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
@GreenFire No, an institution cannot lose their constitutional rights by "voluntarily declaring" so. (If they could, Texas would have used that against women by now.)
They may choose to emulate those standards of free speech, but they aren't legally bound to do so.
@GreenFire Doesn't matter. Lots of private companies get federal funding, but that doesn't mean they're required to host speech they disagree with. 1A restricts only government actors.
@GreenFire Right, but Harvard is a private university, not a public institution, so the first amendment doesn't really apply.
That said, I agree with you that it's nice to see they have a backbone and won't sacrifice their own to the GOP culture war.
@EMR I always liked SubVersion. Maybe wasn't as powerful, but I never looked warily at a button wondering if it was going to cause me to lose data.
@1br0wn No kidding; it's a writing tool, not a thinking tool. Any legal official who lets it do their thinking for them ought to be disbarred.
I've always had a sneaking suspicion that #Git was a flaming bag of dog shit, but because it sucked so bad, I never wanted to use it enough to figure out if that flaw was the software's or my own.
Reading this document, though, I feel pretty vindicated. Git really is a dumpster fire. We developers deserve better.
Louis Ingenthron
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"What if (#ChatGPT) learned from its training data that people usually slow down in December ... and that’s why it’s been more lazy lately?"
If you used a hammer to drive in a screw
If you use a cigarette lighter to heat your meals
If you search google maps for medical information
If you dry your hair with a leaf blower
If you drive a rascal scooter on the highway
You might be the kind of person who tries to get facts out of an LLM.
"Applicant must be a highly-motivated self-starter who looks for a job in the newspaper."
@drdrowland The ironic thing is that they used to do just that before they had shareholders.
I worked for a corporate Panera branch as a teenager. When they asked how much I expected to be paid in my interview, I needed the job, so I said "minimum wage". The manager interviewing me said "We can't get good people for minimum wage. How about [wage 50% more than minimum wage]?"
It's a far cry from what the company is today.
@GreenFire @mentallyalex @HankPym @TonyStark Yeah, but you can't eat GDP. We'd starve without the red counties.
@carnage4life Shit, if anything, workers resent the fact that the shareholders are siphoning their wages away.
Louis Ingenthron
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If you think Elise Stefanik - or any other major figure in today’s Republican Party - is leading an honest fight against antisemitism, if you actually think that’s the Right’s political project, I must assume you are either incredibly uninformed and naive or simply full of shit.
@loudermilk Except they didn't support "threatening trial witnesses" at all.
They wanted the order to be more specific in its wording ("targeting" is vague) and "exempt public officials from the coverage of its order, except to the extent that it bars speech that threatens or instigates violence against, such persons."
Shout out to a rare example of a corporate phone app done well: Delta Airlines' phone app is useful, more than just a webpage, doesn't have ads, and can be used without signing up for an account. If you have a ticket, you put in your info and it *just works* for the duration of your trip and provides valuable information and updates.
I don't know how the engineers managed to keep the executives from inserting dark patterns, but kudos.
@rabbijill @JoshuaHolland It would probably come from the other side of the aisle, but other than that, yeah, it would be pretty much the same.
And it would still be wrong for the government to try to censor viewpoints they don't like.
Louis Ingenthron
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It’s striking that they’re so open about this being viewpoint discrimination.
They’re not calling for speech to be repressed to stop Islamophobia or anti-black racism or any other form of bigotry. Just #antisemitism, defined as overheated rhetoric against Israel.
#censorship #fascism
@loudermilk In the United States, hate speech is protected by the 1st Amendment. This is a good thing, for two reasons:
1) "Hate speech" is subjective. "Fuck Nazis" is hate speech. By enabling the government to punish subjective speech, you open the door for authoritarians to punish dissent.
2) I'd rather know who the bigots are than let them fester under the surface. Let them yell out their white nationalist slogans. Then the rest of us can choose to exercise our 1A right to disassociate with them.
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
