Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @francis@greenplenty.social
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Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.
Joined Apr 2022
@Radical_EgoCom always makes me smile when folks blether about “dictatorship” when we live in the harshest dictatorship already.
I want my country back too. Anyone else remember these actual British values?
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What is #Eurocentrism? A few ways to think about it - not based on specific reading, just my thoughts. Feel free to add!
- #Eurocentrism is talking about “European values” as self-evidently good, without stopping to think where that idea comes from & what it says about you and your knowledge of attitude to the rest of the world
- #Eurocentrism is being a white European living in Europe, never thinking about colonialism and how your comfort & wealth, your morning coffee, derives from it
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"I feel caught up in a political parlour game played by lunatics, with incredibly high stakes, that I do not consent to being a part of."
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Guide Dogs UK has a very important announcement for anyone with tattoos, a beard, an unconventional hairstyle, etc. You are needed to play with puppies.
"We’re issuing a national appeal for volunteers with distinctive characteristics to help socialise the next generation of guide dogs. Our new research shows that 1 in 5 (20 %) of dog owners revealed their dogs have shown signs of fear or confusion when encountering unfamiliar physical attributes." https://bit.ly/3PgRTOc
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It was overwriting the permission and owner for the new log file and Docker didn't fall over, just stalled the app writing the same error message over and over
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So when I checked stuff was arriving in the new logs it looked like it was
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Sigh
I just re-read this article I wrote a while back.Still quite pleased with it.
Don't call me "left"
Guess who turned on log rotation and brought down the machine he was trying to stabilise?
Annoyed with myself about that
I'm taking a few weeks off FB and Xhitter because they eat my life
I want to make things that make me feel better instead of filling my head with nothing
I'll still post on Mastodon a little, because it's not designed to make me into an addict.
@mojo it could be an engineered shortage to drive prices up with immigration being used to distract from greed and manipulation yanno.
@Radical_EgoCom @slowmart iirc in the UK doing that is illegal because the powers that be don’t want sympathy with the strikers.
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1978: “We made sand think!”
1993: “We made sand think faster!”
2007: “Wow, that’s some quick sand!”
2024: “We made sand hallucinate!”
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Useful: 9 tropes about Muslims that are a product of Islamophobia
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/11/us/islamophobic-tropes-muslims-in-america/index.html
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Recent news on Angela Chao
RIP to Angela Chao, who accidentally reversed into a shallow pond in her Tesla. She called her friends to help, and they arrived. But... none of them knew how to open the doors.
This shouldn't have happened.
Study, LLM, racism, hypothetical death penalty discussion
@HauntedOwlbear how unsurprising.
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Study, LLM, racism, hypothetical death penalty discussion
AI models found to show language bias by recommending Black defendents be 'sentenced to death'
Link to the damn paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00742
New Green Plenty article:
"What next? How do we start building a better world?"
I wrote a poem back in 2018 called "Darling Albion"
Next time someone says I'm anti-British I will send it to them and they probably won't get it.
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Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.
Joined Apr 2022
