No, you cannot be a "good billionaire".

Go to hell you fascist bootlickers.

I have a USB keyboard attached to my laptop, for ergonomics reasons. I've been finding that when I switch apps, or pause typing for a few seconds, the first keypress I make after that is lost. I'm guessing there's some sort of process that puts the USB connection to sleep and wakes when there's activity, that effectively drops that first keypress.

Is there a setting I can change so that no keypresses are lost?

I've done a few web searches, and I found a few references to fixes on Windows, but that doesn't help much, as I'm using Debian Linux.

#linux #debian #xfce #thinkpad #usb

For the first few classes, there were only two students who were women, two young Latinas who sat together. I noticed they started frowning when the instructor who was a man was speaking, but I wasn't sure why. He wasn't an interesting instructor and I remember being disappointed in his incuriosity when I asked him a question, but otherwise I didn't see a problem with him at first.

(2/3)

It's hard to even know you've got a blindspot, let alone work out what's in that blindspot.

I was in a class on Cisco networking at a community college. The students were almost all men, more disproportionate than my other computer and networking classes, which were already bad. It was a hybrid class, with one instructor, a man, in the room, and another, a woman, who was remote.

(1/3)

PDX.COMMUNITY – envision a better world https://pdx.community/

#Portland #PDX #MutualAid

PDX Community Resource and Organization Hub
https://pdxma.info/

#Portland #PDX

codyisrude AT linuxrocks.online

Repeatedly cites and defends Kiwifarms, the transphobic hate site.

#FediBlock

#healthcare #ableism #ageism #racism #sexism #pdx

This is a more thorough review of Shy Radicals than I could have written, and shows the book has actually had an impact in the UK.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/shy-radicals-hamja-ahsan-world-our-corner

I've started reading Shy Radicals, by Hamja Ahsan.

It's satire, in the form of a collection of essays about radical movements for the liberation of shy, introverted, and autistic people. So on the one hand it is about the difficulties of being an introverted person in the political left and in a world which privileges extroversion, but by comic overstatement, rather than directly.

It's also a satire of radical left literature, particularly from the point of view of a person of color in the UK.

I went to the Portland Zine Symposium and got a book.

A rare candidate endorsement from me.

Mitch Green for Portland City Council District 4
https://mitch4portland.com/

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Proposal for a new Linux special file:
/dev/scream

It's like /dev/zero, but it's endless stream of the letter 'a', with an occasional capital 'A' at a random frequency.

This zine is great.

https://scholar.social/@Aepasek/110702991037793220

I've started reading Resisting AI. It's not a very long book, and quite clear and readable.

McQuillan links AI, that is, machine learning, to fascism, by describing fascism as palingenetic ultranationalism as an elite response to crisis. Palingentic ultranationalism is the fantasy of restoring an imaginary past national glory through purification, which is all too familiar for those of us in the US and UK, certainly. So AI systems are used to reinforce existing systems of bigotry.

Just picked up a book, through Interlibrary Loan.

Resisting AI: An Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence, by Dan McQuillan

The title should make it obvious why I want to read it.