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oscarjiminy

@oscarjiminy@aus.social

Tin ass, tin drum.

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oscarjiminy, to Palestine
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‘western powers are unable to credibly pretend that there is some global system of rules that they uphold. They seem to simply say: there are exceptions, and that’s just the way it is…The lesson is brutal and short: human rights are not universal and international law is arbitrarily applied. I don’t know where that revelation goes, once it arrives‘

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/27/war-gaza-lesson-western-hypocrisy-international-community

#palestine #israel #internationallaw

luciedigitalni, to auspol
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"The prognosis for our democracy is, on this score, grim. Rarely has a Labor government so willingly forfeited the dignity of its office in a bid to surpass the caudillo instincts of an opposition leader so hopelessly unserious, so reflexively illiberal, and so utterly unsuited for leadership that his contempt for norms and customs rivals that of the perfidious moral degenerate who preceded him."

#AusPol
https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/11/21/immigration-detention-clare-oneil-peter-dutton-fear/

oscarjiminy,
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@luciedigitalni oh Maeve, what a beautiful turn of phrase

Daojoan, to random
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It’s important to correctly organise your books and put them in the right place

oscarjiminy,
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@Daojoan @photos_floues @maudenificent i really dislike rand as a person and hate what she stood for but fountainhead’s a pretty good book. atlas’s a steaming pile of preposterous sadness tho

GrimmReality, to random
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I am already a white male so for , if I just carry a bible and quote Ayn Rand, I can go as the legit scariest fucking thing in America.

oscarjiminy,
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@GrimmReality this post is everything, ta

luciedigitalni, to random
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Pleased to report that there are zero No people at my local booth

oscarjiminy,
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@luciedigitalni seems a bit racist to imply there are no mob advocating for a no tbh

whatever your position how’s it help to reinforce the binary bullshit that made this whole campaign such a clusterfuck from go?

oscarjiminy,
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@Gwyntaglaw @luciedigitalni yeh i hear that and fair enough pointing out there’s room for nuance here but being relieved there are not any no comapigners implies that no campaigners are assholes you’d prefer not to see

oscarjiminy,
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@luciedigitalni @Gwyntaglaw ok. the reason you wont see mob campaigning for no is because of the abuse they’d attract not because there are not any Indigenous people who’d like to be out there persuading undecideds.

luciedigitalni, to random
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Reminder for Australian voters: as long as your voting intention is clear and there's nothing that allows you to be identified, you can draw or write pretty much anything else on the ballot paper and it will still be counted

oscarjiminy,
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@luciedigitalni Anything outside of allowable responses (yes/no in this case) invalidates the ballot though I think.

It’s fine if you want to donkey vote but if you feel strongly one way or another y have to stick within allowable parameters.

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    oscarjiminy,
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    @Teri_Kanefield Reeder is great if you’re on iOS/MacOS

    https://apps.apple.com/au/app/reeder-5/id1529445840

    kissane, to random
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    I just had to chase a squirrel off the exterior walls of the house, where it was zooming back and forth and back and forth like a demented little racecar.

    It yelled at me extensively until I got it turned around so it could escape into the trees and now it's way up high in a big hemlock hollering all my faults aloud.

    oscarjiminy,
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    @ecsd @kissane Rabies?

    oscarjiminy, to auspol
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    This has a lot more nuance than most folks are comfortable taking onboard and people’s motivations, one way or another, are often little to do with material improvement or empowerment.

    Vote however you see fit but look a little deeper than Farnham feels, network floundering and cashed up campaign agendas.

    luciedigitalni, to auspol
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    If, like me, you've been thinking that different decisions could have led to a 'different' referendum, then Bernard Keane has some thoughts you may want to consider

    #AusPol #Voice
    No paywall - it will ask for an email address, just enter a@b.cd

    https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/10/06/indigenous-voice-parliament-referendum-myth-albanese-dutton/

    oscarjiminy,
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    @luciedigitalni I guess it depends a lot on your perspective and what kind of allowances you’re prepared to grant to political figures. I’ve voted Labor every election of my life except the last (Greens) so I guess you could say I’m less sympathetic to Albanese than I might be for a leftish voter.

    From my point of view, the announcement, made as it was in the heat of the moment (however much it might’ve been planned ahead of time) struck me as demonstration of a very opportunistic stab at a broadly progressively styled first term. So far as I’m concerned, statements like the one he made when he mocked the idea of Indigenous input into environmental/climate policy really put this into proper perspective. If there’s any policy area outside of regulation of mining interests that speaks to protection of country (a primary area of concern to Indigenous people across the spectrum), it’s environmental and if there’s any area Indigenous knowledges can positively inform our current practice it’s the same. He had clearly not given it much thought beyond how it’d reflect on him, his party and Australia as an international entity.

