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He/him. Somerville, MA.
Previously: Google, reCAPTCHA, Carnegie Mellon (Ph.D., Computer Science).
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ya, nobody who's enriching uranium to >5% is intending to use that in peaceful nuclear reactors
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Two days after Salt Lake City Police released a one-sided statement suggesting an innocent man was a mass shooter while praising the actual killers, local news finally reports that police are investigating the "peacekeepers" who fired into the crowd.
The killer's name is still not published.
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Zojirushi. I have one from the mid-2000s and it still works and they still sell replacement parts at sensible prices online. Truly an appliance meant to last a lifetime.
Cooks better rice than an Instant Pot too.
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also who the fuck signs their tweets with initials?? -CPM
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this post went more viral than expected, so if you've come here from afar: i live here. i was there. i'm proud of us for turning out so many people yesterday.
i know the Boston area has 5 million people. but boston itself is a physically small city (48 sq.mi., smaller than any major US city but SF)
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2 whole USB-C ports? so you can charge it *and* plug in a peripheral at the same time? luxuriously fancy.
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yeah i live in what is technically a "suburb" and mostly i am impressed / proud of how many of the people who live here (broadly speaking) turned out yesterday. (i was there too!)
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The big issue is that there are no “Dem power centers”
Democratic elected officials do not enjoy the loyalty of anyone in this country who is given a gun and the authority to use it and they’ve been whistling past this graveyard for a long time.
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Ants might at least have complex inner lives.
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he must have been mad that the Telemundo contingent at Boston Pride was more attention-grabbing than his birthday parade
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yes, i know what a metro area is.
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Okay but like, LA (city) has plenty of its own cops, shouldn't the county-level cops stay in the cities (or unincorporated areas) that actually need them?
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That this is a hecking lot of people.
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sorry if this is a dumb question from a non-local but: why is there even LASD in addition to LAPD? why are there two sets of cops w/ different command structures? i can't see why anyone would want this, even in normal situations
i mean, *except* to have them shoot at each other instead of civilians
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there were lots of anti-ICE signs in Boston too but also it was Pride so the general distribution of "normie lib-coded people" might have been lower than at other nationwide protests
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Ah! You want Fastmail.
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yeah the lowest-energy parade contingent
despite their music being absolutely obnoxiously loud compared to every other float
money can buy him a bigger loudspeaker but can't make anyone want to listen
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like sure, you could choose to make an AI that only ingests content from right-wing nutjob websites, but then it will fail utterly at ordinary people asking ordinary questions because there aren't enough RWNJ sites talking about ordinary normal not-frothing-at-the-mouth happenings
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i mean the math is fine, the event drew enough people from outside Boston itself (the metro area has 5M or 8M people depending on how you count)
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the 4chan of mothering
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nevertheless it's pretty cool that Boston managed to fit approximately an entire extra Boston's worth of people just for Pride/NoKings this weekend
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yeah, the metropolitan area is more like 5 million
boston itself as a city is very small land-wise (48 square miles, compared to 468 in NYC, 502 in LA, and 230 in Chicago) so a relatively small portion of people who "live in the Boston area" actually reside in Boston proper
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Minneapolis came in strong with "No royalty except Prince"