Well I’m so glad you asked!!

You’re looking at one in the screenshot. Firefox does this, as does Chrome and some other browsers as well.

A bookmark keyword is a tiny bit of text that you can configure your browser to treat differently when you use it in the location bar.

Typically, whatever you type into the browser location bar will either treat that text like a website you’re trying to go to (like “apnews.com” or “ www.wikipedia.org ”) or text that gets sent to a search engine (like “tasty dinner ideas” or “best white socks”). However, if the text you enter starts with a bookmark keyword you’ve set up, the browser will insert the rest of the text you entered into a website address in a specified place.

This is typically useful to speed up searching on specific websites.

So if you want to search Wikipedia for “particle physics”, you can go to the Wikipedia website and enter “particle physics” into the search box and click the search button. That would send you to a page with search results of the text you entered. If you look at the location bar, you should see a URL that looks like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=particle+physics

What we notice here is that the text you entered, “particle physics” is right there in the URL.

To turn this into a bookmark keyword, you create a bookmark to this search results page, then replace your search term with the characters “%s”, so the bookmark URL would look like so:

Then, in the “keyword” box, you can enter whatever text you want to use for this shortcut. For Wikipedia, I like using just the letter ‘w’. (You don’t need quotes around it.) Save the bookmark, and that’s it.

Now, whenever you want to search Wikipedia, all you have to do is type “w particle physics” or “w forest fires” or “w whatever” into the location bar and the browser will take you directly to the search page with those results.

You can do this with basically any website with search functionality: search engines, retail stores, news, IMDb, reference resources, whatever.

This feature also can be used for going to detail pages directly if you have a specific reference number.

So let’s say you’re at work and you have a trouble ticketing system that shows details of ongoing issues. The URL for ticket number q-rt-654321 might look like this:

https://troubletickets.mycompanyfoo.biz/ticket/q-rt-654321/view

So if you had the ticket number handy (like from an email chain), you could create a bookmark keyword to go directly to the ticket detail page:

https://troubletickets.mycompanyfoo.biz/ticket/%s/view

…and use the keyword “tt” for trouble ticket.

Now you can just type “tt q-rt-654321” into the location bar and go right to the detail page (presuming the ticket number is accurate).

And that’s it.

Somebody at work showed me keyword shortcuts ages ago and I have tons of them now.

I hope that someone eventually points out that the reason this doctor has never been sued was probably because she worked in the VA with vets who were terrified of suing the VA and losing their benefits.

We all need to start collectively working on our insult game.

Yelling “fuck you” and “go home” over and over again is something these people can train themselves to ignore. People need to start roasting them like insult comics.

And remember to address key sore spots: domestic abuse, fragile masculinity and daddy issues.

And for some quick inspiration, consider the following exchanges from a recent episode of Shoresy…

“Wanna talk about a terrible call? Your mom FaceTimed me when I was watching videos on my phone with Liam’s mom.”

“You should download DuoLingo on there for when the EU skates circles around you in six languages.”

“Heard the EU’s game plan: Fee fi fo fum, stick it right up Shoresy’s bum.”

“EU outscored opponents 71 to 9, but here come the NOSHO Norstars, WEEW!”

“WEEW!”

“You’re just old as fuck, eh?”

“Gonna get us kicked out of NATO for not contributing anything on defense.”

“What’s up later? Put on a ballgame and fall asleep in a recliner?”

“Anything concerning come up in your bloodwork or what?”

“Get into any good soups lately?”

“Let’s loosen it up a bit bud, I know that circulation’s a problem at your age.”

“You a bisque or a chowder guy?”

“Want me to show ya how to enlarge the font size on your phone ya old fart?”

“Oh, I’m old? I didn’t want to tell ya this Cor, I knew your mom was old but did you know she lost her virginity at the Calgery Olympics?”

“Fuck you, Shoresy.”

“Which is crazy cuz Liam’s mom lost hers to a luger in Lillehammer.”

“Fuck you, Shoresy.”

“Fuck you, Liam. Your mom calls me ‘daddy’ so much I feel like I should be taking you out to the yard to throw the old pigskin around.”

“Fuck you.”

“Don’t talk to your father like that.”

“Fuck you, Shoresy.”

“Uh oh, smells like your mom washed your jersey with her bedsheets.”

“Fuck you, Shoresy!”

“Fuck your mom on your 101 Dalmations bedsheets last night Liam.”

“Fuck you.”

