“Imagine a sandcrawler, but smaller and built by the empire. That’s what I want.”
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Coder who dabbles in writing and is currently Austin-based after stints in New York City and Connecticut. You can find my writings at both this microblog as well as on my long form blog found at the totally trustworthy wormsandviruses.com.
While I think changing “Don’t Save” to “Delete” makes sense with new documents (where choosing not to save effectively deletes a given document), “Delete” doesn’t make any sense for documents that have a previously saved state.
Those who’ve seen Clerks: The Animated Series might enjoy this (though that may just be me, a few of my friends, and maybe @dmoren.)
Sometimes I wonder if years of hearing disingenuous arguments from friends and online forums has somewhat inoculated me when hearing them from politicians.
Trump demands journalists correct stories on the use of tear gas.
The tech giants have refused officials’ pleas to allow the collection of location data…
Is there any other article that aged so poorly so quickly despite being maligned from the start? @gruber
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/05/15/app-apple-google-virus/
Just in case it wasn’t clear before, I am anti-fascist.
Remains an apt quote for our times. Just to avoid confusion I would like to clarify that in the context of this movie, “pig” means “pig” and “fascist” means “fascist”. (Maybe we’ll watch it tonight.)
Related, the USB-C monitor I have also has two DisplayPorts so I am able to share it between the work laptop, iMac and PC. Since DisplayPort and USB-C support audio, switching video input also switches my headphones (with the help of @RogueAmoeba‘s SoundSource on the Macs.)
On a whim, I fired up Dishonored 2 after updating my gaming PC. Wondering why I stopped playing the game, I looked at the last saved date. It was the day before my wife went into labor with our son.
I can’t think of any better reason to take a break from gaming.
Pecking Orders
The recent murders of people of color has got me thinking about the pecking order aspect of racism, among other things. Pecking orders exist in all communities. The criteria behind them is almost always lazy, usually involving some obvious characteristic.
Absent of any meaningful diversity, the pecking order in the small town where I grew up was mostly determined by two things: history and wealth. Cops mostly hassled and arrested poor outsiders and newcomers.1
This is the police injustice I understood as a white boy living in a small white town —- disgusting, but not horrifying. Like many I suspect, my white small town experience led to white small town racist thinking. “Cops are bad, but they don’t just murder black people for no reason.”
It took leaving that small town for me to learn that not all pecking orders are equal.
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This isn’t to say the cops weren’t racist. They also hassled minorities when they could, but their opportunity to do so was already mitigated by the institutional racism that kept minorities out of my small town in the first place. ↩︎