Incoherent Conspiracy Suggests Ghislaine Maxwell Is a Powerful Redditor: Because a supercriminal setting up pseudonymous social media account to rule the Internet would absolutely use a variation on their real name.
Cory Doctorow: Cops are buying breach data. Why get a warrant when the crooks can do the work for you?
A Twitter Account Is Tracking the Cringiest Misuses Of Black Language
3 Mac apps I'm not using anymore
Thursday, July 9, 2020
I configured a new MacBook Pro a month ago. Usually I use Migration Assistant for that kind of thing but this time I started from scratch and moved data and apps over manually. Three apps that still haven’t made the transition. Alfred Keyboard Maestro TextExpander All three are apps I previously used daily and would have sworn were essential to my workflow. Apparently not. I do have an idea for a thing I want to do with Keyboard Maestro – set up a series of palettes to remind me of keyboard shortcuts.
Spies, Lies, and Stonewalling: What It’s Like to Report on Facebook: “… operating with the secrecy of an intelligence agency and the authority of a state government, Facebook has arrogated to itself vast powers while enjoying, until recently, limited journalistic scrutiny.“
The Militarization Of Police: Journalist Radley Balko, author of ‘Rise Of The Warrior Cop,’ says police departments across America are increasingly using equipment designed for use on a battlefield, including tanks, bayonets and grenades, and using them against peaceful protestors.
I thought this was settled science years ago.
Two racist cops threw me in jail 13 years ago. Let me tell you what needs to happen now.
Searing commentary from Ty Smith, a retired, decorated Navy SEAL and founder of a San Diego security company.
How to Buy Tech That Lasts and Lasts
Thursday, July 9, 2020
Brian X. Chen at the New York Times: When we buy a gadget these days, we rarely assume that it will endure. We expect to play a video game console only for as long as companies make games for it. We expect to use a smartphone or a laptop for just as long as the battery has juice or until it can no longer run important software.
Sheboygan toilet clogger sentenced to probation, 150 days in jail
Headline of the week.
Microsoft did a virtual-reality/augmented-reality thing to make video meetings look more like physical meetings
Wednesday, July 8, 2020
You get an avatar that sits at a table or – for bigger meetings – in a virtual lecture hall, with your own video-captured face on it. I’m skeptical. https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/08/microsoft_together_mode/
I got the new Facebook layout yesterday evening. That’s late – many people were getting it months ago, weren’t they?
I like it. It reminds me of Google+.
I like the new notifications layout.
I’ve lost the ability to format text in posts, which I had for a couple of months. No big deal.
But the Facebook News Feed is still a cluttered mess and inconvenient to use. And the News Feed is the only part of Facebook that interests me.
I want to be able to get notifications for comments separately from likes and reactions.
Also, I want to be able to create lists of friends, groups and pages where I see EVERY post made by members of that list, sorted reverse-chronologically by the time of the post.
Neither of these things is possible.
I’m not a Boomer. I’m Generation Jones
Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Generation Jones is the younger cohort of boomers. We are a separate generation, raised in the recession of the 70s in very early 80s, rather than the prosperous decades following World War II. We have a different attitude and different pop-culture icons than our older peers. Jeffrey I Williams writes at the Chronicle of Higher Education in 2014: Generation Jones is an actual thing. It refers to the second half of the baby boom, to a group of people born roughly from 1954 to 1965.
Julie got a new handbag. Sammy says, “Mine now!” 📷
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We watched Hamilton last night and 1776 tonight. That’s five hours and 25 minutes of movies. My butt has declared independence.