People are alwayes pointing to the bizarre thinges that happen yn todayes worlde and sayinge 'ymagine tryinge to explain thys to people 30 yeares ago' and William Gibson ys lyke 'yeah, it was tough'
Trans genocide in the US is not hypothetical, we are past "build up", it is literally happening. The US *currently* has internal refugees because of this. Children are being taken from their families, having necessary medication they already take illegalized.
Little thread: I had a patient today who was a little elderly black woman. She was telling me that she really didn’t want to go to the hospital because her hair wasn’t done and she notices that yt doctors and nurse treat her differently when her hair is done vs. when it isn’t.
@TwitchiH @SwiftOnSecurity Dell BIOS update util, 2017:
Flashed latest bios, machine bricked. Service boot not possible. Friend dumps the chip contents:
“<html><title>Error 404: File not found…”
Floppy-based MS-DOS BIOS updaters had certificate and checksum checkers 20 years earlier. Now it’s too hard.
@AntonHand It's already deviated from the books in many ways, and one of them in particular was a huge downgrade as far as I'm concerned. It seems like it could still be good enough but I'd have to completely ignore that one big thing.
@AntonHand I imagine it's a symptom of the fact that movie writers get almost no credit, no power after the script is written, and just aren't respected by the film industry. Some of the television writers now are likely people who want to be writing films instead but want better treatment.
California state ballot initiatives are worded like “Vote no if don’t not want thing to do not happen, or will” and if you fuck it up you legalize babies working for Instacart
Autocrats warn that only their iron fist protects us from anarchy. (In this binary view, democracy isn't an option.) So, too, for classroom traditionalists/behaviorists, who justify bribe-&-threat control of kids by invoking the specter of chaos, as if that's the only alternative