the only thing i really want out of a new ipad pro is for apple to orient the front facing camera for landscape use bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
that aside, the hardware is pretty much perfect. the big limit on ipad pro potential is the software.
in this update, for instance, the ipad will support Thunderbolt 4, so you can hook it up to pretty much any high definition monitor. but iPad OS 14 only supports display mirroring. you can’t have one or two apps open on the iPad, and a different open on the display.
and even when it is up on the display, it doesn’t take advantage of the full aspect ratio except for video and photo editing apps.
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about this column! i wrote it over the course of yesterday afternoon, so there are a few things that i either couldn’t fit or didn’t get to and i wanted to note them here. nytimes.com/2021/04/06/opi…
1) I am wary of making direct historical comparisons for the simple reason that events are contingent. Jim Crow wasn’t the product of some transhistorical racism; it emerged out of the particular conditions of the South in the last decades of the 19th century...
...I’ve written about them in the past, but in short: agrarian revolt and black labor unrest, economic modernization in the cities, intense partisan competition, and the emergence of a new merchant-landowner class with direct ties to northern capital.
when you are argue that most attempts at voter suppression have no particular partisan impact therefore fears on both sides are overstated, you are making a category error about the basis of opposition to those laws
i’ve argued before that i think this stuff isn’t likely to work and may well backfire on the republican party. but the effects aren’t the primary story here, the intent and motivation is.
this exactly. we are under no obligation to pretend that history and context do not exist
watching ROSEWOOD for the first time since i was a kid. two thoughts: 1) i saw this movie way too young the first time. 2) john singleton is doing some really interesting things with this film besides just depicting a horrific event of violence.
it is interesting, for one, that this movie comes out as world war ii remembrance has reached a peak, with lots of stuff depicting white americans as heroic on a world historical level.
it is interesting, in the same way, that this movie comes out 10 months before AMISTAD
bad theology aside its worth saying that he can’t even get his labels right. “eschatology” relates to religious doctrines concerning the final fate of humanity. what erickson is trying to discuss is “soteriology,” the term for doctrines of salvation
probably worth saying, as well, that in the dispensationalist eschatology of American conservative evangelical christianity, God whisks away the saved/elect and subjects the rest of humanity to seven years of escalating horror culminating in near total annihilation.