Flutterby™! From 2021-06-01 to 2021-06-30

Phoenix Scholz reviews Chuck Tingle's Trans Wizard Harriet Porber and The Bad Boy Parasaurolophus on Strange Horizons

Wasted Funds, Destroyed Property: How Sheriffs Undermined Their Successors After Losing Reelection

Alabama sheriffs who lost reelection in 2018 personally pocketed funds and deleted public records, an investigation by AL.com and ProPublica found. Holes were drilled through government-issued smartphones and leftover rice was poured down the drain, among other things. It’s a longstanding tradition that sheriffs aren’t typically held accountable for.

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Maybe one of y'all who are versed in the black magic of SEO can tell me just WinTF is going on here? I mean, I'm not averse to my blog user profile name having a high rank for people searching for "rocket copters dicks", but...

[ related topics: Photography Weblogs Space & Astronomy Clowns Aviation - Helicopters ]

Sigh. Scaleway is deprovisioning the server class that my various web sites have been running on, so I need to migrate to something else. Searching for a cheap VM to drop a few domains on.

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With any luck, this server is on Hetzner, not Scaleway.

You can't rewrite history that is staring you in the face — The folly of the right's obsession with the 1619 Project — Lucian K. Truscott IV

You are looking at a photograph of me and my cousin Shannon Lanier. It’s a photograph that illustrates why the 1619 Project is such a white supremacist’s nightmare, teaching that racism and slavery played a major role in the founding of this nation. It’s a photograph of the truth exposed, at least in part, by critical race theory, an academic discipline that teaches the same thing. It is not only a photograph, it is a fact. It is history staring you in the face, history in flesh and blood, history that cannot be rewritten, cannot be buried, cannot be denied, because we are alive to tell it.

That’s Thomas Jefferson’s grave we’re standing on. We are 6th great grandsons of Thomas Jefferson, the nation’s third president long idolized as a founding father of the United States. Shannon is descended from Jefferson’s 36 year relationship – if relations between an enslaved person and a slave owner can be called that – with Sally Hemings, who is his 6th great grandmother. I am descended from Jefferson’s relationship with his wife Martha, who is my 6th great grandmother. Shannon’s great grandmother was enslaved by my 6th great grandfather. We are tied together not only by blood but by the stain of slavery on our family and our country. We are cousins, and we are also blood brothers. We carry in our souls the legacy of the slavery that brought our great grandparents together. We are descendants of slavery. It lives within us.

The whole damned thing is worth reading.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Photography Sociology Race Marriage ]

Edmunds electric car range and consumption real world vs EPA

Of course what I'd really like to see is this number after 5 years, given that we know someone who sold a Bolt that was lucky to be getting 40 miles...

[ related topics: Current Events Automobiles Fabrication ]

RT the roughest toughest frail @em_aytch

STOP DOING FLAGS

YEARS OF VEXILLOLOGY yet NO REAL WORLD APPLICATION FOUND for representing gender and sexuality WITH COLORS

Wanted to show off anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: it was called "HANKIES"

They have played us for absolute fools

A blog post from back in 2009: Why can't Churches be more like Contra?. One of the comments makes me think I may have another book to add to the queue:

Have you read Diana Butler Bass's book Christianity After Religion? It asks a similar question in a very powerful and convincing way. And she proposes that churches need to put their community first, their behavior second, and their beliefs (as in trust, not the modern definition of belief) last.

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“The problem with a phone is that we're not very good going through orifices to get to the end users.” --- Steve Jobs, talking, perhaps, about the post-Apple Watch future?

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Alleged US Capitol rioter who heckled police for 'protecting pedophiles' served jail time for statutory rape of 14-year-old girl

According to prosecutors' description of the footage, McHugh allegedly shouted, "You guys like protecting pedophiles?" "you're protecting communists," "I'd be shaking in your little s--t boots too," and, "there is a Second Amendment behind us, what are you going to do then?"

