Notices by Lew Perin (wrenpile@mastodon.social), page 19

@Murkz No, they’re Mastodon’s unique contribution to world humor.

@zarfeblong @natecull He isn’t still producing that show, is he?

@morganth Whites, including women, voted for the racist perv in a landslide, or should I say, avalanche?

Hardly any blacks supported him.

What decided the election was that blacks turned out at a much higher rate than whites, despite voter suppression efforts by the Repuglicans.

@kensanata @dredmorbius That’s one reason why the only section of The NY Times I never bypass is the obituaries: they’re guaranteed to never repeat.

@jk That should have a “don’t breathe” CW.

Tired: memes
Wired: mêmes
Inspired: autres

@morganth Funny it is, but also extremely smart and moving. It’s the whole package: Shakespearean, more or less, in a slangy midcentury American way.

@clew Good question!

My people wore down the treads on these steps.

#NYC #subway
https://mastodon.social/media/YSd2sK0maQ2VC3hHN5c

Little-known fact about #dogs: they have #cryptography, only with much smaller prime numbers.

@natecull Also, if I weren't subscribing to the WaPo, I wouldn't be giving enough money to Bezos, and the guilt would make it hard to look at myself in the mirror.

@natecull Ah, too bad. I do subscribe, but hey, I'm a yank.

There's also this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_White

@nolan I doubt I could stand the official Twitter web client.

There are desktop clients that don't punish you the same ways, though, if you're willing to spend a bit of money, but you probably know that already.

There’s a fascinating article in the WaPo on the prosperity-gospel
preacher who seems to have Trump’s ear: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/she-led-trump-to-christ-the-rise-of-the-televangelist-who-advises-the-white-house/2017/11/13/1dc3a830-bb1a-11e7-be94-fabb0f1e9ffb_story.html

She’s white and telegenic, and her own prosperity owes a lot to
brown-skinned followers.

Sadly, the article doesn’t mention Aimee Semple McPherson, but really, ASM was miles above Paula White.

#Trump #evangelicals

/cc @natecull

@mrgah I'm uneasy with calling one's response to e.g. sonata form "intellectual only."

If it your response really were that, I doubt you would get a lot of pleasure from classical music.

Form in music has an emotional valence; it's a kind of dramaturgy, at least in part. (In *good* music, of course!)

@natecull Fast forward 30 years, and Chinese villagers are being told hanging a picture of XJP in their houses is more propitious than one of Jesus: https://sc.mp/2i9G6Ta

@nolan On your phone, right? Don’t use the official Twitter client, then.

@jk You said “instances”, didn’t you?!

I must have walked by this red I-beam triangle 100 times before I considered the thought process that may have led to it.

Maybe it was like this: “We’re engineers, right? We’re all about structures, right? And if the world doesn’t want to know that, well, tough on them, dammit!”

But, as Churchill would’ve said, it’s still ugly: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/w/winstonchu108948.html

#NYU #engineering #Brooklyn

@mrgah Not these days. :sickmeme: