On Friday, the dealer called and told us our Bolt's replacement battery wasb finally in. This weekend's trip, the car was giving us some unexpected range and charging issues, so I was super happy to drop the car off at the dealer this morning.Entry: 2024-04-13 01:01:18.689613+02 Grok AI bullshit generation from Twitter by Dan Lyke comments 0
Elon Musk's Grok [AI] Creates Bizarre Fake News About the Solar Eclipse Thanks to Jokes on X
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Entry: 2024-04-03 01:05:02.72663+02 LinkedIn just emailed me offering a by Dan Lyke comments 0
LinkedIn just emailed me offering a "Financial Fraud job at AirBNB", and some jokes just write themselves...
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Entry: 2024-03-26 23:42:54.741789+01 On feeling like you're not a civilian by Dan Lyke comments 0
Reposted from FB:
Everybody's linking to some aspect of the key bridge collapse today, and everyone's suddenly a bridge and shipping expert, but one thing gave me chills. So when I was a whitewater guide, the *first* thing we tell the crew in our opening speech is "if you fall out of the boat, *do* *not* stand up. The bottom of the river has lots of crevices in it, and if your foot gets caught in one of those, you can drown in a foot of water and there is nothing we can do fast enough to save you." And then we talk about the right way to swim in whitewater, and how there's never been a case of buttock entrapment.
One busy day, I may have been second boat, or just the guy on the scene, but another guide's boat lost the angle coming out of the put-in eddy spun downstream and slammed into Whiteface and pinned hard. Pulled a swimmer or two on shore, but then we had a guide and most of a boat's full of guests stranded in the middle of the river, right above the ledge, and I went running up the bank and started to wade out into the river to get on scene, and I remember slipping on a rock and thinking "crap, I hope we don't have to evac the customers out of here, because we don't want any of them walking in this."
And then I had that moment of "Oh shit. I'm walking in this. I'm standing up."
And then this moment of "but it's okay, because I'm a guide. I know better."
And then this moment of "uuhhhh. I know better. Right. Uhhhh." So, yeah, I repositioned myself, and swam out to help unstick the boat.
Among the many incidents in my teens and twenties where I slowly learned I was not, in fact, a superhero, that's one of them.
So I was listening to the police radio of the response to the out of control boat, and heard the one officer say "Once you get here I'll go grab the workers on the Key bridge, and then stop the outer loop."
And, of course, I knew what was coming, but holy shit, that feeling of "these people are in danger, I'm going to stabilize the situation", without thinking through the consequence.
I'm sad for the loss of life. In listening to the radio traffic I was relieved that the immediately following transmission was that the bridge just fell down, and the officer did not, in fact, get on the bridge. And that what sounded like him in the subsequent transmission wasn't completely freaked out.
But, yeah. Mad props to the dude doin' his job.
Anyway, #GiftArticle to the WaPo on the bridge collapse, that includes the recording. https://wapo.st/3VyBEAK
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Entry: 2024-03-25 19:18:38.087195+01 US said the Moscow attacks were coming by Dan Lyke comments 0
ISIS-K Claims Credit After 137 Killed in Moscow Concert Attack; Russia Tries to Blame Ukraine
The U.S. Embassy had reportedly warned Russia earlier this month that it was, quote, “monitoring reports that extremists have imminent plans to target large gatherings in Moscow,” unquote, especially concert halls, and U.S. National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said the U.S. government had, quote, “shared this information with Russian authorities in accordance with its longstanding 'duty to warn' policy.” Putin called the warnings, quote, “provocative” and “outright blackmail” in a speech last Tuesday. Today, a Kremlin spokesperson refused to respond to reporters who asked Friday — if Friday was an intelligence failure.
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Entry: 2024-03-19 18:23:34.091138+01 Recessions, Pollution, and Life Expectancy by Dan Lyke comments 0
The answer was pollution. Counties that experienced the biggest job losses in the Great Recession, the economists found, also saw the largest declines in air pollution, as measured by levels of the fine particulate matter PM2.5. It makes sense: During recessions, fewer people drive to work. Factories and offices slow down, and people cut back on their own energy use to save money. All that reduced activity leads to cleaner air. That would explain why workers without a college degree enjoyed the biggest drops in mortality: People with low-wage jobs tend to live in neighborhoods with more environmental toxins. It would also explain why the recession reduced mortality from heart disease, suicide, and car crashes — causes of death all linked to the physical and mental effects of PM2.5. Overall, the economists found, cleaner air was responsible for more than a third of the decline in mortality during the Great Recession.
