A time-slipping Loki struggles to fix the timeline(s) in new Loki S2 teaser

"What I'm about to tell you is going to be hard to believe. Again."

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2023/09/a-time-slipping-loki-struggles-to-fix-the-timelines-in-new-loki-s2-teaser/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

All these red states are now boasting about how they are withdrawing from the American Library Association. They aren’t just satisfied with banning books, they want to get rid of the places that keep and lend them, too. The Christian Right is on the march.

Carl Sagan once warned us of the “dumbing down” of America. He warned of a time when our “critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...”

That time is upon us. We must do all we can to prevent that darkness from taking hold.

Don’t Blame Drug Decriminalization for What the Housing Crisis Has Caused

https://truthout.org/articles/dont-blame-drug-decriminalization-for-what-the-housing-crisis-has-caused/

#HousingCrisis #DrugDecriminalization #BlameGame #Truthout #Homelessness #AffordableHousing #Politics #News

Rest in peace Bram Moolenaar, author of Vim and hero of many developers

The open source software legend left us on August 3 at age 62.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/bram-moolenaar-creator-of-the-beloved-vim-text-editor-has-passed-away/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

programmers are always posting like "worked on tracking down an issue with a Flurble deployment for twelve hours. the problem wasn't in Flurble at all - it was in the Gumbies install. It turns out if you install Gumbies 3.0 over Gumbies 2.7 and don't do a cache flush on all the client spiders they'll get stuck in the crystal maze." then you look up Gumbies and the site is one of those scroll scroll scroll types with one sentence per page, like

"GUMBIES is a lean, expressive sharding sandcube for testing and deploying large scale Woodchips playgrounds.

GUMBIES automates and streamlines away watersliding phases, meaning your team can get right to the chipping.

See why Microsoft, OpenAI and Bloingo have embraced GUMBIES in their Woodchips workflows."

and you get to the bottom and you're like I want this I guess but I still don't know what it is

Google: Here’s our latest evil plan…

Folks: That’s an evil plan, we don’t like it.

Google: Please keep the discussion to technical issues only.

#Google #EvilAsAService #PeopleFarming #SiliconValley #BigTech #DigitalImperialism #adtech #DRM #web #standards #WebStandards #w3c

Meme comes back to haunt fake elector Meshawn Maddock

On May 16, 2023, Meshawn Maddock a fake elector from Michigan who thought it would be a good idea to sign her name to a phony document in an attempt to overthrow democracy in the United States, tweeted an animated GIF of a human skeleton tapping its finger with impatience.

The caption below the GIF read, "Dems waiting for my arrest"

Yesterday, Maddock was one of 15 fake electors who were arrested and charged with eight felonies: two counts of election law forgery; two counts of forgery; and one count each of uttering and publishing, conspiracy to commit forgery, conspiracy to commit election law forgery and conspiracy to commit forgery. Conspiracy to commit forgery and conspiracy to commit uttering and publishing are punishable by up to 14 years in prison.

#USPol #Politics #Michigan #MIPolitics #MeshawnMaddock #Maddock #GOP #MAGA

https://boingboing.net/2023/07/19/meme-comes-back-to-haunt-fake-elector-meshawn-maddock.html