Yeah, the brainworms about 'hyperloop' and 'chain codes' (blockchain) were really glaring. Not to mention the huge miss of building up to a droid rights storyline, complete with the droids having their own bar and subculture out of nowhere, while one of the main characters expresses prejudice against them, to "Oh never mind, it was just the sinister virus making them throw fits!"

The Mandalorian has been a pleasant surprise up until now, but that episode felt kinda gross. I feel like there is a lot more to dig into, but I don't want to.

"I can better understand the inert blindness & defiant ignorance of the reactionaries from having been one of them. I know how smugly ignorant I was—wrapped up in the arts, the natural (not social) sciences, the externals of history & antiquarianism, the abstract academic phases of philosophy, & so on—all the one-sided standard lore to which, according to the traditions of the dying order, a liberal education was limited. God! the things that were left out—the inside facts of history, the rational interpretation of periodic social crises, the foundations of economics & sociology, the actual state of the world today … & above all, the habit of applying disinterested reason to problems hitherto approached only with traditional genuflections, flag-waving, & callous shoulder-shrugs! ... There was no getting out of it—I really had thrown all that haughty, complacent, snobbish, self-centered, intolerant bull, & at a mature age when anybody but a perfect damned fool would have known better! That earlier illness had kept me in seclusion, limited my knowledge of the world, & given me something of the fatuous effusiveness of a belated adolescent when I finally was able to get around more in 1920, is hardly much of an excuse. ... It's hard to have done all one's growing up since 33—but that's a damn sight better than not growing up at all."

• Lovecraft in a letter, 1937.

I got a mouse for free with my case; the case has no lighting but the mouse just flashes random colors for two seconds each. There is no way to stop this. I went so far as to call the 'manufacturer' - they got it from some generic subcontractor and didn't know if there was any way to stop it flashing. I meant to get another mouse at some point, but I just got used to it. Now I watch movies and somehow ignore the bright random color LEDs blaring by the corner of the monitor, until something reminds me of this fucking thing. I almost love how awful it is.

Thank you, Comrade.

Just did a little digging, the hip-hop group is called 天府事变; CD Rev, Chengdu Revolution, or Tianfu Shibian.

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