slothparlor-jason.bsky.social
Web Dev | Pittie Parent | Skeptic w/ Compassion | Media Literacy Advocate | Gaming Enthusiast
I want to learn as much as possible, believe as few false things as possible, and use it to think better for better action.
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Little sad to see even the funny joke thread kinda miss the likely point here. As a webdev, no amount of familiarity or dev experience changes the fact that you need a domain/business reason to have a framework out in front of your *static site*. Too many of us neglect that.
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Fuck, I just realized I wish this were true. It’s not. It’s way worse. A shocking number of people only hear fraudulent alarms.
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We’re a country dense with people primed to hear alarmism louder than the sound of the alarm.
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I need to get a feel for more agent-first workflows because currently I’ve only used one. My experience fun-bad. In personified terms, I just couldn’t get it to focus. Every iteration it went down off-topic paths and made little tweaks that hit me like noise. It also got caught in a cycle.
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The stock market is not the economy!
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It’s eggs or something, right?
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This isn’t even a difficult thing to work through. I can’t think of any awful thing a person does that makes me think they don’t deserve a process or that they do deserve torture. Rule of law has table stakes. How many times do we need to fuck this up before we figure out how to hand them down?
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It’s more than a little frustrating that we’ll likely see arguments over the details but the larger, principled issues filled with symbolism, not so much. Embarrassingly unequipped for fascism.
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That sounds right on. We see it in so many spaces we hope would stand on merit. With structured debate, skills specific to the firm eclipse subject matter expertise every time. Same with public communication. Same with coalition building. (And yes, I picked things a politician is nexus to)
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Don’t understand Elon through the lens of scientism or even techno-optimist fanaticism. These are terribly dangerous, but if you extricate cynicism from them, even lots of power and influence just amount to bad, gross bets, not this fascism.
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Strong agree from me, but I can imagine that people are tripping over the idea of a talented politician. We’re in the midst of this obsession with authenticity even though our ability to spot it is terrible. That obsession undergirds a cynicism towards the idea of politicking as a skill.
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Got it. I must have missed the pushback against the concept. I think I must be in circles bullish on them (or bullish on solving the problem they are thought to solve).
Appreciate the response.
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I’d be curious about your thoughts on if we flipped this around a little bit. Are there any practices where the balance of equities is such that we A*want* something obtrusive to a user flow to juice adoption? And, if so, why not passkeys?
Love your work, man. Hope this is received well.
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It’s also an administrative stay that would result in more irreparable harms accumulating which, lay person here but, I think implies that the chief justice finds the arguments of the appeal compelling and/or he thinks this would be acceptably adjudicated in terms of damages.
gl con law scholars
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Stelter’s point here has the look and feel of a “don’t let perfection be the enemy of good enough.” But actual news media compromising their coverage in a way that favors those who would abuse media isn’t a “good enough.”
Propagandists in line to take their spot is a separate problem.
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Having had more than a few conversations with people in his corner, his cynicism manages to inspire cynicism and the people didn’t even seem to know it. I cant begin to describe how disheartening that was. He disregards good info for influence and leaves impedance to shared-values in his wake.
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The panic is a shared experience, as are real behaviors in response (people sending their own drones up, people looking up).
Testimony is not independent at all. the wild exps are complex claims. They need different kinds of evidence. That case, trust feels in stories should trend down, not up.
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Read. Appreciate the share. This 100% should make you less interested in the salacious parts of the current drone panic in NJ, not more.
Small drone w/ camera. Plausible circumstances and behavior. Consum hardware. Constraint-breaking software (other source). Detection system in place. Traced op.
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I strongly disagree, and I think if we dug into it, you might see that our biases play a substantial role in how much leeway we give witnesses with extremely rare claims and whether we care about their subjective beliefs at all (insofar as the claim is concerned). Please think on this.
