No, he actually opposed a fascist. Nothing Hitler did was socialist.

Hence the “strictest definition.” He was of the letter but not the spirit.

Hm, that makes a lot of sense. I know that I’m staying in my job (which is education-adjacent) despite being underpaid, because I’d rather be underpaid doing something valuable than overpaid doing something nobody cares about (I used to do that, being laid off was the best thing that ever happened to me).

Interesting. I wonder about that, because the research on the student side seems to be the opposite: exposure to information, to a framework for rational thought, and most crucially to people of different backgrounds pushes people to the left. So how deep did they go? Would it be accurate to say that people who are educated seek careers in education, and since those people are more likely to be progressive, the transitive property applies?

I wonder.

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By the strictest definition, I guess I can see it. He opposed Hitler, the most visible fascist of the 20th century, so he’s an anti-fascist.

Me too.

Do you remember how Trump tried to take control of the National Archives as, like, his first action in office? The idea that he just wanted to display the Declaration of Independence in the Oval Office never seemed like enough to me. I think the files have already been copied, and there was a copy in Biden’s presidential records. Who knows where else they’ve been sent?

If they’re released in an edited or heavily redacted state, I bet we’ll get the real ones shortly thereafter.

This one has legs. They’re trying to quash it for some reason. I’m not saying it’ll bring down Trump, even though he’s obviously in there, but it’ll probably bring down at least a few senators.

And Trump’s base is breaking with him on this like they haven’t done in a decade. This is bigger and worse than I’ve ever seen. If it shifts the balance of power in Congress, I could see something happening to him too.

That’s the thing about Teflon. If you keep using it over and over, it eventually wears off. Given enough time, something will stick.

It is when her boss is almost certainly someone who deserves to have justice rain down on him.

Ha. Real ones remember.

Also, his name is “The Doctor,” not “Doctor Who.”

I have to admit, I wasn’t expecting this plot twist out of a BBC science fiction show.

Honestly, for me, it’s the one-two-three punch of easy notes taken anywhere + podcasts + camera.

• notes : before smartphones I carried a notebook in my pocket. And sometimes I still do; writing longhand is still pleasant for me, and being able to sketch and doodle with my notes is still clunky with a touchscreen, amazingly. But the experience of losing my notebook, or not having the right one with me when I need it, is disproportionately frustrating to me.

• podcasts : this is one of the few ways my ADHD brain truly focuses. Listening to a podcast while walking, biking, running, driving, doing dishes, cleaning a room, mowing the lawn, etc. is almost foolproof in getting me to pay attention to the content. I have to be in the right mood to read, and videos are background noise to me after having the Discovery Channel or Scifi Channel on 24/7 in my apartment in college. Before smartphones I had a trusty RCA Lyra that went everywhere with me; and while the form factor and experience were fantastic, I now have a backlog of over 800 podcast episodes that would not fit on that device’s 512MB internal storage. (Also, I just got a pair of noise canceling earbuds, and I have to admit I really like them)

• camera : I’ve chosen my last four smartphones based on the camera quality. I’ve got kids, and being able to take adorable pictures of them at the drop of a hat is very useful to me. I don’t need all the computational nonsense, but I do need it to be good enough and ever-present. Before smartphones, I would occasionally bring a digital camera around with me, but I can’t afford one that would give me the quality I want, and it wouldn’t fit in my pocket anyway.

Messaging, fitness tracking, and work stuff is also easier, though not in a way that I don’t think I could backfill with other things if needed.

Nostalgia aside, the experience of these big three use cases is indisputably better with a smartphone than it was in 2005. Could I live without them? Yes! Absolutely. But I’d prefer not to, and since I shook my social media addiction I don’t really feel the need to.

Oh hey Hurst! They package these in my city. Back in college I used to make a pot of these and a huge batch of cornbread regularly all winter. Good memories.

The weird thing is that Windows 10 broke that model. It always used to be that the even-numbered Windows versions were worse (after, let’s say, Windows 2000): ME (#4)? Bad. XP (#5)? Good! Vista (#6)? Bad. 7? Good! 8? Bad. 8.1 (#9)? Good! But then Windows 10 came out and threw the whole rhythm off.

You could pretty reasonably argue that 8.1 wasn’t a true version, and thus Windows 10 was the 9th version of Windows, but that just means that 8 was the combo breaker by becoming good eventually. In either case, Windows 11 being bad restores the bad version/good version rhythm.

If that’s not the entire joke of the tweet in the original image, I have seriously misunderstood this post.

Not on Mastodon. Some of the other fedi microblog platforms have had it, though.

They want us to upgrade to 11 so they can do that when they release Windows 12.

“…I’m sorry that I didn’t call them that in 2019.”