captainbland @captainbland@social.coop
software guy, wannabe cooperator
Joined Aug 2018
man the uk government just kinda got owned by the commons
Okay buying alliterative domains is sort of pleasing for some reason:
Old-ish project I was working on. Trying to make a site that would show you all the relationships between the Cambridge Analytica shell companies, their directors, etc. but there was just too much data to pull from the companies house site... Nevertheless you can see how far I got with it here: https://ca-analysis.gitlab.io/
I believe in you, little laptop.
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This Wren's Day is a Wednesday.
He added there was "always a possibility that there may not have been any genuine drone activity in the first place"
what a twist
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essential programming books 😆
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Life hack if an oAuth app asks for too many permissions on your GitHub profile, just remove (parts of) the "scope" parameter. Not sure why this isn't a built-in feature, tbh. Also works on some other websites with oAuth.
@captainbland well that didn't work
PayPal 🤜🤛C#
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Ruining my life
Pokémon let's go's throwing mechanic makes me real mad. Where are the curve balls? where's the physicality of the thing? Why does the ball never go in the direction I throw it in?!
Pokémon let's go is sort of trash.
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Repost from basefook
How internet memes are used to manipulate your behaviors: An example.
Chances are that you have seen this meme floating around, especially around elections. It isn't what you think it is. It is not a friendly digital handshake. It isn't meant to help neighbors mend fences. It is a deliberate instrument of psychological manipulation.
I worked in Marketing for nearly two decades. I know this kind of device when I see it. Let me explain.
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I fed over 8,000 CNN Business headlines to a neural net to see which new headlines it would predict.
For some reason, it predicted companies behaving rather badly.
http://aiweirdness.com/post/179938486347/cnn-headlines-according-to-a-neural-net
With PayPal leading the march on removing access to online services to left-wing groups it is clear that we will soon need to fill in the gaps as this trend deepens within the liberal technology community.
Tired -> drink coffee -> tired and irritable
idea: pension fund as a cooperative. Shares voting rights are exercised by first taking an internal vote and then voting as a block.
When white men criticise things as being "identity politics", they are generally engaging in a form of identity politics themselves to reinforce their own position.
software guy, wannabe cooperator
Joined Aug 2018
