"The crowd is extremely hostile, shouting back 'go away' and booing them."
If this doesn't sum up the #Toronto film and art scene I don't know what does.
When the genocide is over we need to have a serious talk about the kind of people we want fostering art and culture in Canada
Kyle Buchanan: Protestors interrupt the opening night premiere at the #TIFF, criticizing fest sponsor #RBC: “RBC funds genocide!” The crowd is extremely hostile, shouting back “go away” and booing them.
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The "make your own medicine" movement means no quality standards, no regulations to thwart fraud, and no way to control overdosing on homemade opioids.
Imagine cancer drugs with a miniscule percentage of an efficacious dosage. But sold as the real deal to the poor or desperate.
Imagine drugs containing deadly contaminants.
Imagine counterfeit abortion drugs killing women or causing birth defects.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counte…
Interesting how #Steam's steamwebhelper shoots up my CPU consumption drastically to "101.7%" (wtv that means, htop) or 6.1% according to Plasma's System Monitor and drives up the CPU temps to ~75c when Steam has been closed to the desktop's system tray.
These numbers are the same as when Steam is at the forefront. The moment I have it minimised though, CPU consumption of Steam/steamwebhelper will go down to 0% and my CPU temps will reduce back to below 70c. This is on #Linux ofc - are we just not meant to have Steam "running" in the tray?
The father of a 14-year-old boy accused of fatally shooting four people at a Georgia high school and wounding nine others was arrested Thursday and faces charges including second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter for allowing his son to possess a weapon, authorities said.
If you own a gun, you should be forced to buy insurance against such things. The insurance companies would put money ahead of any mythical 2nd amendment rights* and take care of the problem.
* The PEOPLE are guaranteed a right to own firearms. No individual person is guaranteed that right.
I finally finished my long blog post about my experience with getting a driving license in Spain. Terrible experience. But I won't publish yet. You see in Spain you don't get your license so fast. First you get a paper that allows you to drive in Spain for 3 months, and in the meantime you hope to get the actual license....but likely won't come in time so I'll have to contact the driving school to make a complaint about it....
In short, I'd prefer to publish the blog after I have my license. Just in case... :D Simply because the blog contains a lot of info that will piss off the driving school, in case they somehow come across it.
When I get my license, that plastic thing, I'll publish it.
like this
Estudo de Python - 02: Sequências
youtube.com/watch?v=qhI56sg_9L…
* Motivação
* Execução de programas
* Sequências de dados
* Operações com sequências
* Disponibilidade de códigos, apresentações e discussão
Código-fonte e apresentação em
gitlab.com/hgfernan/PythonStud…
I was nerd-shamed into fixing a bug in an old game - Blue Alert, a 1D #RTS demake from 2014:
congusbongus.itch.io/blue-aler…
I would ask you to try it except it's terrible! So you can watch a video instead
youtube.com/watch?v=9AGI1iCVh6…
I'm amazed anyone cares about an old crappy game enough to submit bug fixes, but making this game was actually pretty interesting. Among my lessons include:
- RTS doesn't work in 1D (unless it's like Defend Your Castle)
- RTS is hard to make!
NY Times spreads FUD about misinformation and conspiracy theories;
"Some misinformation researchers are worried that the new spate of left-leaning conspiracy theories could further polarize political discourse before the November election. More than one-third of President Biden’s supporters believed the assassination attempt may have been staged, according to a poll in July by Morning Consult."
nytimes.com/2024/09/03/technol…
#StuartAThompson, #TiffanyHsu, 2024
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After some delay, the context for my NY Times FUD comment...
Misinformation and conspiracy theory are indeed related. But *not* synonymous, as the NT Times implies. Why not?
Simply because all else being equal, misinformation is just as likely to be an attempt to cover up a real conspiracy as invent a fake one. So anyone loudly dismissing theories about a possible conspiracy is just as likely to be spreading misinformation (intentionally or not), as correcting it.
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Full disclosure: I was one of the lefties speculating that the alleged assassination attempt may have been staged. Whether by the campaign team of the alleged target, or by someone else who wants him to win, or who has other motivations for ramping up political polarisation in the US.
Do I believe this is what happened? No. I'm just not ruling out the possibility. Unlike the NY Times, who dismiss the mere "suggestion" under the headline "left-wing misinformation".
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History records a plethora of political conspiracies. The ones we know about because the conspirators and their plot were exposed. In European history these date back at least to the stabbing of Julius Caeser in the Roman Senate. Arguably further, to the politically-motivated prosecution of Socrates in ancient Athens.
More recent European examples include the Reichstag fire (although historians differ on who was responsible), and Cambridge Analytica's role in the UK's EU referendum.
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US examples include the Wall Street Putsch in 1933, the 1970s Watergate scandal (the origin of "gate" as a standard suffix for political scandals), and a series of plots to overthrow popular leftist leaders in Latin America, including Castro in Cuba, Árbenz in Guatamala, and Allende in Chile. More recently, Reagan's Iran-Contra affair, and Dubya Bush's post-911 "Weapons of Mass Destruction", now widely accepted as a neo-con conspiracy to justify the unprovoked invasion of Iraq.
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Of course, that's not to say that conspiracy theories are true. They are, at best, speculation. If a conspiracy is proven - like the examples above - it ceases to be a theory. So conspiracy theories are, by definition, unproven.
When based on careful consideration of evidence, and modified as new evidence comes to light, a conspiracy theory can be worth considering. But never just believing.
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Sadly, the conspiracy theories that get the most clicks are usually the most outlandish, or even paranoid. But as Kurt Cobain pointed out in Territorial Pissings;
"Just because you're paranoid
Don't mean they're not after you"
It's a fact that people conspire. Especially when they join forces to defend power and privilege. Accusing investigative journalists or pro-democracy activists of spreading "conspiracy theory" is a standard defensive tactic, eg;
global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202…
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As the NYT surely know, an accusation of spreading mis/disinformation or "conspiracy theory" is itself a conspiracy theory. Like any other, they need to be taken with a grain of salt, but not dismissed out of hand. Unless they clash with well-established facts.
I mean *facts*. Not common opinions, party lines, or short-term news media consensus (again, see Dubya's "Weapons of Mass Destruction"). I mean claims that can be independently verified by anyone willing to take the time.
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My writing, I've learned, is my internal monologue laid bare. I often repeat myself for clarity and emphasis. It's how I like to learn concepts, present ideas, debug software, and make sense of things. My wife often catches me talking to myself. Approachable Open Source is full of such moments, a spoken narrative applied to page. I look forward to sharing more in the coming weeks. If you want to hear and read more - visit approachableopensource.com
#opensource #writingisthinking
#Linux #SSH #Ubuntu #SysAdmin
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Unknown parent • • •I hear you and respect your view; I guess it's more of a personal vibe. TO's the big city I've been to the most outside of MTL, but I don't get this vibe in NY, MTL or LA for example (I kind of get that in Paris though).
I always feel a particular coldness about the people in TO idk.
(FYI I hate the Habs so this is definitely not hockey related lol)