This LJ/DW is not dead, dammit.

Internet harassment's nothing new (and nothing new in the news), but this piece by Julia Angwen at ProPublica on the use of mailing lists and twitter bots for mail as a form of harassment is still worth a read.

I feel like everyone's already seen this one, but the use of algorithms and bots on YouTube causes all ( Read more... )

There was a second ship out in the storm called the Fearless, and they all perished so that the folks on the Minnow could make it to shore.

It makes sense lyrically, and it's a lot more believable than the notion that Gilligan (the entire "crew") is capable of saving people's lives.

(Scene: Preparing to go out):

Shira (looking at me): What?

Me: You're cute.

Shira: No, you're cute. Your face is cute.

Me: Nuh-uh. If I'm so cute, why don't you marry me?

Shira (sighing): Because I already did that, Adam. Catch up. You're like fourteen seasons behind.

Me: I can binge it.

Amazon's got its annual Prime Day going on now (with deals only for Prime members, although I suspect most folks using Amazon regularly fit the bill), and for the most part, it's better than in previous years, but not the national holiday they want it to be. That said, a lot of the hot deals went right away, and there's a ton of stuff to sort ( Read more... )

Relevant to everyone's needs (whether you're reading this on DW and are an ex-LJ person or someone who's using a service that has its roots in LJ, or on LJ itself, in which case I fully expect Putin and the Putinesca Censorship Troupe to gank this post or make it invisible), the latest episode of Reply All -- one of the better podcasts out there ( Read more... )

We got home around 1. When I came upstairs this morning before 8, I found that a couple of cookbooks had been knocked off the kitchen bookshelf. No big deal. Then I noticed that the sample pack of cat food we'd gotten in the mail (Rachel Ray's Delish) was in the dining room and torn open. Sigh. I cleaned it up, went about the rest of the morning ( Read more... )

Watching the Jeopardy! Teacher's Tournament from last month, there was this clue about William Henry Harrison: What he said in his inaugural: 'We admit of no govt. by divine right"; what he should have said: "I need a heavier coat!"I swear to fucking god, WHH dying because he caught a cold while speaking is up there with "90% of your body heat ( Read more... )

So after seeing the list of Eisner nominations, I grabbed a bunch of them from the library. I do this with a lot of nomination lists, and it usually leads to some good reads, like Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer: A Novel (which I read when it was shortlisted for an Edgar, before it had won either that award or the slightly more famous award it ( Read more... )

So overall, that was disappointing ( Read more... )

For the first time in a few years, took a dive into my LJ account to see what accounts I hadn't friended back, and clearly missed a bunch of legit requests amidst the spam. I've friended a bunch of folks I know back, although for accounts that don't seem to have been updated in over a decade, I'm assuming those are abandoned (although I realize ( Read more... )