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Step 1: Buy a company that offers “trust and safety as a service” Step 2: Call their existing customers & tell them you’re shutting down the API in 30 minutes, even if they have multi year contracts. Step 3: “Um, yeah, we could have handled that better…”

Step 1: Buy a company that offers “trust and safety as a service”
Step 2: Call their existing customers & tell them you’re shutting down the API in 30 minutes, even if they have multi year contracts.
Step 3: “Um, yeah, we could have handled that better…”

*punch* *punch* *punch* “Hey, stop hitting me!” “Oh, all right.” *grinds heel into toes* “Ouch! What the hell?” “I did what you wanted, didn’t I? Quit whining and show some gratitude.” *keeps grinding*

*punch* *punch* *punch*
“Hey, stop hitting me!”
“Oh, all right.”
*grinds heel into toes*
“Ouch! What the hell?”
“I did what you wanted, didn’t I? Quit whining and show some gratitude.”
*keeps grinding*

Every time Trump blames his political opponents for HIS OWN ADMINISTRATION’S POLICY of family separation, I picture Vizzini, holding Buttercup hostage with a knife to her throat, telling the man in black that “You’re killing her!” This is blatantly villain “logic”.

Every time Trump blames his political opponents for HIS OWN ADMINISTRATION’S POLICY of family separation, I picture Vizzini, holding Buttercup hostage with a knife to her throat, telling the man in black that “You’re killing her!”

This is blatantly villain “logic”.

Telling people to ignore/power through depression/anxiety/etc. is like telling them to ignore low battery alerts. Even if it works for a while, they’ll eventually crash. Workarounds are like battery saver mode: helpful, but not as good as fixing the app drain, battery or charger.

Telling people to ignore/power through depression/anxiety/etc. is like telling them to ignore low battery alerts. Even if it works for a while, they’ll eventually crash. Workarounds are like battery saver mode: helpful, but not as good as fixing the app drain, battery or charger.

Have you ever had the experience of hearing a song, not quite being able to make out the words, and your brain latches onto @alyankovic’s parody and fills in those lyrics instead? I’m starting to do that with @missmalindakat’s Google Translate Sings series.

Have you ever had the experience of hearing a song, not quite being able to make out the words, and your brain latches onto @alyankovic’s parody and fills in those lyrics instead?

I’m starting to do that with @missmalindakat’s Google Translate Sings series.

Every time someone complains about the Canto Bight storyline being pointless I have to wonder if they left the movie early and missed the final scene.

Every time someone complains about the Canto Bight storyline being pointless I have to wonder if they left the movie early and missed the final scene.

The last scene shows the spark of hope taking hold. Removing Canto Bight removes the epilogue, which leaves an unremittingly bleak story, bleaker than Revenge of the Sith…but only because we already knew where RoTS had to go.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi Thoughts – It’s Complicated.

On modern computer UI

On modern computer UI

Nate Cull @natecull@mastodon.social:

Protip:

When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she’s clicking your app’s buttons and saying to you, as old people do,

“Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes

I’m not even ANGRY with you, I’m just disappointed.”

May 28, 2018 at 4:05 PM

@readlesmispod Yeah, I really like how it shows her resourcefulness as she switches tactics repeatedly, and the “you think you can intimidate *me*?” speech. And now I’m thinking of parallels with the chisel & powder keg.

@readlesmispod Yeah, I really like how it shows her resourcefulness as she switches tactics repeatedly, and the “you think you can intimidate *me*?” speech.

And now I’m thinking of parallels with the chisel & powder keg.

Why do some people go ballistic over *other people’s* conversations in another language?

Why do some people go ballistic over *other people’s* conversations in another language? Were they talking to you? Were you planning on eavesdropping?

‘My next call is to ICE!’: A man flipped out because workers spoke Spanish at a Manhattan deli

Is he afraid they’ll get a secret discount negotiated in another language? What?

His threats to call ICE make it obvious that he’s motivated by racism, but this sort of language freak-out is common enough in white people who *think* they’re not being racist. It’s like a gateway.

I want to believe we can short-circuit things like “OMG someone’s talking in a language that’s not mine!” before it progresses to worse things like calling the cops on a BBQ and threatening direct or state-sponsored violence against people they think are less human.

“Correction: An earlier version of this article misquoted the coffee shop supervisor. She said the man was being ‘very racist,’ not ‘really racist.'” Well, good thing we got that cleared up.

“Correction: An earlier version of this article misquoted the coffee shop supervisor. She said the man was being ‘very racist,’ not ‘really racist.'”

Well, good thing we got that cleared up.

In any case: Good on the employees, managers, and corporate response from Coffee Bean for kicking out the guy harassing someone instead of the person he was targeting.