2023s
Donald Trump warns that “it would be very dangerous” for Jack Smith to jail him. boingboing.net/2023/07/2…
Mighty nice country you got here. Wouldn’t want nothing to happen to it.
I bet a lot of people are found dead in the act of Googling whatever killed them. “Is this spider poisonous?”
Today’s ephemera: moonshine, guns and a Chevrolet coupe
H.S. “Dick” Hickman, Chief of Police in Colorado City, Texas, poses at City Hall with moonshine, guns, and a Chevrolet coupe after an arrest around 1937, as Mitchell County remained dry even after prohibition. Via https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPorn/comments/905b7q/hs_dick_hickman_chief_of_police_in_colorado_city/?st=JJTJSGOJ&sh=07b52e32
Jason Snell: Why everyone should be running the latest betas on their Apple devices www.macworld.com/article/2…
Jason Snell is being a bad influence. I’ve got the public betas on my Watch and iPhone. I like ‘em. I’m holding off on the Mac because I need it to run the business and holding off on my iPads because, well, I haven’t seen a reason to upgrade those.
Google Tests A.I. Tool That Is Able to Write News Articles www.nytimes.com/2023/07/1…
That moment when you drink thirstily from a big glass of water that had been sitting on the counter overnight, and notice two dead fruit flies floating on the surface of the water.
And then you convince yourself there were not three dead fruit flies.
Cosmic Crisp apples are 50% less expensive than Honeycrisp apples, and Cosmic Crisps are better. I will die on this hill.
I made several comments to Julie as I was making coffee. The last one seemed to require a response, and when none was forthcoming, I turned around to look at her to find she had left the room. Probably I’d been talking to myself the entire 10 minutes.
Comic Sans has been reinvented as a monospace font for programmers, according to this article which frames the news in vile anti-Comic Sans propaganda. I like Comic Sans. boingboing.net/2023/07/1…
Marjorie Taylor Greene is a Biden supporter now? Wait, what? boingboing.net/2023/07/1…
Dictator-wannabe Donald Trump praises Xi Jinping as a “perfect” leader who rules “with an iron fist” boingboing.net/2023/07/1…
We’ve been watching “Yellowstone,” “1883,” and “Justified: City Primeval.” I’m trying to talk myself out of getting a cowboy hat.
Famed Hacker Kevin Mitnick Dead at 59 www.securityweek.com/famed-hac…
On this day in 2018: My Apple Watch alarm went off while I was watching the dishes, and without thinking about it I tapped the watch face with my nose to switch the alarm off. I believe I have hit on a breakthrough in nasal user interface design.
On this day in 2018: Today at the park we saw a black lab with its hind quarters resting in one of those wheeled harness contraptions that disabled dogs use to get around. The dog seemed nice, but Minnie took one look and said nope do not want to say hello to the evil doggy robot.
Vivek Ramaswamy repeats threat, telling two MAGA hosts that Jan. 6 was a “friendly preview of what’s to come” boingboing.net/2023/07/1…
Universal Studios trimmed a row of trees so they no longer provided shade for WGA strikers in 90+-degree heat. Strikers complain. Universal responds: Whoops. deadline.com/2023/07/u…
Cory Doctorow: Denazification, truth and reconciliation, and the story of Germany’s story
Germany’s denazification was compromised and accommodated powerful, wealthy former Nazis, leading to resurgence of the far right and anti-semitism in Europe today. But it’s still better than the “least said, soonest mended” school of getting past atrocities, as practiced by the US with regard to slavery and genocide of indigenous peoples. These themes are a focus of Cory’s upcoming novel, “The Lost Cause.” pluralistic.net/2023/07/1…