Notices by jwz (jwz@mastodon.social), page 9

@janxdevil One of my proudest moments was that in 1998, they called me out *by name* on the product page for this poster. Sadly that version of the page is unarchived. https://despair.com/products/burnout

@lgw4 Sure. But it may just be one of the stages of grief for them.

I seem to have constructed a glorious honeypot here. You're welcome / I'm sorry.

"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."

-- William Gibson, Count Zero - The favorite author of the exact people he was writing about.

Still shaking my head at being scolded that I should stop "othering" billionaires.

Prime.

Got this yesterday from what seemed like an actual amazon dot com email address: "I am contacting you today because I see that your organization is qualified for a business account with Amazon; our buying solution that grows with your...
https://jwz.org/b/ykch

Pro tip: mute everyone posting their "here's what Harris did wrong" hot takes. In no way does reading that improve your life.

@codinghorror @luis_in_brief Not irrational!

Maybe you’re not ready to read how to fight yet. It’s okay to take some time to rest, grieve, be angry. When you're ready, read on.

#CitationNeeded #USpolitics #USpol

In 1944, the OSS (precursor to CIA) published the Simple Sabotage Field Manual. For years, I've had four pages from this hanging on our office wall. It's funny in a "This meeting could have been an email" way as it demonstrates that the way most...
https://jwz.org/b/ykce

@luis_in_brief Alas I cannot tolerate podcasts in any way. Having someone talking in my ear while I'm trying to do anything, including *nothing*, is kryptonite.

Podcast, (n): This audio book could have been a blog post.

@cstross As a victim of an American education I know basically nothing about French history, so I learned that this *this year* after watching the recent (terrible, interminable) Napoleon movie. In the American version the whole French Revolution is just a footnote in the chapter where Jefferson invents Liberty. So on realizing that after all that fuss with the beheadings and whatnot it only lasted ten years, I had to pause the movie and go "wait, what?" on Wikipedia for a while.

@outfrost @anildash "Not All Dot Com" is not the insight you think it is.

I wanna say something to people who work in tech-related jobs in America: this is still a field where most people hate the rise of fascism and want to stop it. I know the media & amplification of the tycoons makes it seem like that’s the whole industry. But it’s not. And we still have power.

Well, I'm not happy that Bluejeans Boy bought himself a mayorhood, but it does feel good to wish London Breed a very Fuck Entirely Off. Take joy where you can find it.

@anildash
I wish I could believe this, but I don't. My experience is that the quisling tech industry is even more timid and cowardly than the journalists who "can't" close their twitter accounts.

"I't just a job", they say. I have lost close friends over this. People I thought were better.

Monkey Jailbreak.

Cops are warning residents in rural South Carolina to shut their doors and windows after at least 43 monkeys escaped from a bio-research lab. The rhesus macaques slipped out of an Alpha Genesis facility in Yemassee -- which is just...
https://jwz.org/b/ykcc

Upon waking from an unusually long hypersleep, Ripley discovers the long-term, society-wide neurological consequences of repeated infections from the fake-news SpaceSARS-CoV-2 pandemic that she slept through:
https://jwz.org/b/ykcZ

@Migueldeicaza Thank me by replacing some of your knee-jerk tech fanboyism with critical thinking instead of "thanks". Thanks!

@Migueldeicaza Don't be this person: https://jwz.org/b/ykP4