https://br.pinterest.com/pin/93942342197851282/

I want this on a t-shirt. (Original art by Ben Shahn.)

https://twitter.com/AndrewKostrub/status/1037794373222780929?s=20

“Back to dreaming of space wars with China.” 😀

Andy Kostrub (@AndrewKostrub) Tweeted: Just need to add some off-ramps… https://t.co/dOIbN4JS4V

https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/22/22740701/microsoft-dotnet-hot-reload-removal-decision-open-source

Surprise! \o/

And The Register comes in: http://The Register: Microsoft under fire again from open-source .NET devs: Hot Reload feature pulled for sake of Visual Studio sales.
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2021/10/22/microsoft_net_hot_reload_visual_studio/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/22/twitter-admits-bias-in-algorithm-for-rightwing-politicians-and-news-outlets

“Emergent” is a word meaning “we don’t know what’s going on, but we sure didn’t expect THAT.”

«Twitter said it wasn’t clear why its Home timeline produced these results and indicated that it may now need to change its algorithm.»

(Here’s what’s going on: Genesis 8:21: «the inclination of the human heart is evil from youth….» Right-wing posts advocating/celebrating selfishness get more clicks. Facebook’s just as bad, if not worse.)

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/10/senator-joe-manchin-democratic-party-exit-plan-biden-infrastructure-deal-exclusive/

Whew.

«UPDATE: After this article was published, reporters questioned Manchin about it. He replied, “I can’t control rumors, and it’s bullshit, bullshit spelled with a B, U, L, L, capital B.” Mother Jones stands by the story.»

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/opinion/covid-vaccines-unvaccinated.html

SUPER-interesting article on exactly who’s vaccinated and who’s not (and, this, what we might be able to do about it).

«Research on the unvaccinated by KFF from this September showed the most powerful predictor of who remained unvaccinated was not age, politics, race, income or location, but the lack of health insurance.»

Update, 22 Nov. 2021: it’s not insurance coverage any more. Instead, it’s political affiliation. https://www.kff.org/report-section/kff-covid-19-vaccine-monitor-the-increasing-importance-of-partisanship-in-predicting-covid-19-vaccination-status-appendix/

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/02/deadly-mushroom-arrives-canada/581602/

«“The dangerous ones are all mostly drab or brown, green-brown, bronze. There’s nothing in the taste that tells you what you are eating is about to kill you.”»

(Pretty sure I posted when I read this article a couple of years ago, too.)

https://twitter.com/NomeDaBarbarian/status/1448668541285126147?s=20

Somebody has a whole huge pile of receipts. (I.e., these threads are good and full of hard numbers.)

🎃Pumpkin Spice Nome🎃 (@NomeDaBarbarian) Tweeted: Ten fucking days apart. “$1.1 mil a year isn’t rich. People NEED to spend almost 200k a year on childcare.” Vs. “Wild that $14/hour (29k a year) isn’t enough for backbreaking manual labor.” https://t.co/jOK2JVqnQb

https://twitter.com/moyix/status/1448482287461572614?s=20

By golly there are a lot of opinions in here.

Brendan Dolan-Gavitt (@moyix) Tweeted: Wow, just realized C is turning 50 next year. Not sure how to tell students that we’re learning about security problems caused by a language that’s half a century old.