@imwiththecats If there's a sugar-free variety I'll try it.

The Red/green combo reminds me of a Christmas dessert I had growing up.

AP: Following the announcement by #Target that it removed products and relocated #Pride displays to the back of certain stores in the South, activists in the #LGBTQ+ community are calling for new campaigns to convince corporate leaders not to cave. https://apnews.com/article/lgbtq-target-pride-month-gay-transgender-a6872f755096647b0732cd5313b1b4b7

@SwiftOnSecurity Utopia, Ohio - in fact - did this very thing. And the residents died in 1847 when the Ohio River flooded, and they didn't evacuate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia,_Ohio

The most common gender affirming surgery is breast augmentation -- in cis (non-trans) women.

The regret rate is around 20%.

Gender affirming surgeries in trans people have around a 1% regret rate.

Guess which people need approval from a mental health provider...

Today in Labor History May 26, 1824: Women and girls led the first recorded factory strike in US history. 102 women and girls walked off the job at Slater Mill, in Pawtucket, and picketed their factory.
Two days prior, the owners had increased working hours by an hour per day with no additional pay. Additionally, they slashed the pay of power-loom weavers by 25%. Those affected were all women and girls aged 15 to 30. According to the bosses, the girls had already been earning “extravagant wages.”

The owners were caught off guard. They were not expecting a protest. Indeed, no U.S. factories had ever experienced a strike. Perhaps even more shocking, other workers and community members joined them in solidarity. They blockaded the mills and hurled rocks at the mansions of the owners. On the final day of the week-long strike, workers set one of the mills on fire. The next day, the owners agreed to negotiate and agreed on a compromise.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #strike #women #sabotage #girls #solidarity

@jerry

Hm

Twitter is a free speech platform

So there are tons of tweets about the whistleblower who dropped 100 gigs of Tesla’s secrets right?

Like how

Tesla only covers warranty related repairs if the owner signs a NDA not to disclose defects
How Tesla beta tests on users (and gen pop) without consent
How it’s employees avoid written communication like email to avoid incrimination
…and more!

https://jalopnik.com/whistleblower-drops-100-gigabytes-of-tesla-secrets-to-g-1850476542

Sounds like a neat seminar topic.

@CapitalEx

https://www.reddit.com/r/Forth/wiki/index/ has some useful links.

Stop anthropomorphizing billionaires.

I’m puzzled that our major national #journalism outlets, especially the resource-rich NYTimes, have given so little attention in news coverage and followup to #Florida’s book banning, speech regulation and political interference in education. Little sense of historic context and precedents, who’s affected, who’s fighting back, much more.

#DeSantis campaign coverage mentions this as political strategy only

#USPol #journalists #NewYorkTimes

Congress wants to reauthorize the mass surveillance programs that 🐦Snowden exposed. Follow this thread for the latest

QT Restore_the4th: Join us today for coverage of the House Intelligence hearing, livestreaming at https://www.c-span.org/video/?526442-1/us-intelligence-directors-testify-global-threats

1/n

Good news for #intfic fans. Mainframe #Zork can now be compiled and run from source code. Coming soon here:
https://github.com/PDP-10/its/

@larsbrinkhoff
Seeing 64 students all playing Zork was an amazing experience - brought the EECS Department box (MIT-EECS) to its knees. #goodtimes

@WillRichardson We need to adopt a labeling standard for content.
Either the LLM platforms like ChatGPT mark their stuff as "bot-generated from stuff I found on the internet", or Humans will have to attest to their stuff being written by a human, but probably both things will need to happen.

Hey OpenAI: Write a 500 word story about a school classroom that meets Seymour Papert's vision of education.

Crazy.

Seriously, time for a serious rethink about a lot of stuff.

so my husband asked me (jokingly??) if i wanted to role-play and i was like why, yes. yes, i do. i said let’s play sexy librarian and he got all excited. until i told him to go sit quietly “over there” while i read

@qurlyjoe @aaronesilvers @alison@toot.site

I had a new consultant come to me and exclaim "I found a bug in the AT&T C compiler". He claimed this was not unusual, and he had a PhD in Computer Science.

I was naturally skeptical, but we looked until we found the bug in his code.

@alison@toot.site Hard to top that, unless there is a communal trip and shared reality that follows.

Some would say that working for Steve was like that anyway.