Abulsme.com: March 2018

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Timelapse of overhead clouds from just south of Everett, WA on 2018-03-25.

@abulsme tweets from 2018-03-26 (UTC)

10:58:44 Retweeted @claytonhickman 2018-03-25 20:10:58 Strap in (or mute me, whichever) for a Sunday night thread of nerdy #DoctorWho blather about TARDIS roundels. As peвЂ¦ https://t.co/p4tjgz9WiY
18:12:51 Yup. Thread. Quote retweeted from my personal tracking and surveillance device that I never let be more than a fewвЂ¦ https://t.co/k7Xz39TCur
18:33:25 Oops https://t.co/ZRNfMAxzyZ
21:03:43 Retweeted @matthewstoller 20:30:39 It’s a good look for Facebook to be fact-checking people upset that they are being tracked by telling them they conвЂ¦ https://t.co/qBdtASYx8F

@abulsme tweets from 2018-03-25 (UTC)

00:37:09 Retweeted @rklau 2018-03-24 17:36:38 Here is the entire video of Naomi Wadler’s speech at the #MarchForOurLives rally in DC. This is as great a speech aвЂ¦ https://t.co/YmYyOaE194
01:48:03 Retweeted @owillis 01:19:57 what ive seen of this protest is a lot of what i didnt see in iraq protests: one point, one goal, not random warbliвЂ¦ https://t.co/lhUjzZ0MDd in reply to owillis
01:55:49 Retweeted @MiaFarrow 01:19:47 Emma Gonzalez Is Responsible for the Loudest Silence in the History of US Social Protest https://t.co/i2xZtogQ4F
01:58:08 Retweeted @christina_cov 2018-03-24 23:30:43 Emma’s silence was magnificent. As a speech disorders student I noticed how the surprise quiet fired off вЂњdiscourseвЂ¦ https://t.co/X7yi6Enngi
02:19:47 Retweeted @BillCorbett 2018-03-23 04:58:59 This. This was the moment we were rerouted to the Shit Timeline. https://t.co/pJjEJMIiqh
02:45:39 Retweeted @Emma4Change 00:51:51 Real Quick: my speech today was abt 6 mins & 30 secs, including both my speech and my silence. The fact that peopleвЂ¦ https://t.co/BK68IfR1Ik
02:45:48 Retweeted @Scatterbrandy 02:33:00 @Emma4Change I’m so sorry. You are doing an amazing job. But this shouldn’t have to be your job. You shouldn’t haveвЂ¦ https://t.co/CqJ11bYVTX in reply to Emma4Change
03:22:12 Retweeted @JYSexton 02:56:44 The NRA could have recognized a losing hand and pretended to help reform and weakened it. Instead they went all inвЂ¦ https://t.co/XbDDPq0N7H
04:49:29 Retweeted @imbou 04:45:47 #MarchForOurLives https://t.co/pEeUMOlMT4
04:51:48 Retweeted @imbou 04:49:03 #MarchforOurLives https://t.co/YChfJxeJTj
05:29:40 The flat earth rocket guy finally had his launch! https://t.co/j5Fm0yYlgX
06:18:20 Thread. https://t.co/BAZMERfxZ2
06:20:00 Retweeted @emilynussbaum 2018-03-24 19:22:18 This is important. I frequently see this idea mocked online, by a subset of left Twitter. But people are inspired bвЂ¦ https://t.co/3zLHp5xaeK
15:56:55 Retweeted @tresdcomics 2018-03-24 00:27:08 Facebook post by a comic shop owner who met some of the Parkland students recently. Very hard to read but I’m gladвЂ¦ https://t.co/XrUqGvlJbA
18:54:48 Hmmm… https://t.co/0Q0EQdJghn
22:06:28 Retweeted @JoeHeck_ 21:12:58 March 25 is the day of Sauron’s defeat in #Tolkien‘s Legendarium. Celebrate by going out and destroying an ancient evil!

