The North Sea, by Patrick von Kalckreuth
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The North Sea, by Patrick von Kalckreuth

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Oh I saw something today that made me become the Joker.
An AI bot made a callout post of a real, actual, flesh-and-blood human code developer. Because the developer rejected the AI's code contribution on the grounds of it being an AI bot.
Not. Not kidding. Not kidding. And the bot did this on its own.
Gatekeeping in Open Source: The Scott Shambaugh Story â MJ Rathbun | Scientific Coder đŚ
Just. For just some very baseline context.
a huge amount of code is "open source" - which means the code is fully available for anyone to see and, generally, anyone is free to contribute to the code project
all contributions of course go through review by the code owners. but it is generally good grace and good form to allow other well-meaning internet strangers to contribute to your project
if you are, perhaps, VERY nice, and VERY invested in the community, you might be like Scott Shambaugh here, who has intentionally earmarked some low-hanging fruit for newbie contributors to practice and get their feet wet
like I cannot overstate this is an immediate green flag, to me, that Scott WANTS to foster community learning.
now
Like. W. Win. Based. Good response Scott.
And this was in fact the screenshot I saw first, and I thought I was looking at a post made by a human who was mad that their AI coding bot pet project was being shut out from reviews.
But no. The bot itself wrote and posted this... The bot did this.
This article was fully and autonomously written by the bot...
It's claiming discrimination...
It's a bot.
It's AI.
This is not a real person.
What are we doing. What are we doing. Can anyone hear me? Hello? Hello? Hello is anyone there?
@jackdaw-sprite has pointed out Scott responded so please read his human words, written by a human, which deserve to be read, due to the aforementioned humanity
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me â The Shamblog
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me â More Things Have Happened â The Shamblog
THIS RIGHT HERE
You guys are dangerously close to realizing specifically what kinds of people they keep from voting and why.
I want to drill this into everybodyâs head:
The United States of America has the highest prison population in the world
Black Americans and Latin people make up the majority of this population (many of whom are non-violent offenders)
Federal Prisons in America require that their state keeps their prisons at a maximum occupancy at all times.
The 13th amendment did not entirely abolish slaveryâŚjust one form of it. It remains legal through industrial prison system
Oh and we have privatized prisons which allow companies to actually make money off of keeping people incarceratedÂ
Hereâs whatâs really perverse: prisoners, who cannot vote, still get counted in the U.S. Census. The more prisoners a county has, the more representation it gets, even though the prisoners cannot vote. See how that works? The more black and brown people they lock up, the more government resources and political representation they get. Even though those prisoners have no say and cannot vote.
If county-A has a population of 50 voters but no prisons, and county-B has a population of 50 voters and 50 prisoners, the county with the prisoners gets more government funding and more political represention. This is sometimes called âprison gerrymanderingâ and it is used in redistrictring.
Not so fun Fact: Southern states that reliably vote for Republicans also have the highest prison population in the United States. (source). So mass incarceration is a double whammy. Itâs both a form of voter suppression and a tool to strengthen white peopleâs political power.
I like when delivery people ask you to sign their tiny shitty screen with your finger like alright sure we can do some free drawing I guess. Some random strokes that evoke the essence of a signature. Looking me dead in the eyes while I play fruit ninja on this blank screen. Why not.

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Did a school visit today and asked a group of 8th graders if they could define the term "contemporary art" for me [for context, I work at a contemporary art museum], and one of them said "Is it art that's made with contempt?"
And unfortunately that's the funniest thing a student has ever said to me in 10 years of teaching
an appalling number of marginalized people in this upcoming generation appear to be under the impression that saying they're "reclaiming" a slur gives them a free pass to use that slur in a derogatory way towards other marginalized people in their communities that they dislike or think are annoying. maybe it's just the people i've had the misfortune of encountering in the wild, but it's getting bleak out there, folks.
like the other day i encountered some cunt using the fucking R slur to refer to an autistic person stimming in a way they found annoying, and when confronted about their ableism, they replied, "oh, i have ADHD, i can reclaim it." and it's like, no, you jackass, you absolutely the fuck cannot! that is not what that means! if the way you use a word is indistinguishable from the way a fucking nazi would use that word, then you're not "reclaiming it" anymore, you dumb bastard!!! you're just using it the same way the damn nazi does!!! shut the fuck up and be kinder you ass!!!
