The Gobbler has started a land war in Asia.
Day: November 19, 2020, 11:20 PM
Deception Field
About the below, about “stealing the election,” about climate change denial, and about so many other things, I think people are actually eager to believe lies.
They do not want or care about the truth. There is actually a thrill of believing a lie that people crave, that they yearn for. It’s some sort of sickness — that if they can embrace the lie fervently enough, with enough resolve, that it cozies them up to the in group and this sub rosa knowledge of the deep untruth of their beliefs cements that bond even further.
DoH DoH
Fearing Drama, Mozilla Opens Public Consultation Before Worldwide Firefox DoH Rollout.
There should be drama, because DoH is absurd and user hostile — just like all of the other initiatives Mozilla her perpetrated in the past decade or so.
But I wanted to highlight this false dichotomy, of XUL vs. security. I agree that XUL needed some work, or perhaps needed to be replaced. But it’s a false choice to claim that all customization possibilities must be eliminated because XUL was showing its age.
One does not equal the other.
The truth is that Mozilla wanted to punish its users and take away control. This was the real motivation and had nothing to do with security. It’s possible to write something customizable and secure; truth is, they just did not want to.
And it cost them everything.
Fuck Mozilla and fuck the Firefox developers.
Demotic
Please don’t forget that the GOP prevented 750,000 predominately Black Floridians from participating in this election.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) November 5, 2020
Yes they did. Talk about stealing an election.
Tried and Untrue
I’m constantly just shocked by how little people know, and how little ability they have to learn relatively basic things quickly.
Like, what is your brain doing? Is it even trying?
Self Own Steal
The only sense in which the election was “stolen” is that the Democrats continue to be so incompetent to perform very poorly amidst an economic downturn unrivaled in most people’s lifetimes and amid an unchecked pandemic.
If you can steal from yourself, yep, they certainly did that.
Hoaxed
Oh my god this is so very horrifying and so very sad. https://t.co/iS5jmnDaOU
— Sarah Jones (@sbjinsfo) November 14, 2020
It’s all a hoax until you fucking die of it. Unfortunately, these assclowns are killing others by lack of mask wearing.
In The Nikki Of Time
Is it time to talk about the 2024 election yet?
It’ll be Nikki Hayley! You read it here first. 😉
Evildoing
Maybe Obama should have thought about this when he facilitated Google and Facebook in destroying most local journalism and then let private equity feast on whatever remained. https://t.co/mbq1KXiHDv
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) November 19, 2020
It is darkly hilarious watching Obama lament things he and his administration caused directly or had the power to prevent — but did nothing. What a failure of a president. In my opinion, he is still worse than Trump because we always knew Trump was incompetent.
Obama was competent but he chose to do evil and not to prevent it.
Split Photon Soup
The Black Hole information loss problem is unsolved. Because it’s unsolvable.
I generally like Sabine’s work, but this isn’t even close to true. It’s unsolvable now, and maybe it always will be. But we’ve thought a lot of problems were unsolvable that we’ve since solved.
And she’s also not really right about information loss — time irreversiblity and information loss are the same thing. If a quantum process is time irreversible, then initial state information is gone forever. Is one a better phrase than the other? I don’t see why it matters much, though of course physicists prefer “time irreversibility” because that’s closer to how their equations are most commonly formatted (though it’s possible to format this in an information-theoretical way too, just not regularly done because it’s much harder and not taught that way).
I don’t understand why this is an issue. She takes Hawking radiation for granted, which has never been observed and very possibly never will be, but concludes that we cannot ever solve the time irreversibility problem of black holes? That doesn’t really make sense.
Just The Bug-inning
Chrome ‘Bug’ Exempts Google Cookies From Data Privacy Settings.
Yeah, “bug.” All browsers are terrible pieces of crap nowadays. Firefox didn’t have to be, but chose to be for “security*.”
*Really a scam to turn it into a locked-down useless consumption/data theft crapplication.