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Doctor Wind Turkey

@dog-envier.bsky.social

Bay Area philosopher and general weirdo. My hobby is creepily monitoring birds. I consider a trailside vulture carcass a "buddy." I have a blog https://dog-envier.bearblog.dev/blog/

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✧⁺⋆🌘 Dream Rotator NPC Alex 🌒⋆.˚₊✩@lastnpcalex.agency · 7h ago

ya i don't think people have thought about this fully solutions to problems becoming more bespoke, and private, isolated, and illegible to others does seem to imply problems that show up at scale (beyond the level where any individual with an agent could solve) will be harder to solve, not easier

@wavebidder.bsky.social · 7h ago

The whole point of open source software is to cache common solutions to common problems. Expecting users to customize *without explicitly asking them for PRs* is leaving a ton of value on the floor

Azure Emerald Empire@azureemeraldempire.bsky.social · 21h ago

We asked Americans to rate the following statement on a scale from 1 to 10, 1 being “Strongly disagree” and 10 being “Strongly agree”: It’s natural to poison other people to get ahead, either deliberately or by accident, and people who do shouldn’t be penalized too harshly.

Doctor Wind Turkey@dog-envier.bsky.social · yesterday

Something I find slightly unintuitive for no real reason: an artist can be both a formalist and a chud. Star example is Christopher Nolan, whose movies are mostly formal experiments. Maybe a chudly thing about them is the formal device is always made SUPER obvious.

Kirstin McCudden@kamccudden.bsky.social · 6d ago

This time, vertical: It was fascinating to look across three administrations of data in the @uspresstracker.bsky.social and pull out how subpoenas and legal orders have been used on the federal level

A vertical bar chart showing subpoenas and legal orders issued to journalists from 2017 through 2026 by year, differentiating between Department of Justice-issued orders and others.
U.S. Press Freedom Tracker@pressfreedomtracker.us · 6d ago

Leak hunting with legal orders — we’ve already seen more subpoenas to journalists from the DOJ than any year in the last 10 years. This and more in this month’s Tracker newsletter by managing editor @kamccudden.bsky.social:

Doctor Wind Turkey@dog-envier.bsky.social · 3d ago

my view is that driving makes you neurotically deny the risks of driving. every time you get in your car you are wielding a weapon that can and often does kill. i think most people psychologically accommodate to the necessity of driving by lying to themselves about its lethality.

Doctor Wind Turkey@dog-envier.bsky.social · yesterday

1065. In one year, a succession crisis will throw England into chaos, with rival claimants going to war over the crown. Amid the chaos, the Duke of Normandy will invade, toppling the weakened Anglo-Saxon elite and forever changing English culture and history. It is the Year Of The Linux Desktop.

Linuxiac@linuxiac.bsky.social · 4d ago

Statcounter reports Linux at 10.65% of desktop usage in North America, with Cloudflare data lending further support to the milestone. linuxiac.com/linux-deskto... #Linux #OpenSource

Doctor Wind Turkey@dog-envier.bsky.social · 2d ago

I'm not over the fact that Dem electeds are apparently going to Congress and, while there, getting converted to Evil Christianity by their colleagues / various missionaries who hang around Congress. Gillibrand no longer says she's Catholic and is involved in a lot of right-wing Evangelical stuff.

Jonathan Larsen@jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 4d ago

NEW: Corporate media zero in signs of antisemitism on the left. Meanwhile, one of Rep. Haley Stevens's most powerful backers in her Senate race attends a Bible study that teaches that the Jews killed Jesus...

neuse river hag@neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 3d ago

Mostly I think the essay is just poorly written, but Hancox-Li also distorts and omits salient details in service of a mind-numbingly simplistic argument. I was shocked to see people whose opinions I otherwise respect elevating this stuff as authoritative, so I wrote about it.

Every single aspect of a protest or action potentially carries risk, and effective resistance will always have trade-offs. Prairieland, like many ICE concentration camps, is a 30-minute drive from an urban downtown (Fort Worth). In Texas, like many other Republican-controlled states, guns are deeply embedded in culture. Because of these factors, anti-ICE campaigners attending or organizing mass demonstrations should be answering all of these questions and discussing it among themselves. Hancox-Li analyzes none of this. She summarizes the events using the prosecution's allegations and timeline, points out that shooting a cop was a severe escalation, and moves on. A protest where someone shoots a cop is always going to end badly for the person who shoots the cop, but we're talking about the Prairieland Twelve: a lot of other people got swept up in this, and right now, for liberals, the prosecution's framing is the analysis. The center can't hold on this one.I mentioned that Hancox-Li claims that the protestors brought weapons because they were worried about violence from counter-protestors. She doesn't source the claim and I wasn't able to find it in her embedded links, but she does link to a Texas Observer article that characterizes the demonstration very differently: "Ahead of the protest, members of a Signal group chat discussed whether they should bring guns. Benjamin Song, a former Marine reservist and the alleged shooter, argued firearms would deter an escalation if a confrontation with police occurred. “Cops are not trained or equipped for more than one rifle,” he allegedly wrote, “so it tends to make them back off.” Police recovered 11 firearms from the arrested protesters, many of them inside cars or unassembled in backpacks. Multiple belonged to Song. Prior to his arrest, Song was affiliated with the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club, whose black-clad members have routinely carried long guns at protests across North Texas over the last few years without violence, including during a standoff with Dallas authorities that delayed the clearing of a homeless encampment in July 2022 and did not result in any arrests." Knowing this, I doubt the demonstrators were worried about counter-protestors, since they would have then had reason to suspect a mole in their chats: this wasn't a publicly advertised protest! It was a very small group of people who intended to do a noise demonstration in front of an ICE concentration camp, and everyone except Song appears to have informally decided against the thesis of police intimidation.Nicollet Avenue Details of geography and associated cultural and political differences don't seem to be something Hancox-Li is particularly interested in. In the section "Playing to win", Hancox-Li opens with a quote from a defendant's attorney, who says that "the fact that there was a gun present and that the black bloc participants did not conform to certain standards of respectable activism" led to their onerous sentences. She responds to this quote with a long series of arguments: this isn't a soccer match; "whining about unfairness" isn't reasonable when we're in "a desperate struggle for the future of the republic". Bias is to be expected: "Of course the judges are Republican hacks who spend the rest of their time screaming about the trans menace." She links to other cases where defendants successfully fought off their charges: the Broadview Six, the DC sandwich guy, and a Tennessee man who won a civil case after being arrested for posting insulting Charlie Kirk memes. She opens two consecutive paragraphs with the same assertion: "[t]he Prairieland events, by contrast, met the administration on exactly the terrain the administration wished to be met on", and "[t]he Prairieland activists decided to meet the administration on the field the administration picked and deliver them the fight the administration wanted." Then she brings up Minneapolis. I will discuss this section in the order in which these arguments appear.