Morally Bankrupt

The very well-accepted term for "stripping the legal protections of a minority group and then sending a paramilitary force to carry them away" is "ethnic cleansing."

They are planning to ethnically cleanse Springfield, Ohio.

Never mind the jobs you had. Tell me five classes you took in college:
History of the Soviet Secret Police
Feminist Film Theory
Morphology
Stochastic Processes
Programming Languages

the capitalization is all wrong on this. its a poor imitation with bad cadence

the online chuds are wildly underestimating how many first-time protesters are showing up to things and how fucking pissed off they are and how radicalized they become after being on the receiving side of the tear gas and police brutality. the fascists are sowing the seeds of their own demise

Weird how some drug dealers get pardons while others are subjected to extrajudicial murder just on suspicion of it.

i think about this every time i look at the latest Overdrive or Hoopla or Kanopy invoice. unless prices or demand stabilize, our budget and thus our library will soon be describable as “lessee of digital content with a legacy dead-tree side concern.” 📚

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.

If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

how is an offer that is written out, responded to with acceptance, and then replied to with confirmation that it was their intent to make that offer not a binding offer? you can just renege on stuff like this????

god knows we do not allow Ms Rachel in my house (I'm sorry, I like her politics, but the show's format is not for me) but this content is the polar opposite of slop. i thought these dorks were the "word mean things!" people?

tune back in in three weeks or three months when I have new updates and feel free to drop some recs in here that are not 30 book series, don't involve wars or battles or medieval settings, and are not written before 1970 or full of Britishisms. She knows a lot of words, but she's still just 4.5yo...

Honestly, I can't believe these books are so popular because they are... not great? Like some solid concepts for sure but really lacking in the execution. I feel like you could vastly improve them in any grad-level writers' workshop at a university. I guess Men Could Just Do Things Back Then, huh?

HOWEVER: it was all kind of worth-it when she pieced together how this book relates to the other one before the narrator spelled it out. The excitement at connecting those dots was so cool (but also not conducive to going to sleep). FWIW I've never read these books and I didn't know much about them

Once again, I am here to complain about The Way Things Were, How People Talked, and That Weird Island Dialect and Even Weirder Culture. I swear I spend 10 minutes explaining for every 5 minutes I spend reading, so we are averaging like 1 chapter a night and it takes like 40 minutes to get through it

This was all to lead to The Magician's Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia) which we are reading because we read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe last year and when she found out there were more "narnia books" she wanted to read them, and this seemed like a natural, totally age inappropriate follow-up

Anyways... we got through all three without having to insist we finish a book she wanted to abandon, which is great. Little palate cleanser with both Orris and Timble books to, again, work on continuity in series but also in theme by staying close to that "yearning for adventure" concept

Maybe The Borrowers could have been a C+ if it wasn't such a chore to explain so. many. things. and translate so many phrases. I ended up just modifying the language on the fly for the second half of the book to keep the pace from slowing too much. Old American has a lot of now-foreign concepts, too

Once again, if you are an American, the most annoying thing about a lot of children's literature is how many British authors there are and how old some of these books are. It's hard enough dealing with new vocab without the archaic references and foreign colloquialisms or differences in word meaning

The theme here was obviously small creatures who are sheltered, because their parents want to protect them from the dangers of the world, but desperately yearn for adventure. It was nice to see the connections being made even if some had to be prompted or required some leading-to with questions.

It's been a while since we did Books I've Read to a 4yo That Are Not Meant For 4yos. The rundown of the last 3 months:

The Borrowers, Lost Evangeline, and The Mouse and the Motorcycle (arbitrary scores: C- / A / B). I decided to do a "theme" cluster as we prepare for, potentially, a series

this is such a fun thread

were the beams steel or iron? Bessemer process wasn't introduced until mid 19th and (in the US at least) steel beams didn't displace iron until like the late 19th/early 20th due to cost. But these are US timelines and I'm not sure how it played out in Europe

The armed people that are all fiercely loyal to him and are organized under a department that reports to the presidency directly, allowing him to treat them as his personal police: the department of homeland security. The analog to what DHS can become is the Tsarist Okhrana or the Italian OVRS

its 55 in LA and we just got over 4 inches of rain in the last 36 hours 😭😭😭

unfortunately they are more likely to just quack themselves into chronic illness at an immense cost to everyone else

what is sovereignty when tribal courts are disallowed by the US from prosecuting non-native people and US courts claim to have no jurisdiction over crimes committed on reservations? yes you read that correctly

ahhhh the “i just need to get out of the house” costco trip. i would never, obv.

i’d say the moat is maybe comparable to x86 except there’s no direct competition and buyers are much less price sensitive. competition is maybe 10% R&D and 90% having enterprise reps that act as free consultants. like bbg in-office 1-on-1 training, but for dev teams and for days or weeks at a time

some of the input i got from people who know better when i asked about abstractions that allow you to switch between different target platforms:

you should never watch things at resolutions higher than they were originally meant for, even when available, because best case its so distracting you cant suspend disbelief bc it starts looking like a mid 2000s daytime soap (idk why, it just does) and worst case this stuff happens

i did some CUDA stuff last year, mostly for fun, and this was my eventual conclusion after actually doing the coding. The fortran (big deal still in those circles) HPC community is basically CUDA only, too from what i’ve seen