Software, UX & miscellaneous griping. Sr. Engineer building collaboration technology at @Adobe.
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Peter Flynn retweeted
It's unacceptable for policing to look like this in America. This should both frighten and outrage anyone who wants the US to remain a free society.
Peter Flynn retweeted
until the day I die I will never understand why he was even still allowed to run after this
Peter Flynn retweeted
Your reminder that Democrats have won 6 of the last 7 elections by popular vote.
And it's about to be 7 for the last 8.
In any other republic or democracy - none of which have the Electoral College - we would have been referring to the last 30 years as a Democratic Dynasty.
Peter Flynn retweeted
Since judicial punishments in the US tend to be tough in general, I'm seldom in the lock'em up camp. But there needs to be a massive (FBI/brings in the Feds level) effort to find these culprits and severely punish them. For all the ways confidence and the reliability of our voting system has been damaged. Destruction of ballots takes things to a dramatic and unsustainable new level which tears at the fabric which still mostly ensures civic peace.
Burning ballots were pulled from inside a smoking ballot box in Vancouver, Washington, this morning, hours after police responded to an arson at a Portland ballot box
katu.com/news/local/vancouve…
Peter Flynn retweeted
The difference:
The upsetting things said by Trump and Vance are not true.
The upsetting things said about Trump and Vance are true.
Trump really did mount a violent coup against the Constitution. He and his relatives really did take bribes in office, including from foreign governments. He really was helped into power by Russian espionage agencies. He really did steal secret documents from the US government after his election defeat. And Vance really did, and by his own admission, intentionally "create stories" for political advantage that put residents of his state at risk of physical harm.
Peter Flynn retweeted
Interested in the editorial decision at Axios to label once person at first mention with the adjective, “convicted,” but not the other fella running for the highest office in the land. Makes no sense.
Peter Flynn retweeted
I wrote a history of Watergate that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize last year. And let me tell you: When Nixon said “if the president does it, it’s not illegal,” no one believed that was true.
Peter Flynn retweeted
Here's a fun AI story: a security researcher noticed that large companies' AI-authored source-code repeatedly referenced a nonexistent library (an AI "hallucination"), so he created a (defanged) malicious library with that name and uploaded it.
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ALT Children playing on a climber. The colors of the climber and the foliage behind them has been oversaturated and shifted, making it surreal. The kids' heads have been replaced with the red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' Standing in the foreground at rigid attention is a man in short-sleeved military garb, wearing aviator shades. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en -- Jorge Royan (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Munich_-_Two_boys_playing_in_a_park_-_7328.jpg CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en -- Noah Wulf (modified) https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thunderbirds_at_Attention_Next_to_Thunderbird_1_-_Aviation_Nation_2019.jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en
Peter Flynn retweeted
The expulsion of George Santos was made possible because a small community newspaper exposed his vile activities.
Support local community newspapers. They are the backbone of journalism.
Peter Flynn retweeted
I'm something of a NYC nationalist—I really think it's a miracle that all the peoples of the world can live together in one city basically in peace and harmony—and this UES halal cart vendor story is only reinforcing that. documentedny.com/2023/11/22/…
Peter Flynn retweeted
"Biden is old" is a much easier story to write than "Biden spent weeks in delicate, behind-the-scenes negotiations to secure the release of hostages and a cease fire of hostilities" b/c the latter requires doing actual reporting and the former is just glorified opinion writing
Peter Flynn retweeted
My favorite part of this practice is the last question is “What are we doing wrong?”, followed by a prod similar to “No, really. Something is broken. What is the most broken thing you’ve seen?”
Bugs get filed in substantially real time where appropriate.
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Peter Flynn retweeted
Net-zero targets are all well and good.
But how countries get there matters a lot. It's the area under the curve that matters for warming.
Delay emissions cuts and you not only make net-zero less likely, you also make climate change worse along the way.
Peter Flynn retweeted
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Overnight Twitter changed everyone’s Direct Messages to “allow message requests from Verified users only”
They did this without your consent
If you haven’t received messages from your friends today that’s why
You need to go into settings and change it back – at Boston, MA
Peter Flynn retweeted
What Wikipedia did: we stood strong for our principles and fought to the Supreme Court of Turkey and won. This is what it means to treat freedom of expression as a principle rather than a slogan.
Peter Flynn retweeted
Twitter used to routinely challenge Turkey’s takedown requests
Erdogan actually had Twitter banned in Turkey in 2014 for refusing to comply. (the courts later ended the ban.)
but that was on the “censorship” version of Twitter, not this new “free speech” one
