Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
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In our hurry to digest the opinion in Twitter v. Taamneh, we've all overlooked this paragraph where Justice Thomas just absolutely roasts the new Elon Twitter right down to the ground
@Pat I do, but it's full of crap so my car isn't in there, lol!
Luckily, it seems like the hail was pretty warm, so it tended to crumble on impact and didn't do hardly any direct damage.
@interfluidity In my experience, most businesses have some degree of infrastructure in place to keep the big boss out of the minutiae. In most cases, that's because the Type-A big-picture people who found, expand, and run big companies aren't actually useful to solving specific problems; that's why they employ smart people under them.
When I was an executive, we'd specifically keep the boss out of the loop for small-but-alarming-sounding problems we knew how to solve so we could just present it to him as an already solved problem afterwards, preventing him from getting involved and mucking up the works during the crisis. And he was actually quite competent in his job; his ego just caused him to sometimes insert himself into situations where he wasn't helpful.
So, it wouldn't surprise me if this happens to a degree in every company at every level. Musk is just an egregious example representing the far end of the scale for incompetence and ego.
So, the context between him and his firms' accomplishments is that they accomplished those things *despite* him, not because of him. The only value he added was daddy's money and viral marketing doomed to eventually backfire.
What job in this country can you keep long-term from a hospital bed other than Senator or CEO?
“People close to her joke privately that perhaps when Ms. Feinstein is dead, she will start to consider resigning.” — New York Times https://www.ny...
At least Democrats have the courtesy to pretend they don't support blatantly lying to the American public.
Nice! Someone with standing and an army of lawyers is standing up to DeSantis's bullshit.
"Publishing giant Penguin Random House joined five authors, two parents and free expression organization PEN America in filing a lawsuit Wednesday ...
The New York Times boardroom, not too long ago:
Prominent board member: "'Pivot to video' didn't work! We're still losing money! What are we going to do?!?"
Prominent board member's nephew: "I've got a brilliant and totally not-at-all-derivative idea!"
@mmasnick I always seem to get it after I post something. My guess is that they're pulling active accounts from the Federated feed.
@mloxton If they informed themselves and voted or if they just voted? Because that would lead to two totally different answers.
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There are ways the #executive class could make returning to the #office more attractive, of course—say by going back to the concept of an *office*, where everyone who works there has a room assigned only to them, with at least a desk, a chair, and a door they can close when they really need to concentrate. But that might give the #peasants ideas above their station, so don't hold your breath.
Really this may the one good thing to come out of #covid. The traditional office structure was already pretty rickety before the #pandemic: the #infrastructure was in place for half or more of "office" work to be done at home. I've been doing exactly that for coming up on four years now (!) and although I do sometimes miss the camaraderie of the #lab, for the most part I'm quite happy with the situation. I won't be at all sorry if the nineteenth crow turns out to be the coup de grace.
The new #nobility is going to have to adapt, and just like the old nobility, they don't handle that well. It's not about #money, and it never has been. It's about #power, and one way to make your power over your fellow human beings explicit is forcing them to be somewhere they don't want to be for most of their adult lives. #Duke #CEO and #Baron #MBA are quite reluctant to give that up. Things are going to be messy for a while.
@3x10to8mps Hopefully, this helps:
Having moved from St. Louis to Orlando, I've found that cities on either coast tend to be much more accepting and diverse than anywhere in the heartland.
Even here in red Florida, the cities are bastions of liberalism fighting the red tide.
Tourist destinations are also good choices for this: Due to the exposure to people and cultures from all around the world, people tend to be more open to different ways.
Plus, there are meet-up groups to find people with similar interests *all over* so the only way to be lonely in a city is to not try.
@KarlBode Where do I find investors willing to pump $50 million into my improbable ideas?
My #cat, Archer, after trying an alfredo pasta shell (shhh, don't tell him; he has no idea)
@interfluidity His actions had betrayed his claims to be a freedom fighter long before the 2022 election, yet he was voted back in by a very strong majority.
I guess my key point of disagreement is that I don't see this Jax thing as being indicative of a statewide shift. A city becoming more Democratic as it grows and develops isn't necessarily a sign that the electorate of the state has soured to its governor, but many people (not just you) are characterizing it as such.
I could very well be wrong, but I don't think we're in hardly any different a position now than we were in November 2022.
@interfluidity I disagree with this take. Even when he was earning the most anti-tyrant credibility, he was still tyrannical. Nothing has changed.
The key is that he is following the very old right-wing tactic of selling tyranny against the left as anti-tyranny.
Once they've established to their base that their opponents are tyrants, any actions to stop them, no matter how much power is abused, is seen as fighting tyranny.
Jax hasn't been his audience for some time now. He's preaching to the rural midwest and southern states. And they'll still buy him as an anti-tyrant freedom fighter hook-line-and-sinker even after all this.
@realcaseyrollins It very much depends on the state.
That said, however, you'll find that many gun owners, myself included, are opposed to open carry laws that allow that sort of thing.
Funny how ethically sourcing content is such a threat to so many industries...
Generative AI meets copyright law Professor @pamelasamuelson recently delivered the final of four Distinguished Lectures on the Status and Future o...
@realcaseyrollins
1) That's #2A, not #1A
2) That's pretty close to how the law already works. In fact, in my home state of Florida, self-defense is the *only* reason you're allowed to brandish a weapon in public.
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
