October 31st, 2015 3:05pm
posts from 2015 / 10
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If Nostradamus was alive today, he’d be over 511 years old. PS I called the fruit OS X secure erase trash SSD thing. https://t.co/wVHFeeqYN9
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RT @ryantate: lol — nailed it, Apple https://t.co/yQXnlhjeBu
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RT @missokistic: The collective noun for a group of libertarians is “an entitlement.”
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A well heard chopper, being necessary to the identity of tiresome men, the right of the people to keep and bear motors, shall not be abridg—
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Since it’s Halloween, here’s the “Horror Channel” theme that shipped with the Windows 98 Plus Pack.
October 31st, 2015 12:24pm
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Led Zeppelin. Houses Of The Holy. Original cover photo by Aubrey Powell. Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland, 1973.
October 31st, 2015 12:22pm
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RT @sixangryghosts: DEATH TO NOSTALGIA https://t.co/1pT9C4KsJw
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October 31st, 2015 9:46am
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October 31st, 2015 9:46am
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October 31st, 2015 9:45am
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Hell on Earth comes in different sizes… Who is more dangerous? Vote below! Own the Lumberjack Man and Chucky today.
October 31st, 2015 9:45am
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October 31st, 2015 9:44am
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Arkadiusz Podniesinski’s aerial photograph of cars abandoned in the exclusion zone around Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station (via inspirationals)
October 31st, 2015 9:43am
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RT @SenSanders: Happy Halloween from The Monster! https://t.co/uuau3avuTF
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RT @kidkoala: good morning east coast. a 1 minute remix of the Ghostbusters theme for ya. #happyhalloween #dontcrossthestreams
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Daily, 4:30-9AM
😹#1 cries at 30s intervals unless shut in kitchen.
😿#2 cries at 30m intervals to get in and out of kitchen.
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Boo.
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The Suck.com origin story
From 1996, a Wired article by Josh Quittner about Suck, Carl Steadman and Joey Anuff’s now-legendary website.
Who at HotWired noticed the look of dread and tension on the faces of Carl and Joey when Suck secretly launched like a torpedo on August 28, 1995? Carl tied his desktop machine at HotWired into his server, which was hidden in plain sight among the array of hardware, so he could watch as people logged in to Suck that first day. This is the coldly accurate terror of the new medium: Carl could tell at any second not only how many people were logged in to his server, but in some cases, who they were.
On that first day, a hundred people found Suck – not a bad turnout considering the Boys told only their friends. Naturally, their friends told their friends, and good news travels like a sweet breeze across the Web.
This was critical since Carl had set some ambitious goals: he wanted 1,000 hits by the end of the week, he wanted to be more successful than any HotWired channel by the end of two months, and he wanted to be the Cool Site of the Day within three months.
Suck made each benchmark.
Some notes: 1) Suck was one of the handful of sites that inspired me to start publishing online. Thank you, Carl & Joey. 2) I loved the site so much that I build a parody of it called Sock. They linked to it soon after it went up and I DIED. Can’t link to it because 0sil8, my site from that era, isn’t online right now. 3) I applied for an internship at Hotwired in early 1996. Never heard back. What an alternate timeline that would have been. 4) Reading this made me sad. I love the Web so much, like more than is probably sane and healthy for a non-human entity, but nearly every other good thing in my life has happened because of it. And that Web is going quickly, if not already gone. All good things… and all that, but it still fucking wrecks me.
October 30th, 2015 8:04pm
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Captial extraction abhors a surplus. https://t.co/UDrR4AbleB
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RT @jordanzakarin: Here is a puppy dressed as ALF https://t.co/ZmgB5KtDu2
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RT @MobyDickatSea: Here’s food for thought, had Ahab time to think; but Ahab never thinks; he only feels, feels, feels
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RT @TerenceBernardo: Dirge produced with Kid Koala is now available on iTunes, Amazon and other stores and streaming services like… http:…
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Perimeter content detonation is dumb if you don’t MITM all TLS and if you do, you are.
Not sure how strongly I feel that, mostly instinct.
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LRT, between macro and micro, there should be a pre-req full semester on “Civics, the golden rule, and the myth of ceteris paribus.”