“Yeah, she was dalmation 102.”

“Fuck you, Shoresy.”

“Fuck you, Cory. I bench pressed your mom 40 reps, now she wants me to do it all the time. I’m like ‘Leave me alone, my ice cream’s melting.’”

“Fuck you!”

“Your mom says ‘Come to the bedroom, I’m horny.’ I go in there and she’s eating sunflower seeds.”

“Fuck you, Shoresy!”

“Fuck you, Cory. I get it. Your mom loves body shots. But not at Chuck E Cheese. Like have some decorum.”

“Fuck you, Shoresy.”

“Fuck you, Liam. I told your mom Cory’s mom could open a pop-off with her teeth so she learned how to open a twist-off with her twat.”

“Fuck you, Shoresy!”

“Fuck you, Cory. Your mom sticks so many toys up her ass I call her Anal Fissure Price.”

“Hey Liam, can you give your mom her heartworm medication for me, but make sure you wrap it in a treat or she’ll spit it right back out.”

“I hope the EU kills you guys.”

“Aww, I didn’t want to tell you this Liam but I just found your mom’s got more kills than me.”

“Fuck you!”

The thing that keeps me paying attention to Rushkoff, no matter how outlandish and bonkers he sounds, is that he’s completely aware of how bonkers he sounds and acknowledges how frustrating it is.

Per the system we have, impeachment and removal from office for breaking the law. 16 additional senators (than what passed the resolution) would need to flip for it to matter.

I just wrote an email to a recruiter withdrawing my interest in pursuing a job (it’s a recruiter hired by the hiring company).

I certainly hope you plan to share this with the company for which you were applying, because the recruiter probably wouldn’t even finish reading this before binning it. The employer you were endeavoring to work for is who should be seeing this.

If they wanted de-esc training to stick, they should have had it at Waffle House and covered it in gravy.

Video of the speech is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERyGBr1D43U

Technical program management work ideally; it’s been a good dozen years since I developed software so those skills are rusty, but TPM work the the need for balancing risk management with pragmatism (strong alignment with control room ownership, command presence and incident stewardship) are good fits.

Got any openings for me?

Late 40s, highly skilled, trans, unemployed for 2+ years.

I’ve been down to the final candidate selection a few times now and still haven’t been selected yet.

I’ve hired plenty of people. In general, final candidates are usually all fully capable of doing the job they’re applying for. In the end, the hiring manager just gets to pick the one they want to work with most.

I feel like when hiring managers look at me, all they see are problems and risks. Time consuming HR meetings, extra effort making sure people use the right pronouns, judgements from executive leaders who might see a middle manager not doing a good job at leaning into where the winds are headed.

I wonder, even if I spend 3 more years on a secondary degree, whether I’ll find myself right back in same situation (talented and surrounded by cowards unwilling to hire me), but now with $200k in new student loan debt.

Cursed timeline…

Cursed timeline…

Computer, delete that entire holiday.

Back when usb was first appearing on boards, some cases had their usb port cables broken out into individual pins that you needed to place in the correct order.

But I’ll admit those Bob Barker clips were pretty great.

“But this is an entertainment discord. People come here to chat video games and look at pp and bussy. Why do we need AI for that?”

real talk

As a reminder:

Angel, previously Angel Studios, previously VidAngel, was founded by Latter-Day Saint family (Mormon) members to produce content that was suitable to show their kids. They later made a business out of editing Hollywood films to allow viewers to skip or mute scenes they found objectionable (without the consent of the rights-holders), and got their pants sued off for it.

After a series of mergers, it’s now a publicly traded company worth over $1.5 billion and continues to produce content that aligns heavily with religious and faith-based causes.

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Sweet jesus, that was insufferable.

Spoilers to save everyone 20 minutes: a professor briefly describes a study meant to measure racial bias, then spends the entirety of the video pressuring 4 (nervous?) students to speculate on the study’s outcome.

He never says whether the study is real or not, or what the outcome was if it were real. The students spend most of the video giving hesitant answers because, obviously, they don’t know. Also, they’re probably not stupid and recognize there’s a high likelihood that the professor is setting up a cute “gotcha!” situation where the study’s outcome is not what one might expect, making anyone who defended the straight-forward answer the butt of a joke in front of all their peers.

The video ends with him finger-wagging at the students for being so hesitant to speculate, insisting that media and culture pre-indoctornates them to presume the study would prove racial bias.

Like, WTF bro?