rainy Saturday evening

Cleaned up Feedly a lot, but might be switching to Inoreader for RSS reading.

listened to Chapo Trap House talk about Ready Player One. It's surprising for them to be as generous to it as they are. I probably won't see the movie, as I read the book years ago, enjoyed it for the trash it was, and want it buried & forgotten. They mention a scene in which people are dancing to New Order "Blue Monday" only to have someone go "old school" to dancing to Bee Gees "Stayin' Alive." Those two songs were released were released six years apart, 1977 & 1983.

Homeland Security to Compile Database of Journalists, Bloggers. I'm absolutely certain that the Bush administration did this, and then the Obama administration. However. I can't find a story backing that suspicion up. The only relevant bit seems this 2016 James Risen opinion piece on how the Obama administration spied on journalists, not quite the same thing as a database tracking their "sentiments" but close enough. There was also the Bush administration payment of columnists, which was certainly far more widespread than was uncovered. None of this excuses the fascism of the Trump administration, but this didn't happen overnight on January 20th, 2017.

Facebook sent a doctor on a secret mission to ask hospitals to share patient data. All kinds of harm can be done here, like sharing with future employers who pay to have access to data that Facebook collects.

Facebook retracted Zuckerberg’s messages from recipients’ inboxes. No surprise. Zuckerberg covers the camera on his computers and mic jack output.

This Cat Power confused the hell out of me. I know I never saw it before and became convinced it was recreation. Her illness in 2012 when Sun was released was also news I missed until now. Damn. I've been deep in my peculiar ruts for quite some time, although I made a good stab at blogging in 2016-17.