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RT @ibogost: So much going on here. https://t.co/esw8WAVyzV
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RT @whimsley: First comment on this article also worth reading. https://t.co/bvKLRWY699
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RT @ArfMeasures: [park]
STRANGER: Your dog is unusual lookingME: Yeah, he’s interbred
DUCK: [waddles up] I’ll tell you who else is into …
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psa maybe don’t pick the first time in like a year that rain lifts all the… whatever coats the streets in Frisco to take the skateboard out
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Even in a locked room, I always secure the rear wheel to the downpost so that theives have to carry. Hers was too. https://t.co/Cc9yRHd8U0
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Holy shit, neighbor documenting next door’s busted fence and backwards door found mine and her bikes stashed there! https://t.co/YjOfkTuwbm
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In the meantime, after years of using OS X Server DNS, I will return to using /etc/hosts like a god damned caveman, because it works.
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Apple, consider giving OS X Server PM’s job to the OS X Server Websites PM and visa versa.
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OS X Server, a thing for serving, stops serving things if updated. OS X Server’s Websites do not stop serving a website when told to stop.
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Airbnb is taking over San Francisco, causing long-time tenants to be evicted so that landlords can turn what should be homes into hotels. Removing rental units from the market like this is a driving cause of the ridiculously rising rents in the City. This is a photo taken from space by Commander Scott Kelly with Anti-Eviction Mapping Project’s map of Airbnb units laid on it. Please, if you live in SF, vote Yes on Prop F, which places reasonable regulations on the industry that will ensure the entire city doesn’t turn into tourist rentals.
The No on F campaign is flooding the airwaves with lies. Click here for the truth.Vote Yes on F to save San Francisco.
PLEASE REBLOG THIS
October 28th, 2015 7:51am
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October 28th, 2015 7:32am
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RT @guardianstyle: No one knows. So say “noon” or “midnight” or you will confuse people. https://t.co/xE9wTPqVTj
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@grahamvsworld my plans to have a bowl of cereal for dinner and then walk past a tent city camp to look for my stuff.
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I mistook a thread with my dad and the everloving wife for a chat with just her, so I started a chat with just him: https://t.co/D2QLn4RLHk
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RT @AnnKossuth: @KoryStamper @johnemcintyre heh-heh-heh He said “afflatus.” *heh-heh-heh." No, no, wait… THEY said “afflatus!” https:/…
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RT @rachelle_mandik: —You a private eye?
That’s what the blue neon sign says out front.
—It’s argon. Neon glows orange.
V.O.: From the s…
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“GPG clumsily attempted here ˙ ͜ʟ˙” is unfortunate for the old MUA integrations, but shameful for new webmail MUA+MTAs claiming “security.“
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RT @rachelle_mandik: listen carefully. some people say “heartbeep” instead of “heartbeat.” they are the first wave of robots. do not trust …
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@coaxmetal @vogin yeah, uh, variable trotting equestrian cadence, look it up.
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Egress No Ingress: great band name. Also? Aligned with last Moby Dick Retweet: https://t.co/twy5SFpqZj
Moby Dick Retweet? Great band name.
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The builing next door hung the security door to their garbage alley facing the wrong direction. Egress no ingress. https://t.co/Iw90FKGlN0
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The bike thieves broke back into the building this AM. Anyone have a ’99 Gary Fisher Paragon? I was really, really used to that geometry. 🚲
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RT @MobyDickatSea: Drat the file, and drat the bone! That is hard which should be soft, and that is soft which should be hard.
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RT @animaldrumss: who do you think makes better tomato sauce? me (a dumb ass), or a guy who owns a professional tomato sauce making company…
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Xmas came early for one SF bicycle thief this year, who found six-packs of '11, '12, '13, & '14 @AnchorBrewing Christmas Ale in my stocking.
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. @AnchorBrewing
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Christmas is canceled. Someone broke into my building storage and stole a bike, and all the beer.
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RT @biorhythmist: Brunch: Not even once.
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October 24th, 2015 10:10pm
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RT @NadiaKayyali: IF you want to know how scary it is to some that EFF is even discussing harassment, read the responses to this tweet http…
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@SteveFlack Version 2.0.12 (130716.1016.450), fixed by upgrading to 2.0.24 just now. Oops! Thanks for the support, love the app! 🍻
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@SteveFlack that reminds me, BA consistently segfault-11s on me when I edit the grain bill in a new recipe, can I send you a crash report?
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Riding the California cable car line. 🚋
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October 23rd, 2015 9:39pm
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RT @SteveMartinToGo: Whenever I hear someone died of natural causes, I think, “Wait a minute. I have that.”
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The @Airbnb meta-game is strong but we’ve spent the last few years building up an immunity to the startup equivalent of iocane powder.
