@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: pathetic, but also really disgusting, just straight up mask off nazi shit
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@jmoiron.bsky.social A lot of people might not realize how long Manhattan is, because it's often portrayed missing all of Washington Heights.. sometimes even all of Harlem! The walk Zohran did from Inwood to South Ferry is 13 miles; half a marathon. Almost half (~5.5 miles) of that walk isn't on this...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: His district (which is my district) also includes two of the major pop centers in Manhattan that went for Cuomo.
@jmoiron.bsky.social A bsky draft thread got out of control, so I wrote a post about Zohran Mamdani's famous victory, with some reflections/reactions on the race.
The title card photo is from Zohran's site and is credited to Madison Stewart.
jmoiron.net/blog/zohran-...
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@jmoiron.bsky.social Lest we forget, since the same old pundits are flogging the same tired nonsense again, last time wasn't exactly unanimous.
www.history.com/this-day-in-...
@jmoiron.bsky.social Democratic establishment has been pretty clear for a long time that they feel entitled to progressive votes even though they undermine progressive candidates.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: And a quick note on the price. I am, conservatively, a global expert on monitoring data storage. The infra costs for this shouldn't be high, it's all payroll. Still, the price does seem steep. Nobody wants to pay $100/yr forever for a worse version of something they already paid ...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: As time goes on and more non-technical people get burned by not having meaningful ownership over devices they thought they were paying for, I wonder how long it will take for a real movement to develop around action against this kind of corporate cash grab.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: As mentioned here, there should be regulations around service EOL for IoT devices. The monitoring situation would be better even if it deterred the SunStrong acquisition, since their updates to disable cellular seems to have broken WiFi quite badly.
bsky.app/profile/jmoi...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: This company can charge they want for running this service, but for a them to buy out service contracts, invalidate them, install firmware updates without consent, and update terms to make using your device without their app illegal is pretty ridiculous. Seems like it shouldn't b...
@jmoiron.bsky.social I don't keep a close eye my solar system, because I got decent data the past few years on how much headroom we have for more electrification (about +5000kwh/yr). However, I'm still interested in tracking long term performance of the panels, so I just noticed this rug pull.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: If history is any judge, not only should you expect sanction for thought crimes like "Gaza sure seems like genocide" for the foreseeable, but after moods inevitably shift, even the unrepentant goons responsible for this mess will not have their power or prestige diminished in any...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: What got rehabilitated? The people who built a case for war on obvious lies got rehabilitated. Journalists like Judith Miller and Jeffrey Goldberg, but also officials like David Frum, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and, somehow, George W. Bush himself.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: A scarier aspect to this is that the positions that the media ecosystem turned against in the lead up to Iraq are still not really rehabilitated, 20 years later. Hell, at no point since the 2nd Red Scare in the 1950s has being a socialist of any kind become accepted at large.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: This time around, things are demonstrably worse, as even a very soft negative position on what Israel is doing is dangerous in a way being ant-Iraq war wasn't. It's grounds to get your food co-op investigated by the federal government, and it can get you deported.
www.newyorker....
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: This is notable because the ISM and movement felt big to me. I was supportive but not directly involved. The news of Rachel Corrie and then Tom Hurndall was devastating.
The injustices perpetrated by the Israeli govt 20 years ago sadly pale in comparison to what's happened in th...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: The primary "How can things be this stupid?" aspect of the lead up to the Iraq war was definitely the corny and embarrassing jingoism, which you can hear in "Proud to be an American", but reached its highest expression with "Freedom Fries."
@jmoiron.bsky.social Related to the linked article here, and the "Was Iraq this stupid?" post going around, one thing that feels very similar is how suddenly positions that are fine (eg. "the UN is good" or "regime change is not a valid pretense for war") became deeply stigmatized even in the mainstr...