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Danger is Everywhere

The favourite temperature dataset of climate deniers just confirmed global warming.

“All we can do is hold our hearts”: my Mefi post on the breathtaking threat of the Mosul dam.

The man who made “the worst video game in history”.

An accurate predictor of whether someone supports Donald Trump.

Tip off.

The Snoopers’ Charter promises a surveillance state comparable only to China and Russia.

Why Facebook is depressing.

Firebirds.

The Most Dangerous Writing App (via Mefi).

On that last ... i thought i’d give it a go. i’m so terrofied of losing even a single line that I’m not even stopping to hit caps for the beginnign of sentences. or even looking up at the screen to see if i’ve made a string of typoes like when you start typing from the ewrong letter and the whole lin eis gobbledigpok/ oh my god that sentence probably reads awafully and i can’t even look at it or i’ll run out of time and kablooey the whole thing will be gone. this reminds me of the one time i did lose a whole day’s worth of typing back in the bad old days of less stable desktop compyetrs. transcribed a long inetrview, which took me several hours, and so,ething went wrong somewhere and i lost the lot. the agony. after that i had a ruthless backup regime that ,eant i enver again lost a day’s wrk, or even more than an hours (man, i’m terrified of looking at how typo-foilled this is now), and whenever i type something into a web form (like a mefi comment) i paste it into a BBEDit document too (phew. got away with a caps there... plus i also just insticntively hit backspace and it doesn’t seem to have deleted te whole thing, thank god). anyway, the whole act of typing online is terrifyin gif you ask me, so many chance sot lose whatever it was that you were trying to capture, and yet the act of capturing it also causes the thoguths to fulleter out of your head... i don’t know if i can even emeber the stuff i started writing here, habve yo ever had to retype an entire comment or an entire piece from memory minutes after it wa acceidentally deletd? it’s awful, awful, and it looks as if i’m about to pass the five minute mark, man, this is exhausting but i’m going to make it yes i am.

3 March 2016 · Weblog