Biggles

GothDad. IT type person. small-scale Lightning-Smith. Not straight.
Litmus test of warped humour.
Not as good as I think I am.
Black belt in idiot online. He/him.

2025-06-13
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2025-06-12

No.

If anything, we implement safety degrades and wait until the problem has solved itself.

Grauniad: Woman who witnessed Sydney light rail death calls for safety upgrades.

(Some bloke jumped through gap between carriages clearly marked "danger" with a "no access" icon on it and, unsurprisingly, was killed when the tram then moved while he was part-way through climbing the bit with the big red DANGER sign on it.)
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2025-06-12

Kimmel nails this hoser.

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2025-06-12

VIOLENCE
is one-way on oppressor street.

@_Zeets

Not really doing another round of this absolutely useless argument where the state can employ any and every kind of violence against people, but the second someone throws a rock at their car, the person gets lectured about how violence is not the way.
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2025-06-12

NEW: Four months after releasing iOS 18.3.1, Apple has published details about a zero-day that it fixed at the time, but did not publicize.

This is the iPhone zero-day used against the two European journalists targeted with Paragon spyware, according to Citizen Lab.

It's unclear why Apple did not publish information about this zero-day until today.

techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/appl

2025-06-12

@Jplonie @franksting industry death spiral has started - they predicted it in micro eco 1001 for me

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As an aside the whole "Universal healthcare is forced labor of doctors" doesn't make a damned lick of sense.

They know public school teachers, road construction workers, volunteer (but paid - read opposite of drafted) soldiers, and police are all paid through taxes and aren't forced labor...

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2025-06-12

Just found this on our door. Good for them! Southernborder.org

Door flyer listing rights regarding police and ICE etc. if they come to one’s door.
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2025-06-11

#3101 - Good Science

A comic with five panels.

Panel 1: A woman stands in front of a board with writing on it. She says: "I'm supposed to give you the tools to do good science."

Panel 2: She gestures while two students sit at desks facing her. She says: "But what ARE those tools? Methodology is hard and there are so many ways to get incorrect results. What is the magic ingredient that makes for good science?"

Panel 3:
She is now standing beside the board, which is showing bullet points. She says: "To figure it out, I ran a regression with all the factors people say are important:"

Written on the board is the following:

Outcome variable
- Correct scientific results

Predictors:
- Collaboration
- Skepticism of others’ claims
- Questioning your own beliefs
- Trying to falsify hypotheses
- Checking citations
- Statistical rigor
- Blinded analysis
- Financial disclosure
- Open data

Panel 4: She continues explaining: "The regression says two ingredients are the most crucial: 1) Genuine curiosity about the answer to a question, and 2) Ammonium hydroxide"

Panel 5: A student at a desk responds: "Wait, why did ammonia score so high? How did it even get on the list?" The woman enthusiastically replies, arms raised: "...And now you're doing good science!"

Hidden text: "If you think curiosity without rigor is bad, you should see rigor without curiosity."
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I went to a talk lately that was mostly about something else, but the speaker came out with:

“If you only remember one thing from this talk, remember this. Everyone in this room who likes helping people, raise your hand.”

Every hand, or nearly every hand, went up.

“If you like asking other people for help, keep your hand up.”

Almost every hand went back down.

“As you can see, people like helping you. When you ask for help, you’re making them feel good, even if you don’t like asking.”

I’ve genuinely forgotten the rest of the presentation but I won’t forget that.

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2025-06-11

I see that the Marines are being told they can "detain" people while waiting for police to arrive to "arrest" them.

I would mention that our very own SCOTUS says that if a person is not free to leave then that person is under arrest and must be given a Miranda warning.

Now --- here we have the Army or Marines "detaining" people - people who are not free to leave - and probably not giving Miranda warnings.

As such, were I the defense counsel, I would move for exclusion of all evidence gathered post "detention" as inadmissible because of lack of Miranda warning.

Police, ill as they sometimes are, are trained and often quite skilled in the obligations imposed by our Fourth Amendment. Marines are not.

2025-06-11
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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"Lana@beige.party
2025-06-11

They are going to fire on American citizens.
They are going to fire on American citizens.
They are going to fire on American citizens.
They are going to fire on American citizens.
They are going to fire on American citizens.

Maybe not today.
Maybe not in L.A.
Maybe not on Trump's direct order.

But they are going to fire on American citizens. That is the point and the reason and the desired outcome of the constant escalation. That's why it went from police to national guard. That's why it went from National Guard to the Marines. That's why it went from L.A. to L.A and Seattle. That's why it went from L.A. and Seattle to L.A, Seattle, and a bunch of other cities. That's why they started by calling us protestors, then it went from protestors to rioters. Then it went from rioters to terrorists.

That's why the escalation of dehumanization.
That's why the escalation of scope.
That's why the escalation of force.

They are going to fire on American citizens.

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2025-06-11

When they named their company Hugging Face AI, this was what they want people to think of vs. this is what I can't help to think of every time it's mentioned.

The Hugging Face Emoji. 🤗The Facehugger from the Alien movie franchise, with an AI looking at the victim.
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2025-06-11
A t-shirt print design with a dalek and the caption, “OMG IT’S R2-D2! I LOVED HIM IN STAR TREK!”
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2025-06-11

#Autism is, basically, having the soul of a child who waves at planes (and thinking the pilot is waving back) and the nervous system of a Chihuahua at a fireworks display

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