a popular myth is that people who are Very Computer have computers that work. nothing could be further from the truth. the Very Computer are capable of generating much more novel and fascinating ways to make computers not fucking work and exercise this capability wantonly
— taber (@cakesandcourage) November 18, 2021
Damn, so true.
I’ve broken computers in ways you can’t even conceive of.
Still not quite used to having girls look at me in the grocery store like they want to eat me.
The first ten on today’s playlist:
Me: No serial killer will ever lure me into their murder van. I' m too smart for that.
Murderer: pic.twitter.com/ThvagNDZvS
— Patricia Correll (@Author_PCorrell) November 19, 2021
I feel seen.
On a more somber note, I re-watched the scene the other day where Saoirse Ronan’s character in The Lovely Bones realizes she’s trapped with no escape from the killer’s murder den. Damn, that is painful to view — but great acting by Saoirse and Stanley Tucci. Such an excruciating scene.
No hysterics. She panics like most real people really panic. Tucci later said filming this scene caused him psychological trauma and I can understand why.
People are like “masks solve everything!” And then you look at a country’s vax rate and it’s terrible, and see that most of the spread/hospitalization is among the unvaxxed, and you wonder what they are playing at.
Man, “experts.” What do we do about their compulsive need to distort and outright lie “for your own good?” Is there a viable way around it at this point, while not descending into anti-vax anti-science conspiracizing?
I remember this magazine cover from back in the day and it's remained lodged in my memory as 90s techno utopian insanity but hoooo boy is the body of the article a helluva punchline pic.twitter.com/sw59e5HsFQ
— 🌏🐶🦕🥳 Hieronymus Burps 🥦💥 and 68 others (@hieronymus_burp) November 19, 2021
This was the peak of 1990s optimism. I remember this and that Wired cover very well. I read the entire magazine. It wasn’t just Wired, of course, and this optimism wasn’t just techno-; this sunny positivity was absolutely everywhere in the culture then, a cozy blanket surrounding us all.
What a very different world that was.
Nearly every (perhaps every?) memoir I’ve read has been intensely boring. Most people should not write books about their own lives. Perhaps no one should.
I have never experienced jet lag.
Yes, I am sure there is some undercounting, but it’s probably not the case that the worker shortage has much to do with Covid deaths as those were concentrated in retirement-age people:
As attractive as it is to liberal moralizing sensibilities, the “pandemic deaths leading to major worker shortages” is not really true.
SpaceX is effectively subsidizing NASA’s Artemis program. They’re getting about $2.9B for a capability (2 lunar lander missions with with a lander more than 10 times the size of the Apollo lander), that NASA & traditional contractors would not be able to achieve for $100 billion. https://t.co/f9VMWATCKX pic.twitter.com/xLALLrfLzE
— Robotbeat🗽 ➐ (@Robotbeat) November 18, 2021
Remember this when you hear about those “massive subsidies” that SpaceX and Tesla receive.
Strange also that you never hear about the fossil fuel subsidies, the food and farming conglomerate subsidies, etc. Yes, very odd, that….
The original Muppets came in random rainbow colors specifically to sidestep racial identification. This is incredibly regressive. https://t.co/bovmlPVTn9
— St. Rev. Dr. Rev II: Revving Intensifies ☯️🏴😻 (@St_Rev) November 15, 2021
Shows how much has changed with identity politics leading to resegregation and other “woke” crap. We are fucking it all up.
The first ten on today’s playlist:
When I say out loud things like, "the internet is significantly worse than it was 15-20 years ago" it sounds like silly techno-nostalgia except that experiences like these seem very widespread. https://t.co/fY4yaIGhhQ
— Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. Constructed Environment (@MichaelTBacon) November 16, 2021
It’s absolutely not nostalgia. The internet is indeed far worse now. As I’ve written before, the great effort of the elites is now putting the information genie back in the lamp again, and then burying the lamp under a thousand feet of scree.
And it’s working.
these just keep coming and it’s marvelous https://t.co/uni4HblaMi
— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) November 18, 2021
This should be worldwide; house arrest for the idiots.