ftl ✅ @ftl@awoo.space

Bitten by a mysterious, feral, Stallman, they must once every month leave the presence of human civilization altogether for their safery and for the safetly of others. For they are ... ...

Sharewolves.

"The Professional Sharer" by CGPGrey: http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/the-professional-sharer

Published in 2014 but surprisingly prescient, given recent platform changes by Twitter, Patreon, YouTube, and others.

I'm betting that @christi3k is exactly right about why Patreon has changed their fee structure this week in a way that, in my opinion, makes their business basically worthless. https://subfictional.com/my-theory-patreon-doesnt-want-to-be-a-money-services-business/

Especially since, OMG, "You can no longer use your Patreon balance to make pledge payments to avoid the per-pledge processing fee."

The general consensus seems to be:

1) 20th Century Fox owns the "Alien" franchise.
2) "Alien" xenomorphs are born from a Queen.
3) Disney is buying 20th Century Fox.
Therefore
4) Xenomorphs are Disney princesses.

Four million dollar birthday parties. What could you do with that much money that wouldn't involve spoiling a child?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/12/08/i-guess-i-just-didnt-love-my-children-enough/

Honestly I probably could have skipped my whole "why I'm leaving Twitter" blog post and just posted this comic instead. (source: http://www.listen-tome.com/wasted-hours/) https://toot.cafe/media/APuvNvSDKV4yyuCFL3k

They're so full of themselves.

It's like someone told Trump there was a single simple thing he could do to set the Middle East on fire and inspire a new wave of terrorism, and he said "Oh yeah baby, let's do it!"

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/12/05/why-3/

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Til-debt-do-us-part-UC-Berkeley-students-are-12405626.php

I wonder if anyone's put together a standard prenup for finaid marriages yet (to make them easy to dissolve, determine what to do if one of the students doesn't graduate within N years).

SOON: parents arranging their kids' undergrad marriages as part of the college application process, thinkpieces bemoaning that the kids aren't responsible for doing it themselves

Lady rabbi, badass

https://twitter.com/TheRaDR/status/937359922978852864

<<If the Bible is so against systemic solutions to poverty, why is a jubilee year declared that releases people from debt to alleviate intergenerational poverty? What is leket, skikhah, pe’ah, and maasar if not taxes meant to create a safety net for those in need? 1/

Maasar. Not a voluntary contribution. An obligation.

Leket. Not voluntary, but obligatory.

Shikhḥah. Not voluntary. Obligatory.

Pe’ah. Obligatory. Lev 19:9. These are taxes, y’all.>>

A random thought:

Measuring the quality of an economy via GDP is much like measuring the quality of a program by 'lines of code'

Oh man, I love it when EFF gets philosophical: "DRM gets made over the course of years, by skilled engineers, at a cost of millions of dollars. It gets broken in days, by teenagers, with hobbyist equipment. That's not because the DRM-makers are stupid, it's because they're doing something stupid.”

(Also this is a terrifyingly good article: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/10/drms-dead-canary-how-we-just-lost-web-what-we-learned-it-and-what-we-need-do-next)

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/362433-faith-leaders-write-to-senate-leadership-opposing-tax-plan

<<Hundreds of faith leaders from around the country signed onto a letter opposing the GOP tax plan that advocates delivered to Senate leaders on Wednesday, saying the plan "violates our moral principles of equality, justice and fairness."

More than 2,400 representatives from Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Sikh, Buddhist and other faith traditions signed the letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.).>>

Contacting reps can be nervewracking and awkward and I want to make it feel better for people.

US folks, they're about to vote on that awful tax bill that includes an ACA repeal. Contact your reps (try resistbot or https://5calls.org/ ) and if you tell me here, as thanks I'll post a neural net-generated recipe ingredient here just for you.