[ related topics: Politics Sexual Culture Law Enforcement Civil Liberties Shoes ]

Days before Rep. Mike Nearman helped protesters breach (the Oregon) Capitol, he coached constituents just how he’d help them do it

Twitter thread with the video.

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If I could go back to the '90s with modern technology, I'd take PDFs as an example of the absolute failure of automation. "Print this, sign it, scan it, find a way to transfer the resulting multi-megabyte file..."

[ related topics: Interactive Drama ]

Dry spring, the hills are golden

Went down to the San Geronimo valley to walk around the area by Roy's Redwoods

Well nuts, my file uploader isn't working 'cause I've moved my web site from ARM to Intel, and recompilation is blocked by my lack of understanding of the changes in C++ semantics and that Boost intrusive_ptr issue. Sigh.

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Every time I mute someone on Facebook, rather than un-friend, I wonder if this is the person & time where there'll be some scandal and people will be asking why I was FB friends with them...

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On the one hand: Washington Post: We may never know where the virus came from. But evidence still suggests nature.

On the other: Bulletin of the Atomic Sciences: The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?

Based strictly on these two articles I'm leaning towards "not escaped from a lab", but I also realized that as much as my social network gives me notions of whose opinion I trust and who I don't, I don't know a whole lot of people specifically into virology.

Edit: Twitter thread asserting that "...almost every single one of the named authors in this increasingly influential lab leak paper is demonstrably batshit"

[ related topics: Microsoft virus broadband Nature and environment ]

Science rediscovers what we already knew: Open Biology: Review articles — Brain and testis: more alike than previously thought?

The similarity between human brain and testis may be explained by a biochemical convergence and by the involvement of these two tissues in the speciation process. The high similarity of proteins between human brain and testis may have clinical relevance. Indeed, the common proteins may be associated with the simultaneously impairment of brain and testis function. The identification of these proteins, along with the analysis of their role in brain and/or testis function, could help in better understanding the pathophysiology of these conditions, as well as in the development of new therapeutic strategies for treating brain or testis diseases.

[ related topics: Invention and Design Mathematics ]

Testing out my fixes some CMS code with pictures from Saturday down at Roy's Redwoods

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From the loop that goes around and on the hillside above the former golf-course in the San Geronimo Valley

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Just a shot of mostly non-redwoods in the grove

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Okay, maybe that last picture has some redwoods. Captions like that are what happens when the thumbnails are too small

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Just some pretty

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I don't think I managed to capture the feel of the forest, but I got a picture of Charlene, so I'll save that.

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And Charlene peeking through that hole in the burned out redwood, for scale

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New text messages show toxic culture in CA police squad | The Sacramento Bee. When you've made the

For example, Eureka Police Officers Association President Terry Liles was quick to publicly criticize the officers’ “extremely egregious behavior.” In a rare public rebuke of fellow cops, the union in a statement on the department’s Facebook page hours after The Bee’s story was published called the comments “abhorrent.”

North Coast Journal: 'Mission, Values, Vision' Leaked text messages and an ensuing investigation reveal a toxic culture in at least one unit at EPD

[ related topics: Invention and Design Sociology Current Events Law Enforcement California Culture ]

RT Joan “Pride of Saugus” Donovan, 🦫 @BostonJoan

I still can’t believe I was the co-creator of 🦫.

Every time I use it, I’m like “wwwhhhaaatttt have I done with my life?”

I am more proud of this accomplishment than my PhD.

Slate: About Dam Time — The hilarious, extremely convincing proposal to make a beaver emoji.

Unicode L2/19-110: Proposal for BEAVER Emoji

This proposal requests the addition of the BEAVER emoji to the Unicode emoji library.Beavers are a suborder of rodents mostly restricted to North America, who are hunted for their fur. ​The fur trade was a significant factor in the selection of the beaver as an official emblem of Canada, which extends back at least as far as the 17th century,where the beaver appeared on the Montreal coat of arms. However, outside of Canada,the beaver has many different meanings culturally. College and high school sports teams use the beaver as a mascot. As well, the beaver is sometimes used as slang tomake reference women’s vigina[sic]. Among lesbians, references to beavers are insidejokes that carry no pejorative insult.

