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Happy yeen day!!!! -bites you like a piranha in a bugs bunny cartoon-

Date idea: lose a camera lens cap on a photowalk and then run around looking for it.

shitpost, weed 

Weed edibles shaped like dog treats for stoner puppies (of the two legged variety, to do not give to actual dogs)

still thinking about best practices for communicating reliable information in protest situations. saw a video from Indiana where someone appears to have gotten a close-up look at police snipers from the stairwell of an adjacent building, lining up the stairwell window with a gap in the wall while remaining out of sight. they got close enough that someone who knows more about guns than me could probably identify the cops' equipment. very good thinking!

imagine being the foley guy who gets to wibble the big metal sheet. dream job

Some COVID conscious people are worried about mask bans because protestors are wearing them. That's understandable, but (a) they are wearing them to mitigate COVID spread, and (b) even if COVID didn't exist, they should have the right to wear them to protect against surveillance.

Learning which common math subexpressions are which builtin math functions, for which data types, in each new programming language, forever.

Before you leave home, don't forget your walking brick!

Tbh the reason why I think reparations should be made to victims of the Nakba and further land displacements even though the Nakba is part of a much larger displacement event that included almost a million Jews being forcibly displaced in the MENA region by Arab governments, is because:

We can be better. And just because those governments might never get their shit together doesn’t mean we can’t. And just because we might never get reparations for the Jews who were displaced doesn’t mean we can’t do what’s right for the Arabs who were displaced in the Nakba.

Fuck eye for an eye or whatever

If a blind student wants to do a CS undergrad (in US) specifically to work in assistive technology, what schools would be particularly good for that? (Feel free to boost for reach.)

The English suffix "-ard" (as in "drunkard", "laggard", "braggard", and "sluggard") is used to make adjectives into deprecating nouns.

"He's drunk" is just a description.
"He's a drunkard" is a moral judgment that finds the subject lacking.

The same process turned "he's wise" into "he's a wizard".

"Wizard" was the medieval equivalent of "smartass".

Biden is coming for the huge demographic of 35-44 year old men who make $100k a year and have a sirius xm subscription

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uspol protests, treatment of students 

Students against war shouldn't face a ruined career because some idiot with a megaphone in the same zip code said some stupid bullshit. Or because rich white Christians are holding out for their apocalypse and won't back down. ACAB.

I'm critical of some of the messaging sometimes because I want them to be better and more effective as a social force (get rid of the antisemites). But at the end of the day you better try to dearrest even the most loudmouth dipshit student who has bad reasons for agreeing with you. Because none of this shit deserves the brutal establishment crackdown it's provoked.

So this is new (to me). Gmail now marks outgoing links to "unknown" domains as "suspicious" and "might be harmful".

About the half of the indie websites and blogs in a recent newsletter popped up this warning!

How many people are going to ignore this warning or click on Show Details to see that there's *nothing actively harmful* about the site? They just haven't paid their protection money, I guess. 😠

"Suspicious," indeed. Google is flat-out evil.

#google #indieWeb

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