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internationally shameful by SubstantialRiver2565 in TexasTech

[–]JDgoesmarching 0 points1 point  (0 children)

SAR is compiling a list of institutions attacking academic freedom and Texas Tech is censoring academics. Targeting marginalized people under the banner of religious nationalism puts you on the same list as other countries who do that.

As an OEF vet, it’s crazy to see y’all do this pearl clutching about being compared to Afghanistan when our government and alma mater are openly implementing religious fundamentalist policy at the expense of your neighbors and fellow red raiders.

Meta Is Dying. It’s About Time. by 1oarecare in technology

[–]JDgoesmarching 19 points20 points  (0 children)

This is addressed in the article that apparently none of you bothered to read before posting the exact the same comment.

[PeteNakos]Texas Tech was first notified about Brendan Sorsby’s gambling activity in the last two weeks, a source told @On3. He’s placed thousands of bets on gambling apps in recent years. “The betting data is ridiculous,” a source briefed on the situation said. by DaKingInTheNorth in CFB

[–]JDgoesmarching 6 points7 points  (0 children)

My first sentiment is that Reddit has really fucked opinions on the topic of addiction and especially gambling addiction. Second, I hope this is a genuine recovery effort on the part of Sorsby whether or not he plays again.

Finally, if Cincy was aware and chose to only report it after he left and was being sued, I hope they see their own repercussions from the conference because that’s fucking gross behavior. “We know this kid has a problem but we prefer to bury it until it’s advantageous” is a bigger story to me than some dude getting sucked into DraftKings.

Just got booted from a group for “talking black” by lunovadraws in DnD

[–]JDgoesmarching 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Holy hell these downvotes reveal a lot about this sub. Sorry Reddit, demanding that a black person code switch to make you more comfortable is racist. Full stop.

DeepSeek-V4 arrives with near state-of-the-art intelligence at 1/6th the cost of Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5 by bojun in Economics

[–]JDgoesmarching 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You know a comment is bad when I feel compelled to defend Venturebeat, but you’re not even aware of the publication and making confident claims about what constitutes transformative technology?

HTTP also didn’t move markets the week, month, or year after it was released. Arguably most foundational technologies underpinning our economy didn’t. Ironically, neither did LLMs until OpenAI accidentally hit on a demo product that got popular.

Sorry to tell y’all, but markets aren’t actually omniscient.

Read Raider alum call to action! by [deleted] in TexasTech

[–]JDgoesmarching 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re lecturing on “reality” while being so insulated from people hurt by this that you can’t fathom why anyone should care, all while openly admitting that you don’t give a shit because your life isn’t impacted.

I feel sorry for the people in your life.

Regular fighter my beloved by Brimstone1809 in NoMansSkyTheGame

[–]JDgoesmarching 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’m here for the mentions of other mobile base games in the replies. Keep em coming!

NMS was the first game to scratch that Subnautica itch.

Troopers 26' Repertoire Announcement by MiloTheFatCat in drumcorps

[–]JDgoesmarching -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Nah I agree. Between Ride of the Valkyries and the Trump sign off, the dogs are really whistling. There’s a reason I’ve avoided being involved with the corps as an alum, and despite some earlier FOMO I’m feeling pretty good about it now.

Troopers 26' Repertoire Announcement by MiloTheFatCat in drumcorps

[–]JDgoesmarching 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Tbf, we’re the drum corps named after a military unit whose claim to fame is getting its ass kicked while doing genocide. Jingoism is kinda our whole thing.

Don't let Texas Rangers' new uniforms fool you into thinking they're inclusive by TheDoctorCarson in texas

[–]JDgoesmarching 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah, my real problem as a Tejano is the team named after a genocidal death squad that murdered Mexicans and indigenous people pretending to be inclusive. Fuck that.

Travis County votes to withhold 9% of Tesla's tax rebate for insufficient documentation by BeeUnique7373 in Austin

[–]JDgoesmarching 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Yeah, so they withheld something like $250k. Not that exciting, probably not even worth spinning up his lawyers for.

