fm2279

romantic utilitarian | doodler | computerer

all products of inquiry are provisional.

Location: State of Maine
Website: https://fm2279.xyz
Bear Witness: https://disappeared.us
Abolish: ICE

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2025-08-21 15:20:48 UTC

The world is better without James Dobson in it.
He helped foment the militant brand of Christian nationalism presently imperiling our republic, and countless children suffered dearly because of his parenting advice.
He helped turn evangelicals away from Christian love and toward harsh judgement, resentment, paranoia, will-to-power, and full-bore hatred.
Many wounded adults raised according to his books will breathe a sigh of relief upon his passing.

2025-06-06 12:35:07 UTC

When stock price is based on favor with the regime, maybe it's time to stop waving the flag and talking about the "land of the free".

2025-06-05 19:01:59 UTC

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https://social.coop/@fm2279/114632301099035617

2025-06-05 18:07:06 UTC

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It's a hot one!
Friggin' boilin', bub.

2025-04-29 19:43:39 UTC

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I am John Galt (on benefits).

2025-04-29 18:53:13 UTC

I'm old enough to remember when the "Libertarian" and "2nd Amendment" crowds lost their minds over FEMA exercises (during the tenure of the nation's first President of color -- see Jade Helm), ranting that it was a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act.
Fast forward to today, when Trump's called for military deployments alongside domestic law enforcement, and, go figure, not a peep from those "patriots".

2025-04-29 14:57:19 UTC

It's pretty fascinating that the ports are emptying out (as will the store shelves, soon) and small/medium businesses are either suing or contemplating suing the administration for "irreparable harm" and the stock market is still bullish.
I think this is what happens when you reach critical bullshit.

2025-04-28 16:48:20 UTC

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Nice. I may riff on one myself! Thanks!
Suggestions for novel approaches to generation? Or approaches you'd be curious to see tried?

2025-04-28 16:38:39 UTC

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Wow. That seems significant -- like, you're pouring a whole bunch of garbage into those crawlers, and they seem to love it.
Maybe we should all run these?
Do you mind sharing the repo for yours again?

2025-04-25 18:56:37 UTC

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Yes. The Copilot icon defs follows the rule.
I wouldn't use Edge, either, but Shakespeare got to get paid.

2025-04-25 18:04:42 UTC

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My favorite is how the developer console in the Edge browser puts a huge LLM icon beside every single console log entry.

2025-04-24 16:48:52 UTC

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Ah, yeah:
https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg/114391576885363732

2025-04-24 16:34:17 UTC

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I think so, but I'm not sure if it was a deluge of such issue submissions that degraded service or not. It looks like they've got some mechanism for identifying and removing some of them.
They're so bitchy and full of emojis. It's pretty weird. But they're just almost convincing.

2025-04-24 15:58:19 UTC

Getting some pretty snotty LLM-generated issue submissions on a #Codeberg repo. Appears Codeberg is squashing them?
Anybody else see these from time to time?

2025-04-18 14:49:21 UTC

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He's been released, per the Florida Phoenix.
Tracking at https://disappeared.us

2025-04-16 21:51:31 UTC

Appealing for help maintaining https://disappeared.us
The sad fact is that detentions and deportations without due process are accelerating, and it is hard to keep tabs on documented cases.
If you are interested in bearing witness and can help find corroborating news sources for such cases, please let me know.
If you're technical, you can do issues and/or PRs at https://codeberg.org/reed/disappeared.
If you're not technical but can help identify and document cases, please, please, please reach out.

2025-04-11 20:28:59 UTC

Why on earth would anybody be bullish about any kind of business right now?
We live in a casino operated by heavily armed psychopaths, all of whom have taken a blood-oath to a death-cult.

2025-04-08 16:18:45 UTC

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I am perpetually out of the loop.
Normally, I don't care. But if it's about dire wolves...

2025-04-07 14:06:13 UTC

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Also, the spending "cuts" are entirely illegal -- the money has already been appropriated.
I think on the whole, at some point (maybe today!), the markets will start responding realistically to the paralysis induced by such uncertainty and unpredictability (and extralegality).
You can't do real investment in this environment. But you can do a lot of grifting, I guess.

2025-04-07 14:03:48 UTC

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Contraction + inflation = very good, right?

2025-04-07 00:22:07 UTC

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Not looking good, I'd say. I'm getting too old for these once-in-a-generation crises of capitalism, pretty predictably brought on by its biggest cheerleaders.

2025-04-06 22:41:05 UTC

🎵 Here we go here we go here we go again... 🎵
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/114/293/433/668/101/600/original/13bce64abebf321a.png

2025-04-06 12:18:18 UTC

The turkeys are back. 20-30 of the little dinosaurs hanging out on the hillside.
I've had a suspicion they're roosting in the woods adjoining the property. I hope that's the case, because it's fun to watch them early in the morning, stretching their legs.

