What I genuinely enjoy about the fat acceptance/celebration movement is that I often cannot tell and can find no way to ascertain when someone is trolling them and when they are making what they feel is a valid point. Poe’s Law, I know….

Like this.

I think this is not a troll as she makes other similar tweets and she is the size of a house (if that is her actual identity and photo).

But I truly cannot definitively tell. I’d say 70% chance not an Olog-hai and 30% chance troll. But god, I just don’t know.

One of the contradictions of modernity is that as empirical knowledge is solidified, social knowledge is de-codified and made yet another tradable commodity with all the newly-possible attendant representational distortions for purposes of signalling and tribal affiliation — all inherent to the relatively-novel ability for the previously-reliable signifiers to be obfuscated or self-generated.

Personae bloom in the shattered data stream like poppies colonizing a fire-marred slope.

OK, that’s a little too much social analysis for making fun of Miss Hammaspeikko. I’m out.

To see your public IP in Linux, this command’ll do it:

curl -s checkip.dyndns.org | sed -e 's/.*Current IP Address: //' -e 's/<.*$//'

America should petition the Olympic Committee to have mass shootings added as an official event.

Since we’re the only country that truly practices at said event we’d be sure to win gold every time.

What a country.

Why when some nutball Christian attacks a Planned Parenthood clinic does my side of the debate insist on identifying him (accurately) with his Christian dominionist fucked-up faction, but the same people will go off their rockers vituperating on why Islam has nothing at all in any way to do with why, say, it was Islamists who committed the attacks in Paris and not for instance Hindu believers?

Captain, I think I’ve detected a major inconsistency in belief shield harmonics.

Let’s have something fun. And what’s more fun than this?

Also, she’s great live.

If Apple does this, I will never get another iPhone. The same will be true of many people.

There is nothing special enough in the iPhone that will make me carry yet another stupid adapter. And Android isn’t great, but it works fine.

What is Apple thinking? No one cares about a thinner phone. I wish mine were thicker so its battery would last a week.

I’m not black, but I was poor.

If you’re poor, you involve the police as an absolutely last resort. And sometimes not even then.

There are only three things that can happen as a poor person when you call the police:

1. They arrest someone you love/need for rent and food.
2. They arrest you.
3. They kill you or someone you need/love.

Yeah, this happens more to black people. But poor people receive the brunt of police brutality and ill will, no matter their skin color.

When I was young the chances of my family calling the police about anything was very damn slim because of those three facts above.

Much of evolutionary psychology is absurd, but it’s also fucking ludicrous to insist that neither men nor women were selected evolutionarily for features that were attractive to the other sex.

This is just the way it is, sorry, hurt feelings won’t change this. Evolution doesn’t give a crap about your wishes, beliefs, illusions or utopias.

That this even has to be stated is what’s absurd.

When ideology meets reality, I’m gonna choose reality every time.

We now have an answer to the Fermi Paradox and what the Great Filter is — it’s climate change.

My opinion vacillates from day to day and week to week, but given human nature and our lack of any long-term scope, I think the chance of an actual civilization on this planet surviving climate change (rather than just ragtag nomadic bands of survivors with very low tech) is around ten percent.

Does every advanced culture experience climate change, thus dooming their civilizations as well? Not enough data to go on – but I doubt we are special, so even with the lack of information I think it likely.

The chance that we do anything substantive about climate change is almost nil. Liberals and conservatives, both being human, are just as susceptible to the same biases — the primary one being that because it’ll happen over hundreds of years, that it is not in fact a slow-motion apocalypse.

Most people can’t see beyond their own noses, so this is no surprise.

Humans are extremely maladapted to what’s happening now, and of course at the very worst time for it, old people who will experience no consequences of climate change are in charge and slurping up all resources for themselves.

It’d be a different world if 25-year-olds were in charge. Though other things would suffer, some correct decisions on climate change would be made and really, that’s the only meaningful decision domain there is today.

The rest really don’t matter at all long-term or even medium-term.

Don’t trust anyone over 30 indeed….

I was re-reading this great post of Clarissa’s from a while ago and realized that I don’t trust people who don’t or won’t read fiction.

These are the usually extremely-dichotomous thinkers and those who also believe everything can and should be priced and then monetized.

But all these beliefs seem to usually go hand-in-hand with not reading or not understanding fiction. Or just despising it outright.

I once saw a saw a store called “The Shop.”

This made me conceive of other potential extremely generic store appellations.

So I thought of calling my potential retail operation “Commerce Activities.” Lately, I thought I’d go fully postmodern and call it “Consume. Acquiesce. Obey.” But then I might attract hipsters, and no one wants that. They are so hard to get rid of; traps and spraying do nothing.

The iPad Pro is something I could never use to get anything done.

A device that doesn’t expose a real file system is something that is incompatible with serious work.

It might be fine for someone who does very little, but as a tool that real professionals use, it’s junk.

It’s hard to believe today, but 10 years ago Wikipedia was widely considered a doomed experiment.

Yep, I remember that. Culture can change fast and people deny it was ever any different when it does.

How do people fall for this?

I know that I am contrarian and incredulous as all hell, but just…what?

It’s brave of her to write about it. But my response would’ve been to laugh and hang up the phone. The IRS just doesn’t operate that way.

Automated Scanning of Firefox Extensions is Security Theater (And Here’s Code to Prove It).

This was always, always about control and power and nothing else. Mozilla’s approach is simply not how you do security. Hell, Mozilla’s approach is not how you build a browser that anyone wants to use.

Mozilla has more morons per square meter than anywhere else on the planet outside a Republican debate.