Notices by Rob Landley (landley@mstdn.jp)

Where other than Target sells light bulbs locally in Minneapolis?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/target-drops-dei-initiatives-learns-175652237.html

At what point does the US dollar stop being the global reserve currency?

If our courts can no longer be trusted to resolve financial disputes equitably, we don't make anything, no longer protect international shipping, and abandon our allies to aggresors, why would anyone want US dollars?

@dalias And the most explicable: https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/txt/rsa.html (I wonder if @b0rk has seen that...)

I don't remember if the key Microsoft Github has was rsa or dsa, but something like this is probably why I'll eventually remove my repositories from that site shortly before losing access.

https://mastodon.social/@emaste/113980746669642103

See https://github.com/landley/toybox/commit/35663d6bfc49 for backstory. (Yes that is a shell script to close issues without web access.)

If ultimatums worked on me I'd be using faceboot from windows. You have FOMO, I feel I've dodged a bullet. First one's free, like credit card offers in the mail...

Russia is burying its "missing" soldiers in mass graves.

https://youtu.be/HWBgAyrrbvw

In case you missed it, the Most Divorced Guy Ever tried to use his money to convince GamerGate he was good at Diablo IX: Even Diabloier, and it did not go well.

https://youtu.be/8Ui4h0J1mIQ
https://youtu.be/wlCCtrOCvu0

The beardy basement dwellers are PERSONALLY OFFENDED by this. Reaction videos reacting to other people's reaction videos, with half a million views each.

https://youtu.be/MKJQGasI0Nw
https://youtu.be/6N-WW0UDrVQ

There's a "you come into MY house" vibe to this...

https://youtu.be/zTyIvPJ-aLc

Because they diverted all the budget to the LAPD, yes.

https://youtu.be/UzCcnFX3y6o

The calls to "defund the police" were always about there being better things to spend the money on. More important. More effective.

But no, rich white politicians wanted all the money to go to ever-escalating autoimmune attacks on their own citizenry. The beatings will continue until morale improves, more police more obedience.

Boomer media is now blaming the fire department chief, when LAPD stole their budget.

It's billionaires. It's always been billionaires. https://mstdn.social/@Npars01/113782648812749787

I'm not motivated by money. I'm sometimes motivated by a lack of money, but just to make it stop bothering me. Basic income would be ideal for me, because I could get to work.

I care about creating value, not making money. Converting the value I create into money has always been a janitorial task.

Just some thoughts listening to https://youtu.be/xvZB93rnq4Q (where he said he's not motivated by having money but is still motivated by making it), and being reminded of https://youtu.be/u6XAPnuFjJc

In ancient times they read sheep entrails, or tea leaves, or watched pythia huff volcano gasses. These days they ask chatgpt.

@dalias Over the years, "am I doing more harm than good here" has gained increasing weight in my decision-making process.

And I've watched a lot of my theoretical allies succumb to divide and conquer "let's you and him fight" diplomacy, in multiple contexts.

You make very different decisions than I do on both counts. Oh well.

@dalias Weren't you the one mad at the ACLU for defending people you don't like?

@ErosBlog That's a @dalias question.

Once again watching someone try to substitute cryptograpy for moderation, and I haven't got enough facepalm. (Even Picard hasn't got enough facepalm.)

It's a variant of the "fences makes good neighbors" fallacy. No, respect for privacy makes good neighbors. Physical fences _without_ social agreements escalate ala:

https://www.expatexchange.com/thread/202/3344190/Ecuador/Expats-Living-in-Ecuador/Why-all-the-fences

@dalias Your advice, in isolation, was an exhortation to keep THEM out without further nuance. You then went "but I'm on the right side", which can be true without being helpful in context.

@dalias So your position is "it's our job to keep THEM out", and you know which them is bad because they think it's their job to keep "them" out.

Meanwhile, "Victoria Explains" just privated her account and deleted a bunch of old posts, because of endless techbro tone policing _and_ the white knighting of everyone else trying to "help":

https://linuxmom.net/@vkc/113693952707940138

Meanwhile bluesky is run by women with paid admin team vs a zillion interlocking homeowners associations reaching beyond their borders

@acb @HighlandLawyer @Di4na @cstross The trouble with hiring bodyguards is a lot of emperors have been killed by their own bodyguards. (Modern billionaires don't even have poison tasters.)

You know how modern Google produces AI slop summaries of searches and links to "google amp" cached pages instead of the real site? Spotify went "hold my beer":

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-ugly-truth-about-spotify-is-finally

Spotify now has its own content farms they prioritize to the point grammy winning songs get fewer plays than individual instances of their in-house muzak. And the article says their CEO makes more than Taylor Swift.

Via https://toot.cafe/@baldur/113692083557449454

@HighlandLawyer @Di4na @cstross "Filial responsibility" laws already do that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filial_responsibility_laws

The hospital performs "heroic measures" in the parents' last hour of life (out of network of course) and saddles the estranged child with a $15 million dollar medical bill payable to United Health. Neither the parent nor the child ever have to consent to this.

The billionaires haven't just already locked up all the boomers' assets when they die, they've made debt inheritable.

@dalias If behavior is "undefined", define it to the most obvious thing and stick with it.

I want a -fdisable-stupid-optimizer for every instance where the plain meaning of the language and the behavior of GCC diverge. (Alas disabling the optimizer entirely loses the old "turbo C for dos did this" stuff like dead code elimination.)