tripu @tripu@social.cleverlibre.org

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/06/20/world/us-donald-trump-troop-cut-germany-allies/

@freemo a recent episode of the #FreeThoughts podcast delves into some of the horrible bad policies that create the bad incentives that contribute to #policebrutality — and also offers some bold ideas for reform:

https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/free-thoughts/our-criminal-injustice-system-jason-brennan-chris-surprenant

The five or six main problems with #capitalism today — the ∪ of #RebeccaHenderson's & #RussRoberts's sets on #EconTalk podcast:

• Accelerating inequality / people who are left behind.
• Failing to deal with major environmental risks.
• Decreasing government capacity.
• The epidemic of loneliness.
• Control of information (govt vs tech).

https://www.econtalk.org/rebecca-henderson-on-reimagining-capitalism/

“The real roots of black suffering in America don’t lie just with #racism, but also with an unconscionably inadequate social-safety net, underfunded schools, self-interested #police unions that protect bad officers, a disastrous #warondrugs, and a prison-industrial complex whose profiteers feast on human misery. These are massively complicated problems that can’t be addressed with new-age religious ceremonies or self-lacerating Facebook posts from preening white suburbanites.”

https://quillette.com/2020/06/09/for-journalists-the-new-york-times-social-justice-meltdown-is-a-sign-of-things-to-come/

https://mastodon.social/@thomasfuchs/104317257674597974

@dansup Good luck!
This is of little comfort, but if genealogy is their [main] concern, your being gay does not imply that they won't have *genetic* grandkids. In 10 or 15 years (you seem quite young) it might be even possible for two males to pass on their genes to a baby.
https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/two-father-babies-could-soon-be-possible-no-egg-donor-required/

OS modal windows (upgrade available, error occurred, background operation finished, unsolicited tip) that spring up unexpectedly, stealing the keyboard focus, and are accidentally accepted or dismissed because you happened to be typing — perhaps not even looking at the screen, or at *that* screen: how #$% is this still a thing? #usability #antipattern

For me, it's #Ubuntu #GNU/Linux. But I'd be (pleasantly) surprised if it didn't happen on other OS's.

Those #modals should have a little timer, or perhaps wait for more deliberate interaction (like mouse hover / ⇥, then Esc / ↵).

“To condemn the #rioting—which I believe to be a moral and political imperative—is not at all the same thing as opposing the #protests. Many observers have been reluctant to do the former because they wish to avoid the latter. I maintain that this is a grave mistake. […] #Progressive intellectuals who make excuses for #streetviolence, even in the face of the awful killing of #GeorgeFloyd, are making a monumental moral and political error.”
— #GlennLoury

https://quillette.com/2020/06/03/condemn-this-violence-without-equivocation/

https://soundcloud.com/nettwerkmusicgroup/ladytron-destroy-everything

There are universal #web sites that don't include #JavaScript at all. There are accessible, progressively-enhanced sites that use #JS sensibly. There are crappy web apps that rely too much on #JavaScript.

…and then there is #LinkedIn, which is a blank page unless you keep its tab focused while https://www.linkedin.com/feed/ is loading and stare at it attentively and in reverential silence.

I think @bert would be even more appalled than me about this 😉
#badweb #antipattern

@pganssle, same story here (mastodon.technology → qoto.org).
For me, the alarm went off in December last year, when I shared a quote (verbatim, without commentary) from a Scientific American article, and ashfurrow@mastodon.technology replied privately:
“Spreading sexist misinformation violates our code of conduct. This is your only warning that this isn’t acceptable on this instance.”
After that, when I tried to migrate my followers, I discovered about his blocking qoto.org.

@design_RG, are discussions still at an impasse?
Just curious. To be honest, at this point I think it'd be best if mastodon.technology simply suffered the consequences of its own bad policies — I want to see the smart users migrating away from it.

I am three days away from a 2-year-long streak on #Duolingo: learning a tiny bit of 🇯🇵 #Japanese and/or 🇩🇪 #German each and every day since June 2018 — and I've been travelling, out of the country, off sick…
Maintaining the streak is a silly thing, but this kind of challenges help me keep motivated and going.
I finished the German course long ago, so now I am just “practising” and not learning new stuff; and I've reached a point in Japanese where I'm not learning well (I should be properly studying grammar, vocabulary and kanji instead). On the other hand, losing the streak would be a pity, and I'm not confident that I would study regularly if I switched to my textbooks…
Mastodon: what should I do?

https://mastodon.technology/@tripu/102208612300210016
https://www.duolingo.com/profile/tripu.info

@btcprox@mstdn.io
Ah, yes… Indeed. Many of us have found ourselves in that quandary already. The #DecentralizedConundrum, I call it.
/cc @Gargron

#EricWeinstein on how to learn what's necessary to think from first principles:

1. #EvolutionaryTheory (eg “The Selfish Gene”, “The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution”).
2. #Economics (“markets are the continuation of natural and sexual selection by other means”).
3. Offbeat #history (regular history, Howard Zinn's version, conservative versions, etc).
4. #Psychology (the most durable parts).

Then: #mathematics, #physics, #chemistry, #programming…

https://jamesaltucher.com/podcast/472-eric-weinstein/

#Marvel:
“#Safespace […] can create forcefields, but he can only trigger them if he's protecting somebody else. #Snowflake is #non-binary and goes by they/them, and has the power to generate individual crystalized snowflake-shaped shurikens. […] A post-ironic meditation on using violence to combat bullying.”
Post-ironic indeed!
https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/introducing-the-new-new-warriors

Los mejores análisis políticos de #EEUU en #español siempre vienen de #RogerSenserrich, «egocrata», a través de #Politikon. El último:
https://politikon.es/2020/05/25/inundar-la-zona-de-basura/