Powerful piece by @allenf32 on the price we pay, individually and as societies, for unsound money.
https://allenfarrington.medium.com/this-is-not-capitalism-5ed0a9d5dfa9
@FediFollows @lubuntu@mastodon.technology @rnadness @codeberg@mastodon.technology @Matomo @Krita @kritafoundation @Krita_artists @monarobot please let the people on mastodon.technology and mastodon.art know that their admin has baselessly decided to censor their content from being accessible for following from my instance. (correspondingly they will not see this reply.)
@alex running "your own" instance on a giant cloud provider's vps is simply federation cosplay, except without the cool red jumpsuit
The Great Man theory of social progress or art or anything is inherently colonialist and supports kyrarchy. It's a persistent idea in western culture and apparently nothing in a typical CS education ever challenges this. Computers are either invented by a series of great men or they exist in some sort of end-of-history eternal present. RMS is a great man. Therefore any toxicity in his actions is overlookable and toxicity in his defenders is at worst just over exuberance or at best necessary and therefore good.
I'm picking on CS here, but its hardly unique. I've been teaching a course this year that specifically invokes this model of history in the official design documents.
@davidoclubb @libreoffice so... not impressive?
@sim his first press conference and not a single journalist asked about the pandemic. 300 dead per hour and... crickets. talk about a farce
@thor i always just assumed all of norway was like svalbard
taxpayers pay for criminal cops legal bills in nyc:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/03/26/overfitness-factor/#heads-you-lose-tails-they-win
@duponin i would like to, where is it?
@kura yeah i am pretty sure that red part at the bottom is supposed to be angled way up, it doesn't look right being parallel with the water
@stux i didn't know AWS was operating that long ago! what does Jungle do?
gee, i wonder who did it. definitely not the (lying) pig husband, his son (also a pig) says he'd never hurt a fly!
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/27/us/marie-petry-heiser-philadelphia-1977.html
at some point the term "exponential" entered the popular usage to refer to a single very large increase over a single previous value, an increase of which cannot by definition be exponential (because you can't define a curve with two points).
it's even in the nyt, which i believe is supposed to have people whose actual primary job it is to not let bullshit like that out the door.
i believe that there is an ongoing reduction in reading comprehension in the US, perhaps the world.
@shpuld the answer is what makes it
reminder: the US has $400 billion USD to pay defense contractors for a vaporware fighter plane (2.3x bezos' net worth, and more than bezos+musk's net worths put together), but doesn't have enough space (in texas, lol) to hold unaccompanied children, so they have decided to break the law and hold them beyond the legal limit in concentration camps.
https://mobile.twitter.com/SenatorLankford/status/1375459880723755014
tell me more about how everyone paying their fair share and voting will fix this
@zeh i don't agree. i think many decent people are simply busy/distracted.
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