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shoq, 8 months ago to random

@RadioFreeTom when you’re on, you’re spot-on. Your words about how MAGAs “don’t get it” on @JoyAnnReid should be turned into a widely-pimped viral video. It’s just that simple: uninformed but gullible citizens don’t understand that a collapsed federal govt will harm everyone.

mariyadelano, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to marketing

Testing a hypothesis:

Do you feel like a lot of #marketing #content produced by corporations is geared only towards beginners, to the point of being uninteresting or even condescending to professionals or experienced hobbyists?

#poll

shoq, 8 months ago to random

Speaker McCarthy is about to be hoisted with his own petard. It couldn’t have happened to a more loathsome politician.

When are Republicans going to turn off Fox and learn that their government has been hijacked by craven, dangerous fools who have only their own interests in mind at all times?

mariyadelano, 8 months ago to marketing

Hello friends, I was on vacation last week and did a lot of thinking. Now that I’m back, these are the main thoughts brewing in my brain about #marketing (a thread):

1. Communication issues are at the core of so many seemingly “unsolvable” problems.

Want to convince your boss or company execs?

Want to find collaborators and network?

Want to understand your customers?

Want to make more compelling content?

Want to improve team dynamics?

Want to satisfy clients?

Communication.

1/

petergleick, 8 months ago to random

It's not just that Musk spent $44 billion on Twitter and turned it into $8 billion. It's that he has so fucking much money that he doesn't care.
Tax billionaires till it hurts.

jeffowski, 8 months ago to random

rbreich, 8 months ago to random

"School choice" sounds great, but it's a euphemism for defunding public schools and funneling the money to private, for-profit schools that don't have to accept all students, are not accountable for their curricula, and can use your tax dollars for religious indoctrination. #GOPDebate

TheConversationUS, 8 months ago to ai

#AI is quite creative – and tools like DALL-E and Midjourney are actually more creative than most humans, according to a commonly-used test

https://theconversation.com/ai-scores-in-the-top-percentile-of-creative-thinking-211598

arstechnica, 8 months ago to random

SpaceX countersues DOJ after being accused of hiring discrimination

SpaceX suit claims DOJ's administrative law proceedings are unconstitutional.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/spacex-countersues-doj-after-being-accused-of-hiring-discrimination/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

lawfare, 8 months ago to random

Will Meadows succeed in removing his Fulton County case to federal court?

On today's Lawfare Podcast, Ben Wittes sat down with Anna Bower, Alan Rozenshtein, and Lee Kovarsky to discuss the right standard for removal, whether he should succeed, and more. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-lawfare-podcast-the-question-of-removal

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lauren, 8 months ago to random

When I was an undergrad at UCLA, I already had advanced access to both the Campus Computing Network's (CCN) IBM 360/91 and the UCLA home-grown URSA high speed terminal system (which displayed full pages at a time on modified TVs, with 40 character lines -- two lines equals one punched card image!)

I was also already deeply involved in ARPANET and its very advanced hardware and systems at the first ARPANET site in UCLA's Boelter Hall. But that was a totally different world, and frankly we didn't talk about it much outside the lab since anti-government sentiments were running quite high during that time. Even the mere existence of the lab was not generally known to most people on campus.

Still, I had to take some required courses, including, yes, an introductory programming class! So basically, I was leading a double life as far as this stuff was concerned.

The vast majority of students and faculty at that time submitted their programs as batch jobs on punched cards to the 91 (there was some limited TSO Timesharing, APL, and a couple of Tektronix graphics displays, etc. hooked up to the 91 as well) -- most students and faculty never saw this stuff -- they submitted card decks and got printouts in return later (sometimes much later if the 91 went down, as it often did).

Anyway, so I had turn in these rudimentary PL/C programs even while I was doing all that ARPANET stuff. A very weird time.

The programs had to be turned in as printed source code and output listings along with their card decks. This presented a problem. I didn't want to spend hours around the hot, sweaty, rather disgusting CCN keypunch room to manually punch out decks, after waiting for an 029 to even become available.

So I had another way.

Using my URSA access (in a small, private, hidden math department terminal room), I wrote my programs on the URSA CRT displays, directly submitted them from URSA for execution and to generate printed listings, and then sent the source code to the 91's automatic card punch. Then I could just pick up the decks! Very cool.

