No, I didn’t engage with them. Why would I? There is literally nothing you can say to these people that will convince them to be decent human beings. They are blinded by their worship of a fascist bigot and the only recourse is to beat the shit out of him in the election. Vote.
Made the mistake of looking at Nextdoor yesterday. The number of people gleefully bragging about not wearing a mask is sickening. Imagine being so obsessed with your pol...
Made the mistake of looking at Nextdoor yesterday. The number of people gleefully bragging about not wearing a mask is sickening. Imagine being so obsessed with your political cult that you refuse to slightly inconvenience yourself so that others won’t die.
“Instead, Zoom said, it would develop technology to block users based on geography.” This seems like what media platforms do in response to copyright enforcement. It makes me queasy for my favorite communications platform to do it. I may have to find another. https://t.co/4Z4NhaleWP
Zoom Acknowledges It Suspended Activists' Accounts At China's Request npr.org/2020/06/12/876…

Whew this has been a lot of eternal Caturday, eh?

Been an explosion in my network of folks using eleventy and SSGs....which get less static with a few extra web components. What I like about Kirby is the plain file storage. Right now using sftp and GitHub actions
Been an explosion in my network of folks using eleventy and SSGs....which get less static with a few extra web components. What I like about Kirby is the plain file storage. Right now using sftp and GitHub actions (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/s/XPjsJ)
The Algorithmic Self: Layered Accounts of Life and Identity in the 21st Century: jgregorymcverry.com/readings/Markh…
pretty much sums up Queens today
The reflexive self through narrative: A night in the life of an erotic dancer/researcher.: jgregorymcverry.com/readings/Rambo…
This would work better if there were an Overton Window behind him with a Black person falling past... twitter.com/johncleese/sta…
Hard to tell if I recorded this 30 years or 10 minutes ago...
Ok, @cstross, I guess the Laundry ends here....
I cannot believe there is a universe where I, as a White House reporter for the wonkiest outlet in existence, am writing about the ancient god Moloch and inter-dimensiona...
If you’ve seen the pictures of the guys with guns guarding CHAZ, read this thread for full backstory. In short, the SPD pulled a Dick Cheney: planted a fake story with some Judith Millers & then cited the story they planted.
So, to recap: - Police perpetrate a hoax about impending racist violence. - CHAZ moves to defend itself and each other. - A far-right blogger makes up a story about e...
So, I've pushed back hard on the whole 10X developer nonsense…but I'm starting to think maybe there's something to it. Here's my take: A 10X developer writes code primarily so it can be understood by others. A 1X dev writes only for their own clarity. What does this mean?
Know any good books about the South African Truth and Reconciliation commission? "... a commission is a necessary exercise to enable South Africans to come to terms with their past on a morally accepted basis and to advance the cause of reconciliation." justice.gov.za/trc/
As a WW2 buff (yes, white guy in his 50’s here), my childhood admiration for Churchill has been tempered as I learned some of these stories through my research. Read this thread. twitter.com/dralakbarov/st…
Fuad Alakbarov ⁠⁠ https://twitter.com/DrAlakbarov
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. Dear kids, choose your heroes carefully. Your hero could be somebody's villain. Thank you for reading thi...
This middle-class white guy is willing to try it.
nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opi…
I just realized that the first few seasons of GoT, as they caught up to the existing novels, were pre-Hayes-Code. The latter seasons are all Hayes Code. Helps explain my disappointment.
It’s Levittown, Jake
This is grotesque. watch the Nassau county cop slam on the brakes to give them an excuse to beat a protestor whose words they didn't like. from Instagram user mike_mo516/
We have met the outside agitators, and they is Fox twitter.com/jim_brunner/st…
NEW: Fox News ran digitally altered images in coverage of Seattle’s protests, Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone #CHAZ seattletimes.com/seattle-news/p… via @seattletimes