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Padraig2112
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If you're going to follow/DM, have a profile and at least one post, please. Ed and technology policy, former grad student working on Information Systems for untrained responders in big disasters
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · Nov 9
Advice that applies to more than just information technology: a thread.

If you're simplifying a complex problem, you're likely doing it wrong.
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 3h
Man I own Troma movies.
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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 6h
I didn't know that Ivar "torture the queer and autism out of them" Lovaas, the monster who invented conversion "therapy"/ABA, was also a literal Nazi, but this is the least surprising fact ever.
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H.S. Kallinger (he/they) @xakana.bsky.social · 6h
"Lovaas was a member of the NS Youth League, patterned after the Hitler Youth and named after the Norwegian Hirden paramilitary organization... Both he and his father are listed in Norway's "National Treason" files documenting Nazi collaboration."

He also said the Nazis inspired him to behaviorism.
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 3h
40 different names just in English
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 3h
Catamount. Painter. Just the garbage collector of names.
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 4h
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

Printers.
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🫧 Spark Elation 🫧 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 1d
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“a supply chain attack”
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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 1d
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“The tapes wouldn’t start”
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h
Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”
Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance
Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 9h
Cosign Liz
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 9h
So much less wear and tear on everything, just moving around. 200+ lbs is just hard on the knees after decades, folks.
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 9h
The optimal size is "WWII American Infantryman"

(5'8", 144.)
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 9h
Time for me to plug "God's Executioner" again, Cromwell didn't just win because he had cannon and money, he won because every opposing faction regarded the other opposing factions are a problem to be solved.
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 9h
An ideologically diverse supermajority of this site simply cannot help itself being disagreeable to folks within delta of their own ideological priors because nobody actually knows what to do when the country's norms are being exploded on a daily basis except decompensate and yell about other people
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 10h
It's *transparently* an attempt to get hired
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 15h
It's not a "badge of honor" you are just marketing yourself to one person
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 15h
Senpai is not gonna pick you
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 10h
Alito will nope out and vote for Mel Gibson for breakaway pope before he challenges his own priors.

Kavanaugh I don't think so.
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 15h
"We're actually expected to do our jobs with due diligence?" has become a pretty boilerplate defense on the right and people who interview them need to respond with, "If you cannot manage to do the job you should probably quit and apologize to the American people for taking it in the 1st place"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h
Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 10h
Gandalf LMAO meme:
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 13h
Sometimes we are thrust into roles we neither want nor are particularly good at.
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 10h
For starters, both Windows and Mac OSX have migrated from "we are running your computer for you" to "we are providing an interface to our cloud services for you" and that is the root of all evil.
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 10h
I would rather an OS that has a simple command line command set than one where you're forced to navigate through multiple "smart" menus (where everything moves around all the goddamn time) to do the same thing.

Granted a non-bananas graphical UX can easily outperform that, but we don't have those
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 14h
This is a good catch. The statutory authorization supposedly being used to transfer R&D funds to regular payroll is, in fact, expired, just like the regular appropriations are also expired.
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Ira 'Bluebeard Homer' Goldman @kdbyproxy.bsky.social · 15h
Not that Trump/Vought/Hegseth gaf, but among other ways in which the law says this may NOT be done:
A) The part of 8005 I've underlined in green says money transferred to another account is "available… for the same time period" as that other account; that other acc't expired on Sept 30.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 17h
Every day that passes I am more convinced of two things:

1) This regime’s attempt to consolidate and hold power is going to collapse in truly spectacular fashion

2) That collapse is going to be astoundingly dangerous and destructive
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 11h
You can follow for laughs but you shouldn't. You definitely should not amplify it if you do.
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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 11h
One thing that would probably be more helpful is to make CBS totally irrelevant which means not sharing the constant stream of ragebait and disinformation they’re going to post
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 11h
https://xkcd.com/3030/
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 11h
Ain't none of these yonkers done loved until a professor hands them a card and says, "this is an alpha version of nVidia's to-be-released next year card and there are no public drivers available for it yet make it work please?"
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 12h
(I am old)
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 13h
So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador. But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 12h
It is very strange that the whole reason why nVidia got popular in the first place is that they released non-gnu but stable drivers that let you use the whole capability set of the card, and ATI did not, and now everybody is locked into CUDA even though the driver support has continuously eroded.
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