Jeff Sessions is concerned that cannabis is bad for us, but I have to say never have I seen someone so much in need of a buzz. Chill out, maybe with a vape, munchies, a Netflix movie, maybe Big Lebowski. Comfortable shoes. Takeout Chinese.#I often complain about podcasts that hide their RSS feed. It's only fair to call out one for doing it well. Here's a new podcast from WNYC. Over on the left, impossible to miss, is a Subscribe button. Click it, and see a list of choices, one of which is via RSS. It links to the podcast feed, ready to subscribe to, which I have done in Podcatch.com.#
One of the things I've learned is that contrary to popular belief you can make (some) people change -- if they were depending on you not changing. You have to change first. Then, too bad, they have to change too.#
We need a name for a shiny new toy Trump gives us to take attention away from the serious damage. The military parade is just such a toy.#
- Let's put this in stark but realistic terms. The cost of what Mozilla et al are planning is that we will lose almost all of the archives of the web. A massive bit-burning, which is just as awful as it sounds. #
- It's as if the pharma industry decided to delete all their records going back to the beginning of drug research. Except it isn't the industry doing it, it's a few large companies.#
- And the web doesn't even belong to the industry. It belongs to no one.#
- There's an implicit public trust with having the dominant web browser. Except the public hasn't yet understood how important and valuable that trust is. And of course the companies will take whatever they can.#
- My friend blogdiva calls this colonialism and I think she's right.#
- PS: What alerted to me how crazy this has gotten, they're talking about how to break JavaScript on non-HTTPS connections. I use JS for plenty of stuff that never touches the net. #