unicorndeburgh

unicorndeburgh, 13 days ago to politics

“Donald Trump promised to crush pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses, telling a roomful of donors — a group that he joked included ‘98 percent of my Jewish friends’ — that he would expel student demonstrators from the United States, according to participants in the roundtable event with him in New York.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/27/trump-israel-gaza-policy-donors/

#politics

BlackAzizAnansi, 17 days ago to random

What tech issue radicalized you?

mekkaokereke, 22 days ago (edited 21 days ago) to random

Feminists taught me that Mad Max Fury Road is not a feminist movie. I get that.

Fury Road was just an action movie where the violent protagonist was a woman with a visible disability, instead of an able bodied man. I get that.

But I still enjoy the fact that George Miller looked at all the dudes that got angry that a woman was the star of a Mad Max movie, and said "Cry about it!" and doubled down.

I am so watching this.

Furiosa extended trailer
(CW: movie violence)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LYV3001u574

StillIRise1963, 25 days ago to random

Black people have to trick simple minded white racists when selling their homes by putting white shit all over the place.🙄

StillIRise1963, 1 month ago to random

Ummm, I think a person can figure out how to live on less than $43K a month. 🙄

unicorndeburgh, 1 month ago to random

Utah passed a transphobic bathroom bill, and have an online form for people to snitch on folks they think are in the "wrong" bathroom or locker room.

Gosh, it would be terrible if people on the internet uploaded a lot of fake reports!

In pursuit of good, thorough, reports they have made the form handle a LOT of very large file uploads, and you can put a LOT of text in the fields. It makes me wonder if the people who created the form deliberately undermined it?

https://ut-sao-special-prod.web.app/sex_basis_complaint.html

thomasfuchs, 1 month ago to random

(Copied from https://bsky.app/profile/nobodysholm.bsky.social/post/3krk4pbvuas25)

So Utah, having passed a transphobic bathroom bill, has launched an online form for people to snitch on folks they think are in the "wrong" bathroom or locker room.

Be a real shame if people on the Internet flooded it with fake reports: https://ut-sao-special-prod.web.app/sex_basis_complaint.html

unicorndeburgh, 1 month ago to random

"Google has indexed inaccurate infrastructure-as-code samples produced by Pulumi AI – a developer that uses an AI chatbot to generate infrastructure – and the rotten recipes are already appearing at the top of search results.

This mess started with Pulumi's decision to publish the result of its users' prompts on a curated AI Answers page. Google's crawlers indexed the resulting robo-responses – but when users find them, the AI answers are often inaccurate."

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/01/pulumi_ai_pollution_of_search/

StillIRise1963, 1 month ago to random

I’m really tired and I can’t figure out if it’s physical or mental.

unicorndeburgh, 1 month ago to random

This is just so delicious!

DeSantis lied to migrants to get them on a plane to Massachusetts as a political stunt. Because they were victims of that crime, they were eligible to apply for legal status as the victim of trafficking. They can now live and work legally in the US!

https://www.newsweek.com/desantis-migrants-marthas-vineyard-visas-1892919

StillIRise1963, 1 month ago to random

My doc just called to say the polyp wasn’t even a polyp. Don’t have to have another colonoscopy for 7 years. 😁

kcarruthers, 1 month ago to random

I hate Miro boards. What is a nicer alternative?

unicorndeburgh, 1 month ago to random

LLMs being baked into searches has some terrifying edge cases.

What if an emergency responder is looking for MSDS info, or a parent is worried about what their kid just ate?

https://www.funraniumlabs.com/2024/04/phil-vs-llms/

unicorndeburgh, 1 month ago to random

FINALLY! We didn't just accept cholera -- we instituted water treatment plants and safety standards. We can also make indoor air safer. The Biden-Harris Administration is stepping up!

