This tweet is all truth.

incredible that half the NYT op ed page is just bored and vaguely horny dudes just kind of rambling about sandwiches they ate or TV they saw

— Tom McKay (@thetomzone) July 12, 2017

The NYT opinion pages and their spew are worse than the opinion columns that appear in local small-market papers named after cattle.

USA #1!

it was hands down one of the best, most thoughtful shows on TV and it deserved an Emmy for its final season

— Sarah Jones (@onesarahjones) July 13, 2017

Oh yes. The Leftovers. So sad it’s over, but glad it did not drag on and become enervated and repetitive for eight seasons or more.

Carrie Coon’s monologue in the final episode is all of humanity in a few hundred words. She is disturbingly good. Just so captivating, mesmerizing, convincing. Acting as a force of will. Shared dream; the art she builds is built with you too and that’s what makes her great.

Things that frequently got me beat up in North Florida:

1) Liking and befriending girls, and treating them as people, not as interchangeable mindless sex objects.

2) Being friends with black people.

This isn’t a complete list. I don’t have time to type all the “reasons” I got my ass kicked over the years. And ya’ll don’t have time to read 100,000 words.

But the above was two big reasons that I found myself in the dirt over the years. Sometimes, the other guy found himself there, too, but it took me a lot of fights to get good at fighting.

3 % rates means RE prices 25 % lower

— James Marsh (@JamesMarsh79) July 12, 2017

I’d guess more like 15%, but it won’t be small.

Real estate is a bubble, but not a mega-bubble like 2006. We’d considered buying recently, but glad in retrospect that we did not.

I had seven meetings yesterday.

I have seven meetings today.

At least today no one scheduled a meeting during my lunch time because they were unable to find any other free block on my calendar.

When, you might ask, is any work supposed to occur on days like these?

My friends, I have no idea.

FML.

No one seems to comprehend it from this angle, but this also helps to destroy the open internet:

Life Is About to Get a Whole Lot Harder for Websites Without HTTPS.

This is being pushed by Google et al. because mandated encryption makes it more difficult for regular users to handle publishing their own sites. It’s also designed to penalize non-Google ad networks which are much further behind on implementing HTTPS.

If you aren’t looking for where the money is going and why, you are looking in the wrong damn place (which is what most people do most of the time).

To all the idiots who say that “intention is irrelevant” when someone you don’t like makes a mistake, first of all you are as mentioned an idiot.

But let me introduce you to the concept of mens rea.

Yes, intention matters very much and pretty much always should.

I know, Tumblr tools aren’t bound by notions of traditional English-derived common law. But they should be at least bound by common sense.

I’m more like a porpoise than a person, and when I was a kid I used to seek out rip currents as they were the easiest way to get far from shore, which is where I liked to be in those days.

I feel bad for those people. I’ve always just been comfortable in water. A rip current to me was great fun. And anyway, how do you have trouble treading water in the ocean? It’s hard not to float since it’s so dense. And it sounds as if at least two of them had boogie boards. What?

I truly don’t mean to be a jerk but I can’t understand. I am glad the people were rescued but a rip current is only dangerous if you battle it. When I was young and lithe and relatively fit, I’d use those to swim sometimes nearly a mile out. I didn’t measure but I could barely see the people on shore so it had to have been about that far.

We’ll choose most of #1 and some of #2 (insert your own micturition and scatological jests and japes here).

Climate change lays out 3 basic options:
1. Unmitigated disaster
2. Eco-apartheid
3. Massive state action and control over the economy

— Kate Aronoff (@KateAronoff) July 10, 2017

It doesn’t have to be. But we don’t seem to be able to alter course.

i love the faction of galaxy-brain twitter that insists overpopulation isn't a real problem

— Sarah Jones (@onesarahjones) July 10, 2017

The politics of the Left insists that overpopulation can’t be a problem because, like, eugenics and stuff.

It’s a political view, not a practical one. If the human population of the earth were 500 million instead of 7 billion+, our problems would be much more manageable and vastly easier to solve — while we could still live a at a very high technological level.

Overpopulation and the Malthusian trap are not behind us, no matter what you read.

Windows 10 is catching up…to 2013.

Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16237 was released to Insiders in the Fast ring on Friday, and one of the more significant changes regards DPI scaling: users will no longer have to log out to fix blurry apps, which should be much appreciated by those who frequently dock and undock their devices.

Mac OS has handled this correctly for nearly five years now. Microsoft is “improving” but still requires you to relaunch the app to make it not look like a stirred turd. In a real OS, it just works.

I think about not using Mac OS as my full-time OS, but then I realize I don’t hate myself enough for that yet.

What. If I’d known this exists I’d’ve optimized my entire education and career to work there.

If there were any government department where capes should be part of the dress code, that is the one.

I don’t want to work there if I can’t wear my cape.

“Why yes, I am from the Office of Planetary Protection.”

*cape swishes winningly in the wind that springs up somehow even indoors*

Of the times that my bank has detected “unusual debit card activity,” it never has been.

The times that have been fraud were not detected as such.

The bank somehow flags as “fraud” things that I do and buy routinely, but some Russian hacker buying Bitcoin in Latvia from an IP address in Djibouti, that’s all good!

But me buying groceries at the grocery store I visit every damn week — well, obviously plunderous thievery.

These sorts of things make me have huge doubts about AI ever working as we expect.