Chairman Meow ᓚᘏᗢ 🦋🍉 / is on Nostr

Half Jewish, half Muslim, raised in the Middle East and the US Midwest. Happily married, no kids but plenty of cats. Mutualist, more or less. Officially declared to be easily distracted.

Currently on hiatus to take care of family stuff. Techie, generalist, practitioner of various scientific methods, and enthusiast of gallows humor.

Topics I like:
* #evolution of #cooperation, especially #signaling & #ABM
* #DDD and #OrgTheory and how they relate
* #permaculture & #ecology

pronouns: he/him

Last Notes

2024-09-09 03:50:36

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Feckin idiots
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/4061#issuecomment-243592297

2024-09-09 03:42:02

GDDAMMIT FUCKING SYSTEMD!!!
JHFC WHY THE FUCK WOULD SOMEODY EMBED A FUCKING NAMESERVER INTO AN INIT PROCESS WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE??!!?
YOU ARE THE KIND OF ASSHOLES WHO PUT COMPLETE WEB STACKS INTO DEHUMIDIFERS GET A FUCKING GRIP!!!

2024-09-07 19:50:52

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¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Maybe?
But it's doubtful. All the *publicly available* evidence points to the opposite conclusion, and has for decades. A progressive vote in a swing district is *more* valuable to Dems than a conservative one, because progs are more likely to vote D *if they vote at all*. They're just less likely to vote is all.
Getting an R to vote D is waaay more work, and often means a split ticket. Which matters more down ballot, but matters for presidentials as well.

2024-09-07 19:28:40

Dick Cheney Endorsing Kamala Harris comments:
0) conjecture: the number of people who will change their votes because of it is very very small, but the number of people whose votes will determine the EC outcome is also very very small
1) you get to decide how you feel about it, other people get to decide how *they* feel about it, there is no need for unanimity
3) the real problem is that Dems prefer GOP voters to progressive voters, not that GOP voters respond positively to Dem courtship

2024-09-06 19:56:54

Glad to see that the law, in its majestic equality, has recognized that missing your job interview because you got thrown in jail is bad.*
* Unless of course you're too poor or too dark-skinned to post bail, or have been disqualified from Equal Protection for some other reason.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/06/trump-sentencing-date-new-york-hush-money-case/

2024-08-27 23:03:53

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ooh that's good too!

2024-08-27 19:13:50

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🤣 I was looking at it and genuinely wondering whether trying to put the load on top of the tailgate (what I would have done if I were stuck in that situation) would just have caused the tailgate to collapse. I wouldn't want to do that to a small truck, and with the wankpanzer, who knows?

2024-06-15 20:08:48

I can't get mad about "corporate predator" terminology, because I use it too even though I know better. But I do want to point out that it's misleading.
To the extent that you can describe the operational relationship between corporations and humans in traditional ecological terms, it's not predator/prey, but a form of domestication.
We aren't really corporate prey. Or constituent cells. The closest analogue in "wet" biology is livestock. We're chickens, not wild deer.
https://neuburger.substack.com/p/bring-back-the-corporate-death-penalty

2024-06-15 20:08:48

2024-05-25 06:23:02

“My attorneys said that after their meeting with Meta that it was clear that the U.S. government asked them to shut my account down,” King told me. “Meta told my attorneys that it was ‘bigger than Meta.’”
(NB: Not an endorsement of Shaun King. Just a quick reminder of where the White House stands on this issue. And this is 1st amendment protected speech, which means Gov and Meta both have to pretend forever that Gov had zero to do with it, even if Gov demanded it.)
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/biden-admin-working-with-social-media

2024-05-25 06:23:02

2024-05-03 02:14:04

I didn't follow up on the "indivisible will put out a statement supporting the students" joke but I really am finding it crazy how many Team Blue MVPs Biden has managed to piss off over the past few days.
Not people who were already mad at him! People who used to get mad at everybody else who was already mad at him, and yell that we all need to get in line or else Trump!
Like how the fuck do you lose the official College Democrats? And how the fuck do you make up for it if you do lose them?

2024-05-03 02:14:04