LoriHC @lorihc@social.cleverlibre.org

Many free speech absolutists seem not to realize that it’s not just defending people they like, like Nazis and religious weirdos. If they truly believe in free speech, they have to defend all sorts of unpalatable types, even schoolteachers and librarians and children they don’t like the look of.

Latest comic: The Real Conspiracy

#misinformation #disinformation #authoritarianism #democracy #cartoon

"Yes, there was global warming in prehistoric times. But nothing in millions of years compares with what we see today" | My op-ed in today's @latimes about #OurFragileMoment: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-09-24/climate-change-fossil-fuels-global-warming-rate

When XKCD describes the #urbanism movement like this, it starts to feel like the winds of society are changing.

My own story is a bit different, but then I don’t live in the US. My home town of #stockholm is pushing bicycle infrastructure forward with every year that passes.

Never quickly enough, of course, because the traffic increases outpace the city infrastructure: we have actual bicycle traffic jams at some points. https://xkcd.com/2832/

Did you know that it used to be legal to fire women for not wearing pantyhose?

The "clothing according to biological sex" people want to bring back the laws that allowed that.

If a colleague (especially one early in their career) has done great work and you spot a prize/award they're eligible for, nominate them for it. It'll take you a few mins, but could make a massive difference to their CV.

@_Davidsmith
Set up new phone
Transfer old watch automagically
Then setup new watch
It should bring everything over and allow you to restore from watch backup then.

If you're still using the developer beta profile for your phone you won't see the 17.0.1 security release that just dropped.

Y’all, I’d love to know what you’ve seen on #watchOS10 so far. Great apps? Nifty animations? Killer widgets in the Smart Stack? Lemme know! ✨⌚️✨🙏

Watched the Barbie movie again, that film is just so great - the jokes land so hard, plus the musical numbers are even more fun the second time you see them

@twostraws Well don’t forget the biggest feature... Debugging now actually works on the Apple Watch 🤯

Combine that with the new design language and SwiftUI being introduced and I feel like we might see a resurgence of Apple Watch apps.

I upgraded to watchOS 10, and it’s so interesting – like someone joined the team and said, “why do we do *that*?” 100 times.

- Was side button multitasking useful? Not really.
- Was the zooming grid an effective way to find apps? Nope.
- Did we need the clock in the app list? Nuh-uh.

Controversially, I’m also glad “swipe to change watch face” is gone, because I never did it on purpose 🙈

It takes a lot of time, energy, and bravery to execute this kind of root to branch rethink – well done! 🙌

The child tax credit cut child poverty in half in the US. As soon as it expired, child poverty went right back where it was. Poverty is a choice — a policy choice. We could end most poverty today by just giving people money — that's exactly what the child tax credit did.

Not all poverty can be directly solved with cash payments, but most poverty can. Far and away the number one cause of poverty is not having enough money. And when someone has other problems too, money makes those other challenges easier to face.

For decades — in fact most of a century since the early forays into a welfare state — our society has had the means to almost completely abolish poverty and deprivation. We just… keep deciding not to. The example of the child tax credit shows just how easily and quickly cash payments can end poverty. That choice continues to be available, and the implementation is so straightforward.

The number one cause of poverty is not having enough money. When we give people money, they stop being poor. We have the money, and we have the means to give it out.