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12 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Got recommended this on the grounds of it being a "compact" android phone and got excited, but I looked it up and it's literally a full 1.3 inches bigger than my current phone. We're converging on a point where the "compact" phones of today would have been a "phablet" last decade
On top of this THE SCREEN IS NON RECTANGULAR *AND* THERE ARE HOLES IN IT?? BOTH?? Why. Why would anyone pay money for a monitor that literally has holes in it, I literally cannot understand
Incidentally something that is really weird to me is its surprisingly hard to find out the size of a phone anymore, all they'll tell you is the size of the screen. ??? I guess it's assumed phones just don't have any space that isn't taken up by a screen anymore???
We have finally solved it… we can't manufacture a small screen but we can manufacture a large screen and then draw a small screen inside of it. We still are incapable of drawing a rectangular screen though. The technology of Rectangles is lost to us

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13 May
1. Vehemently, nationally dismiss the idea of people being able to prove whether they've been vaccinated or not ("papers")
2. Say it's fine to go unmasked if you're vaccinated
3. It is now basically impossible for any private business, church, etc to enforce any kind of mask rule
If we get unlucky & a variant mutates which is properly vaccine-resistant, & we suddenly see out-of-control community spread, 2 more things will happen
4. People will be personally shamed for failure to wear masks
5. It will be harder to reintroduce mask rules you lifted already
You know how a 4yo will stare at the bath for 10 minutes, then dip one toe in, yank it out, and yell "MOM I TOOK A BATH"? That's how America has approached pandemic safety
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13 May
So we have spent the last half a year watching the entire original series of "Sukeban Deka" ("Juvenile Delinquent Cop"), a Japanese children's television show from 1985, and now we've finished I am now ready to declare it the greatest piece of filmic media ever made
This is not a joke. It is the most amazing fusion of high camp and wildly unnecessary directorial competence I have ever seen. It is just going at 200% every moment right up until the end
Like, the problem with loving bad media is a lot of it is… you know, bad. But Sukeban Deka dares to ask the question, what if bad television… were good?
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6 May
Twitter's talking about ORSON WELLES today so I want to talk about a lesser-known film of his I'm obsessed with, TOUCH OF EVIL

What to know about Touch of Evil is there are three versions:

1. 1958 "studio" cut (OK)
2. 1976 "restored" cut (AVOID)
3. 1998 "Murch" cut (VERY GOOD)
The 1958 version is the original theatrical release. The studio stepped in late, took the picture away from Welles, recut & rescored. And some of the changes were… good! Welles sent a detailed memo saying "I'll approve this version—IF" certain changes were made. (It was ignored)
The 1976 cut was, from what I have read, kind of a mistake. Sometime in the early 70s a workprint of "Touch of Evil" was found, and it wound up getting screened and released as the "restored" version. Unfortunately, it's just a workprint.
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6 May
Okay so do I have this right: a file named CON is illegal, a file named COM1 is illegal, but COM is legal and that's why Java classpaths having directory structures like "com/oracle/swing" and therefore directories named "com" is not a problem?
Today in cursed knowledge: WSL will allow you to create and read back a file named "com1" on the NTFS partition, and Windows Explorer can see and interact with it in a basic way, but win32 apps such as Notepad will fail if they attempt to open it
If you attempt to *delete* the "com1" file from Windows Explorer, it announces it needs administrator privileges. I did not attempt to do this with administrator privileges in case it deletes a Windows global device handle or something similarly catastrophic
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5 May
Okay new twitter crop rules just hit me on Android and my opinion is I would like a twitter app that is able to display more than one tweet on the screen at once. I'm now routinely finding single tweets that cannot fit on a screen
I'd say it's great that Twitter is finally taking steps against screenshot tweets by making tweets so big you can't screenshot them but I think this is probably just assuming everyone on earth has an iPhone 12 and there's no reason to ever let people control their own UI at all
Current serious plan is to just sideload an APK old enough it can't display "fleets"
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5 May
Me, from Houston, at the edge of the Influence Zone: Let's go to House of Pies
Does House of Pies even exist anymore. Are they going to survive the pandemic lockdown
Houston was not a good place or a place that treated me well but the psychogeology of its restaurants has imprinted on me forever. I have not set foot in the city in maybe 14 or 15 years.
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