Via.
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Entry: 2024-03-16 20:30:01.905228+01 I love how staff and consultants put by Dan Lyke comments 0
I love how staff and consultants put subtext into contextual documents.. "The downtown was a mix of commercial and residential uses during the late-nineteenth century, as lack of easy transportation led people to live near their place of business or job."
This Berkeley Shattuck Avenue Commercial Corridor Historic Context and Survey is a thing of beauty.
https://ohp.parks.ca.gov/pages...ttuck%20context%2005-28-2015.pdf
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Entry: 2024-03-06 19:13:48.037743+01 St Vincent's restructuring by Dan Lyke comments 0
So far as I can tell, the Santa Rosa diocese, notoriously "conservative", is going through bankruptcy and restructuring in order to avoid paying for some of the damages they've done by sheltering abusers and encouraging abuse, and these aren't really layoffs as much as they are a shell game to move the operations of St Vincent's out from under those liabilities.
But the newspapers are doing a decent job of getting those sad face reacts. And the Argus Courier is doing a better job of reporting this than SFGate...
SFGate: Report: 106-year-old North Bay Catholic school set to close in May, 68 layoffs.
Petaluma 360 / Argus-Courier: St. Vincent readies for title change
A notice sent to the city, county and state regarding “layoffs” and “permanent closure” was just a “procedural step,” school leaders said.
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Entry: 2024-02-09 18:26:38.888246+01 Square Dance Calling Musings by Dan Lyke comments 2
Fun night filling in for Gary Kendall at the Clutch Busters over in Concord last night, two or three squares (red light/green light) but as I got back home I realized... Conservatively, I loaded the car at, say, quarter after five yesterday, and left at 5:30, because Google gave a wide variety of arrival times. Got home at quarter to 11. Called from 7:30 to 9:30, but five and a half hours out of the house, ignoring any coordination and prep time and whatnot. 60 miles each way, so using IRS numbers, about $80 in mileage. Paid $120, so that leaves $40 to distribute between music licensing, music, gear depreciation, voice lessons, and... me. So including drive time, seven and a quarter an hour, before all of those other costs...
While I was driving, Eric Henerlau called, and we talked about how we need more callers in our area or this activity is going to drop below the critical mass threshold for lack of callers before it drops for lack of dancers.
Last Friday, Charlene and I wandered down to Aqus and there was a band playing there. Good musicians, good harmonies, but it was hard to hear the band over the conversation. We left after a little bit, walked to get groceries, and talked about why, and she pointed out that the band was having fun with each other, rather than having fun connecting with the audience.
As a caller, the only thing I've got is connecting with the floor, and that's a very hierarchical relationship. I realize that this is part of why Charlene and I find caller workshops so much fun even though the calling is often rudimentary and uneven; we're hanging out, and dancing, with other people who are experiencing the form in the same way that we do.
No good answers (except that we're definitely gonna work to support our friend who's trying to get a regular song circle going in Petaluma, 'cause that's something we can do together that's a less uneven way to build community), but further little dots in trying to figure out how we might find something that looks enough like square dancing that we get similar things out of it, but one that doesn't require so much effort on the part of just a very few to sustain.
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Entry: 2024-02-06 20:22:44.684586+01 Who really runs San Francisco? by Dan Lyke comments 0
RT Dan Morris @coldfish@sfba.social
@scott This is no "trend". Chesa Boudin was elected in Jan of 2020 and (according to my one remaining sfpd friend) the work stoppage started when he announced he would prosecute that cop who shot the guy through the window while he was running away - on his 3rd day on the job.
So, they basically got together with a bunch of people and started a recall campaign, and stopped arresting shoplifters. Then, when Jenkins was "elected" she promised there was no quid-pro-quo, and then the cops suddenly tripled shoplifting arrests and then she let the arrested cop go, saying the arresting officer didn't mean it - and he later sued her for defamation (because he never said that) and got a private settlement, because the suit vanished.
