Bob Glickstein

@bglickstein@mastodon.social

@CharlieBravoDev I am interested to acquire your GitHub org! Please let me know if you're willing to part with it.

@HamillHimself That's not true. That's impossible.

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I can remember being very upset about Big Bird too. No one would believe him about his friend Snuffleupagus! I was six.

There's no I in "teamwork." But there _is_ an I in "There's no I in teamwork."

@ian Time is weird, but not as weird in this case as you think. Jobs may have been CEO for only 14 years, but he was Mr. Apple one way or another for 35. Tim Cook has a long way to go.

If you're not agitating for better antitrust enforcement, protections for organized labor, and progressive tax reform, you are part of the problem you're complaining about when you complain about Jeff Bezos. 2/2

It is so easy to villainize Jeff Bezos, but it is wrong. It allows us to think that the problem is him, rather than the system that permitted him to get this wealthy. Whatever happened to "hate the game, not the player"? 1/2

Jan 6 commission "yea" votes had 60% of the vote total and lost. But that's not the whole story. The 35 senators voting "nay" represent 93.6 million Americans. The 54 senators voting "yea" represent 181.9 million - a 94% advantage! And they still lost. /cc @Sen_JoeManchin

Last Friday morning: went down a Wikipedia rabbit hole about "dowsing," learned about the ideomotor response. Last Friday evening: @Danwhitemagic's virtual magic show included a mindblowing demonstration of the ideomotor response. HOW DID HE DO THAT

@Jeff_Jacoby Great minds! bobglickstein.medium.com/homeopathic-de…

The first House of Representatives had 65 members. As US population grew, so did the number of House districts—until it was frozen at 435. That is 𝘸𝘢𝘺 too few for a population as large as ours. Making the House a lot bigger would make it a lot better. bit.ly/3wPsotw

@_tessr @adamludwin Let's take this opportunity to send a few bucks of gratitude to the Internet Archive.

@_tessr web.archive.org/web/2017102808… /cc @adamludwin

still a great post, 3.5 years later, and the takeaways at the end are spot-on, 100%

"If Obama had mustered an angry mob to storm the Capitol it would have been OK." Signed, - 43 Republican senators

@_tessr Great point. And much more effective than if you'd said, "Wasn't Socrates a white man?"

@geebobg Socrates was a white man 😉

apropos of absolutely nothing, I really need to break the habit of framing things as questions when I already know the answer

Dear @Tropicana, I like your orange juice better than all the others. I've been drinking it since the 1970's. How do you get someone like me to abandon a brand like yours? By switching your containers from sustainable waxed cardboard to plastic.

PS. This is the definitive article on the subject of orphaned works: blog.blcklst.com/in-search-of-t…

Between "orphaned works" (titles whose copyright holders can't be identified) and media-format obsolescence I worry about all the titles being memory-holed. 3/3

Alas, @netflix's DVD service is a shadow of its former self. Turnaround time to get new discs sent out used to be hours and is now days. And their catalog is full of holes that never used to exist. 1/3