Hank Green posted a video today about why outsiders with little experience in governing should not run for President, even if they're famous and they can win. It's a good video, but the reason I'm posting about it is a short exchange I saw in the comments... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYA3hOzxYeo
Isn't it weird that there are no requirements to run for President besides being at least 35 years old, a natural-born citizen, and a U.S. resident for 14 years? The screening process to become a U.S. citizen is far more rigorous, but anyone born here that's rich and famous enough is somehow qualified to run the country, even if they don't know how a bill becomes a law.
In the Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton wrote that the Electoral College would act as a safeguard against unqualified candidates becoming president. He thought it'd be possible for a rich famous asshole to leverage their popularity to become a governor or state legislator, but surely they wouldn't be able to fool enough electors to become President! Whoops. https://ballotpedia.org/Federalist_No._68_by_Alexander_Hamilton_(1788)
Wow, @mwichary's Config presentation about the history of pixel fonts is so great, with some of the most impressive visuals I've ever seen in a conference talk. Don't miss the live demo where audience members design a thousand new pixel letters using a custom browser tool loaded from a QR code, which Marcin then manipulates and visualizes real-time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDI8ubVZi7w
I don’t know how else to describe this, but parts of downtown St. Louis smell distinctly like a used bookstore. Like a room stuffed full of musty aging books and yellowing magazines.
@annika@lmorchard Yeah, I don't understand the people who stubbornly insist on calling it Twitter. Twitter is dead. If you insist on continuing to post there, call it by its stupid new name instead of pretending it's something it's not. You're an X user now, just deal with it.
404 Media is doing a great job at getting tech companies to moderate bad actors on their platforms, impressive for such a small indie publication. Their reporting directly led to action at two major tech companies this week: Discord shut down the Spy Pet search engine that sold access to user messages. https://www.404media.co/discord-shuts-down-spy-pet-bots-that-scraped-sold-user-messages/
"Illustrator now honors 9-slice scaling of symbols. Do you? Look carefully in your heart before answering, my child. The world, and all your scaled symbols, may never look the same."
How Comics Were Made is a visual history of printing cartoons currently funding on Kickstarter, 76% to the goal with under 70 hours to hit it. @glennf exhaustively researched this 288-page full-color book for years, interviewing dozens of mainstream and alternative cartoonists, and I really hope it gets made. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/how-comics-were-made/