Posts by jameshowell@fosstodon.org
(DIR) Post #Ara6IyxljXkfQpcQhk by jameshowell@fosstodon.org
2025-02-28T15:22:44Z
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@aral
(DIR) Post #ArvXvnAwGrlrFUfTGq by jameshowell@fosstodon.org
2025-03-10T20:13:18Z
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@the_q "I just want to get X done! And I will give up Y and be ready to spend time fixing Z in order that A will not be taken away with 30 days notice, B will not become a monthly subscription, C will not require useless LLMs, and my private D through W will not be sold to vampiric amoral sexist racist sociopaths"
(DIR) Post #ArvXvpJWJvp7sghLvM by jameshowell@fosstodon.org
2025-03-10T20:41:14Z
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@the_q I totally know the "Oh god why oh WHY did I change those x.org settings in i3 without realizing they would destroy my GNOME settings and sweet lord what did I even CHANGE" feeling
(DIR) Post #ArvXvqAh8EMGXbZoo4 by jameshowell@fosstodon.org
2025-03-10T20:52:57Z
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1998: "Linux is only free if your time has no value." (@jwz)2025: "Commercial software is only convenient if your privacy, security, IT budget stability, ethics, and time have no value."https://web.archive.org/web/19990218132145/http%3A//themes.org/totd/guest/archive/jwz/#linux #foss
(DIR) Post #AsOiRBbddqw7LFp8Ua by jameshowell@fosstodon.org
2025-03-25T00:41:40Z
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@stevendbrewer I got so much out of the Moby Dick #audiobook.As much as I enjoyed every page, let's face it, it's a slog. But the actor reading was amazing, lots of emotion and character voices. I took it on a bunch of long car trips: huge fun. And the archaic style and pacing, all the nautical jargon and dialect, the audio was a HUGE help.I love to read in bed at the end of the day and I wore headphones and read along. God I enjoyed it so much. #Audiobooks count!#audiobookscount
(DIR) Post #AsOiRdFypyFV6BuEca by jameshowell@fosstodon.org
2025-03-24T15:26:53Z
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@benlockwood @MichaelTBacon I spent hours in the car over the weekend with my buddy in #humanities. We taught a science in #literature course together for years. We both fret about the devaluing of (read: "attack on") the humanities, and now even science.Anyway, yesterday on PA 22 in Blair county we agreed that the value of studying the humanities, for both politics and in science, is the ability ruthlessly to critique your metaphors.(Of being aware of your metaphors in the first place)
(DIR) Post #At04deh65nPWIOR7rc by jameshowell@fosstodon.org
2025-04-12T01:19:56Z
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Two weeks ago I went to an Old Time jam. Two dozen musicians in a circle playing banjos, mandolins, guitars, an upright bass, a slide guitar. Teaching each other 200-year-old songs.They gave me a literal block of wood and a xylophone hammer. I uncharacteristically ignored my terror of performing to cluck clock along. Transcendent experience.Last night I bumped into a lady who was there. HEY YOU WERE THE GUY PLAYING PERCUSSION YOU WERE AMAZING!It felt like I was Buddy Rich winning a grammy
(DIR) Post #At2xrgWXyAd1ou7l68 by jameshowell@fosstodon.org
2025-04-13T11:28:26Z
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@futurebird coolest nerds EVER
(DIR) Post #At2yUWOfYV7PhmxT8K by jameshowell@fosstodon.org
2025-04-13T11:35:27Z
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@futurebird
(DIR) Post #AtGKvckbLfxtoETYMi by jameshowell@fosstodon.org
2025-04-19T22:17:22Z
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"Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Proposes Female Undocumented Immigrants Can Stay If They Marry Incels"Here I fixed your headline:"MAGA Incel Candidate Proposes Human Sex Trafficking Immigration Policy Benefiting MAGA Incels"https://www.newsweek.com/republican-kyle-langford-proposes-forcing-migrant-woman-marry-2060334
(DIR) Post #AtGMCZFfi6kPpoeTFg by jameshowell@fosstodon.org
2025-04-19T22:32:28Z
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@apropos Meh. I mean, Melania Trump? But you're right, I'm not a psychologist I guess
(DIR) Post #AtGf4OmkdffeBawVrU by jameshowell@fosstodon.org
2025-04-20T00:39:47Z
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Just gonna post again because duh#Bluesky #Twitter
(DIR) Post #AtKXS8v1GBvevRSdXs by jameshowell@fosstodon.org
2025-04-21T22:57:22Z
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@mike @JoeRess Even if I had any confidence in the AI detectors, which emphatically do not, I would never subject my students to it. Just have a little imagination in your assignments. Don't punish them for the billionaires' caprices: just challenge them a different way.
(DIR) Post #AtQwoRCLdpqpn93Nlg by jameshowell@fosstodon.org
2025-04-25T00:56:21Z
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Why @farah's Sect Might Be The Right Monastic Order For You* silence IRL!* obnoxious anonymity online!www.shutupfuckyou.org
(DIR) Post #AtfgrDSGHmtfNUlYwa by jameshowell@fosstodon.org
2025-05-02T03:43:26Z
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DAS WAR EIN BEFEHL#uspol #trump #fascism
(DIR) Post #Au88ZT8iDGwcw1Rz2O by jameshowell@fosstodon.org
2025-05-15T20:00:59Z
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@Zenie Learning to modify, extend, and build our own tools is also how we, #Emacs USERS, grow.This is why we will always be a small committed community, and I mean that in a good way. It is a GOOD thing that in order to use Emacs fully you must write your own Emacs Lisp.2015 me: BuT I wiLL hAvE tO wRiTe iT MySeLf2025 me: I wrote it myself. Hope you can use it too.Honestly it has just been so much fun.@debacle @cmccullough @pidgin @gajim @dino
(DIR) Post #AuKn597UNnwip2rIuG by jameshowell@fosstodon.org
2025-05-21T22:27:54Z
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#ai #aibullshit #billionaires
(DIR) Post #AuuJiqXvaOt5xBdtDc by jameshowell@fosstodon.org
2025-06-08T02:44:53Z
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