Taking a Python Intro course this summer and turns out if you need to code late into the evening Olde Pine is a great companion:
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Taking a Python Intro course this summer and turns out if you need to code late into the evening Olde Pine is a great companion:
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I took Amazon immolating $700 million dollars to distill a pure moment that evokes Tolkein at his best–as I remember him when read to me in my childhood–so good job I guess?
It really is best viewed on a big screen with a good sound system:
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The Gen X Career Meltdown - The New York Times
Every generation has its burdens. The particular plight of Gen X is to have grown up in one world only to hit middle age in a strange new land. It’s as if they were making candlesticks when electricity came in. The market value of their skills plummeted.
Karen McKinley, 55, an advertising executive in Minneapolis, has seen talented colleagues “thrown away,” she said, as agencies have merged, trimmed staff and focused on fast, cheap social media content over elaborate photo shoots.
The Pitt is the first TV show where the reaction videos are more intriguing to me than the drama of the show itself. Maybe its just the anti-science cultural moment we seem to be living through right now, but there is something mesmerizing about watching what I presume to be subject matter experts break down the difference between drama and reality featured in the show.
I’m sure some of the reaction videos are just algorithm chasing, but for now I’ll lean into them and hope we haven’t become socially isolated by our media echo chambers that we can no longer accept expertise as a valuable resource for policymaking.
Side-note: television programming rarely makes me cry, but a particular scene from the show where the main protagonist starts having PTSD related flashbacks to COVID era ER memories momentarily broke me. Our understanding of what happened that first year of COVID has become so obscured by our partisan bickering over public health policy that I feel like we completely forgot the absolute hell our medical providers were subjected to not only by the wave of deaths, but the politicized backlash they received for their efforts to flatten the curve.
There’s very specific vibes video that features 80s and 90s anime that exudes what I’d call a #vhspunk aesthetic–before the iPhone with its black mirror imposed a glass sheen on tech products. The video style is typified by Hanahaki Blank’s youtube channel. Its the perfect delta of the beauty of hand drawn animation, late 20th century nostaligia, and technophilia.
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The Andor series dropped a season 2 trailer announcing an April 22 release date.
Instead of posting the new trailer, I’m just gonna post one of the many moments of writing that made this show a revelation:
I fear for you.
We’ve been sleeping.
We’ve had each other and Ferrix, our work, our days.
We had each other, and they left us alone.
We kept the trade lanes open, and they left us alone.
We took their money and ignored them. We kept their engines turning and the moment they pulled away we forgot them.
Because we had each other.
We had Ferrix.
But we were sleeping. I’ve been sleeping. I’ve been turning away from a truth I’ve wanted not to face.
There is a wound that won’t heal at the center of the galaxy.
There is a darkness like rust, reaching into everything around us.
We let it grow and now it’s here. It’s here and it’s not visiting anymore.
It want’s to stay.
The Empire is a disease that thrives in darkness. It is never more alive than when we sleep…
Today, the U.S. supreme court is hearing oral arguments on a case involving Tennessee law with implications on whether states can ban gender affirming care for minors. I’m neither a constitutional lawyer, nor a medical expert - but I do hang out in conservative online forums, and when this topic comes up I inevitably see vitriol and violent rhetoric directed at the families and medical teams involved in gender affirming care circumstances. I see accusations of being butchers, mutilators, perverts and quacks. I once read a pamphlet published by an accredited Christian college that argued trans and queer social activists were a greater threat to the continuation of the U.S. than ISIS. It’s just gross. These families and medical professionals are often times facing difficult decisions about how best to support minors in acute embodied distress. For many of these kids this stuff has life or death implications.
This is why I personally despise framing culture-warring as some sort of civic or religious virtue. For a community that frequently asserts their fidelity to “judeo-christian” values, when it comes to discussing this particular cultural flashpoint I rarely see a single fruit of the spirit show up in the discussion. Let’s not dehumanize trans kids, their families, or their doctors.