The backup battery section at my local Best Buy. I asked the clerk if there were any on back or something, and he said “what level are you”?

I’ve just realized my astonishingly intense antipathy toward personified assistants like Siri.

For live video of what’s going on in Turkey (viz., a coup), scroll over to Turkey and take a look. Ankara and Istanbul are both interesting.

https://www.facebook.com/livemap/

Trump is a nightmare, but Pence is a monster.

Thanks, Obama.

No seriously, thanks.

h/t Jennifer Jurney

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/7/12/1547100/-Things-that-are-Obama-s-fault-in-graphs

I posted to G+ recently and Jeff R. Allen commented “Good to see you back on G+”.

I think that requires a response.

I’m not really “back” on G+. Most social networking I’m involved with is automated. I post to my blog and automatic mechanisms posts to Twitter, Facebook, my Facebook fans page, LinkedIn, and so on.

G+ doesn’t have a posting API.

This is a strategic mistake by Google.

Not that missing out on my posts killed G+, I don’t think that highly of myself. However I think that prevented the creation of an ecosystem around the product. That was a big mistake.

There’s ~100 people farming Pokémon in this smallish park and a Somerville police van just drove by BLASTING THE POKÉMON THEME SONG 😍

Wild Brooklynites appear!

About 5 minutes ago I dropped a lure on the Pokestop across the street from my apartment. There are now three Pokemon trainers standing around, talking, and laughing with each other.

Hate all you want, people. Pokemon Go is a force for good in America right now.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/07/12/joe-paterno-knew-of-jerry-sandusky-abuse-in-1976-per-testimony-in-newly-unsealed-records/