oscarjiminy

oscarjiminy, 9 months ago

@BlackAzizAnansi If it’s the visual, a good one can look really nice.

If it’s to heat a space you’re better off with a reverse cycle as anything else costs a ton to run

oscarjiminy, 9 months ago

@marcoarment I could actually love this if the charge port on the keyboard was on the underside as well

oscarjiminy, 10 months ago

@mattblaze Looks a bit like an animate vulva checking to see if it’s being followed.

oscarjiminy, 10 months ago

@johnefrancis @BlackAzizAnansi Something maudlin and brooding

It’s not a party truck it’s a dispensary

oscarjiminy, 10 months ago

@anneapplebaum Doesn’t seem right that he’s allowed to come off as all righteous like that when he let everything else slide for so long.

oscarjiminy, 10 months ago

@BlackAzizAnansi catherine the great had an extraordinary erotic furniture collection

oscarjiminy, 10 months ago

@theconversationau Really asking the tough questions

oscarjiminy, 10 months ago

@marcoarment I think of it as x-itter (pronounced shitter)

oscarjiminy, 10 months ago

@mekkaokereke @carnage4life Brexit enjoyed a not insignificant advantage thanks to Meta

oscarjiminy, 10 months ago

@mekkaokereke @carnage4life Good points, well made but it’s good not to minimise the damage and even minimal influence on an election like the US presidential election is huge imo

oscarjiminy, 10 months ago

@mekkaokereke @carnage4life Zero reservation about what you say re voter suppression and generally racialised systems. No reservations around the massively inflammatory media climate.

My point goes to principle and however small the influence the fact of company data being deployed to partisan ends (however ethically or unethically that data was harvested or/and supplied) is imo significant in itself.

As for fog lifting, we’re not talking about faolks being bewitched. We are talking about folks’ predjudices and uncertaincies being deliberatly and skillfully directed to a particular end. I’m not a psychologist but believe it is nothing so simple as to be dismissed as you have done here.

oscarjiminy, 10 months ago

@mekkaokereke @carnage4life I can’t (nor do I wish to) counter any of this. But I would point out that CA exploited and inflamed anti-balckness and generic xenophobic tendencies with disturbing skill and potency.

oscarjiminy, 10 months ago

@mekkaokereke @carnage4life Not saying you’re wrong but Trump won by a small margin on a technicality. Excise CA from that equation and he may well’ve lost.

Meanwhile, the principle still stands. Personal data hoarded by tech corps can be deployed for social engineering to good effect by the highest bidder. That it was only marginally successful (or minimally impactful) in these two cases is not really the point. These were rookie deployments of resources that are still yet to be adequately understood as to what implications may suggest were they to be plundered, sold or surrendered to a truly motivated malign entity.

I hear what you say about the greater danger, the chronic condition of generic bigotry and anti-black prejudice that to a large degree made it all possible. The more powerful the tools the more acute these underlying diseases become imo.

Thanks for your time. I always find your contributions challenging and compelling.

oscarjiminy, 10 months ago

@georgeeyong @mekkaokereke @carnage4life Mekka will have far more thorough knowledge than me (and I realise the question was not directed at me) but three recent books if you’re looking for reading material

• One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson

• Voter Suppression in U.S. Elections by Kevin Kruse

• Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America by Gilda Daniels

oscarjiminy, 11 months ago

@n3wjack @BlackAzizAnansi that version predates the 2600 branding.

i had one of these too

oscarjiminy, 11 months ago

@n3wjack @BlackAzizAnansi Yeah they could get painful from prolonged use but damn those sticks handled a lot of punishment.

oscarjiminy, 11 months ago

@stib I reckon they should setup a public instance

oscarjiminy, 11 months ago

@stib I actually believe that were this to happen (ABC and SBS running public instances) it would improve the standard of their journalism.

They’d be on the rockface of exactly what people are thinking and how they’re expressing it, they’d need to learn what works and doesn’t in moderation.

It’s moderating an instance that’d sharpen their sense of civic responsibility and ethical obligations to the culture broadly.

I really think it’d be a very good development.

oscarjiminy, 11 months ago

@olavf @carnage4life Never been to a stadium in the US but struggling to grasp the notion that the only jobs available are refreshment vendor.

Ticket sellers, ushers, security can’t object to being around alcohol and swine?

oscarjiminy, 11 months ago

@olavf Never been to a stadium in the US but struggling to grasp the notion that the only jobs available are refreshment vendor.

Ticket sellers, ushers, security can’t object to being around alcohol and swine?

oscarjiminy, 11 months ago

@olavf And yet he had his objection accommodated

oscarjiminy, 11 months ago

@olavf @carnage4life Alito could’ve ruled on merit. Seems like the issue is that an activistically conservative Christian SC are making allowances for Christian complaints.

The point (as I understand it) is that it appears quite unlikely the same court might be similarly motivated in the case of a Muslim complainant.

oscarjiminy, 11 months ago

@olavf Alito could’ve ruled on merit. Seems like the issue is that an activistically conservative Christian SC are making allowances for Christian complaints.

The point (as I understand it) is that it appears quite unlikely the same court might be similarly motivated in the case of a Muslim complainant.

oscarjiminy, 11 months ago

@olavf That, for me, is where your particular inclinations lie. Are you prepared to believe this court would show a similar interest in the sanctity of Muslim beliefs? I’m sceptical.