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Unnamed tech dad, just this weekend: "There's only one degree I won't pay for [my kids to get]: liberal arts."

https://twitter.com/kumailn/status/925828976882282496

Wowaweewa. "Twitter Offered Russia Today 15% Of Its Total Share Of US Elections Advertising" https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/twitter-offered-rt-15-of-its-total-share-of-us-elections

Oh good, yes, do let's put software designed in Russia on all of the Things on the Internet in 2017.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotlin_(programming_language)

Kotlin is a statically-typed programming language that runs on the Java virtual machine and also can be compiled to JavaScript source code or use the LLVM compiler infrastructure. Its primary development is from a team of JetBrains programmers based in Saint Petersburg, Russia.[3]

In another parallel universe:

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2003) was followed - naturally - by Princess of Persia (2004), where you play as Farah, and the Prince is the sidekick who pops up to give hints and solve obstacles.

A mastodon instance, but every 3 days a random user account is replaced with a "corrupted" version, which is just a machine learning bot that learnt from their posts

Newsweek: At least 30 new monuments to the Confederacy have been built, mostly on private land, since 2000. That estimate may be low.

http://www.newsweek.com/new-confederate-monuments-are-quietly-going-across-us-690798?amp=1

If something is "off the charts" then your charts are shit. Get better charts.

When someone is described by an American journalist or novelist as "having a mid-Atlantic voice" I automatically picture them gurgling through a diving mask about 10,000 feet off the island of St Helena

ah yes, the three genders
• foo
• bar
• baz

TONIGHT! WE DINE! IN HECK!!!!

Like I should have guessed Pikachu was literally a Pika but I didn't

https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/6/11161708/the-verge-review-of-animals-pika-vs-pikachu-pokemon

https://mastodon.social/media/Fedt_n2ihsbXvCsxgIo

"Markets, as we've repeatedly learned over the past century, are terrible mechanisms for improving the safety of products and services. It was true for automobile, food, restaurant, airplane, fire, and financial-instrument safety. The reasons are complicated, but basically, sellers don't compete on safety features because buyers can't efficiently differentiate products based on safety considerations. "

-- Bruce Schneier on Internet of Things security

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/10/iot_cybersecuri.html#comments

Bitcoin is the ultimate experiment in "how can we make a system that is so free of regulation, it appears to be basically a giant front for crime?"

"If you could put any object anywhere at any time in history, what would you put where and when?"

The Sears Tower in Hitler's ass. Duh.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2017/10/23/military-times-poll-one-in-four-troops-sees-white-nationalism-in-the-ranks/

Nearly one in four troops polled say they have seen examples of white nationalism among their fellow service members, and troops rate it as a larger national security threat than Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a new Military Times poll.

as someone who lives in NYC, I'm constantly thinking about how a lot of shitty tech follows (white, Silicon Valley) Californian cultural norms. two big examples

1. assumption that you will always be outside and in a place with a good network connection. this renders a huge number of mobile apps unusable on the subway, even when there is no good reason to need to be online

2. driving detection, and the assumption that you both have a car and are using it if you're going fast

Hugs and I cannot lie.

@icetsvu IS THE FUCKIN BEST BOT EVER