FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

Do not travel to the US even if you're a white European. There is a not insignificant chance you will be detained indefinitely in solitary confinement because they decided you were the "wrong" sort of person.

https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2025/02/28/german-tourist-held-indefinitely-in-san-diego-area-immigrant-detention-facility

If a voting system leads to outcomes in which a preference for killing marginalized people wins an election, I will argue that's a moral failing of that voting system. In particular, I'll argue that that remains true even if other legal frameworks prevent or mitigate that negative outcome.

To clarify slightly, there are absolutely legal frameworks, presumably including the United States Constitution, that address this issue. My point was that the assumption used to justify voting systems *in particular* seems flawed, or at best incomplete.

That is, I don't want people who want me dead to get elected, then find that they can't act towards that goal because of the Bill of Rights — I want for them to not be elected in the first place.

I don't know the solution, but I'm just struck that none of the summaries of voting systems even seem to admit the possibility that that's a problem.

By way of elaboration, a very popular opinion in the US right now is that the world would be better off without me in it, and that violence is justified in achieving that outcome. I would very much like if voting systems didn't fairly represent the idea that I should just die.

Because I'm [REDACTED], instead of doing what I need to be doing, I just went down an almost hour-long rabbithole on Wikipedia about voting systems.

It really strikes me that the idea that voting systems should accurately represent the opinions of the majority is just taken as sacrosanct.

"For me it’s time to take a stand, small as it may be, and to distance myself from the Royal Society until such a time as it has the moral courage to specifically denounce the actions that Musk is taking to undermine science in the US and elsewhere."
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🚨I promised I'd say more on the Royal Society and Elon Musk, so here it is. 🚨

I've resigned my position as Associate Editor at Royal Society's journal Open Science in protest at their lack of action over Elon Musk.

My op-ed in the Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/04/elon-musk-science-royal-society-scientific-integrity
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fog emerging on sea is a cozy thing

love the vibe

if i right-click on a pad, i get a menu with three items

- Done
- Oops
- Cancel

what the fuck is "Oops" and why is it bound to an Fn-key

drawing tablet had a noticeable layer of dust on it so I cleaned it off and attempted a mechagirl. bit too technical for me and i still struggle to get line thickness consistent (I should probably reduce the sensitivity in #krita ?) but a fun 'quick' (two hours!) draw.

@anon_opin Musk turning up the dial marked “electrocute elephant” while looking back to the audience for approval

It's a travesty that Elon Musk's car company is named after the great Nikola Tesla, when he has much more in common with that prick Thomas Edison.

“CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? I SAID MY FOOD DISH IS EMPTY.”

I HOPE THE BELLY-CRAWLING FASCISTIC TROGLODYTES WHO NOW FEEL FREE TO SPEW VACUOUS EDGELORDISM IN MEATSPACE WILL DISCOVER HOW CHEAP AND FLEETING THEIR HACKY LITTLE THRILLS ARE. I WANT THEM TO SUFFER THE PAIN OF KNOWING THAT THEIR DREAMS AREN'T SATISFYING.

Viernes #dance