Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
As usual, the right wing conspiracy theory concerning (checks notes) Taylor Swift rigging the Superbowl so she can endorse Biden, which is apparently tantamount to fixing the election, doesn’t even pass the smell test.
The people who would listen to a Taylor Swift endorsement are going to hear it whether she’s at the superbowl or not. (Never mind all the country singers who endorse GOP politicians up one side and down the other.)
Fowl Language makes a good point about online community
https://social.tinyview.com/vuhyXL9C0Gb
#comics #socialNetworking #onlineCommunity
“Here’s a metaphor to help you get a sense for how this complicated thing functions.”
“But it’s not really doing that!”
“That’s why it’s a metaphor, not a description.”
See also: “Here’s an explanation in layman’s terms.”
“No, that’s wrong, that term only means this specific thing when used in the relevant technical jargon.”
“I’m not speaking to people who use the jargon, I’m speaking to the general public, who use the term in a much broader sense than you do.”
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And then there’s the flip side:
“I learned this thing was simple. These edge cases can’t possibly exist.”
“You learned the simplified version. The real thing is more complicated.”
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I guess it’s the whole map/territory thing.
The “bipartisan” immigration bill currently in Congress is a right-winger’s dream, but since Trump wants to run on anti-immigration, the GOP is suddenly opposed to it, arguing that it’s not draconian enough.
Nothing will ever be cruel enough for them, no matter how much Democrats do to appease them. Biden could do everything they asked for, and they’d still insist he was being soft on border control. They need it as a wedge issue. Appeasing them won’t win any points with their base, and it’ll alienate those on the left who want asylum seekers and immigrants in general treated like the actual human beings they are.
This bill is probably DOA at this point. But just in case, I sent a message to my rep advocating for more protections for asylum seekers, not less.
“Forecasters said the storm appeared to be focused on the Los Angeles area, where it could park itself for the next few days. “
Oh, the storm can find parking in LA…
Oh right, this is the nasal spray that smells exactly like the ink in a ball point pen
Contemplating adding the etymology for a bunch of streets that are clearly named after rich American industrialists of the 19th and early 20th centuries (Carnegie, Vanderbilt, etc.), but remembering the computer lab in college where we allegedly named the servers after four Renaissance artists. Perhaps it’s best to confirm that there isn’t another pattern at work.
I’m so tired of seeing this conversation pattern online:
“How can I use A with B?”
“People who use A don’t want to use B.”
Apparently a recent-ish issue of The Flash made a reference to the “Flush Man” name that the comic was published under in Argentina back in the 1980s
https://screenrant.com/flash-nickname-flushman-argentina-dc-comics/
I should look for the collection of cover scans that an Argentine Flash fan sent me ages ago!
#comics #TheFlash
A combined geothermal power plant/lithium extraction project at the Salton Sea is finally breaking ground!
It sure would be nice if #GNOME would either keep the original names for their apps or rename them completely so I don’t have to remember that “Web” is still packaged as “epiphany” and “Videos” is “totem”
“You were online back then? What was your first online community? Slashdot? Usenet?”
“The WELL, actually.” #
Reply GUI (n): the comment form on a communications application #
Mincing no words in this headline:
“Investigative Report Proves What Most People Already Suspected: The ‘War On Woke & DEI’ Mostly Pushed By A Bunch Of Censorial, Racist Shitheads”
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/24/investigative-report-proves-what-most-people-already-suspected-the-war-on-woke-dei-mostly-pushed-by-a-bunch-of-censorial-racist-shitheads/
Out of curiosity I went looking to see if there are any macOS compatibility layers for Linux these days.
Good: I found Darling, which handles the low-level translation and can run command-line programs compiled for Darwin, but doesn’t have much in the way of GUI support. (If I ever need to run the XCode CLI tools on a Linux box, though, this will be the way to do it.)
Bad: A tech article that looked like someone copy-pasted an article about Wine and replaced every instance of “Windows” with “MacOS.”
Ugly: Running macOS in a virtual machine. Good luck with that!
That’s about it, which is, frankly, more than I expected!
(Of course, most FOSS programs that run on macOS can be compiled for Linux anyway. When there’s no Linux version of a proprietary macOS app, there’s often a Windows version that can run under Wine. And when it’s macOS-specific, there’s usually something that will do the same job.)
Ah, that would explain why Bookwyrm.social is erroring out today.
OK, at this point it’s probably safe to say that the contractors working on the neighbors’ balcony aren’t coming today. They’re not done – there are boards primed but not painted, and others not even painted, and there’s a small stack of unused boards by the wall. But it’s also raining today.
I always appreciate finding examples of novelty architecture that are still standing. And Googie.
Could there be any better expression of Southern California’s car-centric culture than the programmatic architecture of the Fleetwood Center on Ventura Boulevard in Tarzana?
SoCal Landmarks: Fleetwood Center
Upstairs balcony repairs day 3. Or is it 4?
They haven’t taken the whole thing down like one apartment we had, but I’m beginning to wonder if they’re replacing the whole thing board by board like a Balcony of Theseus.