To think -- some of us spent all that time and effort in school studying science, history, and math. We thought deeply about ethics and society.
Now, our government and businesses are run by the kids who cheated on all the exams. Our law enforcement and defense are run by the kids who skipped class to drink behind the bleachers. And our health care and science policy are run by the people who ate the crayons.
Carney knows this. So why does he want more wealth inequality?
Austerity has *never* worked.
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As the past four years and countless historical examples from the last 100 years show, while it makes sense for any one state to try and cut its way to growth, it simply cannot work when all states try it simultaneously: all we do is shrink the economy.
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As Blyth amply demonstrates, the arguments for austerity are tenuous and the evidence thin. Rather than expanding growth and opportunity, the repeated revival of this dead economic idea has almost always led to low growth along with increases in wealth and income inequality.
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Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013Political Science | Brown University
How does walking back the mandate spur more demand, exactly?
"The mandate requires the number of new ZEVs (zero-emission vehicles) sold in Canada to hit 20% by next year, 60% by 2030 and 100% by 2035 in order to help the country hit its emission-reduction targets.
A government release explains that the EV pause and other measures in the strategy will... spur more domestic demand."
Montreal transit constables should be better armed, says workplace safety board
cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/st…
Fuck no. How about FREE transit. Then you can reduce drastically that budget.
Transit constable are here to check fares. No fares, no need for them.
No need for fare gates update (again). No need for spyware (mobile app).
Then maybe we can improve transit and focus on moving people without a car.
when there is a pepper spray incident shutting down the metro, it's because of these bozos. But tell me how this helps transporting people if they are a major cause of disruption.
NDG senior accuses bus driver of hit-and-run
thesuburban.com/news/city_news…
Car culture.
And fuck the STM driver. And fuck the STM for covering this up.
This city hate pedestrians. Also hate cyclists (until it is time to buy the votes by painting infrastructure).
The great achievement of Valérie Plante is to convince you she loved cyclists. So that they would all vote her in.
There is #noplanetb. 20% was already such a small number...
PM Carney to delay EV mandate, blaming Trump's tariffs.
PS There are OTHER countries that make EVs, eh. WHY AREN'T WE NEGOTIATING W/ THEM, or letting them expand into Canada?
independent.co.uk/news/donald-… #cdnpoli #polcan
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is delaying a requirement for automakers that sell in Canada to begin hitting minimum sales levels for electric vehicles next yearRob Gillies (The Independent)
Gotta love Proxmox. The party line seems to be, "You can't change the management port because of securitay!"
But the real reason is that they hard coded it in multiple places in the codebase ages ago and now no one is willing to fix it.
as most of you know, nuintaris hate alternate port numbers.
Estupenda comida con @quetzatl y familia.
Ahora solo falta bajarla.
This probably wasn't the day I wanted to read about Carney's efforts to protect the auto sector from EV rules : firesmoke.ca/
Bloomberg: Canada to Stall Electric Vehicle Rules as Carney Seeks to Boost Auto Sector
(and as Trump exhorts countries to dump any non-fossil fuel plans) #cdnpoli
About that enhanced WebSocket support in the next curl release, e.g. next Wednesday:
#curl #websocket
eissing.org/icing/posts/curl-w…
WebSocket has been supported by curl as a non-experimental feature since version 8.11.0 (November 6 2024). With the upcoming release of version 8.16.0, we are taking it a step further.icing's blog
Back-to-school seasoning may be winding down, but Thunderbird is seeing where we make the grade (and don’t) with accessibility. Learn about our recent a11y study and find how to help us make Thunderbird accessible to everyone!
#Thunderbird #Accessibility #OpenSource
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In our latest Office Hours, we're covering what's in (and out) of our latest Extended Support Release, Thunderbird 140.0 ESR "Eclipse"!Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
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Have you ever thought about the phrase "earn a living"? About how messed up it is? The idea you need to "earn" your life and place in the world?
(I hadn't considered the dizzying toxicity of this phrase until it came up on We Can Do Hard Things - Abby Wambach's podcast that has absolutely nothing to do with soccer.)
The feeling behind the phrase "earn a living" - the idea that you have to do in order to be - is everywhere in our society. Including in open source.
relational-tech.com/blog/being…
For over a decade, I've been working to help open source newcomers make their first contribution. But what if just being there was contribution enough? And what if the pressure to contribute isn't just a barrier to newcomers, but to maintainers who a…Relational Tech
Open source contributors are not the only one who struggle under this pressure: open source maintainers have it even worse.
Unlike new contributors, who struggle to find things they can do, maintainers are often overwhelmed by things to do. But, though the reason they cannot do the tasks is different, it's the same fundamental problem.
Both the contributor and maintainer feel the pressure to do what they cannot do, rather than getting to simply be.
The new contributor feels like a failure and leaves the project. The maintainer feels like a failure, and burns out.
Even worse, this can become a self-reinforcing cycle. The maintainer blames themselves for not finding ways to help newcomers contribute. They didn't do enough to help the newcomer do things. The newcomer feels like even more of a burden to the maintainer. See how overwhelmed the maintainer seems? Maybe they'd be better off leaving.
But it doesn't have to be like this.
There was an interesting discussion in the SFWA discord and a tangential topic was men and reading.
So I’m curious. Men, of any age. Are you a reader?
I broke it down into
Avid - More than 20 books a year
Sometimes - Less than 20 a year
Don’t read - Self explanatory I hope.
Please share far and wide. 100% not scientific and feel free to reply with genres and any other color commentary you like in the replies.
#bookstodon @bookstodon #reading @reading
@ZBennoui I've been trying to recall if I read much in college (my 1.5 years of it) and think my reading dropped to zero then too. then just.... picked right back up.
It's so interesting that it's rarely a conscious decision, just a thing that happens.
Canada delaying plan to force automakers to hit sales targets for EVs next year: sources
cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-ev…
Let me get this. Those that don't want the EV mandate would be the one that would never vote for the PM party. (they got a pipeline with the previous PM)
Those that did? They can go fuck themselves.
and these liberal MP. They were able to conspire to force Trudeau to resign. So they can do it. If they really care.
(not the genocidal fuck for Montroyal. This is not his single issue)
Twenty years ago this week, my book, IBM and the Holocaust, exposed—backed up by a tower of documentation— that IBM knowingly organized all six phases of the Holocaust: identification, exclusion, confiscation, ghettoization, deportation, and even ext…Edwin Black (Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies)
Top tech executives from Google and OpenAI flocked to the White House for an AI education event and praised President Donald Trump over dinner.Katherine Li (Business Insider)
Over the past ~2 months, we've opened hundreds of PRs, upstreaming #IzzyOnDroid metadata to the corresponding apps' repositories using Fastlane structures (gitlab.com/IzzyOnDroid/repo/-/…). Most of them have been merged already, about 100 are still open.
* if you received such PR and haven't merged it yet, please merge!
* if you didn't receive such PR for your app(s) hosted with us, please let us know!
Once all is settled, our consolidated metadata can finally be made public in a git repo 
The F-Droid compatible repo at https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/GitLab
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Yo @ThePSF the vendor you use for the board election ballot is not screen reader accessible. Does that then mean that me and other blind people are unable to vote?
Choked to say the least here...
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Then why do they do it? Don't they have a syndicate[1] to protect their privileged condition?
[1] not a union.
Canada desperately needs to decouple from a self-inflicted dying empire.
The world is moving in one direction (EVs, PV energy and other clean energy) and the old is doubling down on Coal and Oil and protecting ICE vehicle manufacturers while gutting research and science programs.
**Stop protecting dying industries and read the financial and economic tea leaves neoliberals.**
Why, is Canada as a country lowering our standards and ambitions to appease an administration who is clearly not interested in leading the world anymore where the money and technology is obviously pointing.
We're not even talking about the moral and climate change aspects, so it's something even the most money motivated people can understand.
Rant over and we will now resume normal programming 😁
Canada is a failed petro-state. And that's what we need to get out of.
It's gonna be a long and hard journey. When you see the state violence unleashed on environmental activist, vs the velvet gloves used to remove insurrectionist... you know were the bar is.
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@FreakyFwoof that's literally all I use it for.
In terms of using it where there's an actual cursor, though, you'd assume there's some sort of selection feature in your editor *MS word has extend selection with f8, for example).
VSCode has an expand selection thing, alt+shift+right? I don't quite remember sorry.
Never understood why you can't give go to line a range in these editors
My Google Pixel 9 Pro just got an update to Material Expressive, and it makes the dynamic colors in #Conversations_im way too intense for my taste.
Remember that you can turn off 'Colorful chat bubbles' in the interface settings.
I don't know - at this point, the 'primary and secondary surface' theme colors maybe aren't meant for things like chat bubbles anymore. Anyway, the setting to turn them off is already there. Or go back to the default (non-dynamic) theme.
was mir fehlen würde ist ein komplett schwarzes Theme.
Sonst ist es ein super client, aber total hell auf einem sonst komplett schwarzen android.
(der monocle fork liefert den code dafür) 😇
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