Ended up reading this article because of a a Twitter thread talking about crime statistics reporting and how the narrative about police and crime is shaped:

Fentanyl, guns, and murder mean you should get ready for a bloody summer:

One challenge in interpreting crime data in general—and making sense of the 2020 surge in particular—is the slow pace at which it is published. National news outlets have run stories highlighting the murder wave in large U.S. cities, painting a picture of spikes that are unique to those generally liberal urban areas. “The U.S. saw significant crime rise across major cities in 2020 [a]nd it’s not letting up,” read one CNN headline from April typifying the genre.

But one reason reporters tend to focus on crime in large cities is because they have the capacity to publish more frequent crime statistics, whereas other smaller towns and rural areas don’t or choose not to.

(I had trouble reading this on a mobile device, shared it to my desktop, was able to read it, but then went back to the page and it had gone subscription only, so....?)

[ related topics: Current Events Law Enforcement Guns ]

Representative Louie Gohmert (R-TX) is really going all out in searching for solutions to climate change:

"Is there anything that the National Forest Servide or BLM can do to change the course of the moon's orbit or the earth's orbit around the sun?"

[ related topics: Space & Astronomy Java Global Warming ]

Inundated with Facebook ads for products that can't possibly be legit. I wonder how long it is before social media advertising has negative value: "As seen on Facetwitstagram" comes to mean "definitely avoid at all costs".

[ related topics: Consumerism and advertising Journalism and Media ]

It's so windy I'm a little concerned that these shoes make me a target for falling houses

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Original rainbow flag returns home to San Francisco after being lost for more than 40 years

"Hand-dyed, big mess, cotton, oh my God you don't even want to know, stitch, stitch, stitch on the little Singer. Pink is for sex, red is for life, orange for healing, yellow for sun, green, nature, turquoise for magic, blue for serenity, and purple for the spirit. I like to think of those elements as in every person," Baker said in that 2017 interview.

[ related topics: Religion Erotic Sexual Culture Nature and environment Bay Area California Culture Clowns Joss Whedon - Serenity / Firefly Java ]

Fuuuu.... not now, Objective-C...

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Journal of Clinical Epidemiology: The Impact of Gender on Researchers’ Assessment: A Randomized Controlled Trial DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2021.05.026

A simulated post-doctoral process was carried forward to be assessed for judgment. Level 1 and 2 Brazilian fellow researchers in the field of Dentistry were invited to act as external reviewers in a post-doctoral process and were randomly assigned to receive a CV from a woman or a man. They were required to rate the CV from 0 to 10 in scientific contribution, leadership potential, ability to work in groups, and international experience.

Yeah, you know what happened.

[ related topics: Work, productivity and environment Gambling ]

Not sure how to deal with those Photoshop .psd files? Photopea is a .psd editor that's fully web-hosted (but also single-page, so you can disconnect from the net and keep editing).

The story of a unicorn solo founder making $500,000 ARR, and AMA: Ivan Kutskir, creator of Photopea

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The New York Times fabricates a nonexistent shoplifting wave in San Francisco, then wrongly blames it on criminal justice reforms and the city’s supposed soft-on-crime image

Yet, state and local crime clearance reports show the problem is not San Franciscans’ failure to report shoplifting to police, but the SFPD’s low rate (4.9 percent) of making arrests in reported thefts compared to police elsewhere in the state (10.5 percent). Fuller’s quip-sourced article manufacturing a nonexistent shoplifting wave and then baselessly blaming the supposed failure of criminal justice reforms does not rise to the standards one expects of the New York Times.

