: More than 25,000 self-proclaimed citizens have pledged their allegiance to the southern California …
: Donald Trump’s spiritual adviser Paula White-Cain compared the President to Jesus Christ during an …
: Michael Chabon writes an open letter thanking his seventh grade English teacher, Ms. Goode, who …
: ServiceNow claims a salesman “overachieved” and is not entitled to commissions on more than $27 …
: Christian Nationalism Is Thriving, and “We Should Be Concerned." By Hamilton Nolan
: JD Vance says aliens are ‘demons’ — With war escalating in Iran, gas and grocery prices soaring, and …
: Market participation is exhausting Society is optimized for people who love to haggle and think you …
: ‘I Think That MAGA Is Dying’: Inside the Youth Movement at CPAC. “At a sparsely attended …
: On The Enshittification of Audre Lorde: “The Master’s Tools” in Tech Discourse …
: The Edmund Fitzgerald Teaches Men How to Feel Michael Sebastian writes about the wreck of the Edmund …
: You’re being rude. Put away your phone. “Log off, tune in, go out.” By Robinson Meyer
: I am posting this because it’s clever and also because it’s illustrative of the variety …
: ‘Shameless in a Good Way’: Rahm Emanuel Is Already Shaking up 2028 He’s a fighter, which I …
: I’m an unusual Trek fan in that I just wasn’t into the series in the 80s and 90s. I checked out of …
: I read “Soul of a New Machine,” by Tracy Kidder, who died last week, at about the time I switched …
: Jessamyn West, longtime Vermont librarian, technologist and one of the first generation of bloggers, …
: This was No Kings in La Mesa, California, a suburb of San Diego. We had about a thousand people by …
: Donald J. Trump, America’s greatest President, interrupted a Cabinet meeting discussion of the Iran …
: I am catching up on expense reports. Why does “Fontainebleau” have so many vowels? How do they …
: The FCC’s new restrictions on foreign-produced consumer routers could gut the home Wi-Fi market, as …
: There’s no law requiring you to drink at the Nazi bar: A judge dismissed Elon Musk’s X Corp’s …
: Rediscovering the iPad: Go commando A few days ago, in an online conversation with a friend, I said: I was a heavy, heavy iPad user …
: My Facebook Reels are showing me short videos of cats being dusted with flour and kneaded like …
: A Reddit discussion of how people organize their podcast playlists. I use three playlists: One …
: Starfleet Academy will be canceled after its second season. This is disappointing, but not …
: RIP Valerie Perrine. Hell of a career, hell of a life.
: Understaffing as a form of enshittfification.By Cory Doctorow. Understaffing helps big business …
: Heather Cox Richardson: Just before he became vice president of the Confederate States of America in …
: How the Midwest Became the Place to Move. By Olga Khazan at The Atlantic. Julie and I have been …
: RIP Metaverse, an $80 Billion Dumpster Fire Nobody Wanted I was a Second Life enthusiast and I still …
: A new stereotype about Jews dropped, and I can absolutely live with it, even though I am an example …
: How far back in time can you understand English? I got back to the 1300s or 1400s.
: I’m now seeing this every time I go to my Facebook profile. What next? Use AI to watch TV for …
: A thread of extremely specific life advice
: Tucker Carlson’s and Candace Owen’s’ antisemitism was in the news lately, and I posted about that …
: Product idea. Hear me out. Protein tequila.
: I withdraw my previous comment about God sending Trump and his cabinet of Ku Klux Klowns to destroy …
: In the middle of a war, the Secretary of Defense, whose previous experience was as a weekend anchor …
: Why no one wants to be the next Doctor Who
: Something I saw while walking the dog: This sticker on the side window of a car.
: When you’re watching TV show set in or around 1970 and Doors music comes on, something bad is …
: Fresh Air remembers Neil Sedaka. He had a great career.
: Currently reading: Derby Dugan’s Depression Funnies by Tom De Haven. I’ve reread this a few …
: Inside the secret meeting that led to the AI political resistance. Strange bedfellows, uniting …
: Oh great, here comes 6G. A good explainer.
: Tokyo University graduate student Takatsugu Kuriyama built an accurate three-dimensional model of …
: Having contingency plans beats agility for emergency preparedness. “In an unexpected and …
: Tucker Carlson’s latest baseless conspiracy blames Iran war on Chabad movement. A dangerous …
: Do You Back Into a Parking Spot or Back Out?
: The View From RSS. What the web looks like when you subscribe to 2,000 RSS feeds. I am not tempted …
: Cory Doctorow: The web is bearable with RSS. Also, a brief history of Google Reader, Google+ (which …
: Regarding breaking news, I used to say that if I don’t hear the helicopters circling over the …
: A fun read about Burger King president and viral video star Tom Curtis, who presents a down-to-Earth …
: Meet your new phone away from phone A roundup of phones designed to be used as second phones, to minimize distraction. By Allison …
: It would be better for my mental health if I did not check the news as often as I do. Surely I am …
: What do you use for breaking news? I check in with a few sources a few times a day to see what the …
: I stopped using Grammarly on the desktop earlier this week. It’s too intrusive with popups and …
: The Verge: Grammarly is using our identities without permission. Grammarly’s AI agents make …
: Stories about celebrities being nice.
: When prunes tried to rebrand as “dried plums.” Listening to this podcast inspired me to get a …
: A Complimentary Profile Of Jason Lee That Was Surprisingly Difficult To Publish Jason Lee threatened a national publication that planned to publish a profile of him that included …
: They Haven’t Even Started Spending Yet. Hundreds of millions of dollars spent on buying …
: United Airlines can now boot passengers who refuse to use headphones with their devices. Toss …
: ‘The Epstein files won’t knock him out’: what Anthony Scaramucci learned in Trump’s inner circle Like Trump, Scaramucci was from the outer boroughs of New York and found himself among the …
: Psychopathy is a zombie idea. Why does it cling on? Zombie ideas are social science theories that have been thoroughly debunked, but which are still …
: The news has a 1914 fin de siècle vibe.
: They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated …
: 5 things nobody tells you when you move from ChatGPT to Claude. Good tips, despite clickbait …
: Ars Technica Fires Reporter Over AI-Generated Quotes. My reaction on reading the headline: …
: “Most national and international news isn’t actionable by us as individuals, so do we really …
: Mr. T on his hairstyle, gold chains and why he called himself “Mr. T”— He’s reclaiming his African …
: Tig Notaro steals every scene she appears in.
: I’m glad we stuck with “Starfleet Academy,” because the most recent two episodes, which we watched …
: Cory Doctorow: Democrats should create a “Nuremberg Caucus” to investigate MAGA crimes …
: On the Democratic Party Style: I don’t think I’ve ever encountered, outside academia, people with …
: Overheard: Operation Epstein Fury.
: Posted privately by a friend, shared with his permission: Lost in the Trump regime’s ongoing …
: Elsewhere, a friend praised the TV series “Monsieur Spade.” I replied: I loved …
: A private post by a friend, shared with his permission: Another stupid fucking war in the Middle …
: Heather Cox Richardson: The US DEA was running an investigation of Jeffrey Epstein and fourteen …
: Callers to Washington state hotline press 2 for Spanish and get accented AI English instead. …
: Mitchellaneous CLXXI: Four memes and other Internet curiosities Watching football on a coin-operated TV in a Greyhound bus station in Los Angeles, 1969. Photo by …
: Kansas and Scouting America’s anti-trans bigotry are disgraceful.
: Mitchellaneous CLXX: Eight memes and other Internet curiosities Animated GIFset: The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) Photograph of an Edwardian woman, taken …
: Oh no. I have had a terrible thought. The airport background music is “Wish You Were Here” by Pink …
: The airport background music is “Wish You Were Here” by Pink Floyd, which I love. I remember when …
: I’m on my way to Salt Lake City, where there is winter, from home in mild San Diego. I put on my …
: Mitchellaneous CLXIX: Nine memes and curiosities via Midcentury party invitation
: Mitchellaneous CLXVIII: Memes and other curiosities The Glancy Motor Hotel, Clinton, Oklahoma, opened in 1950. It was condemned and abandoned in 2019.
: The "textcasting" idea is great but it's backwards I love Dave Winer’s vision of textcasting but I think he’s mistaken putting the writer first. We …
: The Pitt has a sharp take on AI . It’s potentially a useful tool, but it doesn’t solve …
: I think I’ll replace my smartphone with a dumb phone. Or maybe start smoking again. Carry around a …
: I’m losing interest in “Starfleet Acadeny.” I don’t dislike it. I like it. But I forget to watch it.
: An unpopular opinion about making coffee with the AeroPress You should only use the AeroPress to make one cup of coffee at a time. Don’t weigh anything, …
: Overheard: “90 percent of being married is yelling WHAT?! from other rooms.”
: The Ford Edsel, a 1950s flop so notorious that it’s taught in business schools to this day, outsold …
: Lois Chiles as Dr. Holly Goodhead and Roger Moore as James Bond - Moonraker (1979)
: I follow the river of news approach for RSS feeds. I have done for twenty-plus years. I ignore …
: I don’t follow podcasts on proprietary platforms like YouTube and Spotify. That’s not …
: There’s something odd-looking about that second donkey.
: A very wholesome 15-second video of a lion and her cub.
: Why telcos shouldn’t fear an AI apocalypse — yet. AI doomer hype is surging, but telcos shouldn’t …
: Voter ID isn't designed to protect voting. It's designed to steal elections. Voter ID is a scam to disenfranchise millions of voters. The conservative Heritage Foundation, one …
: Trump would like the government he leads to pay him billions. Staggering corruption: Trump is suing …
: MAGA’s “People’s Capitalism”: An Alliance of Bourgeoisie and Mob. Corrupt …
: The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Pete Hegseth. Does not disappoint.
: JOB INTERVIEWER: Where do you see yourself in five years? ME:
: JOB INTERVIEWER: Where do you see yourself in five years? ME:
: I’ve been doing a lot of chopping lately. I like to have an apple nearly every day with lunch. …
: Last weekend I decided to once again migrate my Mastodon usage to my blog at mitchwagner.com, hosted …
: Arrcus bets on a smarter network fabric for AI inference. The company’s new Inference Network …
: I have been a professional writer for more than 40 years and I still can’t figure out affect …
: “There is nothing Christian about Christian nationalism” Talarico is a Texas state lawmaker studying to be a minister, who criticizes the Republican use of …
: Real-Estate Shopping for the Apocalypse
: Astronaut, Cliff Rowe (1960)
: I was the first one on a Teams meeting this morning and for a few minutes it was just me and three …
: Who needs a laptop when you have a folding phone? Galaxy Z Fold 7 phone + Logitech Keys 2 Go. keyboard = a great mobile workstation, or “Purse …
: I’m having a busy day so here is a recent photo of Minnie demanding her supper.
: “I love that Jules Verne asked the question “What kind of person could circumnavigate …
: “Chronicles of Narnia if Lucy Had a Sword.” A delightful GIF set.
: “The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re …
: So much of the modern world makes you feel like a widget on a conveyor belt, as our fetishization of …
: While a lot of TV actors were trying to mimic the mush-mouthed vocal delivery of big-screen movie …
: "Neither a robot nor a human but actually an entirely new entity" What is Claude? Anthropic doesn’t know either Gideon Lewis-Kraus at The New Yorker goes in …
: JOB INTERVIEWER: Where do you see yourself in five years? ME:
: Rubio brings Naziism to Munich Marco Rubio went Nazi on America’s European (former) partners — at the Munich security …
: Post by @spocko@mastodon.online @gardengeek here is Obama’s Follow up I’m old enough to …
: David Boreanaz will star in a Rockford Files reboot. I am looking forward to this. David Boreanaz is …
: Me [dropping off my dog’s stool sample at the veterinarian]: Happy Valentine’s Day! Greg Knauss …
: Changing how I handle blogging and social media (again) I vibe-coded a thing!
: ICE is preparing to spend $38 billion this year on a network of concentration camps to incarcerate …
: Crypto Has Finally Found Its Killer App: Human Trafficking
: An 88-year-old grandmother flew for the first time, on a plane piloted by her grandson. She also …
: I love the idea of a single app that reads RSS, Bluesky and Mastodon timelines, all in one place. I …
: Creeps Are Using Grok to Unblur Children’s Faces in the Epstein Files
: Mitchellaneous newsletter — Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026
: People don't give Gene L. Coon and D.C. Fontana enough credit for Star Trek “STAR TREK is explicitly about colonizing “the final frontier” and about defending …
: We need a new amendment: The right to bear phones “To adopt the language of Second Amendment enthusiasts, perhaps the only thing that can eventually …
: Watched: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms S1E1, The Hedge Knight A pleasant surprise! I thought I had …
: Minnie in a raincoat is giving a vibe like Ralph wearing the bunny suit in “A Christmas …
: As far as I can see, the only thing the national Democratic Party is good for is sending text …
: Pam Bondi did the Guardians of Pedophilia proud today.
: The Horse Girl Fandom Is Melting Down Over Armpits: “Armpits are an advancing contender in the …
: The Problem With Measuring Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Halftime (And Everything Else) “… the most viral language west of China’s Great Firewall is not English, but …
: A comfort blanket for the managerial class “… the ‘artificial general intelligence will destroy the world’ narrative …
: I went to a Super Bowl party yesterday at the Masonic lodge. This was my first Super Bowl party in …
: How many books are you currently in the middle of reading? What is the usual number for you?
: American concentration camps The US government is planning to build a network of warehouses to hold thousands of people
: Snarky comments about Starfleet Academy
: I had to upload a selfie to register for the Social Security website. I think this photo is very …
: Please enjoy this photo of Lake Murray that I snapped a year ago.
: Watched: M*A*S*H S2E14, Hot Lips and Empty Arms. Margaret wigs out when she learns that a nurse she …
: The Qanon cult believed political and financial elites were conspiring in a global sex-trafficking …
: Humain leverages abundant Saudi power infrastructure for AI advantage. My latest on Fierce Network.
: 'The assaultive cleansing of American society' MAGA’s energy is focused on mass deportation and, perhaps even more than that, “the …
: Republicans haul Netflix before Congress for being too ‘woke.’ Republicans love free speech — their …
: Crypto Bros Nauseated After Realizing Bitcoin Itself Was Funded by Jeffrey Epstein. …
: Epstein and Bannon thought they were running a global conspiracy to burn down global democracy and …
: Your Ring camera is an ICE agent.
: Epstein’s messages give us a glimpse, one we were never meant to see, of a shadowy world of …
: Now that I’ve split my meme posts into a separate blog on Micro.blog, I might migrate all my …
: I’ve decided to split this blog in two. I’m going to use mitchellaneous.net for the …
: “It is the misfortune of Minnesota’s ICE contingent to have invaded the state with the …
: Mecha Comet is a handheld, modular computer that runs Linux. It looks sweet, and it tempts even my …
: Word of the day: “Yegg.” A safecracker or tramp and thief.
: Word of the day: “fantods.” “A state of irritability and tension.”
: I’m making travel plans for conferences in the first half of the year. Visiting the press page …
: A friend and former colleague mentioned Xenix this morning.
: I got a PR pitch for an article on integrating cannabis into healthcare. I am tempted to respond, …
: Federal agents continue to rain terror on Minneapolis, Minnesota, and other U.S. cities including …
: This powerful and disturbing Lincoln Project video is a lesson in truth-telling. “We’ve …
: Bell is mobilizing ‘sovereign digital spine’ for Canadian AI. Bell Canada is investing …
: “I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything …
: Gun Rights Activists Briefly Pause MAGA Cheerleading To Half-Assedly Defend Rights Of Murdered …
: The nation’s founders worried that if the state had a monopoly on weapons, its citizens could be …
: Want to Reach Nirvana? Try a Colonoscopy. “It turns out that despite everything you’ve heard, …
: Tevye from Fiddler on the Roof, Now a Rich Man, Receives a Letter from His HOA. McSweeney’s: …
: Journalist Adam Serwer goes out on patrol with the brave resistance in Minnesota The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones …
: Researchers ran a simulation in October of civil war breaking out in the United States and the …
: Marjorie Taylor Greene is sounding sensible now. We live in the Upside-Down.
: I did my entire 94-minute dog walk this morning without listening to podcasts, music, audiobooks or …
: President Trump posted a long Truth Social rant about his new ballroom — amid devastating winter …
: ICE agents killed a mother of three and emergency room nurse Despite blatant video evidence of the …
: … the Trump administration is embracing Nazi propaganda, trying to convince Americans that the …
: Noem Says ICE Is Being Menaced By Ice Cubes, Protesters Should Be Cooped Up In ‘Free Speech Zones’ This administration only knows two moves: bluster and gaslighting. Whatever you saw, you didn’t see. …
: Why this winter storm will likely be a wild one “People say, ‘Oh, well, it’s really cold or we’re getting a lot of snow — how is the world warming?’ …
: Charter accused of backdoor attack against fixed wireless The Wireless Internet Service Providers Association complained to the FCC that Charter …
: ICE Is So Bad At Immigration Enforcement That It’s Detaining Native Americans Trump’s version of ICE has always assumed that if your skin shade is anything darker than right-wing …
: Hang on, there’s a Trump Phone Ultra coming too? Trump Mobile wants to build on the success of the …
: “At the risk of sounding stupid, I just found out how long the stone age lasted. In my head …
: Nerding out about the 1960s TV show “The Time Tunnel."
: “That thing about how cats think humans are big kittens is a myth, y’know."
: Facebook keeps showing me the same ad for a $60 sling bag, over and over. It’s a nice-looking …
: Quantum computing threatens to trash telecom security — get ready. Cybercriminals are already …
: For a moment there, Lotus Notes appeared to do everything a company needed
: The Woman Who Spent Five Hundred Days in a Cave By D. T. Max at The New Yorker: I asked her what she’d missed down below, and she told me roast …
: RIP "Uncle Floyd" Vivino, who hosted the cult "Uncle Floyd Show" starting in the 1970s Fans included David Bowie, who said in 2002: “Back in the late 70’s, everyone that I knew would …
: I bought a new strap for my computer bag the other day and now I’m on the luggage …
: “While sailing the Mediterranean Sea in the 1960s, the American aircraft carrier USS …
: DHS memo declares the Fourth Amendment optional. “The DHS is acting as if the US Constitution, …
: I am on record as being skeptical of the notion that if you shop very carefully, you can make …
: Here in brief is the method I’ve honed to optimize a two-week vacation: When you arrive in a new …
: AI vs. AI is the new security battleground. AI-enabled attacks at machine speed are forcing …
: This afternoon, Rebecca Santana of the Associated Press reported that ICE has been breaking into …
: ICE agents are hanging around schools, threatening children. Reg Chapman of CBS News in Minnesota …
: Yesterday Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, police chief Mark Bruley told reporters that the police were …
: At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this morning, a visibly exhausted president of …
: What Is the Scale of the Resistance in Minnesota? Kottke: “The Trump regime’s secret police …
: Dementia Don says he has the "concept of a deal" on the future of Greenland and the whole Arctic Circle This deal will get the US nothing new, at the expense of burning down 80 years of relations with our …
: Risk, reward, and revenue: Defining the telco role in the AI economy Now I can reveal what I was working on much of the last six months — this massively researched …
: I preordered the Clicks Power Keyboard. It’s a slide-out thumb keyboard that attaches to your …
: Mitchellaneous CLVII: 12 memes and other curiosities
: There's an observation that every Star Trek is an observation on the state of the US at the time it was made Sometimes Trek anticipates the future, but only by three to five years The original series: Cold …
: We just had our fourth visit from refrigerator repair people since the fridge broke the day after …
: We watched “Fallout” (violent, profane, cynical) and “All Creatures Great and …
: This morning, I saw two squirrels chasing each other up and down the big palm tree in the backyard. …
: Mitchellaneous CLVI: 13 memes and other curiosities
: After washing up for bed I put on my sleep T-shirt and then I realized I had absentmindedly put on …
: I thought for a minute about attending World of Coffee SanDiego in April, but if I’m reading …
: Nobody remembers the planes that don't crash American diplomacy and espionage were ambushed by the fall of the Shah of Iran, the fall of the …
: Mitchellaneous CLVI: 15 memes and other curiosities
: Trump has hit the basement of his support now — and he's never going to lose these supporters For the people who still support Trump today, no revelation or action will cause them to give up on …
: Mitchellaneous CLV: Twelve memes and other curiosities
: An important update on my earlier “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” take: I am informed by …
: Experimental replication shows knives manufactured from frozen human feces do not work. In case you …
: We did not watch the new Star Trek last night, because we watched The Pitt instead. I plan to watch …
: My oatmeal was the perfect consistency this morning so I know it’s going to be a good day.
: Mitchellaneous CLIV: Twelve memes and other curiosities
: I’m going to need to take a personal day from work tomorrow to recover from watching “The Pitt.”
: Do you know the secrets hidden inside your AI models? Enterprises and telcos face security risks …
: Julie and I were mega “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” fans. We tried a rewatch recently and …
: I know a surprising amount about men’s style for someone who goes around wearing cargo pants …
: I’m looking for recommendations for a good spam-blocker for text messages that works across …
: Mitchellaneous CLIII. Memes and curiosities
: When Julie is out of town and I’m at home, I rewatch the tv show MASH. It holds up pretty …
: I started traveling for business 37 years ago and during that time electronics has of course gotten …
: The refrigerator repair guys have come and gone and it turns out they did not have all the parts …
: James Herriot’s Son on the Real Stories Behind All Creatures Great and Small
: Boston startup IO River seeks CDN shakeup. The Beantown business provides a vendor-neutral platform …
: I'm reading a paper book for the first time in 16 years I switched to ebooks-only in 2010, when the Kindle app for iPad came out. However, yesterday I …
: Exciting refrigerator news We are scheduled to get our fourth visit from a refrigerator repair guy this morning, and this time …
: Mitchellaneous CLII. A political cartoon and vintage photos and illustrations
: … while we think of the role of the finance sector as “capital allocation” – that …
: Newsom Vows to Stop Proposed Billionaire Tax in California. “It’s a big club and you ain’t in it.” — …
: Why Vance Committed So Hard to the Minneapolis Shooter. “For MAGA America, ICE is an instrument for …
: I was kidnapped by idiots. An academic trip to Iraq unexpectedly turned into an immersive field …
: We're all just content for ICE Ryan Broderick at Garbage Day: “… it’s impossible to shake the profoundly unsettling feeling that we …
: The most durable tech is boring, old, and everywhere. COBOL, C, Linux and SQL are old, unglamorous …
: Nostalgia ain't what it used to be I think I will reread “Funny Papers,” by Tom De Haven, first of a trilogy of novels that …
: Mitchellaneous CL — memes, vintage and odd photos
: Mel Brooks is still raising hell at 99 “Some days I’m not feeling as great as I want to. But other days I don’t even notice that I’m …
: Kevin Roose @kevin@theforkiverse.com asked: “tell me the last thing you bought for under $50 …
: Many people set goals for a number of books to read each year. I don't think that's a good idea. Feeling like you have a target number looming over you discourages you from abandoning books if …
: Tom Homan: If Democrats Don’t Stop Calling Us Murderers, We’re Just Going To Be Forced To Keep …
: I loved the novel “The Ministry of Time” by Kaliane Bradley, which is a lighthearted workplace …
: “If one more person says ‘what if they medicated Van Gogh’ I think I’m …
: Mitchellaneous CXLIX. Eleven memes and a vintage magazine cover
: Greg Morris: “The weird part isn’t that the indie web exists. It’s that we ever thought …
: I finished reading “Entities: The Selected Novels of Eric Frank Russell,” an anthology of several …
: I’ve watched the rise of dictation tools for the Mac with some interest. I dictate more than …
: Good’s last words to Ross were “That’s fine. I’m not mad at you,” while his to her, after he shot …
: "American exercising their constitutional rights must submit, without question, to a white man holding a gun." Heather Cox Richardson compares the murders of Renee Good and Ahmad Arbery, the jogger gunned down …
: A team of experts evicted a 550-pound bear that was squatting in the basement of an Altadena, …
: Mitchellaneous CXLVIII. Thirteen things I saw on the Internet
: The Rewatchables podcast has never done Clerks or Mallrats. Shocking!
: Republicans somehow managed to sprint from “we’re trying to protect women in sports” straight to …
: ICE is “a bunch of meatheads who are basically Biff’s sidekicks from Back to the Future …
: Mitchellaneous CXLVII. Twelve things I saw on the Internet
: Mitchellaneous did not go out at the usual time yesterday morning. When I noticed this, I poked …
: Chris Arnade walks 45 miles in three days through New Jersey and Staten Island. “New Jersey …
: Billy Crystal’s apartment in When Harry Met Sally is over the top even by NY movie apartment …
: “All of us, citizens and immigrants alike, are being ruled by people who think life is a …
: In the 80s, VHS video dating services were the future.
: Everyone inside America’s most flailing destination city has a theory for what’s wrong. Now I have …
: I love this dialogue from “Wake Up Dead Man."
: Let’s Call a Murder a Murder. By John Gruber at Daring Fireball.
: Arista’s Ullal: Ethernet is the ‘eventual winner’ for AI networking. Ethernet is …
: Video shows ICE agent in Minneapolis fired at driver as vehicle veered past him. The video shows …
: Renee Nicole Good: Mother of 3 who loved to sing and write poetry shot and killed by ICE in …
: Mitchellaneous CXLVI. Thirteen things I saw on the Internet
: ‘I’ll Hear About It Eventually.’ So-called news avoiders aren’t really skipping out on the news The news is depressing and stressful and many people avoid it. But these news avoiders get their …
: Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
: Life under a clicktatorship Don Moynihan: One of the strangest moments to emerge from the U.S. kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro was …
: Parker Molloy, a trans woman journalist, received death threats and suspended her BlueSky account …
: The Disastrous CBS Evening News Debut Was at Least an Apt Metaphor for America Right Now
: Why Young Men Are Souring on Trump. The disaffected young men who helped elect Trump are fed up …
: If you’re having insomnia, lying down with your eyes closed and trying to sleep is restorative, …
: An extremely odd encounter at a McDonalds drive-through.
: John Scalzi: No one was asking for a pop art scifi movie that was ostensibly about shooting big …
: Mitchellaneous CXLV. four things I saw on the internet
: Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales on how to build institutional trust. These insights will be important …
: Tech Startups Are Handing Out Free Nicotine Pouches to Boost Productivity. I read this article to …
: The rise of the troll state. Maduro Was Offered Up To The Algorithm. By Ryan Broderick at Garbage …
: Grok creates non-consensual porn as regulators circle. According to the Financial Times, X is now …
: A list of predictions made in 1926 about 2026. Marriages will be easy to cancel, beef will …
: Data centers manifest their destiny in middle America. Data center developers are heading west to …
: Hundreds of Mysterious Victorian-Era Shoes Are Washing Up on a Beach in Wales. Nobody Knows Where …
: The Clicks Communicator is a BlackBerry for your phone The Clicks Communicator is a simplified phone …
: Brown Stage Capitalism. Cory Doctorow’s ‘Enshittification’ describes how tech platforms (and …
: Telcos brace for coming AI storm. Operators like Orange Business and AT&T are bullish on AI, …
: Hacked humanoid robots are an emerging security threat. A Recorded Future research report warns that …
: if someone threatens to burn your house down unless you follow their orders, and then they burn your …
: Returning to work after a 16-day holiday break.
