2020 media diet what a shitty year. i/we wasted time with the following. movies Borat Subsequent Movie Film… Da 5 Bloods MidSommar Emma The Invisible Man Downhill The Last Black Man in San Francisco First Reformed tenet the midnight sky uncut gems eurovision miss americana the lovebirds enola holmes plenty more, few memorable. this may just be a function of 2020. tv so much tv. i am not proud of this....
The Life in ‘The Simpsons’ Is No Longer Attainable Someone I follow on Twitter, Erika Chappell, recently encapsulated my feelings about The Simpsons in a tweet: “That a show which was originally about a dysfunctional mess of a family barely clinging to middle class life in the aftermath of the Reagan administration has now become aspirational is frankly the most on the nose manifestations [sic] of capitalist American decline I can think of....
ACM article: does facebook use sensitive data for advertising purposes? (DOI:10.1145/3426361) answer: yes.
vterm- a terminal mode for emacs that doesn’t suck. oh, and it’s fast. vterm-toggle - F2 boom. you’re there.
[What Did the Democrats Win?](https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/12/17/election-2020-what-did-democrats-win/) it’s not a pretty picture when half the country picks the party of obstruction. Instead, we appear to be headed for two more years of gridlock. McConnell will pass nothing. As for the Supreme Court, not only will Biden not increase its size, which he’s hesitant to do anyway; we may be locked into a situation where Justice Stephen Breyer, now eighty-two, can’t retire and give Biden a chance to put a younger justice on the Court, because McConnell will likely not allow a vote....