[ related topics: Invention and Design Bay Area Current Events Law Enforcement Mathematics California Culture New York ]

Twitter thread about a few passages from The Greenville (South Carolina) News, October 2^nd 1918

A number of complaints have come to members of Council of negro women who are not at work and who refuse employment when it is offered them, the result being that it is exceedingly difficult for families who need cooks and laundresses to get them.

In case you're wondering about the destruction of the family unit...

[ related topics: Sociology Law Current Events Work, productivity and environment ]

Revealed: rightwing firm posed as leftist group on Facebook to divide Democrats

“There were no policies at Facebook against pretending to be a group that did not exist, an abuse vector that has also been used by the governments of Honduras and Azerbaijan,” said Sophie Zhang, a former Facebook employee and whistleblower who played a small role in the investigation of the Green party ads.

She added: “The fact that Rally Forge later went on to conduct coordinated inauthentic behavior with troll farms reminiscent of Russia should be taken as an indication that Facebook’s leniency led to more risk-taking behavior.”

[ related topics: Cool Science Work, productivity and environment Graphics Mathematics ]

When you're too old and lazy to figure out how to input emoji, so resort to Googling and copy-paste, until suddenly someone shows you ctrl+cmd+space on the Mac and then it's all 👅🦫 🍆🍑 and oooh look it's got a most recently used section!

[ related topics: Space & Astronomy Television Macintosh ]

Want to destroy ransomware and crypto currencies? Provide cheap international currency exchange and a mechanism for paying for sex work and drugs.

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Just hanging out in the sun

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Blackberries in bloom at the intersection of the cross Marin trail at SFD and Platform Bridge

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Bee in flight

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More nectar gathering

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Swallowtail

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Don’t Feed the Thought Leaders:

It turns out that Philip E. Tetlock from the University of Pennsylvania, who has been studying the judgment and decision making of experts for most of his career, has something to say about those types of predictions. And Tetlock is an expert on experts: his Good Judgement Project was able to beat CIA analysts by 30% at predicting geo-political events. And the intelligence officers had access to classified information.

Philip Tetlock: Why foxes are better forecasters than hedgehogs

It’s a matter of judgement style, first expressed by the ancient Greek warrior poet Archilochus: “The fox knows many things; the hedgehog one great thing.” The idea was later expanded by essayist Isaiah Berlin. In Tetlock’s interpretation, Hedgehogs have one grand theory (Marxist, Libertarian, whatever) which they are happy to extend into many domains, relishing its parsimony, and expressing their views with great confidence. Foxes, on the other hand are skeptical about grand theories, diffident in their forecasts, and ready to adjust their ideas based on actual events.

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Maybe I *have* been hanging out with too many anarchists lately, #912 in a series: Read "AMAB", wondered what the "M" was... "All Moms Are...? No, that doesn't scan."

A take of two kitties

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In the future, everything will be Constantinople

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COVID-19 cases are on the rise again in Sonoma County, and I can't help but note that mid-May and June are looking awfully similar to last year. Hope that vaccine stays effective.

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Posting this here 'cause I know a bunch of CPAP users, and Charlene's CPAP vendor *did not* contact her to tell her about this... If you're using Philips equipment manufactured before April 26, 2021: "Discontinue use of your device and work with your physician or Durable Medical Equipment (DME) provider to determine the most appropriate options for continued treatment."

Medical Device recall notification (U.S. only) / field safety notice (International Markets) — Philips Respironics

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Twitter thread poking holes in Monica Gandhi and Kyle Hunter's piece on "mistakes" California made in the COVID-19 pandemic handling, specifically on the bits where they try to tie suicide rates to virtual schooling.

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Giggle: For a recipe that my aunt Kay never made, it was quite good

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Anyone out there parsing Amazon Transcribe JSON? I'm trying to figure out how you get from the times used in things like speaker labels and the alternative items back into the transcript text.

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Bombshell Report Finds Phone Network Encryption Was Deliberately Weakened

A spokesperson for the organization that designed the GEA-1 algorithm, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), admitted that the algorithm contained a weakness, but said it was introduced because the export regulations at the time did not allow for stronger encryption.

