Wow, I'm shocked that the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and Joe Biden endorsed the democrat, Kristen Sinema, instead of her republican opponent Martha McSally during the 2018 election.
Shocked indeed!
Those are endorsements during the primary, when Sinema would be running against other Democrats.
The party apparatus chose her over other candidates.
Only one person ran against her. And that one candidate that got 20% of the vote in the primary against sinema, went on two years later to get crushed by a republican for a city board position 60 to 40%
So I guess you could say she's on the rise?
Seems like a pretty bad system of finding/cultivating candidates if a given place has two options and they both suck
Unless the implication is that an area apparently and demonstrably willing to vote blue was so ignored/neglected by the Dem party that the only possible candidates were two options who suck
But anyway I'm sure that once again the Democratic party made no mistakes and this is the fault of the whims of fate that keep granting the party that gosh darned Plausible Deniability for doing anything beyond slowing a decline. Darn it!!!
+32
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I think it did, but it was ultimately moot since everyone was forced to follow some more restrictive stuff CA passed.
I feel so blessed by CA's "opt out of tracking cookies" mandate that it has made me truly and non-ironically question where I stand on Net Neutrality.
I don't know where I stand now, my opinions are inchoate, I'm not a lawyer and I'm a big dumb idiot. But goddamn does ad tracking give me the "cyberpunk WARNED US ABOUT THIS" heebie-jeebies, I am actually very glad that corporations have to ask me if they can study me and gain my consent before they do so
i hate when i agree with someone as crap as gorsuch because it makes me feel like maybe i’m wrong by association. but it sure doesn’t seem like these companies should get section 230 protections either way for ai generated content.
0
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
i hate when i agree with someone as crap as gorsuch because it makes me feel like maybe i’m wrong by association. but it sure doesn’t seem like these companies should get section 230 protections either way for ai generated content.
Maybe they should if it was actual AI, sure.
But what exists now is not AI. It’s smoke and mirrors with some clever algorithms.
minor incident on
Everything looks beautiful when you're young and pretty
i hate when i agree with someone as crap as gorsuch because it makes me feel like maybe i’m wrong by association. but it sure doesn’t seem like these companies should get section 230 protections either way for ai generated content.
Gorsuch is a really fucking interesting guy
Like, he sucks in a lot of the standard ways Republicans suck, there's no way around that. But he's got a weirdly great record on stuff like tribal law, a record of decisions there that's a LOT better than a LOT of Dem judges. He's clearly willing to compromise on a lot of beliefs to get as high as he's gotten, and I'm sure a lot of his earnestly-held beliefs suck shit, but it seems like there's something down there in him in a way I don't often feel about Republicans. He's not purely reactionary, he has some core he occasionally listens to.
I would stop short of saying I respect him, he's a Supreme Court justice. But he's interesting, and hard to pin down, and to be sometimes right is still leagues beyond where a lot of his party's at.
yea but also he was on the side of a truckers gotta freeze to death with his truck or lose his job. a land of contrasts.
he def has some twisted internal logic that he does follow which does put him above a lot of conservative justices, but i still am nervous generally if i agree with him.
yea but also he was on the side of a truckers gotta freeze to death with his truck or lose his job. a land of contrasts.
he def has some twisted internal logic that he does follow which does put him above a lot of conservative justices, but i still am nervous generally if i agree with him.
In an extremely twisted way, I've always wished that he and Kavanaugh's appointments were switched so he'd just be the shitty appointment, not the stolen one.
I think it did, but it was ultimately moot since everyone was forced to follow some more restrictive stuff CA passed.
I feel so blessed by CA's "opt out of tracking cookies" mandate that it has made me truly and non-ironically question where I stand on Net Neutrality.
I don't know where I stand now, my opinions are inchoate, I'm not a lawyer and I'm a big dumb idiot. But goddamn does ad tracking give me the "cyberpunk WARNED US ABOUT THIS" heebie-jeebies, I am actually very glad that corporations have to ask me if they can study me and gain my consent before they do so
Wait, is a California law the reason that a bunch of US-based websites suddenly started on with the same awful "malicious compliance" style cookie permission dialogs that EU sites had been using to comply with GDPR? I hate everything around those so much, especially since there are a lot of non-cookie ways to track users and browsers have already been making cookie tracking less effective.
I think it did, but it was ultimately moot since everyone was forced to follow some more restrictive stuff CA passed.
I feel so blessed by CA's "opt out of tracking cookies" mandate that it has made me truly and non-ironically question where I stand on Net Neutrality.
I don't know where I stand now, my opinions are inchoate, I'm not a lawyer and I'm a big dumb idiot. But goddamn does ad tracking give me the "cyberpunk WARNED US ABOUT THIS" heebie-jeebies, I am actually very glad that corporations have to ask me if they can study me and gain my consent before they do so
Wait, is a California law the reason that a bunch of US-based websites suddenly started on with the same awful "malicious compliance" style cookie permission dialogs that EU sites had been using to comply with GDPR? I hate everything around those so much, especially since there are a lot of non-cookie ways to track users and browsers have already been making cookie tracking less effective.
The right to know about the personal information a business collects about them and how it is used and shared;
The right to delete personal information collected from them (with some exceptions);
The right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of their personal information; and
The right to non-discrimination for exercising their CCPA rights.
The right to correct inaccurate personal information that a business has about them; and
The right to limit the use and disclosure of sensitive personal information collected about them.
Russian bots used auto translate to spam about Nato on "Finnish" accounts. But they confused Save (to rescue) with Save (to download). So now social media is filled with these accounts explaining how Nato won't download Finland. I'm fucking dying KEKW
So the big "Twitter charging for access to their API" thing is going well:
Sure sounds like the decision came without any thought or reason behind it from on high and now there's a bunch of barely-staffed departments screaming internally about how it's going to hurt them so they're going to *checks notes* focus on quality in the coming weeks.
We had a full day of multiple teams across multiple timezones standing by monitoring the APIs for any sign of error or unusual response. 3 separate people across the world with access to the company billing so we could sign up for their stupid fee if they ever made the page public and here we are with another nebulous "try again later" message. We sure ended up spending a lot more than $100 in lost development time.
It's hilarious how this has caused such a shift in the mindset of the higher-ups. Even the people at C-suite who have previously breathlessly talked about Musk's accomplishments are now referring to "how he's fucked it up" and how much of an idiot he is.
Just more fuel for the self-own fire.
The one about the fucking space hairdresser and the cowboy. He's got a tinfoil pal and a pedal bin
Twitter’s operating model is “code faster to make up for my too-obvious-to-fix-without-being-embarrassed shortcomings” just with a fraction of the staff needed for it
Did Twitter remove the 'most recent posts first' option in the following tab, or am I nuts?
This might be the thing that finally gets me off the hellsite
Now it's "Following" and the "For You" tab is the one that was the algorithm-recommended list.
Of course, "For You" is broken and doesn't actually show you all the tweets from every account you follow, but it is still better than algorithm showing you shit out of order multiple times.
Twitter had a chronological timeline until the muskening even if they tried really hard to trick you into using the algorithm one, did they finally torpedo it?
Twitter had a chronological timeline until the muskening even if they tried really hard to trick you into using the algorithm one, did they finally torpedo it?
Not so much torpedoed, more they just "refined" it with so much extra shit that it sank under its own weight and slaughtered this metaphor.
Chronological timeline is still there with the same sporadic issues that it had before the buyout. It misses some retweets and replies but it's always done that
+2
BroloBroseidonLord of the BroceanRegistered Userregular
The tweeter says they aren't commenting on shipping specifically, and I think it can apply to a lot of things. For example, there's been an uptick on social media of people expressing discomfort with sex scenes in movies and TV and extrapolating that out to sex scenes being flatly bad for the medium and wishing for, no shit, the good old days of the Hays Code
Also generally media literacy seems pretty low in some circles these days and lots of people who can't seem to grasp that depicting morally wrong or bad actions or characters is not the same as endorsing them, etc
If there's anything that sounds more likely to go off the rails than pro/anti shipping discourse it's meta discussion about another culture's possible reaction to pro/anti shipping discourse and extrapolating that discussion to totally unrelated issues.
Somehow the not particularly nuanced thought that not every piece of media is going to cater to your specific tastes, nor should it, has been ejected into the sun and woe be the soul who suggests it.
+2
minor incidentexpert in a dying fieldnjRegistered Userregular
If there's anything that sounds more likely to go off the rails than pro/anti shipping discourse it's meta discussion about another culture's possible reaction to pro/anti shipping discourse and extrapolating that discussion to totally unrelated issues.
So are you for or against the Supernatural brothers fucking each other? I need a clear position, dawg.
Everything looks beautiful when you're young and pretty
The tweeter says they aren't commenting on shipping specifically, and I think it can apply to a lot of things. For example, there's been an uptick on social media of people expressing discomfort with sex scenes in movies and TV and extrapolating that out to sex scenes being flatly bad for the medium and wishing for, no shit, the good old days of the Hays Code
Also generally media literacy seems pretty low in some circles these days and lots of people who can't seem to grasp that depicting morally wrong or bad actions or characters is not the same as endorsing them, etc
The problem is that it can also apply to marginalized groups voicing complaints about misrepresentation in media as well - and too often such terms are being used to lump all such arguments together in order to dismiss the legitimate arguments without looking like they are.