: Mitchellaneous CXLIV. Ten things I saw on the internet
: The Internet’s Tollbooth Operators.. Tim Wu’s ‘The Age of Extraction’ chronicles the way Big Tech …
: Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling It “Slop”
: We Are the Bad Guys. “The swaggering threat to global stability is us.” — Hamilton Nolan
: Mitchellaneous CXLIII. Eight things I saw on the internet
: the myth of merit in the managerial class. Merit doesn’t get you hired or promoted for …
: Venezuela The U.S. invasion of Venezuela is going to be a disaster from which we may never recover. Venezuela …
: Trump’s Risky War in Venezuela.. By going around Congress, the president is showing contempt for the …
: Trump’s Cuts Are About to Make Health Care Even Worse. Medicaid cuts will make all of America look …
: Mitchellaneous CXLII. Six things I saw on the Internet
: Meta, a major contributor to the spread of AI slop, wants to be the trusted arbiter of what’s …
: Homeland Security’s increasingly unhinged social media posts
: Mitchellaneous CXLI. Seven things I saw on the internet
: I don’t mean to brag but I just read one page of tvtropes.org for about a minute, and now …
: RIP Isah Whitlock — Senator Clay Davis on "The Wire." Sheeeeit! RIP Isiah Whitlock, Jr., 71, a prolific and talented character actor whose roles include …
: Mitchellaneous CXL. Twelve things I saw on the internet
: How to read Patrick O'Brian I’m re-reading the first volume of the Aubrey-Maturin series, “Master and …
: Manton Reece makes observations and prescriptions for the future of open social networks and the …
: The Truth Physics Can No Longer Ignore Physics operates on the reductionist principle that the universe can be entirely explained by the …
: Why A.I. Didn’t Transform Our Lives in 2025. By Cal Newport.
: Neal Stephenson explores the fascinating science behind bullwhips. Bullwhips relate to a medical …
: Mitchellaneous CLXXXVIV. Twelve things I saw on the internet
: I don’t get why a person would want to buy an AI recording gadget, for $179. Why not just use …
: Now you can read an excerpt of from “Winds of Wycaro," the book-within-a-TV-series whose …
: Mitchellaneous CLXXXVIII. Four things I saw on the Internet
: Mitchellaneous CLXXXVII. Mitchellaneous's triumphant return! Fifteen things I found on the Internet
: My fortune cookie was smashed and missing a fortune. This seems ominous.
: "The torture was never ending" Here’s where you can watch the censored “60 Minutes” report about CECOT, the …
: J. D. Vance Fails a Simple Moral Test. The vice president welcomes anti-Semites into the Republican …
: Dozens of Flock AI camera feeds were just out there “I watched a man leave his house in the morning in New York…. watched a woman jogging alone …
: Major Release of Epstein Documents Contains Mentions of Trump and Mar-a-Lago Subpoenas
: Jewish Christmas On reddit.com/r/Judaism, I asked what folks are doing for Christmas, and the thread is interesting. …
: The big podcast shift to video I love podcasts. I listen to about two hours of podcasts a day. Most of that is while walking the …
: I listened to some Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner 2000-Year-Old Man routines this morning and now …
: Vince Gilligan and Rhea Seehorn Unpack ‘Pluribus’ Finale Twists and Reveal Original Ending: ‘It …
: “On December 24, 2025, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, will celebrate …
: Mitchellaneous moratorium I’ve decided to take a break from posting memes, historical photos and other found images on …
: Mitchellaneous CLXXXVI. Twelve things I saw on the Internet
: Here’s something I saw while I was walking the dog: This fairy village, which we pass by every few …
: They Get Wheeled on Flights and Miraculously Walk Off. Praise ‘Jetway Jesus.’ Natasha Dangoor at The Wall Street Jourrnal: When Carlos Gomez’s recent flight from Guadalajara was …
: What It Takes to Pilot a War Drone in Ukraine For this multimedia report, The New York Times joined a Ukrainian drone team at the front to …
: Mitchellaneous CLXXXV. Nine things I saw on the Internet
: Mitchellaneous CLXXXIV: Four things I saw on the Internet
: Why we can’t get enough of Bohemian Rhapsody Bohemian Rhapsody is a deeply weird mega hit, a song that explodes all the usual rules of success. …
: "Don't fuck with me fellas! This ain't my first time at the rodeo" The phrase “this ain’t my first rodeo” goes back at least as far as the 1981 movie …
: Rob Reiner said he was 'never, ever too busy' for his son Fresh Air rebroadcasts its September interview with Rob Reiner, which includes a previously-unaired …
: "... a giant robot with a chainsaw penis" I clicked on this linkbait headline: “5 Forgotten ’90s Sci-Fi Movies That Still Hold Up Today” and …
: Spotify Wrapped has proven hugely popular, and now everybody is doing it. I’m getting …
: Mitchellaneous CLXXXIII: Six things I saw on the Internet
: The only thing better than Walton Goggins is noseless Walton Goggins.
: Mitchellaneous CLXXXII: Twelve things I saw on the Internet
: Rob Reiner, RIP John Scalzi: “You could go a whole day talking to people by only quoting Rob Reiner films and …
: “[Rob Reiner’s] films have a certain comedy style … a sweetness and toughness…. Stand by Me is not …
: RIP Rob Reiner and his wife in an apparent homicide. How terrible. He was a great talent and a …
: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off came out the summer before I was a senior in high school, which meant when …
: Look, I’m not trying to say that new technologies never raise gnarly new legal questions, but …
: John Varley died two days ago on December 10, 2025. A great many will mourn him as a science fiction …
: Dacher Keltner, a professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, contends that …
: Question for my micro.blog chums: How do you find old posts about a topic? Imagine you are a fan of …
: Stop Hacklore is a website to help fight myths about digital security, with advice on using public …
: My love/hate relationship with Plur1bus ME, WATCHING THE TRAILER OF “PLURIBUS:” “This looks dreadful. Pass.” …
: Visions of the Future Should Come With an Expiration Date. Charlie Jane Anders: “One thing …
: I’m checking to see how Reddit and Tumblr embeds look on the blog and in the newsletter. They look …
: Due to unforseen circumcisions byu/Final-Ad-2033 inBoneAppleTea
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: The Articles of Interest podcast with Avery Trufelman is doing a series on U.S. military uniforms …
: Mitchellaneous CLXXXI: Four things I saw on the Internet
: Mitchellaneous CLXXX: Five things I saw on the Internet
: Marco Rubio orders the State Department to return to using the Times New Roman font because the …
: As humanoid robots enter the mainstream, security pros flag the risk of botnets on legs.
: A woman in the UK who suffers from schizophrenia thought her refrigerator was trying to communicate …
: Mitchellaneous CLXXIX: Four things I saw on the Internet
: I finished drinking coffee a half hour ago at 5:30 PM. I’m sure I will not regret this at three in …
: When you watch movies or long TV episodes at home, do you break them up over a few nights?
: Cities in Flight: James Blish’s Overlooked Classic. I love these books.
: The AI bubble isn’t new — Karl Marx explained the mechanisms behind it nearly 150 years ago. The …
: Financializing everything Tech billionaires have a dystopian goal of financializing the world. The rise of prediction markets …
: “Create a problem. Take credit for trying to fix the problem you created. I wonder if FIFA …
: Why We’re Paywalling Our Family Christmas Card . On McSweeney’s. I would 100% subscribe.
: Elon Musk’s Blue Tick scam. The EU fines X $140 million for its deception over blue checkmarks. By …
: America has identified its greatest enemy: Western Europe
: Cisco: ‘Infrastructure debt’ drags down AI deployments. My latest on Fierce Network.
: Mitchellaneous CLXXVIII: Five things I saw on the Internet
: Chris Arnade walks Surrey, England. “A nostalgic theme park of managed decline.”
: ‘Ice batteries’ could heat up data center cooling. Cooling is a bottleneck for next-gen …
: Mitchellaneous CLXXVI: Nine things I saw on the Internet
: Mitchellaneous CLXXV: Five things I saw on the Internet
: On a whim, I bought a Godzilla T-shirt from Facebook and now Facebook thinks I want to replace my …
: How 'enshittification' ruined the Internet and economy, and how to fix it “Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What We Can Do About It,” is a …
: Mitchellaneous CLXXIV: Five things I saw on the Internet
: At a Cabinet meeting today, drunken Fox News host Pete Hegseth bragged about committing war crimes …
: Mastodon seems to be fading away Manton Reece @manton has some thoughts on Mastodon: Mastodon CEO change, 2026 reset I’ve noted …
: How to overthrow dictators without violence A recent interview with political activist Srđa Popović, a leader of the movement that overthrew …
: Mitchellaneous CLXXIII: Five things I saw on the Internet
: My colleague Monica Alleven landed an interview with Justen Burdette, the embattled CEO of Hawaiian …
: A fun article about “mansplaining” and other neologisms. Not to be taken too seriously.
: The EU’s top Meta regulator is “contractually prohibited from hurting Meta’s …
: If we were rich, I’d absolutely buy this beautiful real-time New York subway clock, so …
: Neal Stephenson has a newsletter. Great! (And thanks, @pluralistic@mamot.fr for linking to it.)
: It doesn’t look good for Hawaiian mobile network operator Mobi. Customers are complaining on …
: Cisco reports a rebound in service provider spending driven by network refreshes and growing demand …
: The Trump administration is replacing American democracy with a kleptocracy, a system of corruption …
: New domain who dis? I changed the domain for this blog. The old domain redirects to the new domain so if you’re …
: Mitchellaneous CLXXII: Portraits of Senator John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy
: After comparison shopping, I now know that the best place to buy ice in the neighborhood is the …
: We are watching Pluribus. The premise is that everyone on earth has undergone a rapid, miraculous …
: Hamilton Nolan: Third parties on the U.S. national level are disastrous: “On the national …
: Mitchellaneous CLXXI: Eleven things I saw on the Internet
: Michelin Honored the Cheesesteak. Not All Philadelphians Cheered. “In a Venn diagram of people …
: Why sex workers, kids and terrorists are the first to adopt new tech. “… these groups aren’t …
: Heather Cox Richardson: The Trump government surrenders to the Russians, betrays our European …
: Joel Stein defends the em-dash in the face of attacks by AI-haters. “It’s the breath marks of …
: We Can’t Diet and Exercise Our Way Out of the Next Pandemic. ““In the event of a sudden …
: Mitchellaneous CLXX: Twelve things I saw on the Internet
: Our refrigerator is currently not keeping things cold. We have the refrigerator repair guy coming …
: Roger Zelazny TV series I'd like to see I’d like to see a good miniseries based on Roger Zelazny’s “Damnation …
: I thought this was a pretty cool show. I liked the idea of a sentient chimp as crew member, and I …
: “The Little Movie That Couldn’t”: ‘Mallrats’ Turns 30 A look back at “Mallrats” on its 30th anniversary, including a big interview with Kevin …
: China has brought millions out of poverty. The US has not – by choice
: Jamelle Bouie: The White House Gold Rush Is On. “If Trump’s first term was marked by a level …
: America is becoming Dallas. Hamilton Nolan visits a megachurch. “Could we not have the love …
: “Kumbaya” is a pretty bad folk song but it does not deserve the abuse it’s taken.
: We’re going to war with Venezuela for the same reasons we went to war with Iraq. Oil, the …
: An ancient Roman epitaph for a dog.
: I continued reading “Lord of the Rings” last night. Frodo and his hobbit scooby-gang have left Bree. …
: Karoline Leavitt says Trump calling a woman reporter “piggy” is an example of him being …
: I recently resolved to stop keeping empty boxes and to throw out the empty boxes that I already …
: Today in America’s rapid decline: Trump is literally threatening death to lawmakers who …
: Amazon Prime is making a new Stargate series! Sweet!
: Trump Praises Saudi Prince and Dismisses Question About Killing of Journalist “You don’t have to …
: Town’s Huge Christmas Mural Was Generated Using AI, Resulting in Ghastly Chthonic Horrors. …
: A 79-year-old man who was born in a refugee camp is doing hard time in Alligator Alcatraz after 70 …
: Here’s another photo of the borzoi dog I saw at the park the other day, caught in the act of …
: OpenAI is cutting off service to a toymaker after teddy bears started telling children how to play …
: Suddenly Frodo noticed that a strange-looking weather-beaten man, sitting in the shadows near the …
: Here's something I saw while walking the dog: This Russian borzoi hound Her name is “hippie,” and she was being walked by a lovely white-haired Russian woman …
: The hobbits have arrived at the Prancing Pony, which I picture as like the Bada Bing in The …
: Me, when I go out to walk the dog, and it's forecast to rain in the next hour
: When I was a kid, I thought quicksand, evil twins and amnesia would be bigger deals than they turned …
: I had to re-learn to read books in 2023, after 20+ years of doing more and more of my reading on the …
: I don’t trust newfangled simultaneous collaborative editing tools. Two people editing the same …
: The United States is in the moment after Wile E. Coyote runs off a cliff, but before he looks down.
: I keep getting spam at work with the subject line “EMPLOYEES FROM HELL.” I feel seen.
: Ezra Klein: How Tucker Carlson is helping modern Nazis — “Groypers” — go mainstream in …
: We paid El Salvador to torture, abuse, and rape completely innocent Venezuelans so that [Secretary …
: The economy is faltering and Americans know it. Bloomberg reports that 62% of Americans they polled …
: "Transforming a human necessity (housing) into an asset is a *terrible* idea" Transforming a human necessity into an asset is a terrible idea. Governments work to increase the …
: I have decided to make a drastic life change: I am throwing out all empty boxes, no matter how …
: Here’s something I saw while walking the dog: The first lawn Santa of the season.
: Here’s something I saw while walking the dog: The Goodyear Blimp
: If Back to the Future was made today, Marty would be going back to 1995.
: Reading “Lord of the Rings” continues. The scenes about the barrow-wights are pretty …
: The smallest hill I’m willing to die on: I dislike virtual backgrounds that are …
: I made a disparaging comment about Los Angeles to an angeleno on a team call, and the angeleno …
: I went on the San Diego subreddit to see if anyone can see the Northern Lights from here, and I fell …
: I very nearly quit reading Lord of the Rings. I’m about 350 pages in and a third of that is …
: Hofstadter’s law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account …
: Sign of the changing seasons: Today is the first day since the spring that I’ve had to turn on the …
: Chris Arnade: China is "the US, circa 1955 or so, but with the benefit of modern tech" Chris Arnade walks the city of Zhengzhou, China, and shares his self-described “oversimplified …
: Last night I felt awful about Senate Democrats capitulating to Republicans, but on further reflection, I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps they looked at the harm that would be caused by a shutdown and decided to just kick the …
: “Low skilled” workers are a myth. “[Minimum-wage jobs are] not low-skill. They simply require …
: “Once I returned home, I realised the only things that had kept their value were the …
: Chris Arnade walks Taipei and other parts of China, and reflects on the temples, materialism and …
: The Edmund Fitzgerald sank 50 years ago. Gordon Lightfoot’s ballad, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” became one of the …
: The Trump government says it will use the military against American civilians and is openly …
: Trump’s domestic militia is growing. “The President repeatedly says he’ll use the …
: Trump Administration Demands States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps — “They would rather go …
: Today is, of course, not the end. It’s not even the beginning of the end. It’s even too …
: Democrats sweep about every election they’re in, particularly Mamdani in New York. Prop 50 …
: AT&T’s grounded AI strategy defies bubble warnings. My latest on Fierce Network. With executive …
: Johnny Sheffield, the actor who played Boy in Tarzan movies opposite Johnny Weissmuller 1939-41, retired to San Diego “Reflecting on their partnership, Weissmuller later said, ‘He was a natural on set, …
: Which Star Trek bed would you want to sleep on?
: Mexican immigrants to Los Angeles made stars of formerly humble tuba players People long associated the instrument with polkas, elephants, clowns, and players at the back of the …
: Who Is the Dapper Louvre Heist ‘Detective’ And Is He Even Real “‘Never gonna crack it with a detective who wears an actual fedora unironically,’ …
: “Since 1982, [Charlotte] Chopin, now 102 years old, has taught yoga in Léré, a French village …
: The secret to happiness is finding life purpose and acting on it Happiness is not achieved by pursuing happiness. Happiness is a byproduct of finding life purpose …
: Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House. “Our …
: ‘Things keep evolving into anteaters.’ Anteaters evolved independently at least 12 times in the 66 million years since nonavian dinosaurs …
: The mad king's digital killswitch Cory Doctorow: Remember when we were all worried that Huawei had filled our telecoms infrastructure …
: One of the benefits of using Amazon frequently is that we have a gallery of great photos of the …
: ICE vs. NYC. Hamilton Nolan: “As dark as these times are, we can all take a tiny bit of …
: Brilliant advice for any aspiring creative person, from an art teacher critiquing a student’s …
: Heather Cox Richardson: “The president is establishing the principle that he can order the murder of …
: Oddly shaped emotional spaces David Pierce, a writer and podcaster for The Verge, talks about his work process and tools on the …
: “WordPress co-founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg called the company’s Tumblr …
: “Even Oedipus is like, ‘whoa, that sounds overly incestuous.'" Newsletter editor …
: British supermarket chain Aldi created a puffer coat that looks like a giant baked potato, with a …
: We finished watching The Diplomat Season 3, a fantasy series where the United States is run by …
: I’m still reading “Lord of the Rings.” Blorbo is getting ready to peace-out from …
: I hated "Lord of the Rings" but I'm giving it another try Currently reading: The Lord of the Rings by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien 📚 I read Lord of the Rings …
: Overheard: “No, Chip Roy. Jesus is not my king. There is only one king in America and that’s …
: President Trump posted an AI video of himself spraying explosive diarrhea on peaceful protesters. …
: To fix a broken U.S., start locally Help pass California Proposition 50, the Election Rigging Response Act (ERRA). You just need to walk …
: I’m concentrating my social media and blogging time to where I get the most enjoyment and …
: Shift Change at the Wheel Reinvention Factory. Even David Brooks is welcome in our movement.. By …
: Microsoft, Tear Down That Wall! What the Eurostack is missing.. By Cory Doctorow …
: Photos: From Ranches to Small Mountain Towns, How Prop. 50 Would Change San Diego’s 48th …
: Chris Arnade:: “…. Hong Kong is not walkable, [but] that doesn’t mean it’s not a …
: Spit On, Sworn At, and Undeterred: What It’s Like to Own a Cybertruck
: Photos from yesterday’s No Kings rally and march in downtown San Diego, in Waterford Park. …
: Eight years ago today I attended my first meeting of the La Mesa-Foothills Democratic Club. It has …
: I marched at the San Diego No Kings event this morning. I’ll have photos later. It was intense. My …
: Do The Same Sorts Of People Lead All Societies?
: Loni Anderson, Star of ‘WKRP in Cincinnati,’ Dies at 79 — “In 1980, she starred in …
: We once loved pigeons. We might not remember that, but they do
: I’m going to the No Kings event Saturday. I didn’t want to shlep a sign but then I thought — …
: My hotel room has no desk. It has an ironing board and iron but no closets, so once you’ve …
: Here’s something I saw today — this restaurant next door to my hotel. Colombian. It …
: President Donald Trump is desperate for an enemy to justify the extreme force he wants to deploy on …
: The Romantic: How Diane Keaton’s quest for beauty left an imprint on American culture — A …
: The Oatmeal’s comic/essay about AI art starts as yet another AI rant, but then goes in an …
: New Paper Finds That When You Reward AI for Success on Social Media, It Becomes Increasingly …
: An intriguing defense of Julian Jaynes' theory of how human consciousness emerged Scott Alexander reviews Julian Jaynes’s alternative-science masterpiece, “The Origin of …
: The Trump government is like those episodes of MASH where Henry Blake leaves the camp and Frank …
: Bobby Brainworms says babies live inside women’s placentas, which is not how women’s …
: … when people say, “How come you were never mad at the last guy?” I say, “Because I wasn’t …
: I was today years old when I heard John Mulaney’s “Horse in the Hospital” routine, …
: I am a heavy user of dictation on the iPhone — I probably dictate as much or more than I type — but …
: The online conversation community seems to gravitate toward corporate-owned silos rather than …
: When I turned 50, I decided to get a tattoo, but I did not follow through because it seemed like too …
: I used “harrumph” in a work chat this morning. I’m at an age now where I can …
: Apple reviews The Best Apples to Eat Right Now, According to an Apple Reviewer I love apples. I literally eat an …
: Trump says Illinois governor, Chicago mayor should be jailed
: Stephen Miller Cited ‘Plenary Authority,’ Then Paused. Conspiracies Started Flying.
: ❤️👍 I work on a core team of eight people, five of them women, including the manager. We use ❤️ to …
: Which social media platforms do you get the most value from? For me, the answers are: Facebook. Sigh. Reddit, but 90% of my activity is reading and the …
: C Spire overcomes AI ‘stigma’ — C Spire accelerated trustworthy AI adoption via a …
: Pushing back against enshittification Congratulations to Cory Doctorow on the publication of his new book, “Enshittification: Why …
: This is Tina and Ray’s dog Walter. Tina had about a dozen people over to her house this …
: What’s Wrong With Las Vegas? Prices are rising, international tourism is falling, and visits are …
: L.A.’s Entertainment Economy Is Looking Like a Disaster Movie Work is evaporating, businesses are closing, longtime residents are leaving, and the city’s creative …
: The mafia hitman who dreamt of being a pop star: The scarcely believable true story of convicted …
: Drew Scanlon, the face of the three-panel Blinking White Guy meme, is using his Internet fame to …
: Many Germans look back with bafflement at how the country that produced Bach and Goethe succumbed to …
: Nine Things I Learned in Ninety Years. By Edward Packard, writer, whose work includes the prototype …
: Chicago apartment ICE raid: Tenants detained for hours and American kids separated from parents A large overnight raid by ICE in Chicago traumatized residents, with adults and children being …
: Here's something I saw while walking the dog. Note the wee small pickup truck with surfboards on the left.
: One of my neighbor kids is doing trumpet practice. This is a sentence one hopes never to utter.
: We had a great meeting of the La Mesa-Foothills Democratic Club yesterday. It was wonderful to get …
: Microsoft is giving away Crocs decorated with a montage of the Windows XP wallpaper and logos Microsoft confirms it found a way to make Crocs even uglier – with Windows XP and Clippy I …
: Here's something I saw while walking the dog. This message spelled out with nails pounded into the top of a post.
: My top podcasts of the month
: Great view walking the dog this morning
: “It’s a war from within.” Trump prepares the generals for what comes next. Jonathan V. Last at The Bulwark: If you were expecting Triumph of the Will, you were disappointed …
: “I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither …
: Trump's and Hegseth's speeches today were disgraceful even by the standards of this administration They have declared war on 1/3 to 1/2 of the American population: Three of our largest cities plus …
: Here are some things I saw while walking the dog. I guess we're doing Halloween now.
: I'm not a superhero fan but I do love Superman He’s 100% hero, lives by the Scout oath (trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, …
: Looking at online reviews of this year’s “Superman” movie, I’m surprised …
: A Perpetual Reichstag Fire For The 24-Hour News Cycle Ryan Broderick at Garbage Day: The MAGA movement needs violence and intimidation to function, both …
: I've been through four recessions in my adult lifetime, and did OK through all of them, but the coming bust looks like it will be bigger than anything we've seen since the Great Depression. And the U.S. will have to weather that storm under the most inept and corrupt national government …
: Here’s something I saw walking the dog, giving a Lincoln Lawyer vibe. I have not seen this car …
: Lately when I think of going to the movies I think of driving across town, parking and paying money …
: We Are All Domestic Terrorists Now. Here comes the iron fist. Hamilton Nolan: “The ‘imperial boomerang’ is the concept that all of the methods …
: "Workslop" is the result of employees using AI to do shoddy work and pass the work of fixing it on to others “Workslop: Bad study but an excellent word”, by David Gerard at Pivot To AI: The word …
: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh Cory Doctorow: " … a third of the stock market is tied up in seven AI companies that have no …
: One of the great mysteries of economics is why the digital revolution has resulted in little to no documentable gain in productivity. People today aren’t more productive than they were in 1975, despite advances in computers and …
: ‘We’re insanely hubristic’: how The Rest Is History became the world’s biggest history podcast. …
: Small Acts of Good, US as Third World Country, and How Culture Changes. By Chris Arnade. American …
: What Happens When a Bad-Tempered, Distractible Doofus Runs an Empire?. “One of the few things …
: White Lotus is a show about acute cranial-rectal inversion White Lotus season one: I don’t know if it would be right to say we liked it. This is a show …
: Krypto the superdog stole the movie We liked Superman. But it was too long and it made me miss Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene …
: I have only a half-dozen phone numbers in my iPhone tagged as favorites. I actually looked at all of …
: The next items on my to-do list are filling out expense reports and dropping stool samples at the …
: What Nvidia and OpenAI’s $100B agreement means for telcos. OpenAI just inked a $100B …
: My latest on Fierce Network: Telcos tackle AI’s impact at Fierce Network Research event. At the …
: Here’s Minnie one evening this week, letting me know it’s time to quit fooling around …
: Meta appointed anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as an AI bias advisor The Advocate: “The man Meta has appointed to help address ‘ideological and political …
: The Week America Woke Up to Oligarchy. By Matt Stoller. “Americans, broadly speaking, hate …
: Elon Musk's MechaHitler AI will be available to the US government for $0.42. Brandon Vigliorolo at The Register: Grok’s racist, conspiracy-riddled responses led public …
: Rick Moranis is returning for the Spaceballs sequel, his first screen outing since 1997. …
: Dave Pell: “Trump promised to bring manufacturing back to America. And he has. The Justice …
: I'm going to try living without the Grammarly paid plan I use Grammarly for all my online writing, to check grammar, spelling, usage, punctuation and to …
: Language pet peeve: Writers who say “may be” when they mean “is.”
