Posts by Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.rocks
(DIR) Post #AUOSua4fPbrvCezI3c by Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.rocks
2023-04-07T01:19:25Z
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@alfredo_liberal I've suggested this before, but it takes bravery. The only tjing close thst I've seen is in the #NBA the #MilwaukeeBucks refused to play after the shooting of #JacobBlake. I think their protest canceled two games and I don't know if they ever made them up. But this would be a major statement that would carry a lot of weight.https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/milwaukee-bucks-don-t-take-floor-nba-playoff-game-apparently-n1238250
(DIR) Post #AVTtLyLbsg79jNkQ1w by Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.rocks
2023-05-09T11:43:25Z
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If this were really a democracy, headlines like this wouldn't be written. Billionaires and lack of wealth distribution have corroded the system. They control the elections.#Democracy#Oligarchy#Kleptocracy#elections#GeneralStrikehttps://press.coop/@newrepublic/110338526036816120
(DIR) Post #AWgsYgryO3lwIBtUeW by Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.rocks
2023-04-11T02:11:59Z
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My wife called me on her way home from work today in #Florida. Excitedly, she told me that there was a late 50s-ish white man driving a pickup truck in front of her. What was remarkable was that he had a bumper sticker that read "Guns are for Pussies." Sometimes it takes toxic masculinity to fight toxic masculinity. I would want that language on my bumper, but I want that message on my bumper!
(DIR) Post #AWgsYhZDnGMoSK8240 by Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.rocks
2023-04-11T02:14:47Z
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The closest messaging sans potty language that I've seen, and it was probably #OnHere, was: "True freedom is not needing a gun to be free."But I think that it is too cerebral. It doesn't pack quite the same ineloquent punch.
(DIR) Post #AXOAWeJ2PF2XTYTIK8 by Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.rocks
2023-06-27T00:52:43Z
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H/T to @nando161 - I'm tweeting it with alt text. Great point by sab on Twitter.
(DIR) Post #AXhQCov9Auf1TRBUTA by Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.rocks
2023-07-14T20:08:00Z
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If anyone out there thinks I'm crazy for saying repeatedly that #Florida is going #Nazi, read this. It's scary. It will happen everywhere in the U.S. if we are not careful. Tell your friends, tell your family. We are slipping down that slope, and it is never prudent to follow Florida anywhere. https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2023/07/14/florida-state-guard-desantis-national-guard-training/
(DIR) Post #AXhQCrtU7Y76h9QhnM by Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.rocks
2023-07-14T20:25:52Z
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If you get paywalled, the gist of the article is that #DeSantis resurrected a State Guard that is in our Constitution. He told the voters that this would be for helping Floridians after disasters like #hurricanes. Some who joined have quit, though, because they are being trained to be paramilitary and people fear that the force will be used to crack down on people using their freedom to gather and to protest, as well as undocumented workers in the state. And, even some retired military veterans have said that the training is abusive and, like most things Republican, without any meaningful oversight or direction. Reminiscent of the #BrownShirts .
(DIR) Post #AXlOEcPpDXO5zc6SiO by Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.rocks
2023-07-16T20:45:02Z
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@wauz @StillIRise1963That's great. Thanks!"... the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist elements of finance capital.""It is a government system of political gangsterism, a system of provocation and torture practised upon the working class and the revolutionary elements of the peasantry,..."
(DIR) Post #AXyOPHFViDi0gaTQlU by Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.rocks
2023-07-22T13:26:49Z
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@timkmak I note that you only follow 52 people. I've heard lots of reports that the more you follow the more interaction you get in the fediverse. Seems to be my experience as well.
