Listening today: The first 5 tracks off the pre-order album The World by Seeming.
Another album that Daneel put me onto. They introduced me to Seeming a while back and the band never dissapoints. Raw, synthy and shouty, music filled with joy and ennui.
Man, I felt this Reddit post so hard.
u/Quick_Butterfly_4571 passionately explains why geeky 80’s kids are confused with ChatGPT
So, you'd lay it all out, step-by-step, just to be super sure that you were helping and not confusing the kindred spirit you found half a world away.
From Council State Media via Mastodon:
After many months contemplating war on Iran, and later Venezuela, the US president has set his sights on… Nigeria. In one of the strangest coincidences of recent times, all three countries just happen to be rich in oil. What are the chances?
Source: By a strange coincidence, all the countries Trump wants to bomb are rich in oil
Look forward 100 years and I can easily imagine a documentary about how #TheOilWars contributed to nation state decline and our eventual Solarpunk future.
Drove over to the local #nokings protest yesterday and waved our own signs. It was great seeing so many folks out and being very (and inflatably!) visible!
Hurricane Priscilla sent a week of rain to the Southwest, which is generally great, but also brought a lot of flooding.
It also brought some lovely clouds! Here's a couple of shots I took on Monday as we came out of a movie (Tron: Ares, pretty but fairly dumb), just 10-15m after these were taken the clouds had darkened significantly and the rain started.
cf. that last blog entry: I do want to learn more about passkeys, thankfully Ricky helpfully provides a list of resources in their post.
Poynter.org – a globally-known organization promoting Democracy though Journalism, has a section on their site for the International Fact-Checking Network:
The International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at Poynter was launched in 2015 to bring together the growing community of fact-checkers around the world. The network advocates for information integrity in the global fight against misinformation and supports fact-checkers through networking, capacity building and collaboration.
(Source: @nelepoldvere@fediscience.org)
Went to the theater last night with my girlfriend(😁 👋), like a real adult.
Except it was a shockingly hilarious parody puppet show version of The princess Bride (By S. Morgenstern) by the All Puppet Players, complete with alcohol, musical numbers, 4th wall breaking, flubs, ad-libs and improv.
And I will never hear the lines "I'm going to do him left handed... if I use my right it's over too quickly!" the same again (Vizzini the puppet: "We didn't change those lines -- at all!!)
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When you've managed to make it too hot for cacti to survive, you've broken the desert #climatechange #cacti #heatwave
Cacti need to cool down at night or through rain and mist. If that does not happen they sustain internal damage. Plants now suffering from prolonged, excessive heat may take months or years to die, Hernandez said.
AZCentral: Phoenix has its own 'I can't breathe' case. The outcome was far different
"Three years ago, Phoenix had its own "I can't breathe" case. But its outcome has so far been very different than that of George Floyd's."
Let's see, black man doing basically nothing at the time:
"In 2017, Muhammad Abdul Muhaymin Jr. tried to take his dog with him to the bathroom at a city community center in west Phoenix. The police were called, discovered he had a warrant for his arrest, and decided to detain him."
Sounds the same to me. Maybe the police response was entirely different?
At least four officers got on top of him and held him down. Some put their knees on his neck and head.
Exactly like George Floyd. Perhaps Muyaymin was released without harm?
"I can't breathe," Muhaymin is heard saying several times in police body camera footage. When officers eventually got off him, Muhaymin had no pulse, according to comments from officers in the video, and lay in a pool of his own vomit.
With the same unnecessarily violent, incomprehensibly callous response from law enforcement, same tragic outcome for a non-violent black man.
The outcome was exactly the same. The "outcome" that matters is the life or death of this black man. The rest is just wrap up.
Once the headline had to say Phoenix had it's own 'I can't breathe' case, it was too late. I want to see the headlines saying "Our community has not had a case of police brutality in 5 years", "...10 years", "... 50 years".
None#Heroes for today https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/may/06/banksy-artwork-superhero-nurse-nhs-coronavirus-covid-19-southampton-general-hospital #banksy #socialart
Trump seeks to further distance himself from increasingly unpopular and politically costly coronavirus lockdowns.
"Unpopular", "politically costly", but effective at flattening the curve. I think maybe people don't realize that in order to #flattenthecurve on #covid19 you have to maintain the suppression activities over the life of the curve. If you stop, the curve goes back up.
This are projections for Arizona from CovidActNow.org:
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Right now the "expected hospitalizations" curve is nice and flat, but lift the restrictions on activities too soon, and the demand for beds exceeds supply in about 10 days. Calling for new restrictions after they've been lifted would be a hard sell to a population frustrated with the isolation and hurting from the economic effects we're already seeing. There's no easy answer, but I believe that solutions are going to involved more government aid to -- yes, small businesses -- but especially to disadvantaged populations who are getting hit the worst #lockdown #stayhomestaysafe
In order to fix my archives and daily digests, I might have to address timezone handling on my blog. Or I might just stop blogging #timezonehell #blogging #programming
Thread: https://twitter.com/timkmak/status/1251936242834563073 -- Same people resisting masking, different pandemic #COVID19 #masksforall #publichealth
I need suggestions for some wholesome content to put on my extra screen that is NOT minute-by-minute pandemic information #mh #mentalhealth
Shut Up, Moby #racism #the90s #butimvegan https://www.good.is/articles/shut-up-moby-how-the-but-i-m-a-vegan-problem-is-ruining-progressives dammit, Moby is the soundtrack of much of my 20s
Converting a small playground #python data pipeline from ruffus to #apachebeam and wrecking my assumptions
https://beam.apache.org/
