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🏳️🌈 Delaney Manders 🏳️🌈@delaney.manders.com |
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Cranky Caribbean Lesbian mom. Retired tech peon.
Still trying to make fetch happen.
Sapere aude.
#FIRE #GAYMAFIA
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Even if you think Biden should step down, the right time to announce it is next week, during the Republican convention. If they announced today, the RNC would spend all week hammering Harris before she gets to define herself. Let Biden soak up the week of attacks before handing over the reins.
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Well done France! Gold star! And UK - I can see you made a really good effort, you get a sticker too.
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It’s funny-sad though how the implausible part is not the murdering, but the being arrested for it.
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I need to follow more optimists - people who share the wonderful things happening in the world. Any suggestions? If I get enough I'll make a starter pack of optimists.
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Welp, time to disconnect from the internet for five months or so. Maybe I’ll go full prepper and make it five years. I’m glad I don’t live in the US anymore, but I’m sad for those who do, and mourn the loss of America’s one-time positive influence on the world. The rest of us are on our own now.
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I’m Caribbean, and these are a bit chilly.. we’d be digging through the drawers for jumpers if it went under 80° during the day. 85° is fine when we’re at home. When we’re away we just set it to dehumidifier mode so it doesn’t seize up.
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That they need to specify “South London” really has me curious about the North London D&D-themed pub.
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About ten years ago someone inexplicably claimed to have written a very niche software library that I, in fact, had written. I challenged them by linking the commit log, and they went on to say that they were me. Honestly I was mostly confused. I don’t have clout to steal!
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Because I acknowledge that they are old and overly influenced by a peer group I can’t replace, my parents and I have reached an entirely unexpected compromise on politics: I tolerate their semi-coherent pro-Trump/Poilievre rambling, and they promise not to vote. It’s win-win.
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Every time I read articles about extremely wealthy people/companies engaging in unethical behavior to become even more wealthy, I think about this excerpt from the book the psychology of money. The endless quest for more is so damaging, especially when pursed by those who already have enough.
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It’s tragic that we lost such brilliant comic and kind soul, but I’m happy for him to have chosen the time and manner of his passing while facing a terrible disease and prognosis. (My feelings about this have changed a lot as family members have dealt with similar challenges.)
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This might be a bit niche, but could anyone suggest a great fiction book (ideally fantasy/scifi, especially with clever dialogue) in French, originally written in French?
(Great translations also welcome, but original French preferred.)
#booksky, #livresky
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Support the MIF.
themif.org
@themif.bsky.social
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I apologize for this:
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I had a lot of reasons for retiring from tech, and disingenuous mansplaining like this was at least half of them.
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Nobody is saying it’s not possible, just that it’s a more significant trade-off than it may appear (and it’s not about prioritizing data transfer.) Why the fuck am I even engaging online. This place used to be a refuge before all you reply guys and trolls got bored of the Twitter echo chamber.
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Then you should buy one. “But they don’t have the same capabilities and dimensions as the phone I actually want!”…
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To consumers? I’m not defending capitalism here, but corporations aren’t out there tying maidens to rail tracks and taking away your headphone jacks. They’re making the products which sell the best.
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They exist. If you aren’t voting with your wallet it’s not going to happen.
www.wired.com/gallery/best...
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There’s room for a microwave oven if you don’t care about size.
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You’re also implying that your position is actually the majority position, and I’m telling you that adding 50% or so to the depth of a phone is very unlikely to be acceptable.
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I mean, I don’t know what to tell you… this used to literally be my job. A lot of trade-offs go into a phone.
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To expand on this: not only is it twice as thick, but the headphone plug is so long and so securely attached that they also need to accommodate the lateral pressure caused by leverage. It ends up dominating the internals of the phone. (I used to lead a hardware standards committee.)
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It’s not about data transfer, it’s about the internal size of the connector. There’s just no room in the phone to fit the jack.
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Last night my 7yo daughter was wearing a princess costume, running back and forth through the mangroves to our neighbour’s house, lighting her way with an old-timey lantern. I feel like this is where ghost stories come from.
