“We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.” -- Martin Luther King Jr.

If you're a soldier in the 11th Airborne Division being ordered to prep for deployment to Minnesota or Greenland, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status.

Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487

They can't sue the government for reparations?

Do not do not DO NOT normalize this.

Posse Comitatus can only be suspended for insurrection and emergencies. This is not an emergency.

DC is not supposed to be the Middle East.

This is how fascism begins: drip by drip while bystanders choose to go about their business as usual because they're not here for *us*. Not yet.

I visited Jerusalem in '85. There was IDF on every corner with loaded assault weapons.

I shouted "Go home!" I was disappointed that no one else was yelling the same. We're normalizing the military following illegal orders.

First time downtown since... well... everything. Saw two different squads of Nat Guard, all armed with LOADED assault rifles.

I'm offended and afraid enough for this country with these occupiers, but to see their weapons clearly loaded.

Speaker Johnson would rather cancel all votes & hearings than simply have a vote on bipartisan legislation demanding release of the Epstein files, something he, Trump & Bondi have been demanding for months! A pathetic new low in political cowardice & legislative malpractice.

Column | Why the Silver Surfer is the superhero for our cosmically fraught times The Silver Surfer is back. But long before “The Fantastic Four: First Steps,” the most intriguing hero in comics history was predicting the doomscroll.

@straczynski.bsky.social Have you read the WaPo's recent column about the Surfer? www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Who do I need to pay off or otherwise cajole to get a JMS-written Surfer film?

I've read Requiem several times. If anyone could pull it off...

Tag yourself I’m “Aggressiv”

(Disclaimer: I don't heckle people any more unless they ask me to. Sorry! 😂)

What I'm even more interested in is using the LLMs for what they seem to excel at: pattern matching of structured (and unstructured) data. They're not perfect, of course. And it's also a lot easier to do than old-fashioned data mining!

Also, hi Statler. 😉

And I haven't even broken ground on *automated* testing but that's by choice, at this point, believe it or not.

Sure, I should try o4 or o4-mini for the coding and perhaps 4o for the higher level parts. But then I've found value in keeping the whole conversation in one thread.

It can only work in one file at a time. It has some limited reasoning across multiple files, if I'm prompting it cleverly.

What it excels at: pairing on software architecture and design with a critical eye but an open mind.

I'm over here, writing my first Swift app, working with ChatGPT 4o. For green field, it sure does churn out something basic that works quickly!

Oh, but I want to factor the code to work across multiple files? And not leverage global variables everywhere? And factor the code at all well?

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Ah, damn the lack of a Bsky edit button

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I'll see your Boombauer and raise you a...

Today is the day we honor those who died overseas stopping the same thing many of you are ignoring here at home--fascism.

Besides, I'm still hardly an expert, despite 2 months of research, reflection, and practice.

My take, after two months? It's slowly moved toward asking for my needs, jusr starting to advocate for same, and, when people expect me to educate them, that they should do their own research of fuck off."

The worst part of a late autism diagnosis is the emotional labor that almost every allistic implicitly expects me to do for them. Masking just leads to more anxiety while showing up authentically isn't necessarily better. I don't have the spoons to teach people much of anything about autism.

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I told them that they have no idea how much they'd hurt me—how hard I'd worked for a decade (prior to this diagnosis!) to heal my trauma. I told them how tired I am tired of the casual denigration—particularly from family, and, in closing, to either lean in or just don't ask about my experience.

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Another in-law initiated an interrogation about how I'm dealing with my autism, leading up to her saying, "Well, everyone has their own pain". Neither of them meant to do harm yet their remarks were so absurdly lacking empathy.

I finally snapped.

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One in-law bluntly asked if I've considered going on Social Security Disability. By the way, that process? Utterly humiliating and frustrating. I speak from the experience with my late wife's Huntington's Disease, as her caregiver.

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I would pursue the ethical path even when inconvenient for me or for more employer. Small wonder that so burnt out that I haven't worked in 2 years and now can't seriously imagine working for a "business" ever again.

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Of course, they have no idea how hard it has been to succeed in this society for 51 years, while suffering constantly for no clear reason (until now) and still presenting as neurotic or as a person insisting on doing the morally/ethically right thing.

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I recently visited the in-laws for my father-in-law's heart surgery. I got to experience a number of allistic invalidations and judgement of my experience. It was as though my dignity and pain just didn't matter.

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I was never built for this conformist world.

I've barely been in public spaces for 2 months apart from cycling on public trails Ever time I have been in an indoor public space, I'm confronted by painful noises, distracting visuals, and early warning signs of implosive meltdowns.

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Adapting to my recently and late-diagnosed autism is kicking my ass.

I'm glad to have (finally, it seems) found the missing puzzle piece that explains why my life has generally been mostly a series of missteps and tragedies.

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JFC! No live gagh????