#calvinball — Public Fediverse posts
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Soooo, unlimited political spending for political parties in the US. Whose country, OUR country! Whose city, OUR city! Whose streets, OUR streets!
Uh, that’s not crowds of people filling the streets celebrating. Those are the private party celebrations going on around the world, attended by the ultra rich, billionaires all. And spend they will, may as well go for broke, they can buy these next elections, no problem.
This headline and essay from The Oliphant in 2024 says it all. CALVINBALL
#SCOTUS #USpolitics #Billionaires #Elections #ElectionSpending #Calvinballhttps://writer.oliphant.social/oliphant/its-all-calvinball-now
(Reference today’s news: APNews “The Supreme Court on Tuesday erased limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president, striking down a federal election law that is more than 50 years old.
Prodded by a Republican-led lawsuit that includes Vice President JD Vance, the court’s six conservative justices were again in the majority of the latest decision that upended congressionally enacted limits on raising and spending money to influence elections. The court’s 2010 Citizens United decision opened the door to unlimited independent spending in federal elections.”
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Soooo, unlimited political spending for political parties in the US. Whose country, OUR country! Whose city, OUR city! Whose streets, OUR streets!
Uh, that’s not crowds of people filling the streets celebrating. Those are the private party celebrations going on around the world, attended by the ultra rich, billionaires all. And spend they will, may as well go for broke, they can buy these next elections, no problem.
This headline and essay from The Oliphant in 2024 says it all. CALVINBALL
#SCOTUS #USpolitics #Billionaires #Elections #ElectionSpending #Calvinballhttps://writer.oliphant.social/oliphant/its-all-calvinball-now
(Reference today’s news: APNews “The Supreme Court on Tuesday erased limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president, striking down a federal election law that is more than 50 years old.
Prodded by a Republican-led lawsuit that includes Vice President JD Vance, the court’s six conservative justices were again in the majority of the latest decision that upended congressionally enacted limits on raising and spending money to influence elections. The court’s 2010 Citizens United decision opened the door to unlimited independent spending in federal elections.”
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for anybody that has ever asked ".. calvinball? wtf is calvinball?"
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for anybody that has ever asked ".. calvinball? wtf is calvinball?"
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The overwhelming evidence that the Supreme Court is on Donald Trump’s team: ‘Welcome to the Supreme Court’s Calvinball era…. On August 21, the Supreme Court handed down a baffling order that required researchers, who claim that the Trump administration illegally cut off their federal grants, to navigate a convoluted procedural maze in two different courts. [Justice Ketanji Brown] Jackson labeled this decision “Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist.” Calvinball, an ever-changing game featured in the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, “has only one rule: There are no fixed rules.” In this Court, Jackson continued, there are two: The rules always change, and “this Administration always wins.”…
The Court’s Republican majority now hands Trump several victories every month, only explaining themselves when they feel like it. —Ian Millhiser, VOX Sr. Columnist #SCOTUS #legal #RuleOfLaw #CalvinBall -
The overwhelming evidence that the Supreme Court is on Donald Trump’s team: ‘Welcome to the Supreme Court’s Calvinball era…. On August 21, the Supreme Court handed down a baffling order that required researchers, who claim that the Trump administration illegally cut off their federal grants, to navigate a convoluted procedural maze in two different courts. [Justice Ketanji Brown] Jackson labeled this decision “Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist.” Calvinball, an ever-changing game featured in the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, “has only one rule: There are no fixed rules.” In this Court, Jackson continued, there are two: The rules always change, and “this Administration always wins.”…
The Court’s Republican majority now hands Trump several victories every month, only explaining themselves when they feel like it. —Ian Millhiser, VOX Sr. Columnist #SCOTUS #legal #RuleOfLaw #CalvinBall -
CW: #Sandman S1 light spoilers
#Sandman The fight with Lucifer has some real #Calvinball energy to it.
"I'm a planet so you can't hurt me."
"Oh yeah, well I'm a nova that destroys planets!"
"Oh yeah, well I'm a universe!"
"Oh yeah, well I'm anti-life, that beats everything!"
Sit down Lucifer, you're making all this up.
Why didn't Dream just say he's anti-anti-life? Is he stupid?
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CW: #Sandman S1 light spoilers
#Sandman The fight with Lucifer has some real #Calvinball energy to it.
"I'm a planet so you can't hurt me."
"Oh yeah, well I'm a nova that destroys planets!"
"Oh yeah, well I'm a universe!"
"Oh yeah, well I'm anti-life, that beats everything!"
Sit down Lucifer, you're making all this up.
Why didn't Dream just say he's anti-anti-life? Is he stupid?
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🌀 Distro-Hopping a Weekend Fun Activity
Much like Calvinball, distro hopping has no rules—just an increasing sense of chaos.
Calvinball is a game invented by Calvin and Hobbes. There is only one permanent rule in Calvinball: players cannot play it the same way twice.
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Daniel J. Bernstein (#djb, to those who know and love him [1]) has a new blog entry about the NIST post-quantum #cryptography standardization process that's been ongoing for some years. Also, follow him @djb .
