Notices by Robert Link (phaedral@mastodon.social), page 4

#USA: “The House…on Thursday passed the Stop Terror-Financing & Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act in a 219-184 vote…with 15 Democrats joining the Republican majority. The bill…would empower the Treasury secretary to unilaterally designate any nonprofit as a “terrorist supporting organization” & revoke its tax-exempt status…. Critics say the proposal would give presidential administrations a tool to crack down on organizations for political ends. | Intercept https://theintercept.com/2024/11/21/gop-house-trump-nonprofit-authoritarian/ #HR9495

@cstross Cute, but #DiaperDon and the #CouchFucker aren't anything like as powerful or important at the eldritch ones. Trump is a reality teevee star. The problem isn't Trump's "magical powers," it's the electorate's addiction to reality teevee and talk radio (and now "podcasts")

It’s been two years of nonstop Republican antics on Oversight.

However, I’m grateful to have
Rep Summer Lee and Rep Jasmine Crockett to keep it 100 with me, defend diversity, and speak the truth.

@crooksandliars Jokes aside, that kind of person often feels more comfortable among their own, they like to be surrounded by people who cannot denounce them due to their own unclean hands.

@grimalkina @anthrocypher Your "grasshopper" leg is what I think of as "last straw fallacy," itself a variation of post hoc, right?

@grimalkina @anthrocypher I think part of what you're struggling against is the reductionist view of "the scientific method," hold all variables steady and see what happens when changing just one. I think another part is industrial capitalism which prefers to view workers as commodities. The two reinforce each other whether intentionally or not.

Similarly when searching for a train connection, the whole list of possible connections should be easier to compare.

@winbuzzer Because #SCOTUS is a tool of #DiaperDon and the #CouchFucker and that means Musk wins over Zuck.

But let's stay on this blog/search engine analogy for a while before we unpack what it means on a *technical* level, which is interesting. Let's analyze for the moment from a power dynamics level.

Building a web search engine is actually pretty easy these days, you can do so with off-the-shelf tools. And yet there are only a couple of search engines *really*, Google and Bing (DDG mostly uses Bing). And yet the information is right there. *Anyone* could run their own engine. Why don't they?

"Hard to sustain a company like [Bluesky] without ads", so ads will probably be coming eventually I guess

https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3jtrdvx2sq32x

@eff @zoracon Secret decoder rings are fun! Cryptography is cool! Don't need no other reason.

@MichaelTBacon @dramypsyd Touche!

@malin Sinister. Gauche. "The Left Hand Path." Of course there's still nitwits peeing their pants about it.

Has philosophy gone too far

@MichaelTBacon @dramypsyd Zeno was a fraud.

https://semanticrestructuring.com/achilles.html

I want you to know it's not inevitable that work like this happens and stories like this get told. It's writing and reading endless papers on nights and weekends (I read papers for weeks and weeks for this one!), it's uncomfortable or even hostile encounters in this industry sometimes with people who want to diminish social science, it is persistence on and on and on.

I hope you'll share our ideas out loud and name us when you do, because I think that matters. ❤️

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/tfjyw

@DemocracyMattersALot You mean the traitor is hiring traitors? #DiaperDon and the #CouchFucker

Eugen has, and I mean this to be as insulting as it sounds, been a horrible steward of the project. There are reasons so many forks have popped up, and we have this weird split of instances that are partially compatible. So many of those projects started as pieces that could have easily been pulled into the main code base, but his refusal to consider anyone's ideas but his own made these fractures a reality.

@csmonitor @world-csmonitor Because there's no good reason to appease the war criminal Putin? #DiaperDon and the #CouchFucker

@SuffolkLITLab Making squalor look so good!