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For quite a while, I've been setting for creating a new terminal window with a keyboard shortcut when what I've really wanted was to create a new tab in the same terminal window. I finally looked into it. It's not exactly what I want, but it is about as efficient. (Let me know if there's a better way to do that, please.)

Destruction covered Holiday in Cambodia! I know there's a lot of people that disagree, but Dead Kennedys songs all sound better with distortion.

I've been reading the Three-Body Problem, which is really good. I was just thinking, though, that I was more surprised by the return of one of the characters' moms and how she viewed the Cultural Revolution than by the space stuff.

I'm listening to the Talking Politics episode about the Green New Deal. Bill Janeway points out that it needs to not just fund green energy initiatives, but to provide cover for mistakes and a lack of clarity, which are a big part of making huge things that don't exist yet, like running the country on alternative sources of energy and stopping the flooding of the world, more or less. If you don't know what you're going to make, you can't say, well, we'll do this, this, and this, then we'll have that. I've been in this situation often, on a far smaller scale.

Other guests point out how partisan the Green New Deal is. Green stuff is considered to be owned by the Democratic party because the Republican party is just plain irresponsible. Still, though, how is it going to get through under the political conditions that are likely to continue for the next five years?

About Instagram's (a Facebook property) and Pinterest's role in promoting suicide:

Gerrard and Gillespie open their article by revisiting the tragic case of Molly Russell, the young teenager who sought out images of self-harm before she took her own life in 2017. It was later discovered, the authors report, “that these images were also being delivered to her, recommended by her favourite social media platforms. Her Instagram feed was full of them. Even in the months after her death, Pinterest continued to send her automated emails, its algorithms automatically recommending graphic images of self-harm, including a slashed thigh and cartoon of a young girl hanging.”

Again, corporations seek to maximize growth in order to server their shareholders, and right now, corporations believe that maximizing MAU (monthly active users) is the way to do that. At all costs.

I wrote a post about a Safari debugging folly on my semi-serious weblog. Getting sucked into that incident was not really how I wanted to spend late Saturday night.

That potatoes with the fish on top recipe seems really arbitrary, but eating the flakes of the fish on slices of potato was actually a really good experience. Also, I think white fish responds much better to baking than to frying.

Me: Look, that house is bright blue now!
The guy: Chill down — didn't you know houses come in all sorts of shapes and colors?

Well, OK, then. I see we can now farm out the crushing of wonder via jaded expert perspective to four-year-olds.

Demo disaster. Watch out for voice apps and mic/video conferencing feedback, folks. 💀

Fuck, it's March.