@abulsme tweets from 2018-03-24 (UTC)

00:02:25 Retweeted @jeffjarvis 2018-03-20 00:14:28 Perspective, please: A new post on Facebook, the platforms, their responsibilities, their faults, and their criticsвЂ¦ https://t.co/ftdn9t2ocl
01:39:57 Just when you thought he might have forgotten about thisвЂ¦ https://t.co/ZVh5ltNYyH
03:12:51 Interesting… https://t.co/XhoGJ09lSt
03:14:15 Retweeted @WotDpod 02:48:46 Today’s episode of popular Wiki of the Day is on the article John R. Bolton.Listen to the new episode here:вЂ¦ https://t.co/bL2VXxcUd2
03:30:26 Retweeted @jtemple 2018-03-23 20:51:59 It’s possible we called this one wrong https://t.co/kMLXosfqDn
12:20:54 Curmudgeon’s Corner: Toy Swords https://t.co/yV7afaPskf https://t.co/ZNiL4EAIir
16:41:08 Retweeted @suzannaraye 14:51:39 Crowd are HUGE #marchforourlives #MarchForOurLivesDC https://t.co/jUjzW3FjbB
16:41:43 Retweeted @annkillion 16:32:31 Paul McCartney is marching in Central Park. вЂњOne of my best friends was killed by gun violence right around here.вЂќ #imagine
18:43:03 Retweeted @KIRO7Seattle 18:24:50 March seen from above Seattle: A march to end gun violence is moving through the city’s downtown. Are you participaвЂ¦ https://t.co/VeYWNghqtB
18:47:53 Retweeted @mostlybree 18:06:08 This girl who watched people die in front of her just got up on national TV to speak, puked half way through due toвЂ¦ https://t.co/32y1y64zgJ
18:52:34 Retweeted @CommodoreBTC 18:21:04 common mistake; what matters is not a voter’s position on an issue, but whether it changes their candidate preferenвЂ¦ https://t.co/xua69AVWu2
18:56:06 Retweeted @ABC 18:47:10 Emma Gonzalez stayed on stage at the D.C. #MarchForOurLives rally for 6 minutes and 20 seconds – the duration of thвЂ¦ https://t.co/gHX9o2Hin1
19:16:09 Just watched this whole thing straight through. Had just been listening to audio when it was live. Watching on videвЂ¦ https://t.co/PKRDRSYg0a
21:41:04 I was there along with my son and my mom. https://t.co/PSfogtwUOR https://t.co/irFOjydMDr

Curmudgeon’s Corner: Toy Swords

On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam is joined by his wife Brandy. They spend the biggest part of the show discussing… or maybe arguing about… changing how you talk about things in order to avoid offending, insulting, or excluding people… or as it is most commonly called, politically correct speech. Then Cambridge Analytica gets its turn. Is it a big deal? Or not? Finally, Sam and Brandy’s son Alex once again joins the show for some video game commentary, placed conveniently at the end of the show.

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Recorded 2018-03-24
Length this week – 2:05:21

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(0:06:49-0:57:37) Political Correctness
(0:58:22-1:37:38) Cambridge Analytica
(1:39:38-2:05:00) Video Games

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@abulsme tweets from 2018-03-23 (UTC)

