Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

As the New York Times once again defends the underprivileged, marginalized, and oppressed J.K. Rowling, it’s important to remember that a pretty big chunk of hand-wringing about cancel culture is in fact just status anxiety, as people used to having their opinions unchallenged and their prejudices celebrated are now facing criticism, and they hate it.

t seems like the bigger story here is that you can poll 2600 cryptobros and even then nearly 1 in 5 will go "oh, you like crypto...? yikes"

Periodic reminder of this 1999 review of Google

Which job posting is better?

A: “It's more important that you have a solid foundation as a web developer than knowing about every framework”

B: “React—we use React—you should know React”

Just something to think about as “using React makes it easy to hire React developers” is somehow still taking up space in the dialogue.

OMG. @caseynewton @zoeschiffer this is amazing beyond amazing.

https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-musk-fires-a-top-twitter-engineer

“What’s the worst UI for a signature on an online form?”

Me: 🤔

It truly is amazing how Elon can know so little about the site he massively overspent to buy. The scammers aren't using the official API, dude.

Seriously, what would you say?

Let's say the Chinese government was using TikTok to surveil Americans.

If you ban Tik Tok, the Chinese gov can just legally purchase the same info from data brokers, because the US has almost no privacy laws.

Don't ban TikTok, pass a damn privacy law https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/01/opinion/tiktok-ban-china.html

Today in Russia puppet state fails: Belarus had a homegrown globally-successful videogame company, Wargaming. It left over Belarus's support for the invasion of Ukraine.

In retaliation, Belarus put one of the executives on the "terrorist" list. 🤦‍♂️ https://www.pcgamer.com/belarusian-kgb-adds-world-of-tanks-studio-boss-to-terrorist-list/

Something is deeply wrong with the New York Times

Twitter, which recently suspended my account and the accounts of several other journalists, allows verified accounts to post recruitment videos urging American soldiers to join Russia's Wagner Group PMC, which is designated as a transnational criminal organization by the US government.