four weeks of david's lifestream
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November 18th
2:14pm I have never regretted starting a tmux session. I have occasionally regretted not doing so. #linux mastodon
November 16th
4:45pm Content warning:Google Gemini says the quiet part out loud. (See bottom of link for quote in context.) "This is for you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not important, an... mastodon
4:23pm “There are not two reasonable sides to every story. We know evolution is real and creationism is not; we know vaccines save lives and don’t cause autism; we know climate change is real. It would be... mastodon
1:15pm Search Engine: The White Subaru Hell Loop overcast
November 15th
11:09am Political Gabfest: Attorney General Matt Gaetz? overcast
11:09am Search Engine: Presenting Gone South overcast
10:42am The Daily: Bernie Sanders Says Democrats Have Lost Their Way overcast
November 14th
5:12pm The Scathing Atheist: 613: Dear Waaabby Edition overcast
8:49am The Daily: Trump 2.0: A Cabinet Full of Surprises and an Awkward Visit With Joe Biden overcast
November 13th
10:10pm "Trump is fundamentally a toddler smashing the Lego set we spent so much time building." u/JoeSavinaBotero https://old.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1gqmzdo/i_cant_stop_screami... mastodon
8:54pm Fresh Air: Why Do We Itch? overcast
5:04pm Planet Money: The strange way the world’s fastest microchips are made overcast
4:44pm 99% Invisible: The Memory Palace…Book! overcast
8:28am The Daily: Elon Musk Launches Into American Politics overcast
7:13am 99% Invisible: The Memory Palace…Book! overcast
5:29am Work Lunches - [Loved] dokuwiki
November 12th
2:16pm Fresh Air: Veteran Phil Klay On A 2nd Trump Administration & The Military overcast
9:21am @ben "you need to deploy as much as you can as early as possible, and you need to do the scariest changes as early as you can possibly do them." Mark Twain was a PM? "If it's your jo... mastodon
9:02am "I think we should stay quiet on it." On the Secret Service’s use of Locate X. via @404mediaco https://www.404media.co/fyi-a-warrant-isnt-needed-secret-service-says-you-agreed-to-be-track... mastodon
8:38am The Daily: Why Abortion Rights Won Even as Kamala Harris Lost overcast
12:14am The original Google+ post was in Jan 2018: https://david.dlma.com/lifestream/googleplus/no-subject37.html mastodon
12:12am @pluralistic writes, "The people who need the most help under Trump will be too embroiled in the fight for their own survival to put together the kind of movement that can make a difference.&q... mastodon
November 11th
3:28pm Fresh Air: Saoirse Ronan Says Being A Child Actor Shaped Her — For The Better overcast
2:49pm Fresh Air: Remembering Quincy Jones overcast
1:37pm The Daily: Democrats Search For Answers overcast
November 10th
2:27pm The greatest period in all American history livejournal
11:04am Fresh Air: Al Pacino Looks Back On A Legendary Career overcast
10:55am Search Engine: How did the first democracy die? overcast
November 9th
10:44am Radiolab: The Ecstasy of an Open Brain overcast
10:16am Planet Money: What markets bet President Trump will do overcast
9:56am The Daily: Inside Trump World as the Next Chapter Begins overcast
November 8th
3:37pm Political Gabfest: This IS Who We Are overcast
November 7th
11:33am Planet Money: Moving to the American dream? (update) overcast
11:33am Fresh Air: Al Pacino Looks Back On A Legendary Career overcast
11:26am Serial: The Good Whale - Trailer overcast
11:21am The Scathing Atheist: 612: Recrudescent Edition overcast
10:59am The Daily: Donald Trump’s America overcast
10:31am A recommended read: "A hypothesis about the Democrats" facebook
10:05am @zigdon @b0rk My biggest regret was not learning to map Tab and Shift-Tab to prev/next buffer navigation. Greatest thing ever. nnoremap <S-Tab> :bp<cr> (You have to jump through some ho... mastodon
November 6th
