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Published by marco on in Notes
Below are links to articles, highlighted passages[1], and occasional annotations[2] for the week ending on the date in the title, enriching the raw data from Instapaper Likes and Twitter. They are intentionally succinct, else they’d be articles and probably end up in the gigantic backlog of unpublished drafts. YMMV.
Published by marco on in Public Policy & Politics
…is not that he is Indian. The problem is that he is a neoliberal class-warrior against the poor.
A friend sent me a video of Trevor Noah in a segment on the racism experienced by Rishi Sunak. I could only find the original video on Facebook, of all places. YouTube is chock-full of reaction video to the original video. Trevor Noah plays a call-in show from England that features a racist caller saying that Sunak can’t represent England because he’s not white. That’s just basic maths, right?[1]
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Published by marco on in Notes
Below are links to articles, highlighted passages[1], and occasional annotations[2] for the week ending on the date in the title, enriching the raw data from Instapaper Likes and Twitter. They are intentionally succinct, else they’d be articles and probably end up in the gigantic backlog of unpublished drafts. YMMV.
Published by marco on in Quotes
“Criticism of US foreign policy looks like Russian propaganda to people who’ve spent their entire lives marinating in US propaganda.”
Published by marco on in Public Policy & Politics
We’ve definitely heard that Invasions Are Only Bad When Russia Does Them by Ted Rall. Is this true? It seems to be. No-one else gets shit for invasions.
It’s rich when the U.S. leads the charge to talk about how bad it is when one of its official enemies invades a country.
Was there provocation in Russia’s case? Yes, there was. Is that justification for the invasion? No, it is not. There is no justification for any invasion.
Was there provocation in Panama, Grenada, or Cuba? In the case of Cuba, yes,... [More]
Published by marco on in Notes
Below are links to articles, highlighted passages[1], and occasional annotations[2] for the week ending on the date in the title, enriching the raw data from Instapaper Likes and Twitter. They are intentionally succinct, else they’d be articles and probably end up in the gigantic backlog of unpublished drafts. YMMV.
Published by marco on in Notes
Below are links to articles, highlighted passages[1], and occasional annotations[2] for the week ending on the date in the title, enriching the raw data from Instapaper Likes and Twitter. They are intentionally succinct, else they’d be articles and probably end up in the gigantic backlog of unpublished drafts. YMMV.
Published by marco on in Miscellaneous
Whenever I see an article about Chinese tonality or stress, I usually think about whether it also applies to my mother tongue, English.[1]
The article The importance of stress in Chinese utterances by Victor Mair (Language Log) describes a “a single sentence of seven morphosyllables spoken in seven different ways according to what the speaker wishes to emphasize.”
“Wǒ méi shuō tā tōu wǒ qián.
“我沒說她偷我錢。
““I didn’t say that she stole my money”.”
The article lists all of the ways that you can change stress... [More]
Published by marco on in Sports
The following article is the text of a message I sent to Garmin to start a discussion about improving the UX for saving activities. 🤞
Garmin Venu 2Is there any way to prevent the Venu 2 from auto-saving an activity while I’m still working on it?
My old ForeRunner 235 would simply drop out of tracking mode and wait as long as I liked to restart the activity. This was fantastic for when I would stop for lunch on a hike. Or if I’d hiked or biked somewhere, wanted to stay x hours, but also wanted to... [More]
Published by marco on in Notes
Below are links to articles, highlighted passages[1], and occasional annotations[2] for the week ending on the date in the title, enriching the raw data from Instapaper Likes and Twitter. They are intentionally succinct, else they’d be articles and probably end up in the gigantic backlog of unpublished drafts. YMMV.
Published by marco on in Movies
These are my notes to remember what I watched and kinda what I thought about it. I’ve recently... [More]
Published by marco on in Public Policy & Politics
…was convincing the world he was God.
To paraphrase the classic phrase a bit, that is what the United States keeps on being able to do with the rest of the western world.
My theory is that it’s because the rest of the world is cynically focused on their own short-term self-interest. Nothing much has changed in that regard. They simply continue to pretend that they’re doing whatever they do for wholly virtuous reasons, but they really have no principles at all.
Look at a country like... [More]
Published by marco on in Quotes
“A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.”
Published by marco on in Technology & Engineering
I mean, obviously.
From the post iPhone 14 Plus Pre-Orders Worse Than iPhone 13 Mini, Product Strategy ‘Fails’ (Reddit), the following chain of comments,
We start off with the voice of reason.
“Older phones are simply faring better than they used to as well. Used to be a phone two models old was getting super slow and battery life was shit. Or there was a major new feature. That’s not as much the case anymore, my 12 pro works flawlessly and I see no good reason to upgrade. A slightly better camera... [More]”
Published by marco on in Design
The article The importance of having a design system by Reindeeraintreal (Reddit) shows the following UI elements from the gaming platform Steam.
The various UI elements of Steam
That looks pretty bad, right? There is no consistency at all.
However, the first comment is pretty astute: “Steam, being as successful as it is, makes me interpret this post as saying that having a design system is not important.”
