FBI may shut down police use-of-force database due to lack of police involvement
https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2021/12/09/fbi-police-shooting-data/
Ask HN: Where is the AWS outage post-mortem?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29503444
"I would call on the members of the (#RustLang) Core Team to resign and the core team as a whole to be shut down"
Tech Twitter is a weird place. People are so starved to post some kind of professional-related content that trying to follow any topic just results in a deluge of the most banal 'tips' and discussions that never get more complicated than tribal arguing over which language or Linux distro is better. If it were any other industry, it would sound like mechanics arguing over whether a wrench is better than a screwdriver.
spoiler invisible man
one semi-related hot take though, Is my inability to understand the praise for the most recent invisible man movie: a man secretly has technology that would literally make him the most powerful person on Earth and he uses it to harass an ex? The only way the pathos of the Invisible Man works is if it's a biological/physical transformation.
Not at all a hot take, but been really front and center for me this year: Horror movies really have a responsibility to portray mental healthcare more positively. From Psycho to Halloween to Get Out , all contribute to skepticism and fear about the mundane reality of how mental health treatment works.
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I do wonder if our collective disregard for Twitter/FB has limited our thoughts around message display on the Fediverse.
I wouldn't mind an algorithm sorting my display, so long as:
a) I could understand it
b) I could control it
c) I could disable it
I do this with my email all the time through "sort". I sort by date, by sender, by thread, I search by topic, etc.
I'd have no problem if *my own* AP instance learned about me and sorted based on criteria it thought I'd like.
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