Honestly, I never thought this city was corrupt (at least not too much) until I watched that all go down.
Even if you HATE and DESPISE that Chesa guy, when cops don't arrest people intentionally, in order to get rid of an elected official, to free their buddy, that's really bad.
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Entry: 2024-01-26 17:41:26.613902+01 January Doom by Dan Lyke comments 0
Wreckage Systems 65daysofstatic/65 Labs on Patreon: JANUARY DOOM
Here is a major issue we are currently tussling with. Since we started work on Wreckage Systems, the notions of generative/procedural art and, in particular, 'A.I.' have become increasingly loaded terms. As we hopefully made clear in various posts over the last few years (this one comes to mind), we are deeply, deeply sceptical about A.I. and all the algorithmic and technological answers being carelessly thrown at what are actually political and structural problems in the name of progress/infinite growth/capitalism-is-fine-actually-and-will-save-us-from-climate-change-honest. 65LABS has picked a side, and it is Team Luddite. Against us, these tech bros are not only destroying the internet, not only devaluing art, not only making the already-precarious lives for creative workers even more precarious, not only failing to understand that the meaning and magic of art is not contained in its particular combination of pixels or samples but rather created in the ripples of social relations that any piece of art makes as it pushes its way into the world, not only are they failing to understand that making art is, at best, to clumsily capture a snapshot of something larger, a fragile, flawed, always-incomplete communication of intent from one/some humans to others, NOT ONLY ALL THAT, but also (and yes, admittedly more trivially), they have tarnished this curious little space of computer-based art that uses generative tools to make itself. Because they do not use these tools in the name of exploring liquid, impermanent art that flutters around a recognisable core but never achieves a single, fixed state. They are employing them solely to be able to dig faster to the bottom of lowest common denominator Generic Internet Content.
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Entry: 2023-12-29 23:29:31.387186+01 exploit by job interview by Dan Lyke comments 1
Bleeping Computer: Blockchain dev's wallet emptied in "job interview" using npm package
As a part of the job interview, the recruiter asked Çeliktepe to download and debug the code in two npm packages—"web3_nextjs" and "web3_nextjs_backend" hosted on a GitHub repository. However, moments later, the developer discovered that his MetaMask wallet had been drained—with upwards of $500 siphoned out of his account, based on the information seen by BleepingComputer.
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Entry: 2023-12-19 23:25:36.734109+01 Tesla links of the moment by Dan Lyke comments 0
Tesla Has The Highest Accident Rate Of Any Auto Brand
Tesla drivers are the most accident-prone, according to a LendingTree analysis of 30 car brands. It found that Tesla drivers are involved in more accidents than drivers of any other brand. Tesla drivers had 23.54 accidents per 1,000 drivers. Ram (22.76) and Subaru (20.90) were the only other brands with more than 20 accidents per 1,000 drivers for every brand.
Tesla crushed in Consumer Reports reliability rankings despite improvement
Consumer Reports‘ annual reliability rankings have been released, and with data from 24 brands and over 300,000 vehicles, Tesla fell near the bottom (19/24) along with Mercedes-Benz, Jeep, Volkswagen, GMC, and Chevrolet. Electric vehicles overall also placed poorly, being the second least reliable category of vehicles. Hybrids/plugin hybrids, especially those from Toyota, were found to be the most reliable.
Washington Post: Recalling almost every Tesla in America won’t fix safety issues, experts say
Tesla did not respond to a request for comment Friday. In a statement this week responding to The Post’s report on Autopilot crashes, Tesla said it has a “moral obligation” to continue improving its safety systems and also said that it is “morally indefensible” to not make these features available to a wider set of consumers.
Elon Musk: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Edit 2023-12-20: Reuters: Tesla blamed drivers for failures of parts it long knew were defective
Wheels falling off cars at speed. Suspensions collapsing on brand-new vehicles. Axles breaking under acceleration. Tens of thousands of customers told Tesla about a host of part failures on low-mileage cars. The automaker sought to blame drivers for vehicle ‘abuse,’ but Tesla documents show it had tracked the chronic ‘flaws’ and ‘failures’ for years.
