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Yes, I would do that if I could but obvs I have no such power or even eligibility.

Are you in Oz? I envy that system. There's no mandatory voting in the US. 40-55% of eligible citizenry doesn't vote here. It's esp bad at midterms. It is defo the candidates' job to persuade the voters to cast for them. But people need to (be able to) vote. And they should be mad when they can't.

It’s already happening. Iran attacked a desalination plant in Bahrain.

This war has to end immediately. If it turns into a water war we will be dealing with a whole different level of a humanitarian catastrophe across the region.

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It is nuts that candidates are held responsible for getting people to vote, esp when those in power are making it difficult. Does that also become the candidates' responsibility, to figure out how to make voting happen? At some point, the citizenry needs to exercise agency over their own lives.

Yes, voting should be mandatory and you should be able to abstain via the voting method. The candidates are responsible for swaying your vote, not getting you to the voting booth.

Those people have no obligation to go see a band, because seeing the band that one night or not will have zero long-term effect on their and everyone else's livelihood the way an election does.

It's not the candidate's job to get people to vote. Voting is a civic duty. People should do it because they have an implicit contract with the society they live in and because the results will directly affect them. The candidate's job is to sell themselves but it's the citizen's duty to vote.

CNN: More than 1,000 civilians killed in Iran since war began, rights group reports By Helen Regan More than 1,000 people, including children, have been killed in Iran since the war began on Saturday, according to US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). The rights group said as of Tuesday afternoon ET, at least 1,097 civilians had been killed, including 181 children. More than 5,400 civilians, including 100 children, have been injured, HRANA reported. The group said its report is preliminary and is veritying hundreds more reported deaths.

At least 1,097 civilians had been killed in Iran so far, including 181 children.

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

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What if code wasn't a text document?

I've been mulling over this kind of stuff for 20+ years! I made a wee prototype and blogged about it last week to get it out of my system. Knowing me, I'll pick it up again this time next year!

Read here! 👉 joethephish.me/blog/visual-...

BREAKING

The U.S. State Department says that U.S. citizens need to leave the countries and territories listed below immediately due to serious safety concerns.

You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America.

And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.

Why Higher Education’s AI Backlash Reveals Some of Its Deepest Cracks In some ways, AI isn’t the real threat. It’s just the mirror.

Highly recommend @kylesaunders.bsky.social on why AI is so unsettling to higher ed - one of the best pieces I have read on this issue:

"[U]niversities don’t merely teach. Universities certify, sort, and signal. And AI interferes with all three at once."

kylesaunders.substack.com/p/why-higher...

Press gave Biden far worse coverage for a small number of American soldiers dying while leaving a war than to Trump for a similar number dying while starting a war for no reason. It makes you think!

He's is normalizing far right theory while cashing a paycheck from the "Cathedral's" flagship publication. Yet he comments as if he plays no role in it as their court conservative? That with all the clout it affords Douthat to work for NYT, quoting Yarvin does nothing?

Someone filmed the Iranian suicide drone attack from INSIDE the Bahrain hotel.

Extraordinary footage.

(🎥 Cradle Media)

Heard from a friend in Abu Dhabi that there was bombing all day. Also in Bahrain and Qatar. (The target is US bases, but it's not like the bombs never miss). Buildings shaking in civilian areas. The scale of this is much larger than many think.

Not here, at least. He's claiming he was lied to.

Admitting he's wrong would involve being even slightly contrite or any sign of self-reflection on how he could have been taken in by such an obvious fraud.

So let’s think about this.

A private company refused - on principle - to yield to the government’s demands.

The government then cancelled its contracts with the company and has set about destroying it

caveman: ugg

caveman therapist: (nodding) ugg

caveman: *starts crying*

Trump’s Epstein Scandal Takes Damning Turn as Dem Drops New Bombshell As new revelations in the Jeffrey Epstein saga threaten the president, a legal expert decodes what we just learned—and lays out a roadmap to what will happen now.

"We are dealing now with an allegation that the president of the US raped and sexually assaulted a child and is now using his DOJ to try to cover that up."

If you want to understand latest Epstein revelations, @leahlitman.bsky.social explains them clearly on our pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2070...

Yes, This Latest Trump Revelation Out of the Epstein Files Seem Big You’ve probably seen some hints of it. But I wanted to focus...

Yes, This Latest Trump Revelation Out of the Epstein Files Seem Big talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/yes-t...

Perfect references here.

Strongly agree

This has been so damaging, together with the fracturing of social media and the dismantling of the games press
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curious how many people who hearted this sincerely agree and how many can sense the wink.

underrated

i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript)

you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS

lyra.horse/x86css/

Awaysis on Steam The ultimate dungeon brawler. A revolutionary, physics-fueled throwdown where you’ll jump, slide, and collide on your adventure to restore peace to the Awaysis - an ancient floating relic under attack...

Our game AWAYSIS has its first major Steam demo up! We've done a lot of custom physics work to bring something somewhere in between a fully-physics based experience and something more responsive of something more Nintendo-like, its a sweet juicy middle!

store.steampowered.com/app/3334760/...

Alright let's try posting WIP updates here instead of Instagram. For 3 years now, I've been working on a full set of 78 tarot cards. I have 23 cards left. Spent some time tonight chipping away at the Three of Swords.

Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, And The Construction Of Political Crisis What we care about, and demand accountability for, is largely up to us.

This is about the latest revelation from the Epstein files, which seems to have left most of the political class stunned and paralyzed. But it’s also about how things become politically meaningful and the forces that shape public perception of events. www.offmessage.net/p/trump-epst...