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Jan 20, 2023 ∞

Are We Seeing the Last Gasp of the GOP’s Two Santa Claus Scam?

Are We Seeing the Last Gasp of the GOP’s Two Santa Claus Scam? Citing Supply-Side Economics, in eight short years Reagan ran up greater deficits than every president from George Washington to Jerry Ford combined, taking our national debt from around $800 billion all the way up to around $2.6 trillion when he left office. By 1992, when Bill Clinton won the presidency, Reagan and Bush’s debt had climbed to over $4.

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Jan 19, 2023 ∞

Twitterrific: End of an Era • The Breakroom

Twitterrific: End of an Era • The Breakroom We are sorry to say that the app’s sudden and undignified demise is due to an unannounced and undocumented policy change by an increasingly capricious Twitter – a Twitter that we no longer recognize as trustworthy nor want to work with any longer. This is so sad. So terrible that a capricious billionaire is taking down all the work that so many amazing developers have been doing for years.

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Jan 7, 2023 ∞

Good luck convincing average people to use Mastodon | Greg Morris

Greg Morris - 🔗 Good luck convincing average people to use Mastodon «Manuel Moreale on internet silos: “fundamentally people are, when it comes to the internet, lazy. And gathering where everyone else is definitely seems easier. It’s also easier to delegate the job of moderating and policing to someone else, and so as a result people will inevitably cluster around a few big websites, regardless of what infrastructure we build.

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Jan 7, 2023 ∞

Bloggers: Shortcut to obtain a list of your posts from last month

The goal of the Shortcut is simple: it looks for the posts you published last month in your blog and copies a list in your clipboard, with the publishing date, the title and the url in Markdown format. Ready to paste in your editor and publish. The next screenshot shows the workflow. The texts are in Spanish (my system’s language) but once installed in your devices the Shortcut should show your own language.

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Jan 7, 2023 ∞

What you need to achieve justice

This is a loose translation of an alleged Venetian proverb from 1610: To achieve justice you need the bag of a banker, the patience of a hermit, to be right, to know how to explain you are right, to find someone who listens and wants to acknowledge you are right, and a debtor who can pay. The source, a judge with a very known and brilliant blog in Spain, has it in Spanish:

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Jan 4, 2023 ∞

I've been playing around with OpenAI's Whisper https://openai.com/blog/whisper/ thanks to the Google Colab notebook made available by DotCSV in this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuMEmF-2FsA&list=PL0z-YLwhf5znzg3ZzzugEsxlmVKWC5bf-

I did a transcription of a video interview in Spanish and the result was, let's say, good enough. It does have a lot of errors and it needs a lot of cleaning, but having such a tool is very very promising.

Check it out here: https://umerez.eu/categories/blog-legal/

Jan 3, 2023 ∞

I never thought I'd be following the #SpeakerVote live https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/new-congress-sworn-in-2023/index.html?tab=Speaker%20Vote

Jan 3, 2023 ∞

This #Speaker of the House thing is fascinating to watch from Europe. I hope the Republicans that are not voting for MacCarthy stay put. Or maybe they are like my father used to say: They said they were incorruptible, they were only expensive.

Quoting @GottaLaff: https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/109627115502836408

Jan 3, 2023 ∞

OK. I get it now.

Jan 3, 2023 ∞

Advertencia de contenido: Trying how this CW works

I'm posting to Mastodon using the Content Warning option, because I want to understand how it works and how it shows in my timeline.

Jan 3, 2023 ∞

It’s about time to open #OmniFocus and start doing stuff, Umerez.

Jan 3, 2023 ∞

If I’m doing this correctly, this should show up in my blog, in the Micro.blog timeline and in Mastodon.

Jan 3, 2023 ∞

One last try. Not very sure about setting up two RSS feeds in Micro.blog.

Jan 3, 2023 ∞

And if I set the Mastodon RSS feed correctly, this post from @ivory should show up in the blog and in Micro.blog, too. https://tapbots.social/@ivory

Jan 3, 2023 ∞

If I’m doing this correctly, this should show up in my blog, in the Micro.blog timeline and in Mastodon.

Jan 3, 2023 ∞

One last try. Not very sure about setting up two RSS feeds in Micro.blog.

Jan 3, 2023 ∞

And if I set the Mastodon RSS feed correctly, this post from @ivory should show up in the blog and in Micro.blog, too. https://tapbots.social/@ivory

Jan 3, 2023 ∞

This is me trying to QT a mastodon post in Micro.blog.Quoting @cyberdean07: https://esq.social/@cyberdean07/109625805643171090 (null) https://esq.social/@cyberdean07

Jan 3, 2023 ∞

If I’m doing this correctly, this should show up in my blog, in the Micro.blog timeline and in Mastodon.

Jan 3, 2023 ∞

One last try. Not very sure about setting up two RSS feeds in Micro.blog.