@admitsWrongIfProven@qoto.org @realcaseyrollins I am with you! Wormholians may not stand for the office!

@admitsWrongIfProven@qoto.org @realcaseyrollins that's a fine way of thinking about things, but then "natural-born" would include everything, would be a meaningless restriction, right?

"With Scala, I did not have time to be bored, either because of involvement in FOSS, or because of the awesome projects I worked on at $work. It’s a language that has grown with me, and the ecosystem always provides something new to learn, or some new library to get excited about, while matching my aspirations."

@alexelcu captures much of how I feel. Scala is a very deep language, we are always discovering and teaching ourselves radically new things. I love that https://alexn.org/blog/2024/01/10/scala-future/ #scala

if you were born by C-section, can you run for President?

An ability to put together gargantuan sums of capital is perhaps the only redeeming feature of what's left of our financial system. Why is it not financing a new engineering-centered competitor to Boeing and Airbus?

(I know. Perhaps there's a clue in that word "competitor". And Boeing, after all, found its current glories by transforming itself into what Wall Street wanted, they'd probably just want more of the same.)

@ElleGray please don't!

@realcaseyrollins love earned implies the possibility of love spurned.

you are entitled to your own pigeons, but you are not entitled to your own cats.

what if you suspend accounts you don't like, but magnanimously restore only those accounts people prominently make a fuss about — in the name of free speech, of course.

what effect is that practice going to have on speech broadly on the platform, beyond its most famous accounts?

https://journa.host/@w7voa/111729441922783480

ht @eilonwy

@paninid @wdlindsy yes. as much as you can (accurately!) describe some Christian-identifying communities as threats to democracy, you can also point out that modern democracy has been disproportionately a project of Christian-identifying communities. at so broad a level of generalization, I’m not sure what the point is of these kinds of claims, except as a kind of culture war tu quoque.

exciting news from the citadel of free speech.

I too am experiencing degraded performance.

@tmcw

@BenRossTransit @Atrios I agree that there is lots of what gets called plagiarism that doesn’t merit the fuss. Reusing cookbook language in a methods suggestion, sure. But to the degree we maintain an idea of plagiarism at all, having someone else produce an entire creative work then publicly claim it as ones own surely qualifies, whatever arrangement they may have made with the true author. Even if their participation qualifies as coauthorship, it doesn’t justify hiding who wrote the text.

@stevendbrewer i tell you it’s insanity!

when you are young you revel in the carnality of the human condition.

when you are old you despair of its charnelity.

i hate living through history.

it was easier to mock the idea of it being over when you could squint and believe maybe kind of it might be.

@BenRossTransit @Atrios contracts are instrumental, the text is subordinate to a function.

books are referential, expressions of creativity, discussions of things. attributing to a nonauthor is a lie, potentially a consequential lie if the putative authorship will be used to promote or certify or qualify a person. as ghostwritten books often are.

treating authorship as alienable by contract, for a price, omits this negative externality upon the public.

it ought not be acceptable practice.

@dpp @mweagle I’ve used inoreader… There are some glitches and I have some gripes, but nothing serious enough to drive me elsewhere.

“The clearest example of plagiarism: uncredited ghostwriters, but we all accept that for some reason.” @Atrios https://www.eschatonblog.com/2024/01/plagiarism-feeding-frenzy.html