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One major shift in my politics is that, 5-6 years ago, if you'd asked me for my opinion on the animosity between Big Tech and the mainstream media, and to opine on who the heroes and villains were, I would've said something like "they're both fundamentally well-meaning folks; this is the result of a series of unfortunate misunderstandings, combined with some bad incentives in both industries."

Today I still think there's no clear hero and villain, but now it's because I think they're both awful and the worst stereotypes about them are all true; a pox on both their houses.

#grumbles

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I might not be giving people enough credit and thus being a superior wiseass, but I sense that a lot of people answering >= Fun are doing so ironically and I want to impress that the final scene of EoE is genuinely blackly hilarious. Spoilers below the cut.

Consider: Shinji has just spent 26 episodes plus a (probably-mostly-overlapping-who-knows) movie running away from the pain and suffering that comes with authentic human contact, culminating in deciding to just go along with Instrumentality. Then in the climax, he grits down to overcome his fears and learns the hard lesson that, yeah, humans and making real connections with them are actually worth it, despite the slings and arrows. So he triumphantly returns to reality, ready to go "Alright! Despite how challenging it will be and how much pain it'll probably cause, I'm really gonna do this!". And then who's the first person he sees? THAT BITCH.

Peak comedy.

youtube that is a big question

#nge

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The internet has been hyping Challengers as this bisexual poly arthouse film, which is basically a complete lie: apart from some bait at the beginning which is mostly a throwaway gag, it's a normal mono het romantic drama. But it's a pretty well-done mono het romantic drama and I did enjoy it. It was one of those uncommon movies where the third act climax started and I was thinking "huh, I actually have no idea how they're going to resolve this."

Also I'd never seen Zendaya in anything but MCU movies and Dune— she was fine in those, but they're not exactly the kinds of movies that require serious acting chops. But this one did and she was quite good.

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I bet the person who took this picture of Apollo 11 had a hard-on about it for weeks.

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A Cruel Angel’s Thesis intro:

The rest of the song:

#nge

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Deeply dispiriting post: testimony from a DOJ antitrust action reveals the entire book publishing industry is celebrity memoirs, established franchise authors like James Patterson, children's books, Bibles, and back catalogues (e.g. Lord of the Rings). Publishing new authors is not even a rounding error; you get the sense it's only done anymore out of a vague sense of obligation, and the moment one of the Big Five decides on the defect strategy, and stops doing that to save a few more bucks, it will end entirely.

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It turns out taking good pictures with a Nice Camera is in fact quite hard. I took maybe 500 shots at Gas Works Park yesterday and-- in a totally coincidence that certainly means nothing whatsoever-- the only ones which came out looking at all good were the homoerotic ones of a shirtless guy who looked like Toguro from Yu Yu Hakusho doing handstand pushups on a railing.

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Art credit https://twitter.com/CoreyBrickley

#i will pretty much always reblog amigara fault jokes

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In my continued descent into middle age I have purchased a Nice Camera, so expect this to become a photoblog for a bit while I convince myself it was not a waste of money.

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I bet if I printed a bunch of “I can tolerate anything but the outgroup” stickers and put them on streetlights/phone poles in the CHAZziest parts of Seattle, I could bait The Stranger into writing an irritated column about it.

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Every time I talk to @curse-that-wren-tern-skyline

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I got a promotion at my megacorp on the same day I re-encountered Sarah Constantin’s “Ra” egregore essay about the destructive chasing of legible rewards instead of actual goals, just so the universe could make sure I didn’t derive enough satisfaction from it.

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I suspect it went something like this:

"I'm sick of dotfiles clogging up my home directory, let's put them in a new hidden .config directory."

[this is implemented]

"Great! That's done. Now we can stop calling it '.config', right?"

[tries to implement that]

"Oops, all the software which uses it is expecting to find a file named '.config', and if it's just called 'config' everything breaks with file-not-found. Welp, guess it'll be '.config' forever."

very annoying when the config file is in the ".config" directory but still also starts with a "." itself. like you've fundamentally misunderstood the point of this convention

#programming #stuff like this accounts for ~40% of all the baffling and horrible designs in software

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81k: [accidentally plays audio from his laptop for 1 second]

me: oh, were you watching the eerie tornado warning video?

81k: no... that was my music

#it was the soundtrack from Riven #but honestly just about anything I play during the workday would earn me deserved mockery if played for 1 second without context

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@etirabys

love story of the modern day

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Automated vulnerability scanners have their place, but they're kind of stupid because they can't understand context. Today one started yelling at us because it detected instances of piping curl to bash, and we're like "yeah, because the whole friggin' point of this product is to be a developer workspace, and that's what all the tools like npm install do now. Take it up with the world." But either for some corporate mandate or because of FIPS 140-2 compliance or whatever there's going to be a lengthy bunch of headaches to get that across.

#stories from the workplace

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Amazon has realized what's going on and has started putting pleated skirts with 39" waists in my recommendations.