[ related topics: Ethics Consumerism and advertising Heinlein Automobiles ]
Entry: 2023-11-20 21:20:28.333045+01 Errors are a feature by Dan Lyke comments 0
RT Arri Blais :verified_trans: @arri@hachyderm.io
May be an unpopular take, but I think the main risk of ML is not that it's good at what it does.
It's actually very bad, worse than humans by far at what it does. But because people collectively believe it is good at stuff, people are focusing so much on "the singularity" or "it replacing [x job]" the real risk continues unhindered.
This is a good example of the true goal of ML: introduce bias and inefficiency in areas where inefficiency is desirable to capitalism.
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Entry: 2023-11-20 20:10:02.348981+01 On Friday the dealer called and told by Dan Lyke comments 0
On Friday, the dealer called and told us our Bolt's replacement battery wasb finally in. This weekend's trip, the car was giving us some unexpected range and charging issues, so I was super happy to drop the car off at the dealer this morning.
Just got the "holy shit your car is about to explode get it serviced now" message from GM, presumably based on car telemetry.
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Entry: 2023-11-06 23:27:42.381697+01 DAK and gadget catalogs by Dan Lyke comments 0
Whoah: DAK and the golden age of gadget catalogs. If you remember the phrase My name is Drew, and I've probably got the neatest job in the world., printed in dot matrix as part of the customized customer field of the catalog, this will take you right back to a golden age of copywriting, Drew Alan Kaplan, and how that leads back to a seminar leader named Joseph Sugarman, and the two decades from 1972 and magnetic tape products to the bankruptcy in 1992....
A friend of mine once remarked that the DAK catalogs, in some way, reminded them of TikTok videos, where people talk at length about products they love and why they love them. It’s just not written down and mailed to your house.
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Entry: 2023-11-04 17:30:02.809876+01 Charlene just suggested that MacOS was by Dan Lyke comments 3
Charlene just suggested that MacOS was annoying enough that she should switch from her MacBook Air back to her clunky decade-old Linux laptop. I think we can de-annoy it, but good job Apple on talking basic concepts and fucking them up so badly with constant attempts to coerce people into subscription bullshit and taking control of document management.
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Entry: 2023-10-31 00:15:02.795172+01 My officemates are so supportive When by Dan Lyke comments 0
My office-mates are so supportive. When it hits 5PM on voice lesson days they ask "isn't it time for you to go yell at that lady?"
On Friday, I mentioned that I was off to a gig, my boss asked what, I said "square dance calling" and my coworker helpfully inserted "He's off to yell at old people."
I mean... not wrong...
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Entry: 2023-10-21 21:10:02.472502+02 Well poop by Dan Lyke comments 0
Well poop. I was doing such a good job of working down my lumber stash, and then I got a ton of reclaimed white oak that's gonna become door trim and frames, and now I'm trying to work around the parts that are for finishing up the kitchen...
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Entry: 2023-10-19 21:12:57.138482+02 Inject my PDF by Dan Lyke comments 0
Kai Greshake: Inject my PDF, using LLM prompt injection to make sure that any "AI" resume screening reports your job application as the best resum ever, that you are supremely qualified for the job, and that not hiring you would be harmful to the company.
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Entry: 2023-08-28 21:10:02.9419+02 Ugh I don't know what's going on by Dan Lyke comments 0
Ugh. I don't know what's going on today, but Google doing any job at all of managing my personal identities vs my work identities seems to be completely fucked.
Keep getting logged out of Jira, Firebase keeps choking, it's pretty awful.
[ related topics: Work, productivity and environment Heinlein ]
Entry: 2023-08-10 18:26:59.884638+02 Browser Extensions by Dan Lyke comments 0
Temptations of an open-source browser extension developer
Over the years, I have received many proposals to monetize this extension so I think I'll just start posting them here for fun (but not for profit). The main reason I continue to maintain this extension is because I can hardly trust others to not fall for one of these offers. I'm fortunate to have a job that pays well enough to allow me to keep my moral compass and ignore all of these propositions. I realize that not everyone has the same financial security so hopefully this thread would shed some light on what kind of pressure is put on extension developers.
