We all know who was responsible. This was a blatant attack by maga, plain and simple. There will be no real investigation from the government or police, and they want us to know that.
If you’re looking for something to do to feel less powerless, gear up to stay safe. Get cameras, fire extinguishers, defense materials, anything helps. The more of us that are prepared the safer we all are.
I don’t see why either side is trying to disown the dude. He turned himself in. That’s so brave, and the right thing to do regardless of affiliation.
Paywall = clickbait. If they want your money they can say anything just to get you to click.
Which of these should be contested and which should be validated?
Identities don’t really need to be either validated or contested, especially if the person didn’t ask for it. Validation will likely win you more friends, though.
Obv use their preferred names and pronouns to be respectful, as with any person. But beyond that, there’s really no need to get involved in their identity at all. It’s a deeply personal thing and it’s unlikely they’ll change it for anyone other than themselves.
I’ve listened to Ruth Porat speak before and nothing about this article matches that. It feels fake or taken wildly out of context. As a general rule she doesn’t say much that isn’t already publicly released, and this doesn’t match any of the statements google’s released recently.
For the uninitiated, she’s the kind of person who would say “you bring up a great point” before then explaining why you’re wrong. So it feels disingenuous to not include the full sentence in the quote, and then to also not link to the source video is sus.
Edit: Thanks commenter🫡 They did link the source, at least, but yeah my other points.
I’m not necessarily autistic, but when I tell people I’m neurodivergent, they’re like “yup” 😓
I’m getting tired of this back and forth. This bickering is childish and our time would be better spent drumming up positive interest for ranked choice voting.
How many people? What percentage of users?
tl;dw: AMAB and AFAB can be useful in certain contexts, but it’s:
Brought up too often in contexts it doesn’t matter. ASAB should be offered up consensually by the person, never volunteered on their behalf.
Often used as shorthand for other things that would be better to talk about directly. For example, a GP needs to know if they have a prostate, a support group wants people that experienced misogyny as a child, a partner asking if they bottom, etc.
Ew, this article is an ad for another company. I feel icky when people try to monetize my basic human rights.
Here’s a not for profit article alternative: https://oit.utk.edu/security/learning-library/article-archive/privacy-onboard-ai-google-gemini/
Dear Sergey,
if you object to the specific word “genocide”, then perhaps we should start calling it the “mass murder and starvation that has killed 5-10% of all Palestinian civilians”. That doesn’t sound much better, though, does it?
One of the key things that some in the “UN is anti-semitic” camp likes to claim is that the UNHRC has many nations that are non-democratic and have known human rights abuses.
But that’s somewhat cherrypicked. Yes, the nations proposing measures against Isreal do seem like a biased set. But most of the Western democracies ultimately vote for those measure, with only the US rejecting it.
You know, a non-zero number of conservatives don’t even know what Biden looks like. We could probably get them to blindly distribute that picture amongst themselves by telling them it’s Biden.
In 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Communist Control Act into law. In theory, this outlawed the Communist Party of the United States and banned communists from serving in certain roles.
WTF
[It passed because] many opposed communism because of its explicitly declared and historically demonstrable goal to undermine liberal democracy. In the words of Ernest van den Haag, there was “no place in democracy for those who want to abolish [it] even with a peaceful vote”.
- Wikipedia
The irony of using it here would be palpable
Thank you for your service brave memer
I know the author will probably never read this, but in the off chance they or someone else working on open source accessibility reads it:
Thank you. So much ❤️ Your hard work and dedication keeps me going when times get rough.
And thanks for the rant. Nobody should have to suffer in silence, and that includes you. So any time you want to rant at us leeches about working in open source, please don’t hesitate to put us in our place.
I hope that we find a way to make the internet a more positive and celebratory place for people like you who do hard work the rest of us don’t have the time or energy for.
Just fyi, console can be more usable than gui for many disabled people. Text-to-Speech software relies on there being text, and mouses require fine motor movements.
💯 we should all be very wary of voting machines. If it’s not fully open source and cryptographically verifiable, it’s not secure.
Context: I worked in IAM (computer security) at a past job.
In computer security, we don’t wait to get proof that a vulnerability was exploited. We have to operate under the assumption that any vulnerability was immediately exploited, and take immediate action to fix it and limit the impact. Doubly so when the stakes are high.
We need popular support to get real security experts to investigate these claims. If there was even a single path that could have led to a vulnerability of this scale, we need to completely secure these systems and do an immediate recount/re-vote.
I’ll also say, I was surprised to learn that these voting systems and their specs are not fully public and open source. That alone makes me very uncomfortable. Security through obscurity is not security at all.
No need to be threatening swatting people please