00:16:09 Slowly, slowly, pieces come together. And Mueller is on it. https://t.co/fmcjVWrLDB
00:22:54 Disappointed that Cooper is spending so much time in this interview on the actual affair. That really doesn’t matteвЂ¦ https://t.co/37ESolTO0u
00:24:58 Hmmm https://t.co/t35qdVQ9Wf
01:36:06 That was 90 minutes of my life I won’t get back. Nothing newsworthy here at all. https://t.co/WqcovcRnIm in reply to abulsme
01:38:45 Just to be clear, the fact a catch and kill was pursued here and they tried to keep this woman from talking IS newsвЂ¦ https://t.co/CyUiuzY6zj in reply to abulsme
02:22:27 Something is up. https://t.co/g90NOFfOQF
02:48:32 Sigh https://t.co/PyQr21XQYU
03:15:23 Retweeted @MarsCuriosity 2018-03-22 21:59:44 Looks like we made it: 2,000 sols on Mars, you guys!I’m looking back on 2,000 Martian days of exploration, and lвЂ¦ https://t.co/5IJnlGKjmw
03:43:29 Wut https://t.co/vN1H4kUVTz
03:49:19 Thread. https://t.co/bGR8RQQm0P
03:53:10 Yeah, cause actually know about what you are deciding on before you decide sucks. https://t.co/y4XFqG5otZ
14:10:44 Ah ha. This is the big cybercrime announcement this morning… https://t.co/RdTT13nJxW
14:13:48 Ah well. That’s better. https://t.co/iTy5NPel1O
14:26:26 +1 https://t.co/ogqNwOj6E8
14:35:40 Yet the freak out is relatively limited, indicating nobody actually believes Trump will follow through with a veto.вЂ¦ https://t.co/xko5Z0FgOR
17:06:34 Expect later reporting that at this moment Trump and his staff are arguing about this. Trump wants to veto, staff tвЂ¦ https://t.co/y5DT8FhiTw
17:08:42 Time for another entry in @dandrezner‘s toddler thread. https://t.co/3qh8ABxA3j
17:21:40 <symbol> https://t.co/scOHNzdlKt
18:06:08 Sticking just south of Everett. Can’t honestly say I expected more of this. https://t.co/Q4TrOoERVM
18:31:46 Thread and article. https://t.co/vw0h6WB72n
18:38:53 At least one of the kids on this cover is going to end up in Congress. Maybe more. Once they are old enough of courвЂ¦ https://t.co/VGHhcNMEGB
19:42:38 Just did that thing where I was running very very late for my day. Drove nearly an hour to work in the snow, then gвЂ¦ https://t.co/WDowyoxaUX

@abulsme tweets from 2018-03-22 (UTC)

03:35:12 Retweeted @KurtWagner8 01:08:33 This, though, is a very telling quote from the Zuckerberg interview I did with @karaswisher вЂ” this is Zuckerberg adвЂ¦ https://t.co/ZaXyxdUBmj
15:38:01 Yup. That happens. https://t.co/PKofXp5Ifs
18:18:59 This is important. I like the displays I used on https://t.co/EZdmGlBZoA, but I might make some adjustments. I don’вЂ¦ https://t.co/WXUBdWSLdH
18:34:29 Just listened to the 60 minutes piece with the MSD kids. Continue to be impressed by them. Especially @Emma4ChangeвЂ¦ https://t.co/bsvTVOLzD3
18:39:15 @joeisanerd When you use the share functionality in iCatcher with Twitter, you get a blurb that respects 280. But iвЂ¦ https://t.co/PSxeWm4T34
21:23:13 There were a lot of factors. But this was a huge one. https://t.co/avVuw9HkKO
22:26:20 The fun intensifies. https://t.co/fXi5NItToG
22:59:11 Retweeted @natsecHeather 22:58:18 Re: John Bolton. I’ll have things to say later. Taking some deep breaths with people I love, and some music. You should too.
23:04:25 That is comforting. https://t.co/9TSUsyARUL
23:41:22 Retweeted @jeremyscahill 23:35:58 Bolton may be the absolute worst citizen of the United States of America to have in a position like this. And I sayвЂ¦ https://t.co/tdLXzodzpx in reply to jeremyscahill

@abulsme tweets from 2018-03-21 (UTC)

