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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • Great list of websites to never visit 👍

    I get enough hate-speech during on-line video games. By not using any of those apps, I successfully save myself from multitudes more, while also foregoing any potentially addictive status-seeking site-based-compulsions. I used to play Clash of Clans on my phone because it was a good way to waste a couple minutes while taking a shit. I quit when I began to play too much. I feel like Facebook, twitter, instagram, they’re all just sites to waste time on. Which begs the question, why waste time on them at all? Why waste time?

    I know not every moment can be spent fruitfully, but when something you do to waste a bit of time in between/during mundane tasks becomes something that now demands attention outside of that, then it’s time to stop wasting time on it.







  • In August, the Fraternal Order of Police lodge that represents Chicago cops filed a lawsuit accusing Kersten and her top aides of leading dubious investigations and imposing unfairly harsh discipline on officers.

    Later that month, Kersten fired two high-ranking COPA officials: Deputy Chief Administrator Matthew Haynam, a former CPD staff attorney, and Garrett Schaaf, one of several supervising investigators at COPA, who worked for years as a deputy sheriff in Osceola County, Florida.

    Last month, Haynam filed a lawsuit claiming his firing was retaliation for raising alarms about COPA bias. A letter reportedly signed by 16 former or current COPA staffers said Kersten had “manipulated investigations to align with her own policy agenda” and retaliated against staffers who have complained about “bias and mismanagement.”

    This sounds like an Onion article. Cops complaining to their oversight committee that their investigations are biased and unfair.

    Like, Ok, Coppers 🤡

    “Transparency isn’t always comfortable,” Kersten added.

    I like this Andrea Kersten.







  • When I’m deciding on a show to watch, I am far more likely to choose a show that has 3 seasons or more, because, like, why get invested in characters and their arcs, just to have them disappear before they complete their journey? Netflix is so short sighted with this. There’s so much to watch these days, you don’t have to re-watch anything, you can find original, quality shows to watch endlessly. And with that in mind, it means that while we may not pay attention to a show that just came out, that doesn’t mean I won’t revisit that same show after a few years and a few more seasons.

    If a show is good enough to make, and you believe in it, then let your creators make more.

    Shows these days don’t need to be watched immediately to have an impact, and it’s in the later years of a show, when you hold the streaming rights, that it brings in money. It’s not even that their counting their chickens before they hatch, it’s like they’re counting their chickens, before the hen has even finished laying the eggs, and preemptively slaughtering the hen because it didn’t lay enough eggs quick enough. Putting bean-counters, propped up by AI-fueled investment calculators, in charge of programming will only ever result in continued disappointment. To their bottom-line and to the art produced.