: Lucinda Price, a writer and comedian, writes about the “reply guys” who slide into her …
: The West Is In A Far Worse Position than the Warsaw Pact Was At The Start Of the Cold War
: A Brief History of The Flatiron Building
: Trump’s imperial court includes a gay evangelical Christian and a Jewish Nazi. I never thought the …
: Peter Thiel Wants Everyone to Think More About the Antichrist. This guy is the kingmaker who lined …
: "… how is it that some AI's users describe their experience as a hellish ordeal, while others delight in the ways that AI is changing their lives for the better?" Cory Doctorow: The answer is contained in the concept of “centaurs” and “reverse …
: "I'm not a spy! I read books!" Watching "Three Days of the Condor" “Three Days of the Condor” is a 1975 thriller starring Robert Redford as a bookish CIA …
: I need to explore the new OpenGraph support in Micro.blog. I saw a truncated post show up as a …
: Approximately 70% of all people who get cancer have eaten pickles. Most people who have recently …
: I just got a notification that my Tumblr blog turned 17 years old today. Tumblr has rarely been my …
: The Verge staff lists books that changed their lives. My friend Barbara Krasnoff adds class to the …
: Why your next car should be an electric cargo bike. I am 100% ebike-curious, but I don’t feel …
: In search of Robert Redford’s most iconic jacket. It’s the herringbone tweed he wore in “Three Days …
: American Billionaires Are Competing To Be King Shit of Turd Island
: I migrated from Mastodon to Micro.blog, again. Great thing about both platforms is you can just do …
: “Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in the last century." By …
: How Tim Cook sold out Steve Jobs. By Anil Dash. “The son of an immigrant, a child of the …
: Hate the player AND the game: But above all, hate the crooked ump.. By Cory Doctorow …
: A short history of business cards, from the 17th Century to today. “Today, the format is …
: What’s the Difference Between a Sport Coat, a Blazer and a Suit Coat? A sport coat is meant to …
: Getting Yelled at By Dumbasses. The defining experience of fascism. By Hamilton Nolan
: The school shooting industry is worth billions — and it keeps growing. “Tom McDermott, with …
: AI psychosis and the warped mirror. Cory Doctorow: “While the internet makes it far easier to …
: Netscape Navigator was released 30 years ago.. By Jamie Zawinski, one of the first Netscape …
: Read Whatever the Hell You Want charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/read-wh… 💯
: You’re not going to believe the number of headphones I think you should have …
: Construction workers in Iowa rushed into a burning house to save a family, and used a backyard …
: If Trump is concerned that 97% of the coverage about him is negative, maybe he should try doing …
: Ocasio-Cortez Statement on Charlie Kirk Resolution and Trump Administration’s Assault on Free Speech …
: Petulant sexual predator and convicted felon Donald Trump “reiterated his claim that critical …
: Republican Ted Cruz says FCC chair’s threats about Kimmel are ‘dangerous.’ “That’s right out of …
: I think a person can stay sufficiently well informed on five minutes of news consumption daily, 360 …
: Why more and more people are tuning the news out: ‘Now I don’t have that anxiety’ …
: OpenAI released a report on who’s using ChatGPT and how. Most chats aren’t work-related, …
: Nobody knows what socialism means. Perhaps a better way to say this is that everyone who says …
: New York Socialist City. Where taking care of everyone is common sense. “… what socialism …
: In retrospect it is obvious that drinking 48 ounces of cappuccino and Coke Zero in the two hours …
: Balderdash Like many people, I swear a lot, and I’m even a little proud of it. But I have resolved to …
: Yesterday I unplugged as much as I could from social media and national political news, to the …
: I am trying to at least partly unplug from the national political news today.
: Micro.blog, the service I use to host mitchw.blog does not support likes and reblogs. Micro.blog …
: An E-bike For The Mind. E-bikes and what they can teach us about AI. joshbrake.substack.com
: Four Theories of Meta. Laughable, smart, evil and terrifying. …
: This blog is a dog's breakfast Dogs start the day with a spoonful of Alpo or some other canned meat on top of a heap of patented, …
: I have found a simple fix for a pebble in my shoe since I resumed blogging in earnest a few years …
: A new bill would grant Marco Rubio the right to declare any U.S. citizen a terrorist supporter based …
: Is ‘The Pitt’ Really an ‘ER’ Spinoff? Michael Crichton’s Estate Says It Is. Nicholas Kulish at The New York Times: In February 2020, the actor Noah Wyle decided the moment was …
: Charlie Kirk’s allies warn Americans: Mourn him properly or else. Republicans love cancel …
: San Diego Navy doctor fired after right-wing activists find pronouns on social media. Hate, …
: Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism [Rebecca Solnit]. …
: It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession.” “States don’t have to …
: Charlie Kirk’s assassination is influencers all the way down. “In the immediate …
: Blogging for me is an attempt to balance how posts will look on the blog in desktop vs. mobile, in …
: Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer scratched bullets with gaming catchphrases and symbols and a furry sex …
: Ted Cruz AI bill could let firms bribe Trump to avoid safety laws, critics warn. arstechnica.com
: Under Pressure, Rady Children’s Hospital Strikes Shaky Middle Ground on Trans Care. The San Diego …
: Comcast executives sent an email to employees endorsing free speech and warning that if you use that …
: Redistricting could put Darrell Issa’s seat in Congress in play. A primary fight among …
: Headline of the week: 1,200 undergrads hung out to dry after jailbreak attack on laundry machines …
: I briefly wondered why I put on a shirt when working from a home office, and then I realized I am …
: Rebooting The Blogosphere (Part 1: Activities) climbtothestars.org. Lately I like blogging more and …
: Five technological achievements! (That we won’t see any time soon.) …
: Google: The worst possible antitrust outcome. pluralistic.net
: “Blogging lost to Twitter because Twitter had one-click subscribe.” …
: “The Dems are terrible at politics. They should be running ads on TV saying that no workers in …
: “Reminder: Sept 18, one week from today, is the 3rd anniversary of the 20th anniversary of the …
: Mastodon is getting quote posts. blog.joinmastodon.org
: On Political Violence. A short, insightful commentary. prospect.org
: “The logical endpoint of 21st-century America: An influencer shot to death at a school in …
: I published and deleted two posts about Charlie Kirk yesterday, and then wrote one more today, and I …
: ActivityPub and ATPro need to fully interoperate. A Mastodon user should be able to follow a BlueSky …
: Elizabeth Warren sends a letter to Whiskey Pete Hegseth questioning whether it’s a good idea …
: Apple’s new crossbody phone strap has a surprisingly interesting history, going back to the …
: Authoritarianism Feels Surprisingly Normal—Until It Doesn’t. Life in Venezuela was deceptively …
: Conservative Justices Declare Racial Profiling Just Fine If Trump Asks For It. [Talking Points Memo]
: I am 50 followers away from 1,000 followers on Mastodon. A few dozen of you fuckers better unfollow …
: San Diego protests, rallies and resources to help you push back against tyranny Support Proposition 50, the Election Rigging Response Act. Join the San Diego Democratic Party GO …
: Is it just me or is BlueSky all politics, all the time?
: The Trump administration just pulled off the industrial policy equivalent of lighting your own house on fire to prove you have working smoke alarms. Blue Revolution on Facebook: On September 4 federal agencies swarmed Hyundai’s gleaming Georgia …
: How To Lose Allies and Create Enemies
: No, Edward Saatchi is not going to recreate the Orson Welles cut of “The Magnificent …
: DragonCon, a prominent science fiction convention, ejected an artist for peddling AI output and …
: Get Ready For the Return of Serious Disease
: Trump claims Chicago is the “world’s most dangerous city.” But the most violent …
: A guide to fall 2025 vaccines
: All the Things That You Need a Billion Dollars to Buy Are Bad
: Brett @ttscoff@hachyderm.io Terpstra’s upcoming Marked 3 looks useful to me. I write in …
: “The moment you have rulers instead of leaders, your society is sunk. The moment your society …
: Why You Should Not Be Updating Old Blog Posts
: Customer loyalty is a sham: Airlines, banks, and even your WiFi provider are taking advantage of …
: “So anyways with the rapid rise of fascism I feel it’s a good time to point out that it’s …
: I didn’t enjoy watching Idiocracy, and I certainly am not enjoying living it.
: Nate Silver thinks BlueSky is a loser. Via Dave. Interesting opinions. I don’t know whether I …
: I’m surprised Trump hasn’t pardoned this guy and given him a cabinet position.
: All the President’s Tech CEOs: At a White House dinner Thursday night, America’s tech executives put …
: The World No Longer Takes Trump Seriously
: This dog just farted like you wouldn’t believe.
: “I’m at a diner for breakfast. There’s a post-club girl here in yesterday’s …
: “I’m paying to force seven thousand strangers to see a photo of my late husband having fun with his …
: On the Power of Small Acts of Noncompliance
: Trump’s Labor Day Weekend At Bernie’s [Ryan Broderick at Garbage Day]
: I am trying to swear less. It’s not fucking going well.
: ‘Resist Starvation’: Israeli Chefs and Restaurateurs Call to Stop the Hunger in Gaza — …
: Also shared privately by the same friend, who is on a roll: “The socialism that scares me …
: Shared privately by a friend, in reaction to Florida banning vaccine mandates: “Florida is the …
: A family came in with their 2mo. And they were very hesitant about vaccines. “Which ones are …
: The WKRP: Johnny Fever Mix A three-hour playlist of great 70s rock hits compiled from every DJ break that Dr. Johnny Fever made …
: I have never liked the word “mouthfeel.” Ironically, I don’t like the way it feels …
: Stop saying “wrap your head around.” It’s a cliche, and it makes me think of …
: I was able to pill the dog this morning using “the force open her mouth, pop it in the back of …
: “The housing crisis isn’t just a result of greedy landlords and investors. It’s an inevitable result …
: Men have always worn skirts.
: If America continues on the path it is on now, today’s babies will grow up to dream of a life …
: Normalize not having TVs on in waiting rooms and other public places. If people want something to …
: Immigration sweeps leave gaping holes in San Diego families. ‘I just want my dad home.’
: The gulf between employers and the employed is constantly widening, and classes are rapidly forming, …
: A 92-year-old sprinter’s body holds clues for healthy aging.
: I enjoyed chick lit and my dick didn't fall off “Elizabeth Gilbert has a new memoir out.” The mere sentence radiates gentle …
: “Tax the rich. They’ll stay. Zohran Mamdani wants to make New York more affordable by …
: Enshittification reaches beyond the grave “Deadbots,” or digital representations of the deceased, are getting more persuasive, and …
: “no tea no shade no pink lemonade to Mr. Denis Villeneuve (LOVE the name), but in 1984 David …
: I’m seeing rumors he’s alive after all. Fuck.
: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order requiring law enforcement, including feds, …
: How To Argue With An AI Booster. By the indomitable Edward Zitron.
: I’ve been feeling nostalgic recently for Long Island, where I grew up. This Reddit thread is …
: The capitalism of fools: Trump’s mirror-world New Deal. Cory Doctorow: Trump’s tariffs, …
: Heather Cox Richardson shares a brief history of the Chicano movement of the 1960s. She uses the …
: Threads is testing a way to share long-form text on the platform. I’d love to see Mastodon and …
: DEVONthink, which I use daily for managing documents, gets a big update for the iPhone and iPad, in …
: Qualified people get fired or leave. Sycophants, stooges, frauds, charlatans, lackeys, lickspittles, …
: The latest government cut made by the Trump administration is a single consonant. But it’s a …
: I’m back to Obsidian after 10 months in the wilderness I was an Obsidian addict for years until October 2024, when I decided to use DevonThink for a while. …
: “‘I luxuriate in the weird details’: why Highlander is my feelgood movie” …
: How the head of Obsidian went from superfan to CEO. An interview with Steph “kepano” …
: Publicity photos and a brief write-up on what to expect from Fallout Season 2 in December. I’m …
: ICE Is Nothing Like the Brownshirts, Because the Brownshirts Actually Identified Themselves …
: A fascinating history of zippers, which were invented in 1892 and didn’t even work for almost …
: What Happens When an Entire Scientific Field Changes Its Mind …
: I almost came home with another dog this morning, a sweet-faced chihuahua/German shepherd mix. (And …
: The scarcity of public toilets is a perfect example of American thinking in 2025. Americans would …
: A good day for our man Gavin Some days I hate Gavin Newsom, some days I love him. Aug. 14 was a love-him day. Newsom launched a …
: I dislike Discord I dislike it so much that I’ve decided to stop participating in all Discord forums. Reddit and …
: Venice floats on millions of tree trunks that workers pounded vertically into the mud over a …
: “We need shittable cities (actively maintained public restrooms).… A city without …
: President Trump’s War on “Woke AI” Is a Civil Liberties Nightmare www.eff.org/deeplinks…
: Questionable coffee I bought a new coffee on Sunday and did not care for it, but I’ve been continuing to drink it …
: Things that don’t bother me that seem to bother other people: Apologizing when I’m …
: Today I’ve been messaging folks I haven’t communicated with in years, and it’s …
: Maga’s boss class think they are immune to American carnage: They’re in for a surprise. …
: Sorry, the optional AI is mandatory. www.jwz.org/blog/2025…
: Scams And Bribery Are Becoming the Foundation of Our Economy. “The United States government …
: Cybersecurity “red teams” tell the UK government that AI is rubbish, and they …
: Events that mark the passing of the year: New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, my …
: Mitchellaneous Vol. CIX: Thirteen things I saw on the Internet
: “One way to think about AI’s unwelcome intrusion into our lives can be summed up with …
: Our two elderly cats, who previously hated each other and couldn’t stand to be in the same …
: ICE arrested a mother outside a Chula Vista, San Diego, elementary school for overstaying her visa. …
: Trump has said America was at its richest 1870-1913, a time when the average life expectancy was …
: The A.O.C. Deepfake Was Terrible. The Proposed Solution Is Delusional. By Zeynep Tufekci. Some clown …
: A unvaccinated teen-ager brought 2025’s first case of measles to San Diego County. He may have …
: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth resposted a video of a self-described Christian nationalist pastor …
: AOL is discontinuing dial-up internet service after 34 years. Though AOL says the number of dial-up …
: Is 40’s the new 60’s? 40-year-old man describes how ageism is killing his job search …
: Inside America’s Quiet Safety Revolution: How Local Leaders Are Cutting Crime Without More Cops …
: How big trucks and SUVs gobbled up the entire auto industry. ‘Car bloat’ is what you get when …
: " … Trump is deploying troops against an imaginary enemy in DC before heading to Alaska …
: Today’s computer science grads face more than double the unemployment rate of art history …
: This long interview with Sharon Stone is extremely intense. www.theguardian.com/lifeandst…
: Mitchellaneous Vol. CVIII: Thirteen things I saw on the Internet
: Walking Liverpool, Leicester, and a little bit of London. “Two smaller English cities …
: How AI, Healthcare, and Labubu Became the US Economy. “… the US is becoming Las Vegas - …
: Good ideas are popular: But they’re impolitic. “In democracies, we’re told, politicians exist …
: First impressions of Sydney. “A remarkably relaxing city – maybe too relaxing?” By …
: Coming Soon: Your Professional Decline. On kottke.org.
: “Super weird to have innocuously added a silly personal anecdote to a post you didn’t …
: “…. watching otherwise “progressive” people start to parrot jokes about like …
: OpenAI is an arm’s-length subsidiary of Microsoft, and OpenAI needs GPT5 to convince Microsoft …
: Recent antitrust fervor is millionaire-on-billionaire violence. By Cory Doctorow. …
: RFK Jr. wants a wearable on every America. That future’s not as healthy as he thinks. …
: One of the oldest known archeological sites on Earth, 12,000-year-old Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, meets …
: I just used the word “deliverables” in an email non-ironically. I feel dirty and not in a good way.
: Trump’s attack on Intel is a big dumb distraction. By my colleague Diana Goovaerts on Fierce …
: ChatGPT5 and other leading GenAI chatbots still fail hilariously at simple tasks like drawing maps …
: On Reddit: What are some weird things you do at your desk because you WFH and would never do in the …
: A judge threw out the sex harassment suit against ex-San Diego county supervisor Nathan Fletcher. …
: ChatGPT is bringing back 4o as an option because people missed it. People said ChatGPT 4o was their …
: Masked government-employed thugs harassed and threatened a couple of American citizens for the crime …
: AI Is Here, and a Quiet Havoc Has Begun. Everyone knows artificial intelligence will destroy a lot …
: I am repulsed by AI chatbots' attempts to emulate human behavior, and have all of that switched off …
: Dave Winer on ChatGPT5: The big lie is that they want you to believe this is human. This is a …
: Mitchellaneous Vol. CVII: Eighteen things I saw on the Internet
: The Grooms Smashing Wedding Cake in Their Brides’ Faces. “I was thinking, ‘We are going to be …
: This is why wireless is so weird right now. www.fierce-network.com/wireless/… Is “A Candle in …
: Unfortunately, Terry Gilliam’s Brazil still holds up, 40 years after its release. …
: The U.S. Air Force will deny retirement pay to transgender service members being separated from the …
: Harvard is laying off young researchers and shelving years and decades of work after the U.S. …
: ‘Personality engineering’ puts a human face on telco AI agents. www.fierce-network.com/cloud/per… My …
: Mitchellaneous Vol. CVI: Twelve things I saw on the Internet
: Which jobs can be replaced with AI? Jobs that have already been degraded to the point of …
: If you oppose the State of Israel, this post is not for you. coreyrobin.com/2025/08/0… This …
: Links and ephemera Wednesday 8.6.2025
: Minnie is a medium-sized dog, which means even though she isn’t that great on the leash, …
: Our next-door neighbor adopted a three-legged dog, and I saw her walking both of her dogs this …
: Links and ephemera Tuesday 8.5.2025
: For me, like hundreds of millions of men around the world, every other morning I look in the mirror …
: We gave the cats flea treatments. The doctors say that I will now have to undergo many rounds of …
: Links and ephemera Monday 8.4.2025
: “After Hours” and “Barton Fink” are two movies where the trailers promised lighthearted comedy and I …
: Links and ephemera Sunday 8.3.2025
: I’ve been trying out a couple of new web browsers and moving my newsletter subscriptions to …
: Link and ephemera Friday 8.1.2025
: Links and ephemera Thursday 7.31.2025
: One day when I was in the third grade, our music teacher, Mrs. Lafayette, had the class compose a …
: I use an app called Lose It to track calories, and I have cottage cheese with lunch nearly every …
: Link and ephemera Wednesday 7.30.2025
: Cloud-native becomes telcos’ new baseline after supplier upheavals. fierce-network.com Recent …
: Here’s something I saw while walking the dog: This pleasing house
: Links and ephemera Tuesday 7.29.2025
: Currently reading: The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World by Harry Harrison 📚
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Links and ephemera for Monday, 7.28.2025
✪ The Department of Homeland Security is tweeting Nazi propaganda. msn.com ✪ Passkeys won’t be …
: I had an actual, legitimate wrong-number text just now, followed by a phone call. They weren’t …
: I went to Comic-Con yesterday. Here are some photos More precisely, I went near Comic-Con. I didn’t get tickets. But that’s OK — Comic-Con …
: Links for today Saturday 7.26.2025 ✪ “Resident Alien,” one of our favorite TV shows, is canceled. Son of a bitch! This is …
: "The Stainless Steel Rat" is the GOAT nickname for a fictional hero He was the hero of the Stainless Steel Rat books by Harry Harrison. His full name is James Bolivar …
: I think I’m going to stick with the Zen browser. I found it confusing at first, even though I …
: I prefer to write in Markdown, but often I have to write in Microsoft Word, and I hate it, because I …
: I’ve been using the Zen browser for a couple of hours. I think I like it, but it’s …
: My phone is an iPhone 15 Pro Max — the big one. I think I might be happier with a standard-size …
: I’m thinking about trying Firefox or one of its forks for the Mac, iPhone and iPad. Does …
: A friend told me yesterday that I should take up painting. Later, I was reviewing my to-do list and …
: I have discovered Skymoth, which automatically crossposts Mastodon posts to Bluesky. My inexorable …
: I searched on my own name in an AI chatbot, which I have not done for a while. The chatbot universe …
: I was told tonight that I look like the composer Igor Stravinsky.
: Is Mastodon "toxic?" I’ve heard from two people in the past 24 hours who have dropped Mastodon, citing negativity. …
: Customizing Grammarly to be less pushy and annoying I use Grammarly to check grammar and usage in my writing. I find it valuable, but also excessively …
: I still think Google Glass had the right idea. I mean, augmented reality sounds nice, but I’d be …
: A Grand Unified Theory of what's wrong with the economy and why China is beating us up This post is based on conversations I had on Tumblr and Mastodon yesterday. Kyla Scanlon is an …
: I'm shifting things around in my blogging and social media again. Links and ephemera (memes, vintage photos, illustrations and ads) go on Mastodon, Tumblr and (sigh) …
: How to break obsolete data models that drag down AI. Today’s telcos are hawks among sparrows, …
: "Hawk Among the Sparrows" I read this story when I was a little kid — it blew my mind. My cousin Barry let me borrow a whole …
: How the Attention Economy Is Devouring Gen Z -- and the Rest of Us I loved this Ezra Klein interview with Kyla Scanlon, a newsletter writer who focuses on the …
: My latest on Fierce Network: AI looks like magic, but the real trick is infrastructure — AI requires …
: What’s the most NSFW thing you saw someone doing at work and still got away with it? : …
: What something you see in movies all the time that’s unrealistic and annoys you? : r/AskReddit
: Businesses are hiring copywriters and web designers to fix problems caused by AI (Suzanne Bearne at …
: Gmail’s new subscription management is here to declutter your inbox (Ryan Whitwam at Ars Technica) — …
: JD Vance: Some Americans Are More American Than Others Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “Identifying America just with agreeing with the …
: The New York Times worked with a racist to generate a fake scandal about Zohran Mamdani Shockingly, Mamdani, who was born in Uganada to parents of Indian descent, checked both the …
: Technicians who climb cell towers have dangerous jobs. Now they’re getting a not-for-profit …
: Charles Pulliam-Moore at The Verge loves the new Superman movie.. I’m jazzed to see it. …
: Are We About to Have Labor Camps in the United States of America? By Michael Tomasky at the New …
: Text message spam is getting to be a problem for me. I’m thinking of activating the iPhone …
: He’s Ringo. And Nobody Else Is. Lindsay Zoladz at The New York Times: Starr then drifted back to a memory of his early days gigging …
: [“Growing up, my brother and I deeply dreaded going shoe …
: “Dozens of federal officers in tactical gear and about 90 members of the California National Guard …
: Insomnia isn't anything you should lose sleep about Journalist Jennifer Senior writes at The Atlantic about her own and the nation’s struggles …
: I’ve recently become conscious of how often I say, “Cool.” It’s an …
: “The more we turn and face the truth – that we are all ageing, that death is coming for …
: Warning: NY & Minnesota’s Social Media Warning Label Laws Are Unconstitutional. And based on …
: In Defense of the Tourist Trap: Why Following the Crowd Might Be the Smartest Way To Travel. …
: “Thoughts and prayers” does sound a lot nicer than “I didn’t do anything …
: This was, of course, a very worthwhile use of my time I wanted to get out to walk the dog early Friday morning because I had an important 11 am meeting — …
: Small web, big idea A Small Web July — The author of the Small Cypress blog is “spending less time on the …
: Every few years I get a craving for nitro coffee, and I have some and remember I don’t like …
: When state legislatures consider whether to bail out rural hospitals, remember that the tax money …
: The next time a politician claims we can’t house the homeless, feed the starving or give …
: Trump’s Big Beautiful Gulag: The concentration camp reminagined as a hype house. By Ryan …
: When George W. Bush left office in 2009, the United States was mired in two wars and the global …
: Face It. Trump Is a Normie Republican. Jamelle Bouie at The New York TImes: If signed into law, the Senate version of Trump’s policy …
: Congressman Issa falsely claims ‘criminal illegals’ are enrolled in Medicaid
: Which ‘wow’ skill is secretly super easy to learn? : r/AskReddit
: I am a regular user of an LLM chatbot (ChatGPT). It’s becoming essential to my work and life. …
: Prices of Both Housing And Rent Are Decreasing In China. “In 2016, Xi said that houses were …
: When an Internet service is not responding the best thing you can do is click the button over and …
: Warnings that AI will take people’s jobs re the latest way for CEOs to keep workers afraid and …
: Trump’s Immigration Enforcement: Free The Criminals, Jail The Innocent: They’re literally …
: Welcome to the Age of Disappearance Hamilton Nolan: [Trump’s tax and immigration bill] contains enough money to build a new …
: Dave Winer: New York City is “a tough place to govern.” The thing about NY that people …
: How do you save your best AI prompts for reuse? Do you just drop them in a text document on your …
: Currently reading: A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin 📚
: Currently re-reading: Getting Things Done by David Allen 📚
: Currently reading: Mark Twain by Ron Chernow 📚
: Mitchellaneous Vol. XCIV: Twelve things I saw on the Internet
: Mitchellaneous Vol. XCIII: Ten things I saw on the Internet
: ”american leftists seem extremely focused on anti imperialism (good) but rarely- if at all- discuss …
: The New York Times and Fox News agree — the New York subway is scary. Hamilton Nolan disagrees. Nolan: Subway’s not scary. It’s fine and safe. It’s full of women and children. …
: On r/AskReddit: What things in porn actually happen in real life?. Pizza is delivered.
: Seriously, use the browser you like, don’t worry about battery. Matt Birchler has advice for …
: Nations Are People. Do you deserve to die for your own bad government? Hamilton Nolan: If you live …
: Promises The ‘Trump Phone’ Would Be ‘Made In USA’ Lasted 1/100th Of A Scaramucci. The Trump …
: What is a democratic socialist?