As for depiction not equalling endorsement, the counterpoint is Truffaut's famous statement of "there is no such thing as an anti war film", and while I don't think he's completely right, I also don't think he's completely wrong, either.
Saw a thing that florida let people sue people for being called a bigot and this applies nationally? Can practically hear the 1984, funny from the group constantly invoking the book, they'd probably burn it.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Posts
I think it did, but it was ultimately moot since everyone was forced to follow some more restrictive stuff CA passed.
Seems like a pretty bad system of finding/cultivating candidates if a given place has two options and they both suck
Unless the implication is that an area apparently and demonstrably willing to vote blue was so ignored/neglected by the Dem party that the only possible candidates were two options who suck
But anyway I'm sure that once again the Democratic party made no mistakes and this is the fault of the whims of fate that keep granting the party that gosh darned Plausible Deniability for doing anything beyond slowing a decline. Darn it!!!
See, I woulda pegged her for simple sycophant.
I feel so blessed by CA's "opt out of tracking cookies" mandate that it has made me truly and non-ironically question where I stand on Net Neutrality.
I don't know where I stand now, my opinions are inchoate, I'm not a lawyer and I'm a big dumb idiot. But goddamn does ad tracking give me the "cyberpunk WARNED US ABOUT THIS" heebie-jeebies, I am actually very glad that corporations have to ask me if they can study me and gain my consent before they do so
Sycophant would imply that there is someone recognized as higher than her in Sinema’s own internal mental hierarchy
The donors that she bases her entire whims upon.
Maybe they should if it was actual AI, sure.
But what exists now is not AI. It’s smoke and mirrors with some clever algorithms.
Gorsuch is a really fucking interesting guy
Like, he sucks in a lot of the standard ways Republicans suck, there's no way around that. But he's got a weirdly great record on stuff like tribal law, a record of decisions there that's a LOT better than a LOT of Dem judges. He's clearly willing to compromise on a lot of beliefs to get as high as he's gotten, and I'm sure a lot of his earnestly-held beliefs suck shit, but it seems like there's something down there in him in a way I don't often feel about Republicans. He's not purely reactionary, he has some core he occasionally listens to.
I would stop short of saying I respect him, he's a Supreme Court justice. But he's interesting, and hard to pin down, and to be sometimes right is still leagues beyond where a lot of his party's at.
he def has some twisted internal logic that he does follow which does put him above a lot of conservative justices, but i still am nervous generally if i agree with him.
In an extremely twisted way, I've always wished that he and Kavanaugh's appointments were switched so he'd just be the shitty appointment, not the stolen one.
Wait, is a California law the reason that a bunch of US-based websites suddenly started on with the same awful "malicious compliance" style cookie permission dialogs that EU sites had been using to comply with GDPR? I hate everything around those so much, especially since there are a lot of non-cookie ways to track users and browsers have already been making cookie tracking less effective.
https://www.oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa
Sure sounds like the decision came without any thought or reason behind it from on high and now there's a bunch of barely-staffed departments screaming internally about how it's going to hurt them so they're going to *checks notes* focus on quality in the coming weeks.
We had a full day of multiple teams across multiple timezones standing by monitoring the APIs for any sign of error or unusual response. 3 separate people across the world with access to the company billing so we could sign up for their stupid fee if they ever made the page public and here we are with another nebulous "try again later" message. We sure ended up spending a lot more than $100 in lost development time.
It's hilarious how this has caused such a shift in the mindset of the higher-ups. Even the people at C-suite who have previously breathlessly talked about Musk's accomplishments are now referring to "how he's fucked it up" and how much of an idiot he is.
Just more fuel for the self-own fire.
This might be the thing that finally gets me off the hellsite
Now it's "Following" and the "For You" tab is the one that was the algorithm-recommended list.
Of course, "For You" is broken and doesn't actually show you all the tweets from every account you follow, but it is still better than algorithm showing you shit out of order multiple times.
Gamertag: PrimusD | Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
FB, IG, twitter? They use the algorithm, because they're advertising companies.
Not so much torpedoed, more they just "refined" it with so much extra shit that it sank under its own weight and slaughtered this metaphor.
this extension works well on chrome, lets you disable all the "for you" timeline shenanigans
Also generally media literacy seems pretty low in some circles these days and lots of people who can't seem to grasp that depicting morally wrong or bad actions or characters is not the same as endorsing them, etc
So are you for or against the Supernatural brothers fucking each other? I need a clear position, dawg.
The problem is that it can also apply to marginalized groups voicing complaints about misrepresentation in media as well - and too often such terms are being used to lump all such arguments together in order to dismiss the legitimate arguments without looking like they are.
As for depiction not equalling endorsement, the counterpoint is Truffaut's famous statement of "there is no such thing as an anti war film", and while I don't think he's completely right, I also don't think he's completely wrong, either.
pleasepaypreacher.net