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Month: August 2017 (18 Av 5777)

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User Avatar of Amanda CAARSON Amanda CAARSON
| Thursday 10 August 2017 (18 Av 5777)

Testing a very simple, web-based app I can add to my phone’s home screen for posting to all the things.

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| Thursday 10 August 2017 (18 Av 5777)

Need to do some running this morning. I think this may include breakfast somewhere but haven’t made that decision yet.

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| Thursday 10 August 2017 (18 Av 5777)

Sometimes technology can be distracting.

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| Thursday 10 August 2017 (18 Av 5777)

I keep looking at other syndication solutions, but still come right back to Bridgy. Yes, it’s that close to perfect. #indieweb

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| Thursday 10 August 2017 (18 Av 5777)

Sometimes, casching is bad. Also, micro.blog doesn’t like it when wordPress posts do not have titles. Need to figure out if this is something on my end or theirs.

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| Thursday 10 August 2017 (18 Av 5777)

Sometimes peanut butter sandwitches are the best lunch.

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| Friday 11 August 2017 (19 Av 5777)

Two more hours to go and it will be time for the weekend!

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| Friday 11 August 2017 (19 Av 5777)

The problem with listening to other people’s jazz playlists is I have to spend time skipping all the Kenny G. Kenny G. is not jazz!

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| Friday 11 August 2017 (19 Av 5777)

Email client closed. Let the weekend begin!

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| Friday 11 August 2017 (19 Av 5777)
Harison Heights
Augusta, Georgia

85 °F Clear

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| Friday 11 August 2017 (19 Av 5777)
Bradford Point Apartments
Augusta, Georgia

85 °F Clear

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| Friday 11 August 2017 (19 Av 5777)
Sconyers Bar-B-Que
Augusta, Georgia

85 °F Clear

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| Saturday 12 August 2017 (20 Av 5777)
Harison Heights
Augusta, Georgia

90 °F Partially cloudy

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| Saturday 12 August 2017 (20 Av 5777)
City of Augusta
Georgia

90 °F Partially cloudy

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| Sunday 13 August 2017 (21 Av 5777)

I say it’s time for an “Alt-Right” filter in #WordPress. We could call it nazis_dangit.

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User Avatar of Amanda CAARSON Amanda CAARSON
| Sunday 13 August 2017 (21 Av 5777)

OK, so let me explain how nazis_dangit would work. Right now, there’s a filter in WordPress called capital_p_dangit that gets fired when you misspell WordPress with a lower-case “p”, but only when you’re using the visual editor, I think. I wouldn’t know because I almost never misspell WordPress, and I never use the visual editor. You can disable this filter with one line of code, but most people probably don’t, because most people really aren’t that invested in something that trivial. So nazis_dangit would work like this: If you’re using the visual editor, and you type the word “Alt-Right” without quotes, WordPress replaces it with Nazis. If you type it in quotes, (as pretty much anyone who doesn’t actually call themselves alt-right would do), the word survives. You could disable this, just like you can disable capital_p_dangit, or if you really wanted the word to show up, you could just type it in quotes. But if someone wants to seriously use the term to name themselves, they won’t want it showing up in quotes, because people tend to look at a word in quotes as something to be taken not seriously. It would diminish the power of the term in readers’ eyes, thus diluting their message. I’m only half-serious about all this, because I’m pretty sure someone like Mika, (who I think is great), is going to come up with a really good reason not to do this. But we’ve already been accused of social justice coding thanks to both the emoji support and the accessibility stuff. I say we give the social justice haters something to really whine about. I think we’ve gotten to the point where a project like WordPress can’t say it’s completely not responsible for what people do with the software. And WordPress isn’t the only one in this position. We tend to take a position in tech that if we create something, people can do whatever they want with it, and we bear no responsibility. But we don’t accept that argument from gun manufacturers, so why should we accept it from tech?

OK, I should probably go to bed now. But I’m still really, really pissed about all this, and to be honest, this is kind of a tipping point. I’m really fed up with the astounding amount of “not-my-problem” when it comes to Trump, what he says, and the people and views and actions he indirectly supports. We are way past the point where anyone can claim with any credibility that there’s no evidence that Trump himself is a bigot. He just flew his colors with that crap about “many sides”. Not that most of us are surprised, but for those who were still rationalizing the bigotry away, that gig is up, and it’s time to take off the rose-colored glasses.

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| Tuesday 15 August 2017 (23 Av 5777)

Sweet Jesus I leave for an hour and Trump’s not only back on the both sides thing, he’s now saying there were fine people on both sides. No Mr. President, there were not “fine people” among the KKK, the white nationalists, and all the other white supremacist groups congregating in Charlottesville over the weekend. But thanks for definitively proving you didn’t mean a word of that condemnation of racism though. God, I need a drink.

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| Tuesday 15 August 2017 (23 Av 5777)
Kangaroo Express
Augusta, Georgia

94 °F Partially cloudy

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| Tuesday 15 August 2017 (23 Av 5777)

Is it too late to send messages to that NASA probe way out in space? Because I have one: Send the asteroid.

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| Wednesday 16 August 2017 (24 Av 5777)

My browser needs a break. So do I.

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