Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

Ryan Walters, Oklahoma board of education approves pronoun ban
https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/education/2024/01/26/ryan-walters-oklahoma-state-board-education-pronoun-change-ban-lawsuit/72357415007/

#Oklahoma #OKEd #oklaed (paywall)

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Typos are my worst enema!

The thing about apps like mIRC, ICQ, and Winamp is that they felt like they were made by people who used them. Apps today feel like they were designed by a committee looking at a spreadsheet.

When an app is missing basic features and still pesters me whenever I open it to try some new AI bullshit, I wonder if the PM got the promotion they were going for.

That’s one of the things I like about open source apps. Even if they’re less polished, you can feel they are made by people who use them.

Amazon seems to have (quietly) gone back on its promise not to sell facial recognition to law enforcement.

Remember: temporary corporate beneficence is not a substitute for real laws to protect people. Ban it.

https://fedscoop.com/doj-fbi-amazon-rekognition-technology-ai-use-case/

The sponsor of the anti-trans bathroom bill in Utah said, and I quote that she was "trying to make it illegal for a naked man to be in a bathroom with an 8-year old girl”.

I'm going to therefore ask. If you've ever been in a public bathroom, how many naked men have you seen with 8-year old girls?

#trans #LGBTQIA #Utah #Hate

Drawing truth tables in sidewalk chalk with my son. "That's a NOT gate, I know that from #Minecraft!". Remember, talk to your children about logic gates before someone else does.

I imagine if we could hear the universe it would sound like WOEMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Shoutout to the person I was behind in traffic yesterday who was rocking a “Live Laugh Lurk” bumper sticker.

#LiveLaughLurk

My goal isn't for Mastodon to replace Twitter.

My goal is for the Fediverse to attack and dethrone God.

I think it’s somewhat telling that I posted the same poll to Mastodon and Twitter asking if I should do a blog or a YouTube channel and the results have been pretty cut and dry, but with opposite results.

Can’t say I’m really surprised (Mastodon mostly says do a blog, Twitter mostly says do YouTube videos), but it’s still fascinating to see.

god same

Vince McMahon resigns from TKO after sexual misconduct claims - ESPN https://www.espn.com/wwe/story/_/id/39396125/vince-mcmahon-resigns-following-allegations-sexual-misconduct

Unproductive Cowbirds

Tried to google trauma dumping but autocorrect changed it to trauma dumpling, the results however did not disappoint

@lmorchard I'm aware of at least ten people who are about to get caught up in a "Return to office" to an office they've never been to in a state they've never lived in. (We were hired remote, we lived a whole coast away.)

I am highly suspicious that this company is going to terminate a majority of the people who are moving, and that the policy was itself a "soft" layoff.

It's the weekend, baby
#StarTrek