Huntn00 @Huntn00@talkedabout.social

#CanPoli #CdnPoli Canada Politics Poll of the Day! #CPPotD
As a Canadian, do you have a right to Post-Secondary Education in Canada? This is the first in a 2-part poll, come back tomorrow!

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-university-cost-how-much-1.7000440

CBC: “Quebec announced it would be charging approximately $17,000 per year for Canadian students to attend university in Quebec, compared to the current cost of just under $9,000. "
#Education #Canada #InternationalEducation #BCPoli

BREAKING NEWS

US officials state a US Navy Destroyer intercepted multiple missiles fired at it from a location in Yeman.

DEVELOPING STORY...
#AureFreePress #News #Breaking #BreakingNews

Open letter to President Biden: we call for a ceasefire now | Open letter https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/19/biden-jewish-americans-israel-gaza-call-for-ceasefire?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

If I say something you disagree with, you're better off unfollowing, muting or blocking me than starting a debate.
Generally that's what I do in response to anyone who responds with debate or argument or nuanced explanation about how I'm incorrect. Unfollow, mute, or block.

I'm not posting anything to start a debate.
If a debate is what I get, I have effective tools to end it.

FCC restoring net neutrality rules:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/technology/fcc-net-neutrality-vote.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Channel 4 News Rips Israel’s ‘Confusing’ Gaza Blast Claims, Questions If Audio Is Fake https://www.mediaite.com/uk/channel-4-news-israel-evidence-gaza-hospital/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#RIP Burt Young, 'Rocky' actor and Oscar nominee, dies at 83
Young had roles in acclaimed films and television shows including “Chinatown,” “Once Upon a Time in America” and “The Sopranos” but was best known for playing Paulie Pennino in six “Rocky” movies. https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/burt-young-rocky-actor-oscar-nominee-dies-83-rcna121180

At yesterday's US House subcommittee hearing on risks of AI, there was a lot of enthusiasm for privacy enhancing ML technologies. That seems like a valuable direction, but it alone isn't enough. A company training privacy enhanced ML systems over your data ... still has your data, and we don't have to accept that.

Apropos:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/your-personal-information-is-probably-being-used-to-train-generative-ai-models/

American journalist detained in #Russia, charged with failing to register as a foreign agent https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/american-journalist-detained-russia-alsu-kurmasheva-foreign-agent-rcna121173

"I think the big story of the last American decade has been the attack on institutions, and the failure of those institutions to repel the attackers. But that story is driven by a key institutional actor - the Republican Party - injecting people who openly despise those institutions into positions of leadership. Trump is the most obvious example. But every Trump needs his Jim Jordans."

~ Don Moynihan

#Republicans #Trump #JimJordan #PoliticsofDestruction
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https://substack.com/notes/post/p-138047369

Never in Oxfam’s history have we seen a humanitarian crisis like the one in Gaza | Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/19/oxfam-history-humanitarian-crisis-gaza-israel-ceasefire?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Jim Jordan vows to keep fighting for House speaker votes after bruising defeat in second round – US politics https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2023/oct/19/jim-jordan-house-speaker-vote-latest-republicans-leader-joe-biden-democrats?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#uspol #tfg almost as good as “maybe I should go to Israel “ (no, buddy, you surrendered your passport)

From: @bidenhq
https://bird.makeup/users/bidenhq/statuses/1714761007803834789

House speaker debacle underscores tensions between 'pre- and post-Trump GOP': analysis https://www.alternet.org/jim-jordan-speaker-2666020701/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

My question would be. "So you're saying if Nancy Pelosi had been deposed in the same manner, you ard saying 5 Republicans would come to her rescue?"

It's the democrats fault when guys like him leave a wet spot on their pants after urinating.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/cnn-anchor-brianna-keilar-mocks-rep-austin-scott-for-blaming-speaker-chaos-on-democrats#:~:text=%E2%80%9CHe%20was%20the%20largest%20Republican,what%20created%20the%20current%20situation.%E2%80%9D

How to talk to #Trump. Free debate tip. The beauty of this one is that it works for basically every statement he makes.

“Part of me thinks you’re pathetic or possibly just sick and unable manage the affairs of our country. But, then again, if I were facing 91 criminal indictments in three jurisdictions, I might be fighting against reality, too. So it makes sense that you’re too weak now to speak honestly to your fellow citizens.“

#USA #politics #democracy

LOOKING FORWARD TO READING:
"Sedition Hunters: How January 6th Broke the Justice System" by
@ryanjreilly
https://amzn.to/46SLlwj

@Huntn00 I had a Nostromo for a little while, about 13 years ago. I thought it was neat... but I honestly found it if anything harder to get used to than just using a regular keyboard.

Part of that, though, is that even in games I've played for years I regularly double-check my visual reference on what buttons are what (controller or keyboard,) which is a LOT harder to do with the Nostromo since the names on the buttons =/= anything the game will tell you they are.

Also, the thumb pad was odd.

Now... personally? I'm a full-size keyboard kinda person, and a big part of the reason for that is that I like playing older computer games, and a lot of them VERY MUCH benefit from availability of the keypad. Sure, a lot of keypad-less options have ways to simulate the function... but it isn't the same, and always feels awkward to me.

I'd be interested in knowing if other folks like or dislike the pad, though, because more and more I see 10-keyless keyboards pushed hard, and I don't get it. /1

At the same time, I'd love to make my own computer games eventually, and one of the ones I've got in mind is a simple(ish) tactical RPG designed to look and feel like it could run on an 8-bit system from the mid-80s.

To go along with that, I was planning on giving it a control scheme oriented toward a keypad (but duplicated over onto the other side of the keyboard, so num/=2, 5=S, etc.)

But I really want to know how many folks this would cause more annoyance than interest in the end result. /2