kirkpams.bsky.social
CS prof@JMU (OpenCSF.org, privacy/ethics, CSed). Author (Computer Systems Fundamentals - Franklin & Beedle). Chair, ACM Ethics&Plagiarism Committee. Father. AuDHD. Skiing and Kung Fu fanatic. Signal @kirkpams.13
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Almost certainly the latter. They’ve essentially cast the concept of most-favored nation to apply to Christianity (and occasionally Judaism, primarily when it aligns with Christian interests).
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The strategy seems to be “flood the zone” for long enough that most people lose track of all the different types of cases. Was that the green card holder or the student visa? The anti-Israel protests or the supposed MS-13 guy? Or the one who accidentally crossed a bridge? They’re all illegal, right?
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That’s so much better than my solution, which was to unplug the external monitor. I really don’t like hidden “features”.
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Thiessen
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Agreed, though I’d say even longer than that. Time to start introducing folks to Hofstadter’s Anti-intellectualism in American Life yet again.
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I expect him to follow the Glenn Beck path: act contrite for a few months but go back to his old ways as soon as things start to stabilize. He’s built his whole career on it.
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like you don’t get to be an arsonist for the last 10 years and then complain that you were used by the kerosene
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Never had it, but I haven’t been there in 15+ years.
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10/10. No notes.
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Agree on the first three. And my controversial spin on the first: Giordano’s > Gino’s East >> Pizzeria Uno.
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El Salvador has already returned people wrongly deported from the US.
So why not Kilmar Abrego Garcia?
At this stage, it feels vital to obtain evidence that Garcia is still alive.
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A 10-day old baby on my lap helps.
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Shrinking. The second season was really good.
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The fact that he specifically referred to “exposures” means he has a pre-ordained conclusion of the cause: vaccines. The only question is whether he can manipulate the process to get some quack to sign off on the completely manufactured “proof.”
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To my understanding, it’s not a question of guardrails or legality. It’s that precinct 53 and precinct 62 might use completely different and incompatible systems. The technical requirements of access in one might be wholly inapplicable to the other.
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One key point I’ve picked up from @mattblaze.org (sorry, really trying not to spam his replies) is that no one has “root access to every system” because the US doesn’t have *a* system but a collection of *thousands* of electoral systems, making such a threat more assumed than demonstrated.
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Any honest conversation about US election security has to engage with two realities:
- There are real vulnerabilities in some parts of our election infrastructure, and it's possible that this could result in malicious alteration of an election outcome
- There's no evidence this has actually happend.
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“Just do index funds,” they said. “You’ll average 10% annual returns,” they said. Yeah, great, thanks… 🙄
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I like Monarch Money a lot. I’d also really popular in the personal finance subreddit.
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Given that they seem to have been cooked up by genAI, I like ChatGPTariffs.
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ChatGPTariffs
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Saw a lot of The Crow, which I generally agree with. I’d also add The Matrix, though 99% of the credit for that goes to Rage’s “Wake Up” being perfectly chosen and used.