Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13@mumak.app

“From 2003—when the agency began—until 2022, the total length of the USCIS immigration forms grew from 193 pages to 701 pages—an increase of 508 pages” https://www.cato.org/blog/uscis-has-added-500-pages-its-immigration-forms-2003

Here's the paperwork for a 2022 green card application vs a green card application in 2003 (via David Bier on Twitter — https://twitter.com/David_J_Bier/status/1604924286342496268)

#immigration #bureaucracy

This story from @ProPublica about a Black attorney who defended the cops, only to be arrested himself, is bracing and intense. An important read. #noxp

https://www.propublica.org/article/nypd-karl-ashanti-special-federal-arrest

I've talked about how traditional whiteboard interviews aren't great, because they give lots of false positives and negatives. E.g. at the 40 min mark of this talk:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=emnqyGhBg6U&t=40m06s

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#BlackMastodon #BlackTechMastodon #hachyJobs

At #TheUnPopulist, Feminists for Liberty co-founder Kat Murti
expresses her chagrin at libertarian economist Bryan Caplan's new book on feminism. "Caplan never truly grapples with actual arguments made by modern feminists. Instead, he lists a set of grievances that at times reads more like an MGTOW (Men Going Their Own Way) or incel rant than an academic assessment." https://open.substack.com/pub/theunpopulist/p/a-libertarian-economists-denialist?r=6jqoy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

This box of oyster crackers warns me that the crackers may be smaller than pictured, but has nothing to say about the tiny people boating and sunbathing in the tomato soup except to imply that they are a “serving suggestion.”

truly the most dramatic leaving twitter speech yet

tricorder slow after triOS update

#birds #photography #Nature #stellars jay at Mt Rainier

In my experience, there are two types of people in tech. There’s “Alexa controls my thermostat” people and “I live in a cabin in the woods” people. RPi thought they would be interacting with the thermostat people on the wood cabin people’s social media site.

The best thing about this latest Mark Rober video is that if you know what to look for, you'll see that it matches up with everything I've tried to tell y'all about San Francisco crime:

* SF is the car break-in capital of the USA
* Most car break-ins are not done by Black people
* Most car break-ins are not done by homeless people
* Police are not designed to help you with these car break-ins. Police are designed to abuse Black people.

🤷🏿‍♂️

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iWeu2dxHRDg

#BlackMastodon

OK, here it goes. Why quote-posting is a critical positive feature we need to get on this platform. A 🧵 of uses (I'll start; feel free to add)

Since "John Mastodon" has gone so viral here following Mediaite's confusion, I think, in the future, for those folks left on Twitter who want to secretly refer to Mastodon after Elon bans all mentions of it, just talk about "friends of John" as the code...

Tired: Tech writers dumping on Mastodon without having ever used it

Wired: Political writers inventing a founder for Mastodon because they can’t read #JohnMastodon

@moultano Probably for the best if I just post as the spirit moves me, that served me pretty well over on the bird site.

Protip: If your #3dprinting goes bad and you end up with "spaghetti", it's not a failure, you just made a great cat wig!

#caturday

The power went out at 9 last night during a big snowstorm. First power outage in my new place. Was happy to note I knew where my flashlights AND candles were, and could navigate the place in the dark. Woke up to the power off, but it came back on within minutes. By the time I was outside blearily with coffee, neighbors were shoveling each other's driveways out. I learned to use a roof rake! #vermont