"We followed regulations: we followed export control regulations that limited the strength of GEA-1," a spokesperson for ETSI told Motherboard in an email.

Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2021/819 — Cryptanalysis of the GPRS Encryption Algorithms GEA-1 and GEA-2

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Bowden's Own (car) detailing tools. Scroll down to hit the last several items. The attention to detail and commitment to the bit here is impressive...

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Okay, I realized that lumber prices are down a little bit off the peak, but that's just showing off.

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Thinking about the dangers of 2 factor auth, and how we need to implement it as 2 of n factor auth.

Ugh. So the Ubuntu Snap for aws-cli is broken. Isn't this the sort of crap that fancy new packaging systems are supposed to protect us from?

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Preprint and not yet approved, but.... Brain imaging before and after COVID-19 in UK Biobank, doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.06.11.21258690

We identified significant effects of COVID-19 in the brain with a loss of grey matter in the left parahippocampal gyrus, the left lateral orbitofrontal cortex and the left insula. When looking over the entire cortical surface, these results extended to the anterior cingulate cortex, supramarginal gyrus and temporal pole. We further compared COVID-19 patients who had been hospitalised (n=15) with those who had not (n=379), and while results were not significant, we found comparatively similar findings to the COVID-19 vs control group comparison, with, in addition, a greater loss of grey matter in the cingulate cortex, central nucleus of the amygdala and hippocampal cornu ammonis (all |Z|>3). Our findings thus consistently relate to loss of grey matter in limbic cortical areas directly linked to the primary olfactory and gustatory system.

List of people injured or killed at gender reveal parties

Shadow forwarded along this awesome mug that I might have to find a version of:

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Signs I may be spoiled by gigabit fiber to the home: I'm having to copy stuff to USB stick, and holy cow this physical media stuff is slooooooow.

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A little personal bloggage on practicing music and working on my voice... https://www.flutterby.net/2021-06-19_Music_Progress

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If you pike around, you can find the wreckage of landspeeders and the markings of Ewok scat

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Just looking up

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More looking up

More looking up (2nd try)

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Just some slow pans through the redwoods, with chirping birds, for your (and my) relaxation pleasure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gojRDAzFjKk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG25sUnkh8k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONQDH61dgsE

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The obesity wars and the education of a researcher: A personal account, Katherine M.Flegal

Abstract A naïve researcher published a scientific article in a respectable journal. She thought her article was straightforward and defensible. It used only publicly available data, and her findings were consistent with much of the literature on the topic. Her coauthors included two distinguished statisticians. To her surprise her publication was met with unusual attacks from some unexpected sources within the research community. These attacks were by and large not pursued through normal channels of scientific discussion. Her research became the target of an aggressive campaign that included insults, errors, misinformation, social media posts, behind-the-scenes gossip and maneuvers, and complaints to her employer. The goal appeared to be to undermine and discredit her work. The controversy was something deliberately manufactured, and the attacks primarily consisted of repeated assertions of preconceived opinions. She learned first-hand the antagonism that could be provoked by inconvenient scientific findings. Guidelines and recommendations should be based on objective and unbiased data. Development of public health policy and clinical recommendations is complex and needs to be evidence-based rather than belief-based. This can be challenging when a hot-button topic is involved.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pcad.2021.06.009

[ related topics: Health Journalism and Media Work, productivity and environment Community Education Artificial Intelligence ]

RT Tyler Mahan Coe @TylerMahanCoe

A lot of people on this website like to pretend they have controversial opinions or "hot takes" and that's all cute and everything but here's how it's done:

Recorded music is better than live music.

