Also, I despise Windows 10 and Office 2016 on Windows. I am cursed now at work with using those vile pieces of piscine ass emissions.

It’s an OS and Office suite that fails at every task: makes things harder rather than easier, makes items less visible instead of more so, increases clicks and decreases readability of information — with terrible fonts, opaque affordances, and most of it appears to have been designed for a phone with a tiny-ass screen.

Whoever did this should be hung outside Microsoft headquarters and pelted with smelt.

The new Firefox is so fucking terrible.

When I think I’ve found all the ways it can be terrible, I find yet another one.

What a huge fail.

Brit Marling’s statement about Harvey Weinstein, sexual assault, and all the issues discussed around that recently is the best one I’ve seen. This part is particulary apt (not doing this as a blockquote so I can preserve her emphases):

“The real danger inside the present moment, then, would be for us all to separate the alleged deeds of Cosby, Ailes, O’Reilly, or Weinstein from a culture that continues to allow for dramatic imbalances of power. It’s not these bad men. Or that dirty industry. It’s this inhumane economic system of which we are all a part.”

Recognizing that this sort of abuse depends on and hinges upon our economic system is a great insight. Not that it necessarily does, of course. In our system, however, it very much does.

Brit Marling is the best. I am glad she’s still creating things.

all 30 people worldwide who still use firefox outside of a public library do because of vimperator or some other addon that's about to die

— hotboxing the T-34 (@morganastra) October 25, 2017

Yep! I’m already transitioning off Firefox. It’s killed itself and has absolutely no future. Without the add-ons, it’s worthless to anyone, and it’ll just be crushed into dust by Chrome.

Every time I attempt to read literary fiction, I regret it.

Some very bad writers in that genre who are only saved because they never write about elves or space stations.

If they had to compete on the basis of writing, or ideas, or really anything but expressing white male angst, they’d fail.

Those who do not manage the borders of their countries effectively and well soon will not have a country.

It’ll be something, but it won’t be a country.

This is just as true if 100 million Americans decided to move to Germany, or North Africa, or Russia, as the opposite flow.

Neoliberals want to make it about racism so they can promote unrestrained torrents of liquid capital and immiseration for the many concomitant with the enrichment of the few.

But culture, while not immutable, is extremely strong, and if observing that cultural shifts related to mass immigration are always painful it not downright destructive, then yes, I am indeed a racist by their definition.

Since it’s clear we’ll do nothing at all about mass shootings and enormous gun violence, it’s probably better to just treat it like the weather: an unremarkable, predictable event that just happens. We should also just report it as such.

We already effectively do this. Seen much about the Vegas shooting lately? I bet a lot of people have already completely forgotten it.

The weather today: 82 degrees and mild. Slaughter level: 12 people dead in mass shootings. The forecast is 37 by the end of the day, with a possibility of the high 40s. Back to you, Dana.

These costume names and their attempts at avoiding trademark infringement are just hilarious:

“Casual Jeb Bush.” Just…yes.

The last 10 Bash commands I’ve run on my iMac:

No idea why I am posting this. Just felt like it.

Here’s how much of a different time it was when I grew up:

One of my teachers in high school had a shirtless picture of Jon Bon Jovi up in her classroom. It was not even seen as really that odd, other than the fact that she was one of the more stodgy, prim and proper teachers in the school.

It was definitely hers; no student had put it up. She professed her adoration for Jon more than once in class.

People say things haven’t really changed. But have they ever.