9:58pm I've been using tmux for a long time. Just now wanted to toggle panes, and forgot the sequence, so tried <leader>,t and it put a huge blue clock showing the time. I never knew that was there... mastodon
1:28pm 99% Invisible: Meet Me at Riis overcast
12:18pm Teen Vogue offers support. facebook
12:11pm @mathowie I wish more Californians read @pluralistic 's The Bezzle, which got into issues with California's prison system. They might've better understood the measure. mastodon
9:39am @ben I read https://werd.io/ via RSS feed. Your posts have been meaningful and helpful to me. I hope you let it stay. (I came directly here from "We can still rise" to reply.) mastodon
9:06am I predict that in 2028, the Democrats will have a primary. (Enough with anointing a candidate without taking the pulse of the people.) mastodon
8:51am The Daily: Trump, Again overcast
7:42am Fresh Air: What About Foreign Interference In The 2024 Election? overcast
5:23am Word of the day is "recrudescence" (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve. facebook
November 5th
10:15am Fresh Air: The Organization Ready To Help Trump Override The Federal Gov’t overcast
8:25am The Daily: A Guide to Election Night 2024 overcast
November 4th
11:24am Fresh Air: Alex Van Halen On Eddie, Fire & ‘Feeling It’ overcast
11:10am Revisionist History: John Birch vs. the PTA overcast
1:21am GnuPlot 6.0 - [Instructions for WSL] dokuwiki
November 3rd
2:20pm Planet Money: The veteran loan calamity overcast
1:55pm Search Engine: How do you sit quietly in the middle of a storm? overcast
November 2nd
11:46am Movement San Francisco (a climbing gym) in San Francisco foursquare
10:48am B. Patisserie (a bakery) in San Francisco foursquare
November 1st
2:53pm Political Gabfest: Floating Island of Garbage overcast
10:53am @pluralistic That makes sense and reveals how accommodating you are to your various audiences. The effort is appreciated. mastodon
8:12am I was amused to see that @pluralistic used the ActivityPub/Mastodon username format in his pluralistic.net blog post when he mentioned the EFF. (Literal quote below, I did not do the at-mention.) &... mastodon
October 31st
5:58pm Planet Money: So your data was stolen in a data breach overcast
11:39am The Scathing Atheist: 611: Politic or Treat Edition overcast
9:43am Fresh Air: Alex Van Halen On Eddie, Fire & ‘Feeling It’ overcast
9:43am The Scathing Atheist: 611: Politic or Treat Edition overcast
October 30th
12:31pm @b0rk is working on the Terminal, and it reminds me of all. the. dotfile changes I had to make because I insist that I can use <c-i> and <c-o> to jump back and forth in Vim, *and* use &... mastodon
11:15am Fresh Air: Singer-Songwriter Randy Newman overcast
11:00am 99% Invisible: How the World Ran Out of Everything overcast
10:46am Revisionist History: Exploring Life-Saving AI Tech with T-Mobile for Business overcast
7:20am Fresh Air: Singer-Songwriter Randy Newman overcast
5:21am Work Lunches - [Loved] dokuwiki
October 29th
10:57am The Daily: On the Ballot: An Immigration System Most Americans Never Wanted overcast
8:21am Fresh Air: How The Culture Wars Split A Church overcast
October 28th
10:47pm Jeff Bezos is so full of it. This was the ideal time for the Fourth Estate to weigh in, report, and explain. It's a matter of democracy itself this time, and it'll die in darkness. "We didn't ... mastodon
10:45pm Jeff Bezos is so full of it. This was the ideal time for the Fourth Estate to weigh in, report, and explain. It's a matter of democracy itself this time, and... facebook
2:54pm Fresh Air: John le Carré’s Son Revives His Late Dad’s Beloved Spy overcast
12:16pm Fresh Air: What Do Billionaires Like Elon Musk Want From Trump? overcast
October 27th
4:00pm Fresh Air: Tom Petty / ‘Reservation Dogs’ Co-Creator Sterlin Harjo overcast
3:22pm The Daily: The Sunday Read: ‘How Everyone Got Lost in Netflix’s Endless Library’ overcast
1:01pm Radiolab: The Unpopular Vote overcast