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RT Liz Bradley @TheLizBradley

As a startup founder who caters to the nonmonogamy community, I have to be very careful when I claim to be a unicorn 🦄

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Aaaarg! I have the AWS CLI (aws-cli/2.2.13 Python/3.8.8 Linux/5.4.0-74-generic exe/x86_64.ubuntu.20 prompt/off) installed. I have a ~/.aws/config that looks like:

[plugins]
endpoint = awscli_plugin_endpoint
cli_legacy_plugin_path = /home/danlyke/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/

[scaleway]
region = nl-ams
s3 =
  endpoint_url = https://s3.nl-ams.scw.cloud
  signature_version = s3v4
  max_concurrent_requests = 100
  max_queue_size = 1000
  multipart_threshold = 50MB
  # Edit the multipart_chunksize value according to the file sizes that you want to upload. The present configuration allows to upload files up to 10 GB (100 requests * 10MB). For example setting it to 5GB allows you to upload files up to 5TB.
  multipart_chunksize = 10MB
s3api =
  endpoint_url = https://s3.nl-ams.scw.cloud

[amazon]
region = us-east-1
[profile scaleway]
s3 =
    endpoint_url = https://s3.nl-ams.scw.cloud

The command:

aws s3 --profile scaleway ls

Results in:

Could not connect to the endpoint URL: "https://s3.nl-ams.amazonaws.com/"

Even the command:

aws s3 --endpoint-url https://s3.nl-ams.scw.cloud --profile scaleway ls

Results in the same thing. export | grep AWS has no output.

I could swear this worked once, but I cannot get it working now.

[ related topics: Free Software Books Open Source Work, productivity and environment Monty Python Python ]

spelling it "insetRect" rather than "insectRect" is apparently beyond my fingers...

The thread is on content-partnering for authors, but applies to almost everything. An excerpt: RT Captain Awkward @CAwkward

Bullshit-piercing question list again:

1. How much money are you offering?
2. What is the deliverable you expect?
3. Who owns the rights to that deliverable (and spinoff/related content) and for how long?
4. If this doesn't work out, how do we handle that?

2:

5. Can you describe what you'll be doing for the project and how(with actual numbers)?
6. Can I talk with other people you've worked with on similar projects (about actual numbers)?
7. Could I see a draft or sample agreement so I know exactly what I'd be getting into?

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Work, productivity and environment Civil Liberties Currency ]

One the one hand, I appreciate the compiler warning me that I probably don't want to compare a pointer and an integer, on the other hand I kinda miss C's "yeah, whatever, I can promote them to the same number of bits and some signededness" casualness about such things.

Current status: Thinking about how Nextdoor's use of volunteers for moderation creates a culture that empowers the sort of people who get off on being up in everyone else's business.

[ related topics: Sociology California Culture ]

I didn't find Nobilis Erotica #456 "It Came From Beneath" particularly erotic, but I'm giggling enough that I'm probably gonna put it on the re-listen queue: https://nobilis.libsyn.com/ep-...came-from-beneath-by-louis-evans

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Oh, this is brilliant: Crypto users bought some sort of weird-ass hardware key because putting your private keys on a proprietary device with unknown reliability or backup processes is always a good ideal. Vendor of said device got hacked. Hackers take advantage of this to send Trojan "replacements". Criminals are mailing altered Ledger devices to steal cryptocurrency

"For this reason for security purposes, we have sent you a new device you must switch to a new device to stay safe. There is a manual inside your new box you can read that to learn how to set up your new device," read the fake letter from Ledger.

"For this reason, we have changed our device structure. We now guarantee that this kinda breach will never happen again."

Well, yeah, that kinda breach isn't gonna happen again... 😂

[ related topics: virus Invention and Design Bay Area Current Events Cryptography ]

As the signs change from "Masks required" to "Masks required for unvaccinated people only", it's weird how the semantics of wearing masks have changed from "Not a Trump voter" to ... uh ... I'm not feelin' totally cool yet, but I want to signal that I'm vaccinated.

RT The GOP is Anti-American @sleepykitten99

I'm in this image and I don't like it.

Since the image is just text, I'm gonna transcribe it:

Therapist: And what do we do when we feel overwhelmed?

Me: Disappear entirely into our deepest #BDMS fantasies?

