Gregory's Server
 maybe I should do security education by saying "imagine the user is Hitler. Literally. Visualize Adolf Hitler sitting in an office chair and he's filling out a form on your website. Are you sure you're validating inputs thoroughly enough?"  Just spelling out a little •why• I’m so gung ho on that post: The reality of those burned ballot boxes is that they destroyed three ballots. Not dozens. Not hundreds. ••Three.•• And poll workers were able to reach out to those three people. Number of votes lost: ZERO. What do fascists need? Fear. Panic. Desperation. Nihilism. People complying in advance. What do fascists fear? Resilience. Generosity. Systems that work. People who care. Everyone else realizing they’re pathetic and defeatable. If you tell the story of the burnt ballot boxes in Portland and Vancouver this week (an important story that warrants attention), also tell how good fire-suppressant design saved all but three ballots in the Portland box, and the efforts of the election workers who contacted those three voters and arranged for replacement ballots. Things are scary and bad, and often literally on fire. But there are good people and good systems too. Making us forget that is always a win for the worst ones. Also, in case anyone is counting, Starlink is now 63% of all active satellites. 2 out of ever 3 satellites up there now are owned by that awful billionaire. He effectively controls Low Earth Orbit. That should terrify everyone.
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 @sundogplanets A website has been launched in Sima 🎬the best site to watch foreign movies and series for free and without ads📢   i think the privatization and financialization of everyday services and goods has done more than anything in culture to make society decohere. interacting with the world on basically any level now largely consists of attempting to outwit giant systems designed to exploit you. from the perspective of an individual, there is virtually no consistent expectation of any duty of care, moral responsibility, or trust evident in daily life, so there's little to suggest you value those qualities either
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  @jk there is a ideological component, even in Argentina where there are *comparatively* stronger public institutions the right always speaks of some scam the public sector is always perpetuating 
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  @dgar meanwhile I just want to know if Polites was really in the Odyssey or if he and his name were made up for Epic the musical. Like I would believe it except JRH played "holy moly" so straight in Circe saga, and if you want to simplify Pol's trusting nature to being *polite* (and trusting others to be) and told me he's only in Epic and that was where his name came from, I would also believe that. It's quite hard to look at the current situations with Musk and Twitter, Bezos and the WaPo, and the LA Times as anything other than evidence that the extreme consolidation of wealth is itself a grave and direct threat to society I'm not usually one to compliment C, but there is one thing it does better than pretty much all other mainstream languages: code density. It's an incredible language for code-golfing. Every few years I have a go at golfing a Brainfuck interpreter, and today I broke my personal record again. #include <stdio.h> An explosive new undercover investigation has revealed that a US tech bro was financing a group of Nazis who were using scientists & a YouTuber to spread discredited race pseudoscience....and it turns out I know one of the Nazis https://skepchick.org/2024/10/nazis-are-funding-youtubers-to-spread-pseudoscience/
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  @rebeccawatson bruh I bought my kid a bunch of candy at the Walgreens across the street from Archie mcphee’s today for a Halloween care package 
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 @batkaren By age 35, your clean room Unix-compatible operating system keenel should be well on its way to world domination.  @batkaren What if I just stacked the people who’ve disappointed me into a pyramid shape & shellacked em? Re-upping on all my platforms, because we cannot tone down our condemnation of this unprecedented slaughter of journalists. The apathy & indifference towards Israel's killing of Palestinian media professionals (130 since 7/10/23 per the IFJ), including among many prominent journalists, is a chilling indictment of our industry as a whole. Incredibly disturbed by the silence of friends and colleagues & those who cited "objectivity" for it. It has truly been an eye-opening year for journalism.   Last year, ~1,500 journalists including myself, signed this open letter condemning Israel's killing of countless Palestinian journalists, as well as misleading framing of atrocities in Gaza as a whole. In response, plenty of major newsrooms lashed out at their employees, forcing them to withdraw their signatures. Others signed on anonymously, fearing repercussions. All in all, the sentiments of shock and horror were not shared by everyone in journalism. It's funny that the term 'middle-class' is either a virtuous compliment or a derogatory insult depending on which side of the Atlantic you're on.
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Winter has arrived, nothing is growing any longer, so it's time to give pottery a go again. This batch took about 48 hours to prepare once filtering, drying, and mixing in grog using ground up ceramic from last year's failed attempts were finished. Really happy with the consistency, it feels exactly as clay should. Looking for advice on ways to make it more pliable though: I've heard it said that mixing in a small amount of flour dough can work? I am haunted by the idea that people of tomorrow will look upon today as a golden age  @jsbarretto When I was graduating from college, I would tell people that my greatest fear was that I would remember college fondly.
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 @JesseSkinner re: last boost. Have you ever filmed a climate-induced disaster with your own phone? I have.  @JesseSkinner It could be even more realistically brutal. Just wait and it'll be widespread for people to use AI on those disaster records to "make it look better", you know, for clicks.  @JesseSkinner just be careful not to get killed trying to live out this meme. In a disaster, get to safety before trying to film or your film will die with you. |
