Activity Log
Twitter: 2019-11-21 Thu 08:23
We’ve got our modern IBM, GM, Ford, Rockefeller, Carnegie, etc looking right at us. (not like eugenics or anything for profit were new with them either)
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1197373795071397888
Twitter: 2019-11-21 Thu 09:21
886 retweets 5,800 likes
5,800 cowards more like.
RETWEET THIS I DONT CARE IF YOURE THE INTERN ON THE COUNTY GOP ACCOUNT
https://twitter.com/Flailmorpho_/status/1197143572807438336
hackers.town: 2019-11-21 Thu 10:01
Got blessing to ignore any meeting longer than 15 minutes so I can focus on my current pet fire.
Honestly that is bliss.
Twitter: 2019-11-21 Thu 18:18
Click through and regret it.
https://twitter.com/Viss/status/1197685034498416640
hackers.town: 2019-11-21 Thu 21:50
when you have to maximize the window and shrink the font to get the whole SQL EXPLAIN in
That’s good, right?
I mean I only had to write three lines of django code for that.
Great return on investment.
Twitter: 2019-11-21 Thu 22:46
oh well done indeed
https://twitter.com/BrettHamil/status/1197752242540908544
Twitter: 2019-11-21 Thu 22:49
and the collector nostalgia piece of 2043
https://twitter.com/joshuatopolsky/status/1197744160377393153
Art Nouveau, Psychedelia, and a Kalevala tangent
No object was too mundane to be beautiful.
Probably my favorite comment about Art Nouveau.
Whoa. The Wikipedia entry mentions that it was called “Kalevala style” in Finland. Which – looking elsewhere – might be a little off. I mostly see references to National Romanticism, which is a bit of a mixed bag historically speaking. For Finland it was an urge to assert itself as a nation and not just some dirt swapped back and forth between Russia and Sweden. Writing down the Kalevala was a part of that same movement.
And yeah JRR Tolkien loved the Kalevala, tying in another piece to hippy culture. I think every bookshelf I saw as a kid had a copy of The Lord of the Rings.