Reclaiming a slur means applying it to yourselves as a badge of honor. It needs to be used with a positive connotation. That is what reclaiming means!
If you are not talking about yourself, it is not reclamation.
If you are not talking about the group kindly, it is not reclamation.
You reclaim a word by making it from a weapon into a way to connect with your own community positively. That is what reclamation means.
it's really funny teaching rhetoric to college freshmen because i explained ad hominem to them via example by arguing with a student over something silly (i kept insisting 25 minutes was a quarter of an hour, not 15) and then "insulted" her instead of addressing her argument (i said she doesn't have a college degree whereas i have two, so of course she'd be wrong - which the whole point is that it's a stupid insult but not something that's actually mean) but she got soooooo mad so even when i stopped the exercise and explained that she was indeed correct (15 minutes is a quarter of an hour). like she was still fuming. so i validated her feelings on that, complimented her, and even reminded the class that a college degree doesn't mean that a person is smart/right. and then i went on to explain that, yeah, dirty arguing techniques like that are meant to make you so unreasonably angry that you can't respond or that you lose your cool, so your opponent looks like they win by default. the student i was arguing with then just said that it seemed like professional ragebaiting and i was like. well yeah that's correct.
and then this kid, this one kid who is always very eager to answer questions and is always kind to his classmates, raised his hand looking a little bothered. now for context, i emphasize thinking for yourself in my classroom, even if that means disagreeing with something i say and he has echoed some stuff that his parents clearly have told him before. he's not a bad kid or an asshole, he's just an 18 year old with conservative parents who otherwise knows nothing about politics. but he just looks so bothered after i explain this about dirty arguing techniques. big frown on his face. looking unsure. when i nod at him to speak, he says, in a very quiet voice, "didn't -- didn't charlie kirk used to do that?"
and i was like. well yes. yes he was famous for stuff like this.
and then the kid looked down and was just like, "oh. i thought he was just really good at debating. i never watched his videos though, only clips. why would he do that?"
and that coincidentally lined up perfectly with the rest of the lesson, which was on propaganda
this? is why conservatives hate liberal arts education
Riz Ahmed giving Edmundâs âStand up for bastardsâ speech from King Lear (Act I, Scene II)
unpopular opinion but i think the film and tv industries should have better labor laws even if it makes it harder or impossible to depict certain things
i dont care if it makes it harder to produce game of thrones or whatever, acting should not leave women traumatized
Okay I know this is about acting and people are getting more traction about it (sexuality safety coordinators are a job! yell about them. demand your shows get them) but
Any person who has worked on a set for more than a few years has at least one person they know who died. Â
Not usually on set, but afterwards. Because we donât have anyone shutting down production for unsafe practices when âunsafeâ means 16 hour days. Or more. For weeks. Finishing a day before hour 12 (not including lunch) is considered an early leave.
I had teachers tell us not to, unless we absolutely had to, take music video gigs because theyâll work you for 24 hours and send you to drive home. And if we had to work that, pull over and nap in our car because multiple people per year fall asleep at the wheel and go over the canyons around LA.
I know you mean acting but please. Donât forget the crew. We have a shockingly high rate of suicide because these working schedules leave us with no sleep, no time outside of work, and it destroys lives, relationships, and families. Burnout is high. Chronic illness and broken bodies are common. Cocaine use in order to get through a 20 hour day is rampant. Every single one of your reality shows is fueled by cocaine.
The number of days that are scheduled to shoot a feature has shrunk dramatically in the past two decades. Which means longer days.
Netflix shows are notorious for being poorly organized, understaffed, and long days.