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I did misunderstand your question, but there's no need to be rude. I also could answer by pointing you towards the NYS DFS Information for Bail Agents, but short answer is NYS gets paid.
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Ah, sorry! In this case, the shell company is a licensed bond agency and their bond was accepted, which means the courts think they're good for it. And if there's one party you _don't_ want to see across the table in a bankruptcy hearing it's the justice system.
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The shell company is funded by a loan from Chubb. With only one creditor (Chubb) and only one asset (Trump bond), there wouldn't be a point in filing bankruptcy. It would just be Chubb collecting/negotiating with Trump. The only mitigation I can see would be Chubb shareholder lawsuit.
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I mean she gets paid when he loses the appeal, he can't drag out payment and play shell games from that point on. The point is that the money is already in the hands of the justice system.
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Chubb has put up the funds, so Carroll gets paid. Trump’s account receivable would be an asset of Chubb’s going into bankruptcy court, and would need to be collected. The real question is “what if Chubb just never collects from Trump, as a way to buy a (possible) president?”
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Doing your part to keep journalists employed.
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They are not very yeetable. If you throw them in the ocean, they drown. If they hit rocks they shatter. They are much too big for cups, but can’t climb up walls and move slowly on tile floors. If they get you with their claw they will definitely draw blood.
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Living in the Caribbean we get crabs inside pretty much whenever we leave the doors open. Big blue/green monsters. They’re real jerks too.
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I did my MBA at HBS, and the majority of our core case work was $10M-$100M businesses. The stated intent was to help us succeed in our first 10 years. It was also more relatable and invited better class discussion. It’s an interesting juxtaposition, since HBS is overrepresented at those unicorns.
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My favorite part of the Cayman Islands National Gallery is how the gift store is full of art supplies. That’s wonderful!
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The cybertruck brand marketing is going to end with everyone feeling empowered to kick cybertrucks to “show how tough it is”, and I am here for a culture of guilt-free wanton cybertruck pummelling.
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The clown lobby has a long way to go on this one.
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Lyle Tiberius Rourke, on account of the whole genocide incident. Governor John Ratcliffe as a runner-up. Still genocidal, only a question of scale.
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In a discussion with my 5yo son today about Hallowe’en monsters, I learned that the scariest monster is a clown. He has no idea that a clown exists in any context other than monster. It is in the same category as vampire or werewolf. I don’t disagree, but it’s an interesting heel turn for clowns.
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At some point during the last eight or nine years, I lost the insecurity and spite that was propelling a lot of my decisions and proved everything I needed to prove to myself, and it's already proving to be terrible for my career lol
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The (testing|documentation|deployment) culture of B’s org is the problem here, not B.
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Tbf, this is a fairly aspirational take on corporate priorities. Most which I’ve seen up close have been little more than vehicles for the failings and foibles of the CEO and senior execs.
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But, like, you’re obviously wrong. Virtually anyone who has seen an ad (which is everyone) can tell that. I’m not even convinced that you’re a real person right now and not an LLM-driven troll bot.
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Curiously, I have never seen a commercial end with “Paid for by xxxx”. Or the CEO of Visa add a voiceover saying he supports that message. Ah yes, and of course there’s that regular reporting of all media buys by advertisers being submitted to a central public authority… Are you mad?
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Are you ok? You seem to have woken up and chosen trolling me specifically, which, ok? I’m nobody? Either contribute to the conversation or maybe touch some grass.
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Right. I did make a side comment that political speech has more obligations than commercial speech, because that is true. You’re saying that they are “very narrowly tailored”, which is a subjective measure, but doesn’t in any way invalidate my statement.
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Government regulation isn’t necessary because obviously adtech systems (attribution, targeting, audience mgmt, etc) are inextricably linked to content moderation? That’s a bizarre thing to infer from my statements.
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I feel like you’ve missed on on something here, you’ve picked a topic to argue about which is only vaguely related to the original thread.
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I haven’t suggested anything about the protections on political speech.
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Actually that’s exactly my point. The fact that they’re still willing to be associated with the platform and spending anything at all suggests that they’re not boycotting or avoiding it for failed content moderation reasons. Rather, they’re spending much less because their ROI has gone to shit.
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