Had to enter information into an Excel sheet for work – information that should be stored in a database and not a spreadsheet – and I had to keep myself from loudly yelling at the computer. Usually bureaucratic busywork doesn’t faze me, but somehow, improperly organized data drives me up a wall

The rise of evangelical Unitarianism as a conservative political force has got to be one of the strangest developments in American Christianity.

Never really understood why West Germany decided to be both the legal successor of Nazi Germany while also keeping most of their laws intact. That always seemed a bit too on the nose for me.

The “=” is an OCR error that occurs very often in these files and presumably stands for another digit here, so I don’t think this is much of a smoking gun.

This is slightly offtopic, but the first two alternative domains work if you enable DNS over HTTPS in your browser

The CEO loves AI, interviewing for a job requires countless hours of real work, and now this. Every gaming company is evil

I want to ask you all for some reading recommendations on the history of the GDR. This is for a party thing I’m doing, so I’m looking for something credible that’s not just anti-communist propaganda (and also not just apologia, but that’s less of an issue obviously). I’ve heard that the PDS published a whole book series, but I’m having trouble finding it. Can anyone point me at some books or texts? Thanks!

There’s another -17 for protecting LGBTQ rights lmao

This is just “Don’t immanentize the eschaton” for a new generation. Smh, these people have no respect for their ideological forefathers

Tolkien stopped Stuart Hall from doing his graduate thesis as he planned, either because of racism or because of anti-Marxism. He was a reactionary through and through

No, it hasn’t.

Finally, a genre of writing that is inherently anti-fascist: military history…

Just found out I missed my appointment with the endocrinologist this week because I wasn’t looking at my calendar. I had already missed my last appointment because the doctor forgot to put it in the system. fml

And just to drive it home: The WMF spend only a fraction of their money on IT and lawyers, i.e. the one useful thing they do for Wikipedia. The rest just goes into salaries and ominous ever-increasing funds.

They solved that problem by just making the models a bit boring. In the end, it’s just another batch of space marines

I refuse to accept that 5 years have passed already

Newsweek was bought by the Moonies/a South Korean cult in 2013 and has rapidly gone downhill after that, not that it ever was a bastion of excellence in journalism

What’s with political columnists getting into comics writing? I remember Ta-Nehisi Coates did the same thing. It just seems so weird to spend your whole career on short-form non-fiction pieces and then pivot into an entirely different form of creative writing mostly aimed at teenage boys.

I am once again suffering from technology. So my university has introduced compulsory two-factor-authentication using a Cisco smartphone app in order to access JSTOR and the like, which was already a hassle. I had to hand-write a letter to IT because I couldn’t get to campus to set it up, lol. Now Google has updated their “integrity” standards and my cheap Chinese phone is no longer allowed to use said Cisco app at all, which means I’m forced to buy a new phone and contact IT again to set it up. All this because some IT people got it into their heads that the normal method of JSTOR authentication is nonviable or insecure or something. Frankly, I’m hoping those kickbacks from Cisco are worth it.

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