Opinion: if you’ve only posted to Twitter about it, you’re not allowed to say “I have written elsewhere about __” (doubly if you don’t link to it) With the algorithm and search functions, you’ve said something to yourself in a noisy room, and some of the people at your table might have heard, some will … Twitter posts aren’t essays, they’re mumbles in a crowded cafeteria
Sometimes (often?) I think that people who blame everything bad on capitalism don’t realize that greed and oppression predate it. By a lot? I’ve been cranky about memeified anti-capitalism at least since the rise of the Bernie Bros in 2016… because I feel like if these people would actually talk to me about what they … Cranky about memeified economic discourse
My password manager nudged me to update the master passphrase this week; apparently I’ve been using the same one since 2016 (!). Which definitely isn’t a best practice. Thought I should share the tool I use to generate a passphrase that’s both random & memorable. Probably still hackable by brute force, but not by figuring … Master passphrase resource
This isn’t about toilet paper. In February, based on advice I was seeing from early alarm raisers, I bought a bunch of canned food and ramen, and other foods with a long shelf life. People were saying that the novel coronavirus would wreak havoc with food distribution and cause shortages. Now I’m starting to hear … Were we overreacting in February? (I don’t think so)
I’ve never watched the stream of the Hugos ceremony, and that continued last night. Instead, I tend to skim twitter for announcements, look for the reactions related to winners I was rooting for, and check the full list the next day. So I didn’t see the verbal assault of GRRM’s hosting or racist presenters last … Thoughts the morning after the Hugos ceremony
After seeing people in my feeds praising the documentary Disclosure last week, I watched half of it on Monday and finished it tonight. Powerful in so many ways, I really really recommend it. Agender is under the non-binary umbrella, which is under the trans umbrella, but as a person without dysphoria and not much motivation … Disclosure on Netflix is very good
NPR: Pop Culture Happy Hour re-aired their episode on John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, and it’s causing me to revisit my cognitive dissonance about these movies (and violent media in general). Over the last few months, I feel like I’ve seen an uptick in people referencing studies that indicate “violent media does not make … Thinking about violence in media
Listening to a podcast episode discussion McConnell’s judges, and it made me think of the premise of Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn. In the world’s backstory, a group of heroes went on a quest to defeat the Dark Lord ™. They told the world that they succeeded, and the world celebrated and went back to “normal life.” … Get ready to live in Mistborn
h/t to Stina Leicht’s Feminist Monday patreon for this link – Warren Ellis Accused Of Sexual Coercion Since I’ve often referenced his blog and recommended his books, I feel obliged to say that abusing a power dynamic and grooming younger creatives in your field is unacceptable. (Not going to purge mentions of him from my … Stepping away from Warren Ellis
Dropped my absentee ballot request form in the mail today. If you live in Indiana and want to vote by mail for the primary or local questions/elections, don’t forget that this is a step you need to do. (And think of this extra step as a nudge towards “gee, doesn’t automatic voter registration and vote … Requesting a ballot