Xander Lenc

If you, when presented with a basic computer problem, can find & execute online instructions for how to copy & paste a few lines of code from a forum post into an existing program (or even enter a command prompt), then you have more tech independence than 99% of Americans at this point. It's scary!

I tend think of myself as someone with low tech literacy, but then I meet my students who don't understand that a file folder can go inside of another file folder. Nobody told us that the cyberpunk future would involve such an incredible campaign of deskilling!

I swear I remember an almost-identical runaway Texas Democratic legislator media cycle during the Bush administration. Texas Rangers on patrol and everything. Is this just the Mandela Effect? It seems so specific.

Windows should release a new OS for people who know how to use computers.

Chicago will pay.

Discouraging the use of "ibid." in a manual of style is an act of extraordinary evil.

I recently picked up a Toxic Avenger comic where Toxie teams up with Jesus Christ, and it includes a pretty good interpretation of the ethics of violence in the gospels.

***Historians of California and/or policing***

Police Records Access Project

clean.calmatters.org

Surely the people of the world will believe that the children in the country we have been bombing and blockading from trade and international aid for two years are extremely well fed and healthy. Surely this is a sustainable messaging strategy.

It's very funny when reply guys act indignant when you give level-headed responses to their patronizing replies.

No no, it's not as bad as it looks. You need to understand that the starving child in that picture had a pre-existing medical condition when he started starving... well, okay, hm. Right. The child that has a pre-existing medical condition is an AI simulation! Wait, shit, no, lemme start over...

Gonna make a billion dollars by financing Broadway's first-ever production of Waiting for Godot with an all-puppy cast.

New Wood Street Doc Tells Inside Story of Oakland’s Self-Organized Encampment Documentary filmmaker Caron Creighton and former Wood Street resident John Janosko talk about the documentary, the struggle, and what’s to come.

New Wood Street Doc Tells Inside Story of Oakland’s Self-Organized Encampment: bayareacurrent.com/new-wood-str...

I know how partisan redistricting works dude. And the fact that he was able to win so handily in a district with a near-neutral cook PVI is precisely why he is favored to win again, as it suggests that the local democratic party is in serious disarray and unable to mount a serious challenge.

Extremely normal to wage a war against trans people for saying the wouldn't vote for Newsom in a hypothetical presidential race, when the leaders of your own party refuse to endorse your nominee in a NYC mayoral race that actually exists.

What's good for the chews is good for the chander.

The internet chewmmunity is currently up in arms about a gum company called Larineco that makes deceptive claims about their product's oral health benefits.

screenshot of the title of a reddit post on r/gum. "So I had to quit gum because of my controlling ex-girlfriend. It's good to be back." Icons indicate that the post garnered sixty eight upvotes and nine comments.

Learning a lot about the online gum enthusiast community.

In His infinite wisdom HaShem has decided to remind me of the importance of humility, dispatching the aforementioned cat to vomit her entire breakfast on the chair I work in.

No, Moody's is a publicly traded company.

Regardless, this bill would end redistricting in Texas as well under its current language.

This isn't really rooted in reality. Kiley won his last election by a double-digit margin. He's not going anywhere.

Rep. Kiley to Introduce Redistricting Legislation WASHINGTON – Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA) will be introducing legislation to prohibit Mid-Decade Redistricting nationwide. The bill, which Kiley plans to introduce tomorrow, will nullify new maps adopted b...

Kevin Kiley, a Republican house rep who would almost certainly lose his job if California moves forwards on redistricting, has submitted legislation to nullify ANY new district maps redrawn before 2030. They're starting to panic.
kiley.house.gov/posts/rep-ki...

@Markzandi on twitter: The economy is on the precipice of recession. That’s the clear takeaway from last week’s economic data dump. Consumer spending has flatlined, construction and manufacturing are contracting, and employment is set to fall. And with inflation on the rise, it is tough for the Fed to come to the rescue.

The chief economist at Moody's is now openly anticipating a recession.

Calling it now: SCOTUS will repeal Section II of the Voting Rights Act next summer. The majority ruling will be less than 4000 words long.

The willing stupidity of the New York Times saying that Netanyahu has "squander[ed] his moment to halt the war" as if he has ever had any intention of ending this war until he is forced to, as if his political career and personal freedom isn't completely and transparently dependent on ceaseless war.

Again, if anyone ever does this to me I will kill god and conquer death itself to rise from the grave and give you a wet willy so intense that you will suffer lifelong brain damage.

My life is not perfect but I do have the one thing that truly matters: a really mean cat who is only nice to me.

If someone uses AI to write my official obituary I will kill god and conquer death itself to rise from the grave and knock out their teeth.

till i llnoise