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"For a human community to make its world shapely is one thing; to preserve the shape is quite another, especially if, as is always the case, the shape is to some degree arbitrary and if the shaping requires exclusion and the excluded are hungry. So along with shapeliness comes a set of rules meant to preserve the design."

"Trickster Makes This World" by Lewis Hyde

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"You touch the cats more than me. It's not fair"

"Well, they vibrate."

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It rained on us a bit but that was still the best choice for a free Friday morning

A map showing a 35 mile bike route through the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas, TXA bookshelf (in a coffee shop) with old books and a small speaker made to look like a Marshall amp A long wooden table. On it rests a cortado, sparkling water, sunglasses, and a bike wallet/pouch made by Ellum Bag WorksA long bicycle/pedestrian bridge with high metal sides. Photo accentuates its length with perspective, it almost disappears into the horizon
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Notion has a 'dark' class for the body tag that specifies a dark-mode background color. But then it has a full-page div with a 'notion-dark-theme' class with a different dark-mode background color. But then that same div has an inline style with background-color specified...the same as the div's class.

In other news, I'd like to invite you to my new play, "The Cascade", a play in three acts.

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I apologize, the 'notion-dark-theme' class does not have a background color. I've misplaced the second act of my play and it will be replaced with an extended intermission.

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Hang on, there's yet another full-page inner div, 'notion-cursor-listener', which also has the same background color specified inline. The missing fourth act! I'm renaming it "Death of a Styleman".

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Oh...oh...there are multiple large divs with the same background color specified inline.

"Themes" will require a major database migration and a retooling of our component build pipeline, and has been pushed until after acquisition, at which point we will accidentally fail to transfer it into Salesforce's 3TB Confluence DB.

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LOL, just now seeing this Onion piece from 2020

"I don’t need anything fancy, just a practical, midsize SUV that gets good mileage and will easily slaughter a family of five during a 60-mph crash."
theonion.com/conscientious-suv-shopper-just-wants-something-that-wil-1844930331

Conscientious SUV Shopper Just Wants Something That Will Kill Family In Other Car In Case Of Accident
The Onion

Conscientious SUV Shopper Just Wants Something That Will Kill Family In Other Car In Case Of Accident

PRESCOTT, AZ—Explaining that she did not have any strong preferences when it came to make or model, area woman Laura Bauer, a conscientious SUV shopper, confirmed Wednesday that she just wanted something that would kill the family in the other car if she got into an accident. “All I’m looking for is a sturdy, reliable vehicle that, in the event of a head-on collision, will completely fucking obliterate both the parents and kids in the car we slam into,” said Bauer, who explained that features such as a sunroof or built-in navigation system were not as important to her as the assurance that came from sitting behind the wheel of a machine that could turn anything else on the road into a fiery, tangled mess of metal and flesh. “I don’t need anything fancy, just a practical, midsize SUV that gets good mileage and will easily slaughter a family of five during a 60-mph crash. The last thing I want is a flimsy sedan that takes out Mommy and Daddy in the front seat but leaves behind a couple of orphans in the back.” At press time, Bauer had reportedly decided to play it safe and add a 100-pound grille guard to the front bumper of the vehicle to ensure it would properly disfigure the other family’s corpses and make them impossible to identify.

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If it weren't for IAM, AWS would be 10x better and not inspire me to change careers.

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💀 "When you’re insulated from real people’s problems and don’t participate in the process that might actually solve them, you’re fundamentally disconnected from any real value creation."

wheresyoured.at/managing-up/

Managing Up
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

Managing Up

Over the last two newsletters (three, if you include my reply to Google’s “rebuttal” of the Prabhakar Raghavan newsletter), I’ve made the case that while rot economics are responsible for making technology products manifestly worse, this transformation was only possible thanks to the interventions of a managerial class.