Notices by endeavorance (endeavorance@astral.camp)

Random loud reminder that trans rights are human rights, trans kids deserve protection, and no amount of legal documents can change the self-evident truth that you deserve to be on this earth, too

Safety PSA:

Be safe

Replaced my kitchen faucet because it somehow sprung a leak *through the metal*

Not in a crease, not from a gasket—the metal siding of the fauced itself somehow sprung a pinhole leak

New fear of faucets randomly exploding unlocked

Boy howdy, the “every life is sacred” crew sure seems to have a Palestinian-shaped blind spot in that belief

So uh in case this wasn’t clear: laws are not magic words that bind the government. They’re just words on paper to be enforced at the pleasure of whoever feels they have the relative authority (and motivation) to enforce them on someone else

"That’s illegal" does not imply "that can’t happen"

I try real hard to not constantly post alarmist shit

This is undeniably, inexcusably, outrageously dangerous

The sitting president has asserted his admin will arrest and deport *legal residents* based on their political views, detaining them without charges.

“AI” is to the Internet as plastics are to Earth

I get it, kids need to be able to be places

And also

I just sat down at a *bar* and ordered *a cocktail* and am now trying to find refuge from a gaggle of seemingly unmonitored kids running around

They just used some dudes table to prop up a phone to film a dance TikTok

A guy was killed by a booby trap set up by someone in a vacant home owned by his family member.

The cops statement is about how this just shows how dangerous it is to be a cop.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/south-carolina-man-shot-dead-entering-booby-trapped/story?id=119255005

Boys who think kindness, inclusivity, and understanding are traits of a weak man clearly don’t recall that Mr. Rogers won the ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny.

The unilateral dunking on the recently killed pharma ceo is inspiring

Reminder: billionaires can, at any time, solve essentially all of the world’s problems by simply not hoarding an egregious amount of wealth. They choose not to. Every day.

To be clear, there is not much of a difference between a US health insurance CEO and a serial killer aside from the health insurance CEO being responsible for an order of magnitude more human suffering than the average serial killer while being paid millions to do it

being a healthcare exec sounds like a preexisting condition to me

Can you believe some dingus left an `if (false)` in their code?

Reading stuff about Dragon Age being woke and then I play the game and like the first thing that happens is I’m sucked into the sleepy dream dimension like…???? Misleading….???????

“Violence has no place in politics,” says commander-in-chief

Go see Monkey Man

A friend of mine told me it was “Dev Patel says trans rights and then kills a bunch of fascists: the movie” and I thought they meant like, metaphorically.

No

They meant literally. Very, very literally.

If you want “John Wick but killing fascists in the name of trans rights,” go see Monkey Man.

You’re welcome. 👍

Am I missing something or is there still not a good way to send large (>10gb) files easily?

Like, easily for non-techy folk. I need to send large video files to people now and again, and I want to be able to just upload and share a link.

Most object storage options have filesize limits or slow upload speeds.

Fastest option I've found is to spin up a DO droplet, scp my file to some folder, then host an http server to share a link. Cheap and fast networking.

Any better options?

It is Friday, September 15th and Stuff has Happened.

The UAW is kicking off a historic strike. Also, Unity's situation continues to fester, I finally talk about some alien stuff, Bill Maher is also a scab but we knew he was a shitty dude already, and we got TANKS now.

Today's newsletter: https://www.stuffkeepshappening.online/who-really-drives-profits/

Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYmAKfkNHhQ

#news #NASA #UAW #StuffKeepsHappening

Something notable about the “X/Twitter added a 5 second delay on links to websites Musk doesn’t like” story is that it’s well understood in the tech industry that every second matters for retention.

You lose about half of your would-be traffic if your link doesn’t “load” within 3 seconds.

They’re leveraging a dark pattern to reduce traffic at scale.

That is the kind of thing that should be illegal to do as a massive platform. Twisting the web.

#twitter #policy