ZOHRAN: “I ran on taxing the rich — Today, we’re taxing the rich… the first ever pied-a-terre tax for second homes worth $5 Million+… $500 MILLION from the richest of the rich to fund child care, etc…💰”
Promises kept.
“"Calm down. He won't be that bad." "He won't go after political opponents." "He won't try to overturn an election." "He won't start a stupid, costly war." "He won't purge the military." "He won't use nukes." We're currently here.”
Read a 29 page paper¹ earlier today, and it's only just dawning on me how long that paper was. Like I often struggle to get through more than about 10 pages of academic prose, but this one I hardly noticed.
I'm pretty proud of myself. And this was after a whole Wikipedia spelunking session. I […]
@pojntfx oh, weird. I figured it had something to do with Google Search.
@Moosader this specific line of thinking has always bothered me.
like, let's just pretend that AI actually is like, *suuuuper* useful or whatever across a wide domain of tasks, and thus something we all *need* to be good at.
Isn't the whole appeal of AI that it's dead simple to use? You […]
@pojntfx what happens when you press the button?
Social media post reads: The fact that you can't raise taxes on billionaires even slightly without them pouring money into fascist political movements is, of itself, evidence that billionaires as a class shouldn't be allowed to exist in the first place.
@michal_kucharczyk no specific ideas yet, but I've been wanting to do some kind of publication site that puts up posts from an array of several contributing authors. All as a tiny project designed to be just for fun and sillies.
Step one I need to actually get some other bloggers/authors who […]
Toying with the idea of making a second website, and so I'm considering some of my options for hosting it. Github won't let me host another site for free. It looks like Gitlab has a pretty good service? It looks like I can do as many as I like for free, or am I mistaken?
Any other […]
‼️ New blog post ‼️
"SEO And Independent Websites"
I write about search engines, the indieweb, and SEO-slop on the web. Lemme know what you think of it!
riverseeber.net/blog/post/seo-and-indepe...
@JessTheUnstill I like using DuckDuckGo for qr codes cuz it works on school PC's that I often have to use at my college clubs. `qr code <link>` drops out a png that encodes for just the link without any redirects. Proper QR codes are awesome, I hate redirect services.
I'll have to check out […]
Wow so it turns out I was right, Javascript is a gross language that is impossible to read for anybody who isn't already familiar with its syntax.
I come from C/C++ and Python land when it comes to network request stuff, and I'm accustomed to code just executing one line after another. I can […]
lots of ppl on the smallweb tend to avoid any kind of fancy JavaScript stuff on their sites, and are more less in favor of a web 1.0 style content, but I wonder if there might be some value in tools that allow people to interconnect their sites with their friends through JS and open standards […]
@losttourist I'm no expert, but I'm fairly certain that she is not wearing a dog collar, as the alt text states
just testing a little RSS feed thing, don't mind me here :catjam:
this has always bugged me. I don't care about my own epistemological gender status *nearly* as much as I care about my right to exist as I please. Let me dress how I want, and let me practice autonomy over my body.
I don't care what gender I "am", I care whether I can live the life I want to […]
This case shows how Open Source will die. With anyone just being able to pipe existing code and tests through an LLM and claiming that to be "clean room" (which is hogwash) no licensing can protect your work from being accumulated and monetized by anyone. The commons are actively being shredded […]
Trying to actually maintain any semblance of hobbies while busy as hell in my college + work schedule. I basically just come home, eat dinner, and then realize I don't have the energy to do the things I had been looking forward to.
I have a cool blog post in drafts that I'm really excited to […]
Something I haven't ever really seen spoken in about in discussions about privacy very much:
"Why should I care about privacy? I have nothing to hide!"
That's because you're privileged. You have nothing to hide because you're privileged. If you're a straight, white, cis male of reasonable […]
Windows 11 has once again decided to ruin their Start menu and make it somehow even worse than it already was, with seemingly no settings options to turn it back.
Isn't this supposed to be the operating system catered towards simple users? Why do they keep adding unnecessary complexity and […]
I’m building a new tool and looking for volunteers to test it! A #fediverse linktree.
It’s designed for two types of people:
Normies / newcomers – Think of it like a free, privacy-respecting Linktree. No trackers, no ads. But here's the cool par: it's a Trojan […]
[Original post on hachyderm.io]
@mapache @badgefed I've only got 1 ActivityPub account that I regularly use, but I wouldn't be opposed to testing it for at least linking to my blog and other sites. Maybe I'll throw on my rarely used BookWyrm account to I suppose.
@ifixcoinops I really like this thread, hard agree. To what extent do you think that this applies to contexts outside of computer/technologist fields?
Should remarkable websites be cataloged on a community wiki, where humans cater what sources are good and bad, rather than having a computer […]
A thing I see happening in good forums:
🦝 Hey fellow doofer-enjoyers, I have a 2006-model purple doofer. I'm trying to get it to interface with the green 2009 doohickey but I'm not having any luck so far, has anybody else tried this?
🦁 Oh I think I remember 🐭 was trying that a few years back […]
Fun Fact: Hackers have an affinity for the number 1337, because that's the year when the Hundred Years War started in Europe. Hackers are famously obsessed with Medieval and Early Modern European history.
That's also why hackers like to wear the Guy Fawkes "Anonymous" mask, resembling the […]
Fun Fact: Hackers have an affinity for the number 1337, because that's the year when the Hundred Years War started in Europe. Hackers are famously obsessed with Medieval and Early Modern European history.
That's also why hackers like to wear the Guy Fawkes "Anonymous" mask, resembling the […]
Y'all think that after we do Nuremberg 2.0 for MAGA politicians, we're gonna get around to finally instituting structural reforms to our Democracy?
Like, putting in something like Ranked Choice voting so we don't have to rely on the Two-Party System? Maybe banning Gerrymandering? Possibly even […]
Just watched a really great interview by political science YouTuber Mr Beat with Congressman Sean Casten (@SeanCasten) about the idea of expanding the US House of Representatives, and removing the century-long cap of 435 seats.
Really cool stuff, and there's a few other provisions in there as […]
