoit's Law. ('Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.') It also has powerful resonance w/Calvinist ideas about predestination & elect status. So while it's a necessary truth, it's also a HIGHLY WEAPONIZED truth.
@mcc

@goatsarah It's pretty frustrating for me. I twigged to the Californian Ideology pretty early; pointed out often that anything which empowered the grass roots also empowered the powerful, if they were smart enough to leverage it. Which they were. I saw no evidence people were actually using the net to do the empowering things they said they wanted to do, but people were too happy to roll their dice on dotcom payouts.
I got a career out of it so at one level I guess I shouldn't complain.

@thomasfuchs Do you think VisionPro is really intended as a viable product, or is it essentially market R&D?

@eaton I can see my grandkid being taught using a blended approach. They understand sounding out words, & understand coaching to figure out words from context. (I learned in a blended way, though in retrospect I think that was self-taught - I was so far in advance of my grade level that I was reading a lot of words I never had occasion to pronounce. E.g. I was literally in my 30s when i realized one day that 'misled' was pronounced 'mis-led', not 'meiseled.'

@thomasfuchs
This is gonna land a lot harder for those of us who've spent a few decades getting pitched "turnkey", "no code" data mining solutions that require heavy infrastructure & which turn out to need skilled operators with lots & lots of training. To the same people who fall for that pitch every time it seems like a no-brainer; to the people who get burned (often not the same people), the tradeoff looks like "so the quality's not as great, at least it's less work." (Obviously both wrong.)

@thomasfuchs @janl
I get that's not your aim, but it would be used that way.

@janl @thomasfuchs
yeh I feel like there's sufficient explanation for why those things happened without letting the perps off the hook.

@goatsarah @ajlanes
I mean...

@goatsarah @demoographics looking good on meg & desktop!

@goatsarah @demoographics
They show for me (in Megalodon) as attachments, which I didn't know was a thing. (I can click through to them, but they're displaying from your server.) Will try to remember to see what they look like in Mastodon web-native when I get back to my desk.

@karohemd @goatsarah I'll say! The lighting is incredible, too.

If:

- you're trying to pitch yourself as the THE person with THE solution to preventing harassment of marginalized folks on the fediverse...

- & you make it a point to issue thinly-veiled threats about what you'll do to your enemies once your "solution" is widely implemented

- ...then I submit you should not be trusted to implement such a solution - & perhaps not even to craft one.

Seen people passing around this link to a retrospective by Ian Hickson on 9 years at google:
https://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1700627373&count=1

special thanks to @anildash [https://me.dm/@anildash/111506988791615922] for pointing out something I havent seen mentioned: the paragraph were "Hixie" spends several sentences excoriating a specific black woman for her 'incompetent' middle-management decisions & skills. He won't have to look for another job again, but that's some seriously unprofesisonal & likely racist/misogynoir bullshit.

@thomasfuchs Did this go with a 99/4A (which IIRC was similar footprint to a Tandy ColorComputer)? Or was this for a big sibling of the 99/4A?