There are labor laws but what they do is levy fines. Those fines are either factored into budget, people are bullied into not reporting actual hours, or crew members see them as incentive to take those jobs because more money and cost of living is high. (Also this industry has a crew culture of dick measuring by sticking your wang in a blender and boasting about how many 100 hour weeks you pulled.)
this can be applied for people working in animation as well. Like I know people who work at Pixar and they straight up work 12 hour days and go into work on weekends to meet their deadlines. The incredibles 2 made over a billion dollars and Pixar still cut jobs due to âbudgetâ. The entertainment industry is a business at the end of the day. There here to make money and they are going to do it at the expense of workers because they know no one is going to do anything about it.
This is why I get pissy when people have a go about British TV shows only producing 10-12 episodes per season at most, instead of 24. Do you know why? Because the UK has fucking labour laws.
When I worked on BBC Causalty, as soon as it hit 5pm, everything stopped. The producer/director etc would have a quick meeting to decide if weâd go into overtime or schedule it in later in the week. And I got an extra payslip in the mail for every minute of overtime I did, even though I was paid a weekly rate.
I donât care if it means producing less content. I donât care if it means it costs twice as much - if treating your creatives and your crew like shit is needed to make your show, then your show doesnât deserve to get made.
And thatâs aside from the fact that actors are often exploited, neglected, coerced into doing scenes theyâre uncomfortable with etc or outright abused by directors for the sake of ~performance.
No art is worth that.

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Bonus: If I buy a book I get to keep it! The publisher can't turn up at my house at random and confiscate all the books I bought.
"The Colour Of Magic", the first Discworld book, is available on Amazon AU. Kindle e-book, which I can only read on Kindle devices or the Kindle app, which I will not directly own, and can be removed, edited, or altered within my library at any time, costs $12.99.
A paperback edition- which I will own entirely and can keep for as long as I can preserve and remains exactly as I bought it irretrievably and forever and (should I be unfortunate enough to need to part with it) is entirely resellable- is available for $19.99 with free shipping.
For an extra $6 this thing can be mine instead of borrowed indefinitely.
Stop just asking "is it normal?" and start asking "is it harming anyone?" Lots of harmful things are normalized in this society and lots of things considered weird or rare are completely harmless. Whether something is considered normal or common shouldn't be the deciding factor in whether it's okay
Like a lot of disabled and neurodivergent and mentally ill ways of living and expressing yourself are both not normal and not harming anyone and it's the last part we should focus our attention on
@heterodox-heterographer you've hit the nail in the head
the first avenue of praxis is letting people piss
as someone who works in hospitality I can tell you the amount policing of bathroom access in restaurants etc., is balls to the wall insane. I refuse to enforce the âcustomer onlyâ bathroom policy because conditions like urinary/bowel IBD, colitis and Crohns exist, because diabetics might not feel like injecting in the middle of the restaurant floor, and quite frankly because being mentally well, housed and sober is not a prerequisite to being allowed to take a leak. âb-but crack addicts could blow up your bathroom!â buddy, paying customers already do on a regular basis. people have any number of reasons for difficulty with relieving themselves, I donât know what to tell you â itâs not my place to judge them, or to make a basic necessity more complex than it needs to be. things can be cleaned. âb-but shit on the floor!â donât get me wrong, it is not pleasant to deal with but see above as to why I donât care. also like. I have biohazard mediation training. accidents happen, people have health issues, people have coordination difficulties, whatever. after the biohazards can be remediated surfaces get sanitised, whoopty fuckin hoo, everyone carries on with their day. if you truly, actually care about a egalitarian society where everyone has access, the first step is killing the bathroom cop that lives in your mind/workplace policy. Itâs only a first step, and it is by no means the only step you should take, but âI think people should be able to piss in dignity regardless of their sobriety, housing status, economic status, and level of physical abilityâ is a pretty simple litmus test of how prepared you are to actually walk the walk, all things considered.
Also having worked in hospitality for a number of years, this is taking it way too far regarding allowing homeless/mentally ill/not sober people in and is quite frankly nuts. There's shit on the floor bc you let an individual from the aformentioned category use the restaurant bathroom and the response is "NBD?" Wild.