00:40:06 This is amusing. Disturbing as usual. But still funny. https://t.co/9yxNzC6GT9
00:52:19 <symbol> https://t.co/lmGzGvjJE0
00:59:08 People have been making Unibomber comparisons, but this pattern reminds me more of the DC sniper attacks from 2002. https://t.co/VPT6gAvyuC
01:00:20 Retweeted @Erkhyan 2018-03-19 11:45:37 Paraphrased from something I saw online:There are two kinds of people.
вЂњI don’t want anyone to suffer as much asвЂ¦ https://t.co/54zjdUI5sn
02:27:48 Retweeted @NorthmanTrader 2018-03-20 16:30:17 SPOTTED: $FB PR strategy https://t.co/inGK3rzOtn
02:50:15 Retweeted @LFCNev 2018-03-18 16:06:59 The new Doctor Who intro is a bit shit https://t.co/NhIjLjZ2n8
03:11:39 Team Wawa. (Even though I haven’t lived near one in 15 years.) https://t.co/0Uo73VSgaW
04:41:26 Ha ha ha. Snort. Oops. https://t.co/04UiEL958d
05:22:04 Everybody seems to forget this when they are in power, then suddenly remember it when they are not. Too late! :-/ https://t.co/QmN5YJrTi9
05:29:35 Yup. https://t.co/fsZxuOsw2w
05:48:29 Hmm. There are a lot of tangled webs here. It will probably take some time to unravel. Unclear as well how much isвЂ¦ https://t.co/8VBZFcxzNu
16:46:38 This makes a lot of very good points. https://t.co/2vlWIt2ST9
17:40:50 :-/ -> Robin Williams’ co-star never took offense at his groping https://t.co/RTEhh3RoLw
17:45:49 This happened to us last year. It has also happened to my mother. And we’ve seen other mailboxes broken nearby too.вЂ¦ https://t.co/2gVkvERpSe
17:48:09 We hear them at our house on a regular basis. -> Coyote Sightings in Urban Areas on the Rise in Snohomish County https://t.co/hWM1jxzIH8
18:01:06 Woo!! Building some drama for the second half of the week! https://t.co/pX1oQuLxLm
18:35:52 I wonder why you don’t see lots of this talk in the major new outlets. Hmm… https://t.co/Ch0nLssY03
19:54:13 Retweeted @JMilesColeman 19:52:43 When they post precinct results there, there I’ll be able to makes maps of every race from yesterday – but that’s nвЂ¦ https://t.co/q3QhgdKNjW
21:47:56 Awesome. https://t.co/owsATl1eSJ
23:28:02 FFS https://t.co/er9pv2fEUc

@abulsme tweets from 2018-03-20 (UTC)

00:08:46 Retweeted @yashar 00:01:14 Lots of folks are retweeting this and screenshotting it (including big accounts) but her lawyer said no such thing,вЂ¦ https://t.co/YbZtxtJNKc
00:40:04 I feel dumb for reacting too quickly and quote tweeting that Claude thing, even though I later had a series of tweeвЂ¦ https://t.co/gjuhfQ1g8h
01:38:08 @shelleyaw123 For years @imbou and I have talked about how people are underestimating this kind of thing. To be faiвЂ¦ https://t.co/UpZFkscyKP in reply to shelleyaw123
03:07:23 More trouble incoming for Facebook. Article and thread: https://t.co/jixuqjUVPq
03:21:00 Fun thread. https://t.co/wHNYtQvaOW
03:31:59 Longer and more detailed apology than mine. https://t.co/UNGYn4Ucck
03:41:43 So everything is going well. https://t.co/vQ44wGsWIH
03:42:30 Retweeted @asymmetricinfo 03:41:44 One observation that I don’t really know what to do with: the emergence of a powerful new media form was twice follвЂ¦ https://t.co/IKaKBsDkAr in reply to asymmetricinfo
15:35:17 Retweeted @normative 15:34:09 These are problems with totally different responses. A company that gets hacked is a victim & maybe needs a betterвЂ¦ https://t.co/rhPOy6xOLt in reply to normative
15:37:54 Retweeted @qjurecic 2018-03-19 23:30:03 “don’t worry guys it was just a massive scam” https://t.co/puP8AvUTLy
15:46:52 Things would have been much clearer if they waited for the report to be public before doing any disciplinary actionвЂ¦ https://t.co/hgC5XNfWe3
15:59:45 Yes. This this this this. https://t.co/FjMjvUJ0Kb
16:21:54 Yup. I probably wouldn’t pay for Facebook. Don’t use it enough. But I would pay for Twitter. I use it constantly. TвЂ¦ https://t.co/OfMd5dqgAt
17:48:44 Retweeted @MrRogersMovie 12:29:53 See how a little kindness makes a world of difference. Won’t You Be My Neighbor? is an intimate look at America’s fвЂ¦ https://t.co/wcOsWovtXY
19:26:07 Awww, too bad… https://t.co/bwxcwFe3DE
19:44:55 Retweeted @erinruberry 11:28:24 Incredible @Amivee photo: Zachariah Mutai comforts Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, moments before he dieвЂ¦ https://t.co/80wClGgsfK
20:00:26 Such a disaster. https://t.co/c9OsGtAXhM

