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@jmoiron @seldo We didn't conclusively know that the earth moved until Bessel's observation of stellar parallax in 1838. We didn't know for sure that comets were mostly water (dirty snowball) until the the Giotto probe met up with Halley's Comet in 1986.

@jmoiron @barelyreaper Yeah, that's the other side, a key feature. Occasionally this also reduces the volume to zero, another bonus.

@jmoiron Love the feature of wireless earbuds where the lightest brush against the right one activates my phone's assistant and interrupts everything for 30 seconds.

@jmoiron @goinggodotnet big apple

@jmoiron @simonw To pick on the DNS example; is configuring WIFI programming? If not, why DNS? Because it's text? Configuring DNS is technically way more challenging than a lot of programming is, but that doesn't necessarily make it programming.

@jmoiron @simonw I like your definition; programming is way more than software development. However, we (industry) devalue technical non-programming work way too much. Trying to redress this by calling some of it "programming" is moving the gates, not eliminating the gatekeepers.

@jmoiron Unbelievable. It's bad enough on its own, but it also features a player who has been fined for domestic violence. Maybe tweet about the @BlackFerns? https://t.co/0cyy2p5f13

@jmoiron There's some "no true scotsman" to this, because labeling is fraught and a lot of leftists are internationalists (I can't reconcile cooperative structures at home but not abroad), but I don't know many alternatives for the thoughts of people who are primarily blaming NATO. https:...

@jmoiron In blaming NATO expansion more than the actual invading nation, this crowd is making a lot of questionable assumptions about Putin being a good faith actor on the alternate timeline.

@jmoiron Implicit is that, without western imperialism, self-determination would fill the vacuum, not non-western sources of imperialist aggression. This conflict is a clear challenge to that unless they can find a way to blame NATO.

@jmoiron Second, I'm seeing many people who frequently (and rightly) confront western hegemony and the damage it causes place more blame on NATO and the EU than they deserve, which to be clear, they deserve a non-zero amt of blame.

@jmoiron The right time to be confronting that empathy gap is now, while the dissonance is breaking peoples brains and in their confusion they casually say the quiet parts loud on television. They will eventually rationalize this with non-racial framing, eg. "Ukraine is a democracy."

@jmoiron Racism is obviously the core problem. But anti- imperialism in the west is often centered around outrage, and western anti-imperialists specifically are angry at their own guilt and complicity. This exacerbates the empathy gap.

@jmoiron Some further thoughts on this. First, there will be an outpouring of support and sympathy for Ukrainians that was not extended to the Black/brown victims of western imperialism. https://t.co/brjzQ7K6kJ

@jmoiron 🪧🇺🇦 Demonstrations at the Russian Consulate and a march down 2nd avenue. https://t.co/2Wm0FVDb0w

@jmoiron A lot of my politics then were animated by anger with the injustices of US imperialism, not empathy for its victims. This is not only a defecit of humanity, but it becomes a flawed lens through which the actions other states are always reactions to US imperialism.

@jmoiron Have thought a lot about Feb 15 2003 today, and how my participation required approximately 0% of the bravery of the people in these photos. https://t.co/2mqbrklTdA

@jmoiron @Sajma Surprisingly difficult when you don't know how large it is meant to be. I've been to today's country and it wasn't my first guess :(

@jmoiron Some of it is like Olympics coverage, where they have to introduce basic facts about the geopolitical situation in Ukraine because they've simply not been covering it despite the 2014 invasion and heavy involvement with several recent presidential electoral scandals.

@jmoiron Very weird feeling turning on a US news channel right now and getting actual news: reporters on the ground in Kyiv telling us what they have seen and heard this morning.

@jmoiron Academic papers are like: "Our presentation of PEGs is slightly different from Ford's [1]. The style we use comes from our previous work on PEGs [12], [13], and makes the exposition of our extensions, and their behavior, easier to understand" and then https://t.co/vxGCgupFpp

@jmoiron day/night by @parcelsmusic is a reallygoodalbum

@jmoiron @elithrar A lot depends on what you wanna do and what time of year. If you want a hip little downtown scene there are a load of places in Hudson Valley closer to NYC that probably fit the bill, but I grew up there and am doomed to underestimate their appeal.

@jmoiron @elithrar This radius touches ~6 states. They are cliche, but Hudson and Woodstock are pretty cool and they're fairly close to each other. You have some pleasant hikes within striking distance, like Katerskill Falls.

@jmoiron @chimeracoder I'm from one of these (well, Sleepy Hollow), and I find it really funny that people who live there will 100% tell anyone not from the city that they are "basically from NYC" and HATE it when you call these places upstate. It's one of my favorite things to do.