@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Booing of Trump was filtered out of the US Open tennis final last year.
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@jmoiron.bsky.social I am on the Nozomi Shinkansen and the wifi they provide seems to be the same one they used on the TGV in Mission Impossible (1996).
I keep looking around expecting to see Ving Rhames.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: dunno what he's done now but I'm still struggling to understand how you can parlay an online bingo card app into being trusted and respected in the upper echelons of the tech world
@jmoiron.bsky.social One of the best things about Chinese portable consumer electronics is that they all have charge indicators and USB-C.
I need to bring two custom chargers for my toiletries bag alone (toothbrush & trimmer), but Xiaomi sells these with USB-C. Barely any western brands seem to do t...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: An Avalon explosion of drivel?
(Sorry, I love the Avalon explosion, it is such an underrated explosion)
@jmoiron.bsky.social Several recent experiences lead me to revisit some old ideas about software and hardware and consider whether or not our trajectory has changed.
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@jmoiron.bsky.social Been waiting to see this take articulated somewhere.
It's not even subtext, they are just straightforwardly saying that black women can't be beautiful enough to portray Helen, and appealing to their own flawed retvrn fantasies of antiquity as a figleaf.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Sorry maybe it is clumsily made.
In the US there are minimum parking mandates that result in us building very sparse commercial sprawl with far too much parking. It's definitely a land use decision to do this but it's so ubiquitous that the decision is invisible.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: I agree with you, and I know that we already have lots of parking lots ready to be retrofit, but the enormous empty parking lot in your example photo is definitely a choice that affects land use.
@jmoiron.bsky.social Went to Guangzhou a couple days ago and turns out the hotel was uhh pretty tall.
@jmoiron.bsky.social This is why one of the required courses for my Computer Science degree was an ethics class.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: I am skeptical when it comes to the supposed inevitability of improvement for AI tools, but this does represent a pretty big shift from where we were last year.
@jmoiron.bsky.social This is what Bannon called "flooding the zone", a central pillar of Project 2025. If your lawlessness is brash and constant, institutions can't/won't keep up and you establish new norms.
Trump's own communication is the same, a Gish gallop of complete nonsense.
@jmoiron.bsky.social I'm seeing articles about how the narrative around Pretti's gun shows ideological inconsistencies on the left and right.
The only inconsistency is in who gets to enjoy 2A rights without the immediate threat of lethal government retaliation and who doesn't.
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@jmoiron.bsky.social To be fair, how is Tom Suozzi expected to know that his constituents have standards when they elected Tom Suozzi as their representative.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: You can always count on Schumer to do the right thing after he's tried everything else.
@jmoiron.bsky.social Huge benefit to spending January in Asia is being able to watch the Aus Open at a reasonable time.