LJ, you’ve done it again

You don’t want to read another cranky-old-fart post about how Gooeys turned computers into the sort of thing I want to use computers to deal with. Take as read. Yesterday LJ suggested I change my password because the KGB lost my old one I’d been using my old one for a mere 15 years.

So I picked a new one and after submitting to a number of catshits captchas (how else are we going to train the computers to impersonate us?) I got back into LJ. Today I learned that my posts to DW weren’t cross-posting anymore, so I had to redo them. Once again LJ joins President Trump as an argument for distrusting anything the Russians own.

Under the influence

Burroughs & Dylan [Longreads]

Thanx to Metafilter

How Mitt Romney took away your toy store

Matt Stoller on the private equity racket [Twitter]