I have definitely become a Mac snob as now when I am using Windows at work or on a secondary computer at home, I’m constantly thinking, “OMG what the hell is wrong with this computer?”
I have this reaction less often with XFCE, but even that has terrible support for many things I require.
Funny how often this works.
Todd Yellin is pretty sure his wife would have never watched Jessica Jones if he hadn’t tricked her. She’s not a fan of shows based on comic books, and even though he’s a Netflix exec, nepotism wouldn’t have been enough to make her tune in. Yet he knew she’d love it. So Yellin did what Netflix often does to woo users: He played to her interests by mentioning the strong female lead and rave reviews.
It worked. They were three episodes in before she noticed the Marvel logo that opens the show, but by that point she was hooked.
ABC did this with Lost, except to the entire nation. They somehow tricked millions of Americans who’d say they hate watching sf/fantasy into watching a very wacky (but great) sf/fantasy phantasmagoria for five whole years.
I try to trick myself this way. One of the reasons I will often watch or read something I “know” I won’t like is that I know that I don’t know my own preferences that well.
And I realize liberals (mostly) will hate this idea, but most people in general don’t know their own preferences all that well.
It’s why I listen to (some) Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus now. It’s something I “knew” I wouldn’t like.
I was wrong.
Most people have very delusional ideas about nearly everything, including themselves.
This is better than the Bieber version, which I like ok. This is the non-radio-friendly version which improves it.
She’s got that smoky tough voice that also makes it work so much better. I think though that this is one song that really didn’t need to change keys at the end. It should just be shorter.
Unfortunately, Lorde’s new album is terrible. It sounds like it was written by two mid-30s white men because it was written by two mid-30s white men. The music industry just consumes people. All originality, all boldness, all brilliance, sacrificed for the fickleness of the market and the illusion of what will sell or appeal.
I want Lorde’s voice, her thoughts, her essence, not what some dude thinks she should sound like.
But this cover is really good. Audio is ok, video is kind of potato.
I combined the images of Hurricane Andrew (1992) & Hurricane Irma (today) at scale in a gif. Irma is a damn leviathan. pic.twitter.com/4HEw1NNxxd
— Joel 🌮 (@JoelNihlean) September 7, 2017
Yeah, Irma is big, but there have been much larger hurricanes in the Caribbean and the Gulf in my lifetime. Still, it will be devastating.
Incidentally, the current forecast track of Irma shows it’ll pass through as a Category 2 where I grew up — literally through the city limits of Lake City, FL.
The first 10 on today’s playlist:
A rising tide…wait a minute.
GDP has risen since 2000, but share of GDP going to wages and salaries has plummeted @chsm1th pic.twitter.com/w4jUjl14pS
— 13D Research (@WhatILearnedTW) September 6, 2017
In school, rarely do we learn how data become facts, how facts become knowledge, and how knowledge becomes wisdom.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) September 5, 2017
Yeah, Neil, that’s called the humanities. That’s where you learn those things. You know that area of human inquiry that you constantly demean? Philosophy, epistemology, history and all associated fields?
Even our public “intellectuals” are terrible these days.
I think Ex Machina and The Witch are the best movies I’ve seen in the last decade.
The Witch is just…something else.
I have no idea how it felt to live as a 17th Century Puritan, but the film feels so foreign, so strange, that it even if it didn’t achieve verisimilitude I’d not know and what it did achieve is amazing in how non-modern it felt.
Wish more mainstream “historical” films could do as much, or work as hard to capture an era.
No matter what — Harvey drowning Houston, Irma being the most powerful Atlantic hurricane in recorded history — there are and will be loads of people who deny and disavow climate change. No evidence will matter.
I know this because people literally die for stupid, wrong beliefs every day. The threat of death and imminent mortality has almost never caused anyone to change their ideology. Think climate change is different? I don’t.
Even after climate change submerges cities, destroys nations and lights off wars, a huge percentage of the population will deny it has occurred, will occur, or that it matters at all.
Humans aren’t capable of dealing with the society we’ve manged to build. Just aren’t. Maybe never will be.