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This is pretty accurate to what I've heard in Evangelical churches, btw. (and never really agreed with)

It goes to show that what look like abstract, ethereal theological disputes actually have very down-to-earth and lived results.

Premillarianism, in hindsight, appears to have been one of those Terribly Bad Ideas that future historians will write books about.

Twitter just suspended the fake 'Nicole Mincey' account, and many others.

https://mobile.twitter.com/joshtpm/status/894369140852609024

But for those of us who were watching during GamerGate in 2014, which *pioneered* these tactics - it feels really frustrating watching the normal world struggle to absorb this new reality that vast chunks of social media accounts are not just fraud, but *weaponised fraud backed by literal Nazis, some of whom are Russian military*.

It sounds weird just to say it, right?

But that's the sitch.

I boosted @GinnyMcQueen's toot about this earlier, but Yonatan's response to the Google manifesto deserves a non-CW toot. I know and trust Yonatan and there is substantial wisdom here. https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/so-about-this-googlers-manifesto-1e3773ed1788

Honestly if you think that emotions are the opposite of logic and you managed to graduate with a four-year degree, Computer Science or otherwise?

Your alma mater NEEDS to revise the Critical Thinking/Introductory Philosophy section of its GE requirements. Immediately.

... https://kitty.town/media/dJJJyT1kdUpZarOmUUg

Two weeks until the moon eats the sun, make sure to buy your sun death insurance this week before the price goes up! ☀ 🌜 ☠ 💵

In response to twitter's brand guidelines: mastodon's elephant friend is in fact an elephant (fluffy), and also a friend. you can draw him with other elephants, he likes company

WHY AM I PUNNING THIS HARD TODAY

GOOD LORD

IT'S CATURDAY NOT PUNDAY DAMMIT

I know a physicist who said that if they ever discovered a viable theory of quantum gravity, they would be sure to publish it on April 1st.

why is this elevator tilted forward. this isn't normal; what's going on. anyway give me venture capital

if you missed what happend, have a read here:
https://frama.link/ouoAa4Vj

The reason I'm asking is cause you might be one of many using patreon.

I'm not wanting you to stop, but would like if your desicion is a concious desicion, instead of just repeating what most ppl are doing.

If you relay on patreon, a message pointing out to your patreons what happend to #IGD would break the silence

Silence can be violent

#patreon

https://toot.cat/media/eOsjvgFzkENB3DCeYyA

one of those flappy flutterbug things

(Butterfly walks onto a bar...)

worked with magnetic tape

dota-driven development (n.)

a programming paradigm in which the development stage is made as agile as possible so you will be able to deploy early and just play DotA for the rest of the day

someone should cosplay Ganondalf and send me pictures

linux follows the "forest fires are actually good for the forest" model, instead of having a registry which accumulates cruft and gets more and more fucked up, you have all these dotfiles in random locations which get set on fire every 2-5 years

One thing that I still really appreciate about UT was the story's explicit understanding and integration of player control. Something SO:TL and UT share is that they both make commentary on your actions as a player, and how you are complicit in the violence depicted. However, SO:TL takes a sort of... easy road. You have no other choice except not play the game. And given that it costs real world money? That's just a copout, I'm sorry.

It’s the regular npm security bullshit that we all know and love:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14901566

An app named “cross-env” is typosquatting a popular package named “crossenv” to gobble up your environment variables (where people tend to store their most sensitive token credentials you can’t include in your source code).

While I’m no pro at npm, you can start by examining your global packages with `npm ls -g` and grep for `cross-env` or your OS equivalent for grep.

The moral: Metadata is data. Treat it as important - just as important as your primary data. If it's the user's, on no account delete it without their permission. Also, don't trust any third party to maintain it for you - even if it's in their commercial interest to do so.

Your entire information infrastructure may break without it.

This sounds obvious. But a classic example of 'not getting the importance of metadata' is Gnome Rhythmbox and its default treatment of music playlists.

By default (if the behaviour hasn't changed) it stores all your playlists in its own, hidden (dotfile) configuration folder. The user is never expected to look here.

This is fine until you migrate your system and whoops, didn't copy the invisible config files and all your playlists are gone.

Because they were 'just metadata, not documents'.