Tobasco da Gama @tobascodagama@witches.town

Hi! I’m drink. Thank you for enjoying and sharing my piece y’all. Bizarre to be at the top still!
https://www.polygon.com/2017/9/20/16332958/mass-effect-andromeda-defense-messy-games

Whenever I read about identity theft I feel like we have the narrative completely backwards.

If someone applies for a visa in my name they haven't "stolen my identity", I'm still me and still living under my identity, they've defrauded visa.

By calling this identify theft we shift the responsibility from visa (to not give credit cards to randos) to us the public. We must now, somehow, protect an ineffable sense of "identity" based on public information that was never entirely in our control.

Linda Hamilton will star in next #Terminator sequel.

https://www.engadget.com/2017/09/20/linda-hamilton-arnold-schwarzenegger-james-cameron-terminator/

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/09/20/maybe-it-would-have-been-more-popular-if-they-called-it-hate-speech-week/

I think we're seeing the emergence of a new strategy here: they do something which somehow makes the venue unavailable, then lie about it and claim the university is against frozen fruit.

Originally it was that campus security was concerned about violence; later it was that a speaker wanted to reschedule and never did... and now they just never actually pay for the venues.

...which is fine with their followers; "paying" is for shopkeepers.

from @pzmyers

For bonus Software Engineer Conversation Bingo points, someone in the comments immediately starts with "BUT THE HALTING PROBLEM..."

Protip: We solved the Halting Problem in the 1960s. By inventing For/While loops and hard-realtime preemptive multitasking. The *Apollo Lunar Lander* flight software solved it.

Yes, if you pass around raw unbounded pointers to random unchecked machine code that uses GOTO instead of IF/THEN and CALL, you'll reinvent the HP.

So.... maybe don't do that?

I have had this very conversation myself, many times.

It's remarkably similar to talking to economists about growth and thermodynamics.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/09/14/software-is-a-long-con/

I had a conversation with a bridge engineer one evening not long ago. I said, “Bridges, they are nice, and vital, but they fall down a lot.”

He looked at me with a well-worn frustration and replied, “Falling down is what bridges do. It’s the fate of all bridges to fall down, if you don’t understand that, you don’t understand bridges.”

Shit lads im no longer bi https://mst3k.interlinked.me/media/Vb9UQfwrN5KrJ4c4nHo

Only 7 years until trans people get their own bay tubes to sleep in!!!

[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, S03E11: Past Tense, Part 1]

#StarTrek #DS9 #trans

https://cybre.space/media/3n0ZwX1tesvHOjzy8Sk https://cybre.space/media/rTltY_rDuG32fht_trY https://cybre.space/media/Nx2TufBW9Rm077T-w5A https://cybre.space/media/fIjca3jkBw4goi0CePU

DMCA all fascists, get their content down

I don't give a flying truck if it's an "abuse" of the DMCA

Destroy them

Why would I want such an unreliable car? https://witches.town/media/c_6vloFKj6mUMJoFZ-A

Remember when Google and Facebook took peoples pseudonyms away and insisted online discourse would become civil if people's real names were attached to it? And how it inconvenienced and hurt, activists, trans men and women and many others?

How did that go for people? How much more civil are we finding things?

ᵗ ʰ ᵉ ᵃ ˡ ᵍ ᵒ ʳ ᶦ ᵗ ʰ ᵐ ᵏ ⁿ ᵒ ʷ ˢ ʷ ʰ ᵃ ᵗ
ʸ ᵒ ᵘ ᵈ ᶦ ᵈ

A Reuters/Ipsos survey found that 39% of respondents agreed with the statement "White people are currently under attack in this country".

https://thinkprogress.org/antiquated-racial-views-pervade-america-1eac52a0b58b/

Tangerine Mussolini's approval rating: 35% (Ipsos), 37% (Gallup).

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Sonic the Hedgehog (1991 video game) Wikipedia article edited anonymously from US House of Representatives https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=800610559&oldid=800498896

tech writer: dooooooomed!
masto: it's spelled, "dommed"