Doc Funkenstein @cameronh1403@scifi.fyi

This fucking, "We need undocumented immigrants cause Americans won't do those picking tomatoes jobs," argument.

Let me translate that: "I'm a fascist capitalist fuck fake-left who would have slaves with bits in their mouth growing my food, cleaning my laundry, teaching my kids, etc., but it's politically inconvenient in my Connecticut MSNBC-liberal Gala-crowd to have them nowadays, so bring more under-the-table Mexicans at $5/hr."

PAY EVERYONE A THRIVING WAGE, FUCKERS! Or better yet:

"Just because politicians have done something evil before, doesn't give us license to do it now, with greater vigor."

When a person is really attractive but hides a terrible personality, they’re basically real-life click bait.
#comedy #jokes

WE WANT TO PAY YOU FOR MICRO SCI-FI! This is an open call for diverse sci-fi writers that never expires.
- POC
- LGBTQIA
- Indigenous
- Neurodiverse
- Disabled
- Chronically ill
- All marginalised voices
We're open from Day 10-24 every month. storyseedvault.com/submissions

#MicroFiction #tootfic #smallstories

[NSFW] We really dropped the ball by not calling orgies Cluster Fucks
#comedy #jokes

"If a person can’t get out of bed, something is making them exhausted. If a student isn’t writing papers, there’s some aspect of the assignment that they can’t do without help. If an employee misses deadlines constantly, something is making [it] difficult. Even if a person is actively choosing to self-sabotage, there’s a reason for it — some fear they’re working through, some need not being met, a lack of self-esteem being expressed."

https://medium.com/@dr_eprice/laziness-does-not-exist-3af27e312d01

The National Security Archive at George Washington University do such great work. Case in point: their CyberWar Map that visualizes state sponsored cyberattacks, and links to documentation collected by the archive.

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/cybervault/2018-06-06/cyberwar-map

"Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends"

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/03/technology/facebook-device-partners-users-friends-data.html

Subtitle is even better:

"The company formed data-sharing partnerships with Apple, Samsung and dozens of other device makers, raising new concerns about its privacy protections.""

"...Facebook allowed the device companies access to the data of users’ friends without their explicit consent, even after declaring that it would no longer share such information with outsiders."

.

1. people are sick of rushed decisions with no measured approach to taking necessary time to understand and nuance issues - I've personally experienced this w/ Tootsuite

2. even federation needs solid community moderation beyond each instance

3. each and every single one of us can display deplorable behaviour when push comes to shove

4. decisions based on humans - need TIME. Time to discuss, amplify, implement, iterate, understand, adjust, mourn, move on

What do you get when you cross a d20 with developer excuses? A pocket developer mini game!

I need a pair of these in my life.

RT @fr3ino@twitter.com: Because of #GDPR, USA Today decided to run a separate version of their website for EU users, which has all the tracking scripts and ads removed. The site seemed very fast, so I did a performance audit. How fast the internet could be without all the junk! 🙄
5.2MB → 500KB

I need some irl comrades. Feeling kinda isolated over here.

It's 2018. If your website requires me to have Adobe Flash installed, I'm not using your website anymore. Its contents are likely to be as obsolete as its technology.

Comcast charges you $90 to "install" cable in houses that are already wired by Comcast https://boingboing.net/2018/05/16/because-fuck-you.html #worstcompanyinamericakeepsgettingworse #cablecompanyfuckery #corruption #monopolism #Business #comcast #telcoms #Post

🦋🇺🇸 ?

>>> tree = etree.parse("FA068.xml")
>>> tree.xpath("/fuckyou:ead/fuckyou:eadheader/fuckyou:filedesc/fuckyou:titleproper", namespaces={"fuckyou": "urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9"})
[]
>>>

>>> tree.xpath("/fuckyou:ead/fuckyou:eadheader/fuckyou:filedesc/fuckyou:titlestmt/fuckyou:titleproper", namespaces={"fuckyou": "urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9"})
[<Element {urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9}titleproper at 0x1c1f640c308>, <Element {urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9}titleproper at 0x1c1f640c5c8>]

History tells us who we are, how we have behaved, therefore how we will behave.

Does it? The history in the bookscreens, Earth History, that appaling record of injustice, cruelty, enslavement, hatred, murder ... of waste and misuse of human life, animal life, plant life, the air, the water, the planet?

If that is who we are, what hope for us? History, must be what we have escaped from. History is what we need never do again.

#BookQuotes