Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

9 months after his release from the concentration camps, Viktor Frankl delivered a set of staggering lectures about the meaning of life, which remained unknown to the English-speaking world for 70 years https://t.co/3ZkFb3gs0f

UNICEF says malnutrition and disease threatening more than 1.1m children in Gaza https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T361U183JvE

A medical provider is threatening to drop me as a patient unless I use their app.

Anyone know any lawyers that take cases like this pro bono?

#January6th My father survived the Depression, WWII, the McCarthy era, the murders of JFK, RFK. MLK, Evers, and X, and much, much more, but he said the insurrection on January 6 was the worst because it was Americans attacking democracy, truth, the rule of law, and honor.

It's importing to monitor your child's internet access because you could wake up some weekend morning and find them reading about Pascal's Triangle.

Long, long shot here but I don't happen to know anyone (or anyone who knows anyone) that's familiar with Arts Council England grant applications, do I? It would be unbelievably helpful towards a very cool music project if so.

You know what would be nice?

An "open firmware" project, where people produce and share FOSS firmware for common household devices, replacing the manufacturer's firmware with a decrapified version.

A smart TV? Reflash it with FOSS firmware, which removes tracking, calls to the manufacturer's servers, and any Internet-connected services that you don't want?

A printer? It's now yours. No ink subscription, or need for an app to print remotely.

And so on.

A man can dream, eh.

Good God, Stop Asking Me To Review Your Gizmo NOW!!!

I’m tired of those requests asking me to immediately review something.

It has happened again a few minutes ago. A popup showed up asking if I liked a WordPress extension. I’m tired of this shit. My entire life feels like I’m partnered with a needy person who keeps needing reassurance that I like them.

You may think that your little request is no big deal. Newsflash: it is a big deal! You’re asking me right now to drop everything and give you an honest assessment of whether I like your stuff. What? You did not realize that I was going to give an honest assessment? You’re dealing with someone who is autistic. If you ask me for an evaluation, I don’t see myself cutting corners or giving a half-baked impression.

Not only this, but add to this the fact that your request is not the only request I get. Your gizmo is not the only thing I use, you know. When every app writer, every grocery store, every dispensary, every dumbass in existence asks me to validate them, the noise is deafening.

In order to properly answer all the demands you assholes put on me, I’d have to take up a job as a reviewer. I can review your gizmo, but it takes time for me to form an opinion about whether it works the way I want. Again, I don’t deal in half-baked opinions. Again, your request is not the only one I get. What makes you think you’re more deserving of my time than the million other assholes who clamor for a review?

I’ll be frank here, these immediate demands feel scammy to me. I imagine that the reason we are bombarded with these so fast is that we haven’t had the time yet to discover problems. Since we haven’t discovered problems yet, then we will give a stellar review. No way! I’m not going to do this.

The risk you run when you ask me too persistently or too early for a review is that I’m going to review your product poorly, and I’m going to leave a comment like “asks for a review too soon.” Yes, asking too soon is a flaw in your product. Actually, your product shouldn’t even ask. We’re going to write a review when and if we are ready.

The cherry on this shit sundae is when the gizmo won’t take “no” for an answer. Some of them don’t give you the option to even say “no.” You can only say “later.” Others take “no” as “later.” So you think you’ve dismissed the request forever, but it comes back.

I encourage everyone who is annoyed at these requests to put in a shitty review. Don’t give them five stars because you haven’t found the Achilles’ heel yet, give them one start for the bloody review request.

Maybe then they’ll learn not to fuck with their clients.

#ActuallyAutistic #assholes #AutisticWriters #demands #noise #reviews #Scam #YourAutisticLife

https://www.yourautisticlife.com/2024/01/06/good-god-stop-asking-me-to-review-your-gizmo-now/

What’s the primary way you access Mastodon? (Please boost to extend reach.)

Code Club Electronics 18 https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/code-club-electronics-18

Code Club 6/1/2024 Write up https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/code-club-6-1-2024-write-up

Trojans Training 7/1/2024 https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/trojans-training-7-1-2024

Rarely do you get to see the roots of post boxes like these ones waiting to be re-potted.

V The Nation:
'The work of Gaza’s journalists has been essential these past months, but as the challenges of reporting continue to mount, the world is getting only a fraction of the story.'
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/the-challenge-of-reporting-in-gaza/

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/01/wa-bans-commercial-native-logging-in-move-state-says-could-save-20000-sq-km-of-forest

Western Australia has banned commercial logging of native forests. This will protect many threatened species, as well as the forests.

I'm an American Muslim running for US Congress IL-11. We have a campaign address. Yet some anonymous person dug up my home address & sent me an envelope with pamphlets warning me to repent or go to hell & Jesus is coming to kill all Jews.😳

Far right evangelism is truly upsetting.

After that news about Facebook's "Link History" feature, I've decided to close down the Marvelous Monarch Seed Swap Network on there, with a post mentioning Mastodon and Friendica and doing hashtag searches. So...

...this is a hashtag beacon post for anyone from over there who might migrate to over here. There's the generic #seedswap hashtag that's been here a while, but for beacon purposes I'm adding #MarvySwap.

Of course anybody else interested in swapping seeds is welcome. It's nearing that time of year when starting seeds indoors for the upcoming growing season is in order.

if anyone has suggestions, i'm looking for a fairly small akkoma server run by lgbtq+ people!

Continuing on what constitutes genocidal intent:
Israel reportedly held secret talks to forcibly expel Palestinians in Gaza to countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo and Saudi Arabia.

"Forcible transfer of Gazan population is an act of genocide expecially given the high number of children. Congolese or other states' officials willb e guilty of aiding and abetting genocide if they agree to any transfer of population."
– Balakrishnan Rajagopal, UN Special Rapporteur

To put it simply: "Voluntary resettlement" is forced displacement, is ethnic cleansing, is genocide, and the stench is just as rancid whatever the name you give it.

Source:
https://www.instagram.com/p/C1ssgC7PXL8/?img_index=1

Source:
https://archive.is/oDJxG (Yeah, I'm _not_ sending you to the original page.)

#Gaza #Palestine #FreeGaza #FreePalestine #ThisIsGenocide #StopTheGenocide #FightTheGenocide #GenocidalIntent #SouthAfrica #ICJ @palestine