Trying to kickstart my brain into doing something useful today.
Month: January 2021
Trump’s threats aren’t performative—he’s pointing a loaded gun at democracy.
Directed by Brian Kirk. With Sean Bean, Mark Addy, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Michelle Fairley. Catelyn has captured Tyrion and plans to bring him to her sister, Lysa Arryn, at the Vale, to be tried for his, supposed, crimes against Bran. Robert plans to have Daenerys killed, but Eddard refuses to be a part of it and quits.
Congress must now act, not just to remove Trump—but to ensure that no president ever risks behaving in this way again.
David Frum (The Atlantic)Republicans must distance themselves from the president, and join their colleagues in ending his tenure.
A double victory in Georgia could create serious difficulties for Democrats—and might even make it less likely for Biden to win reelection.
This is a serious issue, particularly if the Democrats can’t manage to make any headway into fixing the Electoral College or gerrymandering.
What I heard from insurrectionists on their march to the Capitol
Nice to see at least one article/piece on who some of the people in the coup crowd at the capital were today.
Евгений Кузнецов (DIMV)На днях с подачи toby3d в индивебной телегруппе появились призывы попереводить IndieWeb Wiki на великий и могучий. Мне эта мысль понравилась ещё в прошлом году, когда Тим...
The horned man in question is none other than 32-year-old Jake Angeli, a familiar face at pro-Trump rallies and a purported QAnon conspiracy theorist sometimes referred to as the “QAnon Shama…
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This issue really needs to be addressed.
Cunningham's Law states "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."
This feels very true to my experiences. Perhaps I ought to use it more, but there’s a sort of cruelty if you’re doing it on purpose. Definitely a pattern used by pundits (unwittingly?) in an attempt to be controversial and therefore as clickbait.
Dries Buytaert (dri.es)Every day, millions of new web pages are added to the internet. Most of them are unstructured, uncategorized, and nearly impossible for software to understand. It irks me. Look no further than Sir Tim Berners-Lee's Wikipedia page: The markup for Tim Berners-Lee's Wikipedia page; it's complex and inc...
We definitely need more rich mark up that’s parseable and usable. I’m not sure that additional HTML tags would necessarily be taken up heavily to be of much use.
I do like having some solid microformats on my own content and it works out well with many of the parsing tools that I use regularly for consuming content. I’m curious what Dries has tried out in terms of options he’s dogfooded into Drupal? I do notice that when my website parses his article, it does pull in more data than most sites I come across. The one thing my parser didn’t find was his avatar in the “correct” place. It popped up as a page photo rather than an avatar for him as an author.
Putting microformats into Wikipedia seems like an interesting idea. Anyone want to manually add microformats to tbl’s Wikipedia page? 🙂
Picking up take out for dinner
Photos from a professional photographer who was inside the Capital building today during the attempted coup.
As a result of the unprecedented and ongoing violent situation in Washington, D.C., we have required the removal of three @realDonaldTrump Tweets that were posted earlier today for repeate...…
Twitter finally banning Trump, but only for a day.