Evo Kellerman @ewoudtkellerman

South Africa has now passed 142 laws forcing discrimination against anyone who is not black! Even though I was born in South Africa, the government will not grant @Starlink a license to operate simply because I am not black. This is a shameful disgrace to the legacy of the great Nelson Mandela who sought to have all races treated equally in South Africa.

Conscious Caracal 🇿🇦 @ConCaracal

a year ago

FULL DOCUMENTARY: Is Donald Trump right about South Africa? Topics: 142+ Race laws, the Expropriation Act, "Kill the Boer", farm murders, and more. Support @afriforum in our fight to get the truth about the South African government out: sluit-aan.afriforum.co.za/en?campaign=Ro…

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Not a good look for security to remove a young Australian (journalist) asking the PM a valid question about housing and immigration. Made even more sinister by the mindless msm clicking photos of the spectacle. Source: @Whats_Newsss

imagine if you forced chess players to call themselves grandmains instead of grandmasters

NEWS: Australia wants to fine internet platforms up to 5% of their global revenue for failing to prevent the spread of so-called misinformation online. Opposition James Paterson said: “Australians' legitimately-held political beliefs should not be censored by either the government, or by foreign social media platforms.” The legislation will be introduced in parliament today. Source: reuters.com/technology/aus…

The key insight with Shape Up was to give up on software estimates entirely. Flip the script. Pick a budget but leave the scope flexible. Then ship the very best you can do within that budget. Works like magic. Great software shipped every 6 weeks. basecamp.com/shapeup

Santiago @svpino

2 years ago

Ron Jeffries apologized for inventing Story Points. He then went to call the whole idea of software estimation "evil." Story points is the Emperor's New Clothes. Everyone I've seen—and I mean everyone—uses points as a measure of time: 1 point = 2 hours 3 points = 1 day 5

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The recent attacks in Australia are a horrific assault on free society. Our condolences go out to those who have been affected, and we stand with the Australian people in calling for those responsible to be brought to justice. Following these events, the Australian eSafety Commissioner ordered X to remove certain posts in Australia that publicly commented on the recent attack against a Christian Bishop. These posts did not violate X’s rules on violent speech. X believes that eSafety’s order was not within the scope of Australian law and we complied with the directive pending a legal challenge. X has now received a demand from the eSafety Commissioner that X globally withhold these posts or face a daily fine of $785,000 AUD (about $500,000 USD). This was a tragic event and we do not allow people to praise it or call for further violence. There is a public conversation happening about the event, on X and across Australia, as is often the case when events of major public concern occur. While X respects the right of a country to enforce its laws within its jurisdiction, the eSafety Commissioner does not have the authority to dictate what content X’s users can see globally.  We will robustly challenge this unlawful and dangerous approach in court. Global takedown orders go against the very principles of a free and open internet and threaten free speech everywhere.

Abolish daylight savings time.

My favourite quote this far from @theprimagean, "this was full shaft learning right here"

For my birthday this year I want to get a Kinesis 360 , but it's a big purchase. If I get a few contributions it will make it a reality for me! gofund.me/cf842dfa

@Wikipedia have you considered doing a github.com/BOINC/boinc style platform to reduce server costs. Much easier than donating, and it could be personalised to choose under which situations to contribute on contributing devices.

Let me get this story straight. So Elon’s 2018 compensation package was approved by ~80% of Tesla shareholders during a time the company’s valuation was ~$60B ($20 per share). The plan would require him to grow the market cap by $50B increments with the first milestone starting at a $100B valuation with the final milestone being $650B, in addition to aggressive revenue, pretax profit growth targets that many thought would be impossible, especially knowing the company was facing bankruptcy dead in the eyes during this time. If Elon were to hit all the milestones, he would then be granted this full $55B compensation package that gave him stock options to purchase Tesla stock at a heavily discounted price and the stock could not be sold for another 5 yrs after exercising the options to prevent an “exercise & run”. He hit all the milestones and created real value for the company & its shareholders (today, the valuation of Tesla sits at ~600B, a 10X from the year the comp package was approved, and a world class financial war chest). Also, btw, if Elon were to not hit these milestones, he would have been paid essentially nothing. Then in 2019, a shareholder named Richard Tornetta (who held 9 shares of Tesla) filed a lawsuit claiming that the compensation package was excessive & unfair, claiming the board had not acted in the best interest of its shareholders. Then today, the Delaware judge named Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick voided this compensation package claiming it was excessive and the process for coming up with Elon's comp plan wasn't independent bc he controlled the BOD and the directors who approved the plan weren't truly independent. Further claiming that the shareholders who approved the comp plan weren't made aware of this controlled relationship. Wow… you really can’t make this stuff up, this is literally what just happened. Personally, I’m not so concerned about Tesla bc I believe the board & shareholders will approve an even better & more aggressive compensation package for Elon (e.g. include the $55B 2018 comp that he deserves, give him 25% voting share, include milestones for Tesla to become the largest valued company in the world & more, etc.) which will ultimately keep Elon motivated to stay at Tesla and build the future of AI & robotics within the company. However, my main concern here is the fundamental foundation of capitalism that America is built upon. The CEO of a company was incentivized with a compensation package & it was approved by its shareholders to create value and he did. He hit all the milestones that were laid out, it wasn’t a pump or dump, and he didn’t steal or deceive shareholders. He simply went all in, put his blood, sweat, and tears into building the best products to change the world for the better, which created tremendous value for the ones that believed, invested, and stuck through. And now a judge has retroactively removed the reward for the leader that got the company to where it is today. Why would any CEO/founder in America want to work hard, when the result of his or her hard work can easily be taken away unfairly like this? What happened today, is very wrong and if nothing is done to fix it, it will crush the entrepreneurial spirit & heartbeat that America was originally built upon.

Hey @raycastapp, is there a way to trigger raycast, or a raycast shortcut via command line? My weird brain wants to add a raycast call to my crontab. Also searching for this I only get the script extensions docs.

@vzalakos @smh Mine was also missing, wondering if I just got a dud or if it was widespread!?

@kirbyboot @MarzipanRug @scott_sfscott12 @therealrukshan Will voting yes actually guarantee accountability or transparency?

@SamGrothMP Do you have any numbers on how much it was going to cost to actually host the games? All of the Dan tweets I see are so polarising

@cminshall @Scobleizer @elonmusk I think an in browser WASM based handbrake would solve this pretty nicely

@xirclebox I can't tell what the classes do in your rewrote version, to make it the same amount of info, you would have to put the CSS alongside the mark-up, how readable as a whole would that be?

@icreatelife I love doing abstract, prompt in alt

@jk_rowling I don't understand why there is so much focus on artists/authors personal opinions and not just the merit and inspiration of their work.