Juneteenth (June 19th) is not a "holiday celebrating when news of the end of slavery finally reached Texas." No. Just no. Y'all make it sound like network latency! Like we were playing Fortnite, and all the Black players were lagging.🤡
Juneteenth is when the racist state of Texas took another very public L. Texas did everything it could to keep slavery going as long as possible. They gave up land to Oklahoma, so they could be below the slavery line. The Alamo was a victory for abolitionists.
Today, we officially released Briar Mailbox to improve connectivity between peers: https://briarproject.org/news/2023-briar-mailbox-released/
The choice of functional reactive models (vs, you know, software) is not even a major plot point in this drama.
To the extent the world cares about why it's so expensive to make websites/apps and feel backed into FB/Meta/Google answers for how to do it reasonably is related to, uh, "pure fuctions"?...is a footnote, and not the entertaining kind.
@wendynather Didn't he do some of the telescope control in FORTH?
The Mel story reminds me of when one of my CS professors talked with reverence about how Alan Turing wrote self-modifying assembly language and I thought, "isn't that how it's done when your processor sucks?" I had been writing self-modifying code for the Apple II for 5 years at that point.
President Biden cites facts that white supremacy terror is America’s greatest domestic security threat—and MAGAs lose their minds.
Here’s the thing.
I’m Muslim. I don’t feel attacked when people condemn the Taliban because Taliban do not represent Muslims and I proudly take the lead in condemning Taliban terrorism.
If you’re MAGA white and feel personally attacked when Biden condemns white supremacy terror—you are absolutely telling on yourself.
@tastapod
So far all roads lead to Jamie Arnold at GDS, as the original utterer of the phrase:
@tastapod
the oldest ref I’ve found thus far is on Flickr:
@renice I fee like all the web3 folks should really fucking answer for their crimes.
I'm like...pressed on my desire for restorative justice here.
@zombierustpunk @trainingmontage
I have long felt like Lydon was a fake, and the Pistols were manufactured outrage for the masses.
@jsrailton
It really burns me that people are hyping and using ChatGPT and the like not understanding that "hallucinations" are not bugs, but that they only work by hallucinating: They are a model of 'what should the next word be to make something that "looks correct"' rather than "is correct", and no amount of patching is going to cause a hallucination machine to switch from "looks" to "is".
And those BEHIND the tools either know or should know this, but simply chose to ignore it.
“A man will beg,
A man will crawl,
On the sheer face of love,
Like a fly on a wall.
It’s no secret at all.”
— U2, The Fly
"(W)hat we are witnessing is the wealthiest companies in history (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon …) unilaterally seizing the sum total of human knowledge that exists in digital, scrapable form and walling it off inside proprietary products, many of which will take direct aim at the humans whose lifetime of labor trained the machines without giving permission or consent."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/ai-machines-hallucinating-naomi-klein
I wish folks who fight for Creative Commons/against copyright maximalism fight as hard for the wages of artists here and now, whether against streaming payouts for musicians or for-profit generators taking the output of writers and illustrators and using it to replace them. Not in the "oh, if only you'd listened to us and replaced the entire economic system in a way which would totally have fixed this, 100% guaranteed we promise", but in the practical here and now.
Folks who don't do this don't really come off like they're in favor of artists, just that they like free shit.
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🧑💻 Working with: #Ruby, #Rails, #Javascript, #Golang, #Docker.
💩 Opinions: mine.
Tired. #ActuallyAutistic. he/him/mf.