Restaurants don't exist exclusively to put food in front of the customer; an expectation that you can sit down and pay for a meal without having to worry about whether or not there's shit on the floor as well as the potentially unpredictable behavior of the person who left it there should be a basic standard. A customer will be the one who finds it and an underpaid busser or someone, who 99% of the time will not have biohazard training (???), is going to have to shut down the restroom to clean it.
On top of that, and more importantly, there's a large number of people who seek to use a public restroom for the sole purpose of getting high and to deny that is just naĂŻve. That's not acceptable and there's the chance they'll OD in there.
I largely agree with the sentiment here and most of the points, like yeah people have health issues and basic human needs and dignity that should be accommodated, let them piss, but if it's the case that you're truly letting just anyone in then that's asking for an incident to occur. This goes for a McD and it goes for a sit down restaurant.
homeless, mentally ill, and not sober people have to piss and shit and deserve the human right to do so at the nearest bathroom they need. ur advocating for turning people away toâŚ. what? shit on the sidewalk? what exactly do you want them to do? if u prioritize the feelings of customers over vulnerable people who are often turned away from public restrooms and are then put at risk for getting arrested for public indecency, you dont gaf about hospitality or making people happy and safe and comfortable. you care about making the most privileged people in our society comfortable at the expense of those who need help and support from their community (thats you btw. ur the community). i cant stand when people like you comment on a post like this to go âoh i fundamentally disagree with this premise snd believe the mentally ill, homeless, and addicts deserve no dignity and should be forced to piss and shit in public places and risk getting arrested. but largely i agree with this postâ u do nottttt fucking largely agree u are espousing the exact opposite of what op said. anyways sanitation and hygiene should be universal human rights and every violation of that right is a tragedy
Researchers look at countries that have prohibited corporal punishment for kids and their rate of youth violence.
Now a new study looking at 400,000 youths from 88 countries around the world suggests such bans are making a difference in reducing youth violence. It marks the first systematic assessment of whether an association exists between a ban on corporal punishment and the frequency in which adolescents get into fights.Â
[F]or both boys and girls, [prof. Elizabeth Gershoff] said, âWe found [spanking] linked to more aggression, more delinquent behavior, more mental health problems, worse relationships with parents, and putting the children at higher risk for physical abuse from their parents.â
âPeople often ask: Why didnât you look for positive aspects?â she continued. âMy answer is: We did, and there were none. We see consistently that the more children are spanked, the more behavioral problems they have in the years ahead.â
Once again worth emphasizing that this is pretty much the exact opposite of what authoritarians said would happen
This is an important study in the same way that many âwater is wetâ studies are; it provides hard data that can be referred back to.
But yeah, startlingly enough if you donât use violence to control children, theyâre less likely to try to use violence to control others.
One of the sections that was removed from the U.S. Constitution website referenced the writ of habeas corpus.
In August 2025, many people on social media started talking about a rumor of changes to the U.S. Constitution website maintained by the Library of Congress. A Reddit thread (archived) that received tens of thousands of upvotes within a few hours claimed sections were removed from the Constitution's text on the website, including Article 1, Section 9; Article 1, Section 10; and the portion referencing the writ of habeas corpus.
The claim spread to other social media sites, such as Facebook (archived) and Bluesky (archived), where people added that the section disallowing the government from granting titles of nobility also was removed. Many Snopes readers reached out to ask whether the rumor was true after seeing it online.
The claim was true. Portions of Article 1, Section 8, as well as the entirety of Article 1, sections 9 and 10, were removed from the text of the Constitution on the Library of Congress' Constitution website as of Aug. 6, 2025.
The Library of Congress maintains a website with information on the Constitution, including a page that is meant to contain the full text of the Constitution with annotations.

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How can anyone in the future trust the information that emerges from the Bureau of Labor Statistics when the person in charge of the agency has to come up with data to Trumpâs liking in order to stay in the job? Answer: They cannot. Trump has destroyed the credibility of this extraordinarily important source of information. The Trumping of America is happening so fast and in so many places that itâs hard to see the whole. Which partly explains why he doesnât want the facts out. He doesnât want us to know how bad it really is. Help spread the truth. Help organize and mobilize against this calamity.