Notices by Matthew Davidson (mjd)
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Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Friday, 16-Nov-2018 10:53:22 UTC 
Matthew Davidson
@andyc Say what you like about the #EU, but they stop at nothing to promote the use of #Tor as a "technical compliance solution". -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Friday, 16-Nov-2018 06:24:30 UTC
Matthew Davidson
There's satire, and then there's this: "He was confused when people around him became angry." https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-hippodrome-20181114-story.html -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Thursday, 15-Nov-2018 10:18:55 UTC
Matthew Davidson
Attempting to do some very simple video editing with #OpenShot again. So boiling with rage again. #FFS #LibreFail -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Nov-2018 05:34:31 UTC
Matthew Davidson
"Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain — Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today." #q Edgar Allen Poe https://drunkard.com/october-7/ -
Free Software Foundation (fsf)'s status on Monday, 12-Nov-2018 21:13:49 UTC 
Free Software Foundation
Richard Stallman in the @NewLeftReview: "I don’t think that everyone has to learn how to program—not everybody has a talent for it. But they still deserve control over their computing activities." https://u.fsf.org/2pm -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Nov-2018 00:51:18 UTC
Matthew Davidson
@tregeagle I'm working afternoons Wed/Thu. We could do the civilised post-work drinks thing again, childminding duties permitting. -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Monday, 12-Nov-2018 08:54:16 UTC
Matthew Davidson
Hypochondria is benign as long as you are extrapolating from actual symptoms. When you start ruminating on all the possible asymptomatic ailments you have a problem. https://thenib.com/the-nib-interview-barbara-ehrenreich-on-death-and-wellness -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 11-Nov-2018 04:31:02 UTC
Matthew Davidson
"When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same. The temperament is not that different." #q #Trump https://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2018/10/trumps-greatest-moment-of-self-awareness.html -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Saturday, 10-Nov-2018 05:00:48 UTC
Matthew Davidson
"Mathematics brought rigor to #Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis." #q Kenneth Boulding -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Thursday, 08-Nov-2018 09:51:13 UTC
Matthew Davidson
#TV looks so much better in black and white. As I very young kid, I would rather watch the Brady Bunch than #DrWho, until on a school holiday stay with my grandparents, I watched it on their portable B&W, and decided it was the most brilliant thing ever. Later, inspired by Woody Allen's late-70s monochrome films, I used to turn the colour all the way down on our TV. It makes everything look better. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/08/uk-households-black-and-white-tv-licensing -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Nov-2018 12:17:55 UTC
Matthew Davidson
#DrWho #2018 E01-05 tl;dr: Jodie Whittaker is perfect casting, stories have been mostly forgettable. -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Nov-2018 06:53:59 UTC
Matthew Davidson
I wonder how many children Richard #Dawkins has. [Pause for Wikipedia] One! His genes clearly aren't very selfish. -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Nov-2018 09:40:33 UTC
Matthew Davidson
Blimey. Hail. Weren't expecting that. Must hurry down t' Town Hall rain gauge to count the chunks in it. #weather #RippingYarns -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Monday, 05-Nov-2018 00:50:43 UTC
Matthew Davidson
Okay, took longer than 10 mins 'cos I'm rather dim, but we now have a bright shiny new 's' at the end of the protocol bit of our URI. #sysadmin #letsencrypt -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 04-Nov-2018 23:52:50 UTC
Matthew Davidson
Okay, done a long-overdue `apt-get dist-upgrade`. Rebooting… #sysadmin -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 04-Nov-2018 09:51:45 UTC
Matthew Davidson
"But you were always a good man of business,
Jacob," faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply
this to himself.
"Business!" cried the Ghost, wringing its
hands again." Mankind was my business. The
common welfare was my business; charity, mercy,
forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.
The dealings of my trade were but a drop of
water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!"
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol_(Dickens,_1843)/Stave_1 -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 04-Nov-2018 09:44:37 UTC
Matthew Davidson
If you want to understand the 21st century, don't bother with "charismatic thought leaders", just read some #Dickens. -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 04-Nov-2018 09:41:01 UTC
Matthew Davidson
Wow, that article is some graceful bridge burning. The lower ed cult is slightly different, though. It's not concerned with unearned prestige, or indulging in personal abuses of power, but the constant, grinding Malthusian refrain of "human capital" and "social mobility" as salvation from economic precarity. Your _personal_ salvation, of course; the poor will always be with us, but you can clamber over them and leave them behind if your faith is strong enough. [#Facepalm! And there I go again…] -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 04-Nov-2018 06:03:26 UTC
Matthew Davidson
You know it's time to delete your #YouTube cookies when, for some unfathomable reason, our #Google overlords decide the next person you want to hear from will be Jordan "Your Political Correctness Offends Me - How Dare You!" Peterson. -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 04-Nov-2018 05:49:29 UTC
Matthew Davidson
"You know, I’ve never had a favorite [drink], which is why I’ve never been officially classified as an alcoholic. I’m a moving target." #q Bill Murray https://drunkard.com/september-21/
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