Every woman you know has:
- taken a longer route
- doubled back on herself
- pretended to dawdle by a shop window
- held her keys in her hand pointy side out
- made a fake phone call
- rounded a corner and ran
- texted her location to friends just in case
- walked home scared
Every woman you know.
Every single one.
"Our laws belong to all of us, and we should be able to find, read, and share them free of registration requirements, fees, and other roadblocks." Significant legal victory on #standards becoming public when enacted into public law.
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/appeals-court-upholds-publicresourceorgs-right-post-public-laws-and-regulations
This is significantly at odds with the policies of some governments and agencies, and standards bodies, that allow standards -- even when given the force of public law -- to charge royalties for access and use. This has some relevant in our data standards world, but a more classic example is a Building Code, where (a) you are required to obey it, in order to build on your own land, but (b) the government won't let you see it or read it unless you pay a fee to the rules' proprietary source.
HT @carlmalamud @eff
I'm 50, have 2 teenage kids and over the years have had exposure to young people because of this
On the whole they are so much nicer, more open and caring than previous generations, in my experience
My eldest came out as non binary, their younger brother just went, ok, and has never misgendered them once. A lifelong childhood friend transitioned, cool, no deadnaming, that's the deal now, crack on being mates
Maybe I've not been on Facebook enough but the kids seem cool as fuck, better than us
For the sake of empathy, I ask you all to take a second to consider things from the perspective of Conservatives:
Inflation is out of control. Housing is unaffordable. The healthcare system is broken. Everyone is drowning in student debt. Ecosystems are collapsing. We're constantly on the brink of war.
So naturally, one would ask, how can we even hope to solve these daunting and complex issues if we do not have detailed information on the genitals of every American citizen?
"The designer snuck ACAB in there. 🤣🤣"
https://twitter.com/FilmThePoliceLA/status/1664755922495844357
I've been helping a friend with a difficult issue at work.
My friend pulled off a goddamn miracle to complete a project for their CEO, only to receive critical feedback from their manager, who felt they weren't included enough. happy CEO, angry manager.
I told my friend they did nothing wrong. Their job was to finish the project, it is not to up-manage executive power struggle politics.
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😂😂😂😂😂
“several weeks ago [Elon Musk] stopped paying for special software that handles high-traffic internet services, including for the app’s live-audio feature, according to a person with direct knowledge of the decision.”
So “Twitter experienced multiple outages during a high-profile live audio forum on the app in which Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis launched his presidential campaign.”
[image in the wild from late 2022]
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2023/05/you-get-what-you-dont-pay-for
Humans: So glad we've made this alliance. Hey, what should we name our starships?
Aliens: Name them? We've always just used serial numbers
Humans: so we can name all the ships after ancient human mythology and famous battles from our homeworld?
Aliens: sure, I guess
*humans visibly shaking with excitement, destabilizing the space-time continuum*
Even if Clarence Thomas leaves the Supreme Court - not something I expect any time soon - we are all still stuck with his awful votes and his terrible majority opinions. This is the real tragedy caused when a corrupt or untrustworthy justice sits on the Court for so many years. There is no way to undo the layers of influence his participation has had on U.S. law. All the more reason why people of problematic character should not be nominated or confirmed to the Court.
Retired. http://blackflannel.com stan. #AmbiguouslyBrown. Learning to box at http://combatfitnessmma.com. #NAFO, because genocide is bad and fuck authoritarians. He/Him.