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The Pope: it is important to "understand others, not condemn them". Novel! http://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2015/pope-says-priests-lacking-mercy-should-have-de...
Share this post.@Jetbrains The version of phpStorm for Yosemite loses a lot of useful features, like nested namespace parsing. Am I missing something?
That awesome plan to turn libraries into Tor endpoints? Homeland Security is not on board: https://www.propublica.org/article/library-support-anonymous-internet-browsing-effort-stops-after-dh...
The first #xoxofest transformed how I think about work. To everyone experiencing it for the first time this year: have fun. It's awesome.
I'd love to see you at MediaShift Collab/Space in San Francisco on Saturday. We'll be presenting Wavelist: http://www.mediashift.org/collabspace-san-francisco
The ACLU, rightly, highlights the potential for algorithms to discriminate. This is important: https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/brave-new-world-discrimination
Considering finally killing my Google Voice number. People I want to talk to use IM; SMS, like snail mail before it, is now 90% junk. Sad.
Heading to Homebrew Website Club, 6:30pm at the Creamery in San Francisco - but running a few minutes late. #indieweb #muni #whereismytrain
Christians: real question, no judgment (so to speak). Does anything in the New Testament say being gay is sinful or that same sex marriages are wrong? Furthermore, is it true that the sins described in the Old Testament (including Leviticus) were absolved by Jesus dying? I've been an atheist my whole life and don't know, but I'd really like to genuinely understand these points.
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Weeks like this make me grateful to have moved to such an amazing place. So much opportunity; so much activity and ambition; so much beauty.
Sheer terror. But, kudos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoFdppL0cx4
I'll be in a meeting during the #AppleEvent, but I understand they're launching a Pippin, a Surface and a phone that doesn't bend?
I'm not into late night talk / variety shows, but I'm loving Colbert so far. Perfect night for it to be too hot to sleep.
I really like this solution to the "whose last name does your child inherit" problem: http://nothingismere.com/2013/11/12/solve-surnames-with-union-names/
Besides the smoking, every single one of these describes my university career. (I had that poster.) http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/things-youll-only-understand-if-you-went-to-university-in#.teeL5ZR...
Warren Ellis on hosting your own applications, and calm technology: http://morning.computer/2015/09/home-on-the-server-range-self-hosted-future/
What do writers get paid in 2015? Because of VC money, it's actually gone up: http://www.theawl.com/2015/09/dox-dox-dox-ii-the-doxxing
I still have strong feelings about Silicon Glen (a place, not a person). Scotland could do so much to promote startups - but it just isn't.
The belief that your country is better than other peoples' is a sure sign that you're part of an old way of thinking. We are all connected.
Seeing some Britain First white power bullshit bubble up into my feed. Awful, bigoted, idiotic. And interesting tidbit: they endorse Trump.
Cultural differences are funny. I knew someone who said only Victorian houses were acceptable (which is insane privilege in itself, but whatever; they're undoubtedly beautiful). Here, it's all about new builds.
Maybe it's because they're all made of wood - or maybe it's more to do with the cultural impermanence here. I like it, abstractly: the idea that anyone can affect the world around them. It's a marked difference to a world where all the buildings have been there long before you and will still be there long after you die.
I still like Victorians though.
This Labor Day has been all about PHP, PowerPoint and pizza (and a perfunctory perambulation in Pacifica).
Johannes Ernst is open sourcing his medical condition. Don't like to sit down for long? You should read this: http://upon2020.com/blog/2015/09/open-sourcing-my-literal-pain-in-the-butt/