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
Folks, I don't know who needs to hear this but when you wish your opponents jailed or beaten for holding opinions that you oppose, you're not the good guy in the narrative. Even if the other guy is an actual Nazi. You're just sinking to their level, not fighting against them.
And people who are advocating for civil rights for *all* aren't supporting Nazis just because they think they should have rights too.
I thought this was taught in middle school. How do so many people still not get it?
For example:
https://qoto.org/@LouisIngenthron/109892436701054552
@TheStormcrow @TheConversationUS Have fun giving the Nazis everything they ask for in the guise of opposing them!
@TheStormcrow @TheConversationUS Please work on your reading comprehension. Nobody in this thread said Nazis weren't bad. Now you're just making shit up to justify your priors.
@TheStormcrow @TheConversationUS I don't wish suffering on people who disagree with me.
That you do means you probably have more in common with your opponents than you realize.
Try empathy and understanding instead of hate.
@w7voa Oh come on, that's satire, right?
@jaysonmassey Why?
That's like refusing to visit an entire country just because you met someone from there once and they were a dick.
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Note how in the first story the “car” caused a fatal accident, where in the second story it was the “driver.”
Putting a police department logo on the side of a car appears make it sentient.
Is it still #ScreenshotSaturday?
Have I set the mood properly here?
@TheStormcrow @TheConversationUS When they commit violence, yes.
But if you seek to use the force of the government to punish speech you disagree with (i.e. "making it hurt to hate"), then you're just giving them exactly what they want. Those are the exact tools fascists use to rise to power.
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"Announcing a return to work for three days a week minimum so you can still continue to video call with your coworkers and now experience a fucked up hybrid work thing where nobody's needs are met" is some serious "hey don't consider working here" flags. Love that. 🙄
@AriCohn You sure that wasn't for a gender reveal party?
@alisonborealis @krypt3ia Not a single one that I use (other than built-in ones with legitimate reason, like the phone/messaging apps).
I would consider that a huge red flag and avoid using any app that demanded my contacts without good reason.
I personally don't know of any reputable examples that do that, but it's possible some may exist.
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Gov. DeSantis battling the dastardly American scourge of, uh, a college preparatory education:
"My number one concern as a parent right now is that my kids will be cut off from additional information about the world. Will they be able to learn beyond what our state is going to allow them to know?"
@krypt3ia No, I've built android apps. I know this first-hand. You can't access the data until you get the permission from the OS, and you can't get the permission from the OS unless the user clicks "yes" on the popup.
The only possible exception to this would be the company that makes the OS, Google.
@krypt3ia On Android, they *have* to ask. It's enforced by the OS.
@jgordon @briankrebs Pretty sure the only reason they went away is because cell phones came on the scene and everyone with a cellphone got an unlisted number.
White pages died with landlines.
@jurjen_heeck With modern phones, you can just deny them the permission to access the data.
@dangillmor Looks like the fine reporting was by "Forbidden Stories" and WaPo basically just rewrote it for their audience and added some web graphics.
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getting into my tesla and hitting like on a musk tweet so it'll start
@karanicolas I'd argue that it correlates more closely to the growth and popularization of the internet than social media specifically.
In my mind, journalism has declined because of two key factors:
1) It no longer has a monopoly on information. Whereas the newspaper or evening news used to be a central point of shared cultural information sourcing, the democratization of information that the internet provides created a degree of competition that the industry simply couldn't keep up with.
2) The journalism industry's response to (1) has largely accelerated this process by trying to mimic the clickbait they were now competing against instead of defining themselves by filling a niche the internet hordes couldn't produce. See, for example, the move to 24 hour news cycles, reporting on tweets from public officials that people can follow directly themselves, massive increases in cheap crime reporting, and reliance on interns writing ragebait headlines for social media instead of investing in longer-term investigative journalism.
Real journalism is absolutely essential to the sustainability of democracy.
Unfortunately, it seems the folks most in need of that lesson are the ones who own and operate for-profit journalistic endeavors.
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
