Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
Instagram has gotten good at targeting ads. I follow a lot of scenic photographers, and several travel companies are sponsoring scenic shots. Good ones.
I’m not sure whether to be disturbed, or look at it in terms of XKCD’s idea of constructive spambots
I need a word for the fear of accidentally tapping “like” on something while trying to scroll past it on a touch screen.
For the action: scrick, from scroll-click. Add -ophobia and voila.
–@alenxa
“Our National Parks Are For Everyone, Not Just Those Who Can Afford Them” by @bartschaneman
Reminded of an old SNL sketch (1990s?) w/Kevin Spacey in which subtitles explain that he plays so many psychos because he “really is one”
Congress isn’t supposed to be “loyal” to the President. They don’t work for him. They’re independent, by design.
They can agree or disagree with the President, but they’re under no obligation to do either. Again, this is by design.
Maybe someone can turn 8th grade civics into a set of viral memes or something.
If only there’d been some indication before she was confirmed that DeVos might not take disabled kids’ needs & rights seriously…
🤔
@AndyBehbakht …I remember a “Dora the Exploder: a Michael Bay film” joke running around years ago. 2017 strikes again.
Weird how people will complain about “tyranny” and then approve the government sanctioning force to compel displays of patriotism.
Holy crap. Couple survived overnight in a swimming pool while fire burned around them.
Imagine a mine collapse where the org in charge of rescue “filtered out” the trapped miners’ pleas for water as “political noise.”
School vouchers are like taking part of your elevator maintenance budget & using it for ladders & helicopter ride coupons.
It doesn’t fix the elevators, not everyone can take advantage of the alternatives, and they don’t even reach every floor.
Irony: most Twitter threads would be better as linked articles, but fewer people would follow the link & read the article.
We sacrifice the ability to fit everything in that we’re trying to say in favor of the hope that someone will actually see part of it.
Renaming digital assistants as “Wiretap” should be the new “TLA surveillance van” wifi name.
Who would’ve thought that post-NSA-revelations we’d be lining up for *more* surveillance? via @Verge
Remember: Puerto Rico is part of the USA. If the name sounds foreign, consider that only 10 out of 50 states have names from English.
A handful of Latin, some French, a half-dozen from Spanish, the rest various native languages (sometimes filtered through Spanish or French)
Last time I read about Biosphere 2, it was abandoned. Turns out U of Arizona took over 10 years ago!
Now that I think about it, I did read an article a few months back about the corporate takeover in the 90s, given who was involved.
Can’t believe NFS connection failures can still freeze the client. Shouldn’t this problem be solved by now?
I was helping a coworker troubleshoot, and it wouldn’t even let him launch *Activity Monitor*.
“Shut up, you’re not an expert!” say the people who proudly refuse to listen to experts.
Still amazed the local Trader Joe’s parking lot was restriped to make it *worse*.
Thinking about triggers vs. causes. A food might trigger a migraine or allergic reaction, but an underlying condition causes it.
A match sets off fireworks, but only because of the fireworks’ chemistry & packing. The match wouldn’t set off a rock.
Meanwhile, you could use any number of heat sources to light that firework. The match is a trigger, but not the cause.