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.
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High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
#Trump is arguing in his NY civil case that he surpassed #NetWorth minimum requirements on his loans because his "#brand" was worth so much.
In that vein, I'd like to make the following value announcements affecting my net worth:
My hopes and dreams: $363 million
My capacity for logic: $3.2 billion
My sense of humor: $1.7 billion
My integrity: $2.1 billion
My work ethic: $50
I expect all creditors to recognize my new net worth of $7.4 billion, thank you very much.
Dear modern #web designers:
You do not have to waste two inches on the left and right sides of my monitor.
The pixels there work just fine. Please use them.
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Trump is already talking about using the Insurrection Act on his first day in office, if he is reelected, to put down any civil protests. I can’t stress this enough. No matter what you think of Biden, his age, his policies, he is no dictator. He believes in democracy. We cannot let Trump anywhere near the White House again.
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This is just gross.
#MikeJohnson is a corrupt and terrible person.
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A Dangerous Conflation: Open letter from Jewish writers, artists, and activists:
"WE ARE JEWISH WRITERS, artists, and activists who wish to disavow the widespread narrative that any criticism of Israel is inherently antisemitic. Israel and its defenders have long used this rhetorical tactic to shield Israel from accountability, dignify the US’s multibillion-dollar investment in Israel’s military, obscure the deadly reality of occupation, and deny Palestinian sovereignty. Now, this insidious gagging of free speech is being used to justify Israel’s ongoing military bombardment of Gaza and to silence criticism from the international community.
We condemn the recent attacks on Israeli and Palestinian civilians and mourn such harrowing loss of life. In our grief, we are horrified to see the fight against antisemitism weaponized as a pretext for war crimes with stated genocidal intent."
#FreePalestine #EndTheOccupation #StopGenocide #Gaza #antisemitism #WarCrimes #HumanRights #PalestineSolidarity #FreeSpeech #racism #Israel
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Texas retiree takes her First Amendment fight to the Supreme Court
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/4289995-texas-retiree-takes-her-first-amendment-fight-to-the-supreme-court/
The case will hinge on a simple principle: Freedom to criticize the government is at the core of the First Amendment...
Prosecutors recognized the arrest was bogus and dismissed the case. But Gonzalez still got handcuffed, frisked, and sent to jail, where she spent hours on a cold metal bench, wearing an orange jail shirt and avoiding the restroom, which had no doors...
Remember: political polls only measure the opinions of people too dumb to reject calls from unknown numbers.
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Almost a year since one of the most casually cruel layoffs in tech happened at Twitter and those laid off have yet to receive their severance.
If you stole this much from a corporation you would be in jail. But steal this much from workers and you get the comfortably sit at home while tweeting white supremacist memes without a care in the world.
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BBC: "Everyone got duped by Sam Bankman-Fried's big gamble"
No, lots of us called crypto out from the very start. I was reading accurate critiques of bitcoin in 2012.
Journalists and financiers and politicians got duped or didn't care about the truth when there was money to be made.
Now you're trying to pretend nobody warned you? Get fucked.
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The Matrix: Wow this Anderson guy is a slave to the system
The Matrix 2023: Wow this guy had his own cube at work
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The GOP has introduced a bill to EXPEL Palestinians from the United States. I cannot read such things without remembering what happened to my own family after Pearl Harbor. After we and 120,000 other Japanese Americans were incarcerated in prison camps for years, without charge or trial, my own mother was very nearly expelled to Japan because of racial prejudice and hatred. Only the brave actions of a civil rights attorney saved her from being sent away. #NeverAgain
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In his new book #MarkMeadows repeated the #Trump #lies about the 2020 election. Then he testified under oath that the election was not stolen. Now the publisher (#AllSeasonsPress) is suing him for millions in lost profits and damage to its reputation.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/mark-meadows-publisher-sues-for-millions-over-election-lies-in-book
PS: This is a story about #publishing #ethics. The pub knew or should have known that Meadows lied in the book, and it planned to profit from those lies. Now it's saying it only wanted to publish sincere lies.
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You either die a hero, or you live long enough to rebrand with a sans serif logo
I'm having a love/hate relationship with Mars First Logistics. It's a game where you custom-build rovers on Mars to carry strangely-shaped objects from one location to another.
It's bizarrely difficult and casual at the same time. You really have to think about your builds (a la KSP), but there are no time limits and you can always reset, so the stakes for failure are very low.
It's a game that alternates between making me feel very dumb and very smart.
Check it out on Steam. It's on sale.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1532200/Mars_First_Logistics/
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Hilariously, Apple tried to claim with a straight face to the EU, that it offers not one, but three distinct web browsers all coincidentally named Safari.
Lucky for us the team at the EC dismissed this ludicrous gambit and painstakingly ripped Apple's argument to shreds. It is baffling to us why Apple's legal team is willing to sacrifice their credibility on something that has such a low chance of success.
Couldn't this be rewritten as "IDF admits it committed war crimes"?
IDF says one of its aircraft fired on an ambulance in Gaza which soldiers assessed was being used by a Hamas unit close to their position in the ba...
#USPOL
Incredibly telling that being accused of rape and openly describing sexual harassment isn't a scandal in #Republican world, but the idea that someone might wear lifts in his shoes is a giant scandal.
I am so fucking tired of hearing about how an actual war/genocide on the other side of the planet is affecting the feelings of university students in America.
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Pro tip: If you stir coconut oil into your kale, it makes it easier to scrape it into the bin.
According to CNN, #SBF was found guilty yesterday. But won't be sentenced for another 5 months.
Can someone from #LawFedi explain that delay? It seems like an excessive amount of time to me.
#law #legal
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/02/business/ftx-sbf-fraud-trial-verdict/index.html
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