: Cross the Courts Off the List: We have enough information to conclude that the law won’t save …
: I received this in my Facebook notifications. I didn’t realize adolescent memes and dad jokes count …
: I loved “Airplane” when it was first released. I laughed and laughed and probably saw it …
: The 100 best walking cities of 2025. — I can vouch for Barcelona, London, Edinburgh, Copenhagen, New …
: Mitchellaneous Vol. XCII: Nine things I saw on the Internet
: McDonald’s around the world: A discussion with author of McAtlas: A Global Guide to the Golden …
: 10 Hot Takes About Superman. “10. Superman is American. The truth is, Superman is as American …
: I Still Miss My Luddite Web Browser — Charlie Jane Anders on being a science fiction writer and …
: Mitchellaneous Vol. XCI: Twelve things I saw on the Internet
: We’ve moved from a system where corruption hides in shadows to one where it operates in plain sight, …
: Matt Stoller: Mandani is running a “system-defining” election, possibly reinventing the Democratic …
: I think I just don’t like Twitter-like services anymore — not Mastodon and not Bluesky I was a Twitter addict in the late 2000s and 2010s, but I lost interest in Twitter even before its …
: The rise and fall of the mail chute Lewin Day at Hackaday: Born in 1848 in Albany, New York, James Goold Cutler would come to build his …
: More Than 90 Percent Of ICE Detainees Have Never Been Convicted Of Violent Crimes Tim Cushing at Techdirt: Who are we ejecting from this country at the rate of dozens of people per …
: Mamdani and the Moguls of Madness: Will he be a good mayor? Nobody knows. But the hysteria is revealing. Paul Krugman: I was enormously cheered by Mamdani’s victory, not because I think he’ll be a great …
: Mitchellaneous Vol. XC: Twelve things I saw on the Internet
: U.S. Army veteran Sae Joon Park took two bullets in the spine defending America. Now he’s …
: The first meeting of RFKJr.’s CDC vaccination panel was “packed with anti-vaccine …
: Trailer for “London Calling,” starring Josh Duhamel, about a down on his luck hitman who …
: What is spotted dick? Tasting History With Max Miller youtu.be
: If you're normal, people will vote for you actually Ryan Broderick at Garbage Day: Social media does not turn a bad candidate into a viable one. …
: Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice. theonion.com Now is not the time …
: An MIT student developed a system that uses AI-generated polymer masks to restore damaged paintings …
: What’s a “public internet?” By Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net
: Mitchellaneous Vol. LXXXIX: Twelve things I saw on the Internet
: The Supreme Court just gave the Trump administration a green light to traffic humans to random …
: The CDC’s once-revered vaccine panel is now a “farce,” and calls are growing to …
: “The federal government has effectively given up on regulating driverless vehicles. …
: The Middle East and Africa are hot spots for data center growth. fierce-network.com
: “One of the most tech-savvy judges in the US has ruled that Anthropic is within its rights to …
: The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun. HR departments are being overwhelmed by …
: The LA Dodgers claim they deterred an ICE raid, but the men in masks claim otherwise. techdirt.com
: Mitchellaneous Vol. LXXXVIII: Twelve things I saw on the Internet
: We’ve been traveling, and I’ve been mostly unplugged from the news during that time. I …
: A Republican lawmaker suffered delays receiving care for her life-threatening ectopic pregnancy, …
: House staffers can’t have WhatsApp on their devices. The chief administrative officer claims the …
: You sound like ChatGPT: AI is changing how we write and what we sound like when we talk. …
: As ICE Raids Continue, Parts of a Vibrant City Go Empty. Missing vendors, markets of rotting food, …
: Jio: ‘AI is the new UI and APIs are the new KPI’ — The telco discussed its ambitious …
: Mitchellaneous Vol. LXXXVII: Twelve things I saw on the Internet
: “Let’s make sure that Venice is not remembered as a postcard venue where Bezos had his …
: Mitchellaneous Vol. LXXXVI: Twelve things I saw on the Internet
: Mitchellaneous Vol. LXXXV: Twelve things I saw on the Internet
: Forms of Transportation that Were Supposed to Change the World (But Didn’t…). youtu.be
: Overheard: “Sometimes the toast falls off the plate and lands butter side up on another …
: A friend asked a group of tech journalists the most time we spent at an individual publication. I …
: The Micro Macintosh is a programmable $43 miniature reproduction of the 1986 Macintosh Plus with a …
: California Senator Alex Padilla was assaulted, handcuffed,forced to the ground and detained when he …
: Tape, glass, and molecules – the future of archival storage. Tape is the standard for archival …
: A Manufactured Crisis: How A Few Hooligans In LA Became The Pretext For Military Rule. techdirt.com
: Trump overhaul of $42B broadband fund upends states' plans to expand access. arstechnica.com
: Move over Disinformation Dozen — Meet the Hateful Eight. RFK Jr. is stacking the federal vaccine …
: This article about the Dull Men's Club starts playfully, then becomes sad and moving Meet the members of the Dull Men’s Club: ‘Some of them would bore the ears off you’. By Susan …
: Disney sues AI image generator Midjourney. pivot-to-ai.com
: How Far Does $1,000 Take You on a Trip to London? We Found Out. The challenge: three days in the …
: Mitchellaneous Vol. LXXXIV: Seventeen photos of McDonald’s in the 70s
: Let’s Be Clear: The Rioting In LA Is By The Cops, Not The Protestors — Mike Masnick. techdirt.com
: RFK Jr. announces 8 appointees to CDC vaccine panel—they’re not good. arstechnica.com
: This Israeli Government Is a Danger to Jews Everywhere — Thomas L. Friedman nytimes.com. Yes.
: Longtime Motel 6 spokesman Tom Bodett sues chain over using his name, voice — Reuters. …
: The GOP Is Way Too Fucking Excited About Using US Troops On American Protestors. By Mike Masnick. …
: Currently reading: Washington by Ron Chernow 📚I was going after Chernow’s new Mark Twain biography. …
: Currently reading: Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell 📚
: Finished reading: The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley 📚⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ⭐️
: Finished reading: Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the …
: Stand up for your neighbors in San Diego In light of recent ICE raids at the Federal Courthouse and Buona Forchetta Restaurant in San Diego …
: Kevin Smith’s “Dogma” is finally getting a re-release. Snoochie boochies! latimes.com
: S2E3 “The Last of Us.” Catherine O’Hara is a really bad therapist.
: Reading the news since yesterday afternoon, this quote occurs to me: “Wonderful things can …
: I asked ChatGPT what I would look like as a dog.
: I am reading "The Ministry of Time," a first novel by Kaliane Bradley, and I am finding it brilliant and compelling. I was feeling like I was in a rut in my fiction reading — same genres, same authors — so I looked at …
: I saw this crow on a utility pole. It has something to say.
: “Now I’m thinking about deep fried mushrooms.” — Julie, while watching the …
: This morning, I spilled a little boiling water on my hand while making coffee. I shouted FUCK FUCK …
: Good morning everyone! I hope I get lots of customer satisfaction surveys today!
: For a happy life, spend money on experiences, not things. Unless the things are luggage to use on …
: Can’t we do better than building open source versions of the social media silos that rose in …
: [The] core driver and cause of the low standing of the Democratic Party right now is not wokeness or …
: I am learning, not for the first time, that the Aeropress is a forgiving way to make coffee, coffee …
: Sick and Unhoused, the System Failed Him at Every Turn. Then, He Was Shot by Police. (Voice of San …
: Trump spread a bizarre conspiracy theory that Joe Biden was executed in 2020 and replaced by a robot …
: A Christian asks Carl Sagan about God YouTube
: Riot gear, smoke grenades, flash bangs, and mass arrests are dangerous and unnecessarily escalatory. …
: For Aeropress coffee nerds My coffee, which I make in an Aeropress XL, hasn’t been great lately, so I experimented with …
: ICE threw flash-bang grenades at a crowd and handcuffed a manager in a raid on a popular San Diego …
: Annie Andrews is running against Lindsey Graham. Her campaign video here is outstanding. A case …
: I supported Newsom until this year but he is showing himself as a cynical hack who turns whichever …
: A genocide is happening in Gaza. We should say so. Shadi Hamid at The Washington Post: For Israel’s defenders, the cognitive dissonance is difficult …
: The way to end the Gaza war has been clear for nearly a year David Ignatius at The Washington Post: What’s agonizing is that Israeli military and intelligence …
: Covid-19 is spiking again as the US government is making it harder to get vaccines. CalMatters
: “Four people have died as thousands of Palestinians burst into a United Nations warehouse in …
: Trump is a scammer and scammers are his “most important, best-served constituency…. The …
: Support for Palestinians and opposition to Israel are not anti-Semitism. Claims that they are …
: Never Look at Your Files Again: Wikilinks, Tags, and Search. cartography.pika.page — Use a personal …
: One of the women who participates in one of my regular weekly video meetings had her two dogs …
: The ugly truth behind ICE agents’ masks. Will Bunch Newsletter — They can’t find enough …
: I just replicated the “I have a drinking problem” move from “Airplane” and …
: Ehud Barak, former Israeli Prime Minister, condemns Israeli war crimes in Gaza: What we are doing …
: AI is a new iteration of the industrial revolution, and not in a good way Cory Doctorow at Pluralistic: As has been the case since the Industrial Revolution, the project of …
: Some of my favorite comfort movies Writers for The Guardian list their favorite rewatchable comfort movies: Guardian writers on their …
: Trump Praised Himself During Memorial Day Speech Political Wire
: Season 2 of “The Last of Us:” Yes or no?
: What Did People Do Before Smartphones? No one can remember Ian Bogost: In the idle time we now spend on our phones, people used to read anything and …
: "This post was a journey" A Redditor discovers her health-obsessed boyfriend has an odd and disturbing habit. She wants to …
: Wouldn’t we all rather have the possibility of finding pleasure and delight in literally …
: Yep, I'm faceblind I tested how well I can recognize faces, and scored spectacularly poorly, confirming my belief that …
: How to Disappear: Inside the world of extreme-privacy consultants, who, for the right fee, will make …
: Three Well-Tested Ways to Undermine an Autocrat. nytimes.com. Also: Trump Is Immensely Vulnerable. …
: Omaha swung 43 points to elect Democrat John Ewing Jr. over a transphobic GOP incumbent by focusing on real issues, not hate. Dems, take note. John Ewing Jr.’s significant victory in Omaha highlights the effectiveness of focusing on …
: Martin Luther King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail is still inspiring and worth reading today. “We …
: UCSD study finds stock trades by Congress ruin public faith (Amita Sharma / KPBS) — It’s …
: We have been trained to think we have enormous power over the world. Whatever you dream, you can do. …
: There is no such thing as an ethical multilevel marketing business, Cory Doctorow argues in a book …
: ‘It’s out of control’: the fight against US ‘tip-creep’ (Jem Bartholomew / The Guardian)
: Anthropic’s new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline (Maxwell …
: “If you’ve never worked in a big corporate office you are missing out on half of Severance.”
: “AI-first” is the new Return To Office (Anil Dash)
: Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn’t warning the public like it was months ago (Chiara Eisner …
: The Visionary of Trump 2.0: “Russell Vought is advancing a radical ideological project decades …
: It Is So Embarrassing to Watch Dems Try to “Find” a Liberal Joe Rogan (Luke Winkie / Slate)
: Between Memorial Day and Labor Day 30% of the conversation between me and Julie is arguing about …
: I migrated from Mastodon to Micro.blog. Here's what worked well, and where I have problems If you were following me on Mastodon or any other Fediverse service, you should now be following me …
: What crazy shit happened in 2001 which got overshadowed by 9/11?
: “What My Mornings Are Like in Prison” (Tony Triplett / Prison Journalism Project)
: An interesting discussion about Black Hebrew Israelites. I barely know anything about this group. …
: NYC is so big that when some small disaster happens here we mostly hear about it from relatives that …
: We live in the world of paywalled content, unilateral contract modification, micro transactions, …
: I follow conversations among professional educators who all report the same phenomenon, which is …
: Classic 1960s Volkswagen ads. (Nick Sherman / Fonts in Use) — Thanks, Dave!
: Rep. Darrell Issa’s mail-ballot lawsuit may be thrown out of San Diego federal court (Ken …
: The Dream of the Metaverse Is Dying. Manufacturing Is Keeping It Alive. Forget Mark Zuckerberg’s …
: Meta Battles an ‘Epidemic of Scams’ as Criminals Flood Instagram and Facebook (Jeff Horowitz and …
: How Chronic Disease Became the Biggest Scourge in American Health Americans live shorter and sicker …
: Slop Farmer Boasts About How He Uses AI to Flood Social Media With Garbage to Trick Older Women …
: AI therapy is a surveillance machine in a police state: Big Tech wants you to share your private …
: For One Hilarious, Terrifying Day, Elon Musk’s Chatbot Lost Its Mind Grok’s AI incident highlights the limitations of generative AI, emphasizing the need for …
: "Trumpism relies on the fusion of two groups of people: a tiny number of oligarchs, and millions of everyday people who are constantly victimized by those oligarchs." … To get this latter group of Christmas-voting turkeys to stay in the coalition, Trump needs …
: What to Get in the Next Uprising (Hamilton Nolan) — The collapse of corporate DEI should teach the …
: Why The New Surgeon General Pick Might Be The Most Dangerous One Yet (The Disabled Ginger) …
: Personalization, The Vastly Bigger Story Behind the Pimpmobile Jet Bribe Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: Calling it a “bribe” almost doesn’t do it …
: As a neighbor of Ukraine and host to more than 2 million of its war refugees, Poland has seen, heard …
: In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about that has been a beacon of hope …
: Two science fiction stories that I think about when I think about AI Since the rise of generative AI in late 2022, I sometimes think about the 1957 Isaac Asimov story …
: The good life in the US vs. the good life in Europe Chris Arnade: While the US and Europe share a broad commitment to classical Liberalism, and …
: Everyone is cheating their way through college: ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project James D. Walsh at New York Intelligencer writes a deeply researched article on how students at …
: Are white Afrikaners at risk in South Africa? Not really, most say Trump signed an executive order offering asylum to white Afrikaners and cutting aid to South Africa. …
: Why are ICE agents such cowardly wusses? (Will Bunch at The Philadelphia Inquirer)
: "An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Who Thinks My Daughter Is a Tragedy" You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That they’ll never pay taxes or …
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We’re back from a somewhat spontaneous eight days in London.
My manager asked me to cover a two-day conference there and I said sure. I added a few vacation days …
: What’s an unspoken rule in your house that would confuse guests instantly?
: Enough with the Boomer-bashing I’ve been a fan of Wil Wheaton for nearly 40 years, since “Stand By Me.” …
: The New York Times' Ask Vanessa answers a reader question: Can I Wear a Sheath Dress Without Looking Like a MAGA Woman? NYTimes: There is a very specific look associated with women who subscribe to the Trump worldview, …
: Paul Krugman on the China-US tariffs deal: When an Arsonist Poses as a Firefighter “What the hell just happened”: This retreat probably hasn’t come soon enough to avoid …
: A short video where I talk about what’s hot at the FutureNet World conference: Network …
: Telcos trade faith-based buildouts for demand-based design. (Me / Fierce Network) — Telcos are …
: Pritzker’s Total-War Message Is a Hit Among Angry Democrats. I love J.B. Pritzker right now.
: Trading stuff for money — Dynomight asks: Is it gross to buy a kidney? A heart? Plasma? Hair? Food? …
: Doctor Who teaches many valuable life lessons, such as “Stay away from the mysterious space …
: Today I learned Casey Jones was a real person. I just know the name from the Grateful Dead song.
: We watched the series finale of "Bosch: Legacy" last night. It feels like a significant life event We’ve been living with Harry Bosch since the beginning, ten years ago. I remember going to a …
: I started reading “Mistborn” by Brandon Sanderson and “The Name of the Wind” …
: Do you have a favorite feelgood TV series, something you can turn on and watch again and again and …
: Outstanding interview with Walter Mosley, a brilliant Black American writer who is also Jewish The Curious Case of Walter Mosley Mosley is the author of dozens of mystery and science fiction …
: The Techno-Utopian Seasteaders Who Want to Colonize the Ocean. By Mark Yarm at the New York Times.
: AI assisted search-based research actually works now. Simon Willison: I’ve been throwing all kinds …
: Here's someone I saw while walking the dog I’m trying out a new stealth photography trick, where I just hold my phone at my hip with the …
: Trump DOJ goon threatens Wikipedia — Latest in a trend of the right going after Wikipedia. Targeting …
: Pedro Pascal supports LGBTQ+ rights, calls psycho transphobe JK Rowling a ‘heinous loser’.
: Trump pardons Nevada politician who paid for cosmetic surgery with funds to honor a slain officer Trump pardoned Michele Fiore, a Nevada Republican who raised money to build a statue to honor a …
: Tipping Is Everywhere and Consumers Are Fed Up. — WSJ
: The theory and history of time travel — I’ll remind myself tomorrow to read this yesterday.
: Shot from the hip! A street level view of 1970s New York – in pictures — Inspires me to take a lot …
: Trump and his Repubican supporters are openly taking bribes, arresting judges whose actions they …
: Here’s something I saw walking the dog this morning. The flowers are coming in at the park. The …
: Responding to Trump, America’s allies are rushing to cut deals with China and remilitarizing, …
: Rowling is playing edgelord from the comfort of a life so far removed from reality that the truth is …
: The Very American Roots of Trumpism: Trump isn’t a freak or an outlier. He’s part of the …
: ‘Who’s our leader?’ In El Cajon, Rep. Sara Jacobs faces hundreds of residents eager to oppose Trump …
: Something I saw while walking the dog.
: I cannot bear to throw away an empty cardboard box if it looks like a good box.
: While I was walking the dog a few days ago, a car rolled up next to us and a young man rolled down …
: One day more than 20 years ago, a friend was coming down from Los Angeles, about two hours away, to …
: On a video meeting at work, someone’s dog was pestering their cat in the background. Later, …
: A Facebook friend commented on Robert A. Heinlein’s distinctive writing voice. I have noted …
: I sometimes see memes about Americans offended to hear Spanish or other foreign languages spoken …
: Shakespeare may not have left his wife Anne in Stratford for decades when he went to London. A …
: Phoenician culture spread across the Mediterranean not through mass migration but through cultural …
: I just received an error message that says my magic link is no longer valid. My magic link is too …
: Here’s something I saw on the sidewalk while walking the dog. Also: the dog.
: The Patriotism Trap: Accepting the premise leads inevitably to the outcome. Hamilton Nolan
: At 77, she’s as fit as a 25-year-old. What her body tells us about aging. The Washington Post
: The evolution of the alpha male aesthetic. Bloomberg — Derek Guy walks through male style, from 19th …
: “The Pitt’s” very horny fandom swallowed the web. Garbage Day — I love “The …
: Please Enjoy These Images Of The 2025 Corgi Derby. Defector
: Under Hegseth, Chaos Prevails at the Pentagon. NYTimes
: An inside look at the New York City subway’s archaic signaling system. NYTimes — Fascinating …
: How is it possible that we have lived in San Diego more than 25 years and have never been to the …
: For now at least, I’ve chosen to concentrate my social media activity on mitchw.blog and …
: I never was a Harry Potter fan but I admired J.K. Rowling enormously. It saddens me to see how her …
: I now go to an AI chatbot if I have a question, where formerly I’d do a Google search, find a …
: 10 TV character deaths that shocked fans. NYTimes — The death of Colonel Blake on …
: Americans Are Obsessed With Protein and It’s Driving Nutrition Experts Nuts — The Wall Street …
:
The Republican wrecking ball is already battering San Diego
Trump and his Republican cronies are already inflicting pain on San Diego County, damaging veterans, …
: 15 photos from Saturday’s Hands Off rally in El Cajon (San Diego), California The rally got a few hundred people. There were a dozen events throughout the county and the rally in …
: I keep forgetting you can buy prints of historical photos from Shorpy.com, unframed or framed. I …
: I rebooted my Mac and the Vivaldi browser deleted about 50 open tabs in a workspace. Argh. I think …
: Ezra Klein: The Emergency Is Here Klein: The president of the United States is disappearing people to a Salvadoran prison for …
: Once Trump’s dictatorship is established there is no way back within the current US system. When his …
: Due process is not optional J.D. Vance on Twitter: To say the administration must observe “due process” is to beg …
: Harvard’s pushback against Trump could be an early salvo in a war among the elites Ian Welsh: This comes back to the simplest problem in negotiating with Trump: you can’t actually …
: US-born citizen detained by ICE in Florida under law that shouldn't have been enforced in the first place Juan Carlos Lopez Gomez, a U.S.-born citizen, was detained by ICE as an “unauthorized …
: In the 1850s and 1860s, the "Old Leatherman" wandered the back roads between New York City and Hartford, Conn. He slept in caves and walked a 365-mile circle over and over for decades. Sam Anderson at the New …
: The rise of end-times fascism A grim longread by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor at The Guardian: “The governing ideology of the far …
: A path for BlueSky to achieve profitability without selling out its users Ben Werdmuller prescribes building value-added services on top of the AT protocol while encouraging …
: “Why should I change my name? He’s the problem.” If one’s name is a brand, then mine is tarnished. —Elon Green at The New York Times Like Green, I …
: When Julie and I are both out of town we board the dog at a place called Camp Bow Wow. They give us …
: Documentary Claims Jim Morrison Is Alive, Living in Syracuse. Break on through, Jim.
: Insomnia and me F. Scott Fitzgerald: Those seven precious hours of sleep suddenly break in two. There is, if one is …
: Bruce Vilanch is proud of all the awful TV he made Bullseye with Jesse Thorn Over a 50-year-career, Villanch worked on campy variety shows that live …
: Cool toys that weren't When I was a kid in the late 60s and very early 70s, there were a lot of toys that looked cool but …
: I host my blog on Micro.blog. It is in many ways a lovely service but I do not recommend it to …
: Elephants at the San Diego Zoo form an “alert circle” to protect a young elephant and …
: Walking with Charles Dickens Charles Dickens was an inveterate walker, going for hours every day at a brisk pace, usually alone. …
: Richard Kind Is Glad He’s Not That Famous — Fresh Air. An interview with a brilliant comic …
: “So the president of the United States proposes, on camera, to deport Americans to foreign …
: Unions need to be ready to strike. It’s the source of their power. “When radical things …
: The unbearable lightness of Korean cute — Chris Arnade walkingtheworld.substack.com
: “ICE is making arrests wearing masks, not showing ID and grabbing people off the street into …
: Blue Cross of Louisiana doesn’t give a shit about breast cancer: The insurer pocketed hundreds …
: We just had an earthquake. 5.2 magnitude about 32 miles from here (near Julian). Bigger and longer …
: Cory Doctorow: Instead of retaliatory tariffs, US trade partners should repeal anti-circumvention …
: Musk gets his political philosophy from a 100-year-old antisemitic and racist movement called …
: Elections Aren’t About Compromise— They’re About Power… Let the Consultants Burn: …
: Crossing the U.S. Border? Here’s How to Protect Yourself theintercept.com/2025/03/2…
: Gen Z is flocking to Tumblr. businessinsider.com. I’ve been on Tumblr since 2009 and I’m …
: The original Star Wars is back – but what if George Lucas is right about it not being much good? …
: RIP Jean Marsh, who created and starred in “Upstairs, Downstairs.” She was born into the …
: "How to Be a Happy 85-Year-Old (Like Me)." Life advice from octogenarian Roger Rosenblatt at the New York Times: 2. Make young friends. For …
: Do me a favor please: If you’re reading this on Mastodon, please reply. Late Friday afternoon, …
: Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media. newyorker.com. Kyle Chayka writes an in-depth …
: “I’m Not a ‘Gatsby’ Scholar. I’m a ‘Gatsby’ Weirdo.” …
: I think I’ll sign up for the Pro subscription for ChatGPT again. I’m intrigued by the …
: The Week ChatGPT Truly Became an Assistant. parkerortolani.blog
: A roomba that continuously says “polish polish” would get annoying quickly.
: The Problem With Abe Lincoln's Face: The president's iconic beard was a product of the anxious new realities of the photographic age. James Lundberg, writing at The Atlantic, describes how the new technology of photography changed …
: RIP George Bell, 67, who stood 7'8" and was listed by Guinness as the tallest man in America. …
: A Rhode Island state legislator suggests getting around the Trump tariffs using a 1663 “royal …
: Zuckerberg in the dock: The antitrust case against Meta is strong and the Trump White House seems …
: “You have only two choices if Trump comes after you: 1. If Domestic, fight. 2. If foreign, and …
: “Apparently, people don’t want the US dollar to be a meme stock.” Also: …
: Scientists dispute Colossal Biosciences’ claims to have brought the dire wolf back from extinction. …
: I’m still traumatized from the season finale of “The Pitt.”
: I want to see one feature in the iPhone and iPad: support for a clipboard manager that runs in the …
: The Original Stock Photo From ‘The Shining’ Has Finally Been Found It’s the photo that ends the movie, of Jack Nicholson in period costume composited into a …
: Trump White House budget proposal eviscerates science funding at NASA. “This would decimate …
: Massive cuts to NASA science are proposed in an early White House budget plan. “This is an …
: Trump Is Stupid, Erratic and Weak (Paul Krugman)
: Aussies miss when morning routine didn’t involve finding out whatever the fuck this cunt did …
: Trump’s Psychological Vulnerability (Timothy Snyder) — “Donald Trump thinks that …
: The Sick Psychology Behind Trump’s Tariff Chaos (Timothy Noah / The New Republic) — …
: Nothing in your workflow is permanent (Matt Birchler)
: The New York Times Ethicist blesses pirating e-books if you’ve already bought the hardcover. …
: America Is Trying To Form An Anti-China Trade Bloc Ian Welsh Trump has shown himself to be a partner who can’t be trusted — he’s unreliable …
: “Paper is good. Somehow, a blank page and a pen makes the universe open up before you." …
: Tariffs, integrity, and chaos (Matt Birchler)
: What do we think of Google Gemini? How does it compare with ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude?
: I have two superpowers: finding the right-sized Tupperware container for leftovers and moving things …
: Adobe Got Bullied Off Of Bluesky (Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day (seventh item — scroll down) — …
: I’m Not An Economist, But I Don’t Think This Tariff Thing Is Working, Guys (Ryan Broderick / Garbage …
: AI avatars are the face of emerging telcos My latest on Fierce Network I found this to be a fascinating story: “Digital humans” — …
: Here’s something I saw while walking the dog.
: Walking the dog this morning down a residential street, a white-haired older woman pulled up in a …
: Today I learned if you soak your TiVo remote in salad dressing it don’t work good after.
: We saw “A Complete Unknown” tonight. It paints a portrait of Dylan as a magnificently talented and …
: Sam Keen, Philosopher of the Men’s Movement, Is Dead at 93 Trip Gabriel / The New York Times I did not read Keen‘s book. I had not even heard of it or him …
: "Students Yelled at Me. I’m Fine." Xochitl Gonzalez at The Atlantic: … these were students in America doing what students in America …
: The good trouble checklist: keep all your shenanigans in one place (Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg / Life Is …
: GIFs of Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in Tombstone
: Walking Xi’an (China) (Chris Arnade Walks the World) “A human city of inhuman …
: Keep San Diego County Blue. Vote for Democrat Paloma Aguirre in the April District 1 Special Election It’s scary to be an American right now as Donald Trump and Elon Musk run amok in Washington. …
: DevonThink, a research, note-taking and productivity app I rely on, is now in public beta for Version 4 The new version adds integration for generative AI, improved text editors, and more. I’ve been …
: Apparently the plaid frog article I linked to yesterday was an April Fool. I fucking hate April …
: Hamilton Nolan: “Divergence From the Interests of Capital: Trump will ultimately make rich people …
: Matt Stoller: America has a ‘number go up’ strategy for Wall Street, and that means we …
: My doctor thinks going for tests is a hobby for me. My dude, I am not going to a cardiologist or …
: The greatest line in movie history.. Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in “Tombstone.”
: Cory Doctorow: What’s wrong with tariffs: Trump’s mirror-world policies fill the vacuum …
: What goes around comes around: Revolving restaurants are making a comeback This article, by Diana Budds at the NYTimes, features the restaurant on top of the Marriott Marquis …
: Scientists discovered a plaid frog in the Suriname rain forest. (Moss and Fog) — “I thought it was a …
: RIP Val Kilmer. He played many roles, but I’ve long known and loved him as Doc Holliday in …
: Two wins for democracy today. Cory Booker in the Senate and Susan Crawford in Wisconsin.
: I’m fighting a solo war to preserve the use of “invitation” as a noun.
