The short-form week of 6–12 Jun 2016
13 Jun 2016; last modified 16 Jun 2016
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.
This document was created automatically from my archive of my Twitter stream. Due to limitations in the Twitter API and occasional glitches in my archiving system, it may not be 100% complete.
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 10:49am
Arrived Paris. Have been ripped off by cabbie. On the plus side, scuba gear not mandatory
yet.—@ndw
Monday at 01:41am
RT @bortzmeyer: How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — *Must* read if you use social networks (like
Twitter...) https://t.co/zQKMvQnQsc—@ndw
Monday at 09:24am
RT @timminchin: UK humans. 1day left to register to vote! https://t.co/T6NpUm5BR55. Have your say! (My conclusion, FWIW: leaving the EU woul…—@ndw
Monday at 09:55am
Monday at 10:24am
RT @montserratlj: "I can take a photograph from any public street...the presence of a building or
item of public art cannot pose any copyri…—@ndw
Monday at 10:31am
The True Size Of ... https://t.co/9Au1dZKWn2—@JiminyPan
In a conversation that started on Monday at 12:33pm
Spent a lovely bday in Paris with @ndw, including a marvellous visit to @museecluny and Sainte-Chapelle. https://t.co/XSS2AfRNSj—@doctortovey
@doctortovey @ndw Lovely! I'd love to visit la Sainte-Chapelle, last time was 25 years ago (damn).
Happy bday :-)—@rdeltour
Monday at 02:50pm
Monday at 02:53pm
RT @mjdominus: By special request, this remembrance of President Ronald Reagan. https://t.co/lhuJY9iQVE—@ndw
Monday at 04:50pm
Sitting on an airplane, watching people stow their luggage. It’s like some of these
people have never played Tetris.—@glv
Monday at 11:05pm
"Mommy, why are we called Generation Z?"
"Because millennials are going to end history before you can reproduce."—@SwiftOnSecurity
Tuesday at 05:21am
RT @csuwildcat: Wow: "UK gov decided native apps were too expensive to build/maintain, went to responsive
sites; Treasury says $8.2B was sa…—@ndw
Tuesday at 07:56am
RT @jason_kint: seriously, this happens on many webpages with one click. distorts economics, experience,
privacy, security = adblock https:…—@ndw
Tuesday at 08:24am
Tuesday at 04:29pm
RT @AdamMGrant: After the #StanfordVictim trial, there seems to be some confusion about what causes rape. This is the real
cause. https://t…—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 05:14pm
Tuesday at 05:41pm
RT @edibleaustin: Got your tickets yet? Come sample all the bacon & beer you can handle! #baconandbeeratxhttps://t.co/NUd9pJoNXbhttps://t…—@ndw
Tuesday at 06:57pm
Wednesday at 01:18am
Can't sleep because I realized that a Trump presidency would explain why there are
no time travelers from the future.—@Alex_Parker
Wednesday at 08:52am
Wednesday at 01:55pm
The absolute best way to share a snippet of text online is as an image embedded in
a tweet. Maybe get some compression artifacts in there—@Pinboard
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 04:33pm
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 05:39pm
@mholzschlag I thought your intent was clear and I applaud your efforts. I found @w3cmemes response disrespectful and mean spirited.—@ndw
@ndw It is comforting to know it wasn't just me who found it to be that way. Thank you
:)—@mholzschlag
Wednesday at 09:22pm
FOASS - Fuck Off As A Service - one of the most full-featured APIs I've ever seen:
https://t.co/n6iUYbsMV5—@EthanZ
Thursday at 12:43am
Where do I see myself in 10 years? Committing a futurecrime—@stephcd
Thursday at 05:35am
RT @JonyIveParody: “Who wants app subscriptions!? You have to enroll, and if you stop paying you lose
access to them… Yuck! Nobody wants ap…—@ndw
Thursday at 05:49am
Thursday at 05:50am
RT @richardadalton: Want CVs from devs? Here's the perfect job ad.
"An Office with a door you can close. No meetings."
That's it. Nothing…—@ndw
Thursday at 05:54am
Thursday at 05:56am
Thursday at 05:57am
RT @mholzschlag: Stupid @w3cmemes got me thinking. I AM the only one. I don't know a soul that can better my passion
for Web as a human pla…—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 06:05am
@mholzschlag That, precisely, is the long-term damage the #GOP has wrought. We'll suffer and struggle with it for decades after his defeat.—@ndw
@ndw One step forward, ten thousand steps back. And defeat him we must. He's unfit, full
stop.—@mholzschlag
Thursday at 08:22am
RT @thenitinsawhney: I remember a grown woman blocking my path to shout "Why don't you lot go back home?"
at me. I was 8. Brexit is about t…—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 08:27am
Thursday at 10:04am
Thursday at 09:54pm
Try on a high-waisted swimsuit. See if it conceals your despair.—@KimKierkegaard
Friday at 02:06am
Friday at 02:12am
Friday at 02:16am
In a conversation that started on Friday at 02:26am
@peteaven In an effort to maintain the global balance of Marklogic devs, I will fly back to
The States the next day.—@ndw
@ndw Booo! Will miss seeing you. I can see how too much GSD in 1 place may cause the earth
to tilt off its axis though, so thank you. ;)—@peteaven
@ndw @peteaven I’m handling the third region of this global ML fault tolerance but I could use some
scale out. Come visit!—@hunterhacker
@hunterhacker @peteaven In a heartbeat. Invent a business excuse and I'll be on the next flight. Otherwise,
perhaps on vacation in 2017?—@ndw
@ndw @hunterhacker I'm in! Events we can bring coming to mind: Triples in Tokyo!, Multi-Models in (Malaysia
| Manila)!, or NoSQL Singapore!—@peteaven
Friday at 02:33am
Friday at 04:32am
On app subscriptions. https://t.co/Ftx5keQYi5—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 10:12am
@edibleaustin I'd be there if I wasn't an ocean away!—@ndw
@ndw We'll miss you!—@edibleaustin
Friday at 10:58am
Friday at 11:40am
Friday at 12:05pm
Friday at 04:07pm
.@mholzschlag If you're leading, I'm following.—@ndw
Friday at 04:20pm
RT @brainpicker: A rare billboard that tries to sell us on a hard, necessary truth rather than a
soft, unnecessary lie https://t.co/NLl00Rq…—@ndw
Friday at 04:26pm
Dude is so visionary he gets speeding tickets from the Thought Police—@Pinboard
Friday at 04:41pm
RT @ProfMcGhee: People in UK are not denied houses, jobs, dignity, social care, pensions because
of immigration, but because of our own aus…—@ndw
Friday at 08:14pm
Why are we living in a comedy about scrappy young social media interns trying to save
their country from a cartoonish real estate developer—@christinelove
Friday at 10:28pm
Long after my generation has died, it will haunt yours through inexplicable record
scratch, camera shutter and cash register sounds in apps.—@danharmon
Saturday at 05:56am
Politics: the art of convincing decent people to forget the lesser of two evils is
also evil.—@Snowden
Saturday at 06:52am
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 02:01pm
If we discovered definitely that we are in a simulation, what would be different?
New angle on exploring the universe. Human rights for AIs?—@ndw
Saturday at 05:20pm
Saturday at 05:20pm
Saturday at 05:22pm
@iotwatch @ndw that is exactly how i feel. (im scottish and its exactly like our referendum too)
like being lost and following an idiot—@TheMainstand
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 04:05am
I don't object to @nytimes policy, but very rarely reach 10/month. Since I have this month, I'm being trained
never to click.—@ndw
@ndw or, use private mode in your browser—@evan_l_williams
@ndw **psst** if you delete the cookies for their domain the counter resets.—@kiphampton
@ndw simply search for the article title via Google, and then can click straight thru—@evan_l_williams
Sunday at 04:27am
Sunday at 04:58am
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 05:30am
While I can easily circumvent the @nytimes paywall, that wasn't my point. My point was: they're training me never to follow
links to them.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 05:32am
If I was in charge of a site and I observed that its design was explicitly driving
users away, I'd be concerned. /cc @nytimes—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 05:34am
@mholzschlag There's more love in the world than hate. Illegitimi non carborundum.—@ndw
@ndw I feel down, but I'm still idealist/optimist and pretty darned stubborn too. I also
process publicly. I need witnesses for some reason.—@mholzschlag
@ndw I believe that too. I think I really am just experiencing a re-entry syndrome. I
was isolated for almost 3 years and it affected me.—@mholzschlag
Sunday at 09:53am
One man can buy enough guns to slaughter 50 people because he hates who those people
love. Our society basically condones mass murder.—@DrMRFrancis
Sunday at 11:54am
This. Because: The real rules of air travel https://t.co/hMxOuDtudR—@docum3nt
Sunday at 12:27pm
RT @GreatDismal: Semi-automatic firearms are machines for automating a specific process. More difficult,
slower, to wound or kill 20 with a…—@ndw
Sunday at 12:30pm
RT @spooloflies: Also, "don't politicize this"? Really? You've politicized queer people using bathrooms
and having jobs, you can't depoliti…—@ndw
Sunday at 12:36pm
Sunday at 02:52pm
The Atlantic: “We noticed that you have an AD BLOCKER ENABLED.” And I noticed that
you’re spying on me, which is exactly why I block.—@Pinboard
Sunday at 03:07pm
If sites served their own ads, they would be hard to block (and there would be less
need to). But there’s no magic bubble money in plain ads—@Pinboard
Sunday at 03:20pm
Publishers: Let’s use the browser—a piece of software entirely within readers’ control—to
radicalize them against our only source of revenue—@Pinboard
Sunday at 05:01pm
Don't tell women, POC & LGBTQ+ to "stay safe". We have no choice in our safety. Find
the hateful people & tell them to stop killing us.—@solomongeorgio
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 05:14pm
@geoffarnold How long are you in Austin?—@ndw
@ndw staying at the Driskill. Tues and Wed evenings are open right now—@geoffarnold
@geoffarnold Cool. I'm flying home from the UK today. A drink on Wed eve, perhaps?—@ndw
@ndw Sounds good!—@geoffarnold
@ndw until Thursday evening—@geoffarnold
Sunday at 05:27pm
In particular, the Radicals hope to goad us into over-reacting -- our hostility radicalizing
their co-religious https://t.co/baW42i06BO—@n1vux
Monday at 01:17am
RT @SeanMcElwee: No data yet on the correlation between "thoughts and prayers" and gun violence,
but I did find these. https://t.co/6o7cCFQ…—@ndw
Monday at 02:07am
RT @ColleenDoran: Why where it happened is important. #Orlando By Els Kushner. https://t.co/DPDuejQ9xB—@ndw