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RT @TheOnion: Ex-Nickelodeon Stars Relate Horrors Of Green Slime Syndrome https://t.co/WmHtzknsPH https://t.co/Fm8DC10GXl
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tfw the Ts & Cs are a hokey prison construct created by an architect and oracle w/ decent action but a flimsy plot https://t.co/eQkb9nz2up
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Rad!
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Oh, this’s the Most Extreme Elimination Challenge where @Airbnb’s Marky Marketer turns a reverse Banksy into a tone deaf culture jam. Oh!
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October 22nd, 2015 8:49am
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Insidious shrinking doughnut hole conspiracy revealed. This is why North America keeps getting fatter.
October 22nd, 2015 7:06am
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Edmund Dulac, Valley of The Shadow, Edgar Allan Poe’s Eldorado, Paris, 1909.
October 22nd, 2015 7:05am
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Fuck you, mug! I’m doing good and I don’t need your drama.
October 22nd, 2015 7:04am
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TIL fishing with telephones has been a thing for as long as there’ve been telephones: electrofishing, also illegal most places.
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“Poachers”, Tom Franklin: Alabama game warden spots a telephone in the bottom of the boys’ boat and tells ‘em to pull to shore.
I’m all ??
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RT @michaelcoyote: With Palo Alto saying HSR is “moving too fast” in mind, check out this well aged vintage @burritojustice rant.
https://…
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Apple! https://t.co/h48hr156tf
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💀🎃 Seasonal git griefing, “You really shouldn’t push a detached head.” https://t.co/q5T5zENBSb
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And you may tell yourself
This is not my inbox!
Sorting the sent items/let the email hold me down
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Oooh, we should go! Amanda Walker Stavely
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October 20th, 2015 8:54pm
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RT @SFBART: “No vaping” joins “no smoking” on station signage. https://t.co/jcwKrsGvhi
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ATTN: “The Three Body Problem” advocates, we need to talk about yer prose advocacy. https://t.co/ub90wUbnQr
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RT @inky: wow rude https://t.co/eQrD9BMeH4
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RT @dril: concerning “Online”, ive found there are websites that are often considered the “Good” websites, and others generally understood …
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RT @richtener: finally wins game of words with friends
cheers
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October 19th, 2015 10:59pm
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October 19th, 2015 10:59pm
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RT @marazepeda: Don’t despair, #startup founders. Today’s card: https://t.co/LIpH19cj0Y
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October 19th, 2015 9:39pm
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October 19th, 2015 9:38pm
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RT @tcheiman: Message me if you’re interested! https://t.co/FP7DrAYDIe
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October 19th, 2015 9:07am
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October 19th, 2015 9:04am
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Paul Cézanne, La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, Aix-en-Provence, c. 1890.
October 19th, 2015 8:52am
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October 18th, 2015 9:52am
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Sample of TLP Yellow to TLP Amber in a list corpus: 1:70. I’ve never heard anyone say a yellow traffic light is amber.
I’m with yellow.🚦
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RT @maradydd: Nov. 20, 1980: drilling engineers screw up measurement, punch a hole into a salt mine and accidentally drain a lake https://t…
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Bless me father, for I have sinned. My last confession was 22 years ago.
I’ve become veinous about my SQL. I capitalize, I align, I–[sobs]
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In Jira, use {{NSA}}, elsewhere, continue to use “The Secret Police”, “The Parallel Construction Maternity Ward”, or “Them” at discretion.
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#logoff has moved to @SlackHQ. If you aren’t already in a cool-kids slack with me and you wanna lurk about stuff with pro-lurkers, lmk, nbw.
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“I am not rewriting this to use a coda, like a goddamned monk.” he complained in the time it’d have taken to do, like a goddamned engineer.
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LW: OS X app for pop song fakebook charts? I’d like to add lyrics to minimal changes-and-arrangement one-sheets. http://t.co/im7XlamZfW
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RT @CyberDomain: Hacking Secre http://t.co/MQ2vtBHheC #InfoSec #Security #SEO #Tech #IoT #BigData http://t.co/UG3d1tmWSb http://t.co/HqSF6R…
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RT @ohheygreat: An adult man got mad at me for asking him to walk left, stand right. Sir, do you know who I am? I am the woman willing to d…
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RT @allafarce: Look, here’s the secret no one tells you:
That enterprise thing, the $100m one - it’s duct tape too.