9:35am Pulitzer Prize winner Brent Staples on Donald Trump's second term:This is how it's done, WaPo. facebook
12:43am @integerpoet Yeah, we thought "democracy dies in darkness" was a warning, not a plan. mastodon
October 26th
2:43pm Revisionist History: The Tipping Point Revisited: Broken Windows overcast
2:14pm Search Engine: Should we be worried about OpenAI? overcast
12:43pm Planet Money: Why do hospitals keep running out of generic drugs? overcast
10:19am @bretcarmichael Doesn't it get your goat that at the same time Musk's Super PAC is awarding $1M to people who "support the First Amendment" that bars the government from suppressing speec... mastodon
10:14am Musk's Super PAC gives $1M to people who "support the 1st Amendment" because it bars the government from suppressing speech. But here in the real world, the LA Times and the Washington Po... mastodon
10:11am WaPo: "When there's a hurricane approaching their city, we support our readers' ability to make up their own minds on whether to vacate. This consequential decision is too important for us to ... mastodon
October 25th
11:27pm The Washington Post defends its decision to not endorse anyone: "We also see it as a statement in support of our readers’ ability to make up their own minds ... facebook
11:25pm The Washington Post defends its decision to not endorse anyone: "We also see it as a statement in support of our readers’ ability to make up their own minds on this, the most consequential of ... mastodon
6:28pm The Scathing Atheist: 610: First Last Supper Edition overcast
12:18pm Political Gabfest: The Disinhibited Fascist overcast
October 24th
6:16pm 99% Invisible: The Power Broker #10: Clara Jeffery overcast
10:03am @tknarr @zeri @pluralistic Veritasium has a good video on best strategies for dealing with others, and "start off being nice, but retaliate" does very well. https://medium.com/@metaform3d... mastodon
8:03am @jascha Agreed. As a sort of half-joke and seed for the practice, my latest GitHub release has an “AI: none” badge in the README. https://github.com/dblume/tiny-vault mastodon
October 23rd
5:19pm "Trump's assault on norms is constant, brazen and unapologetic. Progressives need to do more than weep on the sidelines and demand that Republicans play fair." another gem from @pluralis... mastodon
1:41pm 99% Invisible: Spirit Halloween overcast
11:37am Search Engine: Why is it so hard to tax billionaires? (Part 2) overcast
October 22nd
1:00pm The Daily: As Marijuana’s Popularity Grows, So Do Its Harms overcast
12:07pm gdb - [Attaching to a remote target] dokuwiki
8:28am Search Engine: Why is it so hard to tax billionaires? (Part 1) overcast
October 21st
9:59pm I'm in a happy place. Listening to @pjvogt 's Search Engine series "Why is it so hard to tax billionaires?" and just now read @pluralistic 's direct reply "Retiring the US debt would... mastodon
9:15pm It's also annoying that Musk apparently believes that Democrats are less in favor of the freedom of speech? (You don't have to explain it to me. Both Trump's and Biden's administrations asked socia... mastodon
9:13pm So Musk's Super PAC pays people to register to vote and pledge support for the First Amendment, even though the party is home to Christian Nationalists who w... facebook
8:54pm So Musk's Super PAC pays people to register to vote and pledge support for the First Amendment, even though the party is home to Christian Nationalists who want to ignore the establishment clause o... mastodon
8:02pm @csilverman I came here to call out the warthog, and @jstatepost beat me to it. Clear as day. mastodon
5:51pm Here's a comic explainer of some Project 2025 goals. facebook
11:45am Political Gabfest: 15 Percent of Black Voters Support Trump overcast
11:23am Planet Money: The Subscription Trap overcast
11:08am The Daily: ‘The Interview’: Mia Khalifa’s Messy World of Money, Sex and Activism overcast
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