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we must secure voting rights for all americans because the more people that can vote the more effective voting can become in convincing people of the total and utter lie that voting in the USA is an effective or useful tool for producing change of any kind.

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why do people put trigger warnings for eye contact in images?

remember when google was an AND search by default and they weren't afraid to say "no results"?

now when you get no results they just serve ads only and don't say no results.

i have an organization (a startup) that i work with who is looking to hire a director of information security. if you or anyone you know is looking for this type of job, i'm happy to connect you. no charlatans. :D

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i want to be a cat. sleep 23/7 and spend the 1 hour awake eating lasagna
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"unlimited" vacation policies are, to put it plainly, a lie, and are at best passive-aggressive. lying on a job description is a good way to get candidates to avoid your company.

is it legal to discriminate against those that caught covid in hiring?

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...and an unusually good video walking you through some of the details of a coal fired plant: youtu.be/rGtUtnqB94g

A few dumb things in this. But mostly very technical. Not "pop-sci"

southwest just bought 100 more 737MAX and i am never, ever going to fly southwest for any reason short of life and death evacuation.

i am surprised that all the other countries haven't gotten together to "globalize" the suez and panama canals and take them away from egypt and panama.

true luxury? my 3090 has been powered off for most of march

why aren't indie record labels nonprofits? they barely pay their operators' salaries anyway, and if they were nonprofits then paying them could be tax deductions.

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Google has suspended Element (@matrix) from the Play Store for "Sexual Content and Profanity". Basically same story as with Subway Tooter a while back. Element is to Matrix as Chrome is to the web. Curiously, Chrome is still on the Play Store.

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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.

> While H&M's physical stores in China remain, it is no longer possible to hail a taxi to the shops using an app and consumers can't shop online. Instead China is championing local brands.

this is coming soon to the USA.

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