Notices by Raven Onthill (ravenonthill@mastodon.social)

@cstross The guy had served most of his sentence and under current sentencing guidelines it wouldn't even have been that long. But, hey, it's "let's crucify Biden Time" and nobody checked the story.

Discussion https://bsky.app/profile/izzos.us/post/3ld7bpte6gc2v

Too many of us are brought into the right-wing punitive ideology.

AOC and Tim Walz on Hinchcliff's racist joke. Can we make this go viral? I want every Puerto Rican who can vote to see it.

https://www.instagram.com/teamaoc/reel/DBpTcIhOPxo/?hl=en

@inthehands @chiraag there's also the problem that Netanyahu and Sinwar were determined to have their war (still are), and Israel is not wholly dependent on US support.

@dalias they want badly to believe that minds can be reduced to simple stochastic models. This wasn't an entirely unreasonable hypothesis 20 years ago, but at this point it doesn't look like it's correct.

@darnell The IRS is also encouraging state governments to join in.

https://home.treasury.gov/news/featured-stories/us-department-of-the-treasury-irs-announce-direct-file-as-permanent-free-tax-filing-option-all-50-states-and-dc-invited-to-join-in-filing-season-2025

@darnell but, why not? I mean, it's not like Trump doesn't have a record. Biden has been good for Blacks. He's got a Black VP, for heaven's sake. Biden has delivered in so many ways and yet gets no credit for it.

Da fuq?

Oh well. Trump may yet screw up. But people, people.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-biden-delivers-remarks-at-civil-rights-organization-national-action-network

@darnell because Donald Trump is such a tolerant man, who will surely have the best interest of Blacks at heart.

Name of all the gods, why? Trump's a stone cold racist, it's no secret.

https://www.vox.com/2016/7/25/12270880/donald-trump-racist-racism-history

As if that's not enough, he'd probably be "more genocide" Trump: https://www.vox.com/policy/24072983/biden-trump-palestinians-israel-gaza-policy-different

"When people show you who they are, believe them."

@inthehands DYAC, but it was funny.

@inthehands I think they're hoping to make underpaid canyons generate the content. That would be very strange.

@thomasfuchs having seen their IT operation I'm not sure that would help. Last I looked they were running Windows XP.

@darnell it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. There's probably some people who genuinely want to spread diseases, but others just seem delusional.

Over to Dr Peter Hotez, among others.

Pick the political party that isn't fascist. Even if you hate the other party, it preserves the possibility of change. With fascism it's Orwell's boot, stamping as long as it can. Make the choice that leaves your country in the better future.

The IRS is rolling out direct file in Florida, New Hampshire, Nevada, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, Wyoming, Arizona, Massachusetts, California and New York.

It only works if you're a W-2 employee, though (Uber drivers are excluded), and it can't handle insurance purchased through the ACA exchanges. There are other limitations.

If you want to check out your eligibility, go here: https://directfile.irs.gov/state

@evan @joemcl Meta concerned about user privacy? Really?

@mnl @graydon @edmistond look at machine learning systems, which the very rich, who resent talent they don't have and can't buy, hope to replace actually knowledgeable people with. They're fine, until they start hallucinating, and then they're not fine at all.

If we want correct software, we have to use precise formal systems.

@graydon @edmistond @mnl "Instead of regarding the obligation to use formal symbols as a burden, we should regard the convenience of using them as a privilege: thanks to them, school children can learn to do what in earlier days only genius could achieve." - Dijkstra

He was criticizing the idea of programming in natural languages. Now that that has arrived, it is clear he was right.

@inthehands @mcc That's what Biden is doing and it's pretty effective, but it can't stop fanatics. Those you have to fight.

@mcc That's what they said about Trump, even as he rose to the presidency. In the long term, sure, this is self-destructive, but it can take down whole nations. Places have outbursts of fanaticism, everything goes off the rails, and in a generation people are regretting it. Look at Brexit.

@BlackAzizAnansi yeah. The no advertising and no spyware features of Mastodon are appreciated. If only we could get a decent number of the people on Twitter over here.

"First, they came for the transgender, and I spoke out immediately even though I'm straight and cis because I've read the rest of the fucking poem." – Patrick Tomlinson on Twitter