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Honestly I probably could have skipped my whole "why I'm leaving Twitter" blog post and just posted this comic instead. (source: http://www.listen-tome.com/wasted-hours/) https://toot.cafe/media/APuvNvSDKV4yyuCFL3k

They're so full of themselves.

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Til-debt-do-us-part-UC-Berkeley-students-are-12405626.php

I wonder if anyone's put together a standard prenup for finaid marriages yet (to make them easy to dissolve, determine what to do if one of the students doesn't graduate within N years).

SOON: parents arranging their kids' undergrad marriages as part of the college application process, thinkpieces bemoaning that the kids aren't responsible for doing it themselves

Lady rabbi, badass

https://twitter.com/TheRaDR/status/937359922978852864

<<If the Bible is so against systemic solutions to poverty, why is a jubilee year declared that releases people from debt to alleviate intergenerational poverty? What is leket, skikhah, pe’ah, and maasar if not taxes meant to create a safety net for those in need? 1/

Maasar. Not a voluntary contribution. An obligation.

Leket. Not voluntary, but obligatory.

Shikhḥah. Not voluntary. Obligatory.

Pe’ah. Obligatory. Lev 19:9. These are taxes, y’all.>>

A random thought:

Measuring the quality of an economy via GDP is much like measuring the quality of a program by 'lines of code'

Oh man, I love it when EFF gets philosophical: "DRM gets made over the course of years, by skilled engineers, at a cost of millions of dollars. It gets broken in days, by teenagers, with hobbyist equipment. That's not because the DRM-makers are stupid, it's because they're doing something stupid.”

(Also this is a terrifyingly good article: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/10/drms-dead-canary-how-we-just-lost-web-what-we-learned-it-and-what-we-need-do-next)

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/362433-faith-leaders-write-to-senate-leadership-opposing-tax-plan

<<Hundreds of faith leaders from around the country signed onto a letter opposing the GOP tax plan that advocates delivered to Senate leaders on Wednesday, saying the plan "violates our moral principles of equality, justice and fairness."

More than 2,400 representatives from Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Sikh, Buddhist and other faith traditions signed the letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.).>>

Contacting reps can be nervewracking and awkward and I want to make it feel better for people.

US folks, they're about to vote on that awful tax bill that includes an ACA repeal. Contact your reps (try resistbot or https://5calls.org/ ) and if you tell me here, as thanks I'll post a neural net-generated recipe ingredient here just for you.

2017: Our literal *geopolitics* is being influenced by the whims of social media companies' machine learning recommendation algorithms.

Not just this; Twitter's "broadcast likes to followers as if they were retweets" 'feature' has also caused similar events.

https://mobile.twitter.com/cwarzel/status/935923422726578176

<<my uninformed theory: Twitter's 'what you might have missed' algorithm surfaced coulter's RT of the Britain First leader as the first thing he saw when he opened the ole twitter machine on his phone this AM.>>

Reminder: Whenever you go to apologize but then realize it isn’t something you should apologize for and you wonder what to say instead: SAY THANK YOU. Your apologetic instinct is to lower yourself to raise up someone else, and the raising is great but the lowering is unnecessary: Just give them the blessing. Say “thank you for waiting” instead of “sorry I’m late”. It works.

Mac tech coworker tests and verifies the root thing. Says unlocking the control panel thingy with root seems to somehow 'activate' the supposedly locked-out root account, like you can then do a full interactive login as root afterwards.

Is... is this a case of someone wrote 'if (account.activated = true)' rather than 'if (account.activated == true)' ?

It can't be that dumb surely

NEWT FROM ALIENS VOICE: but it could

Apple's fuck-up or not let's also remember that there are ways to do vulnerability disclosure responsibly and tweeting about it is not one of them

The right always brings up fake accusations -> the right crafts false accusations. It's a pattern. It's a heck yeah moment that WaPo did not fall for it and managed to fire back but the misinformation tactics described are chilling https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/a-woman-approached-the-post-with-dramatic--and-false--tale-about-roy-moore-sje-appears-to-be-part-of-undercover-sting-operation/2017/11/27/0c2e335a-cfb6-11e7-9d3a-bcbe2af58c3a_story.html

EVE Online Player Accidentally Becomes Certified Accountant http://thehardtimes.net/harddrive/eve-online-player-accidentally-becomes-certified-accountant/

Etsy after going public: "they are cutting anything that’s not essential to the business. This is a cautionary tale of capitalism"

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/25/business/etsy-josh-silverman.html

twitter.com/nothings/status/934891178591264768

<<Realized that even though I knew there's a new Animal Crossing game, I've still been reading every reference to "AC" as "Assassin's Creed".

Those were some weird tweets, y'all.>>

https://cybre.space/media/hKO_LFaECHbwZospAjA
http://kogla.tumblr.com/post/167883783436/feazelblahg-ayezaeyah-howdy-ive-never-seen