4 of 5 stars to All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders goodreads.com/review/show/43…
Installing macOS Monterey on the Mac mini I use for software development right before I head off to bed. What could possibly go wrong? 🤔🤔🤔
Tech support: "I'd be glad to assist you." You would if what? So this is kind of a conditional tech support line here, but you won't tell me what that depends on? What's wrong with present tense? (Or, better, drop the fluff and give everybody their life back?)
Hey, the police lied. What a surprise
A follow-up to the story about a subway car full of people in Philly who police said stood by and did not intervene as a woman was raped. Security camera footage has reve...
Agree on the principles. Whether they are as inevitable as stated will remain to be seen.
Happy Friday #Metaverse Twitter!
I wrote a thing.
It's called The Seven Rules of the Metaverse
medium.com/meta-verses/th…
Read responsibly.
I upgraded my desktop computer to the latest macOS, and as expected, lots of stuff has gotten weirdly unstable. In particular, my external NVMe enclosure keeps on rapidly overheating to the point that it has to force-disconnect.
Corporate customer support lingo is the worst. "I've looked into your concern". Great, what else did you find, I missing my cufflinks.
Just thinking out loud:
What if a hosting service could take *unique advantage* of Ruby and unlock its true potential? Something that’s increasingly bothering me is how un-coupled Ruby and hosting is. Heroku *started out as a way of hosting Rails apps*, but it’s generic now.
so you're saying there's a chance!
It is still ENTIRELY POSSIBLE that ivermectin has a benefit for COVID-19, but it is clear that calls to use it outside of clinical trials were premature and based on very...
Oh, a dramatization of The School Wars
An alchemist finds a 16th century book containing instructions for building a rollercoaster out of high schools.
Speaking as someone who deleted his Facebook account (though not Instagram (hypocritically?)) years ago:
I think it's important to remember that there can be very real social costs to deleting your Facebook account.
It is disturbing that Data did not tell his own mom that she's an android; it's really patronizing. And interesting that his stepdad didn't realize he'd been sleeping with one.
This is actually an improvement IMHO. I've always disliked the way the menu bar "slides down" over the top of stuff in fullscreen apps, so the idea of the menu bar just hovering up above everything once you need it sounds really appealing to me.
The way apple has designed this, when in "full screen" you're using the rectangular 16:10 area beneath the menu bar and notch. You can set the menu bar to be visible or n...
Netflix employees are pushing back against the use of mandatory arbitration clauses, which bar them from pursuing claims through the courts.
Very curious to see where this goes. In 2019, Google ended forced arbitration for all full-time employees after workers protested.
I just published "Arbitration is a Joke" on @Medium rainofterra.com/arbitration-is… #endforcedarbitration #arbitrationisajoke #NetflixWalkout
Are you precariously perched during eternal Caturday?
Apple rolled out new Slack rules (again). Now, creating a public channel requires director-level sponsorship 👀
I'm very interested in learning more about the "software consultants" who apparently urged banks to implement overdraft fees, but it's a bit vague so I am having trouble doing a search. Anyone out there have better sources?
For @thegoods, I wrote about the toll that overdraft fees take on low-income people, especially during the pandemic, why banks charge them in the first place and what to ...
we'll make mice suffer unnecessarily to promote woo. ftg.
Very glad this piece was written because I was almost taken in by the news item and article in last week's Nature. Shame on them.
twitter.com/gorskon/status…
Timestamped yesterday's livestream about how I use a paper planner (Hobonichi) with digital productivity tools. Featuring @llamalifeco @toggltrack and @NotionHQ
youtube.com/watch?v=ttwd02…