Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
Though it is kind of weird that I just finished Night Watch last week, in which the main character is stranded in the past and has to take the place of a pivotal figure in a rebellion because the original person ended up dead as a result of the time travel.
I made a point to finish my review of the book *before* I got to this episode.
https://hyperborea.org/reviews/books/nightwatch/
#DS9 rewatch is up to Past Tense, Part I, in which Sisko, Bashir and Dax are stranded in the year 2024, when the US is dealing with a major homelessness crisis mostly by ignoring it and blaming people for being homeless, stretching social workers to their limits and turning a blind eye toward police brutality, while wealthy San Francisco tech execs act vaguely uncomfortable about it.
It's sort of eerie…but then it's also not like it was that hard to extrapolate from the 1990s.
#StarTrek
I just watched this episode last week! And yes, it *is* a great scene!
An Ode to Odo’s Cooking and the Food Culture of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Fedi meta, quote tweeting
On whether quote tweeting is harmful:
It was assumed so as an early driver of Mastodon’s design, but not by other Fediverse software.
Widely-held assumptions aren’t proof, and should be tested.
QTs can be used harmfully
So can replies, DMs, and boosts.
I’ve seen articles arguing that *retweets* are the feature that made Twitter super toxic.
QTs’ contribution to toxicity should be evaluated in the context of *every* feature’s contribution, not just its own.
Stumbled across a mention of SyFy’s notoriously bad adaptation of the first two Earthsea books and went looking for commentary on it. I think this scathing article by Le Guin herself gets the idea across.
https://slate.com/culture/2004/12/ursula-k-le-guin-on-the-tv-earthsea.html
#fantasy #earthsea #whitewashing
I briefly considered tracking it down to see for myself how bad it was, but after re-reading that article….Nope! Not gonna bother!
It’s so weird how antivaxxers have gone from being on the fringe of the left wing to the mainstream of the GOP.
Related: I wish more people understood that science is a process of figuring things out as you gather more information, not a set of proclamations handed down from on high.
Temecula Promenade has a restaurant called Tacos and Beer. You know exactly what you’re going to get there
About 1/3 of the way around the ring road, there’s a restaurant called Burgers and Beer.
I’m beginning to see a pattern here…
Coworker consistently pronounces ChatGPT as Chat GDP, which to be fair is probably closer to what OpenAI’s investors care about.
Got an email from my local NPR station that they're going to stop posting to Twitter!
It includes this gem:
“There is a chance that Twitter will remove the label from NPR. Even so, we no longer have confidence that Twitter is a credible platform.”
Replying to a post about this alert warning against using public phone chargers in case they were modified to install malware.
The other day I was wondering how effective the default “no data transfer” mode on Android is at protecting against this type of attack. Unfortunately the articles I found tend toward either “malware could get around that too! Even if your phone is off!” or “this has yet to be seen outside security conference demos.” So, not terribly conclusive!
Apparently this Apple Store was vulnerable to a side channel attack.
Burglars tunnel through Apple Store’s neighbor, allegedly steal $500K in iPhones
“Breaking through an Apple Store’s secured doors sounds like a tall order, even for ambitious burglars. But what if you didn’t have to get through the Apple Store’s doors after hours and could instead break into the unassuming store next to it?”
At this point, nobody should trust anything shared from Twitter to keep working. If you embed tweets in your blog, newspaper, whatever, you need to start saving the embedded content locally. (Or just, *sigh* screenshot it.)
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/6/23673043/twitter-substack-embeds-bots-tools-api
If they’re already blocking embeds from one site, it’s only a matter of time before they start blocking them elsewhere. Like, say, in newspapers with unfavorable coverage. Or they make embeds paid-only content.
The fact that employees were even *able* to share private photos taken by the in-car cameras indicates that the cameras were not, as claimed, “designed from the ground up to protect your privacy.” (Not surprisingly, it's Tesla.)
If Marvel and DC ever get to do another Amalgam universe, they need to skip the obvious Shazam/Captain Marvel mash up and instead combine Captain Marvel with Supergirl.
Or at least have a team up where Carol Danvers is a member of Kara's adoptive family.
Downside of using euphemisms like “state affiliated media” when what you mean is “state propaganda outlet” is that dishonest people can weasel their way into labeling things that aren't propaganda outlets the same way.
“A giant spoon was stolen from Dairy Queen. A Pokémon Go player found it.”
#weird #pokemongo
Chicken and waffles? Great!
Ice cream? Great?
Chicken and waffles ice cream….????
Reading up on notorious mob boss Al Capone's eventual indictment over tax evasion.
For no specific reason.
