Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

Facebook has "permanently disabled" my account. I'm appealing, but you know those scum.

Do yourself a favor and reserve 10 minutes today to read this eye opening Oatmeal comic on the psychological "backfire effect”.

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe

Repeating myself for new followers.

I do random PRs for #opensource. My largest is making a #rustlang scripting language embeddable. According to GH search, it unlocked dozens of uses.

https://github.com/rhaiscript/rhai/pull/229

But I'm often I'm too busy/disorg to do more than small things, like writing #cicd for budding projects.

And yet, that''s my prob biggest impact: a Flash impl took off after I added bin releases w/Win MSI.

https://github.com/lightspark/lightspark/pull/357

That's #foss: little things can make a great impact.

He committed suicide shortly before going on trial for trafficking 15 kilograms of fentanyl from Mexico into America.

Charlottesville Tiki Torcher Killed Himself Before Drug Smuggling Trial.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/charlottesville-tiki-torcher-teddy-joseph-von-nukem-killed-himself-before-trial?source=articles&via=rss

Russia placed thousands of Ukrainian children in camps where they’re subjected to propaganda and forcible adoption by Russian families, a US government-backed report from Yale found https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-14/russia-put-6-000-ukrainian-kids-in-re-education-camps-yale-study-finds?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=twitter via @bpolitics

Oh! Oh! Oh! - - -
#WeSuck

Desk view:

Can't wait to read the twitter files about this direct collusion between elected officials and the CEO of twitter

Two kids were shot in two (probably unrelated) school shootings in Denver today.
It no longer even makes the local news.
To paraphrase Bruce Schneier, the stuff you read about in the newspaper isn't what's going to kill you, it's the stuff that happens so often it's not worth writing about.

“Jesus doesn’t have an image problem, but Christians & their churches do. These campaigns end up being PR for the wrong problem. Young people are savvy. They are digital natives who understand the difference between slick marketing and authenticity. One of their primary issues with evangelicalism, and the modern church in America, is the amount of money spent on itself.” #HeGetsUs

ONE BILLION DOLLARS being spent on this!

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/11/us/he-gets-us-super-bowl-commercials-cec

https://l.smartnews.com/sxaUp/J9dPj2
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣lawyers need to do a deep credit report on their sleazebag clients .

"The internment of Japanese American citizens remains one of the darkest and most shameful periods in our history,” said U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, who joined with U.S. Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Calif., the Norman Y. Mineta Japanese American Confinement Education Act.

https://bit.ly/3GYZNZK

#americanhistory #politics #goodnews

Physicist John Tyndall is often credited with discovering the greenhouse effect, which he wrote about in 1859.

But female scientist Eunice Foote published a paper - 3 years earlier - demonstrating how atmospheric water vapor & CO2 affected solar heating. She theorized that heat trapping gases in Earth’s atmosphere warm its #climate.

Tyndall was widely read. And Foote, being a woman, wasn't even permitted to present her own work. https://www.climate.gov/news-features/features/happy-200th-birthday-eunice-foote-hidden-climate-science-pioneer #history #science #ClimateChange

In the Oireachtas (Irish parliament) at an entrance to the camber: Chinese Hikvision camera. Hikvision cameras have been caught reporting back to China, getting hacked, and are implicated in the persecution of Uyghurs. https://www.iccl.ie/news/iccl-calls-for-immediate-removal-of-hikvision-cameras-from-oireachtas/

Garden planning and soup, today was the perfect cozy Saturday. Tuscan tortillini with chicken, cannellini beans, and fresh basil from my windowsill.

#soup #food