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By @jon_rauch: “Trump’s presidency can be described in many ways, but one accurate description is as a relentless, continuous war on professionals and professionalism”
Long read, thoughtful, big US-legal focus, I would have expected it to be a bit more institution-centric so it’s interesting to see the arguments played-out regards individuals. The point is not that amateurs should stay out of politics and leave it to their betters. Not at all. The point, rather, is that professionals and voters,…
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Funniest tweet I’ve seen all day. HT @jimfinnis.
https://twitter.com/foxsoup/status/1354061754561654784?s=09
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“The following Tweets are part of a live conversation detected by an algorithm”
Nice of Twitter to surface this / explicitly make it clear, but it also suggests that “algorithms” are, like “clouds”, now a magical abstract term which needs no elaboration and lacks much, if any, meaning.
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TwitterSearch “my business” AND “brexit”
Via Caitlin Moran, this search: https://twitter.com/search?q=%22my%20business%22%20AND%20%22brexit%22&src=typed_query
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The Santa Claus Problem: an article by @CaseyNewton, amplifying @greggcorp, regarding “abuse” on @SignalApp and @Moxie’s response to it: this is a very old argument, and here’s the problem with it…
Everything old is new again… There’s an indefinite series of old nerd jokes about the hardest problems in software engineering; “naming things” and “off-by-one errors” speak to the challenges of writing software, and the impassioned, bikeshedding arguments that you will have when you build something new. But those problems pale by comparison to what happens…
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“Gritter Bicycle” on YouTube
This is cute, and probably not terribly realistic or practical, but I want one.
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Adobe Flash Shutdown Halts Chinese Railroad for Over 16 Hours Before Pirated Copy Restores Ops
It was kind-of inevitable that something like this would happen – SPOILER: as far as we know it only took out the timetables and ticketing, rather than the trains themselves. Good coverage, and plenty of links, here: https://www.thedrive.com/news/38897/adobe-flash-shutdown-halts-chinese-railroad-for-over-16-hours-before-pirated-copy-restores-ops According to a report by Apple Daily, the problem reared its head for China Railway Shenyang in Dalian,…
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“This has to be one of the greater absurdities of #Brexit. British companies are being told by the British government that the way to survive is to lay off British workers and transfer their jobs to folk across the Channel”
Excellent article, here. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/24/bill-for-boris-johnson-brexit-is-coming-punishingly-steep?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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Great thread by Cab Davidson on Cyclist Intimidations
Riding home after todays laps of North Cambridge on the Elephant bike, guy behind me as I'm going through narrow traffic calming measures towards a mini roundabout, parked cars all over there's nothing I can do to help him pass… …revving his engine, making a right noise but again, what can I do? I stay…
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Award-winning actor Kenneth Branagh is to play Boris Johnson in a new TV drama charting the country’s COVID pandemic through the eyes of the prime minister. # is this really appropriate?
Award-winning actor Kenneth Branagh is to play Boris Johnson in a new TV drama charting the country's COVID pandemic through the eyes of the prime minister https://t.co/bYkmYbsAm3 — Sky News (@SkyNews) January 24, 2021
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At Random: That Time… “When Star Trek predicted a united #Ireland in 2024”
As a dedicated Trekkie* I have known about this for a looooong time, and I am just hoping that in the datum universe it is Picard’s analysis which (one way or the other) wins out, rather than Data’s “terrorism works” one. Interesting timeline, though. In the UK the episode was censored to remove the scene.…