Gotta be honest, it absolutely sucks watching the same people who call me a groomer just for being trans say that Epstein did nothing wrong because his victims were teenagers.
PEOPLE WOULD RATHER THEIR KIDS BE RAPED THAN BE TRANS.
And it is INFURIATING.
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Watching Megyn Kelly contort herself into knots to redefine child rape of 14 year olds as "adult & consensual" because Trump & Epstein "liked them young" and "barely pubescent".
This is beyond depraved. Megyn Kelly has a 14 year old daughter herself. That child needs a wellness check asap.
In a recent podcast, she & her guest absolved both men of culpability because they didn't like 5 or 8 year olds.
If these men had targeted kids under 10, Megyn Kelly would OK that too.
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I have always been annoyed by the statement that sqrt(-1) = i.
Note: I'm perfectly fine with the assertion that i^2 = -1.
sqrt(1) = -1. We're either constraining the answer to positive numbers or we're not.
piecewise function definitions are a thing though, like the abs function for instance
abs(x) = x, for all positive x
abs(x) = -x, for all negative x
sqrt(x) = positive y, for all positive x
sqrt(x) = i * sqrt(-x), for all negative x
I also find arctan really weird, because it only works if you fiddle with the domain (yet it clearly does exist, and is useful)
I enjoy the unpleasant feeling I get when I realise that all maths is made up!
abs can be defined for the whole complex plane though (the square root of the sum of the square of the real and imaginary components) i.e.:abs(a + bi) = sqrt(a^2 + b^2)
@Eric Gerlach I... guess, but I'd imagine there are less violent ways to feel that control.
Maybe that's just me.
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Fortunately fountain pen ink is water soluble so it often washes right out if you get to it immediately.
Thank God it wasn't my Baystate Blue.
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You are responsible for the privacy-invasive software that you inflict upon others.
Yes, you!
Choose the software you use with the data of others carefully 🔒💚
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people need to stop snitching on themselves and their friends.
I'm sick of seeing people sell others out for an Amazon gift card.
Perusing the terms of service my phone is requiring me to agree to after the update.
Under the section about how they safeguard my data, it reads:
We take data protection seriously. We have put in place physical and technical safeguards to keep the information we collect secure. We also take appropriate measures, in compliance with applicable law, to ensure that the personal information collected by third parties remains secure. However, please note that although we take reasonable steps to protect your information, no website, Internet transmission, computer system, or wireless connection is completely secure.
That's a very verbose way to say "trust us, bro."
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Just signed up for DoorDash yesterday to try to diversify our income a little.
Got an email from them this morning. I opened it in neomutt to read that my account had been suspended "due to [my] repeated lateness violations", which is impressive considering I haven't even done a shift yet.
When I tried to show the email to Katy on my phone, the email instead read as a generic welcome letter.
It turns out that the plain text and and HTML parts of the email are completely different.
Things are off to a fantastic start, I see.
Edit: proofreading is for suckers
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Every time I read #UnixSurrealism it makes me want to switch to #Plan9.
This is absolutely not a reasonable option for me, but it doesn't stop me from wanting to do it.
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⚠️ REQUESTING A #FEDIBLOCK ⚠️ 🚨
Please Fediblock this instance
Their instance description includes "No Jews, no Jew sympathizers."
# Block
@ BoomerFreeFedi@tsundere.love
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Yo WTF?? Don't attack mods! That's not how you make Fedi better.
I've heard folx are targeting my friend @markwyner. Don't fucking do that. He's a nice guy, and he's doing thankless work modding for a large server.
If you chase the mods off those servers, then they're going to be wide open to the same fucking Nazis that you're harassing him about. That's like shooting Fedi in the damned foot.
I *really* hope none of my followers are responsible for this. If y'all follow me, then you should know better. For real. I'm embarrassed.
Note: if you want to do something good today, shower Mark with some love for being so quick to ban this Nazi—twice. He even closed mas.to's registrations after I asked. That's an example of a good mod, and I'm glad he's here 💞
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I think the convention is "prep time" for a recipe is before heat is applied "cook time" is after heat is applied and "total time" is the sum of both, plus any required rest time between or after cook.
But, I do agree that can be annoying, because it's not the same as my expectations.
Upgraded my Gitea* server this morning and had a moment of panic when I thought I'd lost admin access. Turns out they just changed where the admin interface lives.
* I meant to switch to Forgejo, but never got around to it and then they went hard fork, so it's more complicated now.
So for some reason two of my apps are suddenly switched to French. It wasn't a big deal as I can read it, but it was annoying.
I had my system languages set as follows:
I assume it was because these apps didn't have localisations for my first choice, but I don't know why they instead jumped to the third option, skipping the second.
Just heard someone unironically use the term "real AI".
Real artificial intelligence? What the hell does that even mean?
@Matthew Skala I guess, but that wasn't the context in this case.