Design’s not the only thing, that’s for sure. Market dominance definitely trumps design. But you could do your users a favor and lower the... [More]
Published by marco on in Notes
Below are links to articles, highlighted passages[1], and occasional annotations[2] for the week ending on the date in the title, enriching the raw data from Instapaper Likes and Twitter. They are intentionally succinct, else they’d be articles and probably end up in the gigantic backlog of unpublished drafts. YMMV.
Published by marco on in Notes
Below are links to articles, highlighted passages[1], and occasional annotations[2] for the week ending on the date in the title, enriching the raw data from Instapaper Likes and Twitter. They are intentionally succinct, else they’d be articles and probably end up in the gigantic backlog of unpublished drafts. YMMV.
Published by marco on in Programming
The article Agile Projects Have Become Waterfall Projects With Sprints by Ben Hosking (ITNext) argues that a lot of projects using agile aren’t agile at all, but are “more like waterfall projects with upfront requirements, fixed deadlines, sprints and 2 weekly demos.”
Overall, I understand where the author is coming from, but I found the tone pretty overwhelmingly negative. I can only imagine what the author has seen to have put them in such a dark place. 😐
I thought that this was an interesting comment in the... [More]
Published by marco on in Public Policy & Politics
Not only is Cloudflare getting opinionated about what kinds of site it deems worthy of hosting, but now the Internet Archive is also deciding which sites are worth remembering.
That is not either one of your jobs.
You each have one job.
You are not doing it.
Stop censoring knowledge and history and information.
Published by marco on in Science & Nature
As I was reading the article Polio declared a disaster emergency in New York after more poliovirus found by Beth Mole (Ars Technica), the following citation caught my eye,
“Rockland County—which is notorious for generally low vaccination rates after battling a tenacious measles outbreak in 2019—has a polio vaccination rate of just 60 percent among children under the age of 2, who are recommended to have three polio vaccine doses.”
People are not vaccinating their children because they see the injections as dangerous.... [More]
Published by marco on in Public Policy & Politics
I’ve read that a so-called special master has been appointed to oversee the dissemination of information from the files seized in the raid of Trump’s Mar-el-Lago resort. I’ve also read that this will significantly delay the release of information. I think it’s ok in the sense that I’m interested in justice being served for Trump as well as anyone else. That is, if the information were to be disseminated by an extremely unfriendly press and Twitterati, then it would be very likely that we would... [More]
Published by marco on in Notes
Below are links to articles, highlighted passages[1], and occasional annotations[2] for the week ending on the date in the title, enriching the raw data from Instapaper Likes and Twitter. They are intentionally succinct, else they’d be articles and probably end up in the gigantic backlog of unpublished drafts. YMMV.
Published by marco on in Miscellaneous
The article Europe Commits Suicide-by-Sanctions by Ron Paul (Antiwar.com) contains a perfect example of the quality of reporting you get when someone reports on a country they know little about.
“According to the Swiss newspaper Blick, those who violate the 66 degree heating limit could face as many as three years in prison!”
The Blick is about as reliable as The New York Post: sometimes, but not nearly always. There is no prison sentence for heating your apartment.
He gets all wound up:
“Prison time for heating your... [More]”
So, Dave Levitan tweeted,
“Someone please tell me if I’m wrong, but I have the impression that the best climate models and projections didn’t really have “all the rivers are gonna dry up, like now-ish” in there”
The Rhine, the Yangtze, the Po by aprettyp (Reddit) is a screenshot of the tweet. The top response by whoareyoutoquestion is wholly informative,
“Except they did and do. “Unprecedented droughts” and “Increased cyclic extremes of weather” are two common things in climate change caused by global warming.... [More]”
Published by marco on in Notes
Below are links to articles, highlighted passages[1], and occasional annotations[2] for the week ending on the date in the title, enriching the raw data from Instapaper Likes and Twitter. They are intentionally succinct, else they’d be articles and probably end up in the gigantic backlog of unpublished drafts. YMMV.
Published by marco on in Quotes
“My guess is that the indignities imposed on so many low-wage workers—the drug tests, the constant surveillance, being “reamed out” by managers—are part of what keeps wages low. If you’re made to feel unworthy enough, you may come to think that what you’re paid is what you are actually worth. It is hard to imagine any other function for workplace authoritarianism. Managers may truly believe that, without their unremitting efforts, all work would quickly grind to a halt. That is not... [More]”
Published by marco on in Notes
Below are links to articles, highlighted passages[1], and occasional annotations[2] for the week ending on the date in the title, enriching the raw data from Instapaper Likes and Twitter. They are intentionally succinct, else they’d be articles and probably end up in the gigantic backlog of unpublished drafts. YMMV.
Published by marco on in Notes
Below are links to articles, highlighted passages[1], and occasional annotations[2] for the week ending on the date in the title, enriching the raw data from Instapaper Likes and Twitter. They are intentionally succinct, else they’d be articles and probably end up in the gigantic backlog of unpublished drafts. YMMV.
Published by marco on in Quotes
“We are cheating our children, handing them tawdry luxuries and addictive gadgets while we take away what’s left of the wealth, wonder and possibility of the pristine Earth.”
Published by marco on in Notes
Below are links to articles, highlighted passages[1], and occasional annotations[2] for the week ending on the date in the title, enriching the raw data from Instapaper Likes and Twitter. They are intentionally succinct, else they’d be articles and probably end up in the gigantic backlog of unpublished drafts. YMMV.
