CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@mekkaokereke So, his complaint was: there's no commercially successful protest music that appeals to white boomers. And he couldn't figure out why. ‍️

And now Bruce Springsteen has a boomer-friendly political protest song, but minus uncomfortable context, talking about violent law enforcement in Minneapolis without going back 6 short years.

Even (the much more satisfying) Billy Bragg tune treats ICE raids as an isolated phenomenon — while explicitly citing the "First they came for…" poem. ‍️

@mekkaokereke I had this discussion a while back after a radio show (on my local non-profit station) in which the host lamented that political protest songs just weren't popular anymore.

…shortly after Beyoncé's "In Formation" Super Bowl performance.

When I pinged the (white boomer male) host on Twitter mentioning that & other examples of hugely successful political songs (coincidentally by black artists), he replied that those weren't the style of music he played on his show.

@jernej__s Oh interesting, I didn't know the old version was still installed, just not accessible by default. I guess it's there for other apps that call it programmatically to display text output?

I've been happy with Notepad after turning off a lot of settings (including the Markdown formatting one, for reasons unrelated to this bug). But I like the tabbed UI & that it persists drafts after a system reboot.

RE: https://tech.lgbt/@solonovamax/116049115040950367

If I'm reading the disclosure correctly, the issue is:

- Windows Notepad is more than just a plain text editor now.
- In particular, it has a markdown preview feature, including clickable links.
- But, it doesn't have full web browser security processes for what to do if you click on a link with a protocol that triggers a local application. It gets treated as if the user was directly running that application.

So, don't open strange files & then click links. (And update Windows regularly.)