New terminally online archetype just dropped: the Peripheral Progressive. You won’t find them door knocking, participating in legitimate political ac...
Beware the political equivalent of that one friend who's always into fringe music and hates any artist who goes viral.
They've got all the answers, as long as nobody asks them to actually do anything. Every policy that doesn't match their utopian wet dream gets branded as a "betrayal of true progressive values."
Microsoft drops subtle hints about the future direction of Windows security.
Walking alone to the grocery store is, for me, like walking through a creepy hallway at night. Why? Because America is filled with liminal spaces.
"American suburbs are full of ugly, empty, liminal spaces: spaces you are not meant to linger in or enjoy. They’re the creepy hallways of the built environment, and you can’t feel comfortable traversing them unless you’re zooming past them in a car." https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2022/1/13/american-suburbs-are-a-horror-movie-and-were-the-protagonists
Captain Awkward is my favourite blog right now, and it’s reaching heights of internet popularity that are awesome (because more people get to read the Captain and co-bloggers’ fantastic…
It has come to my attention that some of you are unfamiliar with the BEC, or "bitch eating crackers," an extremely important concept to keep in mind when you hear someone talking shit: https://criminalreviews.wordpress.com/2012/12/19/a-captain-awkward-glossary/#bitcheatingcrackers
‘O’Connor intentionally undermined her pop world ascendancy by spurning the trappings of fame, and this attracted derision from those who could not understand the path she chose.’
Sinéad "O’Connor enacted courage in public, flooding the mainstream with her stirring insolence. In her passing, we realised how rare people like her were all over again." —Momtaza Mehri for @grantamag
https://granta.com/universal-mother/
#Longreads #EditorsPick #SinéadO'Connor #Memoir
Some therapists have found that cognitive behavioral therapy, designed to help patients see that they are “catastrophizing,” isn’t enough because the potential impacts of climate change are truly catastrophic.
In the Developing Field of Climate Psychology, ‘Eco-Anxiety’ Is a Rational Response
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26072024/eco-anxiety-is-rational-response-climate-psychology/
#psychology #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
We don’t talk a lot in public about the big vision for Tailscale, why we’re really here. Usually I prefer to focus on what exists right now, and what we’re going to do in the next few months. But let’s look at the biggest of big pictures for a change.
"I read a post recently where someone bragged about using kubernetes to scale all the way up to 500,000 page views per month. But that’s 0.2 requests per second. I could serve that from my phone, on battery power, and it would spend most of its time asleep."
On The Vergecast: SearchGPT, the Samsung Z Fold 6, and Apple Maps.
Lipan Apaches across Texas are challenging the myth that their tribe was wiped out.
' “We grew up thinking we were Hispanics because that’s what we were always being told,” said David Garza, 55, as he flipped chunks of cabrito on a wide charcoal grill outside an old family home in Brackettville, around 20 miles north of the Rio Grande, in February 2022. “It wasn’t until my adulthood I realized why [my parents] kept it from us. They were afraid of getting killed.” '
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