I was looking at the home page on Memeorandum this morning, wondering how journalism would adjust to not having a daily Trump story (or more) to obsess over. How will everyone else deal with that. What will Maddow talk about every night? The fear factor should diminish, one would hope. Former...

Come to think about it, Maddow will have plenty to talk about as details of how Trump and his associates hollowed out and looted the US government while they were in office. We’ll be finding smoking holes in the ground for decades to come. Things that used to work that no longer exist. So if you...

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s thread from the Wednesday about the significant ramifications of banning Trump from Twitter. In the thread he talks about Twitter funding an open decentralized standard for social networks called Blue Sky. I remember when they announced this in 2019, I think I offered to...

There are, as far as I know, two places to get a Covid vaccine in Ulster County, the county itself in Kingston and the Village Apothecary in Woodstock. Neither are making appointments now, but you can register to be notified when they are. If you know of others, send me a link and I’ll try to post...

I think Roku is an incredible product. The remote is the best. The UI is great. On screens that integrate it, where Roku is the OS, it’s even better. It’s how screens should work, imho. I called it the OS of TV in April 2019. But there’s something I’ve heard a lot -- Roku’s user interface needs...

Last Wednesday was a horrible day for white Americans.

White people should wear a MLK button. Here’s what it says: I am not a white supremacist. I believe in an America that loves and respects all its people. No one is allowed to interfere with or limit another person’s right to vote. Government of the people, by the people and for the people.

I wouldn’t listen to anyone who spouts hate about white men any more than I would one who hates on black men. I’m so fed up with people who spew hate. They’re all evil, sick, selfish people. There is no acceptable form of hate.

The Nets traded for James Harden, one of the top stars in the NBA. They gave up most of their draft picks, so their future looks pretty grim. And they now have two of the most worst-attitude players in the NBA in Kyrie Irving and Harden. Not sure about Durant. But I wonder how many games Kyrie is...

The NYT needs someone who understands tech at a human level, the way Donald McNeil understands viruses. Yesterday’s Daily could have been so much better, more informative, and less scary. The terrorists will hit some new speed bumps now that they’ve had some success. If their online groups follow...

The impeachiest.

Why banking interfaces suck. Confusion makes them money with overdraft fees, etc. Hadn’t thought of that.

So many people like to be stimulated by their own rage, they look for triggers. They may say they’re tired of it, but if they really were, they could block the trolls.

Suppose for the sake of argument that the election was rigged, a conspiracy between state governments, including Republican state governments, and journalism. Do you think their coverup could be so complete we’d never have hard proof of this conspiracy? Hard to imagine intelligent people believing...

What’s wrong with the Repubs. Trump ordered an attack on them. They came pretty close to killing all of them. Maybe they’re robots.

Yes, the Trumps are being cancelled, and I don’t care how you feel.

Repubs are objecting to being scanned for weapons going onto the House floor. Should we conclude that they have been bringing weapons onto the floor? Why else would the Capitol police want to put a scanner there? Are they afraid of a hostage situation where the perp is a member of Congress? So many...

I am no longer listening to Republicans. What they say is not only twisted, it’s designed to make me feel sympathy for them. I am by nature a sympathetic person. They are taking advantage of that. I have decided it’s prudent to stop listening. Therefore, I would like to have an intelligent ...

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Poll: Will Trump be president on January 21?

Reality check: Trump attacked the United States.

I wish I had that video of the Iraqi parliament, locked in by Saddam, being taken out one by one to be shot. The doors locked. Giving speeches saying how much they love Saddam, arms waving, crying. He had them shot anyway. I think the Congressional Repubs should see it. And Mike Pence. He already...

If the Mission Impossible people were still around, they’d figure out a way to get the MAGAs to turn on Trump.

Seeming unlikely things keep happening, yet this doesn’t affect people’s inability to imagine weird freaky things happening. They snap back to normal whatever that is. Normal never actually existed. A more accurate way to describe that feeling is this: asleep.

Over the years Trump was on Twitter, I had him blocked. I urged people I follow not to RT him. That’s the first and only rule of trolls, don’t feed them. That’s what they need. His fans love that he pisses off the libtards (that’s you btw). How much more effective it would have been if instead of...