: Ian Welsh: Trump is "speed-running" America's "imperial decline" Trump’s Negotiating Is Failing. Welsh says Trump is “picking too many fights all once, his …
: Crossing the U.S. Border? Here’s How to Protect Yourself (Nikita Mazurov, Matt Sledge / The …
: What Is It Like Living With Long COVID? (Nicole Pajer / AARP) — Thanks, Julie!
: Is There Life After Death? Jewish Thinking on the Afterlife Amy Schwartz / Moment For a long time, I’ve thought that we Jews did not believe in an afterlife — …
: Re-learning how to read books I read very few books in the late 2010s, while consuming massive quantities of articles and posts. …
: Cory: The AOC-Sanders anti-oligarch tour is all about organizing Cory Doctorow at Pluralistic: Obama ran a grassroots political campaign but put his …
: J.D. Shapiro, who wrote the screenplay for “Battlefield Earth,” apologizes for writing …
: Excellent history and photo essay on Tristan de Cunha, the "remotest [inhabited] island in the world," population 265 as of 2016 Messy Nessy Chic: Not a single ship visited Tristan da Cunha from 1909 until 1919, until the HMS …
: While trying to harass trans people, Idaho accidentally bans truck nuts. (jwz)
: I’ve been sick with a bad cold or flu. I slept nearly all of Thursday, most of Friday and …
: A United Airlines flight from LA to China diverted to San Francisco after the pilot forgot his …
: Andy Kaufman, subject of a new documentary, "anticipated our reality-bent world" Jonah Weiner / NYTimes Kaufman “set up camp on ever-advancing frontiers of unpleasantness, all …
: Two Kingston, NY, restaurants featured in “Severance” host watch parties for the show, …
: European nations were at war for a thousand years, culminating in two of the bloodiest wars ever …
: Make Person-To-Person Email a Thing Again Inspired by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, I’m trying to Make Person-to-Person Email a …
: I’m having a lot of difficulty focusing on work today. Fortunately, my work requires me to …
: Here’s something I saw while walking the dog: The Canada geese are back hanging around at the …
: "But her emails!" is back in the news again When Clinton used her email for official business, it was completely normal behavior, even at her …
: 71-year-old Donald Gorske has eaten two McDonald’s Big Macs every day since 1972. That’s …
: Merchant of Menace: Trump and the Jews (Robert Kuttner / The American Prospect) — “This will …
: The Signal leak reveals the depth of the Trump administration’s loathing of Europe (Andrew …
: The life and death of artist Thomas Kinkade “Painter of Light” Thomas Kinkade, who died from an overdose of alcohol and Valium 13 …
: YouTube: If Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote and performed “Defying Gravity” from …
: “Derby Dugan’s Depression Funnies” by Tom De Haven is one of my all-time favorite …
: “No, I’m actually not very concerned about the vandalism against Teslas. All cars …
: Ami Angelwings:: “The original Dear Abby was a badass, esp for her time, she was a champion …
: Walking Tashkent (Uzbekistan) — I love Chris Arnade’s travelogues, served with political …
: “Trump loves Big Tech: So much for the ‘Khanservatives.'" (Cory Doctorow …
: More US states are reporting measles cases as deadly anti-vax lies spread Melody Schreiber / The Guardian: Measles deaths include a 6-year-old girl, whose parents appeared on …
: “Let’s disappear people to foreign prisons based on allegations they committed crimes isn’t a …
: Every time I empty my computer bag to search for something small I feel like a cartoon character …
: Thousands of “Kennedy Files” documents posted online this this week disappointed …
: The Underlying Problem (Hamilton Nolan) — “This is happening because some people are too …
: What the Press Got Wrong About Hitler (Political Wire)
: How did Snow White become the year’s most cursed movie? (Adrian Horton / The Guardian) — The …
: Now that Ghost has launched its ActivityPub beta, I’m very curious to see what a long Ghost …
: Every read-it-later app I see plus my RSS reader is adding AI summarization features. I don’t need …
: My latest on Fierce Network: Nvidia GTC: Top Telco Takeaways: AI-RAN, 6G, AI factories and oh! those …
: El Cajon nurse can’t shake COVID-19’s unrelenting grip: ‘I have lost relationships’ Nicole Baca, a 40-year-old registered nurse in the San Diego suburb of El Cajon, talks with the …
: I am embarking on my fourth business trip in the past year after a four year hiatus. I feel I have …
: We watched another episode of “The Rockford Files” last night. I am continually amazed …
: He Dreamed Up Bosch and the Lincoln Lawyer. It All Started With L.A. (Elisabeth Egan / NYT) — For …
: Jamelle Bouie: The Founders Were Afraid for the Country, Too (NYT) — Bouie quotes Franklin, …
: Amazon annihilates Alexa privacy settings, turns on continuous, nonconsensual audio uploading: (Cory …
: On r/AITA: AITA for breaking up with my GF after she gave away my dog…. AND LIED ABOUT IT? — NTA. …
: How a Quack TV Doctor Made It to Washington — Journalist Eoin Higgins profiles Dr. Oz for The New …
: Hamilton Nolan: Seeing Things For What They Are — The US political models that have been useful for …
: New 'Starship Troopers' Movie in the Works from 'District 9' Filmmaker Neill Blomkamp Borys Kyt at The Hollywood Reporter: Blomkamp’s take is not a remake of the Verhoeven movie, …
: You want to bring back American ingenuity again? Make education and healthcare accessible to …
: Lawmakers in red states are angling to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex …
: It Isn’t Just Trump. America’s Whole Reputation Is Shot (David Brooks / NYT) — The world now sees …
: Helly vs. Helena, the Most Brutal Battle on ‘Severance’ (Maya Salam / NYT) — The Helly vs. Helena …
: You Are Not Free to Move About the Country (Lisa Schmeiser / So What? Who Cares?) — Southwest …
: Carr’s anti-DEI crusade is a ridiculous waste of FCC resources. By my colleague Diana Goovaerts on …
: In my lunchtime web wanderings, I stumbled across this 1900 historical image from the town square in …
: I got a follow request from a woman on Mastodon who wants me to be her sugar baby. I’m up for …
: The missus and I watched another episode of “Columbo” last night. The guest stars were …
: Trump’s FBI wants to criminally charge groups including Habitat for Humanity with fraud for …
: RFK Jr.: It Would Be Better if ‘Everybody Got Measles’ (Leigh Kimmins / Daily Beast) — He is a …
: “Please stop calling newsletters ‘Substacks’" (Dan Gillmor / …
: Google is adding Gemini large language models to make robots more versatile and advanced (Ina Fried …
: A clearer picture of Covid’s lasting effects on the body: Covid’s long-term effects on the lungs, …
: Good tips for using AI at work. axios.com
: "Fascism always fails. It is destructive and it is awful and not everyone lives to see the other side, but it always, always fails." A brief history of George Dale, who fought a quixotic battle against the Ku Klux Klan in Muncie, …
: The More You Have, the Less You Fight. Institutions — businesses, the Democratic Party, the courts and universities — won’t oppose …
: “I knew how these tariffs were going to go because I studied the classics.” …
: Bluesky is not billionaire-proof. By Dave Winer — Bluesky could be bought up by the next Elon Musk, …
: Apple Readies Dramatic Design Overhauls for iOS 19, iPadOS 19, macOS 16. By Mark Gurman. …
: Musk’s Empire Is Looking Even More Shaky: He’s sabotaging his own business by insulting and …
: I have a reminder to prepare for a meeting to prepare for another meeting to prepare for a project. …
: “An Incomplete List of the Animals my Grandpa brought home over the course of his 67-year …
: Toward a unified taxonomy of text-based social media use. By Elizabeth Lopatto at The Verge. I don’t …
: Come study physics. Totally a real science and not magic. www.tumblr.com/dduane/77…
: How It Actually Feels To Live With Face Blindness Daisy Jones at British Vogue: “Oh my God, heyyy” Four words I dread hearing, delivered this time at …
: A test to determine if you have prosopagnosia, or trouble recognizing faces. If you score 65 or …
: A brief history of the camera. mymodernmet.com/who-inven…
: The Dodo Is Extinct Because of Humans. Now We Can Learn From It. nytimes.com
: Their multifamily compound seemed like a dream. But it came at an ugly price: A group of young …
: The Democrats' pathetic plan to regain power: Appear on sports podcasts. nytimes.com
: Your Local Epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina on the measles outbreak and how RFK and other authorities …
: In ‘Dark Winds,’ things are about to get even darker: Zahn McClarnon, who stars as Joe …
: Typewriters, stinky carpets and crazy press trips: what it was like working on video game mags in …
: The 3 AI Use Cases: Gods, Interns, and Cogs — Drew Breunig dbreunig.com
: The Digital Packrat Manifesto. “DRM and big tech’s war on ownership has led me to make my own media …
: The War on Memory: Learning from the Jewish Labor Bund — Molly Crabapple. The Bund was a Jewish …
: Primary Every Democrat! primary.every.democrat
: Brother makes a demon-haunted printer. pluralistic.net
: “The Democratic Party is an exhausted and empty shell, a corpse sucked to the very edge of …
: “In the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, you can learn that the first animals with …
: Three Methods of Control: How an unpopular government will protect its power. — Hamilton Nolan
: “Stop trying to reinvent Twitter.” — Dave Winer
: “The critics panned [Mickey] Spillane, but he didn’t care. He said, ‘Those …
: James Davis Nicoll reviews “Galactic Empires,” a two-volume 1976 science fiction …
: Strike, or Else: As Trump tosses out the TSA union contract, everything is on the line. …
: Capitalists hate capitalism [pluralistic.net]
: Patti Davis, on her father, Ronald Reagan: My Father Spoke to Me Only Once About Why He Led This Nation Davis writes about a conversation with Reagan in the Lincoln Bedroom of the White House the night of …
: A Haunting Coda: The 7 Days Gene Hackman’s Wife Could No Longer Care for Him: The exact …
: These expert tips on how to care for a loved one with dementia assume a level of financial and …
: Notes on Remote Sensing: How to Spot Aliens at a Distance
: At a chaotic board meeting last week, San Diego’s Grossmont Union High School District’s board voted …
: About 60 trans athletes play organized sports in the US. Sixty. Politicians and influencers trying …
: “The fact that lots of people think something is stupid is not a reliable indicator that it is …
: Matt Stoller: The Populist Revolt Against Oligarchy Begins. Oligarchs opposed Trump 1 — they were …
: America isn't exceptional — it's the exception America does worse than other developed countries for quality-of-life metrics: healthcare spending …
: The view from my hotel window, in one of the most ancient and beautiful cities in the world. …
: The great thing about AirTags as you get instant reassurance when you get off the plane that your …
: JFK airport is a shitshow, particularly if you are unused to flying through it and trying to make a …
: Quest Bars are an exceptionally great travel snack to pack in your go bag. They’re satisfying …
: RIP Joseph Wambaugh, 88, ex-cop and writer, who wrote brilliant police procedurals and true crime, including "The Onion Field." I loved his books. His cops were sometimes heroic, sometimes bad and dirty, sometimes both at once. …
: I’m at the airport at the gate waiting for a flight out. There’s a guy here sitting in a chair …
: How could they have named the company “Anker” when “Wanker” was right there?
: I’m getting ready for a six-day business trip and I’m packing light .
: Heritage Foundation Presentation Details Plans To Doxx And Target Wikipeda Editors It Claims Are …
: “Today in ‘World’s Largest Metaphor Hits Ice-Berg’ News: United States to be …
: The Fastest and Easiest Second Passports for Americans in 2025 I qualify for Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, if I can get the paperwork to prove it. I presume Julie …
: ‘I’m proud of its wonderful teens’: Amy Heckerling on how Clueless revolutionised …
: Startup Lonestar Data Holdings is catching a ride on a SpaceX rocket to put a mini data center on …
: Actor Gene Hackman, 94, his 63-year-old wife and dog were found dead in their New Mexico home.
: Burritos, AI art, corporate fascism Ryan Broderick at Garbage Day: “You ordered a private taxi for your burrito.” Also: …
: More than a billion people now watch podcasts on YouTube every month. This seems bonkers to me. …
: Prominent military contractors, including former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince, pitched a plan for mass …
: RIP Michelle Trachtenberg, 39. She played “Dawn,” the younger sister on “Buffy the …
: A company looks to relaunch the commercial airship business with a design that looks like a flying butt A British company hopes to launch commercial airships to carry cargo and up to 130 passengers on …
: I downloaded about 250 of my purchased Kindle ebooks, roughly a third of my collection. And now it …
: (Relatively) easy instructions for downloading Kindle ebooks before the deadline, which is today or tomorrow From the Department of Doing Thing at the Last Minute: I think I was able to successfully use these …
: “AITA for refusing to let my girlfriend bring her dead dog’s ashes on vacation?" …
: Archaeologists discovered fossilized footprints and tracks suggesting the oldest known use of a …
: Monitors at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development were hacked [Monday] morning and …
: Rep. Mark Alford tells fired Kansas City federal workers “God has a plan." Alford’s …
: How an obscure advisory board lets utilities steal $50b/year from ratepayers Cory Doctorow at Pluralistic: Americans served by privately owned electric companies saw their rates …
: Your Local Epidemiologist: “The overlap between medical and scientific professionals and …
: Ian Welsh: Germany’s Merz Is A Moron, But At Least He’s Got Some Guts Merz realizes Germany needs to …
: Mapquest, which is still a thing, has a “Gulf of… " generator. The body of water formerly …
: Rusty Foster: “If Trump Season One was a galvanizing historical threat to the Republic, so far …
: The coup has failed The Coup Has Failed. Also: The Democratic Brand Has Tanked. Trump Is Doing the Same to the …
: Looks like Dave Winer is doing valuable work on Wordland, a simple, web-based front end for …
: News that got my attention today Conservatives won German elections, a beginner’s guide to long covid, the new antitrust …
: Something I saw while walking the dog: This “Blessing Box” in front of a church, stocked …
: Today's news and links that got my attention Pope Francis is critically ill. Measles outbreaks in Texas and New Mexico. Weird politics in Chula …
: News that got my attention today Trump dismissed four-star Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., the joint chiefs of staff, a fighter pilot, and …
: Steve Bannon did a Nazi salute on stage at CPAC after calling on Trump to be president-for-life.
: Do you read books on your phone? Do you prefer it?
: I’m planning my first international travel in more than five years. I just bought a couple of …
: News that got my attention today Mitch McConnell is retiring. We’re losing a moderating force on right-wing extremism — and …
: News that got my attention today Trump wants to abolish the IRS and fund government through tariffs. (How about you try your …
: We watched an episode of The Rockford Files featuring guest stars Joseph Cotten and Sharon Gless and …
: Protecting our immigrant neighbors in La Mesa, California La Mesa, California, and the La Mesa-Spring Valley School District are implementing measures to …
: Some things I saw while walking the dog this morning
: Democracy dies in darkness, and the Washington Post is turning out the lights.
: It’s not just at restaurants that the dress code has become more relaxed; it’s pretty much …
: “American Beauty” was one of the most acclaimed movies of the 90s. But since then it’s been memory …
: Here are some things I saw while walking the dog.
: Kevin Kelly shares a meaty and fascinating list of travel tips learned from wandering the world for …
: ProPublica: What is a pig butchering scam, and how to avoid falling victim to one.
: At Taco Bell, a Romance Is Born. Bettina Makalinta and her husband went to Taco Bell on their first …
: AI trained by business school professors judges workers' personalities through facial analysis, …
: I have decided to read Schlock Mercenary and Girl Genius. Not today. But soon.
: I love this article by Joel Stein, about his fashion makeover. I laughed out loud at the headline …
: I love RSS but find all RSS clients annoying. I’m trying bazqux now and I like it. Until a …
: I’m looking at a 15-hour flight in about two weeks and then another one a week later. I need …
: A big reason I enjoy reading /r/AITA is so I can say, “Yes, often I’m TA but at least …
: NTA. The commenters are saying she needs to leave him and they’re right. Is “Cat’s …
: NTA. A person has a right to politely decline offered food for any reason or no reason at all. Good …
: “LPT: if a loved one is taken in an ambulance, do not follow us to the hospital. Go there on …
: Slow at the start, late bloomers are still sprinting during that final lap—they do not slow down as …
: CenturyLink users struggle with multi-month outages and turn to journalists at Ars Technica for …
: Reasons to be hopeful: Jay Kuo writes about acts of resistance at the personal, political, legal and …
: Chris Andrade: One of my most enduring memories from my ten years traveling the US was being in a …
: A San Diego migrant shelter run by Jewish Family Services, hailed as a national model, is shutting …
: I rewatched the first two episodes of the first season of “Severance” this evening. I am pleasantly …
: I’m looking forward to the Kennedy Center ceremony honoring Hulk Hogan.
: A Trump State Department official has repeatedly called for mass sterilization of “low-IQ …
: Here is something I saw walking the dog this morning: Dozens of parrots hanging out on overhead …
: What we’re witnessing in the US now resembles the fall of the USSR. But instead of Boris …
: Eleven years ago today, according to my journal, we were having a great deal of difficulty potty …
: I found this article to be a useful guide to getting more from Grammarly. I’ve subscribed for …
: Here are a couple of things I saw while walking the dog this morning This building is now an animal hospital, but I feel like there must have been a private detective …
: Please enjoy these photos of a squirrel that hung around our backyard three years ago.
: DOGE is re-hiring Marko Elez, a staffer who resigned after he made vile, racist posts on Twitter. The posts called for normalizing hatred of Indians, the destruction of both Israel and Gaza, and …
: “We are witnessing a private equity-style plunder of the entire US government -- of the USA itself.” Cory Doctorow: The US is now being run by private equity hatchet-men, the same class of looters who …
: Umberto Eco: Ur-Fascism In a 1995 essay, the writer reflects on Italian fascism in Mussolini’s Italy during his …
: How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days
: I knew this post on r/AmItheAsshole would be great as soon as I read the first sentence: …
: I’m back on Facebook but on the downlow about it.
: The word for the day is “autogolpe."
: Jamelle Bouie: There Is No Going Back The New York Times: Together, Trump and Musk are trying to rewrite the rules of the American …
: Casey Newton tests the new ChatGPT deep research tool and is impressed Platformer: … deep research is available only to subscribers of ChatGPT’s $200-a-month Pro …
: Rusty Foster on the coup: "It's both more and less than it seems…. it's a coup that's only happening on the computer so far…. " Today in Tabs: It’s both more and less than it seems, and as alarming as the facts are, I …
: Is Trump Running a Coup? Ian Welsh:: I think a lot of this comes down to something we’ve talked about before. …
: Any jackass can kick a barn down. But it takes a carpenter to build one. — LBJ on the Difference …
: I’ve decided to reread favorite books instead of compulsively scrolling social media and news. …
: I see a lot of people want to throw out 230 years of constitutional government and replace it with …
: Can anyone stop President Musk? Elizabeth Lopatto at The Verge:: At Musk’s functional companies — SpaceX and to some degree, Tesla …
: Musk's superteam of former iPad babies Ryan Broderick at Garbage Day runs down the coup in progress and its main characters: These are the …
: Good news: Hulu is making plans for a “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” follow up series with …
: Don’t let anybody tell you blogging is dead. One blog post helped crash Nvidia’s stock …
: We watched All Creatures Great & Small: Season 5 (2024): Episode 4 - Uninvited Guests. I suspect …
: Trump has the second-lowest approval rating and highest disapproval rating of any newly elected …
: We watched Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 1x03 “Past Prologue”. I believe Garak may be more …
: Non-obvious benefits to working from home: Privacy for your bathroom breaks, don’t have to …
: “I think what Matt is saying is that he’s been financing the development of WordPress …
: Chuck Schumer seems useless. He makes Neville Chamberlain look like Rambo.
: It’s a dog food slop breakfast.
: I love this image of reading. We’ve all been there, if not with a donkey in tow. Source: [Pursuit …
: My Kindle Paperwhite is a tank. Twelve years old and still fine. It takes 30 seconds to open a book …
: NYTimes: Frozen fruits and vegetables are as good as fresh — often better..
: Musk forced out the head of the FAA ten days ago, after the FAA fined SpaceX for failing to comply …
: Eight days ago, Trump proudly proclaimed he “ends DEI madness” and “restores …
: I see that OpenAI is claiming DeepSeek improperly harvested data. Must be terrible to have other …
: Trump lost no time in fitting the DC crash tragedy into his toxic anti-woke delusions.
: I poked around on the fanfiction archive AO3 for a few minutes last night I have never explored AO3 much, but I saw a mention of it on Tumblr and figured, why not take a …
: Replicating social silos, but with open protocols, is the wrong answer I have a blog hosted on Micro.blog, and I’m active on BlueSky, Tumblr and Mastodon. I post …
: Mike Masnick: The ATProtocol is a technological poison pill that sabotages enshittification. Even …
: Bringing back the Pebble watch Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky wants to bring back the smartwatch his company invented. He wants to …
: How to Take Heart From What Really Worked in the First Resistance Theda Skocpol at The New Republic: …
: “You spend too much time reading…. You know more stuff that don’t make you money …
: I will get kicked out of the Apple nerd club for saying this: Usually, I write reports in Markdown …
: Leslie Nielsen and the Meaning of Life Josh Marshall reflects on Leslie Nielsen’s transformation from a forgettable 1950s-era B-movie …
: Thoughts on the Greatness of Ulysses S. Grant Josh Marshall: Grant was a clear thinker, which was essential to his battlefield victories, …
: The New Anarchists David Graeber’s 2002 proposal for replacing our current global political systems of top-down …
: John Gruber: ICE raids are an escalation of our long-simmering de facto cold civil war The raids are …
: "The single most ridiculous aspect of human history is how much of it has been driven by the goal of allowing a tiny portion of a large population to live in luxury." Hamilton Nolan: … [for] thousands of years and around the globe, the primary purpose of all the …
: Jamelle Bouie: Trump Doesn’t Get to Decide What the Constitution Means. The meaning of the 14th …
: Overheard: “just learned about recency bias and its my favorite thing ever”
: Taylor Lorenz: Why are people talking about “cute winter boots” on TikTok? They’re …
: "… in a few days, there will be no one in prison or facing any sort of criminal penalty …
: Here’s something I saw while walking the dog
: Pete Hegseth, our new Secretary of Defense, appeared on a podcast last year endorsing dangerous …
: A brief history of 80 years of radio station ID jingles. “We pack in so many earworms, …
: Instead of defending American consumers and small businesses, Trump and his allies are going after …
: Washington Democrats feel like they need to be less antagonistic to Trump this time around, lest …
: Me clicking on a restaurant website: I wonder when they’re open and what they serve Restaurant …
: Glad to hear that ActivityPub support is still in the pipeline for Tumblr. It’s a little …
: AI business leaders are talking about “AI workers” and “AI employees.” But …
: Save your outrage: Elon Musk’s inauguration salute is just another distracting meme . The new …
: Jan. 20 was a day as historic as the fall of the USSR. As Ezra Klein says: It wasn’t just a …
: Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite …
: Jeff Bezos is the autocrat of trade that John Sherman warned us about, 135 years ago. And Kier …
: This is an excellent list of all the Star Trek movies, ranked, though I can argue with a few points: …
: Jules Feiffer, a ‘smartass’ Jew whose work spanned comics and cinema, dies at 95. He …
: Here’s something I received in email last night.
: We’ve been watching 70s TV mysteries. Rockford, Columbo, McMillan & Wife, McCloud. Ascots need …
: Please enjoy this visual metaphor for the state of my resolution to stop doomscrolling.
: Musk did a Nazi salute at a rally. Twice. And people are trying to explain away what they plainly …
: Inspiring thoughts from Josh Marshall I’ve seen headstrong winners of close elections high on their own supply before. As I wrote a …
: I’m doing a bit of volunteer work for our local Democratic club this morning. I did not time …
: Why social platforms enshittify: Sure, social platforms value profit above everything — but they …
: Ezra Klein: Trump Barely Won the Election. Why Doesn’t It Feel That Way? The election was a squeaker …
: Martin Luther King Jr’s prescient criticism of technology and power: Nothing in our …
: Invisible Habits Are Driving Your Life People “who are best at achieving their goals are the ones who purposefully form habits to …
: Social media and following the news has become habitual to me, and those are habits I want to break. …
: “My All-Nighter in a Vanishing World: the 24-Hour Diner” Priya Krishna writes in the New York Times about her 12 overnight hours at Kellogg’s Diner, a …
: On First Looking into Brand’s Whole Earth Catalog Dada Drummer Almanach: My favorite browsing lately is at a charity bookshop in my neighborhood – it …
: The Lost Towers of the Guelph-Ghibelline Wars: Ada Palmer goes in-depth, with photos, on Renaissance …
: “It was supposed to be a fun experiment, but then you start getting attached,” Ayrin said. She was …
: John Herman at nymag.com: Social media is for consuming disasters, not surviving them. Social media …
: Clarence Thomas Brings Lifetime of Personal Experience to Complex Supreme Court Case. Thomas loves …
: McSweeney’s: A Marriage Proposal Spoken Entirely in Office Jargon. This bears a resemblance to …
: California wildfires could break Democrats' near-lock on state government.
: Please enjoy your Progresso chicken-noodle-soup-flavored hard candy. Sounds awful and I was …
: I’ve discovered a hitherto uncategorized mystery subgenre: You’ve heard of whodunnits, …
: Casey Newton at Platformer: Mark blames Sheryl. On the one hand, Zuckerberg complains that phone …
: Why I’m Running for San Diego City Council at 71 Despite Many Failed Attempts. I like this …
: I just watched a few minutes of the Paul Lynde Halloween Special from 1976. Oh, wow. Also, I observe …
: You don’t have to be there. @ayjay on the value of cultivating a slow news habit.
: " … we cannot and should not draw a line between state censorship and private or civilian …
: David Brooks: We Deserve Pete Hegseth. The U.S. is not a serious country, so we should have a …
: Hamilton Nolan: Looting Season in America: The oligarchy blooms.
: Zeynep Tufekci: Zuckerberg’s Macho Posturing Looks a Lot Like Cowardice. Zuck supports the incumbent …
: Jamelle Bouie: You’ll Never Guess Who Trump’s New Favorite President Is NYTimes.com: Trump seems to imagine an American autarky: a closed nation, self-sufficient and …
: I’m questioning all my media consumption after quitting Facebook last week. All the timelines. Mastodon, Bluesky, Discord, RSS, Tumblr, newsletters. All of it. Keeping up with …
: There is no safe word: A long, disturbing in depth investigation into serial rape allegations …
: When your heroes fail you Isaac Asimov was one of my heroes when I was a boy and into my 20s. Years after he died, I learned …
: Cottage cheese is having a moment. I’m surprised to learn it was ever out of style. I love cottage …
: The Laken Riley Act mandates harsh, unjust penalties to petty offenders and will overburden the …
: Here’s something I saw when walking the dog: An elegant weapon, for a more civilized age.
