Paul Visscher

THEY TALKED TO THE COMPUTER IN STAR TREK BEACUSE ITS A *TV SHOW* AND YOU CANT HEAR WHAT SOMEONE IS TYPING NOT BEACUSE IT IS GOOD UX

I swear for 2 or 3 posts I thought this thread was fully a metaphor I was completely unable to understand about that guy on here earlier who was big mad that he didn't get enough bsky points or whatever.

I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."

OK, right here you're found the problem and please sit with this: emotions are running very high. emotional intelligence is needed in this moment in addition to logic. democrats are failing the emotional intelligence test right now and people are mad about it.

Seeing a concerning number of people thinking that having the Minnesota cops investigate the murder is somehow different than having the feds investigate it, as if they aren't on the same team.

Even if you *could* "fix" the nazi platform — WHY WOULD YOU BUILD ECONOMIC VALUE FOR A WHITE SUPREMACIST. I swear people are goddamn fools. "Tell your progressive friends to go buy a Tesla so that other Tesla drivers might like us better?" Money is power. Don't give Musk power. Read a goddamn book.

Jay, you all owe an explanation of how it came to be that the exact list of users blamed by The Federalist were banned even if they did not break the ToS, and were not unsuspended until more than a day later.

Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀

There is a consistent pattern where people who are quite negative on the technology on many fronts find that adopting any position that is not uniformly negative provokes hostility that seems somewhat unwarranted, and I think this is not good.

Some people want comedians to run for office b/c they are unapologetic about being leftists (/left-ish). Everything is awful and at least they are not afraid to say it. People are desperate for a party that is not full of mealy mouthed losers that trip all over themselves running to the right.

Assistant: Sir, Mamdani just got a huge new endorsement. Cuomo: Destroy whomever it is. Assistant: I don’t think we can fuck with them. Cuomo: I don’t care who they are, I will fuck with whomever I want. Assistant: But sir…

I understand the logic behind not platforming Nazis, fascists, transphobes, etc. But I have to say. I don't think it's working.

One of my coworkers refers to Open Source as “the most incredible thing humanity has ever accomplished.” When he says that, he’s not making a socioeconomic or political statement, nor is he ignoring technical shortcomings. Rather, he is making an observation about how millions of people have […]

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I see the Washington Post is platforming an op-ed by Krisi Noem, because apparently they're still pissed they missed their opportunity to publish Goebbels in the original German.

It's illegal for the president to bomb Iran. It's. is. ill. egal. Not legally allowed to. What's more, he has to ask Congress!! Have you ever heard of a little thing called the Constitution? If we say it enough it will make a difference so just. please. try to say it as much as you can.

graffiti is the first step to realizing a city is a place of people, not property

I ain't pass the bar, but I know a little bit, enough that you won't illegally search my shi...[touches earpiece]...convince me to launder money...?

Hey, is everything getting a lot worse really quickly lately (in the last 2 weeks) or is it because I did the stupid thing and start reading bsky again, after a few weeks of better self control?

Depression is a protective urge; a chemical drive to return you to the safety of your innermost den to wait for a storm to pass, a bone to knit, a wound to heal. Civilization provides eternal psychic wounds from which there is no relief to be found in retreat, a storm which will never blow away.

Every day is chaos. Every fucking day.

if youre a huge dumb racist youre like theyll dilute my culture but your dumbass ~~culture~~ is spending all its energy trying to delete pronoun words from email signuatures so sorry buddy you are an idiot and your culture is primarily useless garbage and the good parts are mostly from diasporas

If Russia wants to exploit US infrastructure, they should start a campaign that memory safe languages are a DEI initiative.

The latest update to the bluesky app on Android makes scrolling feel absolutely awful. It is almost unusable. @support.bsky.team

Today is the last day of the fundraiser at work and we're short of our match by ~$23,000. It's so frustrating to see these software companies, who built their businesses in the backs of free software, throw millions at the inauguration just to kiss the ring.

We're using tailscale at work (well, technically headscale, because we only use F/OSS) and it really is incredible. I was helping someone set it up yesterday and it's like magic compared to every other VPN (proprietary or F/OSS) that I've ever used. I don't know how else to describe it.

Paul Graham is a fucking idiot.

Someone should consider if the Metafilter moderation process would work here. $5 to sign up would be enough to hire a full time mod team. Instead we get the same old bullshit on a different site.

Took me a bit but I've found the framing to put into words a way to express to the people fretting about the death of the UHC CEO why we just aren't heeding their admonishment: The social contract stipulates that all life is sacred, and Brian Thompson violated it. But it's more than that.

I swear to fucking god

"I ate 16 chicken wings / that means I ate birds". "I'm in the middle class like a 6, 7th, and 8th grader / 3 and a half grams of cheese / I'm an 8th grater". "a bag of frozen groceries sitting on my leg / burlap". www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYS1mnG4/

I've seen a few folks around here not understanding infosec/opsec as well as they think they do. Telling people about the tools you're using to communicate to securely isn't the self own you think it is.

The phonic spree was set to take off but they got canceled for obstinately clinging to antiquated relationship norms

I wish people would stop quote skeeting that stupid globe and Mail article.

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JD no that’s not what intersectional means

the fundamental demand of republicans is that donald trump is to be immune from any legal consequences. he is to be immune, and if the legal system does not treat him as immune, it is corrupt.

Get fucked, nerd.