Chill Links

Denmark close to wiping out leading cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out.

“Canada: The Industrial Implosion” v. the United States.

Publishers Clearing House’s bankruptcy means ‘forever’ winners will no longer get paid.

Wars of deception are coming for America. It isn’t ready.

The real enemy of democracy sneaked up on me. I used to be a cautious optimist, but social media has changed our politics for the worse.

The third Red Scare. The right’s new assault on free speech isn’t cancel culture. It’s worse.

Job seekers feel awful about the labor market. Data is finally starting to explain why.

Trump Secured the Border, So Where Are the Jobs?

The Jimmy Kimmel Suspension: A Huge Step Down the Authoritarian Road.

Iryna

Chill Evil

Good cities can’t exist without public order.

And the liberals all erupt in big performative tears….

Meanwhile, someone like Iryna is worth 10,000 Decarlos Browns. Not because she was young and pretty, but because she actually had something to contribute to the country and to the world. Which she was doing. For instance, she’d just come from her job at a pizzeria when she was murdered by some worthless gutter scum. Decarlos’s main “job” seemed to be theft and killing innocent young women.

I’d gladly put every dude like Decarlos (and most of them are dudes) in some camp somewhere in the middle of nowhere if it preserved the life of one Iryna. The liberal, “Some stabbing and random immolation is the price of living in a city and if you disagree you’re a Nazi” is just not flying with people anymore.

Sex Shift

Chill Sex

Back then, we (both men and women) treated sex/sexuality as a standard and expected part of normal life. It wasn’t “special” in the sense that it was not something outside of the regular practice of living. Nowadays, on the other hand, Gen Z treats anything to do with sex and sexuality — especially in person — as some exceptional, outré, “out there” activity that should not be discussed, seen, alluded to or partaken of except in rare circumstances.

I cannot stress enough the difference in culture and ethos as compared to now. Feels like a wholly different world. I cannot believe how laid back we were then compared to all the weird and pitiful Church Ladies around now.

Gay people got more freedom, but everyone else got far less.

Chill Links

Why do software developers love complexity? And why do they always try to foist their shit complexity onto sysadmin types and attempt to turn us into terrible developers?

‘You just can’t recreate that glow’: The people who hunt old TVs.

Microsoft to force install the Microsoft 365 Copilot app in October. Fuck that.

It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes.

Offline means unavailable? What a country!

Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline.’

The AI Raj: How tech giants are recolonizing power.

Tonight’s Dinner Fell Off the Sysco Truck.

The White House Vowed a Vast Crackdown on Liberal Groups.

‘Ozempic Effect’: Weight-loss drug boom has reached apparel store rack as America resizes. Nice.

Active Measures: How the Kremlin Penetrated Fox News and Right-Wing Media.

Suppose Evil

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Yep. Once you realize all the supposedly “evil” things men do like have a gf a few years younger or actually like women is all about female intrasexual competition, you stop giving a crap.

Because it isn’t about you. It’s about some woman trying to disadvantage another woman. Same with “passport bros” and “all men are rapists” and all that. All intrasexual competition.

Just ignore it.

Reech

Chill Annoying, Clowns

As predictable as the sunrise.

But oh the screeching when anyone said this back in 2018…..

Cancel a Shun

Chill Amusing, Annoying, Clowns

Well, one of the reasons people like me were against cancel culture (which, laughably, libs at the time claimed didn’t even exist) is because we knew when the conservatives got into power again, they’d use it even more effectively than the liberals did.

And now here we are. Just as predicted.

Tahoe

Chill Annoying, Tech

Because I like pain I guess, I “ugpraded” to Mac OS Tahoe. Though it’s not as bad as I expected, the interface is a lot worse. But it’s also kind of cozy, because it reminds me of CDE.

Yes, it’s that clunky and inelegant. I think the font rendering is also a little worse — which is too bad. Mac OS used to have the best fonts for a while there, but now Linux does if you tweak it.

Apple gets further and further away from what Jobs intended, unfortunately.

Choices/Consequences

Chill Political Economy

Extremely high energy costs and unable to complete with China. A bad, bad combination caused by terrible choices Germany made over the past couple of decades.

Chill Links

The 70-Year-Old Beloved Boxed Mix Grandmas Won’t Be Buying Anymore.

Which colours dominate movie posters and why?

Americans Crushed By Auto Loans As Defaults And Repossessions Surge.

The AI-Scraping Free-for-All Is Coming to an End.

Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Federal Funding.

Spider uses trapped fireflies as glowing bait to attract more prey.

RFK Jr. is bad for your health.

Butlerian Jihad Now.

How the boomers crippled France.

Outrage entrepreneurship.

An Unresponsive Public Is Undermining Government Economic Data.

Steam Decked

Chill Clowns

I’ve seen things more moronic and self-harming, but it was usually in a person who’d taken so much meth they were starting to steam.