"Today, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) launched the Building Resilient Environments for Air and Total HEalth (BREATHE) program to create a scalable platform to improve indoor air quality across the country."

https://arpa-h.gov/news-and-events/arpa-h-launches-breathe-monitor-and-improve-indoor-air-quality

unicorndeburgh, 2 months ago to random

"A former member of the RNC, Jennifer Horn, who used to run New Hampshire’s Republican Party and spoke to HuffPost, was quite blunt in her assessment: 'The RNC has become a money-laundering operation for the most crooked president in history.'"

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-grift-goes-on

StillIRise1963, 2 months ago to random

My kids are almost 30. They’re coming together nicely. Almost fully baked.

unicorndeburgh, 2 months ago to politics

Senator Fetterman is considering voting with the GOP against reducing car emissions. If you care about climate change, yell at him here: www.fetterman.senate.gov/contact/

That quote is from https://www.politico.com/newsletters/power-switch/2024/03/21/bidens-newest-democratic-worry-00148357

#politics #climate

unicorndeburgh, 3 months ago to random

Trump is personally going broke, and so is the Republican Party.

Trump is "trying to install his daughter-in-law Lara at the RNC, perhaps to loot the treasury for the entire republican party - which only has $8M cash on hand and has had its worst fundraising year in over a decade. Not to mention the NRA trial ... has closing arguments TODAY, and they’re bleeding cash as well. ... And trump’s PAC has been drained of nearly $100M in legal fees in the past two years"

https://post.news/@/MuellerSheWrote/2cPMir3uq1enqphtpEBkxRoFtP9

unicorndeburgh, 3 months ago to random

"patients on Medicare and Medicaid or who are uninsured should get free Paxlovid. They need to sign up by going to paxlovid.iassist.com or by calling 877-219-7225"

"Patients must have a prescription for Paxlovid to start the enrollment process. It is not possible to pre-enroll. (Though, in a sense, people on Medicare or Medicaid are already pre-enrolled.)"

https://wapo.st/49z3ocf

evacide, 4 months ago to random

I don't understand why brick and mortal clothing stores are dying. Am I the only person who wants to try things on before I buy them? Sizing for women's clothing is crafted entirely from lies. I just bought a size 8 top from a brand, which fit perfectly, and had to return a pair of size 2 pants from them because they were too big.

unicorndeburgh, 4 months ago to random

Yes, governing is a job requirement!

"In a unanimous opinion that could have reverberations for the upcoming legislative session, the court sided with Secretary of State LaVonne Griffin-Valade’s interpretation of Measure 113, the 2022 ballot measure that voters approved with an eye toward ending legislative walkouts."

https://www.opb.org/article/2024/02/01/oregon-supreme-court-rules-republican-lawmakers-walked-out-cant-seek-reelection/

mekkaokereke, 4 months ago to random

My hot take on the Vision Pro is the same as my hot take on every AR/VR/Mixed Reality headset produced in the past checks notes 20 years: "If most women can't use your product for 4 hours straight without throwing up, don't try to tell me that it's the future of anything." I said what I said.

Women can use a smartphone indefinitely without nausea. They can use a laptop indefinitely. A gaming console and TV indefinitely. But XR headsets cause motion sickness in most women in under an hour. 🤷🏿‍♂️

unicorndeburgh, 4 months ago to random

On a regular basis, someone (usually a straight, cis, white man) says that we can solve the problem of people being nasty online by using real names. It doesn't work, and it hurts people who can't risk using their real name..

"Results show that in the context of online firestorms, non-anonymous individuals are more aggressive compared to anonymous individuals. This effect is reinforced if selective incentives are present and if aggressors are intrinsically motivated."

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0155923

lauren, 4 months ago to random

People in most other parts of the world have absolutely no idea what a hideous hellscape the U.S. telecom environment is and how badly ordinary people are screwed by the situation.

thomasfuchs, 5 months ago to random

lol at people trying to retcon history and pretend the Y2K bug wasn't real.

I literally worked for like a year from late 1998 to the end of 1999 to fix databases of utility companies and health systems to not, you know, completely and utterly fail come January 1st, 2000.