As things get worse for Trump, and they are getting worse, the odds he’ll blow a nuke go up. Will we look back on this, after the fact, and realize there was something we could’ve done to prevent it. Will history forgive us if it happens and we didn’t do anything.

Today’s song: Get Together.

Trump doesn’t need Twitter, he could just use a blog. If he did, there would be pathways for people to find out he updated, and software that would let his followers read his latest messages, in reverse chronological order. There would be no Twitter to shut him down. Now, I’m not sure where he...

Here’s something positive. Re this profile of the GuyOnPorch and WomanInCar meme that became viral. Let me set the stage. The guy on the porch is an older white man. He’s screaming obscenities at MAGAs (off-camera) telling them to get the fuck out of DC. Then the camera swings to a black woman in...

I had a post here entitled Morning Depression Notes. I deleted it. I don’t need to make your day worse. But I do want to say Monday January 11, 2021 is one of the worst days ever. I somehow made it through 2020 without getting depressed. But 2021, it’s a real challenge. Maybe I just want to say one...

When we throw the Repubs out the airlock, I nominate Lee Zeldin to lead the parade, for this tweet.

As it settles in, what Trump and his family did, what Giuliani did, there is no penalty harsh enough to fit the crime. That they still have their freedom says there’s something missing in the Constitution. That Trump still have has freedom says there’s something missing in the Constitution.

They need a new rule in Congress. Don’t bother electing anyone who tried to overthrow the US government. We will not let them sit down.

I decided to give Fubo a try, because I’d like to watch Knicks games. Well, there’s a deal stopper, no CNN. The Knicks are not worth 65 a month, even if they are good this year.

2015: If we could get neutral places on the Internet, with no business models attached to them and no ownership we could create some important new stuff. What? We won’t know until we have it.

Via Dan Conover on Facebook: It’s only a coup if it’s from the Coup d’état region of France. Otherwise, it’s just sparkling White Supremacist insurrection.

I’m getting stir crazy. I’m just starting to notice it, but I think it’s been happening for some time. Let’s try to remember that everyone else is dealing with the same fucked up situation.

Your access to all of the internet depends on the permission of a lot of big companies. Any one of them could break your illusion of independence. So when you get all righteous about how they have the right to shut you down, remember, you aren’t them, and they control you.

It seems to me what happened with Congress on Wednesday was like that scene in The Godfather, when Michael realizes his father, in the hospital, is not being guarded.

A long time ago I wanted to try Google Cloud Platform. I had to give them a credit card. I quickly decided I didn’t want the service, so I turned off my test project. Now the card has expired and they’re sending me emails saying that I have to register a new credit card. But my bill is 0, has been...

Today’s song: The Beat Goes On.

Late on Saturday evening: Amazon gave Parler 24 hours to get off AWS. Lots to say about this. In the meantime watch my Twitter thread.

We’ll look back on this week as the moment everything changed.

Assume Trump’s devs are scrambling to get up a new social net. I’m sure they’ll find something. I heard it said they won’t get thru the App Store and Google Play. This is true. So guess what -- they’ll have to use the open web. Politics and tech make strange bedfellows. ;-)

A friend writes on Facebook: Apple, Google, AT&T and Verizon know who was inside the Capitol. The FBI has names and warrants already.

I would love to see Al Franken get a role in the new administration.

The arguments about how you don’t have free speech on private platforms don’t reflect the reality of Twitter and Facebook, which have monopolistic power in the worlds they define. Those worlds are huge, powerful, growing, and most important here -- exclusive. We call them silos in tech, but they...

Also, having the employees of Twitter and Facebook influening the censorship decisions the companies make is not good ethically. The employees should do their jobs, they should not personally have any say in who gets to use the network. We need ethical rules for professionals in tech. Here’s an...

These kinds of decisions have a lot of impact. For example, I was blacklisted from speaking at a few tech conferences probably because their sponsors didn’t like the affect my work was having on their closed networks. As a result, I’m perceived to having left tech, when in fact, a couple of...

I would love to see the rioters deported to some country where they really don’t have political freedom. Let them try to bust down the doors to the Kremlin, for example, see what happens.