Notices by Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io), page 3

One of the absolutely wild, to me, things is learning that cloud providers have fans… who absolutely refuse to believe the cloud provider could do something wrong.

Who the fuck stans a cloud provider? Tech nerds, apparently.

HAHAHA they added my interview in to the redone version of the new story: https://regina.ctvnews.ca/from-outer-space-sask-farmers-baffled-after-discovering-strange-wreckage-in-field-1.6880353

And apparently it made national news(?!), because someone I'm on a committee with in Ontario said she saw me. I think it's time to go to bed (and hope for no more reentries...)

Oh WOW! The aurora forecast for tonight has been upgraded to a G4 storm!!!

If you live in a northern state or Canada GO OUTSIDE TONIGHT!!!

I'm so excited!!!! :meong_dance:

Interview done. I emailed Jonathan McDowell @planet4589 to ask if he had info on a possible reentry, and he immediately found it, and even had the ground track already calculated! Thank you for this meticulous tracking, Jonathan! (Because the satellite companies sure as shit aren't sharing this info!)

It was a Dragon Trunk from the Axios 3 mission, reentered on Feb 26. The reporter is going to send me contact info for the farmer who found it, so at least I can tell him what it is.

We took the Apple Pencil and made it Pro-er! #AppleEvent

@thomasfuchs For those who are worried, this is a book by a historian of British rule in Ireland as well as the Middle East, Palestine, and Iraq. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Townshend_(historian)

I just want to point out that while I'm not a trained law enforcement officer, I've managed to successfully use a flashlight numerous times without shooting at anything. Mostly this is because I use special flashlights that don't have guns attached.

1/ So apparently my representative in Congress, Katherine Clark, thinks that I, a Jew who is also a citizen of Israel, am an antisemite. Can't really express how angry I am right now.

Specifically, I'm an antisemite If I point out that:

- Israel has a segregated school system that massively underfunds Arab citizens, by design.

- Jews can't marry non-Jews in Israel (I couldn't have married my now-wife there!).

- Israel has an apartheid system in the occupied territories.

Imagine a car company is all "check out our amazing software for our new car" and it turns out to be Humane/Rabbit-levels of done

Like basically there is nothing you can do that will upset me more than causing something which is mechanically coupled to my skull to vibrate

It feels like a lot of "liberals" decided to stop pretending last night and today.

It seems like nothing sets people off into Republican levels of fantasy reactionary violence like being told they're wrong about something, which is why I guess all the pundits went masks off years ago over social media and "cancel culture."

But it's kind of depressing. Even more so to see what triggers that backlash from "the good guys."

The president and chief of staff of Cal Poly Humboldt have assembled a police force from as far south as San Francisco, and they are currently announcing a “leave or be arrested” throughout the closed campus. Follow live at http://KFRH.net

The Cerritos departs from Starbase 47, spearheading the recovery of an entire sector devastated by a disastrous firmware update

Since several people asked as follow-up, Kessler Syndrome is where the number of collisions between satellites and/or junk in Earth's orbit continue to increase, even if you don't add more to the system. We're probably already at this point, but the collision rate is very low (so far).

That could change quickly, if there is a collision that releases a large amount of debris close to Starlink's orbital shell, which is by far the densest part of Earth's orbit (and they're adding more every week)

Not even 24 hrs after making history as the first company to mass fire workers for pro-Palestine protests, by summarily firing 28 people, Google announced that the “(ir)responsible AI org,” the one they created in response to firing me, is now reporting up the Israeli office, through an SVP there.

Seems like they want us to know how forcefully and clearly they are backing this genocide.

I think about this a lot when I see maintainers who shrug off accessibility requests as "Well make a pull request! It's open source!"

The very people that are experts that you need contributions from aren't included or welcomed in this community.

Then, throw in the complicated mess that is "modern" javascript or just frontend development in general. You expect people to be experts at accessibility, to have the bandwidth to contribute, AND to navigate that landscape?

I know, let’s use a technology that doesn’t work to solve complex social and criminal justice problems.

Yeah, this will be a recurring theme for the next decade or so.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/28/24114956/nyc-subway-ai-gun-detectors-evolv-technologies

#SphinxMoth #caterpillar eating a primrose at Anza Borrego State Park yesterday. These caterpillars were everywhere, devouring a range of plants. They are native and this is normal. Pretty soon they will burrow into the ground to pupate, eventually re-emerging as adult moths.
#BloomScrollIng #BloomChewing

The platform formerly known as Twitter used to be an important resource during major news events. Now it’s a place where conspiracy theorists and racists compete for attention. Even if you’re still on “X,” you can take action to collectively address its hateful and
dangerous direction: http://www.xlast.org

Before the week ends, I wanted to show what actually happened in the states across the country as the NYT dismissed criticism of its trans coverage. New, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/a-new-anti-trans-law-in-utah-seven