Somewhere I picked up the meme that the 2016 election, Facebook and fake news are the crisis points directing us to implement ethics in computer science, just as the atomic bomb was a crisis point for physics and ethics in psychiatry have ...somewhat advanced since phrenology ( Read more... )

HERE I AM IN CALIFORNIA.

So excite, very anxiety, much broke; job offer waits for background check to strike.

too much to write about so here are some links to things I made:

GOFUNDME --
true story, ok:
I did not want to have to do this but I am completely effing broke and my peeps were all like "you can ask for money it's ok" and I was like ( Read more... )

I wrote this whole thing up about what being an INFJ means to me and lost it, of course.

( Data loss is the norm around here )

The response to my post meant that I had the funding I needed for the emergency shit (that had to be paid within the next 4 days) within the first 4 hours of my plea. I see this as such a manifestation of love that I feel truly overwhelmed ( Read more... )

Facepalming all over the place.

It doesn’t take much time on self-help-oriented web sites before one’s i.p. address is registered and tracked by something as innocuous-sounding as a ‘cookie’, and the person owning the computer is officially tagged as one of THOSE people-someone who is desperate for relief from a horrible condition, who is tired of ( Read more... )

PEOPLE OF THE INTERNET. MARIAH CAREY STILL SUCKS. STOP BUYING HER GODDAMN ALBUM.

In other news, I had no idea that the ring I wear of three bands interlocked, is supposed to represent the trinity. That's okay. If God has a sense of humor I'm pretty sure he thinks my life is funny.

I hate myspace. It's like angelfire from 1999, only with embedded mp3s instead of MIDI.

You know, I've been sitting here for thirty minutes off and on trying to figure out which is worse, embedded mp3s or embedded MIDIs, and I honestly cannot come up with an answer.

Of course, backgrounds involving animated gifs are the top prize.

This is why ( Read more... )

Me and S, on house hunting:

S: I just need broadband. I don't really care about all of that other stuff.
Me: As long as your cardboard box has a cable modem, you're fine?
S: Yeah.