https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/01/the-perverse-logic-of-gofundme-health-care

Some good stuff in here.

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/07/01/an-open-letter-to-the-director-of-the-holocaust-memorial-museum/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ivanka-trump-india-summit-half-wit-saudi-arabia-prince-us-delegation-lead-president-daughter-a7887731.html

Wait…. Not very diplomatic, right?

Elizabeth Weber Handwerker (@ElizWebHand) Tweeted:
I do not want Federal agencies to keep lists of which employees miss work for Yom Kippur, which miss work for Eid al-Fitr, and which miss work for Naw-Ruz. Why? This history: https://t.co/uWSdiJhXRb https://twitter.com/ElizWebHand/status/1138231381476163584?s=17

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-developer-reveals-linux-is-now-more-used-on-azure-than-windows-server/

While I was busy hating Microsoft, Microsoft changed. I guess I have to switch my ire to people who only look favorably on a thing if Microsoft endorsees it, but… ah, well, the world is full of that type.

I wonder what I can get done with WSL 2?

[Edit: BTW, pricing for Linux instances in Azure is about half that of Windows instances, so… duh.]

https://www.thecut.com/2019/06/donald-trump-assault-e-jean-carroll-other-hideous-men.html

Oof.

«And that was my last hideous man. The Donna Karan coatdress still hangs on the back of my closet door, unworn and unlaundered since that evening. And whether it’s my age, the fact that I haven’t met anyone fascinating enough over the past couple of decades to feel “the sap rising,” as Tom Wolfe put it, or if it’s the blot of the real-estate tycoon, I can’t say. But I have never had sex with anybody ever again.

From What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal, by E. Jean Carroll.»

http://hackingchristianity.net/2018/11/the-wca-is-just-an-insurance-policy-in-case-their-umc-takeover-fails.html

Huh.

«United Methodism owns an incredible amount of real estate, hospitals, academic institutions, churches, offices, conference centers, retreats, camps, nonprofit and for-profit entities, and the incredible controlled wealth of the United Methodist Foundations. Not to mention WesPath. By purging progressives and moderates, they will lose some churches and conference centers and perhaps entire Annual Conferences, but they will retain ownership of all of the rest.

http://hackingchristianity.net/2019/06/inclusive-methodists-secure-jurisdictional-conference-majorities-where-do-we-go-from-here.html

«the hardline goal of the WCA—progressive expulsion and control/liquidation of UMC assets—will no longer be in reach.»

[Keanu Reeves voice] Whoa….

Is this really a fight over money?

Just finished season five. Never thought I’d like a cartoon this much, yet here we are.

https://twitter.com/GenuineDCR/status/1144364170336526337?s=17

Wow.

DCR-Actual (@GenuineDCR) Tweeted:
ICYMI …

This is Leigh Ann Hester. She is an #MP. She also is the first female Army Soldier to receive a Silver Star since WW2 and the first ever female soldier to be cited for valor in close-quarter combat. Well done, sis! #miltwitter #MilitaryPolice https://t.co/vL4cGBGBU6

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Ann_Hester

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Lin_Brown