obligations gripe, heavy
Have to rally to make an appearance at a family dinner with Ramsey's cousins who are in town but:
1) I had to get up at 5:30 this morning to go to Delaware for school stuff
2) and then come back from Delaware
3) and I spent both train rides reading Kiese Laymon's Heavy which is a shatteringly good and painful memoir so I'm also kind of fucked up from it?
furious that a movie about IP acquisition looks this dope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BLM1naCfME
https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/blob/master/docs/2023-02-14-so-whats-next.md not 100% on board with some parts of this post and also feel like it's a pretty clear case study in how open source largely exists to benefit capitalism and not actual human beings
Valentine, you bring tears to my eyes like the baby Yoda puppet's graceful countenance. Only Jon Favreau's cowardice could ever separate us #WernerHerzogValentines
happy http://wernerherzogvalentines.com/ day to all who celebrate #WernerHerzogValentines
I very recently learned that the term “boycott” comes from someone’s actual name: Charles Boycott. Boycott was an English land agent who tried, in 1880, to collect unpayable rents from Irish peasants on behalf of an English aristocrat landlord. When he failed to collect the rents, he tried evicting the tenants. The Irish Land League responded with a campaign to ignore Boycott’s orders and isolate him socially and economically.
They not only ignored his eviction orders and threw manure at his process servers, but refused to deliver his mail or sell him food.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Boycott
It was pretty effective—the British government eventually had to deploy a thousand soldiers (naturally, because the state works for the propertied class and none more than the 19th century British state) at a cost of some £10,000 to harvest £500 worth of crops. Boycott had to be evacuated by the soldiers, who even had to drive him out, as no locals would agree to drive his carriage out of the region.
Imagine being cancelled so hard that your name becomes permanently associated with getting cancelled.