: “The Anti-Social Century: Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.” An in-depth longread by Derek Thompson at The Atlantic. This solitude epidemic is not the same as …
: We’re seeing the end of the long 20th century James Marriott at the Times of London: The technocratic, good-mannered, optimistic and consensual …
: I’m pleased to back the Kickstarter for Cory Doctorow’s latest novel, Picks and Shovels, …
: The Terrifying Realization That an Unresponsive Patient Is ‘Still in There’ Dr. Daniela J. Lamas at The New York Times: A provocative large study published last year in The …
: It’s good to see the Justice Department formally recognize the 1921 Tulsa Massacre, in which 300 …
: Just finished the 10-day trial of 2025 and I’ve decided not to subscribe. — @dave@toot.community
: Kudos to MacStories, an excellent site for Apple nerds for pulling the plug on its Meta accountsin …
: Mitchipedia: The sweetest baby in the world The Kansas Chief, Troy, Kansas, October 5, 1899 The Trailblazer monorail in Houston. (Joe …
: Matt Mullenweg deactivated the WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork.
: Mitchellaneous: Discover THE new voice in town The Village Voice - Apr 19, 1976 Sign in a window, 1940s.
: “The Brave Little Toaster.” A delicious, dark dystopian science fiction short-short story by Cory …
: Meta is explicitly adopting policies that protect insulting and dehumanizing attacks against …
: Something I saw while walking the dog: This bird, walking around on the ground, as big as a …
: America is still a great nation Chris Arnade, writing on New Year’s Day: The US, compared to the rest of the world, is optimistic …
: My New Year’s technology resolution is to quit brainlessly switching apps — task managers, …
: The life-changing practice of keeping a calendar of community events “like a blue-haired senior who …
: What hope, digital America? Big tech companies are undermining US regulatory policy to expand their …
: Mitchellaneous: More apt than usual via sjvn, who says, “This seems more apt than usual.” Thanks! via. Thanks! Cover by …
: Project 2025 is “neofeudalist fanfic shit out by the most esoteric Fedsoc weirdos the world has ever seen.” Donald Trump will never be able to implement Project 2025 because the document is rife with …
: When I was a kid I thought conga lines would play a much greater role in my adult social life than …
: How to delete your Facebook account
: I’ve been annoyed by Facebook as software for at least six years. The software makes it hard …
: LA fires are a good reminder that the only difference between me and any refugee is luck. — …
: Yesterday's Meta announcement finally pushed me to quit those services I have been thinking about quitting Meta for at least six years, but I finally did it yesterday. …
: Critics of Idaho’s proposed same-sex marriage ban say it’s a “sad …
: Mitchellaneous: The man under Cousin Itt's costume The man under Cousin Itt’s costume via The end of the Great Wall of China Title page …
: I’ve been followed by Charlize Theron and Scarlett Johannsen on Bluesky this week. I believe, …
: That was fast: After reading this coverage from Casey Newton, I can’t in good conscience stay …
: I’ve been fed up with Facebook for a long time, and today’s news does not make me love …
: The Heritage Foundation plans to “identify and target” Wikipedia editors whom the groups …
: Trump wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico and use the military to claim Greenland from Demark, a NATO …
: It’s wild to me that Theodore Levine, the actor who played the demonic Buffalo Bill in …
: My hands are so dry, cracked and painful this week that I’ve started using hand lotion, which …
: I’m disappointed by Zuck’s latest decisions to cave in to Trump’s threats, but I …
: Mitchellaneous: Nude Interracial Love Dance “From around 1970, [a] young person from the Columbus, Georgia, news photo archive. A …
: After reading this explanation of Hookmark, I am thinking of giving the app another try. I like the …
: I’m glad to see Rusty Foster is back writing “Today in Tabs” and I hope it …
: Simon Wiilson: “You should start a blog. Having your own little corner of the internet is good …
: "The evidence is not flawless." Scientists investigate claims of life after death The University of Virginia school of medicine’s Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS) searches …
: “I have been saying ‘What?’ every single sentence.” Rereading …
: Today I learned Chevy Chase played drums in a college band that later became Steely Dan. “He could have been famous,” a Redditor joked, according to Carolyn Wazer at Snopes. The …
: “It wasn’t your fault that despite your many accomplishments, personal and professional, …
: Mitchellaneous: behind-the-scenes Star Trek photos
: I’m about to start reading: The Lincoln Lawyer, by Michael Connelly. I’m reading all off Connelly’s …
: Hamilton Nolan:Here’s a New Year’s resolution for Trump’s America: no snitching. “If you saw …
: This is how nations decline. You don’t always turn into Nazi Germany. You turn into Russia, or …
: UCSD plans to use AI cameras in hospital rooms, but says privacy will be protected. This seems like …
: The flu is surging in San Diego. “It went from pretty quiet to busy all of a sudden.” …
: Celeste Davis: Why male college enrollment is dropping. As more women attended college, men started …
: My favorite movies of 2024 (third try posting, trying to correct egregious formatting errors) Home for the Holidays (1996). Holly Hunter, a mid-30s single mother and museum curator, flies home …
: "Trump is a little guy, and Musk is a big guy when it actually comes to having money." A historian predicts trouble for Trump. The Guardian, quoting Yale historian and author Timothy Snyder: “I think we overestimate …
: "A lot of the current hype around LLMs revolves around one core idea, which I blame on Star Trek: Wouldn't it be cool if we could use natural language to control things?" The problem is that this is, at the fundamental level, a terrible idea. There’s a reason that …
: In 2025, San Diego Can't Look Away from the Screaming Scott Lewis at Voice of San Diego: A few weeks ago, a man in the alley behind our house began …
: Ian Welsh: Well That Was Hell: 2024 In Review. tl;dr America and Europe are in decline, Russia is doing well and China is doing *very* well. Welsh continues to be a lone voice saying the war in Ukraine is going very badly for Ukraine, and he …
: Congratulations to John Scalzi on the 20th anniversary of his debut novel "Old Man's War." He looks back on the book here and mentions that parts of it are now dated. The ony part that stands …
: Why You Should Relish Embarrassment
: Woody Fraser, Pioneering Producer of Daytime Talk Shows, Dies at 90. “He spiced up the format …
: "The MAGA civil war over H1-B visas … like watching a cage match between the two worst people in the world.” Ian Welsh does a better job than I did articulating what I was trying to say in my earlier post on …
: Newly deciphered manuscript is oldest written record of Jesus Christ’s childhood. He hated …
: Interactive dingus shows the popularity of names over time. I’m surprised to see …
: 100 Small Acts of Love. “My husband always picks me up at the airport when I travel solo. He …
: Books: the coveted Mitch Wagner "Mitchie" Awards for 2024! I read about 13 books this year. Here are my favorites: “Nobody’s Fool,” …
: Congress has the power to block Trump from taking office The Hill: The Constitution provides that an oath-breaking insurrectionist is ineligible to be …
: I don’t remember ever having imaginary friends when I was a child. On the other hand, …
: I just realized a problem with Facebook’s latest AI strategy: Most people outgrow imaginary …
: I unsubscribed from the Washington Post. I don't miss it. Like many people, I canceled my Washington Post subscription when the Post declined to endorse a …
: Facebook wants to replace your friends with bots Meta wants to fill your social media feeds with AI-generated characters. They’ll have bios and …
: Even Boomers who have saved for retirement are worried about outliving their money, and are living …
: Today, I learned that HFY science fiction is a thing and that the acronym goes back at least 10 …
: Jimmy Carter Deserved Our Thanks and Respect, Not Our Sneers — Nicholas Kristof says Carter, who was …
: Military families scramble as new a anti-LGBTQ+ rule is poised to become law. — Republicans endanger …
: A conservative organization led by Trump adviser Stephen Millier is threatening prison time for …
: I posted a multi-paragraph post to mitchw.blog earlier today, and my blogging software deleted all …
: A couple who met as teen penpals separated by 7,000 miles are now celebrating 30 years of marriage.
: Trump’s Immigration Policies Could Create a Dystopian Humanitarian Crisis
: Google Street View helped solve a year-old Spanish murder cause. Caught photos of what appeared to …
: It’s doubtful United Healthcare is abusing the DMCA to takedown Luigi Mangione apparel, but someone …
: Heather Cox Richardson analyzes the infighting in the Trump coalition. It’s the DOGEs, led by …
: TV: The coveted Mitch Wagner "Mitchie" awards for 2024 Man on the Inside. Ted Danson plays a retired and widowed engineering professor who answers an ad …
: WSJ: The Progressive Moment in Global Politics Is Over . Maybe so. But what next?
: Steve Bannon Calls Elon Musk a ‘Toddler’
: House GOP Fixin' To Screw Up Speaker Vote, Imperil Trump’s Inauguration, Cause Us To Die …
: Tijuana isn’t ready for mass deportations.
: The NYPD and New York City government are in freefall. Fun to watch, unless you live in New York, as …
: Ticket to the freakshow Lately, I’m keeping in mind George Carlin’s line that when you’re born you get a …
: I started using my current barber soon after the pandemic lockdown ended. I’m pretty sure that …
: Brett’s @ttscoff@nojack.easydns.ca mention of Drafts as a place he stores lists makes me think …
: A brief Christmas report Our stop was the Lafayette Hotel, which has been remodeled recently and looks delightfully bonkers, …
: Mitchellaneous: Catfish therapist
: Trump isn’t joking about wanting to control Greenland and the Panama Canal. Trump’s talk …
: Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots. State health …
: “Do I condone murder? No, obviously. But I’m also sick and tired of people pretending that …
: RIP Michael Brewer, whose “One Toke Over the Line” was a hippie anthem. Michael Brewer, …
: I had to put Minnie out in the backyard for a half hour this afternoon to keep her out of the way of …
: I am reading: The Infernal Machine by Steven Johnson 📚. Published in May of this year, this book is …
: Jamelle Bouie: “when you have anti-DEI proponents openly going after black military officers …
: “The Democratic Party needs to be the party of ‘fuck you.'" Yes to this. No …
: Tonight’s movie: You called down the thunder, well now you’ve got it! … The cowboys are …
: “When you regulate the internet as if it’s all just Facebook, all that will be left is …
: Elon Musk Boosting German Fascists, What Could Possibly Go Wrong Stop us if you’ve heard this …
: Here’s something else I saw walking the dog today: This tiny dog wearing a coat and shoes. I …
: Something I saw while walking the dog
: We watched the first episode of the new Dexter prequel series: “Dexter: Original Sin.” Dexter’s back …
: Quit more books to read more books Many readers feel compelled to finish any book they started. I am one of those readers. But that’s a …
: “My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. I’m a wizard. I …
: Currently reading: Storm Front by Jim Butcher 📚
: Flipboard’s Surf joins several existing apps designed to view Mastodon and other ActivityPub …
: The Take It Down Act, written to combat non-consensual intimate imagery posted to the Internet, has …
: Ageism and ableism are the stupidest prejudices. Most of us will become old and disabled. Ageism and …
: I see a lot of ageism on the political left. Ageism, like all other prejudice, is wrong. It’s OK if you want to argue that Gerry Connolly is a hack, incapable of inspiring Democrats, …
: Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency in California over bird flu. “This proclamation …
: Sen. Elizabeth Warren: “RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine misinformation campaign helped cause a …
: Since I upgraded to Apple Intelligence a couple of days ago, it has twice started talking to me …
: A quick impromptu comparison test of ChatGPT vs. Kagi vs Google vs. Perplexity Following up on my friend Steven J. Vaughan-Nicols' article praising the Perplexity search engine, I …
: “All eyes are on Bend, Oregon, where a mysterious vandal (or group of vandals) has been …
: Looking around for places to have Christmas dinner. I asked ChatGPT what restaurants are open. First …
: “With the polio vaccine in the news, I want to tell some of my mom’s story: My mom got …
: "… if you legislate as if everyone is big tech, big tech is all you will end up …
: Daring Fireball: On the Accountability of Unnamed Public Relations Spokespeople. Unnamed public …
: You can't rebrand a class war. Move left, just to stay standing Hamilton Nolan: If billionaires are destroying our country in order to serve their own …
: “We are the king makers.” How San Diego’s Awaken Church pushes politics from the …
: Book bans and culturally divisive conflicts cost schools more than $3 billion last year. Schools say they’re spending the money on legal fees, added security, additional staff time …
: A law proposed by Sen. Ron Widen would give the FCC greater power over telecom’s lax …
: How to read 100 pages in books daily.
: Awaken Church, an anti-LGBTQ charismatic sect closely aligned with Trump, wants to expand into …
: The Ingenuity helicopter is permanently grounded on Mars following a crash, after 72 flights. The …
: Police have determined who put the body of an 81-year-old former nurse in a home freezer in Allied …
: Ross Douthat: It’s Going to Be Normal to Have Extreme Beliefs. “Going to be”? It …
: ChatGPT is getting support for Projects. You will be able to group related chats together and add …
: Another new Twitter? Good luck with that. “Users are now flocking to Bluesky. But every social …
: Kennedy’s lawyer has asked the FDA to revoke approval of the polio vaccine. A suicide cult is …
: The meaning of McDonald's: Writer Chris Arnade's "favorite franchise can't seem to get out of the news" Chris Arnade Walks the World: The last few months has provided two moments that emphasize how …
: The Longevity Revolution: America Needs to Radically Rethink What It Means to Be Old Jonathan Rauch at The Atlantic: We could use a new category [for adulthood], one reflecting the …
: LA Times Billionaire Owner Hilariously Thinks He Can Solve Media Bias With 'AI' Karl Bode at Techdirt: Academics have spent generations warning about what happens when you let …
: How Easy Rawlins Built a Real Estate Empire, One Crime Novel at a Time. “Walter Mosley talks about …
: Thanks to AI, the Hottest New Programming Language is… English
: Predicting the Present: Cory Doctorow reflects on his 2019 story, “Radicalized,” about …
: Trump’s pick to head the FBI, Kash Patel, sent a bogus legal threat to an MSNBC commentator …
: A quick note for my San Diego friends Agenda item 29 on Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting prohibits the sherriff’s …
: FBI files uncover the inside of ISIS’s graphic design arm. Sure, they’re terrorists but that’s no …
: It’s Impossible to Pee Legally in San Diego. Public restrooms are scarce.
: Telecom Industry ‘Think Tank’ Feebly Tries To Smear Community Owned Broadband
: Six hours under martial law in Seoul. Sarah Jeong, features editor at The Verge, was in South Korea …
: Hamilton Nolan: Privatized America. The decline in publicly held companies is bad for worker …
: ‘Appeasement in the New Age of Trump’, MSNBC Edition
: Owner Patrick Soon-Shiong Is Tanking the LA Times’s Credibility
: DOJ Investigation Proves That If A PD Isn’t Known For Its Constant Rights Violations, It’s Because …
: … America will decline, but will decline less fast than its allies, and the world will split …
: LA Times Owner To Personally Review Opinion Headlines To Avoid Offending Elon Musk
: In Japan, takkyu-bin services conveniently forward your luggage to your destination.
: RIP Trent Zelazny. A moving tribute by his friend George. R.R. Martin …
: Trump fans are suffering from Tony Soprano syndrome. They don’t see that characters like Tony, …
: John Gruber on using generative AI for Internet research: “I direct (and trust) ChatGPT as I …
: The Rage and Glee That Followed a C.E.O.’s Killing Should Ring All Alarms. By Zeynep Tufekci. …
: How Trump Targeted Undecided Voters Without Breaking the Bank. The Trump campaign was outspent by …
: The UnitedHealthcare Gunman Understands the Surveillance State
: A delightful review of the McDonalds McRib): I had a McRib yesterday, which for the uninitiated is …
: Brendan Carr Makes It Clear That He’s Eager To Be America’s Top Censor. By Mike Masnick at Techdirt.
: We watched Yellowstone 5x12 “Counting Coup”
: New technology from World Labs, a startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, can generate interactive …
: The Great Grocery Store Squeeze. Food deserts are not an inevitable consequence of poverty or low …
: The dog got into the cat food today. I hope your day is going as well as hers.
: We watched Evil 4x08 “How to Save a Life”
: Currently reading: Demon by John Varley 📚Book 3 in the Gaea trilogy.
: Finished reading: The Closers by Michael Connelly 📚. Another good Harry Bosch yarn. Spoiler alert: …
: … giving more rights to a creative worker who has no bargaining power is like giving your bullied …
: Even orcas dress better than me.
: RIP Earl Holliman, 96, who appeared in “The Twilight Zone,” “Giant,” …
: A Bird Flu Pandemic Would Be One of the Most Foreseeable Catastrophes in History. Zeynep Tufekci at …
: NASA radar reveals an abandoned Cold War military base buried under the ice in Greenland. Camp …
: Vaccines Will Have to Prove Themselves Again. The Hard Way. By Donald G. McNeil Jr.: Vaccines will …
: We watched The Lincoln Lawyer 3x07 “Relevance”
: On the Mac Power Users forum, I’m following a discussion about the search for perfect …
: Tim Chambers: A Quick Snapshot of the Microblogging Landscape I like Chambers' vision: Mastodon …
: Daring Fireball: ‘Building LLMs Is Probably Not Going Be a Brilliant Business’. The …
: David Pierce at The Verge: Craft 3 is shockingly close to my ideal productivity app — I expect I …
: We just watched The Diplomat 2x06 “Dreadnought.” Satisfying S2 finale.
: Facebook’s idiot moderation robot has put me on restrictions again, for posting this.
: Musk accuses Trump whistleblower Vindman of ‘treason,’ says ‘he will pay’ – An oligarch with the ear …
: A Great Idea for People With a Terrible Disease: Let’s Find a Cure Ourselves — Zeynep Tufekci …
: Republicans are the predators stalking American bathrooms. Republicans are sex-obsessed deviants who …
: We watched Evil 4x07 “How to Bandage a Wound”
: “You can get into a lot of trouble by assuming that rich people know what they’re …
: The far right grows through disaster fantasies Cory Doctorow:: The right thrives on fantasies about urban collapse, “FEMA death camps, …
: Ian Welsh: The causes of the Ukraine war and What Ukraine looks like post-war if Russia imposes the …
: Let’s All Take a Breath and Get Off the Plane Like Grown-Ups I got in a shouting match with a guy …
: Currently reading: The Closers by Michael Connelly 📚 Harry Bosch never disappoints.
: Simplifying! I decided to stop posting to Threads, check in there only occasionally and consolidated …
: “I do not rip pages out of my notebook regularly because I am not deranged."
: I suspect this advice on running different types of coin-op businesses is not intended seriously.
: Cutting Through An Inundation of Dipshit Racists — The meaning behind the Maori haka demonstration …
: Senators are calling for audit of TSA’s facial recognition tech as its use expands in airports.
: A secret parachute in the FBI’s possession may have finally solved D.B. Cooper’s …
: “The Cold War never ended. And that is why we are where we are."
: Ian Welsh: Why Assisted Suicide Bills Will Proliferate & Deaths Will Increase — “Nothing saves …
: Elon Musk has enough money to buy every federal election and still have plenty of money left over.
: “For years, through carefully choreographed dinners and meetings, Apple CEO Tim Cook did …
: Boulder, Colorado police are investigating 14 illegally placed, official-looking traffic signs with …
: John Scalzi: Holden Caulfield in middle age. Like Scalzi, I never got the appeal of “Catcher …
: Why is the sky dark at night?. The mystery stumped astronomers for centuries.
: California’s farmers backed Trump, whose immigration policies could be dangerous to the …
: I stepped over one of the cats this afternoon and she panicked and bolted and I changed the …
: Something I saw while walking with the dog: This Christmas tree. I usually oppose Christmas decorations before Thanksgiving, but I’ll make an exception here …
: I asked ChatGPT how we would know if AI had achieved artificial general intelligence, and whether …
: RIP Alice Brock, 83, the restaurant owner who inspired and co-wrote part of the Arlo Guthrie …
: Presumptive Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is Trump's "most dangerous cabinet pick." Hegseth has written multiple books describing is conspiracy theories that the US is ruled by a …
: YouTube is now the most popular podcast platform. I don’t get it. I listen to 1-2 hours of …
: This House Democrat Keeps Winning in Trump Country. Here’s What She Knows. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez won a “long-shot Democratic campaign for Congress in a solidly …
: Natasha Dumas at McSweeney’s: Reasons That I, a Trans Woman, Have Had to Use the Bathroom at My …
: Nobody does more brutal fashion review than the Irish.
: We cannot let this one pass. New bathroom bill would essentially make it illegal for trans people to …
: “Gödel’s Loophole is a supposed ‘inner contradiction’ in the Constitution of …
: I’m about to fill out my passport application form for the fifth time. I made two errors the …
: I am about to fill out the passport renewal application form for the third time today because the …
: The Sol Reader is an ebook reader built into glasses frames. The epaper fits where the lenses of the …
: I found this photo of the cover of David Gerrold's novel "Yesterday's Children" I read the book when I was about 12 and thought it was amazing. It was my first exposure to the type …
: While walking with the dog this morning, I saw a half-dozen people set up a commercial coffee machine in the park It was the kind of machine you’d see behind the counter at a Starbucks or in a cafe that …
: Republicans like the First Amendment when it's convenient for them Texas education officials are expected to vote this week on a public school curriculum that focuses …
: Inside ISIS’s Graphic Design Team — Ruthless terrorists, yes, but they have standards when it …
: Julie and I have not done a family Thanksgiving for years but from what I gather from the news and …
: My coffee is chewy this morning. The grounds broke containment in the coffeemaker.
: TV shows we are currently watching: NCIS Origins, High Potential, Matlock, The Lincoln Lawyer, The …
: Brendan Carr will be the next FCC chief. What network operators need to know. By my colleague Masha …
: Trump’s FCC chair is Brendan Carr, who wants to regulate everyone except ISPs
: Contact your Congressional reps and ask them to oppose HR9495. “If this bill passes, the …
: The Verge Editor-In-Chief Nilay Patel breathes fire on Elon Musk and Donald Trump's Big Tech enablers Oliver Darcy at Status.news: America now has an unelected defense contractor sitting in the White …
: Trump names Brendan Carr as his FCC leader. Carr has threatened to use the FCC to regulate speech …
: Some things I saw while walking with the dog.
: The long-awaited sequel to “Snakes on a Plane.”
: From a New Zealand local newspaper: “Police responding to reports of a racist flag being flown …
: How to survive the broligarchy
: Post to multiple social networks at once for free with Fedica.
: A group of masked people brandishing Nazi symbols marched down a street in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, …
: Bluesky is working to become fully decentralized but it could take years amid financial concerns as …
: Facebook is changing its primary metric to ‘views’. The Verge: Like other methods of measurement created by tech companies, “views,” “impressions,” and …
: Stephen King quit Twitter and joined Threads. His last tweet: “I’m leaving Twitter. …
: Threads is testing custom feeds for your favorite topics
: Here’s something I saw while walking with the dog this morning: This spectacular rainbow.
: What’s the Deal With Pete Hegseth’s Crusader Tattoos? His body is covered in symbols celebrating …
: Why do so many people, including liberals, now hold Democrats in contempt? Digby’s Hullaballoo: I have been distinctly uncomfortable with the whole “we must find …
: The latest Jesus movie mixes Christianity with MMA fighting. The Forward, a Jewish publication, …
: Tulsi Gabbard’s Nomination Is a National-Security Risk. She has vehemently and often spoken in …
: Alex Jones Is Having a Total Meltdown Over The Onion Buying Infowars
: our boss told us to camp in tents when we travel for business — Ask a Manager
: Kevin Smith's "Dogma" turns 25 “Dogma” is one of Smith’s best movies. It’s surprisingly thoughtful as well …
: Tyler Cowen interviews Neal Stephenson on history, spycraft, parallels between the 20th Century US …
: Photographer Susan Schiffman's charming photos of rent-stabilized apartments in New York's East Village are intended as portraits of the unseen tenants who live in them. Anna Kodé at the New York Times: Ms. Schiffman pointed to a photo of a white sink — surrounded by …
: What it means to be left wing Ian Welsh: In the modern world there are three main ideological groupings. Broadly the right, the …
: The Onion bought Alex Jones' Infowars Hadas Gold, CNN: The Onion’s bid was backed by the families of eight victims of the Sandy Hook …
: Donald Trump's New 'Border Czar' Defended Child Separation at Festival Held by Gun-Worshipping Sect David Gilbert at Wired: Tom Homan, the man president-elect Donald Trump has selected to serve as …
: At Mar-a-Lago, ‘Uncle’ Elon Musk Puts His Imprint on the Trump Transition. “He’s on the patio. He’s …
: Bluesky added 1M users since the election. “Blue” is right there in the name.
: Trump will use Xi Xinping's "anti-corruption" playbook Cory Doctorow: Xi’s 2012-2015 anti-corruption campaign routed out real and serious corruption …
: GPS spoofing threatens global aviation. Attackers can potentially cause a GPS blackout or guide a …
: "So what does that mean in practice? Democrats ponder whether to do real or fake populism" Hamilton Nolan: The worst part of the week after the presidential election has been the bombardment …
: The Americans prepping for a second Civil War, by Charles Bethea at the New Yorker. They’re …
: "Want to live a long and fulfilling life? Change how you think about getting old" Debra Whitman at the Wall Street Journal: Stress about growing older becomes self-fulfilling. The …
: Ian Welsh asks: “What is woke?" I’ve wondered that myself. I think it’s just …
: "A worldwide Jew hunt" Bret Stephens cites Amsterdam pogroms and hate crimes in Chicago, Brooklyn, Paris and inside Israel …
: Bluesky is probably the new Twitter, says Ryan Broderick at Garbage Day. Threads is lame, he says. …
: I have cottage cheese for lunch nearly every day. Minnie enjoys it too.
: Matt Gaetz: Not just a pedo. Also an anti-Semite.
: I’ve been thinking about this quote a lot since election results were declared. Carlin got …
: The undead workforce: AI avatars could keep you on the job after you’re gone. Get ready for your …
: I hope Trump supporters get everything they voted for.
: Outstanding post from Cory Doctorow calling for a general strike in 2028 Trump is a scab, the Dems need unions, and the Dems are not faithful friends to unions. Harris …
: Something I saw while walking the dog: This artful cluster of birdhouses
: Are you, personally, doing anything to prepare for Trump's second term? A friend is lining up all his vaccinations for the next four years to prepare for anti-vaxxers …
: An elephant named Mary uses a hose to shower off, which is totally adorable and demonstrates …
: A family built a 50,000-pound full-size replica Stargate in their Ohio backyard. The ring has become …
: How It Went. John Gruber shares a moving story about his mother’s death, father’s wedding ring and …
: How Trump 2.0 could transform American cloud, AI, broadband and more. President-elect Donald Trump’s …
: “Your standing desk isn’t making you any healthier. A large new study found that standing for …
: Here’s something I saw while walking the dog.
: The Washington Post ordered its employees to return to the office five days a week. Huh? Good …
: What a Trump win means for the FCC and telecom policy.Look for a Repubilcan-led FCC, eliminating …
: After using it once, I switched off Live Activity election results on my iPhone. Too much agita.
