Dumb technology making me look like a fool. I saw a great thread telling a story from a woman who didn’t find out until she was around 40 that her mother’s three pregnancies ruined her life and almost killed her, that her mom’s conservative doctor told her she had to keep on getting pregnant to satisfy her husband in spite of her depression and the pregnancies almost killing her, and a doctor who replaced the first doc (who was on vacation) figured out the problem, helped her get her tubes tied, and the original poster saying that as much as she loved life, her mom and all her family, she wished her mom had had the choice instead of some man making a decision for her…

…so I posted it (I THOUGHT) from my Android device, but some piece of moronic software somewhere in the pipeline decided that “share” didn’t really mean that, so an empty article came through from my blog making me look dumb.

And now I can’t find the original Twitter thread, because it’s like a leaf on the Twitter river, lost forever in time, in spite of my search attempts.

Aargh!!!

Source: http://blog.nullspace.io/batch.html

Lotta fun one-liners in this short article from two years ago. Here’s one of them:

«When I was in college a few years ago, I thought that PowerShell was a fun take on what a modern shell could look like. It is not. PowerShell is the cure for polio, and Jeffrey Snover is the Jonas Salk of the Windows ecosystem.»

🙂

Source: http://existentialcomics.com/comic/250

Tooltip, in case it doesn’t show up: “Also… everything is facts.”

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1038045116835885056.html

Hmm. Tried to share this link from my Android device and the share failed. >:/

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/09/trump-midterms-working-america/569452/

«working-class minority communities are no more, and MAY BE EVEN LESS, ENGAGED [emphasis mine — John L] than their white counterparts.»

Source: https://www.propublica.org/article/defcon-teen-did-not-hack-a-state-election

«Instead, students were working with look-alikes created for the event that had vulnerabilities they were coached to find. Organizers provided them with cheat sheets, and adults walked the students through the challenges they would encounter.

Josh Franklin, an elections expert formerly at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and a speaker at Def Con, called the websites “fake.”

“When I learned that they were not using exact copies and pains hadn’t been taken to more properly replicate the underlying infrastructure, I was definitely saddened,” Franklin said.»

Source: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-democrats-are-in-their-best-position-yet-to-retake-the-house/

«If Democrats win the popular vote by “only” 5 to 6 percentage points — still a pretty comfortable margin, but not necessarily enough to make up Republicans’ advantages due to gerrymandering, incumbency and the clustering of Democratic voters in urban districts — they’re only about even-money to win the House. »

Source: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-democrats-were-so-fiery-on-day-1-of-the-kavanaugh-hearings/

U.S. politics is fascinating, but I’d be less worried if I didn’t live here.

«in some ways, the voters, by electing a Republican president and a GOP Senate, decided that having judges on the court who were strong defenders of abortion rights and Obamacare were not a high priority to them. (And maybe they elected Republicans precisely to roll back Obamacare and abortion rights.)»

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17915049

«How Indian Americans Came to Run Half of All U.S. Motels»

…something something immigrants who work something America….

(Be sure to read (some of) the comments at ycombinator.)

https://twitter.com/NussbaumAbigail/status/1036716400029691904?s=17

Abigail Nussbaum (@NussbaumAbigail) Tweeted:
«Sure, we need to have a conversation about the monetization of resistance, but leaving that aside, I’m struck by this: Nike crunched the numbers and decided that they can live without the racists’ money. That feels important.» https://t.co/uZ15BZXRwk