Gareth Potter

@garethpotter
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I mostly write code.
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The absolute saddest vision of the future possible..
This is why the design trend of using placeholders as field labels is a terrible idea. This dialog showed up like this when I used the “Add Bookmark…” in Safari. What do you think the selected field is for? The bookmarked URL, right?
Don't let Dorsey launder his reputation by timidly criticizing the obviously horrendous moron he handpicked to sell Twitter to. Dorsey is responsible for driving Twitter into the ground long before Musk made them an offer they couldn't refuse.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/29/elon-musk-twitter-jack-dorsey/
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey says Musk wasn’t an ideal leader after all

The former CEO issued his strongest criticism yet of Musk's takeover of the social media site.

The Washington Post

Him: can I have a gun?

Cops: yeah sure why ... wait, hold on a minute, whoa, holy shit, no, you're off-the-deep-end crazy. And we'd normally let *basically anyone* have a gun

DOD: would you like a TS/SCI clearance and unrestricted access to the JCS brief

Him: OK

* two years later *

DOD, in hot-dog costume: Look, we're all just trying to work out who did this, ok

Hate to generalize, but just gonna say it as I see it: if you have the insignia of the Russian General Staff prominently on display in your bedroom, USG probably shouldn't give you a TS/SCI and let you wander round the IT networks where the JCS daily brief is freely available for you to print out and take home

I have some, uh, ... questions about the .... diligence ... of this leaker's clearance process

https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/1651511991381508096

Eliot Higgins on Twitter

“This pendant on his notice board is from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation”

Twitter
Maybe if we start calling it Unborn Baby Earth instead of Mother Earth republicans will be more concerned with its well-being.
My 14-Hour Search for the End of TGI Friday's Endless Appetizers

What if I told you that mozzarella sticks never had to end? That for $10, you could eat for free (for $10) for the rest of your natural life? That there exists a spot in the space-time continuum in which it is always Friday? That there are free refills on all Slushes™ excluding Red Bull® branded items?

Gawker

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