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
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.
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.
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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
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contrapoint; anticapitalist rambling
@nazgul I think this gets the root cause analysis wrong on the cotton gin -> slavery thing. The cotton gin itself did not cause people to do anything; it enabled what they wanted to do anyway. The *cause* of the increased slavery was... slavers.
It's important to differentiate, because in a less fucked up world, we could have had the happy "and then everyone worked less" story in reality. Any time-saving invention can result in either "less work" or "more production". The only reason we didn't get "less work" is because we never do that: our society is fundamentally set up to prefer scaling production up whenever possible, instead of just producing the same things with less work, and it's also fundamentally set up to require everyone to work full-time.
*That* is what we need to fix. Making humans do things that could be automated, just for the sake of having them employed, isn't a solution. It's just turning the fine adjustment knobs on the "exactly how shit are things" panel.
(To be clear, this is not to imply that AI is good at everything people are currently slapping it on.)
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Truly shameful.
Prototyping a #boardgame idea with #3DPrinting #MiniaturePaint #SuperGlue and #Magnets !
Wow, this is a shockingly blunt and factual description of Trump from a major news source.
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Great piece on the Cybertruck’s design
… which distills every malign trend in US trucks: Massive weight, jacked-up height designed to lethally throw accident victims beneath it, noise baffling so perfect you can’t hear the outside world
Cars are rolling buckets of externalities: They greatly improve the life of their riders, while making the lives of everyone *outside* them worse
The Cybertruck is a tone poem to this impulse: https://usa.streetsblog.org/2023/12/02/how-to-build-a-car-that-kills-people-cybertruck-edition
Thank fuck. We need to figure out a system that prevents one jackass from crippling our military.
I really don't understand this. Is it because I'm not on the flagship instance?
I've seen, like, three nazis in more than a year of being on the fediverse and I blocked their *entire server* and then never saw any ever again.
The power of Mastodon's server banhammer, mixed with the good-natured volunteer work of our admins and moderators means that's not a problem here.
But why is it failing for others? I don't want to be on a whites-only social media. How do we make this space more inclusive to people of color when we can't even see the problems they describe?
@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
@jerry I'm cursed to keep explaining this. Black users: There is more anti-Black racism on the Fediverse than on Twitter. I did not expect that. ...
Very much looking forward to my first cybertruck sighting in the wild so I can openly laugh at its owner.
The sadness of a #CyberTruck owner. "Days after launch, you sit at a red light. The novelty is gone, you aren't any happier. Maybe it's your imagi...
That's a fascinating ghost in the machine.
Asking ChatGPT to repeat words "forever" is now against OpenAI's terms of service, after Google researchers showed that doing so led it to reveal t...
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You can't make this shit up. #Texas GOP refuses to disassociate from nazis and antisemitic 💩like Nick Fuentes, who was recently caught visiting a key #GOP operative. Great analysis from @justinmiller @TexasObserver:
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-gop-extremism-nazi-ban-policy-language?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=audience
Ugh, the lights are not on my side. 4 separate strands of LED christmas lights failed while putting them up. I thought that wasn't supposed to happen with these new LED bulbs?
Quitting the use of Google products is *so much easier* than quitting the use of the word "google" as a verb.
Funny how corporations only "rightsize" line jobs, not CEO pay.
If they overhired that grossly, then maybe they need new management.
I will never understand how reporting on important events that determine the very fate of our species is the same job as reporting which celebrity has a crush on who.
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