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Why am I thinking of DJI drones? Why am I thinking of quad copts? Why am I thinking of SUVs for sky refs? Why are we stipulating the distance? Is it day or night? Is the object front lit, how? Is it back lit, how? Is it a light source? Hell at 100 feet, I bet the bad ends of air qual make a diff
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100% sincere, there’s a ton to unpack here and I’d want to make sure we agree every step of the way.
To the specific question, at a hundred feet I probably only experience them as obviously different because I probably see the large object with limited acuity and the small with none at all. But…
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Linking is totally fine and encouraged. I’m trying to find an explainer of distance ambiguity & challenges to estimating size. Issue is just that we can only do so much back and forth once one of us gets a backlog. Also, if we can come together to criticize DailyMail, we can file that under “hope”
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As chill as I try to be, a great way to get pure asshole out of me is to confidently attribute intentionality to things w/o receipts.
“object clearly knew our intentions,” “picked up speed to avoid us,” “clearly avoiding,” “as if it was toying with us”
This is not ok for reporting.
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We skeptics too often use the phrase extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Pithy, but it only gets us so far and sometimes it’s deployed wrong.
We should portion our belief to the evidence, so a claim that’s hard to evidence is also hard to believe as framed. These claims are ROUGH.
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DM article content — it’s all over the place. It has at least 3 topics that aren’t earned as related. The 2 chase stories are focused on the surprising details of the story and offer no analysis, no journalism. Credulous reporting is not our friend for this subject
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DM article — I appreciate you apologizing for linking to DM because that was a genuinely awful experience. Like, I joked out loud to my wife that I think the DailyMail is trying to cause pain to its readers. I read the whole thing, several parts more than once bc the fucking scroll kept jumping on 🔄
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Ok, I’m feeling a bit like I’m being gish galloped. Please keep in mind I only have 300 chars.
I read the article.
I watched the Evan Cutler video.
I can’t stomach another McHugh clip tonight, but I’ll let you know when I watch it.
More incoming.
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I have thought about what you were saying *less biased, on scene* v *more bias, outsiders*. I probably still wouldn’t accept the hard claims by eye-wit, but I would definitely look at the rejections harshly. I’d get personally frustrated at the people and I’d feel like the process was dismissive.
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Fine stipulate “in the sky” as the condition and downgrade “knew” to “would probably average worse than typical eye-witness” — I’m totally serious, I’m curious where the delta is because my hunch is that for you it’s very low, but for me it’s like “the size claims here w/o method is damning”
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I hear that, and, to take it seriously, I’m approaching that as a thought exercise, because it’s nothing like the way I think.
I’d ask one of you. If you knew (like really knew — treated as an assumption) that it was really hard to estimate sizes under these cond., would that change anything?
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I honestly wouldn’t know how to compare those two, but I would not rank first responder eye-witness reports high in absolute terms, so it being relatively more trustworthy can’t say much about what I should or shouldn’t believe.
Agency is different for me; high doubt, low cynicism
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Got it. Much appreciated, again. I did ask for this, so no implied frustration here — it’s gonna take some time for me to graph this out for myself — also, I know nothing about TWZ.
Do you, personally, find the coast guard claim or the helicopter claim compelling? Why, why not?
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I feel like I’ve been pretty good-faith here. Are you telling me to go find an independent coast guard claim when I’m telling you the video you sent me just the 50 drones over ocean to a police officer. And again, I may have misunderstood the video. Like I believe you, but why is it on me to check?
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Simpler than all that. When we first started talking you summarized the state of things and we’ve just been carefully unpacking that. The ocean claim is currently my only grounded (to me) in the video you shared and unless I misunderstood, it was by a police officer with no technical assistance.
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Any thoughts on all of this since we last spoke?
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That’s what @onthemedia.bsky.social is for!
I’m kidding, I know you don’t just mean more news, even if it pretty regularly crushes it.
I fear that solidarity among journalists is also sorting along political and abuse-of-power lines. Less so than reporters, but more so than I’d have imagined.
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This and AR/MR workspaces with a comfortable headset. Ooooh man, it seems like it really shouldn’t completely change the way I work, but I feel 100% sure it would