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Gender Relations In Consumer Culture, The Photograph

except the trick is this photograph is also an artifact of consumer culture

https://www.allure.com/story/suave-bs-hair-ads-tricks

CLARIFICATION TO MY VALUED CUSTOMERS:

I am not now, nor have ever been, 'morally bankrupt'.

I did accept $500 million of moral venture capital in third-round moral fundraising, and yes that does mean I have certain obligations to my moral shareholders.

tldr, it is a complete coincidence that I'm pivoting toward the lucrative 'hold the world hostage with a laser moon cannon' market, and I hope that you all join me in this exciting next stage of our startup's mission to rethink pizza warming

Roses evolved 35 million years ago. We know because we've found fossils!

There are about 150 species of rose, growing all across the Northern Hemisphere, and humans have been growing them for about 5000 years. The practice probably started in Ancient China, before spreading to Ancient Persia, where damask roses were first bred – named after the city of Damascus in Syria.

The Persians also first developed methods for obtaining rose water and rose absolute, for flavourings and fragrances.

snakes are the ultimate life form

- long
- go ssssss
- sit under a lightbulb

The traveler came across a pancake maker by the roadside, and was invited for a meal. The pancakes were tossed high in the evening air, and the traveler noticed that every seventh disappeared.
"Where do they go?"
"To the bats."
"They eat pancakes?"
"No! For adoption."
#Cassoland #MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

"are you amab or afab ?"

"i'm ahab and i'm gonna kill this fucking whale"

It's my birthday can I get more people to use Mastodon or whatever

https://twitter.com/williamhanson/status/1087106064858972160

<<Either there’s a @Netflix glitch or @MarieKondo’s methods have escalated. >>

oh no

https://twitter.com/tbaxter/status/1085659746755997696

<< I know people at Slack, and I know they're smart, capable and caring people. But once you hear "swastika made of dicks" it's kind of over for the new logo. >>

<<The fact that I cannot remember the last time the internet made me feel, on balance, less anxious and better about other people tells you something about how much has changed online since 1999, 2001, and even 2007. >>

https://www.theringer.com/tech/2018/12/19/18148701/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-year-in-review

every crime is a crime of passion if you love crime enough

got tired of lying so i made a thing

though i can't publish it on the chrome web store without paying google 5 and, you know, fuck that

https://mastodon.social/media/iqEEH-GMbWIw1lY2fjE

This looks very interesting. It appears that Trump's favourite blackmail vendor, the National Enquirer, has declared full-scale hybrid warfare on Jeff Bezos and is now taking credit for ending his marriage. $144 billion of hurt.

I wonder what other leverage Trump might have on the man whose computers host the CIA's cloud and most corporate data in the world?

It's probably not relevant to IT security.

https://mobile.twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1083146614951288837

src/opia -> dist/opia

Just picked up Journey Away by @jskellogg. This looks really interesting and I can’t wait to try it out! I mean, my mba classes start next week so I kind of HAVE to wait, but at least I can have fun reading the book!

@casey

ooh octonions getting some love finally! or at least some brief Wired hype, which is not really the same thing

https://www.wired.com/story/the-peculiar-math-that-could-underlie-the-laws-of-nature/

Protip:

When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,

"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes

I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."