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glennf, 5 days ago to random

Adobe did the thing companies that host and sync data keep doing: they updated their terms in what is a reasonable way without a) giving advance warning and a thorough explanation and b) realizing that the legal niceties sound horrifying to an average person. Adobe can’t legally safely host your content without a license. This updates mostly adds compliance issues that are govt focused—and should be examined. https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/06/06/clarification-adobe-terms-of-use

glennf, 5 days ago to random

“It’s just stated as fact that Apple ‘has fallen behind in the AI arms race’ (that’s from yesterday in the WSJ) but the companies Apple has supposedly fallen behind are, on their own, described with words like unpolished, embarrassing, hallucinating, untrustworthy, and even baffling." — @gruber https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/06/06/nyt-humane

glennf, 5 days ago to random

How about you bring back 10,000s of civilian Palestinians to life and restore their cities and reverse the devastation and starvation before asking students to tone it down?

glennf, 5 days ago to random

Musk would shout on his way out, “I’m gone! Let that stink in!” while carrying a bag of old garbage, storm over to his CyberTruck parked in a disabled permit space, jump into the vehicle after several tries to open it, and then slam the door—causing all the panels to fall off in cartoon-like succession…and then a pause, and then all four wheels.
https://mastodon.social/@verge/112571252769186651

glennf, 8 days ago to random

“Instagram confirmed it’s testing unskippable ads after screenshots of the feature began circulating across social media." Federated photos, here I come.

glennf, 8 days ago to random

I rarely try to warn people off from watching some piece of media. Usually, only if it’s traumatic or explicative. However, I make the exception for Bodkin, the Netflix series. It has some very strong acting and narrative elements, but nothing ever resolves, and the last episode was ridiculous. Terrible. I am angry about how they wasted their opportunity. No blame on the actors at all! It is not worth watching. If you do watch it, you can tell me if you agree with me. But I urge you not to.

glennf, 11 days ago to random

The latest issue of my comics-history + printing stuff newsletter is out, “Sluggo Is Lit…erature”: free! https://buttondown.email/howcomics/archive/sluggo-is-literature/

A portion of a “Gasoline Alley” Sunday comic form November 28, 1926 showing Walt in red coat and Skeezix in white shirt walking through woods, across a river, looking at trees. Backgrounds are vividly colored with gradients.
Images side by side of a c. 1805 plaster mold for casting metal printing plates (left), and a plate cast from such a mold with raised type showing bits of adhered plaster
A screen capture of 20 spreads shown in small thumbnails of rough page layout in How Comics Were Made

glennf, 12 days ago (edited 12 days ago) to random

So is DeSantis going to pass an emergency regulation to let felons who haven’t served their time yet vote in Florida?

glennf, 12 days ago to random

Imagine if Twitter still existed right now

glennf, 12 days ago to random

Surely Trump can't wriggle his way out of this one

glennf, 12 days ago (edited 12 days ago) to random

Gotta say, seeing 60% of you think he would be convicted of both felonies and misdemeanors certainly made me believe more fully that something was going to happen to him! And that turned out to be true!
https://twit.social/@glennf/112532012115771042

glennf, 12 days ago to random

Trump will now spend weeks explaining how corrupt the trial judge was, the man who will, after a recommendation from the probation department, have the sole discretion within guidelines of four years in person per charge, to sentence him to jail.

I am positive this will go just as well for Trump as his trial strategy.

glennf, 12 days ago to random

I do NOT know how to process this?!?!?

glennf, 12 days ago to random

That quickly to me indicates that they didn't have a “secret MAGA” member.
https://historians.social/@CitizenWald/112532011076200810

glennf, 12 days ago to random

Final bets, please. Final bets.
https://twit.social/@glennf/112527698020973081

glennf, 12 days ago to random

C’mon, convicted felonnnnnnnn, { blows on dice, rolls them }

glennf, 12 days ago to random

Some nice writing here at the NYT:

Jonah Bromwich: “The lawyers approach the bench. Trump, now a felon, sits isolated at the defense table, his lawyer Susan Necheles one seat away.”

glennf, 12 days ago to random

glennf, 12 days ago to random

Just texted my children a series of obscenities and told them to write this date down in their journals

glennf, 13 days ago to random

Registered for #xoxofest !

glennf, 12 days ago to random

Jury asks for more time to fill out forms, Chinese food, a bag of Jammie Dodgers, and the roster of the 1976 Buffalo Bills.

glennf, 12 days ago to random

Your Honor, we find the defendant incredibly guilty

glennf, 12 days ago to random

The other good news is that appeals court will almost certainly reject his civil appeals later this year against the Carroll and State of New York judgements, and that will mean > $600m (with interest) sucked out of his pockets.

glennf, 12 days ago to random

All I ask is the NY Times not suddenly reintroduce the Needle.

glennf, 13 days ago to random

One of the things I teach my children is that people who have bad judgement often exercise it repeatedly. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/us/driving-zoom-court-suspended-license.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb