Notices by Hal Pomeranz (hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange)

@ryanc I’ve noticed that those trending bots don’t generally drag a lot of eyeballs to my post. It appears that they’re just bringing your content into the main feed of smaller instances.

OTOH, @catsalad boosting one of my posts leads to major engagement.

How it started…How it’s going.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #Maddie

I recently served on a jury for a criminal case which frankly never should have been brought to trial. We returned “not guilty” on all counts with minimal deliberation.

The evidence showed what many have been saying about the USA for a long time:

— White people have a presumption of innocence and PoC are presumed to be the offenders.

— Our legal system (from the officers on patrol on up to the state and federal attorneys bringing the actions) is primed to protect the interests of landlords and other property owners over the common citizenry.

— The responding officer in this case did everything except deescalate the situation. Cooler heads could have avoided the incident entirely.

— Body cam footage is extremely important.

I believe our verdict was both correct and just. However, the defendant was jailed, had to post bond, and incurred extensive expense, missed work, and emotional turmoil fighting the charges. Also simply being charged follows you around, even if you’re exonerated. Nobody is going to repair that or ever make the defendant whole. That is real injustice.

I’m a very experienced computer booper and a Luddite. Not in the way most people think the word Luddite means as somebody who stubbornly refuses to adopt technology. Rather a Luddite as in one who see and protests the use of technology to undermine the value of skilled work and the workers.

@blogdiva @dalias I’ve always been curious about who’s funding the laws to deplatform and debank sex workers.

RE: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/116151625155857158

I don’t normally quote boost, but I just wanted to call this out as one of the most hilariously profane rants that I have read in some time.

Q: What do Venezuela, Minneapolis, and Greenland have in common?

A: The Epstein files are in none of those places

“Ahead, cat factor five, helmsman!”

#caturday #CatsOfMastodon #Maddie

The Epstein files are not being held by furloughed government workers

@catsalad @rysiek Synchronized ducks!

@artemis Travel is another way to broaden your world—if you can afford it. I find it strange when people are proud of never having left the town they grew up in.

@hellomiakoda

Cute, Fluffy Evil?

Ineffectual Evil?

Southern Fried Evil?

Welp, not even one full week into the new school year and seven teachers at a local school are out with COVID. No word on the students. But yes please do tell me more about your herd immunity fantasies.

#CovidIsNotOver

I’m going to go have drinks with friends and try and forget this whole clown show for a few hours. I recommend you go to your happy place and hunker down for a bit. Peace be unto you.

@hellomiakoda Wow, I played that game compulsively until I finished it. Very fun.

@RamenCatholic

@claudiom The perspective of this article is so funny to me. It seems to be saying that X terminals were somehow the “killer app” for X Windows and the only technology to truly take advantage of X Windows’ display transparency.

Having come of age in the X10 days, I can assure you that X Windows was designed for running on workstations. X Terminals were frankly a solution in search of a problem and never achieved a fraction of the penetration of X Windows on workstations.

The best use of remote display was a virtual wind tunnel project I worked on at NASA in the early 90s. Run your fluid dynamics simulation on a supercomputer and display real-time airflow over a surface on an SGI Indy workstation. Neat stuff for the time. Now my kids’ video game console can render a thousand times faster than what we were doing back then.

@feld @garlickles I’m not sure I agree either. But this change does have an enormous impact on the high tech jobs market, and people need to prepare for this reality.

I could bemoan the lack of “research for research’s sake” that we lost when Bell Labs and similar corporate research centers went away. When the Apollo program ended and later when the space shuttles stopped flying. But that’s a whole separate conversation.

Yeah, I know it’s LinkedIn—sorry.

tl;dr Is that the high tech layoffs in the past few years have been largely driven by changes to the US tax code. These jobs may never be coming back. Prepare for an extended period of unemployment uncertainty.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tax-consequences-hal-pomeranz-holpe

You are not an “influencer”. You are an untrained freelance marketing consultant working on spec for corporations who are monetizing your content and paying you a minuscule fraction of what you are bringing in. Good luck with that.