How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now…

This Cisco field notice has diagrams for the curious.

The original self-checkout!

Not sure about Teams, but for Zoom you’re only first locally. Everyone else sees themselves first in their local client. The ordering of participants in Zoom meetings is documented here. There’s a whole bunch of logic behind the scenes; muted vs. unmuted, whether the participant called in, etc.

It’s always the people you most suspect.

I wonder what it’s like to be Ed Sheeran. Is there any air gap at all between Ed-Sheeran-the-brand and Ed-Sheeran-the-human? Does Ed Sheeran even exist as a human anymore, separate from the brand?

The brand clearly thinks it’ll make more money by not taking any strong position on an active genocide. Makes sense for a brand, it’s a corporate construct that’s fundamentally amoral. It can only value profit.

What I’m wondering is what happened to the human? It existed at one point, before the brand did. Does it still exist? Does it share the same profit motive as the brand of the same name? Can it feel shame anymore? I hope it does.

I bet they used to like Rage Against The Machine before they got all political.

I thought they were banana slices. Kiwi would be even more cursed, which I didn’t think was possible. Either way, kind of it to warn us of the danger it poses! Biohazard symbols might be more appropriate though.

Not the most ragged lookin’ ship I’ve ever seen, but for a representative of the world’s most expensive Navy she’s looking absolutely shabby.