December 21, 2018
This Was the Year the Robot Takeover of Service Jobs Began. Another thing that could “never happen” is happening.
December 20, 2018
Swimming with Super Grouper. One of my favorite fish. I am a grouper groupie.
New malware pulls its instructions from code hidden in memes posted to Twitter. Good christ the future is weird.
Windows Sandbox. Should’ve been there years ago, but this is still pretty cool.
Physically-fit women are much less likely to develop dementia. Get to lifting.
December 19, 2018
Images That Counter Traditional Depictions of Women. In Hannah Starkey’s photographs, women often appear alone doing ordinary activities, but these moments — which neither glorify nor objectify them — are bestowed an unmistakable emotional gravity. Love Hannah Starkey. Surprised to see her in the NYT.
The boomer humor writers warned us about all of this. Alas, I have read most of these books.
Turning Off Facebook Location Tracking Doesn’t Stop It From Tracking Your Location. Because of course not.
As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants. Internal documents show that the social network gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far greater access to people’s data than it has disclosed. At this point, anyone still on Facebook pretty much deserves what they get.
December 18, 2018
CenturyLink blocked its customers’ Internet access in order to show an ad. Welcome to the future.
NY Times Columnist Nick Kristof Led The Charge To Get Facebook To Censor Content, Now Whining That Facebook Censors His Content. Most people only want it to censor what they think is bad, not what the other person thinks is bad. I think I see a problem here….
December 17, 2018
The Impolite Pleasure of People-Watching. Only our modern era would construe just looking around you as an invasion of privacy. What the fuck.
December 16, 2018
December 15, 2018
Johnson & Johnson shares plunge after report that says it knew about asbestos in its baby powder. Notice the focus is on its shares plunging.
The Hard Truths of Trying to ‘Save’ the Rural Economy. I think agglomeration is in a sense a fake effect, and a cultural choice, not some sort of natural law.
December 14, 2018
Scary warming at poles showing up at weird times, places. Scientists are seeing surprising melting in Earth’s polar regions at times they don’t expect, like winter, and in places they don’t expect, like eastern Antarctica. We should’ve called it “climate weirding” because that’s going to be the actual truth of it.
Windows 10 Collects Activity Data Even When Tracking Is Disabled, But You Can Block It. By using MacOS or Linux. Fuck that surveillance OS.
December 13, 2018
The Cloying Fantasia of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” I have never seen the show, but this is a very good review.
Windows Server 2019 Includes OpenSSH. About damn time.