Notices by Brian Hawthorne (bhawthorne@infosec.exchange)

@georgetakei Owl my….

@evan @JasonPester I’ve noticed this sort of assumption in many polls here, mostly posted by people who appear to be allistic. Many autists may not make the same inferences regarding metaphor or implications. Given the high proportion of autistic people and people for whom English is not their first language here in the Fediverse, my recommendation is to avoid wording things in a way that requires people to try to intuit your intentions.

In this case, if consent is intended, then it’s probably best to mention it in the wording: “Would you consent to sharing your…”

@inthehands @darkuncle Well, a Gen 1 iPhone had no AppStore and no way of installing software beyond the carefully coordinated set of Apple apps. Non-Apple software was limited to web apps. In retrospect, perhaps Steve Jobs was right.

@mmasnick.bsky.social @mike Is the bridge two-way? In other words, can you see this comment on blusky? Or is it one way like the threads.net bridge?

@ATLeagle @Nonilex @StitchyMc @mcepl Just carefully crack open all the cans to release the pressure and let all the carbonation out. They will look normal, but the beer will taste flat and horrible, just like the politics. I guarantee that beer will never be bought again.

@ATLeagle @Nonilex @StitchyMc You are giving them far too much credit. I see two kinds of people co-opting words like “woke.” The first is politicians who are using it as a dog whistle to rile up their racist supporters. They don’t have a coherent definition because they don’t need one. The second group are their supporters, who know that they mean “all those people we hate.”

The Republicans in the USA have been doing this repeatedly, inventing new words to replace the n-word. You are not going to get a “conservative view” because they know they can’t be honest about their abhorrent racism.

The same is happening now with conservatives in Germany and the UK, except there the racism is against immigrants from outside Europe. I know nothing about racism in the Czech Republic, but I would love to hear what @mcepl thinks about immigrants there.

@ATLeagle @mcepl @Nonilex @StitchyMc “Woke” to conservatives appears to be a dog whistle meaning “black,” so anti-woke means anti-black/white power and woke-free means all-white.

@davidrevoy @ailnoth Is that little pixie sitting next to Mastodon @pixelfed ? So cute!

Liberated from threads.net and their terrible meaningless AI alt text. Original poster credit in the Alt Text.

#WarriorWoman #KamalaHarris

@paul @Janne_O @mekkaokereke The USA is 50 individual states with a federal government that has limited powers (the biggest perhaps being national sovereignty in foreign relations). In terms of things like voting, you need to compare the USA to the EU, not an individual nation-state like Germany.

Is this a smart way to handle voting? Absolutely not. But unless we rewrite our entire constitution with a constitutional convention or a bunch of constitutional amendments, that’s the system we have.

@evan Then why did you ask which I would want most for my child? Maybe this is one of those trick questions where allistic people know they are supposed to intuit the context or subtext and “read between the lines.”

Seriously, if you meant to ask a question about the nature of the occupations, why did you instead directly ask us a question about our aspirations for our children’s achievements?

#ActuallyAutistic

@evan Skipping the question this time as I want for my offspring whatever makes them most fulfilled.

@mjf_pro Also, SCOTUS seems very unlikely to challenge an appeals court decision that in essence defends the role of the Article III courts (including SCOTUS) in the balance of power in our system of government. Why would they want to hear an appeal that would place the President as supreme monarch above the legislature and the courts? They wouldn’t.

@HistoPol @textualdeviance @GottaLaff Although, if Texas did secede, we could hope it would be quickly re-annexed by Mexico and Abbott arrested for crimes against humanity.

@dazo I have purchased exactly two Brother laser printers. The first was a monochrome duplex printer I bought in the early noughts when I was working on my M.S. thesis. I replaced the drum in 2010 for $90. Unfortunately, a few months later a lightning strike fried the printer. I replaced it with a Brother color duplex laser printer that has been running since March 2011.

Here are the real results out of Iowa.

Est. Population: 3,207,004 (https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/IA/DIS010222)
Est. Adult population: 2,482,221 (same source)
Registered voters 2024-01: 1,518,210 (https://sos.iowa.gov/elections/pdf/VRStatsArchive/2024/CoJan24.pdf)
Registered Republican voters 2024-01: 594,533 (same source)
Voters participating in 2024 caucuses with 99% counted: 109,405 (https://www.cnn.com/election/2024/primaries-and-caucuses/results/iowa/republican-presidential-primary)
Votes case for Trump: 57,260 (same source)

That means that in the Iowa caucuses:
2.3% of the adults in Iowa voted for Trump.
3.8% of the registered voters in Iowa voted for Trump
9.6% of registered Republicans voters in Iowa voted for Trump

Over 90% of registered republican voters in Iowa chose not to show up and vote for Trump.

That is the real story.

#USPolitics #Election2024

@greyan @Onceoday This is an unattributed screenshot from an X post by nerissaemy_520 (https://twitter.com/nerissaemy_520/status/1744321640631050486/) who posted an unattributed Instagram reel from naturedixe (https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1zBA6mvcDe/) who posts unattributed videos that appear to be assembled out of unattributed real footage and synthesized machine-produced video.

This is the kind of crap I came to Mastodon to get away from. Blocked.

I’ve been trying to figure out how to describe brain fog to those who have not experienced it, using things they might have felt. The closest I can get is:
1. It’s like being high on cannabis without the pleasurable part.
2. It’s like being hungover without having had any alcohol.
3. It’s like the way you would feel after pulling two all-nighters in a row and not drinking any coffee.
4. It feels like you have traumatic brain injury (“concussion”) but from the inside out.

Anyone else have any foggy thoughts?

I’m crashing today after having to over-exert myself this weekend and last night with snow removal and the fog is thick today.

#BrainFog #LongCovidChat

@HistoPol @mina @nikita @2ndStar @pluralistic @fullfathomfive I’m trying to figure out how I am “working for DuoLingo” when I pay them for a service.

@j4yc33 @jerry Future generations will either know of January 6, 2021 as the low point of democracy in the USA, or they will never have heard of it as all mention of it is censored.