I have never seen a human body dismantled by physical violence in front of me, that does not mean I haven’t seen absolutely brutal forms of violence.

Homelessness in the US is an act of mass violence against some of the most vulnerable people in society.

This picture was originally was taken to emphasize the violence of antihomeless architecture in public spaces.

The ridiculous costumes emphasize what you would have to wear to be able to lay down comfortably which kind of does fit the enzyme metaphor.

I don’t know but I sure as hell don’t trust the New York Times to tell me the truth about it.

In both cases it ignores the deliberate, pervasive, and frequently toxic efforts of the platform curators to maximize “engagement” with their audience in pursuit of ad revenue.

We are on social media right now, this is not inherent to social media it is a choice forced on it by corporations.

Social media is humans being social through media, I am sick and tired of it being categorically villainized especially because the scientific evidence for it being inherently bad is laughable.

Microslop is one of those companies that acquires properties and destroys their productivity and profitability.

Do not give them money.

I don’t know and that is a great pertinent question.

I think that what is missed in a lot of western coverage is how devastated Iran really has been by this bombing campaign, and there were serious issues like water access plaguing Iran before this (that by the way you can see a mirror of in the arid west of the US and the Colorado River in many ways and in the way Mexico City’s water/agricultural resources were mismanaged by colonial interests and damaged because of it).

So… I think Iran genuinely does desperately need a deal here I just don’t at all subscribe to the idea that this will mean Iran will fold if what it is being asked of in their capitulation under whatever peace/ceasefire terms are established is fundamentally unreasonable from Iran’s perspective.

Bombing people does not exert power, it can destroy military targets and living communities, but it cannot fabricate political power out of thin air. This has been proven exhaustively.

I guess my answer is I think Iran is desperate, materially so much awful damage has been done to the region with no legal basis nor any real rationale backed up by hard data, so they still are likely to try to get a deal even if they think the chances are remote. The consequences could not be greater for everybody involved, Iran most especially.

Edit Also I think to be taken seriously internationally Iran has to very carefully keep showing up to these kinds of things when it isn’t too insufferably humiliating to do so, otherwise the narrative will shift decisively against them because of bias tendencies that are very durable in most news coverage.

It isn’t just that Trump is a dumbass, being uneducated and “stupid” aren’t what makes Trump worthy of hatred and endless namecalling. Simply not knowing things does not make you a fascist.

It is the complete lack of curiosity people like Trump have that I despise more than ignorance, it is violently antithetical to the basic reasons I love science and the pursuit of understanding the world. I am curious, I ask questions, I don’t just accept shit that people say because they say it a lot.

Trump hates people like me because we can walk all over him on basically any topic whereas people like me hate Trump because he does not desire to know anything beyond what he is forced to know.

Thank you, yes

what the actual fuck

I kind of just want this to be a heavy metal concert where they rip up lawns on stage.

Sorry I misunderstood

Also sports gambling!

Ok sure they aren’t new but do you not think there is a rising interest in these operating systems? Especially for gaming purposes where more and more people want an immutable linux distro for the consistency and reliability?

My point is there is a natural intersection of interest here between people who want a good linux video game focused immutable distros and people who want immutable linux distros for things other than gaming like development for example.

I always come back to this Christopher Alexander talk from 1996 where he was invited to talk about how his architectural design book inspired Object Oriented Programming and feed into that hype, and instead he basically just flat out told them to grow up and think about WHAT the impact of their work is because he argued programmers have an immense power to shape the future and as far as he could see programmers didn’t really seem to give a shit about the WHY at all, it was all about HOW…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_QzdKci6OY

So, today, I am standing before you, thinking to myself…right, I’m now talking to people who are in a way the core of the computer revolution. You probably realize, I know you must realize the extent to which the world is gradually now being shaped more and more and more, indirectly, by the efforts of all of you who are sitting in this room—because it is you who control the function of computers and their programs. It is the programs that control the shape of manufacturing, the shape of the transportation industries, construction management, diagnosis in medicine, printing and publishing. You almost can’t name a facet of the world which is not already, to some very strong degree, under the influence of the programs that are being written to manage and control those entities or those operations. And this is still in its infancy. How long has this been really going on? Not long. About 10 or 15 years, though of course, the preparation for it goes a lot further back than that. But really this is quite new. It is going to look a whole lot different, even more powerful in its degree of influence.

And yet, as a professional body, I don’t think that you are yet fully aware of it. I’m probably speaking out of turn here but, you know, I’ve thumbed through the proceedings of this conference, for instance. Jim was kind enough to show it to me yesterday. I don’t really see discussion about What, collectively, are computer scientists supposed to be doing with all these programs. How are they supposed to help the Earth? And, yet, the capacity to do that is sitting right here in this room. That is an amazing situation. You have so much power.…but that means that you also have an enormous responsibility.

https://www.patternlanguage.com/archive/ieee.html

I am sure at the time most programmers laughed and thought “isn’t that quaint what Christopher Alexander is saying, what a quirky dude he kind of sounds a little like a communist!”, let the thoughts from the talk fly out of their head forever after waving condescendingly, and turned to focus on the next career climbing move at the conference.

I fear nothing has changed, especially since the US tech industry fantastically failed to unionize in the two decades since and now the industry is likely going to significantly shrink in the US after the AI bubble pops as the few consolidated massive tech companies left fired all their talent to buy a bunch of useless data centers that aren’t even built yet and may never be built.

Programmers had a chance to wrestle control of the future away from oligarchs, but instead they became obsessed with playing Factorio with every aspect of society without EVER thinking about what the consequences were or why they were being paid to do what they were doing.

That is really fun!

Hell yeah

ACAB

I didn’t experience this growing up except for niche hobbies people would make fun of me for in real life or were utterly bored by but this is PRECISELY why this lazy simplistic moralizing about the internet and social media fills me with primal rage.

It is burning so many lifelines for kids, leaving them stranded alone amidst people that hate them for simply being who they are.

In my opinion excluding youth like this is quantifiably definable as mass manslaughter.