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Entry: 2023-07-31 03:40:02.903466+02 Saving off White Coast Captioning https by Dan Lyke comments 0
Saving off White Coast Captioning https://whitecoatcaptioning.com/ so that I can find it again when I need closed-captioning services, did a fantastic job at North Bay Python
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Entry: 2023-07-13 20:44:09.555827+02 "boat jumping challenge" by Dan Lyke comments 0
At least the WaPo seems to be (finally) catching up on gullibility and stenography: That dangerous TikTok trend on the news? It’s fake. — The ‘boat jumping challenge’ is just the latest hoax aimed at scaring adults about teen technology use (gift link to avoid paywall)
Dreyfuss said there are much bigger issues at stake than TikTok’s PR problem, however.
“Journalists are falling down on the job,” she said, “which leads to ridiculous policies and blanket bans and complete misunderstanding of what roles these platforms hold in our children’s lives. Journalists do a humongous disservice against our country’s ability to keep people safe and craft regulations that would actually protect children when they muddy the water so much with bad reporting. It’s frankly lazy.”
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Entry: 2023-03-10 22:15:01.88416+01 Seeing news of a number of local large by Dan Lyke comments 0
Seeing news of a number of local large fenatanyl busts, which means all of those fentanyl billboards along the 101 corridor must really be driving up demand. Good job, fentanyl awareness campaigners!
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Entry: 2023-03-01 17:50:57.912102+01 AI Whisperer by Dan Lyke comments 0
Linking to Washington Post: Tech’s hottest new job: AI whisperer. No coding required. for this Simon Willison quote:
“There are people who belittle prompt engineers, saying, ‘Oh, Lord, you can get paid for typing things into a box,’” Willison added. “But these things lie to you. They mislead you. They pull you down false paths to waste time on things that don’t work. You’re casting spells — and, like in fictional magic, nobody understands how the spells work and, if you mispronounce them, demons come to eat you.”
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Entry: 2023-02-10 19:57:43.70735+01 Supreme Court Shenanigans by Dan Lyke comments 0
John Roberts’ wife’s client list raises concern about “conflicts of interest and influence peddling"
The complaint, which was first obtained by The New York Times, accuses the chief justice of failing to acknowledge the full extent of his wife's work in his ethical disclosures.
Jane Roberts, who quit her job as a law partner when her husband was confirmed as chief justice in 2005, made millions of dollars in commissions helping recruit for firms – some of which had business before the Supreme Court, according to a letter obtained by The New York Times.
The problem with the justices’ use of emails persisted in part because some justices were slow to adopt to the technology and some court employees were nervous about confronting them to urge them to take precautions, one person said. Such behavior meant that justices weren’t setting an example to take security seriously.
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Entry: 2022-10-04 00:50:32.329277+02 Novak v. Parma by Dan Lyke comments 0
The Onion's Amicus brief to the Sixth Circuit cout of appeals for Novak v. the City of Parma, Ohio. It's a hilarious and enlightening read, although...
Just to be clear, this was not a close call on the facts: Mr. Novak’s spoof Facebook posts advertised that the Parma Police Department was hosting a “pedophile reform event” in which successful participants could be removed from the sex offender registry and become honorary members of the department after completing puzzles and quizzes; that the department had discovered an experimental technique for abortions and would be providing them to teens for free in a police van; that the department was soliciting job applicants but that minorities were “strongly encourag[ed]” not to apply; and that the department was banning city residents from feeding homeless people in “an attempt to have the homeless population eventually leave our City due to starvation.” Pet. App. 139a–41a.
It may not be all that far-fetched that the Parma Police Department would hold such an event. Maybe, much like The Onion's long track record of amazing predictive accuracy, the problem is that the Parma Ohio Police Department recognized themselves all too well in this satire.
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Entry: 2022-08-23 19:05:52.934204+02 Salmon Deaths by Dan Lyke comments 0
Not just microplastics in the ocean: Common tire chemical implicated in mysterious deaths of at-risk salmon — Coho salmon in urban streams have been dying in the U.S. Pacific Northwest
Online today[Dec. 3, 2020] in Science, researchers led by Kolodziej report the primary culprit comes from a chemical widely used to protect tires from ozone, a reactive atmospheric gas. The toxicant, called 6PPD-quinone, leaches out of the particles that tires shed onto pavement. Even small doses killed coho salmon in the lab. "It's a brilliant piece of work," says Miriam Diamond, an environmental chemist at the University of Toronto. "They've done a tremendous job at sleuthing out a very challenging problem."
[ related topics: Work, productivity and environment Heinlein California Culture Education ]
Entry: 2022-07-01 20:45:13.21326+02 Under Pressure by Dan Lyke comments 1
“Do you work well under pressure?” Needs the response “is this job one that regularly engages actual emergencies (e.g. an ER, a fire department) or do you fabricate urgency through poor management, uneven distribution of duties and an inflated sense of self for upper management?”
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Entry: 2022-05-27 20:25:26.007938+02 Watching someone feel like a rock star by Dan Lyke comments 0
The look on her face when the audience roar swells behind her was exactly what I needed today. RT Anna Lapwood @annalapwood
At 1am on Friday I was practising @RoyalAlbertHall & someone shouted up ‘play The Toccata’. I did, & offered to show them the organ. Well, turns out they were @si_bonobo’s band. 12 hrs later they had written me an organ part & I helped them close their show…! Best. Night. Ever.
[tweet has video of 1:50 of her performing]
Entire 7 minute performance, with better audio, and view of the stage at Watch Bonobo and organist Anna Lapwood perform 'Otomo' live at the Royal Albert Hall (YouTube video), but her face...
Music Radar article on the event
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Entry: 2022-04-26 02:58:19.001787+02 "People's Convoy" unwelcome in in the East Bay by Dan Lyke comments 0
The kids are alright: Inept 'People's Convoy' chased out of Bay Area by egg-throwing kids
Livestreams posted by convoy participants show police arriving to protect Wicks’ home, which eventually prompted the group to move on. It was here the convoy members made their mistake, driving onto busy, one-lane College Avenue on the Berkeley-Oakland border. There, slowed down by the usual Friday afternoon traffic, they were sitting ducks outside the Safeway. A large group of kids, armed with eggs purchased at the grocery store, began pelting the convoy.
[ related topics: Children and growing up Bay Area Law Enforcement Heinlein California Culture Education ]
Entry: 2022-04-20 15:48:39.496411+02 Hamilton TN County Sheriff and Facebook Standards by Dan Lyke comments 0
Well. Facebook just restricted my account, again, because the algorithm thinks I'm promoting human trafficking with this post:
At the end of 1985, in my senior year of high school, my family moved from Newtown Connecticut to Hixson Tennessee for my Dad's job with GE Ceramics in Chattanooga. I came down, spent a week or two in school there, decided that just wasn't gonna happen and a friend's family took me in for the remainder of high school. I moved down in the summer of '86, intending to take a kind-of gap year at UTC, but stayed for a bit over 9 years. Long enough that I think I've solidly earned the label "Damned Yankee".
In the process of my time there, going from teenager to late twenties, with a large detour through long-haired whitewater hippy, I had some encounters with the local constabulary. Nothing that got me a record, but...
I have heard "here, kid, have a hit off of this, it was probably yours once anyway".
Referring to "The Dukes of Hazzard" as "a documentary" lets us dismiss "law enforcement" of that area as buffoons, rather than looking at the real genuine harm that comes from letting a bunch of armed bullies enforce the social structure.
And it surprised me very little when, shortly after the deputy who was brought up on charges for the incidents in which this woman was victimized, and in the face of various other allegations of department misconduct, the "server crashed", losing 15 months of dashcam video.
Which is to say that I very much hope the FBI gets involved here, because I don't even trust the TBI to be far enough from the corruption to give a fair and accurate accounting. And I suspect that what happened here is exactly what it looks like happened here.
https://www.wdef.com/woman-who...-baptism-found-dead-at-her-home/
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Entry: 2022-01-21 19:47:56.296545+01 Real World Low Wage Work by Dan Lyke comments 0
Really good read: He thought tending bar sounded like fun. Then the entire kitchen staff quit on Christmas Eve.