But there was another problem. The 91 punched the cards, but did not print on them. So they were blank punched cards with no printing at the top of what was punched. I certainly couldn't turn those in like that.

There was a solution.

A couple of the 029 keypunches in that awful room were the special "interpretive" model. This meant you could load a fully punched deck and then set the unit to run them through fairly rapidly automatically, and the unit would print at the top of each card what the punched card punches contained.

The result was a perfectly ordinary looking deck to turn in.

One evening I was doing just that. Cards were automatically feeding, running across and getting printed, and being stacked up on the other side. I just wandered around the halls while this was going on, visiting the vending machines and the like.

When I returned to check on progress one of these times, I found a girl who was in my same programming class standing at the keypunch staring at the cards running through automatically.

"What is happening?" she asked in confusion.

I wasn't in a great mood that evening, so admittedly I was a bit less than gallant.

"Oh, I rigged the keypunch to do my programming for me automatically," I replied.

She looked stunned and hurriedly departed, while the cards continued to plow through the machine.

Just another day at UCLA, long ago. -L

mariyadelano, 8 months ago to random

Well that’s interesting - already found 3 LinkedIn posts plagiarizing my article from yesterday

Not sure what to do

I’m both flattered and confused 😅

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 8 months ago to uk

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ashton, 9 months ago to random

Speaker McCarthy, who warned in 2019 that Speaker Pelosi could not open an impeachment inquiry into Trump without a vote of the full House, just opened an impeachment inquiry into Biden without a vote without a vote of the full house.

There's no evidence of Biden wrongdoing.

STAT, 9 months ago to random

Republicans say they’ll stop fentanyl at the border. But what are their plans for treatment?

https://www.statnews.com/2023/09/05/fentanyl-addiction-gop-desantis-ramaswamy-trump-treatment/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon_organic

TucsonSentinel, 9 months ago to Tucson

Az schools chief Horne cancels $70M in COVID-19 funding to set up tutoring program https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/090723_horne_funding_canceled/az-schools-chief-horne-cancels-70m-covid-19-funding-set-up-tutoring-program/
Arizona schools chief Tom Horne is canceling millions of dollars in contracts funded by COVID-19 aid in order to funnel the money into a new tutoring program for struggling students that will help only about 10% of the students who are falling behind academically.
#Tucson #Arizona

TucsonSentinel, 9 months ago to Tucson

Az Republicans say Big Tech bias against conservatives costs them elections https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/090623_gop_tech_elections/az-republicans-say-big-tech-bias-against-conservatives-costs-them-elections/
Kari Lake and freshman GOP state legislator Alexander Kolodin were both highly critical of Big Tech’s influence on free speech and elections during the first meeting of Arizona's Committee on Oversight, Accountability and Big Tech, with claims of a “nascent totalitarian society.”
#Tucson #Arizona

Green_Footballs, 9 months ago to random

Pointing out right wing hypocrisy may feel satisfying, but the fact is that it simply achieves nothing. And it’s not just that they don’t care; it’s worse than that. Their blatant lies and hypocrisy are how they demonstrate dominance. When you complain about it, they feel powerful.

TucsonSentinel, 9 months ago to Tucson

Christian lawmakers push battle over church & state after Roe https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/090523_rise_of_the_right/christian-lawmakers-push-battle-over-church-state-after-roe/
Representing more than half the states in the nation, a collection of legislators and local government officials called the National Association of Christian Lawmakers push to change the social fabric of the country and return America to what they say are its Judeo-Christian origins.
#Tucson #Arizona

TucsonSentinel, 9 months ago to Tucson

Death rates for people under 40 have skyrocketed. Blame fentanyl. https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/090523_fentanyl_deaths/death-rates-people-under-40-have-skyrocketed-blame-fentanyl/
Accidental overdose became the No. 1 cause of death in 13 states for people under 40, overtaking suicide in nine states and vehicle accidents in five others; it’s now the top cause in 37 states, with a wave of overdose deaths driven by drugs spiked with fentanyl.
#Tucson #Arizona

lauren, 9 months ago to random

Remember when TV was flooded with increasingly bizarre commercials for erectile dysfunction drugs? They were everywhere. I still remember the one with guy who grew little devil horns. Why did they all vanish? Once their exclusivity ended and cheap generics were available, Big Pharma stopped promoting them. Follow the Big Pharma Money.

mariyadelano, 9 months ago to random

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