Matthew Graybosch @starbreaker@octodon.social

I kinda wish we'd stop fucking around and have another civil war, with the conservative white people on one side and everybody else on the other.

'Cause if you murder enough of the right people under the right circumstances while wearing a uniform while fighting for the winning side in a war, they don't throw you in jail. They give you a fuckin' medal and call you a hero.

If white genocide actually happens, it will be self-inflicted and richly deserved.

I'm not sure who pointed me to this article, but I find that it really resonates.

https://petermolnar.net/internet-emotional-core/

Is it me, or is the author of this article a hardcore Mac fan?

https://medium.com/@probonopd/make-it-simple-linux-desktop-usability-part-1-5fa0fb369b42

Yes, I know it's on Medium, but the author apparently can't be arsed to have his own website.

According to this article I saw at my day job, ICE and CBP (Customs and Border Patrol) are having trouble with hiring.

https://federalnewsradio.com/hiring-retention/2018/06/cbp-ice-call-on-industry-to-help-them-solve-border-hiring-challenges/

I wonder if we can give them even more trouble by identifying people likely to consider working for ICE/CBP and persuading them that they'd be happier in another career.

I can't believe the stonewall.cafe domain is still available. It would be PERFECT for a #lgbt oriented instance.

I have a little drinking game for when I read Slashdot at home.

Every time I see somebody on on Slashdot use evolutionary psychology to rationalize an aspect of the status quo that fucks over women, I do a shot.

Like with this asshole: https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12241338&cid=56800582

As a consequence, I frequently regret reading Slashdot at work, because I don't have my friends Jack Daniels, Jim Beam, and Johnny Walker with me.

@dredmorbius You've got Pandoc, right? You might like this. (Unless you told me about it in the first place.)

https://jez.io/tufte-pandoc-css/
https://github.com/jez/tufte-pandoc-css

“The working class have never yet had a voice in declaring war. If war is right, let it be declared by the people – you, who have your lives to lose.” --Eugene Debs

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/fiery-socialist-challenged-nations-role-wwi-180969386

Here's an interesting article about William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech at the 1896 DNC.

http://socratic-form-microscopy.com/2018/06/17/a-cross-of-gold-the-best-speech-youve-never-heard/

Here's a link to a reasonably readable bootleg scan of John Lion's “A commentary on the Sixth Edition UNIX Operating System”.

This is the book AT&T's lawyers tried to suppress in the 80s after the Bell System was broken up and AT&T was free to try to make money off of Unix.

http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/Lions/

And if you're a parent who thinks their minor child is spending too much time in front of a screen, then it's up to you to fix that.

Turning off the screen is easy, but the hard part is offering kids a worthwhile alternative to video games in a world where kids can't even ride bikes by themselves without meddlesome adult strangers accusing their parents of neglect.

If you think somebody close to you is "addicted" to video games, step back & take a look at the gestalt of their life. Gaming might be the only thing in their lives they think is worthwhile. If that's the case, are they really "addicted", or is there a deeper problem involved?

Maybe they're struggling with depression. Maybe they're lonely & games are the only way they can connect with other people. Maybe they're out of spoons after work/school & gaming is all they can do.