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Airbnb hosts are melting down over a new policy banning them from making guests complete tasks that “would typically be performed by a cleaner,”
like “stripping the bed, taking trash offsite, or washing and putting away dishes.”
The change, which applies to all bookings made on or after November 20,
quickly sparked outrage after it was announced in an email to Airbnb hosts on Wednesday.
Many began fuming online about losing the right to make their guests clean up afte…

Airbnb Hosts Are Furious They Can No Longer Make Guests Do Their Chores
Some hosts are threatening to strike, while others are plotting ways around Airbnb’s new restrictions. Guests, meanwhile, are celebrating.

Watched Mad Monster Party? from 1967 with wifey in honor of the season. Super weird, wild, funny, kinda corny and odd movie done by Rankin Bass (known for the Rudolph and Frosty flicks). Swear the Misfits guys we're inspired by some of this. Dr. Frankenstein even says he's going to give up this 'horror business'. https://boxd.it/1ITg

Mad Monster Party? (1967)
When Dr Frankenstein decides to retire from the monster-making business, he calls an international roster of monsters to a creepy convention to elect his successor. Everyone is there including Dracula, The Werewolf, The Creature, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and many more. But Frankenstein's title is not all that is at stake. The famous doctor has also discovered the secret of total destruction that must not fall into the wrong hands!

Normally I go to the Benalla Street Art Festival but this year it coincided with some guy chopping my chest open. Did an overnighter to catch up with the new art work this week. #BenallStreetArtFestival
It was minus 4 when I woke up but the art work was worth it. Here's a few examples

John Ternus says Apple doesn't "want to ship AI for AI's sake" and that Tim Cook is "available to help wherever I ask" on policy; Ternus has yet to meet Trump (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/i-spent-30-min

I Spent 30 Minutes With Apple’s CEO. Now I Know Why John Ternus Got the Job
Apple doesn’t need fixing, and it doesn’t want drama. Its new leader is a “product guy” who bleeds six colors.

A group of men detained in Texas found a new way to communicate what they are going through in custody,
despite being shuttered from the outside world.
They compiled hundreds of pages of handwritten testimony and some hand-drawn art, and mailed it from inside the privately run ICE jail.
One man even wrote two protest songs and sang them over a crackly prison pay phone to the Guardian.
In a solemn and defiant tone, he sang from the perspective of one detainee to anot…

Men detained at Texas’s ‘dog pound’ ICE facility describe their experience – in art, letters and song
Nearly 500 men are detained at the T Don Hutto detention facility, and many have risked sharing their experiences in a unique way

Shopware 6: "Log the old and new value when this field changes" sounds simple until you write it — a second query, race conditions, deleted rows with no old value left to fetch. Shopware computes the diff inside the write transaction itself. One footnote in the docs, and that's it.

Friday Links 26-33
Two weeks of links and quite a few urbanism ones, mostly about the new Oxford Street.
I recommend the podcast about the "fat bikes" ban in the Netherlands.
The engineering articles about Coding Alone and small-change code reviews are very good too.
https://christof…

The modern GOP is a cult of personality with almost no room for dissent
and where the dissent exists, it’s because some people think it’s fucking awesome to put up ads calling child rape victims a liar
and others saying well maybe that’s a half-step too far.
But I actually do think the Republicans’ future is pretty bright
and the reason for that is that there’s no evidence that extremism is going to make one bit of difference in their electoral success over the long …

Republican Optimism - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Some National Review guy wrote a Times op-ed about 10 days ago that said basically “sure, Democrats are going to do well in November, but long term, Republicans are gold.” It’s worth at least considering some of this. That cacophony of voices representing itself as Republican would have been unthinkable before Mr. Trump. And it […]

Insurance software maker Guidewire agrees to acquire Hyperexponential, which makes AI-powered insurance underwriting and pricing software, for $1.7B in cash (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/g

The Trump administration’s extraordinary attempt to cast doubt on the midterm elections,
discount some ballots
and prevent the finalization of results
is entering a frenetic new phase.

The litigation strategy has failed so far,
but appears designed to give the Justice Department more time to contest results after the election.

Trump, worried about a Democratic takeover of Congress and a third impeachment,
has tilted the Justice Department away from…

Trump administration retools its battle over elections to keep fights alive after Election Day
The newest phase in Trump’s fight includes lawsuits and investigations that would preserve the administration’s ability to cast doubt on the results.