McSweeney’s, probably best known for its indisputably good humor, is cataloging Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes. No joke.
The safer you are in an environment of rising authoritarianism, the more obligation you have to make some noise on behalf of the people who are more vulnerable than you. Indeed, this is the only way you might avoid having the leopards eat your face. – Eva Galperin
23andMe has filed for bankruptcy. Bottom line: You have no idea who will buy 23andMe and what they will do with the data (your genetic info). Delete your genetic data as well as your test sample from 23andMe NOW. Please repost. The California AG even issued a consumer alert.
“Rome wasn’t built in a day, but it burned in one” - John Heywood
That was quite the finale.
Seriously though, how come no one has been able to do better than Plaxo for contacts. The paradigm is so old and broken and dumb.
The videos in this research on discrete-time hybrid automata learning are hilarious.
Nicholas’s newsletter link saving workflow is interesting. I’m not currently publishing a newsletter, but it gave me some things to think about as it relates to my own workflow for posting links to my microblog (or main blog).
Related: I hate managing a separate microblog and probably should just consolidate everything here, especially because unlike most other platforms, micro.blog supports titleless posts, which is huge.
One of my biggest pet peeves when I come across a thing on the web that references another thing, often with a screenshot, with no link to the thing and zero attribution. It’s such a colossal dick move. And it’s lazy AF. Hanlon’s razor, I guess.
I had to drive east at an unreasonable hour, which meant I had some time to listen to a podcast. I’m so glad I listened to the Dissect episode, featuring Rob Markman, celebrating the 10-year(!!) anniversary of one of the greatest albums ever, Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly. Incredible episode!