spdustin.com
Progressive, LGBTQ ally, feminist, autism dad, ADHD-er, and huge nerd (OSINT, martech, machine learning/AI, home automation, electronics). I believe abortion is healthcare, and that we have too many guns in this country.
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I think they’re killing it as Ellie, tbh. And the changes that Nick and Craig made for the show were either changes that Nick wanted in the game in the first place, or both of them recognizing that handling converging story arcs in a game is VERY different from television. Payoff has to come sooner.
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*sigh*
They.
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I swear on all that is holy I, an avowed home automation and gadget nerd, will never buy another gadget that needs to access the internet for anything. And I’ll pay more if it itself can be controlled on my LAN via a simple and documented API.
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I want to go to there
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What’s your favorite punchline to a joke? (Just the punchline)
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Awesome! And congrats on 13+ years :)
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That’s why I’d have to roll him over, and I’d be wearing full PPE for sure. 🤮
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My favorite governor. And my governor.
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If I ever see JD Vance asleep on a couch, I’m gonna roll him over and write this.
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Simply put: I'm assuming the crowd size reached its apex when 20 N-S city blocks were filled.
It's a formula used by professionals (e.g. civil engineers, fire marshals, sociologists, etc.) to estimate crowd sizes.
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Southwestern eggrolls, as my entrée.
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Not just that: they send a message to corporations that we, the only consumers left for their tariffed-to-hell products, have strong opinions, and maybe are worth something.
And it can show our terminally-decorous elected officials that we'd like them to, if they don't mind, start some shit.
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We may disagree on that point, but I truly hope we can reach the same ultimate conclusion: a unified movement against a fascist regime demands both pragmatism and the setting aside of purity tests. At this point in history, all our battles should be in service of a single war.
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1. They are literally not. Police are racist assholes, but not a tool of a fascist regime. Fascist regimes _replace the independent police with their own enforcement militias_. Please research what happened in Germany and Italy.
2. Ending discourse with "lmao" doesn't help show solidarity
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Just gonna tap this sign. And the post after it: Yes, ACAB, 100%, but if I'm fighting a fascist regime, I'm not going to give them a pretext to counterprogram by reframing protest as violence by purposefully fucking around with cops.
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Oh, hey, look at that! I can still projectile vomit!
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You know who really wants us to be openly confrontational of LEOs during a protest? Fascists. Because then they'd have pretext to turn us into "others".
ACAB, but while I'm busy fighting a fascist authoritarian regime, I'm not going to antagonize one and give Dear Leader the talking point.
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That's an inclusive group right there, blocking someone who explicitly gives away their whole fucking game.
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That's an inclusive group right there, blocking someone who explicitly gives away their whole fucking game.
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The constant efforts by uber-leftists or whatever the fuck you want to call yourselves to divide liberal and social justice groups because they're not at the center of your hypotrochoid Venn diagram is purposeful division, and I will not stand for it any longer.
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And all those groups that are terrified of police, and yes, with good fucking reason? They can't "work with police", but those of us with the privilege of being cis while males sure as fuck can advocate for them during a protest, stand in front of them, and make it clear we're all non-violent.
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And all those groups that are terrified of police, and yes, with good fucking reason? They can't "work with police", but those of us with the privilege of being cis while males sure as fuck can advocate for them during a protest, stand in front of them, and make it clear we're all non-violent.
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Fascist governments systematically dismantle independent police forces & replace them with paramilitary militias that serve the regime. _Those_ were the SA that you (obviously haven't) read about. 50501's engagement with democratic law enforcement is precisely what sets it apart from fascist regimes
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Heard and felt, my friend.
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. I've done plenty with local organizers of other groups.
And I'm not speaking ill of either HandsOff or 50501.
If you, in fact, represent 50501, that's great. You did good work.
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And I heard of 50501 long before #HandsOff. It’s an exemplar of our state of fractured organization, not an attempt to foment rebellion within our ranks.
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This skeet reeks of astroturfing conservatives.
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Don't get me wrong, I did it too. Honestly, for the same reason. But even being asked to do that is a failure in leadership.
Leadership has to understand the value of the existing/paid solution versus the time, cost, and frankly _liability_ before they start invoking NIH for _any_ reason.
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That'd be about 3/4 of the estimate then, for a north-to-south avenue in Manhattan.
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Crowd estimation tip:
Major city arterials are typically 100 ft. wide, incl. sidewalks.
For MOST gridded cities, blocks are 1/8 mile for N-S avenues, 1/16 for E-W streets. (NYC: 1/20 for N-S, ~1/6 for E-W)
Dense crowds: 2.5 sq. ft. per person. In NYC N-S avenues, that's 10,560 ppl per block.
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o7
Just doin' my duty. ;)
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The smaller area, densely packed, would include over 30,000 people (square footage divided by 2.5 for a dense crowd).
The larger area could include over 75,000 people, using a more conservative measurement of 3.5 square feet per person to accommodate the unusable standing space.
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*ahem*
The "ticker kicker"
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I see my fellow devs talking about SSGs: friends, there isn’t a non-technical user in the world that likes writing markdown, and they all hate your hand-rolled CMS. They grudgingly accepted Drupal, and you’re just going to piss everyone off by changing that. Cry about it on your Hugo-powered blog.
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100 ft wide (assuming no cars and sidewalks also being used) times 5280 feet long (assuming 20 N-S blocks) divided by 2.5 square feet per person is 211,200 people.
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Tech oligarchs can, in the immortal words of Seth Milchick, devour feculence and perish.
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Meanwhile 50 year olds like me have to leave tech because nobody will hire someone who talks that way, even if they actually do write modern code, deeply understand LLMs, etc.
Sorry, that turned into a trauma dump. I’m going back to writing a piece on the coming panopticon.
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It’s the business requirements that inform the use of technology, not the other way around. That’s what I try to tell new devs, anyway. I’d fire every last DOGE coder. “Oh, you passed leetcode? Tell me what COBOL does that JavaScript can’t. No dependencies allowed.”
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Oh yes. “But it would save us so much in subscription fees!”
Let’s magically think that is true: where is the institutional knowledge that’ll keep it running, support it, add new features? Because you sure as hell won’t be documenting code, and git commits of “fixing imports again lol” ain’t it.
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Or unless even the management-level is staffed by newbie cowboy coders who do what every newbie cowboy coder does: “Dropbox? That’s just rsync and a GUI wrapper, we could rewrite that as a bash script and save so much time.”
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Think: grade number +5 years if it’s fall, +6 years if it’s winter/spring. There are local exceptions, but that’s a good estimate.
So, yeah, 3rd grader this time of year is probably 9 years old.
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The story legit made me cry. I’ve never had a podcast bring me to tears.
The arc of this young man’s experience at MS HQ, the segue to meeting Martin O’Donnell, and the unexpected result of that meeting.
It’s a gift to get to hear this story. Whether or not you’re one of the players.