2025-04-05 14:01:18 UTC

Good luck trying to explain that a stronger dollar offsets incentives to manufacture domestically arising from protectionist tariffs as American products become even less competitive in the global market to people who think Joe Biden is a literal demon.

2025-03-23 16:53:22 UTC

Spending time with liberals is double-edged.
One the one hand, it's quite nice to spend time with people who don't like fascism.
On the other hand, it's hard to be in such company and find yourself unable to escape the sense that the vast majority of liberals are not likely to do much in the way of actual resistance.

2025-03-20 19:30:31 UTC

I miss the days when pickup trucks were associated with chill-ass dudes going fishing or picking up a sixer and cruising over to a buddy's place to stare at an engine block or whatever.
Now it's super-aggro dudes in tactical gear with 84-month notes and four-figure payments picking up their Appeal to Heaven flags at an Amazon locker. Zero chill.

2025-03-06 16:30:23 UTC

Just going to toss out a big ol' "go fuck yourself" to the following Democrats who voted along with Republicans to censure Al Green of Texas:
Ami Bera, D-Calif.; Ed Case, D-Hawaii; Jim Costa, D-Calif.; Laura Gillen, D-N.Y.; Jim Himes, D-Conn.; Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa.; Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio; Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla.; Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash.; and Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y.
Wake the hell up.

2025-03-06 15:41:22 UTC

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I wasn't taking some sort of personal jab. Just noting that the costs are likely not symmetrical.
I think we disagree there and on where we're at, which is fine.
I feel comfortable talking about MAGA as a fascist movement. I think the costs of not seeing it for what it is are potentially much greater than somebody accusing me of hysteria. It's okay if you don't. Just talking this through.

2025-03-06 15:26:49 UTC

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We shouldn't elide the downsides of moving into "response" mode too *late*.
While "jumping the gun" may be embarrassing, etc., waiting too long is generally much, much more costly.

2025-03-06 14:52:43 UTC

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I guess I don't see what we gain by making the distinction.
If somebody is openly planning to invade one's home but hasn't just yet, the courts and so on might make a distinction (one that matters to them), but to the person whose home is about to be invaded, the utility is less clear.

2025-03-06 14:33:17 UTC

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I think we diverge a bit here, it's true.
I think they're planning to do exactly this sort of thing -- censuring Al Green is a little gesture. And let's not forget they sanctioned a coup attempt (which only sort of failed) then rewarded the foot-soldiers with pardons.
In Texas (and elsewhere) Republican officials are saying it out loud now that their ultimate goal would be to eliminate Democrats, not just from gov't but entirely.

2025-03-06 14:12:53 UTC

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My first contention with that excerpt would be over whether MAGA takes as its "immediate objective" the "overthrow of electoral democracy". I believe that it is. I think its leading lights are comfortable with plodding along with a tightly managed illiberal democracy, but only so long as it's absolutely necessary. The goal seems to be to dispense with democratic ideals (and forms) altogether.
The distinction here doesn't seem like a difference.

2025-03-06 14:02:25 UTC

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I would also note that it's entirely plausible that nobody's "neutralizing" fascists in part because so many avowed liberals tut-tut and scold people who even peacefully protest (see Al Green) to the point one knows they'll never support any kind of escalation.

2025-03-06 13:59:58 UTC

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I don't know. After living in Trump Country, surrounded by no-quarter flags and so on, I think some folks underestimate how far many Trump voters would go. Calling them fascists seems pretty accurate to me.

2025-03-06 13:33:14 UTC

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I know your question is aimed elsewhere, but to clarify my own comment -- I'm talking about the "why don't the Democrats do something [beyond lawsuits, legislative jousting, and press releases] about Trump" folks, not the "why don't the Democrats do something [about their aging leadership, thin bench, flagging local/state operations, & waning support among working people]".
Latter seems reasonable to me. Former suggests a confusion about what electoral parties are and do.

2025-03-06 12:33:27 UTC

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I guess folks don't understand the difference between an electoral party and a paramilitary organization. It also seems to me to be people who never participate in electoral politics and also can't really be bothered to do any organizing or even show up for protests, etc.

2025-03-03 17:03:00 UTC

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I'm not sure she can do such a thing legally.

2025-03-03 15:54:22 UTC

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This is not something Gov. Mills has said.
Souce: I live in Maine.

2025-02-21 17:31:33 UTC

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She only breaks ranks when her vote isn't arithmetically necessary.

2025-02-18 15:18:15 UTC

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Glad to hear the "backyard birds" are less likely to contract it. But also bummed to hear it's infecting raptors and crows.