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Another breathless, gasping story about the evils of FB / technology / capitalism / from the Guardian, which has established itself as the nexus for alarmist 'journalism'. The foot…

I am so sorry, you may be beyond the reach of modern medical science :p

Yes, that was the start of it for me, seeing that going on while understanding exactly how much BS it was at the time. Then the 2016 elections (and constant fumbling to get any sto…

Shocked that a normal and healthy practice that should be done more by more and different kinds of people is big news to the NYT, because tech. Watching the NYT (and others) from w…

How hot will this thing be with 8 cores? Unless they've cut some ventilation holes in the bottom of the laptop. MBPs aren't exactly known for good thermal regulation (my previous o…

Had to read about this from another source, the cookies popup can't be dismissed and even when deleted from the DOM, the story is still unreadable.

This is from 2016, but you can see that even three years ago, the Guardian was already busy milking every possible story for outrage. Nothing can happen, clearly, without it being …

Zero confidence that any part of the US congress is even remotely capable of producing a bill for this that isn't a complete disaster. Unfortunately, they'll probably try anyway. O…

How about I Google 'disease model of alcoholism' for you: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=disease... Now, who was superficial and poorly researched? That's lit…

> 1. If you're an alcoholic and think you can handle a single drink, you're lying to yourself. 2. It's honestly not worth it. Life is better than being stuck in a multi day binger.…

To be fair, UK lawmakers are very familiar with leadership failure these days.

Has it ever been the place to have an interview or 1:1 conversation? That it didn't work well seems like something that would be known in advance, and so the choice of doing it thi…

> You can achieve pretty much the same isolation as Wayland on X11 with cgroups and Xephyr. Wait, you mean I could get something almost as good just by adding in two additional tec…

Yes. Of course, if you are living in the EU, you are stuck with that market :)

I wonder if at some point it will just make good business sense not to offer your service / product in the EU? I imagine the cost of developing and running software to comply (plus…

Perhaps eventually they'll invent and patent their way back to a usable laptop keyboard :) IMO, declaring bankruptcy on the current design and reverting to the previous chiclet key…

> Lewis-Kraus’s critiques are based on incomplete facts and largely anonymous sources whose motivations are impossible to assess. Curiously, he did not ask me about the great major…

Right, so there's a letter missing from a pronoun. Noted. Any thoughts on the commentary itself? No?

"My flippant tweet began to pick up traction. My intent wasn't to claim that the meme is inherently dangerous." He spun an offhand comment into full-on opinion manipulation, becaus…

So, the author read a book and then awkwardly tried to graft its theme onto the narrative his employer is pushing. Went about as well as you'd expect.

And media outlets like the NYT manipulate our opinions. An endless parade of articles written by non-experts with no incentives to get anything right, but plenty to keep the story …

A heavily-recycled story that's been making the rounds since at least 2017. No matter, have to keep the outrage machine going to drive traffic!

At this point I no longer trust them to report accurately about even the United States.

I had a similar experience: I went to a very good, Catholic college prep school and I wrote a lot of papers well before setting foot in college. In some ways, it was more challengi…