in the absence of hard evidence (which is of course very common for sexual abuse allegations), how do we as a society navigate this without destroying people's lives and reputations over ... accusations we simply cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt?
There were plenty of people wiped out by the MeToo campaign as well and some of those later turned out to be complete lies.
It doesn't feel like justice is served either way
What we do know now is that he's likely a filthy little sex pest, but so are most famous people sooooooooo RT: phire.place/users/paparatti/st…
and about the same time I made this post my wife sent me his Instagram where he made a post about the case being dismissed. Apparently there were "mountains of" text, email and video evidence exonerating him ?
I really don't get how government officials quitting in protest helps anything at this point.
So the only judges or prosecutors or mid-level bureaucrats standing between civilians and total authoritarian carte blanche are going to abdicate whatever power they have left? That seems like exactly what the authoritarians want!
That strategy made sense a decade ago, but it's become increasingly less admirable or, in my mind, effective.
I get them refusing to follow orders. That seems good. But then, like, refuse to follow orders and let them fire your ass. Make it their problem. Hell, even just showing up for work each day and doing absolutely nothing seems better than quitting in protest.
@JustinMac84 It's not exactly the same. It takes time and effort to fire someone. There's a paper trail of who did the firing. It causes confusion for the other side, a new situation where the onus is on *them* to figure out what to do. Often in such bureaucracies, firing someone could take weeks or even *months*. Months of delay is gold. And then there are opportunities to use the bureaucracy against the authoritarians with official complaints and lawsuits.
This is a fight of a thousand cuts. Of attrition and creating obstacles and of making people take responsibility and facing themselves with having to make decisions.
By making that decision for them, they've created an immediate job opening for another unqualified Proud Boys reject who will be ready to follow orders starting next Monday.
Thank you. That makes a lot of sense. I had thought that a notice period would be all that might be different. If you refuse to do your job, I thought, that's just cause for being fired. But that does sound appealing.
Just read a boost by a person calling "those who defend LLMs" fascists and claiming "they would deal with us when dealing with rest of the fascists". So, first, this person doesn't understand what fascism actually was and is (as I had written before, all those people crying wolf basically make the word meaningless), and second, "deal with us", what is it? Does it mean kill us? Then I do know somewhere in the States there is a person wanting to kill me just because I exist. #AI #Politics #Madness #FarLeft
s'il n'a pas forcément tort sur le fond (la tech llm est massivement soutenue par les milliardaires technofasciste, grok et ses deshabilleurs, l'intégration de grokipedia au corpus de chatgpt, l'explosion environnementale qui ne les gêne pas) la forme est sans doute inutilement violente. Mais il ne faut pas oublier qu'il y a une très forte violence complètement légitimé qui vient à l'origine du côté des contempteurs de l'IA.
A thing I really love about Tepublicans, in America, aren't that they will fight and fight so hard for whatever stupid bullshit they care for. They don't give up. They don't take no for an answer. They try to sneak it in. They try to March it in. Whatever it takes.
Imagine if the Democrats fought so hard for single-payer healthcare? People might confuse them with actually carcaring.
I am kind of gobsmacked by this article. I think it's incredibly gross and wonder how either interviewer *or* interviewee thought this framing was a good idea. indieauthormagazine.com/draft2…
Although AI-generated content poses a challenge in the nonfiction sphere, it’s one distributors have seen before—and fiction authors, whether they’re using the tools or worried about their influence, can rest easy, Kris Austin says.
They be deleting that shit they just put out in the Epstein files as fast as people find the dirt. The big companies going along with the deletion and moderating away any and all references once they're gone too. "Can't verify this video is from the files..."
KTLA: Community devastated after congregant arrested during immigration raid on L.A. church grounds
"...A San Fernando Valley community is outraged and devastated after federal immigration agents forced their way onto the grounds of a church during a food giveaway and arrested a man who church officials say helps with children’s ministries...."
I wouldn't recommend OVH. I went through hell because of them in the last month. Terrible service, worse customer support, hidden fees (despite several promises via phone), hidden restrictions, and then almost impossible to leave. I cancelled everything, which wasn't easy due to their broken legacy code, yet they still sent me an e-mail threatening some fees for a service I don't have.
#artificialintelligence #AI Wow just wow. My daughters apartment complex switched over to an #AI telephone response system. Appalling is too kind of a word to use to express the horrible result. Nothing is working. Can't pay the rent, can't speak to a person, can't submit a maintenance request - nothing works. Calls go into a loop of offering assistance to find an apartment...and never offer anything other than offering to help - which it does not then provide any help or assistance. We are doomed as a society..