Therapist: Good girl.

Me: What?

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RT Whores of Yore @WhoresofYore:

Dafydd Ap Gwilym (c.1315-50) is one of the leading Welsh poets of the Middle Ages. He wrote about love, nature, & beauty. He also wrote this amazing poem about his penis. Here are the first few stanzas. Read it all here https://bodyliterature.com/2012/10/30/dafydd-ap-gwilym/

[ related topics: Sexual Culture Nature and environment ]

Journal of Sexual Medicine A Comparison of Sexual Health History and Practices among Monogamous and Consensually Nonmonogamous Sexual Partners Justin J Lehmiller PMID: 26395880 DOI: 10.1111/jsm.12987

Results: CNM partners reported more lifetime sexual partners than individuals in monogamous relationships. In addition, compared with monogamous partners, CNM partners were more likely to (i) report using condoms during intercourse with their primary partner; (ii) report using condoms during intercourse with extradyadic partners; and (iii) report having been tested for STIs. Approximately one-quarter of monogamous partners reported sex outside of their primary relationship, most of whom indicated that their primary partner did not know about their infidelity. The percentage of participants reporting previous STI diagnoses did not differ across relationship type.

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture Health Currency Archival ]

It's not that I'm writing button mouse interaction logic in Twenty freaking Twenty One, Common Era, it's that I'm doing so on top of a technology stack that has so many button options that it's freakin' silly, but not long vs short press. Sigh.

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Fuuuu... I was hoping for a few more years 'til I had to replace my hot water heater, so I could lay in the infrastructure for a heat-pump based one. But I guess I'm gonna get another gas one for the time being. Damn.

Coding for MacOS/Cocoa in 2021 is like coding for Carbon in 2007. It's clear that Apple thinks their future is in iOS and that the NS* widgets have been pretty much abandoned.

[ related topics: Apple Computer Software Engineering Macintosh ]

Just had occasion to log a browser into my blog. When I wrote the software, I think I set the "remember me forever" cookie to 15 years. Never did I imagine that the blog would outlast that by so much...

[ related topics: Weblogs Software Engineering ]

The days when I hate my job are the days when I'm struggling with a widget set that doesn't the simple stuff that I want it to do, and an event dispatching mechanism that's byzantine and prevents me from rolling my own solution. #FuckCocoa

[ related topics: Heinlein ]

Aha moment: I suddenly realized that many Unitarians like the process of decision-making more executing the outcome of those decisions. Suddenly so much social behavior makes sense!

Back from Drag Me To The River. You can tell something about the demographics of a Pride event when the gift bag included two bottles of hand sanitizer, and no bottles of lube. Had fun, but it's hard to get the energy of a good drag show outside...

[ related topics: Marketing Personal Lubricant ]

Back from Drag Me To The River. You can tell something about the demographics of a Pride event when the gift bag included two bottles of hand sanitizer, and no bottles of lube. Had fun, but it's hard to get the energy of a good drag show outside.

[ related topics: Photography Marketing Personal Lubricant ]

Pondering how the prefix of "!" means either "not", or, in the case of CSS and "!important", "very".

[ related topics: Law ]

Okay, a big ol' hunk o' tamarind paste, a few tablespoons of jaggery, some water, heated and pressed through a strainer isn't exactly the same sort of sauce served with papad in a restaurant, and the papad are out of a package and tossed in a toaster, but it's pretty tasty.

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I tried to actually type something on my 2018 MacBook Pro's keyboard last night, and I now understand why auto-corrupt is creeping in everywhere: Man that keyboard suuucks!

Anyone else get a Facebook notification of unusual activity and a forced password reset? The thing is... I use a password specific to Facebook, and I don't think I've used that password from anything but Chrome and Firefox on platforms I think I trust...

How Twitter can ruin a life — Isabel Fall’s sci-fi story “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter” drew the ire of the internet. This is what happened next.

[ related topics: Net Culture Aviation - Helicopters ]