
March 29, 2023
"'I’m going to have to tell shorter stories,' Mets announcer Keith Hernandez said this month..."
"Genuine users are rightly outraged at the idea of being blackmailed into paying Musk to prove who they are."
Writes Natasha Lomas in "Twitter is dying" (TechCrunch).
"Last year, federal prosecutors in the [Washington D.C.] U.S. attorney’s office chose not to prosecute 67 percent of those arrested..."
"Not every time, but most times, you select Twitter and put the name 'The Kinks' in there, and it warns that it could be quirky stuff, like a porn star or kink porn."
Said Dave Davies, quoted in "We Are the Viral Tweet Restoration Society/The Kinks’ Dave Davies says Twitter is suppressing his band’s content—and he knows why" (Slate).
"If it’s happening to us, I’m sure it would happen to a lot of people with slightly devious names. The whole idea of being creative, it’s to come up with new things, or different and unusual things. So, it’s going to put a damper on creative ideas.... I can choose what words I want to say—'hello,' 'good day,” and 'how are you'—and it shouldn’t be limited by certain rules or regulations, which might rule that you can only say 'hello' and 'goodbye.'..."
"Appropriately titled 'Tightness-Looseness Across the 50 United States,' the study calculated a catalog of measures for each state..."
I'm going to read "Fear pervades Tennessee's trans community amid focus on Nashville shooter's gender identity."
Within 10 minutes of police saying that the suspect was transgender, the hashtag #TransTerrorism trended on Twitter.
I reveal the name of the puzzle cited in yesterday's post, "She feels that curves are far more appealing than angles...."
The annoying use of "you" in headlines these days is especially annoying when they assign mistakes to you that you haven't made.
The Atlantic article explains "why" something that didn't happen — my falling for the fake Pope coat — happened and offers to help me not make such non-mistakes in the future. I haven't read the advice about not falling for AI-generated images because, on my own, I'm experiencing and developing skepticism and powers of observation and common sense.OKAAYYY pic.twitter.com/MliHsksX7L
— leon (@skyferrori) March 25, 2023
March 28, 2023
"I once felt that I would rather die than go blind. Now I feel the opposite. Daily life has a renewed delight and vigor."
Writes Edward Hirsch, who has been going blind for 20 years, in "I Am Going Blind, and I Now Find It Strangely Exhilarating" (NYT).
Blaming Michael Cohen for the Manhattan D.A.'s difficulties indicting Trump.
I'm trying to read "How Michael Cohen’s Big Mouth Could Be Derailing the Trump Prosecution" (NY Magazine).
Key witness Michael Cohen and his pathological need for media attention have not been making things easier.... He clearly thinks very highly of himself and seems to have little awareness of his limitations.... He appears constitutionally incapable of telling the same story twice in the same way.... He is also obsessed with taking down his former boss Trump... [H]e could be confronted with inconsistent or problematic past statements....