Notices by Jezza™ (jeremiah@noagendasocial.com), page 27

@Dan_Ramos I think its a matter of degree. Everyone is made of at least a little bit of retard, and everyone's inner retard is entertained by stupid shit. Most of us get by with the occasional animated GIF or, perhaps, braindead programming... but then there are people who made of more retard than normal. They stand in line for signature McDonalds dipping sauces. Or hit people with bike locks in the name of Antifascism.

@xah -- know J language?
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/handwriting-j/

@Dan_Ramos Adults watching a cartoon fly into a rage over limited edition McDonalds sauce. In other forms, this behavior is demonstrated by people that camp on sidewalks for phones and movie tickets. it's a public mania, but of a particular kind: manias that effect stupid people looking to be effected by a mania. I mean, seriously, they're standing in line for dipping sauce. At McDonalds.

@gazza @voidzero @zachbrown
I would count the actual number of minutes _athletic performance_ is happening during the game. Despite the low scores, I seem to remember that there's like 15 minutes of actual action in 3 hours of televised handegg. But I suppose someone might find the advance of integers on the scoreboard to be the essence of sport, rather than the action on the field.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/there-were-just-1206-minutes-of-actual-gameplay-during-the-super-bowl-2015-02-02

@gazza @voidzero @zachbrown I would count the actual number of minutes _athletic performance_ is happening during the game. Despite the low scores, I seem to remember that there's like 15 minutes of actual action in 3 hours of televised handegg. But I suppose someone might find the advance of integers on the scoreboard to be the essence of sport, rather than the actoin of the field.
Source: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/there-were-just-1206-minutes-of-actual-gameplay-during-the-super-bowl-2015-02-02

@Combaticus @YoVinnie @yukiame Once upon a time, Apple was pretty good at a designing a desktop, and... remember when MySpace let users customize profiles? There's a certain wisdom in locking down the aesthetic controls. However, for those of us who are "aesthetic engineers," that kind of restriction is patronizing.

@Combaticus @YoVinnie @yukiame Aesthetics matter to me, too. I had a Mac on my desk (usually as an adjunct machine) from the late 1980s to about 2 years ago when I retired my last iMac. Since that time, my entire development (and arts) toolchains are supported under Linux. To meet my aesthetic requirements, the only option is KDE, but I actually like it better than the Mac. Having control over fonts without hacking helps. :-)

@Combaticus @YoVinnie @yukiame @TomNovak The one I miss from the Mac / NeXT was Omniweb. Really innovative, never got any credit.

A shocking amount of so-called journalism is just copyedited Facebook screeds.

the mastodon creator, openly supports antifa.

@YoVinnie @yukiame @Combaticus
RE: Brave test-drive. It has some things I don't like -- the heavy home/new tab page is reminiscent of Vivaldi. This is a 16 core Xeon system -- _nothing_ should hiccup or lag. Brave (and Vivaldi) both do a bit here and there. As a developer, I find not being able to dock the inspector unacceptable. Finally, the Linux-side UI is not as developed or as clean as the Mac/Windows version.

On the plus side: mostly VERY fast. Ad and beacon blocking works VERY well.

@irritable The most effective and least effort a protest movement can be is a boycott.

I'm finding it very interesting that groups that beg for a living (Wikipedia, Mozilla) turn around and give the money the beg to other, less sexy beggars (RiseUp, defending a monkey's ownership of a selfie) as if they're receiving so much inflow that they don't need ours...