the top part has big milady-fedora energy

Corn Man / Corn Maiden ship

Unless they pay a king’s ransom to get fresh fish air-freighted in (which maybe would make sense if you’re the private chef of a potentate who’s very particular about fish but insists on living in Nebraska or the Swiss Alps or somewhere, but wouldn’t make economic sense otherwise), that’s how it always is anywhere far from fishing ports and fish markets.

Having said that, frozen fish isn’t terrible, just mediocre if you’re used to freshly caught fish. Though if you’re having sushi or sashimi, it’ll have been frozen if the place complies with health regulations: for fish, “sushi-grade” just means that it has spent enough time frozen to kill any potential parasites that would otherwise be killed by cooking.

Didn’t even know he was in Angine de Poitrine

With some VPNs (Mullvad and NordVPN to name two) you can use your own clients by downloading lists of VPN relays and whatever authentication credentials the protocol uses. Though if you use the official client, it often has options beyond the protocol, such as selecting multiple hops (i.e. entering at one relay and exiting from another), disguising your traffic as another protocol (useful if you’re somewhere where VPN traffic is blocked) or padding traffic to a constant size to prevent profiling (i.e. by comparing to known video streams).

And when a Black kid is shot dead by police, they do their best to find a photo of him looking like a back-alley mugger or at least a menacing-looking rapper. You know, so that the reader can imagine the cop fearing for his life.

sniff butt -> become cancer dog

Here come dat boi

On one level, it’s an epic cockup. On another, it’s a revelation of a deeper, more poetic truth.

Singapore is effectively a one-party state, with a nominally democratic system expertly managed to prevent opposition parties from getting anywhere near power. If you ignore the question of Marxist-Leninist iconography, it’s more similar to China than a lot of people would admit (though is connected to the open internet).

William Gibson famously called it “Disneyland with the death penalty” in a WIRED article in the 90s.

Wait for someone to crack the bootloader and then someone to get a Linux/BSD working on it and/or code up a bare-metal web view/SDL/uxn/PICO-8 that runs on it. That way, when the App Store stops supporting OS versions that run on it, it can still be reused as generic hardware.

Of course. Why would they offer her Batman?

Singapore’s solution is similar to the Chinese one. There’s a limited number of car permits, and you can’t buy or import a car unless you have one. They change hands for more than the price of a car. One side effect, though, is that having a car in itself has become a status symbol.

Americans IRL: (Standing in the TSA queue at the airport) “Train? What’s that?”

Perhaps they can next bring back Maoist self-criticism, but make it a dating profile workshop

Except that you’re not entering code. You’re not even mapping out algorithms or data structures or reasoning about tradeoffs, as that’s for dirty-handed peasants. You’re constantly supervising and arguing with an army of industrious yet dim-witted sorcerers’ apprentices. Your voice is a lump hammer that you’re trying to hammer a large structure you’re above needing to understand into the shape it’s meant to be in, with each blow moving a lump randomly, and your mental capacity is fully occupied with forming and refining folk theories about how the mechanised idiots you command actually think.

I believe that’s a Byakhee.

It’s interesting to see the generational shift from every device being an ARM SoC running Linux with BusyBox and a bunch of daemons (i.e., the Kindle, Kobo and ReMarkable) to every device being an ESP32 microcontroller running a (more or less) monolithic application firmware.

Firefox is fashtech now?

They’ll need a public transport system. Not for anything as un-American as bringing the carless to Costco, but for the motorists who lucked out and had to park in the outer reaches of the car park.