August, 2017 archive
Facebook Frolics 0
“But it was only a joke” frolics.
Afterthought:
I have observed that “it was only a joke” is frequently the last resort of those who propagate hate.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
For what it’s worth, my mother was born and grew up in York County, South Carolina.
But she knew how to conduct herself in public.
Misdirection Play, Tweet the Press Dept. 0
Dick Polman considers why Trump keeps bashing the press. A snippet:
Fly the Fiendly Skies 0
Visit my local rag for news of yet more United fiendliness. (I may have mentioned this before, but my ex once had a great flight via United Airlines. United couldn’t get a plane off the ground, so she got reaccommodated to other airlines in both directions.)
Stray Thought 0
We went out for breakfast Sunday morning. At an adjacent table, a lady was playing with a fidget spinner. I learned one thing.
Fidget spinners and fidget spinnerers (?) give me the willies.
The Digital Deride 0
Josh Marshall muses on the effects of major internet platforms’ (Twitter, a number of hosting providers, Facebook, and the like) yanking the accounts of various Neo-Nazi white supremacist actors, or, to put it another way, returning the trolls to their rightful place–under the bridge.
After noting that the irony that much of contemporary American political discourse takes place via privately-held, monolithic, for-profit platforms, he makes this trenchant observation (emphasis added):
Do please read the rest.
Manage Your Android with AirDroid 0
I have a new podcast up at Hacker Public Radio, this time about AirDroid, an Android application for managing your smartphone from your computer.
Files on phone as viewed in the Konqueror file manager via AirDroid.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Mike Pence and monumental stupidity:
“. . . and All the Ships at Sea” 0
Badtux has two posts up about the collision between a USN destroyer and an oil tanker near Singapore.
One addresses the undermanning of Navy ships, a legacy of President George the Worst; the other argues persuasively against the theory that, in some way, the guidance system of one of the ships was hacked. I commend them both to your attention.