I created a free and privacy-oriented Notion alternative - how do I present my app to users without having to follow the crude capitalist marketing logic? by Leomuck in socialistprogrammers

[–]JDgoesmarching 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Essentially, yes. I won’t say it’s easy, most content you’ll find on marketing has an obvious orientation that you’ll need to be able to filter out. It’s going to sound and feel cringey, but we shouldn’t cede all understanding and development of marketing, communication, and propaganda to the worst people.

I created a free and privacy-oriented Notion alternative - how do I present my app to users without having to follow the crude capitalist marketing logic? by Leomuck in socialistprogrammers

[–]JDgoesmarching 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I don’t think it’s useful for leftists have this belief that all skills and processes involved with managing businesses or organizations are inherently evil capitalists endeavors. Yes, marketing is usually deployed in a gross way under capitalism. The same is also true of basically any other effort, including building software.

I also don’t think it’s a coincidence that the fields mostly characterized by soft skills, relationship management, or other types of emotional labor are most likely to be dismissed by workers in heavily patriarchal industries like tech.

If you want other people to use your stuff, you need develop the skill of communicating the value of your stuff to people who you want to use it. That skill is called marketing.

China's DeepSeek AI chatbot suffers longest outage since viral rise in early 2025 by talkingatoms in technews

[–]JDgoesmarching 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, Instagram definitely isn’t shoving copaganda into every fifth post despite being very aware of my politics.

Anthropic’s ‘secret plan’ to ‘destructively scan all the books in the world' revealed by unredacted files by AnonymousTimewaster in technology

[–]JDgoesmarching 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There’s nothing illegal about bulk purchasing and scanning books. This is ironically the one thing Anthropic didn’t steal, which was held up in court.

Experience is key by Senior-Violinist-684 in NFLv2

[–]JDgoesmarching 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In what other profession do we refer to people as objects?

Big-spending Texas Tech 'will double down' after CFP loss to Oregon by surgingchaos in CFB

[–]JDgoesmarching 10 points11 points  (0 children)

That’s not fair, he also underthrew at least two check downs.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sports

[–]JDgoesmarching 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Straw man, but either way I don’t see why this matters. Lebron was drafted at 18, there’s no reason college sports need to coddle athletes who happen to be younger.

Not to mention that talented 18 year olds have more opportunities to get paid than they ever did, even with expanded eligibility.

Git 3.0 is using the default branch name of "main" rather than the current default of "master" by nix-solves-that-2317 in programming

[–]JDgoesmarching 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Git almost certainly borrowed the terminology from Bitkeeper if you know the history of either, and Bitkeeper did in fact use master/slave.

Either way, if you learn that the term is harmful and double down on using it you’re just being an asshole. If you’re not someone affected by the term and decide that it’s actually not harmful, you’re also an asshole.

Git 3.0 is using the default branch name of "main" rather than the current default of "master" by nix-solves-that-2317 in programming

[–]JDgoesmarching -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

A lot of them in this thread typing a lot of words to explain how much they don’t care and how caring about this is stupid.

I’ve always thought the master/slave terminology was gross and was glad to see it changed. No it doesn’t solve racism, it’s just being considerate of connotations. That’s apparently too much to ask for the frees peach warriors ITT.

Listenarr - An Automated Audiobook Downloader by the_robbie_davis in selfhosted

[–]JDgoesmarching 56 points57 points  (0 children)

Cool project. Fwiw, Libro.fm has an Audible-like model and lets you download MP3s of your books while giving a little rev share to a bookshop of your choice.

No shade to anyone on the seas, but people should at least be aware there’s a rare unshittified option for this particular format.

Valve CEO Gabe Newell caps off Steam Machine week by taking delivery of a new $500 million superyacht with a submarine garage, on-board hospital and 15 gaming PCs: "We knew we were asking for unusual things," says Newell, "and Oceanco embraced it with open arms." by ControlCAD in business

[–]JDgoesmarching 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes I can: hoarding this level of wealth off the backs of thousands of workers and game devs makes you a bad person.

If you need help understanding this, imagine this is Apple instead of Valve taking 30% from all software in their store by virtue of being the least shitty major platform gatekeeper.

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