They just bid with st…
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RT @animaldrumss: im not a big “alcohol guy”, i just drink whatever’s in the house, until its completely gone, regardless of the type, the …
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[looks up from clipboard, considers that 20 amps should be enough for about 50 new 20W light bulbs per room], “yeah, pal, it’ll be enough.”
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“33.33333 amps ought to be enough for anybody“, said the roaring ‘20s electrician who wired my 12 unit building. http://t.co/x88QcSbdVk
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New language for slavery and the Civil War
Drawing upon the work of colleagues, historian Michael Todd Landis proposes new language for talking about slavery and the Civil War. In addition to favoring “labor camps” over the more romantic “plantations”, he suggests retiring the concept of the Union vs the Confederacy.
Specifically, let us drop the word “Union” when describing the United States side of the conflagration, as in “Union troops” versus “Confederate troops.” Instead of “Union,” we should say “United States.” By employing “Union” instead of “United States,” we are indirectly supporting the Confederate view of secession wherein the nation of the United States collapsed, having been built on a “sandy foundation” (according to rebel Vice President Alexander Stephens). In reality, however, the United States never ceased to exist. The Constitution continued to operate normally; elections were held; Congress, the presidency, and the courts functioned; diplomacy was conducted; taxes were collected; crimes were punished; etc. Yes, there was a massive, murderous rebellion in at least a dozen states, but that did not mean that the United States disappeared.
October 15th, 2015 8:55am
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RT @KelseyWho: This was returned to our library like this. http://t.co/VF2WeKrhVZ
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October 14th, 2015 10:39pm
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Well as a crytponumismatic, I think that arglebarglerawrghvfam…
Donate to support my wrong opinions: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e!
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RT @susie_c: So much populist rhetoric echoing down the long slopes of the pyramid scheme
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RT @lonelysandwich: Time to share: we made a show, it’s a technology talk show set in 1983. And it’s called Computer Show.
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Other cities like Santa Monica, Berlin, Paris and Barcelona banned Airbnb. Prop F does nothing of the sort — it simply sets fair, reasonable rules for those wishing to rent out an extra room from time to time, or their entire house when on vacation. Prop F holds corporations like Airbnb accountable by limiting ‘hosting platforms’ to listing only units that are properly registered with the City, so the city can enforce the law. It’s not rocket science. We’re just trying to reasonably regulate one of the most vital assets – housing – that the city has in the face of a wealthy tech industry that wants to commodify absolutely everything without regard for who it hurts along the way.
— The truth behind the Airbnb lies | 48 hills (via webuiltthiscity)
October 13th, 2015 8:43pm
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RT @JosephScrimshaw: Actually Frankenstein was the name of the scientist. I, the person correcting you on this trivial point, am the monste…
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October 12th, 2015 9:52pm
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RT @Dymaxion: So much of what we pretend is technology advancing is really just capitalists rearranging society to better extract work and …
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Belated Happy Anniversary to Jason Decker and Sandra L. Paredes! (by posting a picture of me and the everloving wife that I forgot about from a year ago at their wedding reception.)
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Toastmasters’s old “count the ums” schtick is inhumane, they should count the faux-formal “as well” used in businessman’s cant instead.
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RT @lukeoneil47: I’m a serious and credible right wing essayist and my guns take is what if Inglorious Basterds was real? Not hard too imag…
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“So like, then I was like.” he said, exhaling a massive vape pull, “Si vis pacem, para bellum, you know? Si vis pacem, para bellum, man.”
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RT @ntabebe: the only difference is a cosmetic shift in the amount of warning, guidance, feedback, or discipline you’ll get before it happe…
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RT @ntabebe: I’m reading about no-management business structures and can’t stop thinking that if you can be fired, then you’re still being …
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“Your name is Tasbeeh. Don’t let them call you by anything else.”
My mother speaks to me in Arabic; the command sounds more forceful in her mother tongue, a Libyan dialect that is all sharp edges and hard, guttural sounds. I am seven years old and it has never occurred to me to disobey my mother. Until twelve years old, I would believe God gave her the supernatural ability to tell when I’m lying.
“Don’t let them give you an English nickname,” my mother insists once again, “I didn’t raise amreekan.”
My mother spits out this last word with venom. Amreekan. Americans. It sounds like a curse coming out of her mouth. Eight years in this country and she’s still not convinced she lives here. She wears her headscarf tightly around her neck, wades across the school lawn in long, floor-skimming skirts. Eight years in this country and her tongue refuses to bend and soften for the English language. It embarrasses me, her heavy Arab tongue, wrapping itself so forcefully around the clumsy syllables of English, strangling them out of their meaning.
