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  • The Verbs: April 2015

    Watching: Bosch Legacy, Season 3

    Bosch, for my money, is one of the best shows on TV. Legacy is the last season that Harry Bosch will be the main character, although he may be in the spinoffs as a side character. If you haven’t caught this, it’s on Amazon Prime. Watch this.

    Reading: Careless People, Sarah Wynn-Williams

    Memoir about life behind the scenes at Meta/Facebook. Here is your periodic reminder that Facebook was not invented for altruistic purposes, and Mark Zuckerberg has never done the right thing without being dragged to it.

    Jamming: Tracy Chapman, Self titled.

    There is no better time to listen to this album than RIGHT. NOW.

    Podding: Amicus, with Dahlia Lithwick.

    Dahlia Lithwick has been covering the Supreme Court forever. I trust what she has to say about the Court, and the law.

    Working: I’m suffering from a bit of second thoughts about the video. I’ve scripted three separate versions of something ad aborted halfway through. So, taking another whack at it.

  • LINK: Justice Roberts Statement

    Newsweek:

    “For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”

    So, you’re saying it’s settled law? That’s reassuring…

    Fuck.

  • LINK: Tim Berners-Lee on Social Media

    Tim Berners-Lee

    One way to do this is to mandate that social network platforms follow new standards. Another is to quietly build an alternative world using these standards and let people realise that it is better — just as they did when leaving restricted online services AOL and Prodigy for the freedom of the web.

    Tim mentions a new standard called Solid, that acts as a wallet. People can build new apps that request access to user data in that wallet, and the user has control of that. I have one question: Do we need this? It’s presuming that some kind of social media is part of the solution. I don’t know if that’s true.

  • PSA: Blood thinners and sharp corners are not a great combination,

    Back to you in the studio, Walter.

  • I find it hilarious that even though I haven’t used my LinkedIn account in years, I still show up on people’s searches. There is literally nothing descriptive in my LinkedIn account. all it guarantees is that I check it like once every couple months, and laugh about it. 

  • “Easy payments, think of it, the payments, you’ve never seen anything like them, whiter wall tires, I call them whiter wall tires, whiter than ever seen before…”

    [image or embed]— Roley (@krisroley.bsky.social) March 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM

  • I’ve reached the age where I am not the least bit interested in the dog and pony show for you to make a point. Tell me what you need to tell me, no drama is required. If you can’t do that, then I’m not interested in hearing it.

  • LINK: Gitmo Used As Photo Op? This Is My Shocked Face.

    NBC News:

    The Trump administration has flown all of the migrants it had held in Guantánamo Bay out of the facility there, NBC News has learned from three sources familiar with the operation and flight data.

    In response to a lawsuit, the Trump administration said that there were 178 immigrants, all from Venezuela, housed at Guantánamo Bay as of early Thursday. 

    A senior Department of Homeland Security official told NBC News that 177 of the 178 migrants at Guantánamo Bay were deported on Thursday. The one other person was sent to a detention facility in the U.S., the official said.

    Gitmo has been a photo op for politicians since the 1960s, so that’s nothing new. I wonder what this one cost? Our tax dollars went to a dog and pony show so…what, some people can see all the brown folks in one place?

    It’s ok to waste millions as long as it hurts the people we hate, right guys?

  • The WordPress Conundrum That’s Driving Me Crazy

    If you are just coming to the website–as opposed to clicking on a link to a post–then you are at the Homepage. The Homepage consists of all the posts with the newest one on top. Each of these posts has a date under each one. This is NOT what I want. What I would like is to have the date at the top of the page, followed by all the posts on that day. then yesterday’s date, and all the posts for that day, and so on. An example would be Daring Fireball. However, I believe he is on something other than WordPress, so it’s not apples to apples.

    It boils down to whether the thing that I want is part of “the loop”, the thing that displays the posts in order, for lack of a better term. If it is, I suspect it’s at the very beginning of the code. If not, it is above the loop in the code and I have yet to figure out the hook that will get me what I want.

    The learning continues apace.

  • LINK: Bezos. Jeff Bezos.

    THR:

    Under the terms of the agreement, Amazon MGM Studios will gain creative control of the James Bond franchise, while Wilson and Broccoli will remain co-owners of the 60-year-old property. In 2022, Amazon acquired MGM, including a vast catalog with more than 4,000 films and 17,000 TV shows.

    I shudder to think of what’s coming for Bond. I believe No Time to Die was a logical end to the franchise. It should have been. The bottom line is that Bond should be cared for and produced by people who believe in the character and the one thing that never changed in 60 years: Bond is British.