Non Sequiturs is the personal blog of Michael Argentini.
I'm a software developer and Managing Partner for Fynydd and Blue Sequoyah Technologies, the project lead for Coursabi, and Āthepedia founder. I also have several nerdy open source projects on Github.
I'd describe myself as an Oxford comma advocate, autodidact, aspiring polymath, and boffin, with a mechanical keyboard addiction. You can also find me on Mastodon.
#Elon #Musk claims he wants to prevent SpaceX from becoming complicit in a major act of war. But every other immoral use of his Starlink Internet service is perfectly fine.
The acronym GUID is not pronounced “gooey ID”. It's pronounced “goo-id”. #YoureWelcome
Who reads a magazine while standing behind a big pile of carrots? Are they going to eat the carrots? Why are the carrots on a pedestal? How and why did they get the bent carrot to sit erect at the top of the pile of carrots?
#pd #bentcarrot #commercial #humor
Zoom wants employees to come back to the office instead of using #Zoom to work remotely. Sometimes the jokes write themselves.
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Microsoft fucks Mac .NET developers. Only time will tell just how hard this fucking is.
#tech #microsoft #macos #vscode #visualstudio
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You know what’s next with the #Twitter / #X API? #ElonMusk randomly pulling the plug and screwing you and your customers again.
When the #BetterSleep commercial talks about “deep brown noise” the fart jokes write themselves.
After record floods Death Valley National Park to be renamed “Life Valley National Park”.
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#Musk is trying to remove the #Twitter block feature but I bet that #Elon would still be able to block people. Because fuck you he’s special.
I’m starting to have a change of heart on this #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds episode. Maybe, just MAYBE, the episode was a blood curdling drama where we’re shown a “jump the shark” level singing episode and have to wait to see if the show has truly jumped. Honestly, I’m on the edge of my seat here. I thought the gorn episode was the scariest one. Not any more.
“You know what would be a fantastic #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds plot device? If the officers sang their lines and if the only way to prevent a galactic tragedy was for the entire crew to sing and dance in a broadway style finale.”
…said no one. Ever.
I’m still trying to figure out how #NordVPN can claim to prevent malware-ridden files.
Legislation from fear is the death spiral of freedom.
#politics #philosophy #opinion
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My daughter asked me if I knew what mothballs smelled like. I told her I’ve never been close enough to a moth to find out.
Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker’s 2023 commencement speech at Northwestern hits the mark.
The best way to spot an idiot? Look for the person who is cruel. When we see someone who doesn’t look like us, or sound like us, or act like us, or love like us, or live like us — the first thought that crosses almost everyone’s brain is rooted in either fear or judgment or both. That’s evolution. We survived as a species by being suspicious of things we aren’t familiar with.
In order to be kind, we have to shut down that animal instinct and force our brain to travel a different pathway. Empathy and compassion are evolved states of being. They require the mental capacity to step past our most primal urges. I’m here to tell you that when someone’s path through this world is marked with acts of cruelty, they have failed the first test of an advanced society. They never forced their animal brain to evolve past its first instinct. They never forged new mental pathways to overcome their own instinctual fears. And so, their thinking and problem-solving will lack the imagination and creativity that the kindest people have in spades.
Over my many years in politics and business, I have found one thing to be universally true: the kindest person in the room is often the smartest.
#ElonMusk says #Twitter will no longer have a light mode, making dark mode the default. Because fuck you.
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So many persistent and mysterious electronics failures on #SkinwalkerRanch but the cameras shooting the show are reliable as fuck.
Non Sequiturs is the personal blog of Michael Argentini.
I'm a software developer and Managing Partner for Fynydd and Blue Sequoyah Technologies, the project lead for Coursabi, and Āthepedia founder. I also have several nerdy open source projects on Github.
I'd describe myself as an Oxford comma advocate, autodidact, aspiring polymath, and boffin, with a mechanical keyboard addiction. You can also find me on Mastodon.
