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stringly typed interfaces from the 60s/70s: romantic, elegant, care free, beautiful stringly typed interfaces in the 2020s: jfc

I don't agree with it, but LaurieWired has more than earned the right to that opinion imo. After all the joyful, generous insights into computing she's given us, she's entitled to a little grace when reacting to her area of expertise being described as one that people don't "need to know" anymore.

🎶Turing police, arrest this man 🎶

TGIF! Friendly reminder that civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. Have a nice weekend!

this started a holy war, so let me state a very plain and direct argument for this the democratic primary is when we decide if we get to have things be good or mid the general election is when you decide if you dislike nazis

fascinating and somewhat conservative revelation of the last decade: legislators who do not observe sartorial decorum tend to be completely untrustworthy

Every time I log into facebook I see nazi shit (pic is just the latest example). Twitter became 4chan and facebook became twitter. Just disgusting.

Just to be super clear. Postmedia is owned by Chatham a New York hedge fund with strong links to Donald Trump. they push pro conservative message in their newspapers, both in editorial and in their news coverage.

The "Elbows Up" movement did a lot to raise awareness among ordinary Canadians about how we could successfully detach ourselves from the US economy by supporting local businesses, etc. We need the same, but for Canadian corporations that may be supporting human rights abuses in the United States.

A lot of folks don't realize the social contract is actually a cease fire in some ways.

i suspect there are a lot of morons in a lot of european capitals right now wringing their hands about the risk of escalation. here's the truth: the real risk is failure to escalate. backing down is showing weakness. trump will know it. show strength instead.

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We gotta have a clear term for people so cynical they become gullible.

As I have said long time, the court really did take over the job of social issue response with pressure relief votes as legislature deferred. Executive agencies really did take over the job of creating legislation as the legislature became evermore calcified. Everything is the legislature breaking.

"better to reign in hell" political party

"epistemic closure" is going to be the new "begging the question", isn't it?

In effect, Grok has answered the question: What sort of logically internally consistent worldview does it take to produce content that won’t routinely offend MAGA sensibilities. And the answer is “a Nazi worldview.”

Merci, Québec.

You guys need to wise up, you’re not dealing with conservatives or libertarians trying to implement conservative or libertarian policies. You are dealing with fascists trying to destroy the idea of the truth and replace it with the exercise of power.

They are governing like they don't care about winning future elections. You have to ask yourself why.

Canada could make a big move into health research and health system improvement by recruiting top minds from US universities and hospitals. But this would require vision, leadership, and investment from the feds and provinces.

As annoying as the Hashtag Resistance was, they understood how bad stuff could get, whereas the Anti Resistance "don't be hysterical" types have proven themselves to be complete morons every day for 10 entire years

We can debate what to do with powerless nazis in a liberal society. Maybe they should be tolerated, maybe they shouldn't. But when nazis take power, there's only one thing to do. Don't hesitate.

AOC: “We are on the eve of an authoritarian administration.” 🇺🇸

internally at Meta: -trans and nonbinary themes stripped from Messenger -enforcement policy now allows for the denial of trans people's existence -tampons removed from men's restrooms -DEI programs shuttered -Kaplan briefed top conservative influencers the night before policy changes were announced

this facebook thing is hideous and hateful and egregious in its singling-out of the lgbtq community, but also, just occurred to me that we are now set on a course towards boomers eating tide pods

That’s true in recent history! In other times the price of fuel / the means to cook (wood fire etc) was much higher and exhibits economies of scale (ie once you make a fire it can cook lots of food for bunch of people). AFAIK In Ancient Rome only the rich could afford to cook at home.

Cringe-aversion is as big an obstacle to moral behaviour as cowardice.

Why paying for a newspaper (or real journalism) is worth every penny. Florida is no longer the Sunshine State. To get a public record, you often have to hire a lawyer.

We need more scientists and others who are not conflicted to get the facts into some of these pages. They’re surreal.

Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.

this crowd is fucking OVERWHELMINGLY male, which I find intetesting because this president has been ID'd as coming into office with the support of incels