👁️ Asides
👁️ Via 🔗 Futility Closet
The true test of happiness is whether you know what day of the week it is. A miserable man is aware of this even in his sleep. To be as cheerful and rosy-cheeked on Monday as on Saturday, and at breakfast as at dinner is to — well, make an ideal husband.
💬 W.N.P. Barbellion, The Journal of a Disappointed Man, 1919
👁️ Let this be a warning dear Signal users …
🔗 FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database
What happens is that if the text of a Signal message shows up on a lock screen, it’s stored in iOS itself, in a place where forensic investigators can gain access to it. That’s a really good reason to turn off lock-screen notifications for Signal, and to remove the text of Signal messages from its notifications entirely.
💬 Ben Werdmuller
👁️ Further proof that measuring GDP does not accurately reflect productivity.
👁️ I think this is pretty much the only thing I came across today which is worth reading …
🔗 Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit
There’s a particular kind of person who can’t accept that story at face value, and you’ve met them. I am absolutely sure of it. They show up in every comment section and reply thread where someone powerful does something that looks, on its face, like a mistake - and their argument always runs the same way: you don’t understand, this is actually part of a larger plan, there’s a strategy here that you and I can’t see because we’re not operating at that anointed and elevated level… They’re the 4D chess crowd.
👁️ Pots and kettles spring to mind …
Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy.
💬 you know who …
👁️🤯 Not one - not two - not even three - but FOUR - count them - FOUR definitions of .card-photo in the CSS fighting with each other - and none of them are winning. No wonder the file is so big …😬
👁️ Cyclone ❓ .. what Cyclone❓
👁️ Pretty ‘out there' position for the UK govt to take on Kanye .. wonder when they’ll ban the rest of them❓
Having had a Flipboard account for like so many years I was intrigued by the surf thing - all seems a little too confusing if you don’t want to start again - and just use your existing account. Let’s see how it all shakes out.
Tumblr is counting. Apparently.
I am pretty sure that around 0.01% of those actually originated on Tumblr.
Thanks to AI, the cost of code has definitely reduced recently. By a lot.
But people don’t buy code. They buy solutions. Code is never the solution.
When Emu rambles on about his SciFi vision for
Dying to watch a show or movie sometime with a teen girl who isn’t constantly frowning, angry and just pissed off with the world - let alone her family.
This one’s called Homeland. The kid is particularly annoying.
What a wonderful start to my week - this was the first news item I saw on this first day of a new week.
Trump carried the district by 17 points in 2024 Rehmet took 57% of the vote, besting the 43% for his GOP opponent.