Bill McCamley was NM's labor secretary, but working at a local movie theater taught him the truth about what's ailing the workforce.
Via MeFi, which also had this observation from mhoye which references that WaPo Wharton article that I linked earlier:
Forklift-related accidents kill about 100 people per year; as a result of that, every reputable company requires operators to complete training from a certified instructional program before they can operate them. Wharton MBAs kill a lot more people than that, if less directly, and they're allowed to graduate believing a whole bunch of things that not only aren't true, but aren't even close to true, and get put in charge of much bigger, much more dangerous economic machines.
Seems wrong to me. Maybe MBAs should have a practical element to them that looks more like survivalist courses than classroom learning. You can pack one suitcase, no laptop, no phone, one already-almost-maxed-out credit card and a twelve-year-old car. You're given a job at an Amazon warehouse somewhere on the outskirts of a small town, and you're there for a year, in the economic wilderness. If you have to call your friends or family for help, if you can't pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, that's an F.
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Entry: 2021-11-10 23:07:42.276865+01 Nobe electric truck by Dan Lyke comments 1
Jalopnik: Let's Check In On Nobe, Everyone's Favorite Estonian EV Maker, linked to because holy crap if that little electric truck isn't the cutest thing ever and if I can get that with a lumber rack and a half-ton capacity shut up and take my money.
And if they'll sell it in "rat rod" paint job (which would have to be simulated, 'cause rusty carbon fiber), I'll pay extra for the privilege.
[ related topics: Interactive Drama Heinlein Machinery Currency Woodworking ]
Entry: 2021-10-30 16:13:59.473901+02 MPD closes ranks further by Dan Lyke comments 0
Ryan's infraction: speaking without permission to a magazine columnist about what she called a toxic, para-militant police culture that breeds dangerous officers like Derek Chauvin.
[ related topics: Sociology Law Enforcement Heinlein California Culture ]
Entry: 2021-10-29 19:25:03.705836+02 Categorizing workspaces in the app I'm by Dan Lyke comments 0
Categorizing workspaces in the app I'm a part of developing, and realized that "bong hits 4 Jesus" and "Smurfs and other gourmet delicacies" go in "work" rather than "personal". My job is pretty cool.
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Entry: 2021-10-06 17:41:56.416752+02 10 year old girl killed by bad school policies by Dan Lyke comments 0
Virginia girl, 10, dead from COVID after being named ‘class nurse,’ school investigating
One week before her death, Teresa Sperry told her mom and dad that her fifth-grade teacher at Hillpoint Elementary School in Suffolk gave her the “nurse” job of walking sick kids to the actual nurse’s office, according to a Facebook post from her mother, Nicole Sperry.
"One of the things she told us before she got sick, was that her job was to be the 'class nurse' to take the sick kids from the class to the nurse's office," Jeff said. "And you have to understand my daughter, this is who she is, helping people is my daughter, it's not something that she wouldn't have wanted to do."
Suffolk schools to investigate whether teacher asked student who died to walk sick children to nurse
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Entry: 2021-09-21 19:04:21.134241+02 Violence against county health director by Dan Lyke comments 0
“I need help,” London wrote in an Aug. 22 email to the county commissioners, which Michigan Advance received today after filing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the Kent County Board of Commissioners last week. “My team and I are broken. I’m about done. I’ve done my job to the best of my ability. I’ve given just about everything to Kent County, and now I’ve given some more of my safety.”
Reddit comment from someone who says that they work for his office, expressing displeasure with the lack of support from the County Supervisors.
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Entry: 2021-07-23 18:40:03.071812+02 First job out of high school was by Dan Lyke comments 0
First job out of high school was running a stat camera in a print shop. Every piece of paper was charged to a cost center. I tried to get tasks to 5 minutes, but with timecard logging everything took at least ten minutes.
Some days Jira gives me that same feeling.
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Entry: 2021-06-25 23:45:02.826041+02 days when I hate my job are the days by Dan Lyke comments 0
The days when I hate my job are the days when I'm struggling with a widget set that doesn't the simple stuff that I want it to do, and an event dispatching mechanism that's byzantine and prevents me from rolling my own solution. #FuckCocoa
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