Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa
Joined May 2019
Sen. Mark Kelly Is Emerging as an Obstacle to the PRO Act https://theintercept.com/2021/04/12/pro-act-mark-kelly-angus-king-dsa/
Shontel Brown Approved Major Contract, Then Contractor Backed Her Campaign https://theintercept.com/2021/04/14/cleveland-cuyahoga-shontel-brown-contracts-nina-turner/
Indoor Dust Contains PFAS and Other Toxic Chemicals https://theintercept.com/2021/04/14/pfas-toxic-chemicals-indoor-dust/
Married to the job: how a long-hours working culture keeps people single and lonely https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/apr/15/married-job-long-hours-working-culture-single-lonely-love
Berlin’s rent cap is illegal, Germany’s highest court rules https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/15/germany-highest-court-rules-berlin-rent-cap-illegal
I never really understood the obsession with living in big cities, but its an inevitable byproduct of overpopulation.
Welcome to the new colonialism: rich countries sitting on surplus vaccines https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/14/rich-countries-surplus-covid-vaccines
US company illegally peddling ‘miracle cure’ bleach for new Covid variants https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/15/us-company-florida-oclo-bleach-covid-variants
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I see a lot of what appear to possibly be inauthentic state propaganda accounts on mastodon dot social. I see Venuzuela for sure, probably Russia and China. And one thinks SCL Group/Dr. Spectre are here in some form. It's hard to tell them from the Oglino trolls.
Scrums full of unnecessary demos. :-(
I may have listed cmus in error. From the man page, it appears that it shuffles the whole library and queues it. Maybe I've added music and just happened to hit the same songs in the new queue. Still should look over the shuffle algorithm. I think new song priority would be an interesting concept to explore.
Why do music players have such bad shuffle algorithms? I always hear repeated repeats on shuffle mode. cmus is the latest to manifest this. I'll have to dig into how it's implementing shuffle. I would want a shuffle of my whole music library stored and played with a localized reshuffle when music is added to give the new music priority play.
I've also wonder if song play order determined by sorted hashes would give a shuffle effect. (Repeating over whole library, but ...)
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Folks in sustainability businesses, spread the word about this event to promote cooperative ownership models!
The next 40% might have only gotten 1-3% raises, but probably didn't get a raise in one of the last two years. This means most of the per capita income increase can be attributed to the top 10%. Considering the stock market gains, the whole per capita income increase likely means the 1% did very well and the rest of us lost money. #eattherich
Yesterday's paper was crowing about a 1.3% increase in per capita income; today's paper cited a 2.6% inflation rate for last year. Even ignoring the fact that government inflation numbers are much lower than actual cost of living increases, we can pretty much assume that the bottom 50% of earners got no raises last year. ...
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us pol / unions
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@tfardet @dynamic @lwriemen This is a great point -- "random" selection is not guaranteed to give a representative sample, so you may need to re-roll the dice until the sample is representative (along the categories you define....) I suppose that gets trickier with smaller assemblies, and you might need to do stratified random sampling or something.
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I've been intrigued by the idea of something like a city council by lottery for a while now. Government by a random selection of the populace for a fixed interval of time, after which they would be replaced by a different random selection of the populace. Being able to make safeguards for representation of minorities might make this idea even more interesting.
I don't have a lot of perspective on how this kind of thing would actually play out, but it seems to me that even a year of needing to make decisions about the kinds of complicated tradeoffs that a government needs to handle would give the selected people a very different perspective from what you would expect if the same people just met a few times in a citizens' assembly to hash out a narrowly defined question.
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This piece on citizen's assemblies is fascinating: https://newint.org/features/2021/02/08/defibrillating-democracy
Citizen's assemblies are described as groups of ~100 people put together to be representative of the diversity of a particular place (city, country, etc.), which are brought together to discuss a difficult or contentious issue.
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Tories accused of corruption and NHS privatisation by former chief scientist - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/apr/13/tories-accused-of-corruption-and-nhs-privatisation-by-former-chief-scientist "King contrasted the success of the vaccination programme, carried out by the NHS, with the failure of the government’s test-and-trace operation"
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa
Joined May 2019
