And burn. This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time.

Pretty much sums up how women in tech great treated every day.

BTW, Casey Johnston is the best writer at Ars Technica by a long shot. I go there specifically now to look for her articles.

If anyone wants  a large, good monitor for a ridiculous price, this is the best deal I’ve ever seen – by far – for a 30” IPS monitor.

It’s not 4K or 5K, but still – hard to go wrong with a 30” 16:10 2560×1600 monitor for $400.

The cheapest I’ve seen one of these before now went for more than $1,000.

There has been a lot of obsession over plagiarism lately. I don’t really understand it. Most of what people are claiming is “plagiarism” doesn’t seem even remotely close to me. Mostly it seems people are claiming that ideas can be plagiarized, which is just absurd.

I don’t plagiarize because it is faster for me to write my own material. And this blog isn’t some stellar example of writing, anyway.  Also, I think really differently from most people so plagiarism in my work would be glaringly obvious.

Discussions of plagiarism are generally overwrought, if you ask me. People treat it as some kind of unforgivable intellectual sin. What it usually indicates is laziness and sloppiness.

Many of the best authors in history have “plagiarized” by the modern definition, which seems at the moment to mean “have used two or three words that some other author once used” or “had the same idea that this author wrote about that a billion other people also had.”

And I think the concept of self-plagiarism is utterly ridiculous, too.

Plagiarism seems to be what you accuse someone of when you’re not as famous as they are, and want to be.