Notes
These short posts include "asides" from the my original blogs, a sample of "tweets" from Twitter, and more recently are often syndicated to my Fediverse profile.
“En ik zie alleen maar amateurisme.”
“Minder op Twitter uiten en gewoon op een constructieve manier kijken hoe je het beste doet voor Nederland.”
I love to see this multiparty democracy enforcing a meaningful balance of power. These days in particular.
In the way the dismantling of USAID is a practice run for DOGE dismantling the US government, I’m growing concerned the birthright citizenship attack is just a first step towards weakening the 14th amendment.
I find it worrying how often Github Copilot offers to complete my Rust database access code using .execute(), which is a method on the very popular sqlx crate, which I am not using. It feels like I’m constantly being judged by a dumb popular kid for making a less popular choice (in my current case, cornucopia).
Our LLM friends could really regress us to the mean more subtly than media consolidation already does.
Germany, of all nations, should be keenly aware of the dangers of forgetting state attrocities. So it’s especially upsetting to see Berlin supporting Japan’s effort to censor history and remove memory of the ianfu. https://www.theleftberlin.com/berlin-mayor-insists-on-removing-statue-for-victims-of-sexual-slavery/
I’m old enough to remember when voting for local offices required researching the candidates because you couldn’t count on whether the Democrat or the Republican was the batshit crazy one.
I’m very tempted to approach the creators of inTouch and ask how much it would cost to influence “parents” to vote or subscribe to crypto schemes.