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TiL (click to go to the thread, which probably has more interesting tidbits I missed).

Bonus:

In addition to the print terminology stuff: the visual shorthand icons and ad graphics for something about writing are still often pen-nibs, fountain pens and typewriters…

…while graphics of a monitor, keyboard and mouse remain visual shorthand for computing…

…even though most writers now use monitor /  keyboard / mouse or even laptop / touchpad.

In addition, headers for “this blog / website is about writing” are often in one of the many imitation typewriter fonts complete with smudges, or just Courier.

The start and end call icons on most / all smartphones is still the handset of a classic desk telephone, and sometimes the open-app icon is a complete phone.

The term “hang up” for “end the call” refers to something even older - one of these…

And of course the Save icon is indeed a 3½ inch floppy disc.

Why it wasn’t a 5¼ floppy is a mystery. The icon version is just as distinctive.

Also, why various OP updates never changed “Save” to the graphic of a CD / DVD or flash drive is another mystery, and nowadays a Save icon should probably be a cartoon cloud.

But there are always exceptions. Lotus 1-2-3 for windows uses 5.25" disks for the save and load icons!

GONCHAROV (1973) dir. Martin Scorsese

“It funny because for many years people thought Goncharov was the main antagonist of the film, after all, he’s the one everyone’s out to get, right? But it seems people are starting to understand that in actual fact, it is time that is the main adversary in this story. There’s never enough of it and that torments a lot of characters, especially Goncharov, because he’s fighting so desperately to find his place in a world that is so keen on keeping him ostracized.”

they have tons of weirdo horror movies that will never be on streaming, available for digital purchase, internet archive, etc etc. they're based in seattle, but they do a rent by mail program, and it's available for most of their titles! i've done it! they're super cool people!!

you should rent iron lung from them once the physical release comes out! (and then return it on time so that other people can rent and watch it.) especially if iron lung isn't on streaming! even if iron lung IS on streaming! and then also rent other weird horror movies to go apeshit over!!!

alternatively, if you can't afford to rent from scarecrow (or don't want to), you should ask your local libraries to buy iron lung and whatever other movies you may want. or books! most libraries let you request titles, be it books, movies, music or whatever else. i've done it before. it's super cool!

you're still supporting mark, authors, filmmakers, etc. through these methods, since scarecrow and libraries need to buy the titles. the more a title gets checked out, be it scarecrow or a library, the more copies that they buy to keep up with demand

Epstein is shining a blistering light on white conservatives and rape culture. And, as we see more and more, torture culture.

White conservatives who rape children need white conservative politicians to protect them.

In seriousness, this is oklch.com, a color picker for the OKLCH color model.

There are whole several hour lectures one could take in color science and theory, but to keep it short: the set of colors we can see, the set of colors monitors can display, and the set of colors computers can model are three circles that only somewhat overlap.

In this case, if I wanted this color

but in red, I could just go of Photoshop and move over the hue slider, getting this as a result:

Which is.. acceptable, but not as "bright" and "vibrant" as the green I had. Looking at the graphs in the OKLCH color picker, we can figure out why:

It tells us that a red with the same luminosity and chroma as this green is out of gamut—that is, it cannot be displayed by this monitor.

In this case, you can use the edges of the graph to find the color that is closest to what you want. You can, for example, keep the chroma but sacrifice lightness,

keep the lightness but drop the chroma,

or a bit of both, which is what the common HSV triangles already do.

What if what *I* see as blue, *you* see as a slightly different blue because you're using Chrome instead of Firefox and despite a decade of messing with profiles we STILL can't get this right somehow.

Then, they increase the number of people who they classify as illegals.

Turns out, the lil’ ghost redwoods benefit their hosts by filtering toxins and acting as a sort of backup immune system.