µblog - archive for 2017-11 🏳️‍🌈

The price of Civility is Eternal Moderation

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In retrospect, I think my fav Gibson series is the Bridge Trilogy. Mostly it’s the characters that stick in my memory, and the depiction of Japan.

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“The banner bright, the symbol plain, Of human right, and human gain.”

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So, if your sibling gets kids and you reach a certain age… are you automatically designated “racist uncle”, or can you choose?

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Maybe the furor over net neutrality can gain some mainstream appeal if the Russian trollbots get involved

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So we have #BlackFriday here in Sweden now. What’s next? Dry overcooked turkey? Stressful travel? Arguing politics with relatives? Just say ¡NO! to Yanqui cultural imperialism!

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yo we heard you like screen multiplexers so we’re running a ‘tmux’ in your ‘screen’ so you can multiplex while you multiplex

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Not gonna lie, didn’t think the local Lidl would be the first place I saw advertizing Apple Pay

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Spotify: stop trying to make the latest crap by U2 a thing. It’s not gonna happen

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I was named “closer of the week” at #work. To encourage me to be named again, I now have even more cases.

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The best rebranding exercise? Transforming “statistics” into “AI” #bigdata

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I’m really happy the animated emojis in MS Teams stop moving when the window loses focus… #work

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#Tether supply has increased! There are now 644,999,472 tethers issued (+30,000,000)

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Ooh, a coup! It’s been a while.

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There are shell scripts Man was not supposed to write - we have a ~home in a vast and uncaring system, and it was not meant for us to cd(1) far

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Quick poll (not really a poll): when tweeting a parody of a famous quote, do you look it up first or just wing it?

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Not gonna lie, I like the new 280 character limit #suckithaters

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Ranting about open workspaces is practically its own art form now, like the sonnet or the epistolic novel #nerdscomplaining

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You know WW1 is finally so over when 11/11 is now “Singles Day” #remembranceday #neverforget #imeanit

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After literally decades of using #Emacs I’ve implented abbrevs for the first time #slowlearner

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Every time I think a government has made the dumbest decision ever, another one says “hold my beer”

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“when the five-star Ritz Carlton was transformed into a prison” is a very 2010s sentence

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Bitfinex has issued 515M worth of Tethers with no more backing than a couple of tweets. Fiat money indeed

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how the heck do I fav a tweet using @oysttyer? /fav doesn’t work

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I honestly didn’t thing Windows VPN clients could get any worse … then I tried FortiClient #nolowerbar #work

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