I won’t spoil the movie for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet (although I should warn that it is not for the squeamish). But a key premise of the film involves harmful attitudes toward female aging. “Hey, did you know that a woman’s fertility starts to decrease by the age of 25?” a powerful male […]
Yesterday, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the government’s proposal to ban social media use by children under 16, saying social media companies would have to take “reasonable steps” to enforce this. While Albo claimed it was for the “mum and dads” because “social media harms”, it sounded like the government was once again shirking its […]
Case-insensitive filesystems considered harmful (to me) 04 June 2021 Having been burned by case-insensitive filesystem bugs one too many times, I long ago switched my development folder to a case-sensitive filesystem partition on my otherwise case-insensitive Mac. Unfortunately this can actually work against me as I interact with the computers of coworkers and service providers […]