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mayabuttreeks

@ mayabuttreeks @lemmy.ca

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  • Jeffries says Trump impeachment not a top priority if Dems win House majority

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  • FYI for anyone in his district: Jeffries has a Democratic primary challenger this June — Vance Bostic, a working-class guy who as far as I can tell hasn't had a lot of press, but if you live in Brooklyn and are a registered Democrat it's probably worth checking him out.

  • Anyone else use RSS?

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  • I mostly use it to monitor individual feeds for chatty, talkradio-esque mp3 files that I then download and play from my personal devices. I've taken to calling them "podcasts" ;)

  • How Microsoft Vaporized a Trillion Dollars

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  • Oy. Sadly, I suspect anybody who has worked in dev knows the outlines of this story: Management promising deliverables with unrealistic timelines and functionality; team leads with such poor internal product knowledge they don't recognize catastrophic issues until it's too late; poorly-trained devs squeezed to push out unscalable kludgy insecure nightmares "for now" that just never get addressed; systems gradually becoming a Jenga tower of manual workarounds and undocumented slapdash quick fixes... Ugh. Nightmare fuel.

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  • The longer I'm an adult the more terrifying it is to realize how many people there are in positions of power over people who are either complete morons or straight up mentally ill.

  • Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links

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  • I do hope this move results in more support for the IA/Wayback Machine and helps them to update some of their crawler tech — thanks to the rise of AI, some sites are effectively (thru captchas etc.) or actively (through straight-up greed [coughRedditcough]) blocked from being archived almost entirely, which is frustrating for legit archivists/contributors.

  • Tiny Homes Are Big in Texas—and They’re Selling ‘Rapidly’

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  • Goddamn. And what mostly kills me about "tiny homes" is that, like... prefabs exist! Mobile homes exist! They've existed for a long time! But the cultural divide and associated stigma that has been cultivated by dipshits like David Brooks and his ilk has led a huge number of people to believe they're too good for "trailer" living, so they opt to pay thru the nose for very little additional benefit.

  • Cops Are Buying ‘GeoSpy’, an AI That Geolocates Photos in Seconds

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  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
    mayabuttreeks @lemmy.ca

    Everything's fine. Nothing to see here.

  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
    mayabuttreeks @lemmy.ca

    Trump's delusion he has an "irrefutable" right to impose voting restrictions on states might originate from a Florida ex-Marriott employee who claims he found secret text in the U.S. Constitution

    electionlawblog.org

  • What's a piece of Media that is so underrated you must mention it?

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  • Heh...my only real memory of the film from viewing it back in the day is Liev Schreiber's time-traveling character snickering at the word "erection". Clearly I should rewatch it!

  • What's a piece of Media that is so underrated you must mention it?

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  • Terriers - excellent 2010 caper-style dramedy series starring Donal Logue and Michael Raymond-James, created by the screenwriter behind "Oceans Eleven". Relatable & endearing characters, compelling arcs, razor-sharp writing, wrapped in a noire detective plot set in sunny San Diego. Aired for just 13 eps on FX back in the day, only a couple of years before streaming platforms really hit big (and where it likely would have found its audience) and I've mourned "what could have been" ever since. Can't recommend it enough, despite the final ep having a bit of a "lady or the tiger" ending. I urge you to seek it out.

  • Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software

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  • Thomas Massie Posts Grim Tweet Saying He’s ‘Not Suicidal’ Amid Trump-Epstein Files Fracas

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  • Massie was and is extremely wrong about many issues IMO, but I'll be damned if his backbone on this hasn't given me some satisfaction. I guess being a bullheaded libertarian who sincerely believes in your principles can be an advantage when your naysayers are straight up hypocrites defending child-raping billionaires.