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Product for Bloomberg News. Previously: tech, gov, etc. Mostly: KP Trueblood fan account. Opinions mine, etc.
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That's not an air raid siren going off, it's just my macbook's fans choking on 61 outdated formulae.

Decided I'd do a quick little "brew install" for a package after getting back from leave.

And then realized my work computer hadn't run "brew upgrade" in 3 months.

Going back on leave while it updates.

SZA’s SOS came out a month ago but I just found it today. Feels like an album that will stick for a long time.

F2F and Conceited are current loopers - Conceited sounds like the Young Thug / Jamie XX collab in the best way.

https://open.spotify.com/album/07w0rG5TETcyihsEIZR3qG?si=DfrqbiaDSsCTT76qj-dJCg

SOS

SZA · Album · 2022 · 23 songs.

Spotify

My Twitter feed is much, much quieter than it used to be. But the conversation isn’t all here on Mastodon.

Have people migrated to Post or Hive? Or is the group chat just dead now?

Happy New Years, Fedinerds.
Who hurt the Atlantic

The New York Times has editorialized angrily against forced arbitration -- a system designed to protect companies from accountability.

So guess what I found in my inbox this morning. Yes! Subscribers to the NY Times must now submit to forced arbitration if there's a dispute:

https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us/articles/115014893428-Terms-of-service?launch_id=18232205#12

“Why was it important to drop “murder” from the hornet’s name?”

“To avoid stoking fear, which is, you know, the murder part.”
https://www.theverge.com/23523181/murder-hornet-problematic-insect-common-name-change

Don’t call that hornet ‘murder,’ say scientists searching for better common names

Scientists are striving to find better common names for insects with problematic titles. It’s part of a broader movement to end racism and discrimination in science.

The Verge

I’m on parental leave until January and have totally forgotten how to come back from leave.

If you’ve done it recently, what helped you come back from leave without losing your mind? (Attitudes, scheduling changes, whatever)

Oh hell yeah. @mozilla is launching a Mastodon instance in early 2023! I’m very excited for this. Mozilla is really good at what they do. Firefox has over 200M monthly active users, and with any luck they’ll build better support for the fediverse into Firefox itself. Mastodon will greatly benefit from easy to use professionally run instances that can handle massive scaling https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launch-fediverse-instance-social-media-alternative/
Mozilla to explore healthy social media alternative | The Mozilla Blog

Update: Starting May 4, 2023, we’re expanding Mozilla.social to a private beta. If you’re interested, join our waitlist. In early 2023, Mozilla will st