But she is fierce and fearless. I have never heard her apologize to anyone. She will hold up long grocery lines checking and double-checking the receipt in case they’re trying to cheat us. My humiliation is heavy enough for the both of us. My English is not. Sometimes I step away, so people don’t know we’re together but my dark hair and skin betray me as a member of her tribe.
On my first day of school, my mother presses a kiss to my cheek.
“Your name is Tasbeeh,” she says again, like I’ve forgotten. “Tasbeeh.”
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Roll call is the worst part of my day. After a long list of Brittanys, Jonathans, Ashleys, and Yen-but-call-me-Jens, the teacher rests on my name in silence. She squints. She has never seen this combination of letters strung together in this order before. They are incomprehensible. What is this h doing at the end? Maybe it is a typo.
“Tas…?”
“Tasbeeh,” I mutter, with my hand half up in the air. “Tasbeeh.”
A pause.
“Do you go by anything else?”
“No,” I say. “Just Tasbeeh. Tas-beeh.”
“Tazbee. All right. Alex?”
She moves on before I can correct her. She said it wrong. She said it so wrong. I have never heard my name said so ugly before, like it’s a burden. Her entire face contorts as she says it, like she is expelling a distasteful thing from her mouth. She avoids saying it for the rest of the day, but she has already baptized me with this new name. It is the name everyone knows me by, now, for the next six years I am in elementary school. “Tazbee,” a name with no grace, no meaning, no history; it belongs in no language.
“Tazbee,” says one of the students on the playground, later. “Like Tazmanian Devil?” Everyone laughs. I laugh too. It is funny, if you think about it.
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I do not correct anyone for years. One day, in third grade, a plane flies above our school.
“Your dad up there, Bin Laden?” The voice comes from behind. It is dripping in derision.
“My name is Tazbee,” I say. I said it in this heavy English accent, so he may know who I am. I am American. But when I turn around they are gone.
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I go to middle school far, far away. It is a 30-minute drive from our house. It’s a beautiful set of buildings located a few blocks off the beach. I have never in my life seen so many blond people, so many colored irises. This is a school full of Ashtons and Penelopes, Patricks and Sophias. Beautiful names that belong to beautiful faces. The kind of names that promise a lifetime of social triumph.
I am one of two headscarved girls at this new school. We are assigned the same gym class. We are the only ones in sweatpants and long-sleeved undershirts. We are both dreading roll call. When the gym teacher pauses at my name, I am already red with humiliation.
“How do I say your name?” she asks.
“Tazbee,” I say.
“Can I just call you Tess?”
I want to say yes. Call me Tess. But my mother will know, somehow. She will see it written in my eyes. God will whisper it in her ear. Her disappointment will overwhelm me.
“No,” I say, “Please call me Tazbee.”
I don’t hear her say it for the rest of the year.
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My history teacher calls me Tashbah for the entire year. It does not matter how often I correct her, she reverts to that misshapen sneeze of a word. It is the ugliest conglomeration of sounds I have ever heard.
When my mother comes to parents’ night, she corrects her angrily, “Tasbeeh. Her name is Tasbeeh.” My history teacher grimaces. I want the world to swallow me up.
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My college professors don’t even bother. I will only know them for a few months of the year. They smother my name in their mouths. It is a hindrance for their tongues. They hand me papers silently. One of them mumbles it unintelligibly whenever he calls on my hand. Another just calls me “T.”
My name is a burden. My name is a burden. My name is a burden. I am a burden.
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On the radio I hear a story about a tribe in some remote, rural place that has no name for the color blue. They do not know what the color blue is. It has no name so it does not exist. It does not exist because it has no name.
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At the start of a new semester, I walk into a math class. My teacher is blond and blue-eyed. I don’t remember his name. When he comes to mine on the roll call, he takes the requisite pause. I hold my breath.
“How do I pronounce your name?” he asks.
I say, “Just call me Tess.”
“Is that how it’s pronounced?”
I say, “No one’s ever been able to pronounce it.”
“That’s probably because they didn’t want to try,” he said. “What is your name?”
When I say my name, it feels like redemption. I have never said it this way before. Tasbeeh. He repeats it back to me several times until he’s got it. It is difficult for his American tongue. His has none of the strength, none of the force of my mother’s. But he gets it, eventually, and it sounds beautiful. I have never heard it sound so beautiful. I have never felt so deserving of a name. My name feels like a crown.
