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My favorite terrible outcome of the browser wars is the BLINK tag, which Netscape introduced as a nonstandard HTML extension in a bid to tempt web authors to optimize their sites for Netscape instead of Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_ele…

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The tag lingered long after the browser wars ended. I went through a period around 2013 where I used it (and its many variations, like the "marquee" argument a lot). Eventually (and not coincidentally, I believe), Firefox nuked it.

mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/…

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So I was delighted to wake up this morning and discover that @edent is making good use of quarantine time to commission a lenticular BLINK tag sticker from a Chinese manufacturer.

shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/05/b…

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You can order your own! It's £100 for 100, with a 10% discount at this link:

i.refs.cc/jSbp0NlI?smile…

(which also pays a commission to Eden).

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This week marks the publication of @bartongellman's "Dark Mirror," an important addition to the canon of books about the @Snowden revelations. Earlier this week, @TheAtlantic ran a fascinating excerpt about how spy agencies targeted Gellman.

pluralistic.net/2020/05/21/pro…

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Today in @Wired, we get another taste - a long excerpt about the "Database of ruin" - the @NSAGov's system for mapping the "social graphs" of every person in America using phone billing record.

wired.com/story/inside-t…

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This system was handwaved by GW Bush, who said, "if somebody is talking to al Qaeda, we want to know why" - but as Gellman discovered, that's not what the "Stellarwind" program did. This wasn't about getting terrorists' call records to see who they talked to.

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Sometimes, you can actually see the Overton Window shifting. This month is one of those times, with @business running a @Noahpinion op-ed calling for a new New Deal, arguing that the main problem with the last one is that it didn't go far enough.

bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

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Smith devotes a fair chunk of his column to debunking New Classical economists who claim that the New Deal lengthened the Great Depression, an idea that has been comprehensively demolished by careful empirical work, and is only cited today by plute-lovin' motivated reasoners.

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Though Smith doesn't write the words "#ModernMonetaryTheory," it's hard not to see them waiting just off to one side - the idea that inflation is causedby government spending on things the private sector is trying to but - not by deficits.

pluralistic.net/2020/05/14/eve…

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Rugs - Clark’s O.N.T., 1947. danismm.tumblr.com/post/618961129…
Cordé Bags by Hiawatha, 1945. danismm.tumblr.com/post/618958681…
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