Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org
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Student volunteers can get free registration to the Richard #Tapia Celebration of #Diversity in #Computing Conference in Washington, DC:
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https://www.portland.gov/pbem/neighborhood-emergency-teams/volunteer
(In other US cities, similar programs are called #CERT.)
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Jared And Ivanka Holding Each Other At Gunpoint In Kitchen After Simultaneously Revealing Undercover Identities https://bit.ly/3QGJgf7
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did you know that while filming Predator (1987) Jesse Ventura bet Arnold a bottle of champagne that he had bigger arms (because the wardrobe department told Jesse his arms were one inch bigger than Arnold's) and then lost because Arnold had set the whole thing up with the wardrobe department
Preparing to teach Programming Language Structures for the first time in quite a while. I looked up my old videos on Haskell, which I was surprised find have tens of thousands of views!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKduftKRQvY4X2leuze7X7BSeQGOEXT1R
Podcasters doing "deep dives" that last like four minutes -- how shallow are your standard dives?
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@ifixcoinops The other big effect is computer software being copyrightable. In the 1970s, no one knew if computer code could be copyrighted, but in the 1980s that became an issue. The courts looked back at the player piano situation: a player piano roll isn't that different than punch cards for a computer, a set of instructions for a machine to follow. And if a player piano roll falls under the 1909 copyright law, so does computer code.
So all software licensing also comes out of player pianos.
Moulage Ruin would be a great name for a horror movie makeup studio.
"A mandoline is basically an avulsion machine."
-first aid trainer
@Hex @polymerwitch You raise some valid points.
Vaccines are free (and at some point you could get paid to take one) in the US, but poorer countries couldn't get them. If they were free to the world, we might be done with this by now.
I'm not sure abut the people who distrust masks. Many of them are perfectly happy with Trump's attempted coup. They also don't trust vaccines, when the problem is that there aren't enough vaccines in arms.
Be mad about any corruption or incompetence, but we *do* each need everyone to take the personal responsibility to get vaccinated and wear a mask. It's the only way to stop the virus. Climate change, where some people emit vastly more carbon than others, is a different story.
The best part of the Day the Earth Stood Still / RRR crossover is the "Klaatu Klaatu" dance number.
@polymerwitch What "systemic change" is more effective than masks? The pandemic, unlike climate change, doesn't feel like something the powerful did to us to make money.
Annoyed by this gratuitous new sidebar in #gmail?
Click on the gear at upper right and choose "customize" under "apps in gmail" to get rid of it.
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Haven't seen the movie yet, but looking forward to it!
On a related note, some trace the Samoan fireknife to a weapon used by the warrior queen Nafanua.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nafanua
While most modern-day fireknife dancers are are male, women certainly participate.
@grammargirl I'm trying to come up with an interpretation for figuratively changing your life.
@whiskeysailor Fact check (after my reading the one article linked below): kindasorta.
TLDR: "Anti-vaccine forces claimed it was dangerous, tanked its popularity and sued it out of existence after just a few years on the market." (It's slightly more complicated.)
Two other points of interest:
There ARE vaccines available for dogs.
"Members of a CDC advisory committee disparagingly called it a “yuppie vaccine” for affluent suburbanites ... Lyme was seen as a champagne problem: a mild, treatable disease that affected a small number of people only in certain—wealthy—regions." This is interesting because we so often hear about industry developing boner pills for rich white men rather than curing, e.g., malaria.
To be clear we had a vaccine but since it didn't make enough money it was killed off. Not sold off, not sold to other companies, just killed so the...
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do y'all sometimes think about how we have most recently tried to use pigeons in warfare
"oh you mean like carrier pigeons?"
no i mean that guided missile from ww2 that was going to be guided by a pigeon in there that had been trained to peck at the ship in order to get treats and thusly would peck peck peck away straight into becoming that one guy at the end of dr strangelove.
- Siva Afi
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- https://www.cascadia9game.org/
CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.
Joined Aug 2018