@Judy Anderson Fair, but this guy talking about how Zork "faked AI" instead of having the "real AI" we have now.Edit: context
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#MUTUALAID REQUEST
5 months after escaping my abuser, I'm finally getting started w a lawyer who can help protect me & my toddler. The sliding scale fee is $200/hr, which will add up to thousands each month. We also need a car & housing support.
Goal is $6k in the next month 💕
2560/6000
chuffed.org/project/replace-ou…
paypal.me/natoleander
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#MUTUALAID REQUEST
Still need another $1800 in the next 7 days to stay on top of lawyer bills, $3800 to hit the goal toward all bills.
2303/6000 by Nov 14
chuffed.org/project/replace-ou…
paypal.me/natoleander
venmo/cashapp natsmith89
#mutualaidrequest #urgentmutualaid #disabledmutualaid #disabilitycrowdfund #transmutualaid #queermutualaid #genderfluid #helpfolkslive2025 #help #begpost #transcrowdfund #lgbtq #crowdfund #crowdfunding #support @MutualAidNet
URGENT #MUTUALAID
Bad news: restraining order denied again, meaning it won't be safe to return to our apartment. $1800 needed for lawyer by Tues 11/11, and we'll need several thousand more to safely relocate.
20/1800 11/11 goal
0/6000 Housing goal
chuffed.org/project/replace-ou…
paypal.me/natoleander
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#MutualAidRequest #helpfolkslive2025 #disabledmutualaid #queermutualaid #queercrowdfund #transmutualaid #transcrowdfund #disabilitymutualaid #disabilitycrowdfund
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The spoonie assistant I had lined up fell through. So looking again to hire someone with executive function and a driver's license to help me:
• Move - pack, organize and decide set up new place.
• Grocery shop, food prep, life management at home.
• Accompanying on appts so I don't get lost and confused when mentally spent.
• Life admin - filling out forms, phone calls (visual/auditory processing issues)
$20/hr 5-10hr/wk #Guelph
Boosts appreciated.
Need help asap.
#fediHire
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Amazon has invented a new kind of labor travesty: the chickenized reverse centaur. That's a worker who has to foot the bill to outfit a work environment where they nevertheless have no autonomy (chickenization) and whose body is conscripted to act as a peripheral for a digital system (reverse centaur):
pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/alg…
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So Katy got a scam text claiming to be Canada Post with an underliverable package. I'm in the process of gathering information to send a report to their registrar's abuse department, but they're doing something clever to cover their tracks that I haven't fully been able to unravel.
For context, here is the link (with spaces added to prevent it from turning into an actual link and being accidentally clicked):
https:// canadapost-postecanadadeliverylivraison .com/canadapost/index.php
When opened from Safari on her phone, it loads a realistic looking phishing site, but when opened from any other browser, it returns an empty (0 bytes) page. I assume this is to hamper attempts to investigate abuse claims (though the domain name is already pretty incriminating).
Since there doesn't appear to be any kind of unique identifier, I assumed this to be some kind of spear phishing attack that was based on her browser's User-Agent string, but when I tell curl to mimic it, I still don't get a result.
Any ideas about how they're doing this?
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relevant, too...
VERY energy efficient.
I just got an email today from my doctor that there will be a charge of $25 for prescription renewals when requested by the pharmacy effective... at the beginning of this month (retroactively?).
Katy and I just renewed five prescriptions this way yesterday.
It's been a morning of interesting and stressful phone calls.
@e bored Sure, but up until this point that was the way he specifically told us to do it.
The thing that's changed is that he can no longer bill OHIP* for these renewals.
* Ontario Health Insurance Plan
I keep saying it, but I think there needs to be a much more robust cultural conversation about tech and consent where it concerns custodianship over other peoples' data.
If I know details about you such as your contact information, or hold work of yours in trust, how does my own relationship with tech affect and respect that trust?
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I don't know of or have any answers here. More I intend this as a kind of consciousness-raising? If you're writing a privacy guide, please consider broadening past the individual reader; if you're in a peer group, try to find ways to model raising these questions.
The default will always, *always* be what malicious actors make sure is the easiest choice — full submission and full subversion of community trust.
It has come to my attention that my favourite jacket is falling apart. I would like to repair it for two reasons:
I have no opposition to #VisibleMending.
Suggestions?
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but then who would referee the referee?
One of Cory's points is that greed was not invented in the 21st century - it will always be there, and we will always need checks and balances
Maybe the fact that people are forming emotional connections on genAI chatbots means we have an unmet need for social workers and therapists and in fact should invest more heavily into these fields as a society
Because given the scale of investments on genAI it’s pretty fucking clear we have the money
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Thought I had berry juice on my hand from the food I was eating so I licked it.
It was ink.
I love my #FountainPen but sometimes...
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Not that knowledgable about that ink/line. I have noted that stuff like walnut ink, tea ink, sumi ink, very much can have a distinct flavour. A fair amount of ball point ink I've noticed certainly has a flavour. But some of the potential fountain pen inks, I can see basically not having anything you'd note.
I'll have to look up that ink.
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