Michael 🏴‍☠️ Fleet @f1337@librem.one

TIL that macOS ships with a default CLI command called "sips", for "scriptable image processing system" - and it can convert webp images to PNG, but it can also generate entirely new images from scratch using an almost entirely undocumented canvas-based JavaScript API! https://til.simonwillison.net/macos/sips

"When we say 'crime is a social construct', what we mean is that you, as an individual, can go to jail for littering, but a corporation can poison the air, the soil, and the water of an entire town, and no one will go to jail."

On maps of Ikea, slime mould ‘found the exit, more efficiently than the scientists who set the task’

#LRB

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n10/francis-gooding/from-its-myriad-tips

“Disabling SMS based 2FA unless you’re paying for Twitter Blue” makes sense when viewed through a lens of “The World’s Smartest Man® just got the Twilio bill and blew a blood vessel.”

Another article on the possible shootdown of the #hamradio K9YO-15 balloon by the #USAF https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/02/did-an-f-22-blow-up-some-illinois-hobbyists-pico-balloon.html

Carolyn Bryant lied about Emmett Till, escalated up the chain of violence to her husband, sat in the car with him as they drove around looking for Emmett, allowed that child to be kidnapped, tortured and murdered, and then lied about it in court.

She hasn't even been charged with a crime.

The other murderers were also acquitted.

The authorities know where she lives. There's no statute of limitations on her crime. We just don't want to prosecute her. We like the chain, just not where it leads.

Warren: "If they couldn't use crypto, would ransomware gangs even exist?"
Reiners: "No."

NASA is hiring a Chief Data Officer. I'll bet a few of you know someone who absolutely needs to know about this opportunity: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/700799600

Navigating emotions can be a source of enormous trauma and difficulty for Autistic people. Emotions don't have to be scary - but nobody is born understanding how to process them. It's a skill that most people learn in childhood.

But if you're Autistic then your relationship to your emotions is different than an allistic person's, and you're going to be confused when attempting to learn these things.

As a result many of us grow up with challenges stemming from never having learned how to process emotions in a healthy way.

The good news is? It's never too late to learn. Start here!

https://coda.io/@mykola-bilokonsky/public-neurodiversity-support-center/on-emotional-processing-18

The intersection of Autism and Complex Trauma is a space where more and more people are realizing that things may not be what they seem.

A large number of so-called "Autistic traits" are also CPTSD traits. Is this because the conditions overlap? Or is this because so many Autistic people develop CPTSD?

It's increasingly looking like the latter. The good news here is that you can heal your Complex PTSD - it's not a set of Autistic traits, but it is the result of growing up with needs that nobody could understand.

https://coda.io/@mykola-bilokonsky/public-neurodiversity-support-center/neurodiversity-and-trauma-44

Q: Why do Black folk disrespect the military by kneeling during the anthem?

A: But... most active duty military fully support the kneeling protests? 🙂🙃

You'll understand why that support exists, once you understand the military's true demographics. About 47% of the military is non-white.

There's a stark contrast between most "honor our veterans" PR montages and a non-staged photo of a large group of service personnel. You can't "honor vets" or "support troops" by ignoring half of them.

I frequently have to remind my friends in Silicon Valley, that the military is not "more right wing" than Silicon Valley. The military is more inclusive.

There are way more Black employees in the military than in Silicon Valley. Military demographics look closer to real US society, but with Black people being *over* represented.

If you're standing in a room of 100 VCs in Atherton, vs a room of 100 active duty marines in Camp Pendleton, there are more Trump voters in the Atherton room. 🙂🙃

All these coffee table books about visual thinking and people still go around talking themselves into tangles and keeping a confusing ecosystem in their head like it’s going to help 🙃

Draw it out, comrade. It actually works wonders I promise.

An abolitionist designed the statue. A group of abolitionists paid for the statue. There's a plaque at the feet telling everyone what it's for. They named it the Statue of Liberty. It's arguably the largest anti-racism monument in the US, and the most recognizable anti-racism monument in the world...

Except people don't even know it's an anti-racism monument. They think it celebrates the huge influx of white immigrants from Europe that came to the US.

This isn't a cost of living crisis. This is an excess profit crisis.

Our climate, energy and economic crisis is caused by the extreme greed of the richest 1%.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/shell-makes-record-40-billion-annual-profit-2023-02-02/