There’s another geared-for-adults Transformers show! It’s called Combiner Wars, it’s been out since August of last year, and it’s made up of five minute episodes.
Two sequel short series are planned: Titans Return and Power of the Primes. Just look at the voice actors!
Even though it’s on Verizon’s Go90 network, and is animated terribly (just… it’s bad), go watch it. Because Transformers, that’s why.
Me: “Are you watching me stand on the porch?”
Acelyn: “I like watching people.”
Me: “You like watching people?”
Acelyn: “I’m a spy.”
Me: “I think part of being a spy is not telling people that you’re a spy.”
Acelyn: “You can tell your parents.”
Listen, pizza, I think it’s time we started seeing other people. I mean, I still love you, but you’ve become really bad for me. I just think it’s better this way.
I feel like I’ve just finished migrating my blog off of LiveJournal and onto my WordPress blog. Now I need to find a Flickr substitute.
Yahoo!, I can’t brag about having worked for you any more. It’d be like bragging about when I worked for Comcast. I mean, Verizon? Really?
“There’s a drought of talent in open source projects. We cant get enough talent to contribute.”
“We have no need to change the way we deal with reviewing code, interacting with our peers, or mentoring up-and-comers.”
Same email thread.
The Culture War is not a real thing. There is no army of alt-right Pepes, and there is no army of SJWs.
There are people.
Some people believe that there is finally a chance that their way of life might not be constantly threatened any more. Some people believe that their way of life has suddenly come under threat. Some people are gradients between, or completely outside.
Scared people.
Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is so strong that conversation, rather than shouting matches, is incredibly difficult. It doesn’t even matter where the fear came from any more. We have allowed ourselves to be whipped into a frightened frenzy that rather than hearing what others are saying, we’re repeating self-contradictory talking points that range into objectively nonsensical.
What is happening isn’t noble. None of us are soldiers on the battlefield. None of our clutching of pearls or name-calling or looking down our noses is winning anything. It’s telling others that their fear and dismissal is founded.
Afraid people becoming entrenched in fear.
Fighting fear is exhausting, but important. I want to keep trying.
Net neutrality is under fire again. The FCC is reviewing whether Title 1 (before, trust that net neutrality is in the ISPs’ shareholders’ best interests) or Title 2 (current enforceable regulation) is the best way to achieve an open and free internet. This time, the public commentary is pretty hidden, so John Oliver helped out:
Equal access to online information is once again under serious threat. John Oliver encourages internet commenters to voice their displeasure to the FCC by visiting www.gofccyourself.com.