So earlier I was reading a WFYI article about Indiana gubernatorial candidate positions on abortion, and read “Libertarian Donald Rainwater said it’s unlikely a total abortion ban would ever reach the governor’s desk – but said he’d probably sign it if it did.” I was getting ready to post a single snarky tweet about this … In which I learn the Libertarian Party’s position on abortion
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
Check out https://onemorevoice.com/ if you live in Indiana and are eligible to vote (sorry, nibblings). They have resources for getting registered, and learning about your candidates.
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
Another good violent movie for cognitive dissonance.
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