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“Thank you for my name, mama.”
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When the barista asks me my name, sharpie poised above the coffee cup, I tell him: “My name is Tasbeeh. It’s a tough t clinging to a soft a, which melts into a silky ssss, which loosely hugs the b, and the rest of my name is a hard whisper — eeh. Tasbeeh. My name is Tasbeeh. Hold it in your mouth until it becomes a prayer. My name is a valuable undertaking. My name requires your rapt attention. Say my name in one swift note – Tasbeeeeeeeh – sand let the h heat your throat like cinnamon. Tasbeeh. My name is an endeavor. My name is a song. Tasbeeh. It means giving glory to God. Tasbeeh. Wrap your tongue around my name, unravel it with the music of your voice, and give God what he is due.”
— Tasbeeh Herwees, The Names They Gave Me (via rabbrakha)
October 12th, 2015 8:26am
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RT @JamesMelville: Whoever decided to put giant googly eyes on this tree deserves a round of applause from Twitter. http://t.co/uBJDeBqNo3
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October 11th, 2015 9:14pm
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Dou Dizhu (sæn frənˈsɪskoʊ, fræn-) https://t.co/30JMUE2E7D
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RT @emmyblotnick: Fun game: refer to it clunkily as “man-explaining” until a guy snaps and corrects you
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this should not be a regular thing
https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2015-October/047160.html
October 10th, 2015 12:21pm
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The Blue Angels.
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October 9th, 2015 12:20am
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The last living person to tell a boiling frog story who’d actually boiled a frog drowned mysteriously in a shallow pond in the 13th century.
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While I’m posting about Windows 1.0 everyone should go watch this video.
October 7th, 2015 9:38pm
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RT @grahamvsworld: h/t @grantstavely “Whererver two or more are gathered in my name let them make a new Slack team and require another logi…
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HAPPY CAT
𝐵𝐸𝐸𝐹 & 𝐶𝐻𝐼𝐶𝐾𝐸𝑁
𝑓𝑙𝑎𝑣𝑜𝑟
𝙲𝙰𝚃 𝙵𝙾𝙾𝙳
&
𝔽𝕆𝕆𝕋 𝕃𝕆𝕋𝕀𝕆ℕ
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October 7th, 2015 8:44am
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i like it on scifi shows where they imagine it’s possible for humans and aliens to have sex with each other, like life born on another planet would have parts that fit with our parts and not STABBING SPEARS THAT EMERGE FROM THEIR BODIES AND DON’T EVEN DELIVER ANY SPERM
October 7th, 2015 8:42am
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RT @chernandburn: In USA vs. Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow gov’t rejects all defense offered shortcomings of key undercover agent but one: http…
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Whilst is Best Amongst Snake People http://t.co/VTEdS8iF26
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RT @ibogost: Pincus gave the President a PowerPoint presentation on what he calls “the product-management approach to government” http://t.…
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RT @Pinboard: My new life goal is to outlast Evernote. And take over their office tower, without hiring anyone. I’ll just wander the halls …
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. @maddagaska @marcusjcarey heh, why did we ever call them “false negatives” when we could have called them “senior analyst burdens.”
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RT @cappstreetcrap: Potty foul! Anti-pee campaign expanding to Capp Street, other Mission location. http://t.co/hrvrzgRqOy http://t.co/SjNf…
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Why did we ever call them “false positives” when we could have called them “analyst burden”?
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An IKEA assembly cartoon character frowning at their allen wrench used as a kickstand-fuse with big X drawn over it. http://t.co/1dYLdjNHku
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The New York City draft riots, protesting the Union Army draft, remain the largest civil and racial insurrection in American history aside from the American Civil War itself.
I read this as New York residents rioted to try to avoid fighting for the Union army
Which is exactly what happened. It was a poor man’s fight and a rich man’s war, because you could pay a certain amount and have a substitute sent in your place. The poor of New York City rioted in protest of being sent to fight a war they didn’t want, and of the rich who supported the war not having to fight it.
October 3rd, 2015 10:13am
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October 2nd, 2015 7:27am
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The prevailing judicial interpretation of the U.S. second amendment is outdated and dumb. Have a great day!
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October 1st, 2015 6:06pm
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RT @bbaskin: @grantstavely You’re wrong and I’m going to punch you in the face!
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“Guns.”
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September 30th, 2015 6:12pm
