Andrew Sullivan

Good explanation. I could tell it wasn’t SAP because that couldn’t have an end point in advance.

I have learned that my gas company (Enbridge) is doing “planned online system maintenance” for the entire (CA) thanksgiving weekend. Friday night until Tuesday morning. What are they going to do? Grow the silicon? Imagine the luxury of a 3 day shutdown window!

I didn’t know there was a cemetery of shame for mimes. I thought they were shameless.

It is possible that none of that shame has actually been buried!

I think it would be hard to communicate the intense need to someone who has not sinned as badly as I and therefore has not had such penance.

I am in the @cira.ca AGM, and I’m sorely wishing for a bad attitude channel.

With radioactive salts of mercury. And Alito started gleefully practically the moment he joined the court. One wishes to go back in time and praise political flunkies like Miers.

I’m glad he wrote it, but this would be a lot more convincing if it weren’t a letter from the leopard party. Nunziata is one of the people who carefully made this bed. The current reality is what the Birchers and all their fellow travellers were aiming to create.

Yeah, I have never been a Cult of Steve person, but Cook is just not a product guy and so the company isn’t any more either.

Apple has made autocorrect so bad that I can no longer text anyone simple information and expect it will get there. It _backtracks_ and “fixes” stuff you already made correct. Wtf?

It is sort of hard to believe both quite how accurate Orwell was (apart from missing the date by a few decades), but also how even his fertile imagination was not able to capture quite how bad it would have to get. It’s not even that ignorance is strength: it’s power!

If you get the Tesla Pestimus (or whatever it’s called) you can get some extra tears going just by interacting with it to start the walk.

Sort of. Back in the Usenet days it was really two of them, and later they divorced. Snopes.com is still operating, however. And the other one of the couple (I forget who got it) apparently continued doing similar work.

I mostly don’t care about the opinion of US TV pundits because they always seem so banal and safe, but I caught Lawrence O’Donnell where he said, “There is _no_ history of corporate bravery in America…,” and thought it was notably banal but no longer safe at all.

Indeed, if your name is, say, Sontag and you make the weakest version of that point in 2001, you’ll get pilloried for it. In this way, Kirk was a sort of latter-day enforcer for a whole bunch of Official Truths of Merrika, disagreement with which is proof you’re evil.

Last I looked at the news, it appeared they were in the White House.

I guess everyone on earth has to hope the US electorate is as rational about compromise candidates as that quoted below. And, of course, that the Ds don’t accidentally nominate a woman who is an imperfect candidate but who is by any measure you like vastly more qualified than the R candidate.

In the event I ever buy a phone again (and I’m not willing to swear I will), I may just ditch Apple because of the g-d autocorrect, which has become reliably worse over time. It now overrides my corrections regularly. And it replaces perfectly good words with garbled nonsense too. Mysterious.

I remember a cartoon of Andropov commenting, "This cold is killing me."

Is this really news? His breathtaking stupidity on every topic ever was on copious display for an entire term of the presidency. This is why the rest of the world believes that US citizens are themselves either evil or stupid: they put him _back_.

This would certainly fit with the universe’s apparently increasingly ghoulish sense of humour.

Cold announcement incoming.

I think the most emblematic part is that he is so incompetent that he can’t even hire a typist who knows how to capitalize in English.

Anyone old enough to remember the late Soviet period will only get worried/start celebrating when they announce that he has a cold.

I didn’t know he dictated them (I’m not surprised, it’s just the sort of minutia about that dumbass that I have resolved to avoid); but if they are dictated, what causes the Capitalization By Importance Of Word? Is it some AI experiment gone awry?

This is why nerds and privacy advocates get so worked up about data collection and retention. If you don’t have a positive need for it, don’t collect it. If the need has passed, expire it and dispose of it.

Heard what I figured was a raccoon fight outside. Just weird that there seemed to be only one voice. Normally you can hear two. About 15-20 minutes later, I started being able to smell skunk. I’m now guessing a raccoon has just learned that the skunk should be avoided.

Money saved is to redound to the benefit mostly of the wealthy in the U.S. This difference is not some picky technicality, and I’m embarrassed for @canadaland.com to be making such a willfully bad argument. It smells like clickbait and nothing more. They can do better, and have done.

Carney seems to be reasoning, probably correctly, that he has neither the political nor economic room for either more debt or a tax increase. Yet he has several expensive spending priorities. Trump’s cuts, by contrast, come from a mainspring of completely mistrusting the civil service. Moreover,

Analogies succeed or fail based on similarity and difference, and the difference in this case seems blindingly obvious, yet was left out of the discussion. The Carney plan is to make cuts in some areas to expand other areas of spending e.g. military, the RCMP, and a small trade war.