I Miss The Programmable Web.

Security policies have essentially killed the user script and bookmarklet ecosystem. Most of the scripts you can find on the remaining sites like Greasy Fork only provide minor improvements.

FUCK YES. This was supposedly done for “security,” but really it was for ease of conning, snookering, and scamming the rubes. It’s all lies that these capabilities were removed to make things more secure. Well, true in a way, I guess: they were rooted out to make corporations and their scams more secure from you.

I was saddened by how even very many “smart” people bought into these obvious perfidies. Hell, the post to which I linked even buys into it even though it’s easily disproven.

Boomers who spent decades prohibiting construction of everything except large single family houses in their communities lament that they can’t find anything but large single family houses in their communities as they try to downsize now. https://t.co/QOpqw7QvFW

— Josh McCabe (@JoshuaTMcCabe) July 29, 2022

Yeah, funny how that worked out, huh?

How to avoid text message scams.

1) Don’t be a dumbass.

2) Don’t do dumbass shit.

Easy.

Give it up, Covidians. No one gives a shit anymore and most know you’re lying about Long Covid, etc. It’s done, it’s over, you lost.

An interesting paper that just came out on long COVID in non-hospitalized people – the incidence of any long COVID symptoms was 5.4% in people with COVID-19 vs 4.4% in an uninfected control https://t.co/C0kNyDFyYc

— Health Nerd (@GidMK) July 26, 2022

LOL. So, Long Covid matches about what I thought it’d be, and is roughly about what it is for all other similar viruses (predictably).

Oh, also worth noting that the rates of symptoms that we might consider seriously impacting daily life were really quite low in this cohort. For example, fatigue was reported in 0.46% of COVID-19 patients vs 0.24% of controls, brain fog was 0.06% vs 0.04%

— Health Nerd (@GidMK) July 26, 2022

That’s just what I expected to see.

Hold your hand up 12 inches from your face: you’re seeing your hand as it was a nanosecond ago. Everything you look at is, to one degree or another, in the past. The farther away in space, the more ancient in time.

— Katie Mack (@AstroKatie) November 25, 2018

Given the latency of the human nervous system and the variability thereof, you’re really seeing your hand as it was 10-30ms ago.

In shocking news, the Chinese state prioritises the global financial and trade interests of Chinese exporters over bailing out the Russian statehttps://t.co/ibw1lYwhPm

— Alexander Clarkson (@APHClarkson) July 25, 2022

I know, SHOCKING, right? WHO COULD HAVE KNOWN?

I have a LEAF (love it) + an eBike. There're so many people who will not try a bike, ever, so EVs = FTW for those people and the collective effort of reducing emissions!!!

Perfect will not happen. MUCH better CAN happen. eBikes + EVs

— Andrea Learned #ClimateInfluence 🌱 Ⓥ 🚲 (@AndreaLearned) July 25, 2022

I’d never ride any form of bicycle or motorcycle on any road in the US ever. Every single person I know who bikes regularly has been hit by a car, some multiples times. Every single one.