Here’s a copyright notice I noticed recently: […]
Stupid tiddler tricks: the daily oldest
I use TiddlyWiki a lot. I use it as a journal, a book and image catalog, an archive of news articles, a to-do list, a notepad, a draft notebook for blog posts like this one and backup repository for finished posts… […]
Android System Intelligence, definitions 1 and 2
I updated my phone recently, and soon afterward I noticed an available update from something called “Android System Intelligence, which I hadn’t ever heard of before. I certainly hadn’t installed it, and I hadn’t seen any updates for it before despite having used Android phones since Gingerbread was a thing. […]
About the “herd immunity” talking point
If you follow virus news at all, you’ll undoubtedly have heard of herd immunity. The official consensus is that herd […]
An idiot at the Jim Pattison Group claimed to own dozens of Super Mario Bros. speedruns
Speedrunning, for those of you who don’t know, is a type of video game competition where people try to run […]
The entitled 57
Update to one of the stories in yesterday’s post, the one from Buffalo about two riot cops shoving a 75-year-old […]
Days of sound and fury
I’ve been watching the protests-slash-riots over the past few days with a growing feeling of dissatisfaction not just at how […]
The Dragon
While a lot of us were distracted with other business, this happened: SpaceX delivered two astronauts to the International Space […]
The George Floyd thing
Dateline Minneapolis: A guy named George Floyd went into a store and bought stuff with a counterfeit $20 bill. The […]
Karen vs. Swatzilla: the uselessness of the “Karen” meme
This cropped up in my feed yesterday: Oh, when Karens take a walk with their dogs off leash in the […]
Ray of Infamy 