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John McCall@pathofshrines.bsky.social |
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Language and compiler developer at Apple. Queens resident. etc
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wade of mutilation
@waderockett.bsky.social
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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:
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tweety fish
@sifu.tweety.fish
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The entire genre of dancehall (more or less) came about when a reggae producer repurposed a "rock" beat he accidentally discovered on a casio kid's toy keyboard. People recently discovered the long-anonymous Japanese woman who programmed the beat was in fact a huge reggae fan and scholar.
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Jonathan Ladd
@jonmladd.bsky.social
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The 14th Amendment says if you were involved in an insurrection you can't be president. SCOTUS said they won't allow anyone to enforce that because of reasons they made up. The Constitution doesn't say the president is immune from criminal law. SCOTUS decided he is because of reasons they made up.
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Dani Robbins
@danir.bsky.social
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“The Court’s conservative majority has revealed itself to be the most direct threat to American democracy and any Democrat who is not ready to shelve old fears about “court packing” and get serious about expanding and reforming the Court isn’t made for this moment” @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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John McCall
@pathofshrines.bsky.social
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This is a great piece. I’m sad to say that I’ve finally given up on the Times, though, and in a bit less than a month, I’ll have to make do with just reading you here
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
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It's just hilariously disingenuous. Imagine looking at, say, ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY and concluding that the biggest threat to liberty isn't abuse of power, but powerful people refraining from sufficiently wielding their authority out of fear that they might one day be held accountable.
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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Chief Justice Roberts decrees the end of DOJ independence in an offhanded sentence on page 20.
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Isaac
@catsashimi.bsky.social
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The classic text on this by @chrislhayes.bsky.social is still jaw-dropping to read 20 years later archive.is/V3sbx
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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A friend points out that deference to an agency’s statutory interpretation was already a dead letter among a lot of Republican-appointed judges and Justices—provided they don’t happen to agree with the agency. Loper-Bright reifies a dynamic we’ve already been living with for some time.
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it's gita time
@xoxogossipgita.bsky.social
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My husband is reading a really interesting book about activist burn out, and basically every chapter that looks at specific historical activists shows that being unable to acknowledge even minor victories leads to burn out and depression.
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Jonathan W. Gray
@elmcitytree.bsky.social
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Two related points: MLK NEVER appealed any of his arrests because he understood that actually being put on trail would help his cause. Prosecutors got this too and so always dropped the charges after arresting him. 1/
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Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social
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I hope people understand that what we are seeing is the systematic destruction of the civil war amendments by the Supreme Court, which are what made America and actual democracy and upon which all minority rights in the United States rely
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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a standard that says "you need to have smoking gun evidence to prove racial discrimination in voting" is a standard that would let much of the jim crow voting architecture undisturbed electionlawblog.org?p=143227
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
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New at The Watch: Trump wants to deport more people than the populations of NYC, Chicago, and L.A. combined. It would cost $1 trillion+, and require a force larger than the U.S. Army. It also can't be done. But that isn't the point. It's about giving his supporters the human suffering they crave.
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e.w. niedermeyer
@niedermeyer.io
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The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff (a woman disagreed with him)
finance.yahoo.com/news/inside-...
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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People will really yell at you if you suggest AI models should pay for a license to all the works they ingest and cite their sources in their answers. I think it’s in part bc they believe in the magic of a machine intelligence. But we see more and more undeniable examples of straight up copying.
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Sarah J. Jackson
@sjjphd.bsky.social
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Anyway, good morning from this evergreen quote from a guy we teach the kids is a great American hero
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John McCall
@pathofshrines.bsky.social
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Checks and balances, Kevin
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
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It’s just mind blowing to hear the same justices who continue to support absolute immunity for prosecutors and limiting federal review of state prosecutor misconduct suddenly alarmed that prosecutors might overreach when it comes to charging **the president of the United States.**
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Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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There's a reason these people spend all their time whining about being silenced: They cannot present compelling evidence for their argument.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Marisa Kabas
@marisakabas.bsky.social
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Just to recap: -The Kansas Reflector posted a column critical of FB on Thursday -Meta blocked/deleted all their links across platforms -Meta restored all Reflector links except the critical column -I reposted the column on The Handbasket Friday -Meta blocked/deleted all my links across platforms
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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The destruction of Boeing's safety culture by executives should be a warning for our government: experience matters, leaders who hate the career experts don't have the capacity to manage the risk they create when they outsource core tasks
prospect.org/infrastructu...
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John McCall
@pathofshrines.bsky.social
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Anyway it’s a terribly-designed features that’s full of mistakes at every level
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John McCall
@pathofshrines.bsky.social
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My final member pointer fun fact for the day is that Itanium (the prevailing non-MSVC C++ ABI) screwed up the null data member pointer rule, and it’s possible to get a valid member pointer (under somewhat implausible conditions, and using ill-advised casts) that compares equal to null
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John McCall
@pathofshrines.bsky.social
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MSVC also implements a case that got ruled out of the eventual standard — converting a member pointer over a *virtual* base boundary — which means their worst-case representation is actually *four* pointers, and that ends up bloating data member pointers as well
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John McCall
@pathofshrines.bsky.social
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MSVC actually eliminates it anyway — in ways that are illegal and can definitely cause miscompiles, which MSVC has to provide attributes to help you avoid — mostly because MSVC implemented it before it was fully standardized and then got locked into their broken ABI
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John McCall
@pathofshrines.bsky.social
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That’s actually not specifically because of virtual member functions; it’s needed for multiple inheritance, and the feature was designed in a way that makes it impossible to eliminate even when the class doesn’t in fact have multiple inheritance.
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John McCall
@pathofshrines.bsky.social
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Yeah, it’s a name that sounds terrible to adults, but as a kid I don’t remember ever thinking about it that way. If anything, it was the guy with the ball bullying everyone else by being untouchable I still wouldn’t use that name today, of course
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Stu Fleming
@stuflemingnz.bsky.social
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The King of England lies dying and one of his sons has been exiled. A princess has vanished. Plague stalks the land and the Treasury has been plundered. NOW is the time for strange women lying in ponds to distribute swords to form the basis of government.
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Rev. Jesus “H" Christ, KSC
@reverendjesus.com
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If you're at a rally And there's a guy with a nazi flag And nobody's kicking him out ...you're at a nazi rally
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Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social
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It’s important to understand that religious freedom is a very important value and the actual way it is understood by the conservative movement is “sectarian exemption from the law for right wing christianity” bsky.app/profile/josh...
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William Adler
@williamadler78.bsky.social
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The thing about Joe Biden being an elderly man with a poor memory is that his likely opponent is an elderly man with a poor memory who has been indicted for 91 felonies and found liable for rape
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John McCall
@pathofshrines.bsky.social
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Aight, I’m here
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