Been up all night with friends going through the unpleasantly long lists of infosec people in the Epstein Files. Yikes, guys. I knew some of them were pieces of shit, already - but too many other people fell for a transparent bid to illegitimatize elections, and I said so then. 🤷🏻♀️😞
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I love how meditation is just "sit down and shut the fuck up. That's not good enough, shut your brain up too. You know what, stop wanting things, you piece of shit"
there's a project called "JellyPlex-Watched" which is written in Python and is used to sync library watch status bidirectionally between one or more Plex/Jellyfin/Emby servers
it has its own minor shortcomings which I think are mostly due to API limitations, but it works.
anyway, I hate that they're requiring Python 3.13 so I vibe-coded a complete rewrite in Zig using libcurl and it is significantly faster
so now I have a zig project, showing how you can link and use something like libcurl, and a full test framework that does something I understand which I can study.
nice.
I almost did it in Go but then I was like "haha but Go sucks", and Rust doesn't spark joy
@sun I'm impressed with how well this little side project worked and how quick it was to do considering some of the complexity I threw at it. It compiles clean, no warnings, has a boatload of tests that pass, and it just... works.
Other than the fact that the Zig ecosystem needs a lot of libraries to be built yet, it's good. But you can of course just use C implementations of stuff and you're good to go.
And even more #FOSDEM main track, another VCS that still has a warm place in my heart: "Mercurial, 20 years and counting", by Raphaël Gomès and Pierre-Yves David.
The Swedish Hostelling Association no longer sends you a membership card. Instead you're encouraged to install a 12 megabyte smartphone app. All it does is download and display your membership data. 🙄
While walking down the street one day a politician is tragically hit by a truck and dies.
Her soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance. . “Welcome to Heaven,” says St. Peter. “Before you settle in, it seems there is a problem. We seldom see a high official around these parts, you see, so we’re not sure what to do with you.”
“No problem, just let me in,” says the lady.
“Well, I’d like to but I have orders from higher up. What we’ll do is have you spend one day in Hell and one in Heaven. Then you can choose where to spend eternity.”
“Really, I’ve made up my mind. I want to be in Heaven,” says the head of state.
“I’m sorry but we have our rules.” And with that, St. Peter escorts her to the elevator and she goes down, down, down to Hell. The doors open and she finds herself in the middle of a green golf course. In the distance is a club and standing in front of it are all her friends and other politicians who had worked with her, everyone is very happy and in evening dress. They run to greet her, hug her, and reminisce about the good times they had while getting rich at expense of the people. They play a friendly game of golf and then dine on lobster and caviar.
Also present is the Devil, who really is a very friendly guy who has a good time dancing and telling jokes. They are having such a good time that, before she realizes it, it is time to go. Everyone gives her a big hug and waves while the elevator rises.
The elevator goes up, up, up and the door reopens on Heaven where St. Peter is waiting for her. “Now it’s time to visit Heaven.” So 24 hours pass with the head of state joining a group of contented souls moving from cloud to cloud, playing the harp and singing.
They have a good time and, before she realizes it, the 24 hours have gone by and St. Peter returns. “Well then, you’ve spent a day in Hell and another in Heaven. Now choose your eternity.”
She reflects for a minute, then the head of state answers: “Well, I would never have said it, I mean Heaven has been delightful, but I think I would be better off in Hell.”
So Saint Peter escorts her to the elevator and she goes down, down, down to Hell. Now the doors of the elevator open and she is in the middle of a barren land covered with waste and garbage. She sees all her friends, dressed in rags, picking up the trash and putting it in black bags.
The Devil comes over to her and lays his arm on her neck. “I don’t understand,” stammers the head of state. “Yesterday I was here and there was a golf course and club and we ate lobster and caviar and danced and had a great time. Now all there is a wasteland full of garbage and my friends look miserable.
The Devil looks at her, smiles and says, “Yesterday we were campaigning. Today you voted for us!”
> Oh, we're out here. Proudly being the one person in the room saying, "Look, it's not just that these things are garbage generators but they are literally the _least_ ethical way possible to generate garbage and burn the planet at the same time."
Offices. We're talking about the waste of everyone's time, energy, commutes, and the abuse of precious real estate on offices, right?
if you happen to have #GooglePlay on some device, please give #ArcaneChat a review so it gets more visibility in the main stream, your sacrifice getting your hands dirty with Google will not be in vain 🎖️
every DIY whole-house audio streaming solution is like "this is really easy and cheap to do, just get a Raspberry Pi (now retails for like $100) and this DAC/amp hat (like $80 now) and wire it up to all your speakers..."
jesus christ man you can buy a Sonos for cheaper than that these days
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