@GuerillaOntologist Ha! Sorry if you saw a now-deleted response flash before you. I misunderstood which post you were responding to.
I guess that might be seen from a Board's perspective as really taking the initiative for the firm.
@maxkennerly now let's delve into that more deeply.
i like to remember manuel noriega and all the rock-and-roll music and think of bibi netanyahu.
no, i am not seriously recommending an invasion. still, by comparison noriega was a piker.
does it reflect a life well or poorly lived, if you turn up as "main character" years after you die?
@admitsWrongIfProven it's, um, a systemd joke.
systemd, when it starts a process that will fork a long-lasting daemon + quit, has its own "notify" protocol by which the forking process can inform systemd about the child, so systemd can watch and manage it. that's Type=notify. systemd supports, but disrecommends, "old school" processes that kick out a PID file of the child process too: Type=forking.
the xz hack relied upon sshd getting patched to support "notify".
shoulda stuck with forking.
"New College had contracted Taryn Fenske, former public spokesperson for Gov. DeSantis’ office, under the name TMF Communications, LLC for $15,000 a month since July 2023 to aid in creating the new promotional material." #AndyTrinh https://ncfcatalyst.com/the-changing-image-of-new-college/
// Never forget, at its core, it is all just a fucking grift.
“what’s been so odd about effective altruism is that the need for collective action is fully internalized in its DNA; it presents and understands itself as a world-historical ‘movement.’ But the collective action…has not been generally oriented toward institutional, political, or regime change. (One can’t help wonder whether this isn’t an effect of being geared toward recruitment of those that benefit most from the economic and educational status quo.)” #EricSchliesser https://crookedtimber.org/2024/04/05/on-shallow-ponds-and-effective-altruism/
@cosmicallyf@beige.party part of the trick is you also use the space between.
@grantimatter careful. you'll go blind.
"Media commentators are mystified about why Joe Biden has not gotten more credit for an improved economy, with inflation down nearly to pre-pandemic levels and job creation setting records. The reason is not hard to grasp. None of the recent improvements have altered the basic situation of most Americans, in which reliable careers are scarce, college requires the burden of debt, health coverage is more expensive and less reliable, and housing is unaffordable." https://prospect.org/politics/2024-04-04-liberals-need-to-be-radicals/
do you use your knuckles to figure out how long the month is?
A really thoughtful review of my sister #AdelleWaldman's new book "Help Wanted" by #ChrisJesuLee. https://salieriredemption.substack.com/p/should-art-be-time-capsules
the great thing about juggling projects is whatever you are procrastinating there is something to do.
@chrisp Lots of familiar themes in that one! But yeah, indirection according to my conjecture tilts the economy in favor of Christenson’s “efficiency innovations”, to the exclusion of both others.
[new draft post] Indirection and the character of capitalism (Part I) https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/04/04/indirection-and-the-character-of-capitalism-part-i/index.html
“Pay to stay” for prison sentences?
This is absolutely horrific, and would be absolutely horrific even if it didn’t come with the kafkaesque orwellian absurdity of billing for time inmates never stay if the sentence is modified, like a prison sentence is a no-refund low price hotel reservation.
I cannot believe how barbaric the governance of the state in which I now live has become. Although most US states enslave and exploit prisoners and their families.
there’s a lot of friendly fire and collateral damage in information warfare.
@BenRossTransit @Alon The Times article omits the rather obvious point that, regardless of host country, diplomatic facilities are usually considered territory of the country that maintains it, so under a colorable interpretation of international law, Israel has attacked the territory of Iran. Here's a piece where an expert making that point. https://archive.is/VnPTu
@BenRossTransit @Alon Obviously China and Algeria and stuff say it was a violation of international law and norms. We can discount that as biased. https://press.un.org/en/2024/sc15650.doc.htm Still, I suspect they'd find experts to make a case, and I bet The Times could have too.
@BenRossTransit @Alon And, the European Union condemned, with a European Commission spokesman noting: "The principle of the inviolability of diplomatic and consular premises and personnel must be respected in all cases and in all circumstances in accordance with international law." https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/eu-condemns-attack-irans-embassy-damascus-urges-restraint-2024-04-03/
@BenRossTransit @Alon If The Times had wanted to practice both sides journalism, it would not have had a hard time finding credentialed people willing to take the other side of the case. It made an editorial choice not to, to treat it in the piece as a settled matter. I'm sorry you didn't love the headline and subhead, but The Times has been very generous to Israel here.