    There’s a ton more to say on this but suggesting as Keane does here that it was always going to play out the same way is just being dumb to the myriad dynamics that are humming along beneath the very superficial veneer of the mainstream discourse.

    oscarjiminy, to auspol
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    ‘This is the first strike ever at Australian supermarkets. But on paper the SDA, which has had a long presence at Coles and Woolworths, is the biggest union in the country. This seems strange. Could you explain the role played by the SDA?‘

    https://jacobin.com/2023/10/workers-strike-woolworths-coles-australia-raffwu-union-organizing-supermarkets

    #auspol #RAFFWU

    oscarjiminy,
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    @luciedigitalni 100%

    Platform_Journalism, to journalism
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    oscarjiminy,
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    @Platform_Journalism @phdstudents @commodon link doesn’t resolve for me

    maybeanerd, to opensource

    One thing I love about daily driving #OSS is that when I find something I am missing, I can just add it.
    Just created a PR on @elk for a very small, but to me also very convenient, feature. Let's see if it'll end up on main.
    https://github.com/elk-zone/elk/pull/2406

    #openSource

    oscarjiminy,
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    @schizanon @maybeanerd @elk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpUAZ2xSR-0

    jeffjarvis, to random
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    If Google did not pay, it would be an exercise of monopoly power. #DamnedIfYouDo...
    ‘Google pays more than $10 billion per year for these privileged positions’: The government throws the book at big tech in court https://fortune.com/2023/09/12/how-much-google-pays-apple-iphone-search-bar-10-billion/

    oscarjiminy,
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    @jeffjarvis If they didn't pay then they would't get preferential placement.

    DrALJONES, to random
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    oscarjiminy,
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    @TeflonTrout @DrALJONES by way of attribution

    BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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    Y'all really can't wonder why the Fediverse isn't as popular as it should be while shitting on the same influencers who have the potential to bring the fediverse to a wider audience.

    oscarjiminy,
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    @BlackAzizAnansi Think I'd argue that the influencers really came online as a twitter staple with the algo and that a lot of folks were resistant to the culture that followed from go.

    I'm not sure if I swing either way (I'm not sure I'm invested here enough to care) but I can see how it's tempting to believe that influencers are symptom of accelerating enshittification on the platform broadly.

    anildash, to random
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    I’ve always been interested in woodworking (used to do a lot when I was a kid), so I thought I’d go down that YouTube rabbit hole a bit, and it’s all some moderately serviceable advice being given by a white guy in a t-shirt that says some version of “I love when cops kill Black people”. jfc

    oscarjiminy,
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    @anildash was loving this post till i got to the end.

    now i wanna drown myself in claret and reruns of frasier

    jeffjarvis, to random
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    Jeezus. Maybe the "struggle" is because of coverage like this from The New York Times. Appalling.

    oscarjiminy,
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    @jeffjarvis It's the business model that's the problem, yeah? They're struggling in a model that's inadequate to the task of allowing for adequate, principled research and reporting.

    I'm not saying there's not a cultural problem particular to this paper but we're in trouble when news outlets can't adequately cover expenses without being distracted by a need to sensationalise everything for clicks

    emilymbender, to random
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    Another wonderful episode of @techwontsaveus !

    I was particularly struck by how much Weizenbaum's work presages the issues we are confronting today and the part towards the end about how judgment requires values which require lived experience.

    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ai-criticism-has-a-decades-long-history-w-ben-tarnoff/id1507621076?i=1000625520365

    oscarjiminy,
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    @emilymbender PDF if that helps http://library.lol/main/D5EE4C8940AE19A7F208D53F08416616

    JamesGleick, to random
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    So much news from Georgia. But this by Fintan O’Toole is the piece about the Fani Willis indictment that everyone should read. (Read it as a kind of response to the savvy NYT pundit saying how bored he is.) These were crimes against America, yes, but they were also crimes against specific innocent individuals. The crimes were personal, and they were vicious.

    (Sorry if this is paywalled, but you can get it free by registering, easy enough.)

    https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/08/17/frame-up-in-georgia-trump-indictment/

    oscarjiminy,
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    @JamesGleick Fintan’s a bit of a treasure imo

    kissane, (edited ) to random
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    We got any Facebook-in-Myanmar heavyweights on here?

    Edit: No, Mastodon, not a genocide joke. I’m hoping to connect with a specialist researcher for a reputation check on a couple of reports/papers, as noted in replies.

    oscarjiminy,
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    @kissane good place to start?

    https://sci-hub.ru/downloads/2020-05-27/cf/10.1177@1940161220919666.pdf?download=true

    jwillia2, to random
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    "If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it." - Elmore Leonard

    oscarjiminy,
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    @jwillia2 @nf3xn That works in reverse as well. I find it near impossible to relate to a person who believes labour demonstrates inherent virtue

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