If you're not aware of some of the controversy about how NIST is running this process, it's a must-read.
https://blog.cr.yp.to/20250423-mceliece.html
My $0.02: it sure looks like NIST is backstopping an attempt by the NSA to get everyone to standardize on cryptography #standards that the #NSA knows how to break.
Again.
Yes, they did it before. If you read up on the Dual_EC calamity and its fallout, and how this time it was supposed to be different - open, transparent, secure - then prepare to be disappointed. NIST is playing #Calvinball with their rules for this contest, yanking the rug out from under contenders that appear to be more #secure and better understood, while pushing alternatives that are objectively worse (#weaker encryption, less studied, poorer #performance).
Frankly, I think organizations outside of the #USA would be foolish to trust anything that comes out of #NIST's current work. Well, those inside the USA too, but some of those may be forced by law to use whatever NIST certifies.
[1] Some people think djb is "prickly", not lovable. Oddly, it seems that the only people who say this are those who are wildly incorrect about code/algorithms and are being gently but publicly corrected about by djb at the time
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Daniel J. Bernstein (#djb, to those who know and love him [1]) has a new blog entry about the NIST post-quantum #cryptography standardization process that's been ongoing for some years. Also, follow him @djb .
If you're not aware of some of the controversy about how NIST is running this process, it's a must-read.
https://blog.cr.yp.to/20250423-mceliece.html
My $0.02: it sure looks like NIST is backstopping an attempt by the NSA to get everyone to standardize on cryptography #standards that the #NSA knows how to break.
Again.
Yes, they did it before. If you read up on the Dual_EC calamity and its fallout, and how this time it was supposed to be different - open, transparent, secure - then prepare to be disappointed. NIST is playing #Calvinball with their rules for this contest, yanking the rug out from under contenders that appear to be more #secure and better understood, while pushing alternatives that are objectively worse (#weaker encryption, less studied, poorer #performance).
Frankly, I think organizations outside of the #USA would be foolish to trust anything that comes out of #NIST's current work. Well, those inside the USA too, but some of those may be forced by law to use whatever NIST certifies.
[1] Some people think djb is "prickly", not lovable. Oddly, it seems that the only people who say this are those who are wildly incorrect about code/algorithms and are being gently but publicly corrected about by djb at the time
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Le nouveau Ludographie, mon podcast sur la grammaire et la culture du jeu vidéo, est sorti ! Ce sera le dernier de 2024 🙂 Bonne écoute !
Résumé :
Ces trois épisodes évoquent la façon dont les éditeurs de jeux vidéo proposent des “éditions critiques” de leurs œuvres, les limites et les forces de cette approche. Nous prenons pour exemple la série des Mega Man classics de Capcom sur Famicom et NES (1987-1993).
1. Du début à 11:30 : Mega Man 1 (Capcom, 1987), 2 (Capcom, 1988) et 3 (Capcom, 1990) sur NES
2. De 12:00 à 21:20 : Mega Man: The Wily Wars (Capcom, 1994) sur Megadrive
3. De 21:50 à la fin : Mega Man: Legacy Collection (Capcom, 2015) sur Steam -
Le nouveau Ludographie, mon podcast sur la grammaire et la culture du jeu vidéo, est sorti ! Ce sera le dernier de 2024 🙂 Bonne écoute !
Résumé :
Ces trois épisodes évoquent la façon dont les éditeurs de jeux vidéo proposent des “éditions critiques” de leurs œuvres, les limites et les forces de cette approche. Nous prenons pour exemple la série des Mega Man classics de Capcom sur Famicom et NES (1987-1993).
1. Du début à 11:30 : Mega Man 1 (Capcom, 1987), 2 (Capcom, 1988) et 3 (Capcom, 1990) sur NES
2. De 12:00 à 21:20 : Mega Man: The Wily Wars (Capcom, 1994) sur Megadrive
3. De 21:50 à la fin : Mega Man: Legacy Collection (Capcom, 2015) sur Steam -
CW: uspol, corrupt scotus
Proposal: Rename the Supreme Court of the United States to the High Council of #CalvinBall since that's what they're actually doing up there
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CW: uspol, corrupt scotus
Proposal: Rename the Supreme Court of the United States to the High Council of #CalvinBall since that's what they're actually doing up there
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I’m too old to have been in the target demographic for when #YuGiOh got started, so I never really knew about it.
Now my kids are watching the anime and…apparently the manga and anime came out prior to the real-life card game?
Watching the anime (well, doing my thing while the kids watch it), it seems like #Calvinball to me. The hero is about to lose but then there’s this obscure rule or that gives them enough Attack Points that they win.
I guess I just always assumed the game came first.
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#Ludographie est de retour pour une quatrième saison, toujours sur le #CalvinBall ! Cette semaine, on parle de "Tears of the Kingdom", et d'onomastique.
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@raymondpert It strikes me that it must have been 45 who invented #Calvinball https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_Hobbes#Calvinball
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@raymondpert It strikes me that it must have been 45 who invented #Calvinball https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_Hobbes#Calvinball
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@chrisdemarco I agree that ideally such posts should be tagged with e. g.
#politicsor#sportsor#cricketor#CalvinBallor what have you. That would make it incredibly easy for disinterested people to set up filters. You already can do so, and then the only posts you see will be the ones with the additional mildly annoying attribute of lacking tags.