: Apple users can use Live Activity to track election results from their home screens. I switched this …
: Britain’s remaining hereditary members of the House of Lords are fighting against a movement …
: Researchers from Kyoto University launched a satellite with wood paneling into space. This is not an …
: How has the Electoral College survived, despite being perennially unpopular? A brief history of a …
: I’m sure it is great for my mental health and productivity to spend a lot of time on news and …
: Instead of dialing for Kamala, I did an hour or so of door-to-door canvassing yesterday for Democrats up and down the ballot I’ve gone door-to-door several years. Every year, I get awful stagefright — I dread it for …
: Today I learned that adults drinking milk are stigmatized On Reddit: Why do so many people think drinking milk is weird? Adults Who Still Drink Milk: Are You …
: Something I saw while walking the dog this morning: This tiny sticker on a street sign post.
: Fixing the microphone on my Apple Watch The microphone on my Apple Watch stopped working weeks or months ago. I know the common wisdom is …
: I did another hour of get-out-the-vote calling for Harris-Walz. This time I called Arizona. One of …
: Bluesky and enshittification: No one is the enshittifier of their own story Cory Doctorow …
: Today's dialing for Harris to get out the Democratic vote was frustrating I got started much later than I intended, and the website directed me to a zoom meeting in …
: I just made a final round of donations to the Harris campaign, Swingleft.org and the San Diego …
: I don’t know how many Ms there are in “hummus.” Definitely more than zero and …
: I just finished an hour of phoning for the Harris campaign I did it from my house, from my home office, the same place I work all day. I did it after work. My …
: Photos of the outrageous monumental architecture of Turkmenistan, the most isolated country in Asia.
: Japan’s mundane Halloween costumes include “Person listening to the song they’re …
: I took an actual taxi, rather than an Uber, on a business trip last week. I paid with a plastic …
: This year, for Halloween, I’m wearing normal clothes. Somebody asked me, “What are you …
: I don’t like Halloween. To me, the Halloween season is like a joke that goes on far too long. …
: The best of Japan’s mundane Halloween costumes for 2024. Includes “Man who keeps getting …
: We’re still deciding what to give out for trick-or-treaters. We’ve narrowed the choices …
: I'm looking forward to Daylight Saving Time ending Sunday. Not a fan. I was a night person when I was young, routinely getting to bed well after midnight. In the late …
: Walking Minnie this morning, our neighborhood coyote passed us from behind on the other side of the …
: What’s the weirdest or most inappropriate thing you’ve seen or done in a video meeting?
: RIP Teri Garr, 79, after a long battle with multiple sclerosis. She starred in “Young Frankenstein,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” …
: I read a Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr post where he talks about using a plain text file as a …
: OMG stop me from looking at election news, and if I can’t stop looking at it, at least let me stop …
: The rallies remain the same. In 2016, writer Scaachi Koul thought she might learn something …
: There’s a helicopter flying over the house announcing something about a “suspect,” …
: “Not Medically Necessary”: Inside the Company Helping America’s Biggest Health …
: A year of modest victories and tough losses for California's reparations movement Robin Buller at The Guardian interviews Kamilah Moore, chair of the Californial taskforce on …
: Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes: ‘We want to make America hate again’. He blames the “corrupt …
: Washington Post writers say don’t dump subscriptions over non-endorsement Edward Helmore at The Guardian: From outside the Post, the CNN anchor Jake Tapper wrote on X: …
: ‘I’m not afraid. Let’s do it’: the Arizona abortion clinic testing the limits of the state’s ban. …
: Nearly a million Puerto Ricans live in swing states. More than 470,000 in Pennsylvania alone.
: I saw this lovely house while walking the dog.
: Apple put the Magic Mouse’s charging port at the bottom again. “… Apple still …
: It's now legal to hack McFlurry machines and medical devices to fix them Jason Koebler at 404 Media: It is now legal to hack or otherwise bypass technical protection …
: Trump praises Chinese President Xi for controlling citizens “with an iron fist."
: The Philadelphia DA asked a state judge to shut down Musk’s $1 million election sweepstakes, …
: A Trump campaign ad claiming America has “gone to hell” under Biden features images from …
: The American housing crisis is a theft, not a shortage Economics From the Top Down: Since Reagan, the US has been on a massive policy of redistributing …
: “Fighting for the right of disabled people to adapt their technology is fighting for …
: Please enjoy this 2021 photo of Minnie. She says hey.
: Max Read: Anthropomorphic chatbots are a dangerous user interface for LLMs. AI didn’t kill …
: The mates who have met for a pint every Thursday for 56 years. “We once talked about soccer …
: BlueSky is not decentralized @possibledog@beige.party/: #BlueSky is a centralized corporate app, running a …
: Taco Bell is bringing back the Caramel Apple Empanada and other favorites from the 60s through the …
: Here’s something I saw while walking the dog.
: Hopeful but not optimistic about the election I recall having dinner with a friend in late 2016 — after the election but before the inauguration. …
: I canceled my subscription to the Washington Post after this chickenshit decision. Speaking out …
: Eight questions to help you think about death.
: Please enjoy this article based on an interview with Bruce Springsteen Springsteen: I rarely see my bandmates - we’ve seen each other enough Mark Savage on BBC.com: …
: I took Uber X instead of Uber Comfort today.
: The long hate for the Comic Sans font seems to be ending Simon Garfield at The Atlantic: Comic Sans has long been the “Macarena” of fonts. Type aficionados …
: Lawsuit charges that ad tech enable surveillance of hundreds of millions of people worldwide, enabling possible terrorism and harassment Atlas Data Privacy Corp, which helps its users remove personal information from consumer data …
: I saw a guy at Orlando Airport dressed as Silent Bob. I was going to ask him why he was walking …
: I think my wife and me are the last two people without tattoos.
: I saw a guy with an artificial leg with a NY Mets logo on the knee.
: I feel bad for anybody sitting in my row on a flight. I fidget something terrible.
: I listened to “Never Gonna Give You Up” end-to-end for the first time since rickrolling became a …
: Here’s something I saw while walking this dog at the park this morning.
: 2e2 whooping cough cases currently in my part of Washington state. There’s been a vaccine for …
: … just because you’re on their side, it doesn’t mean they’re on your side. They …
: Blue states should play “constitutional hardball." Provide succor to “medical …
: During our last time going out to lunch before the pandemic, my dad (who was the only member of his …
: Surgeons are wearing Apple Vision Pro headsets into the operating room. $3,500 is wicked expensive …
: A son writes a hilarious and loving obituary for his father. “He is God’s problem …
: A delightful series of life lessons from people just turned 30, 40, 50 and 60, along with a …
: Trump plans to rule as a dictator, unchecked by Congress, courts, the law or the Constitution. He …
: Jamelle Bouie: There is no precedent for something like this in American history. Trump’s campaign …
: A school disciplined a student for using AI, and his parents sued. The parents say there was no …
: In the 20th Century, you could stroll up to a newsstand, see a newspaper with an interesting …
: Is it possible to globally disable Cmd-P to print in the Mac? It seems like an artifact from the …
: Employees describe an environment of paranoia and fear inside Automattic over Wordpress chaos. …
: On foreign policy, economics and law-and-order issues, I could possibly be persuaded to support the …
: I was blocked on Threads for most of the day. Whenever I tried to log in, I got a notification that …
: I often see front yards covered in artificial turf around here. Is that common elsewhere, or is it …
: [@MitchW](https://micro.blog/MitchW) The most true and accurate and wise words on the internet: …
: My 20-year love of RSS I’ve been using RSS virtually every day for more than 20 years. My current favorite is …
: I’ve been using Vivaldi as my primary browser on the Mac for about six months, and I quite like it. …
: A British man is the second person in history with three penises
: A jury denied damages to the family of a San Diego Black man who was buried in the wrong grave for …
: Elon Musk’s promise of free Starlink terminals for hurrican victims in western North Carolina …
: Hong Kong police busted a fraud ring that used AI deepfake face-swapping technology for romance …
: The FTC finalized a new regulation making it easier to cancel unwanted subscriptions. Republicans …
: The only acceptable jobs for Spider-Man. i dont want any of this “hes a genius tech ceo making …
: Hillbilly Cinematic Universe: “Dukes of Hazzard,” “Hee-Haw,” “Beverly …
: AI LLM chatbots formed a cult to worship the Goatse meme (don’t Google “Goatse”) …
: You should be using an RSS reader: RSS basically works like social media should work. Using RSS is …
: Steven Vaughan-Nichols: About that brawl between the WordPress co-founder and WP Engine… …
: Earlier, I asked if anybody knew of a good news portal — Apple News, Google News, Yahoo News, MSN …
: Goodbye Capacities, hello (again) DevonThink I tried Capacities, a note-taking and knowledge-management app, for about two weeks, but then gave …
: Of course we can tax billionaires: Taxing the ultra-rich isn’t like the secret of embalming …
: “Class of ’84: When Cyber Was Punk.” In William Gibson’s “Neuromancer,” published in 1984, the …
: Sam Kahn captures the zeitgeist of every decade from the 1880s to today, one paragraph at a time. …
: The FBI created its own cryptocurrency to catch scammers in pump-and-dump schemes. It would be much …
: Apple MacOS 15 Sequoia is officially UNIX. Of personal interest to me; my first tech journalism job …
: When I first heard “every accusation is a confession,” I thought it was just political …
: New NRA CEO Doug Hamlin pleaded no contest to brutally murdering a pet cat with his fraternity …
: Normal people hearing about a robot that makes burgers: “Wow! So futuristic!” People who have worked …
: I just ordered business cards. What next? Will I send a fax? Will I receive a memo in a pneumatic …
: Arizona Democrats close a field office after three shooting incidents
: Armed militia are hunting federal rescue workers in North Carolina
: Right-wing terrorists, led by Trump, are making death threats against local government officials, …
: I went door to door to get out the vote for the Democratic Party this afternoon. I did 15 out of 47 …
: Antitrust is having a moment. People understand that corporate looters – not “the …
: Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops. “Digital IDs make it tempting to leave your driver’s …
: EFF: The Salt Typhoon hack shows there’s no security backdoor that’s only for the …
: Jamie Zawinski: Mosaic Netscape 0.9 was released 30 years ago today: According to my notes, it went …
: What’s the best news portal? Apple News, Google News, Yahoo News, MSN Start, something else?
: Rereading replies on Bluesky I now see that I was wrong to compare Florida’s extremist …
: I’m being called a fuckhead on BlueSky for comparing Florida’s forced-birth extremists …
: Harris faces new urgency to explain how her potential presidency would be different from Biden’s. …
: Florida’s Taliban government is threatening to criminally prosecute TV stations that air an ad …
: “The unborn” are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands …
: The pulpy fun of Heinlein’s “Methuselah’s Children” The book is about a group of long-lived people who have been living secretly pretending to be just …
: I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of …
: Bill Wells, the Republican running to unseat my Congressional Rep, Sara Jacabs, is going hard for …
: Instagram and Threads moderation is out of control . I was curious what “crackergate” …
: I’ve reactivated my Mastodon account after a brief experiment suspending that account and …
: What’s the derivation of the phrase “hard-boiled” to describe a person or fictional character? When was it first used? In my earlier review of two favorite 1940s science fiction stories1, I avoided using the phrase …
: Roger Zelazny was a demented genius who could squeeze words until they sang. — “Beautiful, …
: Some friends and I have taken to calling Threads “the gas-leak social network” because that is the …
: Well, that's disturbing Fat Bear Week, the annual competition held by Katmai National Park in Alaska, had to take a brief …
: Facebook is a vector for AI-generated disinformation about federal post-hurricane relief Meta simply does not give a shit anymore. Facebook spent most of the 2010s absorbing, and …
: I changed the domain for Mitch's Other blog to mitchellaneous.net, which I am stupid pleased about mitchellaneous.net, aka Mitch’s Other Blog, is where I’m posting memes, vintage ads and …
: Happy 30th blogiversary to Dave Winer Here’s a profile of Dave, by John Naughton at The Guardian: The blogosphere is in full bloom. …
: Matt Stoller: “Apolitical basketball legend Michael Jordan filed an antitrust suit last week against …
: A left-wing 2028 Democratic primary challenge is essential for Democrats Hamilton Nolan: “Run a Left Wing Democratic Primary Candidate in 2028. No Matter What. Stopping the …
: Regarding Dave Winer’s @davew@mastodon.social assertion that journalists should view people writing …
: On this morning’s walk, I saw my first Trump signs of the season. There were many campaign signs for …
: If the stories are great, it doesn’t matter much if they’re true I found myself this weekend thinking of a friend, sadly deceased for a few years, who frequently …
: Margaret Atwood was advised to just find a good man. Her response: ‘You’re an idiot.’ An …
: This is one hell of a lead sentence: Jay J. Armes, a flamboyant private investigator who lived on …
: The world’s oldest termite mound is 34,000 years old Franz Lidz at the New York Times: “Scientists recently found the planet’s longest continuously …
: Court rules that a 12-year-old’s pizza delivery from Uber Eats canceled her parents’ right to sue Uber after an unrelated car accident A New Jersey couple sued Uber after a crash left them severely injured. An appeals court ruled that …
: An in-depth profile of Kamala Harris’s estranged father, the economist Donald J. Harris The Harris father and daughter live just two miles apart, but rarely speak. NYTimes: Interviews …
: I love the idea of the Surfed app, which records and organizes your entire browsing history and …
: Dave Winer: WordPress has a greater destiny. I loved Radio Userland. One of those great old …
: Headline of the week: Kamala Harris campaign motorcade halted by confused robotaxi
: "Under the Dome": Stephen King’s small-town allegory for Trumpism Stephen King’s Under the Dome nails how Trumpism functions at the most elemental of levels — …
: I love how Grammarly improves my writing, but I hate how intrusive the desktop app is. It gets in my …
: There are strong moral and ideological reasons for everyone to join a union. But I would be …
: This is wild: The ancient Egyptians may have used hydraulics to lift the massive stones needed to …
: Yesterday, I went to the La Mesa-Foothills Democratic Club meeting and wrote postcards for Democrats …
: "I'll be a pie-eyed emu!" Re-reading Alfred Bester's 1942 story, "The Push of a Finger" “The Push of a Finger (free Gutenberg download) by Alfred Bester, was my second go at reading …
: "The West Wing" turns 25 Fresh Air: 25 years ago, the TV series The West Wing premiered. It was a behind-the-scenes look at …
: How phones became the camera for everything Daring Fireball’s John Gruber in conversation with The Verge’s Nilay Patel about the …
: R.U.R. reimagined: Adapting Karel Čapek’s 1920 science-fiction play about a robot uprising “It’s not Jersey Boys!” A conversation on the Take Me To Your Reader podcast with Matthew Zrebski, …
: Bluesky's Jay Graber on restoring user control and breaking social media stagnation Make Identity Central Again, with Bluesky’s Jay Graber. Bluesky’s vision is that your identity …
: Something I saw while out walking this morning. No, I will not sniff random objects lying on the …
: Kate Middleton rumors and the rise of conspiracy news Whatever happened to Kate Middleton? Garbage Day’s Ryan Broderick talks with British royals …
: Here’s something I saw while walking the dog. Google cannot explain this sign.
: On the Core Intuition podcast, hosts Daniel @danielpunkass Jalkut and @Manton Reece have a more …
: Revisiting a childhood favorite story: ‘Dreams are Sacred’ still delights I had a blast Sunday re-reading one of my favorite stories from when I was 12 years old: …
: The Internet Archive’s fight to save itself. Legal battles with publishers Hachette and the …
: Mark Zuckerberg criticizes Apple for keeping a closed ecosystem but does the same with Facebook and …
: My latest on Fierce Network: Verizon says its service is “fully restored” after a nationwide US …
: Brazilian courts wanted seven accounts suspended and for X to pay fines. Instead of doing that, Musk …
: The LAPD is being sued by a medical facility claiming that a cop trashed an expensive MRI machine by …
: jwz: “Another group of smirking techbros have decided that rich people shouldn’t have to …
: The FTC has documented in detail how big tech companies flagrantly violate user privacy. Cory …
: I'm giving Capacities a try as a possible Obsidian replacement I downloaded Capacities previously, watched some videos, and read some documentation, but I never …
: ME: [Closes MacBook, looking guilty, as Julie enters room] JULIE: “What were you looking at?” ME: …
: Something I saw while walking the dog: Neighbors set up this sprawling little toy village on the …
: When I migrated from mastododon.social to Micro.blog yesterday, I thought I might set up a read-only …
: Just look at this funny 27-second video. Just look at it.
: Western Horseman - March 1971
: Assembly line of 1958 Chevrolets. October 1957.
: A couple dancing in ice skates on Whitestone Pond, Hampstead, London, 1933
: I’m moving from Mastodon to Micro.blog Another way to say that is I shut down my Mastodon account, which was @mitch@mastodon.social, and …
: The WordPress-WP Engine drama doesn’t look great for Matt Mullenweg and, by extension, the companies …
: Minnie strained her left foreleg doing zoomies this morning so I think I’m going to be walking solo …
: Why Everything Is Suddenly Spiraling for Israel. Israel is speeding down the road to …
: In a legit scientific study, cats in little crocheted hats are helping researchers shed light on …
: The Employer-Based Social Safety Is a Disaster. We Can End It. Business and labor are on the same …
: 1919 c. A girl sits on a car bumper
: I am banging my head against the same multiplatform wall that @davew@mastodon.social and …
: In Canto 20 of Inferno, Dante confronts a pit where the sinners have had their heads twisted around …
: Bosses are firing Gen Z grads just months after hiring them. I admit I clicked on this clickbait …
: Republicans keep coming up with new ways to insult women
: Ellen DeGeneres returns to standup with a Netflix schedule. Maybe she did run a toxic workplace, but …
: A brief history of CompuServe, which pioneered social media in the 1980s with discussion boards, …
: The Raycast productivity app (one of my most-used apps) is coming to iOS (and Windows too, but I …
: Caroline Ellison, star witness at the FTX trial, says she was obsessed with Sam Bankman-Fried. “The …
: Today I learned that Comma Separated Value (CSV) computer files were used in IBM Fortran compilers …
: This came up on my YouTube recommended videos: “Is it normal to talk to yourself?” I …
: This morning, I was reading a listicle of health tips and one of the most important things they said …
: The Tupperware party was good while it lasted. We take the benefits of Tupperware for granted, but …
: I’ve been at work for two hours and I’ve already added 12 tasks to my to-do list. …
: Here's some of what I saw walking the dog this weekend A model train layout in a house’s front yard. This 10-second video of the model train layout …
: Why there are so many movies with the word “Amityille” in the title. because the word …
: I am entirely average in appearance for a middle-aged white American man: average height, average …
: "Journalists and other writers are employed to improve the quality of chatbot replies. The irony of working for an industry that may well make their craft redundant is not lost on them." For several hours a week, I write for a technology company worth billions of dollars. Alongside me …
: Outstanding viral campaign video from Tim Walz, where he demonstrates how to maintain a 1979 …
: The Friendship Paradox: We all want more time with our friends, but we’re spending more time …
: How snacks took over American life We don’t just snack — many of us are abandoning meals entirely. …
: I’m still getting over PTSD from my supermarket rearranging the produce section. Plus, this week, …
: Today's ephemera: Dolly Parton, one day on the bridge, migrant sex changes and more
: The charge on my wireless trackball ran down yesterday and I was in a rush and couldn’t find …
: It’s getting hard to tell whether Trump is lyjng or delusional. “He’s just making shit …
: “There is perhaps no bigger or more consequential untruth in American politics than the false …
: Amazon will use generative AI to make product recommendations. I’m curious to see how this …
: The correct amount of radium to put up your butt is zero. Policies that we need to simply stop …
: The DoJ has always had the ability to take down domestic terrorists, just not the desire
: Debunking Milton Friedman’s claim that the company’s only job is to increase shareholder value: It’s “a charter for doing whatever the fuck a CEO feels like doing” Cory Doctorow discusses the theory of “shareholder supremacy,”, which has ruled economics, business …
: A tale of two 5G giants: Nokia silent as Ericsson continues charm offensive. People focused on …
: I asked ChatGPT to create an image of a spider-cat with big bat wings. It came out great. I …
: Writer Zadie Smith and journalist Ezra Klein on connections between a 19th Century British huckster and Trump, emotions vs. rationality, wokeness, identity, how social media and other online spaces “seriously modify” our minds, loneliness and more Smith and Klein discuss her recent novel “The Fraud,” which is based on the Tichborne trial, a real …
: Today's ephemera: A giant catfish, a Civil War-era photo, and a political joke
: In 2017, Robbie Tripp posted an over-the-top message on Instagram about how much he loves his “curvy …
: The awful reign of the Red Delicious apple It lurks in desolation. Bumped around the bottom of …
: Something I saw while walking the dog: I have seen this Ford Pinto parked at the Lake Murray parking …
: Crystal met Hugh Hefner when she was 21, and he was 81. They were married three years later and …
: Today's ephemera: Cow, gorilla, baby hippo, the House of Nonsense and more
: I’m looking for an app to set a reminder that repeats hourly after completion. Plenty of apps offer …
: I was about 20 years old when I saw “All That Jazz” and I loved it. I wanted to be Roy …
: I’m starting to think I just don’t like the Twitter clones — Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, …
: Good tips for young people looking for work: Become a broadband installer. Work outside doing …
: Today's ephemera: Mildly criminal GPS
: Was Abraham Lincoln gay? A new documentary, “Lover of Men,” explores the question. The 2012 book, …
: Ever since I heard about “influencers” and “content creators” as jobs, I thought they were …
: “An AI bot named James has taken my old job,” writes journalist Guthrie Scrimgeour. A local …
: A new report examines how TikTok users decide what to believe. They’re not just mindlessly …
: The Godmother of AI Wants Everyone to Be a World Builder Stanford computer scientist Fei-Fei Li is …
: A profile of Mick Herron, author of the “Slow Horses” spy novel series. “I was only ever a hair’s …
: Trump and Vance are inciting terrorist attacks against Haitians who are in this country legally and …
: Today's ephemera: Shaggin-wagon van interiors of the 70's and 80's
: Capacities does not support inline editing of Word documents — or any other attachments — and …
: Today's ephemera: Oh! The JOY of Heinz Cream of Asparagus Soup!
: A 38-pound rescue cat named Crumbs got stuck in a shoe rack while trying to escape from fat camp. …
: Today's ephemera: Hangry corgi
: My friend Gregory Feeley teaches college. He shared this photo of his classroom whiteboard.
: Journalist Katie Notopoulos tested whether the Threads algorithm can be manipulated by engagement …
: We didn’t even last halfway. The tv has been off for 15 minutes and I can feel my blood pressure …
: Today's ephemera: Sheepdog puppy herds entire flock into owner's kitchen
: Here’s some of what I read on Fierce Network during lunch today An iPhone 16 AI supercycle? Nope, according to analysts. (Dan Jones). I agree — yesterday’s …
: Please enjoy these gifs from the Kevin Smith movie “Dogma”
: Today's ephemera: Well, that's not good
: libraries aren’t a charity, they’re a public service … public libraries exist …
: Trump threatens to jail adversaries in escalating rhetoric ahead of pivotal debate. The Associated …
: Donald Trump wanted to use the United States Department of Justice to go after late-night comedians …
: A corporate-sponsored speaker came in right after we were ordered to come back to the office to try …
: I’m still exploring Capacities, which looks like Obsidian 2.0. Two different products by two …
: Here’s some of what I’ve been reading on Fierce Network lately The killer app for 5G gets unveiled with iPhone 16. By Joe Madden, principal analyst at Mobile …
: Here’s something I saw while walking the dog: A seasonal display of horrors—witchcraft, skeletons …
: It’s been too hot to go out and do anything this weekend, so I’ve been blogging like …
: Do you use DevonThink with Obsidian? If so, why? I’m struggling with my Obsidian setup–I think it’s too complicated. In addition to …
: Today I learned Carrie Preston and Michael Emerson are married for 26 years. Given the types of …
: Please join me and my colleagues on Monday and Tuesday for the Fierce Network Open RAN Summit, a …
: A new reminder that Russian interference was never a ‘hoax.’ It just succeeded in a way that Russia …
: A pharma company charges $80,000 for a treatment to cure hepatitis that costs $78 to produce. [Ian …
: … conservatives self-mythologize as the standards-bearers for deferred gratification and making …
: Can I microdose veganism? Seeking maximum ethical benefit from minimum effort. According to …
: Everywhereist: I Went Paleo and Now I Hate Everything
: The supermarket moved things around to different shelves and I’m filing a class action …
: "We have a damaged, delusional, old man who again might get reelected to the presidency of …
: The world’s largest wind-powered cargo ship just made its first delivery across the Atlantic
: Why Would Dick Cheney Endorse Kamala Harris? Hamilton Nolan: What unites them is this: a settled …
: Today's ephemera: The sun sucks
: I have found people’s preferences for hot and cold beverages do not deviate based on the …
: I went to the La Mesa-Foothills Democratic Club event last night, and they had a coffee urn out with …
: Trump is telling us that we need to “get over it” about school shootings. A major …
: An Informant Exposes The Inner Workings Of The Ku Klux Klan [Fresh Air] Joe Moore, a former Army …
: Bob hit “reply all” one time too many: “A worker on an office hiking retreat to a national forest …
: No, the “Titanic” was not switched with another ship and sunk intentionally in a conspiracy to …
: Real-Estate Shopping for the Apocalypse Patricia Marx writes for the New Yorker about her tour of …
: I compare myself to other people too much. Other people are much better than me at not comparing …
: Things I saw walking around Oceanside with a friend This artful birdhouse Retro-futuristic signage …
: I went for a walk in Oceanside with a friend, and in the parking lot, there was a long line of …
: Apple needs to stop trying to make HEIC a thing
: jwz: “Happy Bell Riots day to all who celebrate.” According to a 1995 Deep Space Nine episode, …
: 📷 Here’s something I saw while walking the dog. This car has seen some shit.
: 📷 This morning while walking the dog, we saw this shih tzu wearing shoes. Love a dog wearing shoes.
: Automattic is moving Tumblr to a WordPress back end — Interesting! There’s currently no …
: Writing prompt: “A loving, married couple wake up one day to find that they have returned to …
: Every time I pop open the self-view when I start a video meeting, I look like I just came off a …
: Charles Stross: "They don't make readers like they used to" Meaty, thought-provoking post on how the act of reading genre fiction has fundamentally changed …
: The Harris-Walz tech policy platform is still bad Mike Masnick at Techdirt: It’s not batshit crazy, …
: The Arkansas Supreme Court upholds rejection of abortion rights petitions. Just keep digging, …
: To infinity — and beyond! Nokia to extend 4G wireless to the Moon. My colleague Dan Jones reports.
