http://tracking.feedpress.it/link/9499/11327410
Ending with a whimper, not a bang.
«In pleading guilty, the authorities said, Daley and Miselis admitted their actions were not in self-defense.»
«Finally, the senator who ranks last in PARS is also up for reelection in 2020, and it’s a big name: Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. McConnell manages just a -13 net approval rating despite inhabiting an R+23 state. It’s not crazy to think he could be vulnerable in 2020. Democrats are reportedly trying to recruit former Marine fighter pilot Amy McGrath, who raised $8.6 million for an unsuccessful 2018 congressional bid, to run against him. But it’s worth remembering that Lucy has held this football in front of Democrats before. In 2014, McConnell also had popularity problems, and Democrats thought they had a top candidate to challenge him in Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes. McConnell beat Grimes 56 percent to 41 percent.»
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1127258010936598528.html
Well… Hard to disagree with this.
https://apnews.com/1e32cf3855734117b0aa1a1d55867b6e
Well I guess President ADHD would be better than President Tweet.
«“I can’t just sit and ride,” he’s said by way of explanation. “I’ve got to be doing something.”»
Mom! Apple pie! Special interest money out of politics! End partisan gerrymandering! Soft as cheesecake indeed.
«O’Rourke said he has held more than 130 town halls like this and answered more than 700 questions from voters, but he got his first one about ranked-choice voting during the Lakeville event.
He said he would have to do some more thinking about the question, and instead turned to talking about voting rights, saying that laws should be passed to ensure voting rights rather than take them away. He advocated for same-day voter registration, ending partisan gerrymandering and getting special interest money out of political campaigns.»
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/whats-really-behind-microsofts-love-of-open-source/
I guess the old Microsoft really is finally dead*, killed by open source (with a personal note at the bottom).
For decades, MS’s appeal was “let us handle the details, don’t you worry, just click here”, and C-level business types made technical decisions based on that. Then you had the MCSE-type “technical” people who really didn’t understand much except which buttons to click when configuring TCP/IP and IIS.
And everybody who made the choice tried to justify it all as “Microsoft knows best”/”Microsoft is the best”, because nobody wanted to admit they were just clicking buttons in a GUI without really knowing what they were doing.
But the real world came along and crushed Microsoft like a dump truck running over a walnut. There was a lot of screaming about how “open source is a cancer”, but… the market decided that what open source could deliver (high-quality web browser(s), cloud computing based on Linux farms, an entire massive substrate for solution delivery (LAMP stack, as much as I hate MySQL and PHP, Javascript frameworks, CLI tools)), and even Microsoft can’t hold back the tide. Economics.
So, here we are. Everybody in the old Microsoft world that decided that Windows, Visual BASIC and SQL Server were all you need to know are at a disadvantage. I picked inflammatory examples, but more “modern” folks are just updated versions of that: Windows, C#, Razor/Blazor, Azure (which is 99% “click here and don’t worry about the details”, as far as I can tell). That whole “only stuff Microsoft invents (or buys or mentions at Build) is any good” mentality still persists, but it’s (slowly) on the way out.
So, it’s time for me to stop the bitter-old-man routine and realize that my people (-ish; I have no doubt whatsoever there’s a ton of hackers in the non-MS world, too) won and moved on, while I was holed up† at a Microsoft shop being bitter.
*Of course, it could always rise up from the grave, a shambling zombie of anti-competitive practices, if it manages to recover its footing.
†Coulda, woulda, shoulda. If you have to ask, I don’t wanna explain.
https://twitter.com/threadreaderapp/status/1124922273906024449?s=17
plainy (@plainy) Tweeted:
Chief of Staff: But what can he doooooo?
Me: Vote for the..because…lawmaker..bill..
Chief of Staff: so frustrating
Me: He’s in the legislature
Chief of staff:”what can he do”
Thread Reader App (@threadreaderapp) Tweeted:
@Lauren_Steiner Bonjour please find the unroll here: Thread by @plainy: “True story, and this will be a thread. I’m a teacher at a middle school in Texas. My school is broke, my district is bro […]” https://t.co/E9CgNmUThc
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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ellievhall/hoda-muthana-isis-instagram-twitter-tumblr-alabama
«…my messages to her struck a tone of hope — that I would one day write stories about Muthana returning to the US to face charges instead of write about her and her child dying by starvation, or airstrike, or murder at the hands of the group she had once so willingly joined.»
https://twitter.com/LindsayPB/status/1124430215575408640?s=17
Lotta food for thought here.
Lindsay 🏳️🌈 (@LindsayPB) Tweeted:
“Everything the Communists told us about communism was a complete and utter lie. Unfortunately, everything the Communists told us about capitalism turned out to be true.”
– Russian joke from the 1990s https://t.co/C3UVYOwN8c
