@Weyoun 6
egalitarianism, empiricism, environmentalism, music, software, health, nutrition, cats and other mammals, anti-capitalism
Portland, OR, US
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Recent Notes
GitHub Copilot got 25x more expensive over night.
I just felt a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of low-effort PRs suddenly cried out and were silenced.
Maintainers worldwide breathe a...
@nprofile1q... wait wait wait, you mean to say that "AI" companies are going to try reach profitability? This changes everything.
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Fines for ICE using chemical weapons from their detention facility in #Portland
$5000 - $15,000 per day and if not paid on time penalties double + 10% as a lien against the property.
https://www.portland.gov/policies/environment-built/nuisance-abatement/enb-805-detention-facility-prohibited-nuisance
#PDXPol #ICE #PDX #ChemicalWeapons #ChemicalWarfare
$5000 - $15,000 per day and if not paid on time penalties double + 10% as a lien against the property.
https://www.portland.gov/policies/environment-built/nuisance-abatement/enb-805-detention-facility-prohibited-nuisance
#PDXPol #ICE #PDX #ChemicalWeapons #ChemicalWarfare
Laura Restrepo: “No platform should be given or audience facilitated for someone who, like Ms Machado, promotes positions and activities that subject our peoples and undermine the sovereignty of our countries. Imperialist intervention is not something to debate, but something to reject outright.”
Giuseppe Caputo: “I think that, given the grave moment of escalating imperial violence, it is better to withdraw from a festival held on the shores of the bombarded Caribbean Sea, which has decided to invite someone who dedicated a peace prize to the fascist responsible for these crimes.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/16/hay-festival-maria-corina-machado
#Venezuela #Machado #TheGuardian
Giuseppe Caputo: “I think that, given the grave moment of escalating imperial violence, it is better to withdraw from a festival held on the shores of the bombarded Caribbean Sea, which has decided to invite someone who dedicated a peace prize to the fascist responsible for these crimes.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/16/hay-festival-maria-corina-machado
#Venezuela #Machado #TheGuardian
"Sound on. Church bells here in Catalunya (northern Spain) to support our small Venezuelan immigrant community in the just now announcement of Nobel Peace Prize recipient Maria Corina Machado. Well d...
@nprofile1q... right-wing insurrectionist Trump ally wins, setting the stage for Trump to win in the future.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/peace-has-no-meaning-when-right-wingers-like-maria-corina-machado-win-the-nobel-prize
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/peace-has-no-meaning-when-right-wingers-like-maria-corina-machado-win-the-nobel-prize
I should really write that blog post about Schrödinger's Snake — explaining the hypervigilance as a woman in tech that comes from not knowing which men are safe, and which rare few are venomous
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@nprofile1q... given that Schrödinger was a sexual predator and abuser, I'd suggest avoiding his name in such a blog post.
https://archive.ph/OkVfG
https://archive.ph/OkVfG
One of the startling implications of quantum superposition is that until you, the observer, look inside, there is a banana in Schrödinger's pocket AND he is also happy to see you.
@nprofile1q... are you aware that Schrödinger was a sadistic pedophile?
#Meme #ElonMusk
I recently read Sherwin Nuland's The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (2003).
I had heard the basics--Semmelweis was the guy who figured out that do...
@nprofile1q... My understanding is that Semmelweis had the data to support his claims but not the mechanism. A modern analysis could conclude that he had the data that handwashing reduced incidence of disease and thus should be implemented while simultaneously investigating the mechanism. He had the data that initially gave him his hypothesis. Then he instituted handwashing which reduced disease rates. Then a few other hospitals did the same.