September 2024 Thirty-two posts

• 30-Sep-2024

  
  Another WhatsApp job scam I woke up to a text message that is a scam that requires me to communicate by WhatsApp: Hi, I’m a recruiter at Kforce. We have remote online part-time/full-time jobs available! Your background and resume caught the attention of several online recruiters, so we would like to offer you a job that can be done...

  scam
• 30-Sep-2024

  
  Sad Whales The Sad Whale In A Toxic Sea: On revisiting a film from early childhood. by Alex Dudok de Wit. I’m a big fan of revisiting imperfect childhood memory. I do it continuously. This one is worth your time. More about. Samson & Sally … and the trailer.

  animation
• 29-Sep-2024

  
  Power Underneath Despair Content Warning: Discussion of Suicide If you do a Google search for “12 step low point” Google pops up: Call 988 in the United States I was trying to think of the term “rock bottom” but was stopped short because I don’t think I’ve ever done a search that triggers this kind of reminder about...

  depressionindieweb-carnivalmental-health
• 29-Sep-2024

  
  I dreamed karaoke analysis I woke up with this image emblazoned in my head It’s me, with a kind of Terminator heads-up display of analysis of my mouth as I am singing. Singing karaoke. As in “From pubs and clubs, to the great Asian pastime of karaoke!”* What I wrote down in my notebook was: Matches with people you...
• 28-Sep-2024

  
  Top photo credit: Kelly [ @hellokellykuhl ] who got shots of me bodysurfing at Crystal Pier this fine autumn afternoon.

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• 28-Sep-2024

  
  My CSS Battle Plugins I put up the CSS Battle Plugins I use on GitHub: artlung-cssbattle-plugins. I try to play daily. It’s a bit harder on the road, when I only have an iPad but I’ve managed to make it work. I started playing in November last year. As of right this minute I’m ranked number 41 of all...

  cssbattleprogramming
• 28-Sep-2024
  Megalopolis Please take a few minutes to read the review of Megalopolis by Nick Mamatas. It starts with the line “I object to every moment of this film.” and only gets better from there. The trailer is astounding in ways both good and bad. What I’ve found is that when media bridges that gap–between astounding good...

  movies
• 27-Sep-2024

  
  Water’s cold again. I love it.

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• 27-Sep-2024

  
  A person with a website is powerful. Yesterday I learned Ken Klippenstein posted a document on the web. On X, he posted a link to his commentary on his own website. That page also included a link to that document, a dossier on JD Vance. Not soon after, he was suspended from the service X for it. As of this morning, he remains...

  journalismpersonal websitepoliticspublishingus politics
• 26-Sep-2024

  
  Closeout city. Still fun.

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