dj sacrilicious (michael)

dj sacrilicious (michael)

@djsacrilicious.com

djing, leftist politics, wine, coffee, web development + accessibility, portland, and more good stuff

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Women often ask me: "why are you such a great feminist ally?" But I always reply: "don't worry your pretty little head about it, sweet cheeks." After all, women (all of whom are beautiful) have enough to worry about, given patriarchy suppressing their wages and fundamental rights to bodily autonomy.

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FINAL | POR 3-2 CLT #RCTID SECONDS away from the match ending Portland deservedly find the winner via Alexander Aravena! 25 shots the most Portland register in a game this season. Postseason hopes alive.

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90'+5 GOAL TIMBERS!!!! ALEXANDER ARAVENA AT THE DEATH!! HE NODS HOME A GLANCING HEADER FROM COLE BASSETT ON THE STROKE OF FULL TIME. 3-2 TIMBERS #RCTID

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Replying to @shawnfleek.com

TLDR these spam PACs like Progressive Turnout Project are robbing your elderly Democratic parents with constant, urgent calls to donate, but less than 10% of the donated money goes to campaigns they claim to support.

"Michael, it's Amy Acton reaching out to you for the first time" (the third time in ~18 hours that I've gotten a fundraising text from Amy Acton's campaign) Dem consultants are going to burn this thing to the ground

Real world UX research fun: I sent my beta app to two software developers who seemingly immediately understood it and had limited feedback, and then had my non-technical (and very tired!) wife try it and she found tons of ways I could improve it.

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the original git blame: the shame polaroid

Sarah Drasner@sarahedo.bsky.social

Her fix wasn’t just to patch the bug. For each crash, she took a Polaroid of the programmer who wrote it, and a note on the mistake. That way, if it ever happened again, they wouldn't be starting from scratch. They could note patterns and the last person who triaged that failure could help.

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I try not to whinge about AI too much here bc I feel like bsky has that covered, but when I see people sharing AI-generated music... that is so fucking depressing Making art is the best thing humans do and music maybe the purest form of that--if we're outsourcing that we should just pack it in

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I'm for a robust independent press that holds everyone to account, but... it's September before the election, and the country might be better off if our side had more hacks ready to pile onto Susan Collins than bold independent truth-tellers eager to relitigate inscrutable factional beefs

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Fun fact: in our polling of battleground states, about 60% of voters said it is a “top” or “high” priority for Congress to investigate and hold Musk accountable. Lean into it Dems. He’s a cartoon villain - treat him like one.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Musk is already underwater in polls and if Democrats lean in they can make him even more toxic. He's declared open war on you all and is pushing a toxic, destructive, racist agenda. Maybe it's time to push back? I don't know, I'm just spitballing here.

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Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

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I don't think that a human soul exists if you really get down to brass tacks, but right now I think it would be really useful and good if we pretended that it did

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My latest on surveillance tech in Portland: what we know about Flock & ALPR use by police here No Flock: PPB does not use Flock equipment & does not have a contract w Flock. Yes ALPRs: PPB currently uses Motorola ALPRs & has used ALPRs for 10+ yrs Also: get details on PPB's new ALPR rules & more

redtailmedia.orgFlock in Portland? Here’s What We Know about Police ALPRs in PDXAmid the surging anti-Flock and anti-surveillance tech backlash, here’s what we know about Portland Police use of automated license plate reader tech.

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if you're ok with LLMs helping cancer researchers, coding with AI to make a website is fine making generated art slop is still bad

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Replying to @zeu.dev

in this i mean that llms are a tool and multiplier, especially with complicated problems like research and engineering, where tedious or feasibly impossible tasks can be delegated writing and art are for people who have something to say, and therefore generating it loses its value to me

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LASSITER FINDS JANSSEN IN THE BOX, AND THE FLYING DUTCHMAN SPINS AROUND AND SCORES THE FIRST MLS HAT TRICK IN PORTLAND TIMBERS HISTORY IT'S 4-3 IN THE 55TH MINUTE OH MY GODDD IT'S OVER IT'S OVER IT HAS HAPPENED #RCTID