Michael 🏴‍☠️ Fleet @f1337@librem.one

A laptop stolen from your car doesn't wind up in a homeless Black person's tent in the Tenderloin. Racism and hate for the homeless makes you believe that lie.

Your laptop goes into a luxury car, then into a Faraday bag, then into a storage container where it is powered down and sits for a while, before being wiped and shipped to another city, where it's listed on Craigslist or another classifieds or auction site.

By volume, that's most of the break-ins. Homeless car smashers are the exception

Oh hell yeah. @mozilla is launching a Mastodon instance in early 2023! I’m very excited for this. Mozilla is really good at what they do. Firefox has over 200M monthly active users, and with any luck they’ll build better support for the fediverse into Firefox itself. Mastodon will greatly benefit from easy to use professionally run instances that can handle massive scaling https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launch-fediverse-instance-social-media-alternative/

When I tell parents that secretly spying on their kids' internet activities is not a great look, they ask me "Well, what SHOULD I do?"

There is no all-purpose parenting answer, but this report from Malwarebytes outlines many of the key considerations: https://www.malwarebytes.com/resources/attachments/parenting-and-growing-up-online-10-2022.pdf

RT @GBGundersen@twitter.com

@TheRaDR@twitter.com It’s a way to avoid responsibility for real reform needed now & for past harm. Many times when I bring up White Supremacist Catholics—the response I get is that “they’re not real Catholics.” But the truth is they r & some of the most powerful ones! Has anyone excommunicated them?

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/GBGundersen/status/1603608595135754240

Soybean yakuza thread!

This is a continuation of a thread I started on twitter, shifting to Mastodon for Reasons.

https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/1603577651415101440

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Disclaimer, I'm not a historian of Japanese business practices.

That said: I think folks on tumblr may be confusing the yakuza (organized street crime) with zaibatsu (business conglomerates).

You see this vagueness in ADR titles like "Database decision". The title is not supposed to be *about* the decision; it *is* the decision.

I.e., "SQL Server adoption" is a decision, "MongoDB adoption" is a different decision, etc.

That means, each alternative is a separate decision, so "SQL Server adoption" is one decision and "MongoDB adoption" is a different decision written up in a different ADR. You decide to accept one of these and reject the other, but both are recorded.

Greetings. The term "spam" in the context of the Internet has a fascinating history. While some historians point to an email sent by a salesman for Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) to a then available list of ARPANET users (and yes, if you look at that email as archived, you can find my old UCLA email address on it!), the term actually comes originally from Usenet and later was adapted to its more familiar use relating to unsolicited email.

The problem was Usenet users who would "cross-post" the same messages to multiple newsgroups, causing significant irritation. The word "spam" was adopted for this annoying, repetitious behavior, drawing from a classic "Monty Python's Flying Circus" skit where a bunch of Vikings invade a cafe (that featured spam in most of their menu items) and repeatedly interrupted everyone with a loud song celebrating spam.

Many years later Python member Terry Jones told me that one of the things he was most proud of was their contribution of the word "spam" in this way to the culture of the Internet! -L

RT @albertfong@twitter.com

When I criticize a system, they think I criticize them – and that is of course because they fully accept the system and identify themselves with it.

- Thomas Merton (1967) https://twitter.com/TheRaDR/status/1602342704402337794

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/albertfong/status/1602440085974257666

One cool thing about Mastadon is that it doesn’t fill me with murderous rage every time I open it

Shared by my Daughter
"I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are"

In response to "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear"

RT @longislandtonv@twitter.com

@bintalshamsa@twitter.com @TheRaDR@twitter.com Absolutely. I often remind people that there's a reason that particularly on the East Coast major cities had ethnic neighborhoods, Jewish Irish Polish etc. All of those people were not considered white until their utility was needed from WASPs in power. Only then were they White.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/longislandtonv/status/1600597865499197440

Yup.

Watch till the end.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRVeMGWJ/

Man, fuck ‘grind culture’ and everybody who glamorizes it.

People need to stop putting value on working so hard they destroy their brains, their bodies, and their relationships.

Just do what you have to do to enjoy what little time you have in this world.

A good holiday reminder that when you see someone stealing food, no you didn’t.

There are a lot of problems with an approach to AI centered on using language to interact with humans. Firstly, language is absolutely great at building consensus and persuading people. That seems to be what it excels at. Language allows lying and insincerity. Language is pretty awful at logic. It is bad at sharing facts (e.g. describe a face so that someone else can recognise it). See: Language vs Reality, by NJ Enfield.

Secondly, the entire field is terrible. See: Your computer is on fire, by Thomas Mullaney et al.

https://mastodon.social/@intelwire/109457359779504693