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Blood On The Ground, Crazy In The Heart

At post time, reports of as many as twenty people shot in San Bernardino, California. No other details of how many shooters, although CNN reports twelve dead. So far.

I hate having to repeat this fucking post on Twitter several times a year.

It’s time now to pop it to this post:

Do You Have This Wicked Urge To Go Shoot Many People? I Have Some Advice For You.

For Posterity

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Albert J. Dunlap

The Hanging Class

What the British are really laughing about

In this elite culture not all corruption is financial. When it comes to the top of British politics, sound character and a clean record do not make you an asset. You’ll have a hard time joining unless they can confirm that you are scum – and can make sure that the public don’t know about it.

Boldfaced emphasis added by me.

It’s about England, but the same scum rule America too.

A must-read.

Being Stupid While White: #IStandWithAhmed

“Driving While Black” has been an expression.

Today I introduce a new one: “Being Stupid While White.”

Irving 9th-grader arrested after taking homemade clock to school: ‘So you tried to make a bomb?’

So stupid, they failed even this simple test:

Effin Money

The money thing part 1: there is none in writing about comics

This stands in stark contrast to a piece that ran a few days ago on the Atlantic by Olga Khazan called Can Mommy Bloggers Still Make a Living? that showed CPMs circling the drain at an alarming rate. One mommy blogger who once made enough to support three people and pay for an assistant has now all but moved on[.]

And:

I know I’ve said this before — just a few days ago in fact — but without my own Patreon campaign I couldn’t even keep this site running. For some insane reason, I live in NYC, where working two jobs 14 hours a day to pay for a room in an apartment with three other people living in it is pretty common. A 260-sq. foot apartment built from Legos in the middle of a park full of homeless people across the street from a mental hospital rents for $2000 a month here. (This is a block from Stately Beat Manor, BTW.)

Brutal.

Party Like It’s 2008 Again

Busted Future

Twitter:

Also: One Tweet Shows What Silicon Valley Really Thinks of the People It’s Crushing

Previously here:

More Reasons To Despise The Techies
The Entire Tech World In One Photo
Ignorance And Hubris In Silicon Valley
The Silicants
Sellouts, Shills, Con Men, And Egress Pushers
Our Jules Verne Ant-Like Future
Babylon Lives Again

The West Began In Greece …

… will it end in Greece too?

Or will The New West begin there?

No China Tablet News. Miscellany.

First, some tech.

This is not good:

Keyboard vulnerability may have put millions of Samsung devices at risk

This is a dilemma for users because even if they don’t use SwiftKey as the default keyboard it can’t be uninstalled from the device and Welton says that it can still be exploited even when it’s not the default keyboard.

This sounds like the death of the Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3:

Galaxy A8 pictures leaked

Specifications accompany the pictures, the Galaxy A8 is said to be powered by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 processor with 2GB RAM, 16GB internal storage with microSD card slot, a 5.7-inch Super AMOLED 1920×1020 pixel resolution display, 16-megapixel rear and 5-megapixel front camera, fingerprint reader in the home button, 4G LTE support and a 3,050mAh battery. It will run Android 5.1.1 straight out of the box.