(DIR) Post #AYjXf1HXCDNB1HMN0a by Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.rocks
2023-08-14T11:59:58Z
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Hearing more and more about the police seizure of a newspaper's office IT equipment in Kansas, and several things are becoming clearer than ever:1. The US should not be entrusted to guard the free world. If local police are doing this, imagine what our military can do when it starts to favor the autocratic tendencies of this country over the wished of the people.2. Police will also fall back on "we were just trying to keep you safe" excuse. In this case, they claim to be investigating identity theft. If you called the police about your identity theft, do you think they would respond this way? No. Do you think there is a way to prevent identity theft while allowing a newspaper to function? Of course. They are up to something else, but hiding behind the authority they think they deserve.3. If the police continue to go rogue and militaristic, and they circle the wagons whenever they do something wrong, what value do they add to our communities? This question's importance is as clear as ever. #Kansas#FirstAmendment#1A#journalism#fascism
(DIR) Post #AYrNfFxzrGq9QYUWLw by Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.rocks
2023-08-11T17:58:35Z
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Who would think you can contract #COVID19 in the wilderness? I certainly didn't. But I went backpacking last week and tested positive for COVID 4 days after traveling home. On the trip, we1. Flew in a commercial jet2. Shopped at an REI for stove fuel and bear spray (can't fly with those)3. Stayed in a nearly empty inn4. Backpacked for 4 days5. Stayed at a hotel6. Traveled home by planeSo why do I think it was the backpacking?https://climatejustice.rocks/@Brad_Rosenheim/110836743016581456
(DIR) Post #AYrNfGwGFD2uRSgeHo by Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.rocks
2023-08-11T18:02:50Z
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On the last night we were backpacking, we were at a wonderful shelter called Birch Glen, with a cabin for about 12 people and three different tent sites. The cabin even had a front porch! We had the place to ourselves until dinner time. The a group of about 12 people arrived - middle school summer campers and two counselors from the Farm and Wilderness group. The kids and I cooked dinner at the fire pit and then cleaned up for bed by around 8 - we wanted to hike out early the following g morning. While we cooked and ate, the counselors had trouble getting help with their meal from their campers and distant thunder rumbled in the valley below.
(DIR) Post #AYrNfLjgPOxJJtqAsK by Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.rocks
2023-08-11T18:05:54Z
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While we tried to sleep, thunderstorms moved in and forced them to move their cooking into the front porch of the cabin. It kept us up for about 2 hours longer than we wanted to stay up, but the annoyance was understandable given the intense thunderstorms that would last most of the night. They returned to their tents and we finally slept.In the morning we woke up and hiked out before any of the woke up. As we left, I noticed 4-5 COVID-19 tests, used, lying on the table in the cabin.
(DIR) Post #AYrNfO8vSWKsmlfMUy by Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.rocks
2023-08-11T18:08:38Z
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5 days after that, I tested positive. So far, luckily, the kids haven't tested positive or shown any symptoms. I've isolated away from my wife and kids and hopefully it will stay that way.
(DIR) Post #AYuEbXsuysl7jB9R2G by Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.rocks
2023-08-20T00:55:26Z
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@chris But it is spelled wrong. It should be caché. Hidden. Cache is the present tense conjugate for the first person. I think many francophones would pronounce it as cash as it is written in English.
(DIR) Post #AZG7169oAYLj6bqLfE by Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.rocks
2023-08-30T14:10:21Z
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@MichaelEMann @MatthewRozsa @Salon Many rich people in the west are probably fine with this, as long as it is not them, and as long as it allows them to cast blame on overpopulation rather their own overconsumption. We've seen a microcosm of this self-preserving apathy with covid.
(DIR) Post #AZO3z0P9q9t65V0rFw by Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.rocks
2023-08-30T17:01:20Z
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"Imagine the future..."Ironic and likely iconic photo shared by Tom Hallock, professor at USF. South of downtown St. Petersburg, FL, which was about 115 miles (at the closest) to a Category 2 (at the time) hurricane, August 30, 2023.#HurricaneIdalia#ClimateCrisis#GlobalWarming#UrbanFlooding#ImagineTheFuture
(DIR) Post #AZR6rlBBxLGPXFbHaS by Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.rocks
2023-09-04T19:39:15Z
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Make it make sense. On one hand, when it comes to medications that chemically induce early term #abortions, we are not supposed to take them because the #FDA didn't test them enough. But on the other hand, we have this. We cannot bar doctors for prescribing #ivermectin for COVID because it was never tested on that virus at all.https://mastodon.tucsonsentinel.com/@TucsonSentinel/111008107209947816
(DIR) Post #AZR6rnV7KEOGjcwDvE by Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.rocks
2023-09-04T19:52:50Z
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I guess one point is that this is what happens when we turn to the courts to try to force them to legislate. Courts are filled with political appointees who don't really answer to us. They are put there to push doctrines, ideologies. Better, then, to force our legislators to legislate? Polarization is a poison to both options, as too many are serving the ideologies of their parties and not the people who they purportedly serve. In any case it is frustrating as hell, and getting two things wrong here.
(DIR) Post #AZRbqC8EJOyC25VKZU by Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.rocks
2023-09-05T02:01:23Z
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@davew @simon From my understanding, using large language models to code in different languages where one may not have the syntactical knowledge is certainly like rocket fuel for getting over the learning curve. But people who really understand the syntax of those languages say that the code produced is generally inefficient and can be simplified many times over.To me, this is different than students using to pass a test in grad school with prose based answers. Here, the LLM generally wrote very well (spotless syntax), but the ideas are off, non-committal, or specifically wrong. I have heard of too many instances of the code written by an LLM just flat out not working.