2020
Friend of Dorothy: How did Judy Garland become a gay icon? slate.com/podcasts/…
A new wave of national conservatives are gaining power and wealth by claiming to be persecuted minorities and spreading easily fact-checked lies about liberalism.
Like smartphone users today, medieval monks wrestled with distraction.
Merle Oberon, a star actress of Hollywood’s golden age, was biracial, passing as white, and the product of two generations of rape. She was born in Bombay to a 12-year-old girl who was raped by an Englishman. Oberon’s mother was herself the product of rape.
Teens are scrambling their identities on Instagram, so they can use the service without divulging personal information.
Reset: art19.com/shows/res…
A brief history of the Apple Newton: 20 years ahead of its time, and still has a small but loyal fan base who continue to use it.
Anybody tried posting automatically from Flickr to micro.blog? Should be do-able, right – last I checked, Flickr produces RSS feeds.
I’d like there to be some differentiation between Flickr and other images. I post a lot of found images from the Internet, as well as a few of my own photos, and I like differentiating the two.
Maybe pipe Flickr through IFTTT.com first? Hmmmmm……
Meet the Unlikely Hero Saving California’s Oldest Weekly Paper: I love this story so, so much
“High in the Sierra, Downieville, Calif., was about to become the latest American community to lose its newspaper. In stepped Carl Butz, a 71-year-old retiree.”
DOWNIEVILLE, Calif. — The night before his first deadline, Carl Butz, California’s newest newspaper owner, was digging into a bowl of beef stew at the Two Rivers Café, the only restaurant open in town.
“Tomorrow I have to fill the paper,” he said with only mild anxiety. “The question is, will it be a four-page paper or a six-page paper?”
At 71, Mr. Butz is trim, with wire-rimmed glasses and a close-cropped silver beard, and he dresses in flannel shirts and cargo pants. Since his retirement and his wife’s death in 2017, he considered traveling — to England or Latvia, or riding the Trans-Siberian Railway. But here he was, a freshly minted newspaper proprietor, having stepped in at the beginning of the year to save The Mountain Messenger, California’s oldest weekly newspaper, from extinction.
The Messenger was founded in 1853. Its most famous scribe was Mark Twain, who once wrote a few stories — with a hangover, the legend goes — while hiding out here from the law.
An Oklahoma University journalism professor likened the phrase "OK Boomer" to the N-word. This is such a weird story
An OU professor in the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication used a racial slur during a class Tuesday morning, according to multiple students present in the class….
Gade was discussing the changes in journalism related to technology and social media and made the point that journalism should stick to its more traditional roots, according to multiple students in the class.
Gade is right. With rumors and misinformation spreading like a pandemic, it’s more important than ever for journalism to get its facts right and tell the audience what’s actually going on.
Gade then called on a student who said journalists have to keep up with the younger generations as they continue to change
The student is right too! Journalism needs to report on younger people and the issues they care about. And journalism needs to deliver news through the channels that young people care about – Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and whatever comes next. (This does, however, present business challenges that journalism needs to address.)
Gade said the student’s comment was the equivalent of saying “OK, boomer” to him.
Wait, what? No it’s not.
Maybe the professor was kidding.
The class broke into light laughter….
OK, he was kidding.
… but was interrupted by Gade’s next comment.
“Calling someone a boomer is like calling someone a n—–,” Gade said.
Oh noooooooooo.
Calling someone a boomer is not the equivalent of using the N-word. “Boomer” is a neutral phrase used to describe an American born between 1946 and 1964.
MWC 2020 canceled over coronavirus health concerns
Mobile World Congress is the biggest telco conference of the year, worldwide. Maybe there’s a bigger one in China but if there is I don’t know about it.
This is a prudent measure in the face of a potential health crisis. It’s not a good idea for 100K+ people from all over the world to fly to a central location, spend a week sneezing on each other in an enclosed conference center, with their immune systems compromised due to short-sleeping, and then disperse to their homes all over the world again.
Shoot, half the time I go to MWC I come home with a bad cold or the flu, and that’s in years without coronavirus. (Not last year though. Last year I’m pretty sure it was food poisoning. 72 hours of not fun!).
The biggest telco vendors and their customers had already pulled out of the show so this next step is not surprising.
This morning I updated <mitchwagner.com> and my LinkedIn profile. They look snappy.
Matthew Yglesias: Mainstream Democrats shouldn't be freaking out about Sanders
Sanders' rhetoric is revolutionary but his record shows he’s willing to make deals for incremental change.
And some of the views he has that Washington castigates as crazy – like winding down American hegemony and being tougher on Israel – make sense and are downright mainstream once you get out of the Beltway bubble.
Former CNBC anchor Michelle Caruso-Cabrera will challenge Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in House Democratic primary
Two Latinas going head to head.
Actor Jussie Smollett is being indicted for allegedly falsifying claims he was assaulted by Trump supporters. www.fox32chicago.com/news/juss…
Trump cannot go a day without committing an impeachable offense, and his lies are becoming more blatant and obviously untrue.
His Republican defenders are half-right: Trump has learned his lesson from the impeachment trial. The lesson he’s learned is that the Constitution and law don’t apply to him.
The latest:
All 4 federal prosecutors quit Stone case after DOJ overrules prosecutors on sentencing request www.cnn.com/2020/02/1…
The tricky economics of all-you-can-eat buffets
They put the cheap, filling stuff first. They charge for extras. They save money on personnel, of course.
One thing I would not have guessed: Preparing foods in bulk, as you do for a buffet, is far less expensive than one meal at a time. Much less food waste. And you can re-use stuff. Today’s fresh vegetable side-dish is tomorrow’s vegetable soup.
I’ve never cared for buffet dining. If I’m eating out, I want somebody to bring me my food.
My work takes me to a lot of professional conferences, where I eat a lot of buffet hot lunches. Two tips:
Skip the leafy salad. It had nearly zero nutritional value. It isn’t even filling, and it just takes up room on your plate. You may not have a chance to go back for seconds.
Also, there’s usually some kind of roasted green veggie. Fill at least half your plate with that.