Notices by draNgNon (drangnon@hachyderm.io)

@hrefna lol

@mattly obligatory reply to say #UncapTheHouse will go quite far in evening it out

@mattly that tracks

@mattly that said, fediverse by design hearkens back to Usenet

@thomasfuchs to be fully fair and impartial, they need to ask the question of all participants in the debate.

@inthehands many people on Mastodon, when I first joined, were hostile to quote-posts becuase of the potential to trigger pile-ons.

but I've seen over & over again underrepresented persons getting harrassed... nigh invisibly to everyone else. then, there's some weird exchange from reply-guys "well I didn't see it" that sounds achingly similar to "works on my machine".

I wonder if actually having quote-posts would help. Certainly seeing @timnitGebru post some screenshots was eye-opening for me.

Liz Warren, Mark Warner, Tammy Baldwin have endorsed Kamala

...I can't see another nominee. I mean, who else can access that Biden/Harris war chest?

#uspol

@mattly I can't help but feel that "acting professionally" in the corporate world means completely suppressing your authentic self. But LinkedIn seems to bring that to a next level, where the "authentic self" has just been entirely absorbed by the corpspeak

Seems to me that Trump distancing himself from Project 2025 triggered a bit of Streisand Effect

#uspol #project2025

watching the NYT try to downplay Labour's astounding showing in the British election just confirms to me there is zero reason to consider the paper any kind of arbiter of unbiased news reporting.

just stop already trying to cry tears of "b-b-b-but they are abdicating responsibility!" they are not; anyone pretending they have to be unbiased is. work to clearly reset this expectation (that should never have been there in the first place, not in the last 8 years, not in the last 8 decades).

ok.

Hi! I bounced over here from mastodon.social b/c of @uberduck and @comptona .

I've been a release engineer for quite a while, at Google for a large portion of it, which isn't interesting unless you're at Google. I'm in SF Bay Area, have 2 adorable dogs, & am in a 4-years-and-going-strong "cloud" D&D game my partner runs.

I have a large number of books becuase I was raised to never throw out books. I've only thrown out one book ever.

Pretty boring rn, but working on it.

#introduction

@mattly unfortunately the white house dubs them such for compliance purposes so it's a convenient shorthand ☹️

@mattly

> Often this is conflated with the concept of SRE from Google, which I will argue until I die is a giant mistake. SRE is in the same genre but a very different tune, with a much more disciplined and structured approach to this problem.

having worked at Google lo these many years, I can tell you *Google* never conflated this concept, not even a little bit.

@mattly @kneath um

Tickets = prompt engineering, for developers

@thomasfuchs all music strictly censored

you wanna make it easier for workers to quit?

universal health care. 👍

https://progressivecafe.social/@TonyStark/112322694999790916

@thomasfuchs I'm pretty sure what MERID is but... what are these others?

amazing find nonetheless.

@mattly i don't think it's seasonal, it's just endemic now

@mattly I can't tell

Is it your joke, or did this actually happen, or both 😅

@mattly I have read all but the latest Honorverse books by Dave Weber, yes.

that is the method of choice for planetary attack, the kinetic energy is incredible. I was just discussing it with my partner yesterday.

--- separately but illustrative ---
imagine, if this 2500 kg satellite was shaped to preserve its ballistic orbit and smash into the ground with most of its mass concentrated, instead of burning up on re-entry
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2024/02/ERS-2_reentry_how_and_why_is_it_happening