Notices by Dan Cross (cross@discuss.systems)

@inthehands @wdlindsy I agree with that, but I also think that the model of protest that has been most popular, based on the 1960s anti Vietnam war protests, isn't working.

If we drill down into the civil rights movement, based in many ways on the Indian independence movement, the tactics that were most effective were non-violent non-cooperation. Protests are wonderful as a way of raising awareness; but they can't be the only thing we do. So far they have been.

"The function of a civil resistance is provoke a response, and we will continue to provoke until they respond or change the law." The right has figured out that they can, in fact, ignore protests. A total work stoppage for a few days will get some attention. If NPR blows protests off, do something that NPR can't blow off.

@inthehands @wdlindsy I'm increasingly of the mind that we need a general strike.

When all is said and done, and the history books have been written, Mitch McConnell will be remembered as the architect of the destruction of American democracy.

@mattblaze @kims ...yeah, I don't get it. Al Gore doesn't like to cook or something?

@andrewrk @regehr in one of the few programming courses I took, I had an instructor take off points on a program because I used a function-like macro and they couldn't find the function that I was invoking.

A few years ago, I volunteers was one of the "industry" types who review student code for MIT's 6.172 "Performance Engineering" course. It was a maddening experience; often the grad students teaching the course would give advice that was a) wrong, and b) contradicted the industry people. Many times, the reviews were extra difficult because the code from the instructors was incorrect.

We started begging them to give us their code (the assignment frameworks and so on) to review _before_ they gave it to the students, but they kept telling us they were too busy with research and couldn't do it. Finally I had to ask, "if you're too busy to do the bare minimum to avoid wasting _my_ time, why should I continue volunteering?"

@inthehands much to my chagrin, as a fellow X'er.

NextDoor is Boomer 8chan. Change my mind.