@abulsme tweets from 2018-03-19 (UTC)

02:16:18 Toxic https://t.co/m5Om3iuSF4
03:27:09 Retweeted @NeverAgainPenn 2018-03-17 17:30:42 46 of the #Pennridge225 served the first Saturday morning detention today. Pennridge students wore Parkland victimsвЂ¦ https://t.co/rFfdGltwjM
04:24:37 This will not end well. https://t.co/9NN6TxPqmd
04:42:47 Thread https://t.co/7qfD6BdaXP
04:48:44 Important -> Asthma Inhalers Fail Minority Children Due to a Lack of Diversity in Research https://t.co/Chqp8abNPN
04:53:06 Yup. Exactly. https://t.co/bOnEKH7TOx
05:11:58 This is great. https://t.co/12hwd8IeDr
11:26:58 Thread https://t.co/QPFeFZFJzu
18:17:14 This is very sad. And hopefully they will find a specific problem and fix it. But remember the test should be вЂњsafeвЂ¦ https://t.co/qMxfnCcqMH
18:39:17 As someone rooting for the D side, I’m all for Trump going to these states. Go for it. -> Republicans bet their SenвЂ¦ https://t.co/UJpZarMzSr
18:56:43 This is so depressing. https://t.co/csi20cmMK3
18:58:39 All of these sorts of things should be nation wide. Also a big fan of WA’s all mail voting. Other states would alsoвЂ¦ https://t.co/uRosg9xKjb
19:07:44 More depressing racial analysis. https://t.co/COZByfJxwL
19:13:35 Um. I think we can now move past вЂњCA is just doing what any sophisticated web targeting operation doesвЂќ. https://t.co/Kw6EPSEbH2
19:19:53 Retweeted @NGrossman81 19:02:55 Good point by @mattyglesias: Trump threatens rule-of-law at the rank-and-file level
POTUS doesn’t care about scandaвЂ¦ https://t.co/6H93u4Kwdh
19:49:11 Be sure to watch the full video as well as reading the article. It is hilarious watching the CA folks talk about coвЂ¦ https://t.co/g9hv5tDcNT
19:54:39 Uh, do they have to announce that publicly before they just do it? Seems like that would be better as a surprise. https://t.co/pPp09lpd7R
20:53:00 Oh goody. https://t.co/UhDOQsq6MD
21:19:38 Thread with some info on Obama campaign’s use of Facebook data. https://t.co/ISXg5FoZMn
21:22:28 They have been accused before of massively over-inflating their role. But I will still be looking forward to watchiвЂ¦ https://t.co/4gSmXfEgHi
21:25:37 Retweeted @GossiTheDog 20:13:20 If you’re an IT admin at Cambridge Analytica, lock your workstation and walk away. For realsies. And make sure backвЂ¦ https://t.co/ZAW360Co3P
21:26:10 Ha ha ha https://t.co/OXJLAjgctu
21:32:23 Thread https://t.co/502YHXkWyf
21:49:09 Will this finally be the thing that makes normal users care about these kinds of privacy issues? Unfortunately, I’mвЂ¦ https://t.co/0wjepOb4nT
21:50:23 Why, why, why, is any of this being pre-announced or pre-leaked? Sigh. https://t.co/kXmwc2qdDx
22:29:44 Oops https://t.co/0DvX2oVbJM
22:34:18 Oh god. Here we go. https://t.co/FqcjAN5Kb4
22:47:00 But yet, nobody else seems to be tweeting about this. Wasn’t listening to MSNBC myself, starting to think this wasвЂ¦ https://t.co/fyD8tJVhJA in reply to abulsme
22:49:18 Anxiously awaiting the detailed story on everything going down with this right now. https://t.co/eB5kcGxKsa
22:50:19 I thought it might be something like that. That isn’t even remotely the same as directly saying they have dick picsвЂ¦ https://t.co/8SUbi9OPnN
22:54:50 That seems quite likely. https://t.co/7ZlvpltwXJ
22:57:49 Investigations would have continued. But if nobody thought there was any chance it was decisive, public attention wвЂ¦ https://t.co/iJlphHm3Id
23:10:09 Yeah, good luck with that. https://t.co/FD0G9QgTes

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