Even more than the violence and its potential, this is the main reason I left North Florida — the rampant hopelessness, the attempt to drag everyone else down to the same degraded level. No one can prosper in that environment. And that’s the whole point.
It’s Nate Silver, but he’s in this case right. And I think that the chaos was the point. Whethere you believe what occurred was a “real” conspiracy or a bunch of clowns doing what clowns do — someone put those incompetent goofballs in place. They had to know that chaos would result.
Which was probably the whole point all along. It won’t take much to sabotage Bernie Sanders or Warren. Why go for the hard conspiracy when planned incompetence will get the job done just fine?
All the doofy dipshits who claimed that no sir, no way was Microsoft gleaning data from your computer, should read the above.
The only reason search would break this way is if Microsoft was recording and sending along your every local search term to somewhere outside of your machine. There is simply no other way this particular problem could happen.
Search has never, ever worked correctly in Windows (or on the Mac, for that matter), but on Windows it’s now a whole new level of appalling and user-hostile. The most shocking thing about Windows 10 search is that it often cannot find default installed apps on a brand new machine with no installs, changes, or modifications.
The great thing about Brit Marling is that she’s one of the smartest, most curious people I know of, so I am more open to arguments from her that I don’t necessarily agree with prima facie. I trust her, though, to have thought deeply about something and, frankly, she’s just more intelligent than most other people. It means I have to do a lot less vetting and accounting for knowledge that should be there that isn’t that would negate the locus of the argument.
I wish I knew of more people like Brit Marling because with them I can just enjoy their minds and their thought processes rather than attempting to account for the fact that they know almost nothing. It’s freeing to be able to just depend on someone to not be a doofus.
if you think that bernie sanders reminds you of a guy you had sex with a few times and never called you so much that you have to write about it repeatedly in publications then YOU ARE EXPERIENCING AN ILLNESS. GET HELP.
I don’t have guilty pleasures. I read, listen to and watch what I want. Don’t give a fuck if anyone knows or not. Guilty pleasures are for the weak and submissive. I am neither.
Ronan and Emily Browning. Ronan is showing the alien in a new body what she/it now looks like.
But I definitely watch some movies that are just bad. And some of these I like a great deal even though I recognize their atrocious qualities. The best bad movie that I know of is The Host (2013). Nothing in the movie makes really any sense. However, Saoirse Ronan is in it and that makes it much better than it has any right to be. She’s great in just about everything and it’s true in this movie as well. Also, Diane Kruger enjoyably chews more scenery in this film than Sagittarius A*.
But the movie, oh the movie. First, the world is so implausible as to beggar the imagination — and I have a big imagination. Second, it’s really convenient that when the main character (played by Ronan) gets the alien evicted from her body, these barely-surviving resistance fighters just happen to have another hot young woman’s braindead body lying around to toss the alien into that Ian can love. It’d have been much more interesting if that weren’t the case, say it were a male body, etc. But no. They somehow manage to find someone even prettier than Ronan who just conveniently died.
Like I said, the movie is a mess. But it’s a glorious mess.
Same. Usually I feel absolutely nothing. Not bad, or depressed, or negative. Just nothing. I don’t think there are that many people like me, but found another one!
Someone needs to write a well-researched book on the 1980s home computer revolution, how that presaged a lot of the changes now occurring, and how it so much less top-down than what’s happening now. In some ways it was the last refuge of the tinkerer and the dilettante — now all has been professionalized and is much more boring. Sure, the technology is much better but the possibilities have been radically foreshortened.
I’m not so much interested in the technology — I was there. I used most of it. I don’t need to be told about it again. I’m more interested in the sociological shifts that occurred as shareware and freeware altered how people thought of software, how this changed people’s relationships to information, how BBSes and other early online services played into this, and how these people were all shoved aside and told they were worthless amateurs as the suits and “professionals” moved in.
I think this is all true, but aims too much blame at the individual alone. In a sick society people will by nature also become mentally ill. It’s a reasonable response. As opposed to human flourishing as so much of our society has become, it’s amazing more people aren’t experiencing depression and psychotic breaks.
This history of the future of work is interesting, but contains some significant errors. Among them, this one:
The first 8-inch floppy could hold only 80KB of data, and was read-only. It was not until 1987 — 16 years later — that a disk that could hold 1.44MB was commercially available.
It is strange. When one observes that “Huh, this works fine in other countries, even countries that are far less rich and developed than the US,” one is called a “radical” and cries of “impossible” are heard everywhere.
If being called a radical means that I observe reality, well I guess I’m a radical then.
One thing I love about the Iowa caucus debacle is the hyper-technocratic "digital spending" non-profit with the all-caps name ACRONYM where the letters don't stand for anything
And “ACRONYM” itself is merely a ideogram that represents the idea for “not an acronym” in another, completely different language, of which all records have been lost.
