Lisa Maria Marquis

Seriously you guys, it is so fun and easy to be your own awesome propaganda office. A printer, some sticker sheets, some permanent markers ... You can live your best life and help us all get free.

'The purpose of a system is what it does' is hitting so much harder right now

White nationalists like Miller or Vance clearly think most white Americans are white nationalists at heart. That we we'll wake up one day and realize multiculturalism is taking something away from us.

They are wildly mistaken.

Minnesota's open door IS my cherished culture, and I'll fight for it.

Said time is, of course, the week of Black Friday — about which I have some Big Feelings: wil.to/newsletters/...

So, if you’re in a position where you’re able to do so, help me make sure JavaScript for Everyone lives up to its name by paying a little more for it.

Hear me out:

We're trying to do some good with this Black Friday period for Mat's course.

We've got an alternative coupon that will put £20 in Resilient Coders' pockets which both Mat and @piccalil.li match, turning that into a £60 donation.

A great org getting people into tech *for free*.

Use this link!

YouTube video by Mat “Wilto” Marquis JavaScript for Everyone Q&A

I've had a few questions from folks who want to know a little more about the course before snagging a seat, and a lot of this information is buried in newsletters and blog posts—I thought a video might be a quick way of getting it all in one easily-digested place:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXt6...

Yeah this has outstripped the post-9/11 frenzy even, especially when you factor in that the entire country was genuinely traumatized by 9/11 while most people didn’t know or care who Charlie Kirk was

Letter from Josh Hawley to PSL

This is an alarming escalation and spells out exactly why every organization working for justice needs to STOP HOARDING EMAILS AND DOCUMENTS.

Create a strict retention policy right now. If you get a censorious subpoena make sure you have nothing to hand over

Use signal with disappearing msgs

Her blood is on the hands of every single fucking law enforcement officer who wears a mask and refuses to show their credentials.

These are relatively low risk protests in a lot of places AND gentle reminder to everyone that it is the cops that decide whether protests will be safe and/or peaceful, not protesters

Countries with women leaders tend to be better run, but not because women are better leaders. Women can be trash too.

Countries with women leaders tend to be better run, because if your country is too sexist to elect women about 1/2 the time, then it's not selecting leaders on talent.🤷🏿‍♂️

What's really hard to reckon with is not just that we inflict these horrific cruelties upon people for no reason, but that a sizeable chunk of people - your neighbors, our neighbors - actually wholeheartedly supports this cruelty.

The reason you have to be inflexible on basic human rights is that if you are flexible about a thing then it is not a basic right

I am getting tired of saying this but I keep sporadically hearing from people things like your life has no substantively changed since trump retook power, bitch yes it has I have a conscience and I wake up mad every day fuck You lol.

This is what is so, so baffling. It's not like it was a normal publisher which has to raise the finances from within to produce and market a book. WE DID IT ALL FOR THEM. Us, and our readers. Yet they STILL didn't pay us.

How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.

Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files.

“We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.

(Published 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social‬)

Tweet from @thekafkadude It's really funny how America and the UK stopped investing in infrastructure in the 1980s because the free market will pave potholes and make the trains run on time and now literally nothing works and you cannot go anywhere or do anything but like 4 people are richer than God.

The best response to Abundance talk is a single tweet from Ruairi Wood, RIP brother.

BarkBox CEO apologizes for leaked message comparing a Pride collection to MAGA-themed products BarkBox's CEO apologized after a leaked message compared Pride items to MAGA-themed products by calling both "politically charged."

Fucking spineless Rainbow Capitalism strikes again. This fucking apology from the BarkBox CEO is worth exactly nothing.

I don’t buy their overpriced crap anyway. But you can bet your ass I never will now.

Fuck #BarkBox and #HappyPride 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

www.businessinsider.com/barkbox-ceo-...

Map of the US with graphics to illustrate effects of government layoffs and grant terminations.

Here is an interesting graphic display:

Detailed, interactive map from "The Impact Project" of Trump/Doge layoffs and grant-terminations, by regional effect. (County by county.)

theimpactproject.org/the-impact-m...

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This is the kind of thing that has historically led to great social stability and a complete absence of civil unrest.

No cops at Pride includes the cop in your head who tells you to police other queer people. Learn the difference between being uncomfortable and being harmed. Deal with your discomfort on your own time. Pride is for the community, not just you.

We need more interesting worms. What do we have, ring and flat? Stupid. I long to be infected by new worms.

Because it’s harder to catch defects in code you didn’t write, the only realistic way of ensuring that you really do “go faster” is to let more defects through, unintentionally or no.

So, effectively “LLMs for coding” are largely a cover story for improving throughput by relaxing quality standards

A cleaned-up and expanded version of this thesis, in case you need to convince some AI-pilled manager that you can't just take these things at face value.

Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras Following records requests from The Post, officials paused the first known, widespread live facial recognition program used by police in the United States.

Gift link: Cops in New Orleans have been using a private face surveillance network to track people across the city, which is prohibited by local law. Now the cops are trying to change the law. wapo.st/4ds19e7

These 350,000 will immediately be described as "illegal" by the administration — among other inevitable false descriptors.

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