[tech notebook] Names too on the nose https://tech.interfluidity.com/2024/04/09/names-too-on-the-nose/index.html

Let the right one in.

totality, motherfuckers. https://social.coop/@dyani/112237339779227832 ht @xerophile

Today's solar #eclipse, partial here in Florida, captured in a lens flare, and projected onto paper through a pinhole.

i love you for your rough edges. even when they cut me.

"I'm not a eugenicist, I'm just an anti-dysgenicist."

"Full text in RSS, please" https://openrss.org/blog/full-text-in-rss-please

#RSS

"you cannot avoid 'punching down' without a confident sense of in which direction 'down' lies. If you see what I mean." ~Freddie deBoer, from a fascinating review of my sister #AdelleWaldman's new book "Help Wanted" https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/review-adelle-waldmans-help-wanted

is it gonna be hard for the Fed to cut rates while gold is on such a tear?

#finance

“Toyota is developing a manual transmission emulator for electric cars, to return some of the driving engagement.” #EzraDyer https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/08/opinion/electric-car-ev-tesla.html ht @BenRossTransit

// bizarre.

“I continue to be nauseously optimistic.” @rbreich https://robertreich.substack.com/p/when-will-americans-start-crediting

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i'd hope for more.

from "academia.edu":

This is quite an article, on the ignored megalomania of Sinwar's faction of Hamas before the war, and Gaza's unsettled expats in Egypt watching and discussing from afar. By #ShlomiEldar https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-04-05/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/hamas-actually-believed-it-would-conquer-israel-and-divided-it-into-cantons/0000018e-ab4a-dc42-a3de-abfad6fe0000 ht #PhilippeLemoine

i like to remember manuel noriega and all the rock-and-roll music and think of bibi netanyahu.

no, i am not seriously recommending an invasion. still, by comparison noriega was a piker.

Not the onion. https://www.ft.com/content/870be064-5bd3-4595-951c-0c289ac9088b

does it reflect a life well or poorly lived, if you turn up as "main character" years after you die?

@admitsWrongIfProven it's, um, a systemd joke.

systemd, when it starts a process that will fork a long-lasting daemon + quit, has its own "notify" protocol by which the forking process can inform systemd about the child, so systemd can watch and manage it. that's Type=notify. systemd supports, but disrecommends, "old school" processes that kick out a PID file of the child process too: Type=forking.

the xz hack relied upon sshd getting patched to support "notify".

shoulda stuck with forking.

"New College had contracted Taryn Fenske, former public spokesperson for Gov. DeSantis’ office, under the name TMF Communications, LLC for $15,000 a month since July 2023 to aid in creating the new promotional material." #AndyTrinh https://ncfcatalyst.com/the-changing-image-of-new-college/

// Never forget, at its core, it is all just a fucking grift.

#NewCollege

“what’s been so odd about effective altruism is that the need for collective action is fully internalized in its DNA; it presents and understands itself as a world-historical ‘movement.’ But the collective action…has not been generally oriented toward institutional, political, or regime change. (One can’t help wonder whether this isn’t an effect of being geared toward recruitment of those that benefit most from the economic and educational status quo.)” #EricSchliesser https://crookedtimber.org/2024/04/05/on-shallow-ponds-and-effective-altruism/