Notices by Donald Ball (donaldball@triangletoot.party), page 2

@AnthonyJK Careful with all that straw, bud.

@inthehands @mybarkingdogs I subscribed on the strength of that piece, to support Adam and his cohort of diverse, challenging essayists.

I cancelled when they printed Tumulty’s Nancy Reagan AIDS revisionist piece. Their editorial staff is making choices, that’s for sure.

@inthehands @jhv Here in Durham, one of their chief officers was caught red-handed sock puppeting on Twitter, talking up the company and shitting on skeptical residents.

@trochee @inthehands There's a trap I've seen very experienced engineers fall into — I've probably fallen into it myself! — whereby after mastering some morass of complexity, they — we — become endeared to the technical difficulties of the puzzle and resist efforts to reduce or eliminate the incidental complexity, or to seek out simpler solutions to the business problem.

@thecorodon @inthehands In one online community I used to frequent, some liberals were expressing delight on January 6th, 2021 that Trump and his violent, ridiculous paramilitaries had overplayed their hand, that the decent moderate center would be aghast, and that alt-right politics would be toxic for the foreseeable future.

Anyway.

@SallyStrange @currentbias For about fifteen weird and delirious minutes, a majority of *white Amercans* saw a police precinct burning and said, ehhh seems kinda justified in this case.

@blogdiva We’re the only thing standing between you and the fascists, say the Democratic elite. It doesn’t matter *that much* if they’re literally standing right *beside* them, embracing them!

@thomasfuchs @NealBabcock @drmaddkap Um you must not know about this one: https://qz.com/cvs-customer-checkout-register-donations-lawsuit-1849855922

@inthehands Aside from everything else, it seems a total misread of or disregard for the choices their own customers are making in subscribing. Efficacy is part of it, sure, but ethics is as well!

@evan This is too vague to answer accurately. If you go to *any* protest over a certain size, you’ll encounter some fringe folk with utterly wretched beliefs. This is a simple fact. You can’t really discredit any protest for having such a fringe.

You can reasonably judge based on the number and proportion of such groups, and the reception they’re given, formally and not.

So, basically, fuck Republicans up and down all the ballots, huh? Good showing, American electorate.

@inthehands @chargrille Among the awful truths of the GWB era "war on terror" was that Bush's and Osama bin Laden's popularity levels (in their target audiences!) rose and fell in tandem.

@inthehands Something something workplace democracy

I truly hate how the dismantling of the US COVID test infrastructure has led folk into an extended nightmare of circular reasoning.

We don't need to take precautions at (crowded indoor event) because the test data (that we're not doing) indicate transmission is low (even when we're actually just using the hospital capacity metric).

@thomasfuchs @Wolven Search/ads, GSuite, GCP, and Android make sense as a starter.

@nomi @apophis @futurebird @inthehands “Please select from the following subscription plans: SeeRight Premium Reserved (fixed price, paid annually) MarketSight Value Plus (variable rates, surge pricing for special events), or SmartShopper Pro (60 seconds of reality for every 10 seconds of ads).”

@alexwild @inthehands Right-wingers started looking at public universities as juicy targets in the 90’s. I believe that part of the reason for the bloating university administrations since then was to build an appartus into which to slot the friends and scions of the powerful, reducing their inclination towards attack.