szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

Keep in mind... this happened to a NINE YEAR OLD little girl.

If women don't live up to the #patriarchy's standard of femininity, old white dudes will want to see your kitty to make sure you're a *real* girl.

Trans women were the easy first target in a move to get all women back in line.
https://www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna/431500/Girl-9-accused-of-being-trans-at-Kelowna-track-meet

Hiring a software engineer in their late 40s:

Pros:
* Understands your stack better than you do after glancing through the repo for five minutes.
* Will rewrite said stack 2x as fast, and half as buggy if you let them.

Cons:
* Gives zero fucks.
* Knows we're not *really* like family here.
* No, seriously, absolutely zero fucks given.

Do not cite the deep magic to me, product manager, I was there when it was written.

Nest that had babies fledge a few weeks ago has a new batch.

#robins

Po naszej krytyce posłowie PiS wycofują pomysł wprowadzenie do kodeksu karnego przestępstwa „nieumyślnego szpiegostwa”. Ale nie rezygnują z dania Szefowi ABW nowych uprawnień i zmniejszenia i tak iluzorycznej kontroli nad jej działaniami.

A to wszystko w Polsce, gdzie nie wyjaśniono afery z wykorzystaniem Pegasusa do inwigilowania opozycji w trakcie kampanii wyborczej w 2019 r.

Brak kontroli nad działaniami służb = obawy o uczciwość wyborów.

https://panoptykon.org/nieumyslne-szpiegostwo-projekt-poslow-pis-zmiany

UGH!!! This is just horrific!
"A moose acting aggressively in a Northwest Alaska community tested positive for rabies this month, marking the first rabid moose case detected in the state — and North America overall.

The case has prompted Alaska officials to increase rabies surveillance across a large swath of the state.

Alaska Department of Fish and Game staff based in the Nome area received several reports June 2 describing a moose in the community of Teller — about 70 miles northwest of Nome — with bare patches of skin that was behaving strangely and acting aggressively toward people, the department said in a statement...Fish and Game staff, after consulting with Beckmen, killed the moose that afternoon because of its aggressive behavior and signs indicative of a rabies infection...

Three days later, on June 5, the Alaska State Virology Laboratory detected the rabies virus in the moose’s brain, Fish and Game said in its statement."
#Alaska #Rabies
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/wildlife/2023/06/12/alaskas-first-ever-rabid-moose-case-prompts-higher-rabies-surveillance-in-state/

Found this unfortunately titled book at the local second-hand store.

Daily #photography

are people already familiar with this story about hard-boiled eggs or did i just stumble upon an absolute gem of a cautionary tale about algorithmic perfection? (annals of the history of computing, january 1983, volume 5, issue 1)

Moral panics are ridiculous in retrospect—satanic abuse, rap music, comic books?—but they're ridiculously dangerous at their peak. The transphobia moral panic is one of the most dangerous in our lifetimes https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/anti-trans-moral-panics-endanger-all-young-people/

The ability to produce unlimited amounts of plausible-looking garbage at essentially no cost, and to crowdsource that kind of vandalism to millions of randos by disguising it as something fun, destroys that capability. It's a DDoS attack on written knowledge.

Next year, only one zucchini plant. I have spoken.
#gardening

I am launching a single fediverse service, to replace:

Reddit
Spotify
Twitter
Facebook
GitHub
YouTube
WhatsApp

So that there is no reason not to join in.

YouRedTwitWhatASpottyFacedGit will be launching end of the week.

Whenever I see someone on one of these, I imagine they started out with a much larger vehicle and their journey has been riddled with a series of mishaps
#OldMememesNeverDie

For most of my life, when I found something like this, I assumed that it was an Anomaly.

I would think to myself: Surely no other organization has flaws this fundamental being papered over by human labor.

But I spent the last five years jumping from Fundamental Flaw to Fundamental Flaw at a 20+ Billion dollar company, filling gaps like this while "automation" was built.

In *every* case, the automation solves ~95 or so percent of the problem, and leaves a rare but possible set of circumstances that will require a human to clean up.

In most cases so far, the only humans with the experience to clean things up have left, have been pushed out, or will leave soon.

And things will bubble up. And things will break. And 10+ engineers will have to waste 3 - 5 days investigating the problem, because every corporation is built on the backs of the knowledge of employees they do not value.

I've seen, for example, how phone companies do business with one another and it's terrifyingly bad and incredibly fragile.

I can personally name a human being who is a single point of failure for half a dozen or more of the largest telcos in the world.

They would continue to exist without him, most of them don't even know *he* exists, but if he was hit by a bus they'd all have an incredibly bad few weeks/months/years, financially if not also mechanically/practically.

New blog post, in which I find another science fiction story about invisibility! Phantom of the Seven Stars, by Ray Cummings. https://skullsinthestars.com/2023/06/11/phantom-of-the-seven-stars-by-ray-cummings/

wasn’t ready for this

We're all monsters.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

24 hours of Earth's rotation, with the camera locked to the sky instead of the ground. We're all hanging out on this spinning rock.
Brilliant video by Bartosz Wojczyński. https://artuniverse.eu/gallery/190705-rotation24h #nature #wonder #earth