Dan McDonald
@kebe.com
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... I'm also "danmcd", but kebe.com is my domain. */ Dad&Husband, BEAGLE-DAD, #illumos core team, early IPv6 & IPsec guy. Alum of Michigan, Arizona, Sun, etc. he/him/../../../etc/shadow My other socials can be found here: https://kebe.com/~danmcd
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THANK YOU for using the word cryptocurrency. We old-timers appreciate it because:
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Nobody would've known if it was Parker alone. 😊
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the media has made a huge deal about Neutrality and Not Editorializing and it all falls apart when you realize they are too afraid to publish a factual description of the video Trump posted
There's a post-a-picture game going on right now, and I just had to post. Clearly not a right answer.
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
Who the ACTUAL fuck does his social media? Did they like, scrape 4chan for the most horrid troll they could find?
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Telling moment: I was walking back from the rally, but a couple miles from it, carrying nothing but my gigantic American flag. An eight year old on his bike sees me with it and yells "No Kings!!" with absolute conviction.

My friends, they have lost the flag.
Didn't Nixon kneecap Johnson deal, though?
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Powerful sign at No Kings in Cleveland
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Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
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I posted that we should remember small town protests in red states and got Well Actuallyed by several people who insisted ______ has suffered more and we should remember them.

This isn’t the Oppression Olympics. We need all hands, not just the purest and noblest.
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A successful protest movement requires as broad a coalition as possible.

If you’re recoiling from the support of mainstream privileged segments of society, you’re not trying to win the fight, you’re just trying to win personal praise.
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people who earnestly try to argue that blocking certain accounts deprives u of important opposing viewpoints are assuming these certain accounts are posting in good faith
which is a dangerous assumption tbh
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Here’s a general MAGA blocklist that I’ve been using for years.

bsky.app/profile/did:...
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You should block the MAGA government-created Bluesky accounts.

Do not engage them.

Do not give them a single scrap of what they want.
He (either author or subject, or both) deserves more attention!
I’m so excited to announce that my book was published today! The book retells the life of Charles Sumner, an abolitionist senator who co-framed the Reconstruction Amendments. I wrote this book with my blood, sweat & tears as a student at Yale Law School. (1/x)
Slow-reading (esp. this week alas) @ztameez.bsky.social 's excellent Charles Sumner biography. I'm at the Emancipation Proclamation part of the book.
I was married but not married any more. Women don't like the vehicle.
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Police escalated the situation here in Broadview incredibly quickly. Saw multiple brutal arrests. ISP jabbing protesters with their batons like battering rams.

Here ISP lifts @katmabu.bsky.social by her feet to flip her over a concrete barrier.
Modern take on Ghostbusters where the villain is a VC who provides funding, but he's no angel investor, he's a devil investor.

Film ends when hoards (of all genders) show up our heroes (of all genders: go-to-hell toxic fans) with home-built tools built from leaked-now-open-source specs and tech.
Modern take on Ghostbusters where they get hired on as municipal employees and get put under the authority of Animal Control because it's the least-worst fit
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You know what's interesting? When John Brown was captured, a number of prominent abolitionists (led by Thoreau) decided to sing his virtues instead of immediately denouncing his use of violence
You got it!

And techies you know should be in this @anildash.com deliniated area (part of a longer thread from him):

bsky.app/profile/anil...
"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."