Notices by Aijaz Ansari (aijaz@mastodon.social)

It’s been so long since I last read the LOTR trilogy. I had forgotten just how strong of a friendship Gimli and Legolas had. They’re making plans to travel together if they survive the war. #relationshipgoals

They don’t want to be reminded of the fact that they live in a world that has decent people. People better than them. People they could never be. https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/113953389341743199

Google software doesn’t do simple pagination. (Don’t give me Google’s technical reasons. I know). That mentality will be deciding who lives and who dies. https://todon.eu/@MediaActivist/113953943125185305

I have gotten to the point that if a $59 hardware solution requires me to write an iOS app to control it I will gladly pay (and advise other non-profits) to adopt a $349 hardware solution that requires me to write a Python app because the uncertainty that Apple imposes with app review is far more costly than the difference. And I’ve been an iOS Dev since 2010.

Apple has become an impediment to small business and non-profits. At least in my circles.

The best friend of someone I love was on that plane that crashed. It feels strange grieving the loss of someone I didn't know and never met, not because of what it's doing to me, but what it's doing to her.

So apparently, in the case of “legitimate tuberculosis,” the body does not “have a way to shut that whole thing down.”

Wonder what else they’re wrong about. https://mstdn.social/@Skepticat/113895041992972493

I saw the still picture. It could be construed as a still taken in the middle of a spree of waving to make him look bad. But when you see a video clip like this GIF, there can be no doubt.

If I did this at work I would (and would deserve to) be fired. This was a pre-planned, practiced performance. It meant exactly what it appears to mean. https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl/113862818490772279

Even now it apparently matters only because it’s about them. Not: I don’t want this, but I don’t want ME to be be seen as the baddie. https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/113855932141911387

I realized another reason why it’s so important to take your kids camping: so they learn how to travel with constraints.

I’m taking some youth in a ski trip and these ‘kids’ are in their twenties and don’t know how to prep for a trip, pack essential clothing, be ready to leave on time, how to pack a backpack and a car trunk in last-in-first-out mode, etc. None of these are innate attributes; they have to be learned. We have to teach our kids these things.

The rationalizations of the people here who think that Tim Cook is playing some sort of 4D chess with trump sound disturbingly like the rationalizations of the magaheads who think that trump is playing some sort of 4D chess with everyone else.

Same idolatry—different man.

It’s all about the Benjamins.

Am I the only person who read this in Linda Richmond’s voice?

“I’m getting verklempt. Talk amongst yourselves. I’ll give you a topic: ‘The CyberTruck is neither Cyber nor a Truck.’ Discuss!”

https://mastodon.social/@mcc/113755254460623620

That’s very sharp. https://antisocial.existentialdread.com/@scrivolical/113638320296920199

Live your life in such a way that news of your murder doesn’t mobilize the country to undo the harm you caused.

Thank you for attending my sermon.

Huh. Sure looks like the orange nazi just destroyed Gaetz’s career. Everything he touches goes to ruin.

At the first (I believe) CocoaHeads after the 2016 elections we discussed software to help organize volunteers, etc. We used it to organize against trump and the Muslim Ban and so many more of his shenanigans. In the ensuing 8 years i’ve got a lot more experience with this kind of stuff.

If anyone needs help deciding on a tech stack, hit me up. I’ll be glad to help.

“Fueled by ingenuity, innovation, and creativity.”

Cool.

How about “kindness?” No? “Compassion?” No? “Basic decency?”

Spoke to acquaintance who is a white woman. I’m reasonably sure she isn’t racist or a white supremacist.

She voted for Cheeto Mussolini.

If I were to guess, I think her Catholic Faith caused her to vote against her own interests.

I voted against my own self-interests, too. But I voted to raise my taxes to raise money for low-income housing. Not to elect a fascist.

@mekkaokereke
Agree 100%. Also wanna call out my favorite Quincy Jones composition: the theme of Sanford And Son.

I met someone who performs exorcisms. He told me that most of the time people don’t need exorcisms but need tending to mental or physical or situational issues.

I’m sorry, but if I’m in bed with 4 dogs and I wake up with claw marks on my sides the first suspects are the dogs, not Jinns. https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/113408437273826383

I couldn’t make it through this article. It was too heartbreaking. https://toots.schwanksta.com/@ken/113390879880323894