Diary (May 19, 2021)

Online diary of Karl Jones for Wednesday May 19, 2021.

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Diary

Citizen App

I got on the Citizen app for a minute to see what all the fuss was about. It seemed like a bunch of hyper-vigilant, fear-ridden, close-minded people who thought every loud noise was a gunshot and never cared about the fact that every single "gunshot" they reported was never followed up on leaving everyone on the app to think the entire city was being shot up constantly when it was likely cars backfiring and fireworks. In other words, useless app for useless people.

• https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/citizen-app-told-locals-to-hunt-down-a-man-for-starting-a-california-fire-but-had-the-wrong-guy/198016/7

Behind Closed Files

"Behind Closed Files" - 19 May 2021 Tour poster.

Behind Closed Files

Please Leave Your Wife

I thought it read:

"Please leave your wife for the new Mr. and Mrs."

Please Leave Your Wife

Drinking with Fell Swoop and Kermit

Drinking with Fell Swoop and Kermit

Swoop: No one is free until trans people can urinate on cis people in any bathroom.

Kermit: You mean by mutual consent.

Swoop: Mutual consent, yet. Urination is either a private act, or a social act. All social acts require consent.

Kermit: Except criminal social acts.

Swoop: Yes. Which is why I prefer criminal private acts. Now where's the absinthe?

Kermit: It's not easy peeing green.

Swoop: Being green.

Kermit: No, peeing green.

Swoop: I would have thought—

Kermit: No, I meant it's not easy for you, peeing green. Me, it happens all the time.

Swoop: You don't mean ... you wouldn't ...

Kermit: Yes. The absinthe.

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles