My eighteen-year-old also got to the polls this afternoon. I wasn’t with him as I had to fix dinner, but he said he got his first-time-voter cheer from the staff. Do they do that everywhere or is it an Indiana thing? I like it.

a useful skill to practice:

look at what a company or person does, and at what they say their intentions are. then ask yourself "if those were truly their intentions, what would the perfect solution look like"?

then compare that perfect solution to what they actually did, and take note of the difference. ask yourself what they stand to gain from that difference, if anything.

this is a method that lets you poke through a lot of propaganda and outright lies, it lets you identify the bits that someone *isn't* saying out loud, the ones that are normally easy to overlook. it works because their framing has much less effect on your reasoning this way.

I call this 'reverse analysis' because it's the reverse of what people normally ask themselves ("does their behaviour look about right for their claimed intentions?"), you start at what it *should* be instead of what it is, but I'm open to a better name

a useful skill to practice:

look at what a company or person does, and at what they say their intentions are. then ask yourself "if those were truly their intentions, what would the perfect solution look like"?

then compare that perfect solution to what they actually did, and take note of the difference. ask yourself what they stand to gain from that difference, if anything.

this is a method that lets you poke through a lot of propaganda and outright lies, it lets you identify the bits that someone *isn't* saying out loud, the ones that are normally easy to overlook. it works because their framing has much less effect on your reasoning this way.

I call this 'reverse analysis' because it's the reverse of what people normally ask themselves ("does their behaviour look about right for their claimed intentions?"), you start at what it *should* be instead of what it is, but I'm open to a better name

@dillyd Yeah I imagine USA is an outlier among rich countries in this area. I think those cuts started with Reagan. They helped make our society unpalatable to Spouse & me.

@keefmarshall

I vote Lene Lovich. Lucky Number.

#EarWorm

@dave Have sent you the co-founder's email, to your dave@ email address

@sil Well - I hope some of the schools choose that. Google's search has declined in quality anyway. Duck Duck Go is pretty good.

@sarahstreza 💯%!!! 🤣🤣🤣

@ai6yr I work for an actual legit financial institution and I don’t have the privs to install software on my computer. But also things like wire transfers are reversible. Just saying.

@georgetakei

Hmmm could have a Buffalo Bob moment here.

It puts the ballot in the box or it gets the trump again.

#lispyGopherClimate #lisp #technology #weekly #live #podcast []

On #peertube at 0UTC (aka Tuesday-night-in-the-Americas, in 1/2 an hour.):

https://toobnix.org/w/gXLXQqxf5MYg1NDF2Ua6oA

I had the flu this past week </excuses>!

- This great thread of floating point arithmetic quotes: https://mathstodon.xyz/@dougmerritt/117514297690238051

Otherwise, we will be joined by the @kentpitman

https://compbio.hms.harvard.edu/people/kent-pitman/

and maybe others ! @ramin_hal9001 @dirtycommo

#liveChat in #lambdaMOO #VR as always. https://lambda.moo.mud.org . Happy MOOnniversary!

@gardiner_bryant I enjoyed today’s topical one 😊

Just saw the phrase "hand coded by an AI agent" on what was presented as a creative work.

This will all be fixed in the next app release!

Yay, we voted!

@ai6yr @grammasaurus @petabites @LJ Yeah, quilting is definitely a thing. But I personally believe that it's a boring thing. 🤣There are only so many quilted blankets you can make and give away.

It's a bit belated to say this by now, but the time to look at electoral news is Wednesday, not Tuesday evening (or daytime). Everything reported today is either preliminary, or so clear as to not be in doubt, and everything good or bad will be there tomorrow (and not legally take effect for at least a month). Don't stress yourself out watching numbers twitch on an imaginary dial.