daemonburrito.bsky.social
Musician, hacker and GPL advocate.
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A heartbreaking failure of the Democratic Party, that they ceded to bigotry and fiction, in the "Border Bill" gambit and in the 2024 campaign. Terrible, awful, move that they may never recover from, when we need opposition most.
States and cities are suffering from the lack of moral clarity.
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I worry that this is indicative of what our "opposition" party will do in the US, should they make any electoral gains.
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Part of me wishes that someone could restore my belief in the Democratic Party. There doesn't seem to be any other chance, with party systems being in state and federal law for most of the 2nd Republic. Some fire-breathing blue wave acct to tell me that we can vote this all away?
Not optimistic.
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I worry that too many of my political posts are criticizing the Democratic Party.
I was, up until the 2024 elections, of the opinion that we could use the intra-party systems to affect change, that our system wasn't entirely illusory; thus sidestepping the question of voting outside the party.
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I can almost feel sorry for Ezra Klein. It may have been his last rodeo, his retirement, now deflated by actual problems being dominant.
Almost feel sorry. He could always leave the dark side, and he hasn't. Maybe he's trapped by careerism, unable to see his way out. 🤷
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It wasn't a strategy for a D win, just a potential windfall for donor interests; it's not as if the GOP was pro-regulation.
Completely cynical, just something capital wanted and attached to a real crisis that's killing people, and it became almost the whole Harris campaign.
Clear in hindsight.
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On the cusp of destroying Medicare and Medicaid in the name of cutting costs, no action is taken against insurers; in fact, they're paid to accelerate death under this system.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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No, there must be a language barrier? I'm saying that including _your_ code with the art is beautiful. I've been using Jupyter since it was IPython Notebook.
Since this is the second misunderstanding, I must be misspeaking somehow. Share _your_ code with your art; it's a part of it.
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These would be better with a link to code. Or... drop the python and creativecoding tags? I don't get it, part of the beauty is your implementation.
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That date range is significant, and points to one major factor. The Bayh-Dole Act, 1980-12-20, the opening salvo on the bipartisan war on academia.
It's really just religious capitalism, let's make academe run like a business. If there's profit, it's a net good.
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It's tough. I don't want to suggest that I have it all figured out, just that I've learned more than I would have predicted.
You extrapolated what I wanted to say correctly. There's dictionary definition, cognates, etc., then there's the thing itself.
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There is a lot to be learned about disability, beyond the bare word. Not an attack, but you could spend a few hours on the topic, and gain a new perspective on disability.
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I don't think it's really like that in their minds. I think that they feel as if they're restoring God's will/natural law, which has been subverted by compassion and empathy, leading to degeneracy being rewarded.
It's classic fascism, social darwinism, eugenics, etc.
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As others in this thread have said, objectivity in journalism is a myth. A harmful, cynically used myth.
If we abandon this concept, and put time into our own literacy, it's a better time than ever to get information about the wider world. It's only painful if we cling to the fantasy.
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Yeah, bald fascist takes, from the biggest streamer on the web. I feel like we're getting numb to it.
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is my fave. They went beyond popular formats, so "song" and "cover" are kind of funny words to use. Their other covers are great and instructive about their approach at the melted psych end of the common era.
Anyway, great stuff.
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You appear to be in a strata of releases that I dearly love. I don't know if you've ever made it to "Perfect Prescription", but that hit me harder. I don't know if that's just because I heard it first, but Spacemen changed everything in music for me. Their "cover" of "Transparent Radiation" ...
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Not at least acknowledging the work of this album is bizarre to me, as are complaints about perceived musical shortcomings.
I always forget that there are people who hate on this, and I'm kind of grateful for that. The whole E6 catalog is a special moment.
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"Audit" here is a term of art.
There's some great video explainers out there.
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JFC ALT TEXT!
In the spirit of openness that is in our defiance of things like Grok, make these posts READABLE.
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I wish that this wasn't the case. After the debacle, starting with the convention, I thought those who failed would step aside, and there'd be a chance to replace the machinery.
But it's clear they're still there; not the elected leadership, but those who can rewrite elections.
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Thanks! It took me a minute to realize that you aren't the original poster. Wonderful that you took the time.
What I was getting at, with my comment, is that it makes posts like this more beautiful when code is included, like Python and Jupyter have made literature better. It should be de rigueur.
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(Because you could say Piker broke the story, as it happened to him, and a larger group of people watched him describe it directly, than consume the two outlets in question.)
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I've heard that you don't necessarily write headlines, but I have to comment on the apparent conflation of the terms "liberal", "left wing", and "Democrat". They are not synonymous, nor are they completely intersectional, a particularly important point with Hasan Piker and fellow travelers.
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Oh, and follow the author: @equalityalec.bsky.social
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...Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.
John Erlichmann, Nixon advisor and Assistant on Domestic Affairs, Watergate conspirator.
Harper's, 2018 harpers.org/archive/2016...
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...but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.
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"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black,
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Like so many other issues, this demonstrates the irrelevance of party. Democrats created this monster, Democratic politicians implement policy in cities, and cede the crime narrative to the right.
Don't tolerate against lies rationalized as electoral tactics.
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Yes, thank you.
Same goes for drug use. Our carceral system is another moral stain.