ChrisLicht

He’s a grift cow. He’s been repeatedly hit up by grifters to fund stupid stuff.

I’m not up my own ass enough to proudly declare myself “naturally adventurous,” but I have stayed at a few Holiday Inn Expresses in other towns before. I use Debian and Ubuntu somewhat regularly, but mostly use Windows and MacOS in daily life, and I don’t understand where the “sinking ship” metaphor comes in. Microsoft will attempt this recurring-revenue monetization, and it will either be successful, or it won’t; Windows won’t go away if it isn’t. Otherwise, Apple prints money from its beautifully made consumer-friendly hardware, which also features shockingly good in-house silicon.

No ships are sinking. This isn’t some grand narrative where Linux awaits us all at the end of personal-computing history.

Ha! I’m a fan of you now.

How about forcing France and the other western powers who repeatedly pillaged and extorted Haiti to disgorge the hundreds of billions in value they effectively stole from Haiti?

And, while they are at it, how about making them re-green that end of Hispaniola?

I’m highly sympathetic, but this thing didn’t go wrong in an instant. The organizers watched it go off the rails, and, AFAICT, didn’t intervene to fix it, as the problem revealed itself at scale.

Hard situations require hard thinking and decisive action.

The paywall dropped on me before I could get to the end of the article, but a couple of observations:

1. “Overrun” is dehumanizing language. I’m otherwise highly sympathetic, but casting desperate people, many likely staring down deportation unless they can find a new position, as an effective horde is gross. I would like to trust that Wired provided that characterization, not the organizers.

2. The organizers ruined their own event, by not establishing and enforcing guardrails for attendance. This is a problem mostly of their own making. Rather than pointing, again, at desperate people, they should be accepting responsibility and planning to avoid the issue in the future.

TIL chickens can time travel.

HuffPost has gone from reprocessing comments on Twitter to now just reprocessing comments by MSNBC and late-night TV hosts.

And, here we are, lips attached at the end of the media centipede.

Why not make cases with FM radio built in?

He was right about that—and more—treating COVID symptoms.

I’ve got a Philips 85W up my ass right now, and I don’t dare cough.

What a career: First, NYC police commissioner, and now queen for a day!

Uh oh. I’m worried about this getting properly investigated.

I don’t know much about British policing, but I do know from watching Endeavour that the centralization of operations in the newly created Thames Valley Constabulary in the late ‘60s did not produce investigative efficiencies.