@wiggon.bsky.social

*nix Sys/Network Admin, replacing coworkers with scripts, ARPG & MMORPG player, sci-fi/fantasy reader, ham radio operator. Transplanted to WI.

58 Followers 388 Following 123 Posts Joined Oct 2024
2 weeks ago
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I was worried that on Linux scanning/printing would be a hassle.

Nope, was just a click and done. The best experience with a scanner/printer I ever had. Compared to before where I had to install the printer's software to work with it, and get pop up ads I had to then delete.

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3 weeks ago
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The Internet Convinced Me to Leave Windows for Linux (As a Content Creator) YouTube video by ZoranTheWizard

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1 month ago

Midwest that lived in the South thoughts...
A still cold is like a dry heat.

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1 month ago
Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

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1 month ago

Okay. Time to call your democratic senators and tell them that Bovino’s demotion and humiliation WILL NOT SUFFICE to fund DHS.

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1 month ago

"... Many students in the program, like Pretti, go on to careers in health related fields and they major in BSE because it explicitly integrates the biological and social sciences".

I got my MA from that Department in 1998. He's made us all proud.

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1 month ago

Today I learned that Alex Pretti was a Geographer -- a colleague writes "he graduated in 2011 from the University of Minnesota Geography Department's Biology, Society, and Environment (BSE) program. ... "1/2

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Dana Bash grills Bovino to provide any evidence that Alex Pretti "assaulted law enforcement" and Bovino has absolutely nothing

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2 months ago
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Hannity has a Fox reporter in Minneapolis talk to a random protester walking through the city who goes on to spit bars for 2 minutes

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4 months ago

When did making kids go hungry become a Christian value?

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8 months ago
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4th of July tips to keep all of your body parts #tips #fireworks #4th YouTube video by Fire Department Chronicles

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8 months ago
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Let's talk about Trump not knowing about Medicaid cuts.... YouTube video by Belle of the Ranch

I'm getting numb to the level of hypocrisy on display.

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8 months ago
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Fact check: Was suspected assassin Boelter close with MN Gov. Walz? Boelter was appointed to an advisory board in 2019, but one member says the board does not interact with the governor on a regular basis.

Minnesota Star Tribune debunks each of the lies and conspiracies posted on social media from Mike Lee, Elon Musk, and all the other usual suspects who do this EVERY time. www.startribune.com/fact-check-d...

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9 months ago

Some friends of mine are doing a thing over on twitch if anyone wants to watch some nerds play REPO.

www.twitch.tv/megagwolf
www.twitch.tv/mellyberryvt
www.twitch.tv/darastrix

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9 months ago

Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

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9 months ago

Last year my wife had breast cancer and a double mastectomy.

This morning, for the first time ever, she was challenged in the changing rooms at the swimming pool. Her breasts were not what make her a woman - but, breasts or not, she is entitled to dignity and protection from vigilantes.

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9 months ago
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9 months ago

I use vi(m), vscode, and emacs. Depends on the project. That said, I use vi modal editing and keybinds in vscode and emacs.

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10 months ago

"A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision." IBM slide deck, 1979

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10 months ago
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Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI Duolingo is making some AI-focused changes.

As part of the shift, ... “a few constructive constraints,” including the changes to how it works with contractors, looking for AI use in hiring and in performance reviews, and that “headcount will only be given if a team cannot automate more of their work.”

www.theverge.com/news/657594/...

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10 months ago
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Duolingo’s AI Update is Quietly Ruining Everything YouTube video by Evan Edinger

I appreciate his perspective. I was using Duolingo to learn French, but the switch to AI first basically killed it for me. A big red flag was the use of AI for hiring and performance reviews.

youtu.be/kPS_-cjh-u4

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10 months ago
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It’s the grift that keeps on grifting.

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10 months ago

Ohhhhhhh. I thought you were talking about a game called "Blueprints"...

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10 months ago
a blond furry character sits at a bar with a drink in his right hand, his head resting on his left hand. 2 sets of tables and stools behind him and a clock hanging on a black brick wall. mannequins sit at the tables.

I'm really happy with this render, the lighting and details of the drink specifically are my favs!

Me on a Saturday night fr fr

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10 months ago

Anyone who can scream for years about Hunter Biden, and then tolerate this and not scream one thousand times louder, is not an ethical person. The republican party is not, today, an ethical party. Situational ethics is no ethics.

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10 months ago

Hey! Press covering Trump!

The statute that lets him impose tariffs at will? It EXPLICITLY excludes movies.

He has no authority to do this. Not just bc of an absence of authorization, but bc the law says “you CANNOT do this.”

Do NOT say “Trump has imposed movie tariffs,” bc he did not. He CANNOT.

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10 months ago

I have a 1798 streak on #Duolingo and today I'm deleting my account.

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10 months ago
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