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programs in Haskell, Nix, Agda | studied philosophy | 🏳️‍🌈🏴 | they/them | also on and the fediverse

[teo @TeofilC]

@michael___wave I always find it really silly because even marx (fwiw) knew that bigotry is used and encouraged in order to divide workers (I think he wrote something about how the English are useless because they hate Irish people so much)

[teo @TeofilC]

@welltypedwitch This sounds a bit like https://t.co/BIkbxHxaw8

[teo @TeofilC]

@hgoldstein95 This is the issue that tracks it: https://t.co/1enV64K8B5

We've recently discussed implementing something like this as part of a shakeup of the reify interface https://t.co/2ZdU3PqigU

[Sophie Lewis @reproutopia]

My new big TERFism explainer is now online and unpaywalled at Lux magazine, and the physical version in print looks incredible. (I do recommend buying the issue or subscribing.) Thanks to Sarah Leonard & all the comrades at @readlux for wonderful editing.
https://t.co/O3zgkDHt7P

[Evan Washington @evanewashington]

from responses to this, it remains true that online rationalists tend to view rationality and rigor as an aesthetic. they're goths but with bayes's rule in place of wearing black

why behave rationally when you can just gesture as if you're behaving rationally? so much easier!

[💤🌵🤖funky little contraption @boring_cactus]

"doing the correct thing by default would break a lot of workarounds for the fact that the correct thing was difficult until now, so having CSS animations work correctly is opt-in"

web dev: where the bugs of all dead generations weigh like a nightmare on the brains of the living

[teo @TeofilC]

@josecalderon Mentoring is good but tricky to arrange (as you mention). It might be helpful to have some sort of community of newbie volunteers to help them feel less isolated, and give them a chance to socialise.
I feel like consistent contribution flows from connection.

[teo @TeofilC]

@josecalderon It's tricky to estimate your own capacities and often people feel a lot of shame when they reach their limit. So it's good to normalise people struggling, not knowing everything, not having capacity to consistently contribute. And them still being a valued part of the community

[Tom Whyman @HealthUntoDeath]

Reducing the state to its core functions of banning smoking and selling arms.

[Gareth Dennis @GarethDennis]

In May this year, @LordPeterHendy pressured my now-former employer @SYSTRA_UKIRL to sack me by threatening them.

Why did he do this? Because I'd highlighted safety and accessibility issues at Euston station. He is unfit for office and should resign.
https://t.co/d7evLefdJz

[0live 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇨🇺 🐇🐈🦌 @0liviaolive]

Gandalf: "we should not use the magic ring that makes you evil"
Sean Bean:

[third-party evaluation partner @mycoliza]

the thing about “e/acc” is that it’s just a retread of the 1910s Futurist movement, except with fewer Italians and substantially worse art

[Dave @MediocreDave]

One of the ends of critique is that you can get to a point of replacing vague terms like "victory" and "power" with something more concrete. For example, here they mean command over the largest capitalist economy, carceral system, and military force in human history.

[Misty @mistydemeo]

Somewhat spicy headline this time, but seeing a feature I rely heavily on get worse made me realize: it feels like "GitHub", the traditional website, is being treated as a legacy product from corporate's perspective. https://t.co/HyxeTy4JbS

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Newsletter: Goldman Sachs has called BS on Generative AI, and I believe that it's time that everybody follows suit - generative AI is unreliable, unsustainable, requires an entire rebuild of America's power grid, and is most decidedly not the future.
https://t.co/YULEkHYBFP