Sad to hear about the QZ layoffs, and about BuzzFeed UK and Aus shuttering. Have a feeling it’s only going to get worse.
— Yael Grauer (@yaelwrites) May 14, 2020
That is correct. The greatest destruction of wealth in human history is under way right now. Some of the effects won’t become apparent for months or years, but all is in progress — or rather, de-progressing — at this very moment.
It’ll take 25-50 years to recover, if ever we do. With climate change looming, I have my doubts.
just read something that claimed Nazi Bronies got their start in 2017
i hate hate hate that my first response to this was “that’s nonsense, I know for a fact that Nazi Bronies were a thing by 2011”
— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) May 15, 2020
I don’t know anything about Nazi Bronies, but I see all the time movements and such that the press claims were “started on 4Chan in 2015” when I know that the org in some form has been around since the 1980s, and sometimes since the 1960s.
The press in general is not very good at research, and especially on topics where people use a lot of code words and deliberate obfuscation. And where there’s not much about it on the internet.
Tech folks, I am stuck at home, in a weird mood and want secondhand drama.
Please tell me about the most horrific/terrifying/surreal security issue you’ve ever encountered?
RT for more horrors.
— Jessica Rose (@jesslynnrose) May 14, 2020
I still feel bad about this one up this very day, but my story is the time I accidentally got someone fired because the company we were acquiring part of their business from sent us data they should not have. I was in charge of reviewing the data received and noticed there was much more than expected.
During a phone call to discuss the project, I mentioned that we seemed to have received much more data than expected, and could someone tell me what was all the other data we’d gotten?
The other company reviewed what had been sent and determined they’d provided other customers’ confidential data to us. Later, I found out that the very nice, very capable technical project lead from that other company had been fired for that mistake.
I don’t know for sure that they wouldn’t have noticed on their own, but it’s fair to say that I quite accidentally got her fired by mentioning that data during a meeting. Nevertheless, I needed to know what it was, and I didn’t think there’d be such terrible consequences for her.
I must’ve seen the video below soon after it came out in 1983. I didn’t know precisely what it was about at the time, but it was the first song I ever recognized as political. Before, I didn’t know that music could do that — that it could talk about more than love, be about more than being cool or sex.
It’s fair to say that this video made me pay more attention to the world and to music, thus it changed my life:
No matter what you think of U2, fucking great live performance. Using that broken-up military march rhythm was genius.
This is exactly how my brain works when I try to do math problems:
It’s Cate Blanchett’s birthday, which gives me an excuse to share this photoshoot pic.twitter.com/oIbusNTpS5
— Chris Evangelista (@cevangelista413) May 14, 2020
Why did someone tie Cate Blanchett to a fake tree?
(Yes, I know it’s Japanese shibari.) But still, why did someone tie Cate Blanchett to a fake tree?
Every time I get filtered water from my fridge I feel like Jackie Collins on Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.
It comes standard on every above-bargain refrigerator now but you just don’t understand.
That shit was RICH PEOPLE MAGIC when I was a kid.
— Quarynnetine Valente (@catvalente) May 15, 2020
Yeah, feel the same. We now have a refrigerator that can do filtered water and crushed ice. When I was a kid, that was stuff that my grandparents (who were reasonably well off for the area) didn’t even have.
Housing prices have gone through the roof, however, so having a rich-people refrigerator isn’t much consolation.