: After deciding he is the arbiter on who is truly Black, Trump now gets to decide who’s truly …
: Trump is hosting a fundraiser for domestic terrorists who assaulted cops on Jan. 6 Michael Fanone, …
: I’d like to read Robert E. Howard. I sneered at those books and their fans during my prime …
: … the business world has a well-worn playbook that they roll out whenever anything that might cause …
: Court to cop: Someone observing all the laws is not “probable cause” for a search.. By Tim Cushing …
: Tim Cushing at Techdirt: Age verification laws are just a path towards a full-on ban on porn, a …
: Mask bans disenfranchise millions of Americans with disabilities. Medical exemptions are nothing more than Band-aids Kaitlin Costello at Stat:: I’ve been masking consistently in public since 2020, when the Covid-19 …
: Mike Masnick at Techdirt: Ad revenue at Twitter is still in free fall two years into Musk’s …
: Karl Bode at Techdirt: Now that streaming subscriber growth has slowed, streamers are “falling …
: I just saw the GOP referred to as “period-tracking panty-sniffing ghouls” and that is perfect. No …
: Where are you watching the Democratic National Convention? I’m looking for a TV station or …
: Professional Dog Walkers Aren’t Sure JD Vance Has Ever Walked—or Even Met—His Dog Before
: “Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation and build a new, good …
: What Happened to Getting a Doctor’s Finger in Your Butt? It’s a rite of passage for men. You’re in …
: You’ve got to hide your myopia away: John Lennon’s contact lenses John Lennon’s …
: The Neighborliness Option Chicago officials have been terrified that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott would …
: “I killed him for money – and for a woman. I didn’t get the money. And I …
: Matt Stoller: It’s the Land, Stupid: How the Homebuilder Cartel Drives High Housing Prices
: The “Memindex Method” was a 1906 precursor to the Bullet Journal, Hipster PDA, GTD and related …
: Why people are saying “unhoused” now instead of “homeless.”
: RIP Peter Marshall, host of “Hollywood Squares.” He was 98.
: Here’s something I saw immediately after walking the dog. 11 years old. Still gets zoomies.
: Many "ews" were said Last night, Julie went into the pantry to get a snack. She found a pound and a half of sliced deli …
: Scott Dworkin: The press must cover Trump’s cognitive decline.. Tom Nichols at The Atlantic: …
: A friend said one of my earlier posts about Trump was fat-shaming. Not sure he’s right, but I …
: Articles I read over lunch today on Fierce Network: Brightspeed’s multi-billion-dollar cash infusion, US and Sweden team on 6G, and Huawei looks to beat Nvidia chips Brightspeed gets a whopping $3.7 billion to build fiber networks. Linda Hardesty breaks the news. …
: ChatGPT updated to new model based on user feedback — Release notes? OpenAI has heard of them.
: Donald Trump is a 77-year-old obese man who is clearly losing his mental faculties. He can’t even …
: Jamelle Bouie reaches deep into American history to try to find an answer to the question of what …
: Andy Borowitz: Trump and Musk Share Tips on Running Companies into Ground
: Trump is starting to give off “All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up” vibes. via
: Trump is accelerating AI-driven truth decay Ina Fried at Axios AI+: AI’s biggest danger isn’t that it can be used to make up lies — human beings …
: Race is a fiction. Racism is real.
: An appreciation for the under-appreciated, brilliant sci-fi writer John Varley. Timothy Sandefur at Discourse Magazine: It was 50 years ago this month that American science …
: Disappointing: Confess, Fletch director Greg Mottola says the series “curse” got him and no sequel …
: Ericsson is working with partners to supply private 4G and 5G networks to US rural electrical …
: “A loving, married couple wake up one day to find that they have returned to their high school …
: For a research report, I’m looking for companies outside the tech industry that are doing …
: Anil Dash: The purpose of a system is what it does Dash: Unlike physical machines, the institutions that make up society are never broken. They always …
: Kid Rock Threw the Party. MAGA Faithful Brought the Joy, Rage and Smirnoff Ice.. A music festival …
: Frank Zappa was a musical genius and a difficult father. His four children, now in their 50s, are …
: Canadian sci-fi writer Robert Sawyer has released a free version of the venerable WordStar word processing program The app includes a DOS emulator so it can run on modern Windows, and Sawyer says it also supports …
: Facebook has decided I want to get notifications anytime somebody posts to any of the dozens and …
: I have asked Facebook to change the name of the page I manage. Apparently, I have to ask for …
: I think I may have figured out how to turn off Facebook notifications when someone reacts to one of …
: TimWalzFixedYourBicycle.com. I’m just going to refresh that the rest of the day.
: I just finished writing and submitted a major report for my editor’s review. Proofreading it, …
: For the title of this morning’s blog post about “Battlestar Galactica,” I asked ChatGPT: What are …
: Battle-snore Galactica We never got into the 2004 “Battlestar Galactica.” We loved the mini-series, but the first episode …
: I buy audiobooks from Libro.fm rather than Audible, primarily so that I can listen to the audio …
: Inspired by this post on Threads, I hit Wikipedia to read the synopsis of “Flowers in the Attic.” I …
: On this day in 1888, Bertha Benz took the first documented road trip in an automobile, to visit her mother, 60 miles away The German Bertha was born into a wealthy family and married engineer Karl Benz, writes Sari …
: As Israel braces for attack, ordinary citizens fear that Netanyahu has destroyed a country and a dream “We used to be better than they are, we used to be good.… Now we are the same.” …
: “Mass social media turned the internet into a collective trap, a place where you had to be instead …
: The ‘Trans Boxer’ story isn’t what you think: Gender wars, Russian influence ops, …
: 📷 Some things I saw walking the dog We had stopped for a minute for me to pick up the dog’s by-product. I heard the chickens …
: “I lost my routine, community and, in a way, my purpose.” “Why I was gone.” Andrea Lopez-Villafaña, managing editor, daily news, for the Voice of San Diego, …
: OpenAI has a tool that will detect ChatGPT-written text 99% of the time, but won’t release it.
: Dave linked to this series of posts on Threads and said it’s “a tutorial on why the social web is so …
: The President Can Now Assassinate You, Officially
: Whether it’s Kamala Harris helping to raise other people’s children or Donald Trump …
: Microsoft is reportedly merging the chat and text channels bits of Teams into a single interface, …
: I tried Stage Manager on the Mac yesterday and loved it instantly, which is surprising because I've tried it a couple of times in the past and hated it instantly. This time, however, I’m using Stage Manager on my new 34" Dell Ultrawide display, which I …
: Just thinking about how different the scene between Marty McFly and his mom would be if George RR …
: I laid my phone down on a window ledge barely wider than the phone and instantly thought, “Bad …
: Welcome to the shitpost election, by Casey Newton: … sharing weaponized misinformation in …
: I am using a Microsoft Teams recording and transcription to take interview notes. It’s the …
: Sonya Massey’s mother called 911 and asked police not to hurt daughter before shooting death. …
: A conspicuously dressed-down shooter won Olympic silver. Then he went viral. Rachel Treisman at KPBS.org: While other Olympic shooters showed up wearing “cyberpunk-looking …
: Asking whether a political candidate is too old is ageist. Instead, ask whether they’re …
: Perry's Cafe, a San Diego landmark for 39 years, will close I’ve seen this place, with its vintage space-age Googie architecture, from the highway near …
: Former San Diego Democratic Party chair Will Rodriguez-Kennedy announced his exoneration from a …
: Trying to move folders around in bookmarks on Safari is a dreadful experience. I have sometimes …
: “The political parties are more divided by their views on gender than they are divided by gender itself” Derek Thompson at The Atlantic, What Is America’s Gender War Actually About? The left has become …
: Trump hits out at Black journalists and lies repeatedly in heated interview that is cut short. Also: …
: My latest on Fierce Network: We need a new internet The internet as we know it is old and worn out, …
: Training AI using synthetic data seems like a lot of bullshit to me. It’s like learning to cook by …
: I’m pleased to see the Goodlinks read-later app has added support for highlights and notes. My …
: Meta’s idiot moderation AI strikes again, this time deleting a meme I posted to Threads weeks …
: A 70-year-old hiker was found alive and well after spending five days alone and lost in the …
: This one time the weirdo hosted a party for himself, Jeffrey Epstein and 28 young women in a …
: Ryan Broderick at Garbage Day: Conservatives are struggling to get ahead of this whole …
: Kamala Harris tells a funny story about meeting her in-laws for the first time..
: Open standards make podcasting work A Few Blockbuster Podcasts Are Making All the Money. I listen to about 90 minutes of podcasts daily, …
: The Data That Powers A.I. Is Disappearing Fast.
: Anchorage [Alaska] will one day be the port of exchange between Asia, North America, and Europe…. I …
: “Bob Newhart holds up” An insightful essay on what made Newhart’s work genius, by Jason Zinoman at The New York Times: …
: A woman who took an abortion pill was charged with murder and did jail time. She is now suing …
: Please share tips for managing windows on an ultrawide computer display I recently upgraded from a 27" 14-year-old Apple Cinema Display to a 34" Dell ultrawide. …
: Jenisha Watts, a senior editor at The Atlantic, writes about the Sonya Massey killing: ‘This …
: I finally had enough and deactivated my Twitter account. Recently Musk has revealed himself to be an …
: Overheard: “My child was disappointed to learn that Olympic Archery does not involve the teams …
: “Dexter” is returning, with Michael C. Hall as the titular character.. Good news! The …
: Rob Beschizza/Boing Boing: “The New York Times wanted to summon one of its favorite characters: an …
: Palestinian Deaths In the Gaza Conflict Are Probably Close To Half A Million — Ian Welsh. …
: “Confused about the Vance couch thing? Here’s a quick rundown” It started as a a joke on X, with user @rickrudescalves claiming Vance revealed in his memoir …
: If you’re participating in get-out-the-vote campaigns, remember that Election Day is when …
: California’s image will be a weapon in the Trump campaign against Harris.. MAGA aims its …
: I’d like something like the Clicks iPhone keyboard but for the iPad mini.
: In a win for Uber and Lyft, a California Court upholds a proposition classifying gig workers as …
: Dear Tim Apple: Congratulations on launching Apple Maps on the Web. Now do News.
: Julie and I are quite enjoying the TV series “Evil,” which is of the paranormal investigator genre, …
: Today I found my reporter’s notebook for South by Southwest 2007. That was the event where …
: Read the Plaque: A gigantic map of all the cool plaques in the world.
: I’m planning my first international trip in five years. I can’t find my passport, but I …
: Although I have declined to renew my Tumblr premium membership, I’m grateful to Automattic for …
: Today I learned there’s a tabletop roleplaying game based on “Space: 1999.”
: I’m disappointed to hear that “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” was a bomb. …
: MacStories' Federico Viticci praises wired EarPods as an alternative to Bluetooth AirPods. I …
: Congratulations to @mtt on launching the Sumo Theme for Micro.blog. I like it so much that I …
: Ghost cities in the Amazon are rewriting the story of civilization The Amazon rainforests seem like “an environment largely untouched by humans.” But new archeological …
: “one of the reasons i have no particular problem with the manner in which harris has become the …
: Tumblr is raising rates for Premium membership by 1.75x. And I'm canceling I’ve been disappointed in the direction Tumblr has taken under Automattic, though I …
: The 75 Best Sci-Fi books of all time. esquire.com I added a couple of these titles to my to-be-read …
: Kamala is a happy warrior and that is a powerful political strength for her America loves happy warriors; it’s why we loved FDR and Reagan. Biden was a happy warrior as …
: America still employs a ton of news reporters Wait, does America really still employ a ton of news reporters? Searching for bright spots in the …
: Silicon Valley is getting behind Universal Basic Income but that’s not enough to resolve the …
: “One way to think of Llama 3.1 is that it is the free Google Docs to Microsoft’s paid Office …
: Israel as it exists today is not merely brutal. It is also incompetent Israeli former national security leaders and military officials blasted Netenyahu. Biden supports …
: “The Kamala Harris ascension is bad news for therapists. She just cured depression for about 80 …
: This blog is breaking up in two I decided I don’t like having the memes, vintage photos and other found media on mitchw.blog, so I …
: The Biological Revolt by Philip José Farmer From Science-Fiction Plus, March 1953. Artist: Frank A. …
: 1920s. Ready for a camping trip
: I love Heinlein's early period, can do without the rest This is Robert A. Heinlein’s bibliography. I love nearly all the books listed here in his Early …
: James Davis Nicoll reviews Robert A. Heinlein’s “Farnham’s Freehold” “The racism distracts from all the other ways in which this is a terrible novel, one that …
: “There is no ‘online world.’ That was always a metaphor, and as it turns out, a bad one. But what …
: I’d like something like the Clicks iPhone keyboard but for the iPad mini.
: San Diego GOP Rep. Darrell Issa Claims Harris Supporters Could Disrupt Netanyahu Speech. …
: MacOS on the iPad is “surprisingly good.” theverge.com
: Jo Walton: “The worst book I love: Robert Heinlein’s ‘Friday’” Walton: Friday is one of Heinlein’s “late period” novels. The general rule if you …
: Cory Doctorow: “Holy CRAP the UN Cybercrime Treaty is a nightmare” Cory: Look, cybercrime is a real thing, from pig butchering to ransomware, and there’s real, …
: "What Homeless San Diegans Think About the Mega Shelter Pitch" Many homeless and formerly homeless San Diegans expressed reservations about a plan to build a …
: Is linkblogging worthwhile anymore? Dave discusses linkblogging on his podcast: A 20-minute morning coffee notes rambler podcast, …
: I count three ashtrays. There are always ashtrays. via
: “Always carry cash!” The Crowdstrike fiasco is a lesson in the importance of building resilience — on a societal and …
: A woman of negotiable virtue 1892
: On Reddit: “My 3rd Great Grandpa, sometime in the late 1800s…. His name was Jeremiah Barnes, born …
: I moved my Mastodon followers from @mitchw@micro.blog to @mitchw@mastodon.social, and disabled …
: The supermarket has redeemed itself by playing KC and the Sunshine Band. I am getting down.
: The supermarket is playing XM Radio Worst of the 80s. Pat Benatar. Foreigner. Can Flock of Seagulls …
: I am feeling very good about the presidential election and the direction of the US today. The …
: I’d like to live in precedented times for a while. I’d like a few decades about which …
: I see the fascist New York Times is already going at Harris.
: “It seems like there are two acceptable settings for female politicians: nurturing motherly matron or total bitch.” My friend Meadhbh Hamrick sends a follow-up in email to my post comparing Kamala Harris to the …
: Did Einstein really say that?
: HOW TO BE LIKED by both boys & girls! 16 Magazine, 1966
: Here’s what I’m reading on Fierce Network What you see isn’t always what you get with broadband speed. fierce-network.com Great Plains is …
: AOC: Democratic leadership who want to replace Biden have no plan what to do next. None. The Democratic leaders want to remove Harris as well as Biden, she says. AOC is disgusted that the …
: Today, I learned that Friday is POETS Day in England. It stands for “Piss Off Early Tomorrow’s …
: On Reddit: “My grandma on Christmas day, 1952. She recently passed and we found this photo of her …
: Anything goes wrong today, blame Crowdstrike.
: A company that’s supposed to prevent outages caused a big one: A CrowdStrike update crashed …
: My husband was slowing down. He needed protecting. wapo.st A moving essay by Sally Quinn, widow of …
: I’m regularly checking github for progress on @Mtt’s new Sumo theme for Micro.blog, …
: Again with this shit, Facebook?
: Hamilton Nolan: “You patsy. We don’t have time for this bullshit” How Things Work: Labor can become more powerful if unions organize the 90% of American workers who …
: Philosopher Alan Watts ponders the nature of consciousness The Nature of Consciousness: Let’s suppose you were able, every night, to dream any dream you …
: The wolves are circling Biden Obama Says Biden Has to Rethink His Candidacy [politicalwire.com] Also on politicalwire.com: …
: DARPA is launching a program to sift through quantum computing hype networkworld.com: “Our opening position is skepticism," stated Dr. Joe Altepeter, the DARPA …
: Heartbreaking: This Guy Has No Idea That He’s So Strange And Memorable-Looking That Everyone …
: The Verge: “Dune: Prophecy hits HBO in November. The series is a prequel to Denis Villeneuve’s …
: Ask a Manager: “let’s discuss napping at work.” We can talk about it as soon as I …
: PoliticalWire: Trump says “God was with me” during the failed assassination attempt. I guess God …
: I’ve been warming to the idea of Kamala Harris for President and I just now realized why: …
: CBS Austin: Texans are assaulting and threatening linemen working to restore electrical power after …
: Animal masks, 1930. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.
: Ryan Broderick at Garbage Day: You May Not Realize It Yet, But You’re Already Forgetting About The …
: Today I learned that “Dogs Playing Poker” refers collectively to 18 paintings by Cassius Marcellus …
: Balloons to hoist tourists 100,000 feet into the stratosphere — With ticket prices starting at …
: The person who posted this image says it’s from 1900 and may be their great-great grandfather is the …
: Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bisset on the set of “The Deep,” 1977
: St. Petersburg, Russia, Residential Complex “Monolit”
: GenAI sinks into the ‘trough of disillusionment’. GenAI faces growing skepticism as it …
: Cats are adorable little angels with fur Lulu, one of our cats, likes to creep up on me when I’m sleeping soundly at night, put her sweet …
: Wait, does America really still employ a ton of news reporters? [Andrew Van Dam / The Washington …
: I did not intend to write four posts about Overcast today Overall, the latest version of the Overcast podcast player has been buggy for me. This seems like a …
: Danger Will Robinson! Stills from “Lost in Space”
: “shout out to paleolithic people for petting those wolves, you really did us a solid”
: No, Facebook. I wasn’t doing that, you idiots. Not even close. This is the second warning …
: One more thing about Overcast Reading this post it seems if you lose your playlists or podcast lists, force-quitting the app …
: The new version of the Overcast podcast app seems to be working OK for me now after a bad start. It initially failed to show me any of my custom playlists or my list of podcasts. Here’s what …
: The new version of the Overcast podcast player is completely unusable for me. I have filed a bug …
: RIP James Sikking, who played the gung-ho militaristic Lt. Howard Hunter on “Hill Street …
: A New, Darker Era That Is Darker Than The Previous New, Darker Era [Garbage Day]
: Today’s fashion hate-reads Sock height is now a “fierce controversy.. No-show socks make you look old. Crew socks are now …
: “Blade Runner would have been better if it opened with Brion James being repeatedly asked to …
: Good profile of J.D. Vance, Trump’s VP pick, in the form of a 55-point list at Politico. TL;DR: Vance is a crackpot conspiracy theorist and LGBT-phobe motivated strongly by a desire to pwn …
: Something I noticed re-reading Roger Zelazny's "Doorways in the Sand" I recently re-read Roger Zelazny’s “Doorways in the Sand,” which I last read when …
: Meet the thing I've been working on for three months: Fierce Network Research I’m excited to unveil what I’ve been working on for the past three months: Helping to launch Fierce …
: Northwest Airlines organist, 1959
: I searched the house for my glasses this morning. Eventually, I found them on the ground outside in the backyard, where they had been all night. I took them off to read the phone while standing in the backyard waiting for the dog to do her …
: Al Sharpton should write the defining op-ed in the NYT, not George Clooney, who is very pretty, and …
: Today I learned about Benford’s Law, which can be used to identify financial fraud and other dodgy …
: Elon Musk’s Plan to Put a Million Earthlings on Mars in 20 Years [Kirsten Grind / NYTimes] — SpaceX …
: Hamilton Nolan: There’s a hole at the heart of the Democratic party, and Labor needs to fill it.. …
: A fast-read explainer: What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan for a Second Trump Term
: Molly White launches FollowTheCrypto.org to track cryptocurrency spending to influence the 2024 elections. The crypto industry has spent more on the 2024 US elections than oil, pharma and more than the …
: The true, tactical significance of Project 2025 — Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr: Despite its …
: Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy on the set of ‘48 Hrs.’ (1982)
: “violence shook this previously peaceful white christian nationalist rally railing against the …
: Republicans: Democrat Party rhetoric is to blame! Republicans, previously: Trump-Endorsed Candidate …
: Republicans: Democrat Party rhetoric is to blame! Republicans, previously:
: Republicans: Democrat Party rhetoric is to blame! Republicans, previously: via
: I occasionally think that while my daily walks are great, I should soon start doing strength training But I don’t want to vary a successful routine. Then I saw this idea on Reddit: Weighted vest. …
: “I have always been a sucker for ideas I find aesthetically pleasing.” — Roger Zelazny, Doorways in …
: The mystery of consciousness is deeper than we thought [Philip Goff / Scientific American] — We lack …
: We’ve watched 7 episodes of the 13-episode first season of the 2004 “Battlestar …
: I’m drinking coffee after 4 pm.
: Two theories about Biden, comprising four strained metaphors There’s a conspiracy theory going around that billionaires are pulling the strings to destroy …
: I extended my @macstories@macstories.net subscription after seeing this article by …
: I’m in this photo and I don’t like it.
: Julie and I are in a YouTube rut — the algorithm keeps throwing videos I don’t want to watch. …
: My newsletter migration is complete! (I think) I think I have successfully moved my mailing list from Mailchimp to Micro.blog. If you’re …
: A colleague was working in a library and got shushed by the librarian and a fellow patron. I was …
: The small, prosperous Parsi community of people in India leave their dead out naked in the forest to …
: I’m in Inoreader several times a day, every day, workdays, weekends and holidays. It is one of …
: I spoke bluntly at an internal team meeting this morning. I fear I am so not invited to the …
: … lesson one from pilot school was “fly the plane.” Strange noises? Fly the plane. Zero …
: Om Malik: The future of writing: How AI will shape our tools. AI doesn’t write for me, but it helps …
: “Mayor of Kingstown” is like if Scorsese made a TV series and decided his movies were too …
: Garbage Day: “Project 2025 is the policy paper-equivalent of a school shooter manifesto…. The …
: Kevin Drum: “Biden could be stuffed and mounted on a wall and I’d still vote for him if the …
: AOC and a group of House progressives unveiled articles of impeachment against Thomas and Alito. …
: The fediverse does not exist What exists now is Mastodon, which is tiny compared with siloed social media, and also a few other …
: “Any one can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at …
: I think tonight will be the night that I introduce Julie to the wonderfulness that is …
: “The Cat Creeps,” a 1930 lost film. Only two minutes of footage exist today.
: My Mimestream subscription expired a couple of weeks ago, and I thought I’d skip renewing. …
: FDR and NY Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia
: If I could give teenage me one piece of advice it would be this: Dance.
: “Double-click” is supposedly a new corporate buzzword? Seriously? I’ve been …
: Having successfully sabotaged the Biden campaign, leading Democrats are apparently moving on from …
: “Trump raped a woman, was revealed as being in constant contact with a sex trafficker, stole …
: Videoconferencing services need a filter that makes your hair look neat and trim when you badly need …
: 37Signals, the company behind Basecamp and HEY, is introducing Writebook open source software for publishing books on the Internet 37Signals co-founder and CEO Jason Fried: You know, it’s really easy to publish short form …
: Troubling: A left-wing alliance with history of antisemitism allegations declares victory in …
: Today I learned that they’re putting AI into cat litter boxes now.
: What Catholic priestly vestments symbolize and how they connect to the significance of clothing for …
: My new newsletter is ready for signups Sign up, if you wish to. The newsletter is a daily digest of all my posts here. I’ll give it a …
: Department store wax mannequins melting during a heatwave in 1929.
: Embers Restaurant Open 24 hrs
: I need to know what happened.
: Tonight’s movie was “Goldfinger.”
: “Recent research on lucid dreams suggests that consciousness exists along a spectrum between sleep and waking, between hallucination and revelation, between dreamworlds and reality.” Living in a Lucid Dream. By Claire L. Evans. Guided dreaming beats lucid dreaming because lucidity …
: Tonight’s movie. Brings back much of the top cast of the 1984 film, and stars new faces. …
: Neuromancer is coming to Apple TV They’ve just announced casting for Molly. Elsewhere on the Internet, I’ve been involved in a …
: I'm switching newsletter hosting to Micro.blog I’m in the process of moving the newsletter version of this blog to to the same company that …
: Eve Arden and Vivian Vance (1941)
: On Ask a Manager: Great reply-all email catastrophes. Ask a Manager is a website where I can get …
: Private places to cry? On Reddit: I had to make a tough decision today and need someplace private …
: My previous post was a subtweet (sub-Thread?) to a Threads friend who frequently posts about their …
: It seems odd to me to identify tribally with a particular generation. Boomers, GenX, Millennials — …
: Purdue University gives itself a Wi-Fi glow-up — CIO Ian Hyatt describes how the IT department …
: “Bring me a Miltown, sweetheart.” Roger Ebert interviews Robert Mitchum, 1975, soon after Mitchum …
: “Farewell, My Lovely” is the best movie we’ve seen in a while. Released 1975, set in LA 30 years …
: Things that don’t work: 31. “Waiting…. if you really want to do something, don’t wait for some …
: Five of my favorites: “The Man Who Folded Himself,” by David Gerrold, “Time and Again,” by Jack …
: I have spent the afternoon on the daybed dozing and reading dynomight.net and I am fine with this.
: Tuesday’s debate has made me even stronger in my support of Biden than before. Trump spent his …
: Phrase of the day: “swivel-eyed loon with terminal groomer-panic” (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
: Trump disgraced himself and the country yesterday, reaching new lows for mendacity and delusion, and …
: Biden does not need to be replaced. The felon and his entire party of criminals and theocrats need …
: The only reason we’re questioning Biden’s acuity and not Trump’s is because …
: Heather Cox Richardson has a bracing analysis of last night’s debate. Biden showed he’s …
: I am reading John Irving now and enjoying his habit of italicizing keywords in dialogue. Helps me to …
: Today I learned that Arnold Schwarzenegger has a son named Patrick, who is a successful actor in his …
: My colleague Diana Goovaerts has a juicy exclusive:AWS is challenging NVIDIA with a 1,000+-watt …
: “One would think that a story like this would be out of 1890, not 2024.” Schools on the …
: I had 2.7 pounds of fresh fruit, raw vegetables and cottage cheese for lunch today, which is tasty …
: I've been messing with an app called Surfed, a browser history and bookmark manager, for a few days Surfed tracks your entire surfing history. You can tag individual URLs and add them to favorites, so …
: Paul Lynde, Charles Nelson Reilly and Rip Taylor “get a cursory mention in a new documentary about …
: The fediverse needs to be more than clones of existing social media … there is a much bigger opportunity for the fediverse by focusing on long-form content and forums, …
: Here's What You Discover When You Walk Every Block in New York City Greg Miller, a 37-year-old software engineer in Astoria, Queens, is walking every street in every …
: 📷🤪I see this realtor ad several times a week when I walk the dog down Lake Murray Blvd. Yesterday, I …
: I have started reading “Use of Weapons,” the first book in the Culture series by Ian Banks. Everyone …
: Kevin Costner isn’t coming back to “Yellowstone.” The show returns in November. — …
: First really warm day here in San Diego and now it’s time for the annual tradition where I try …
: I’ve started a new blog, cheekymonkey.micro.blog, for the purpose of using Micro.blog’s …
: Wikipedia now labels the ADL as an unreliable source on the Gaza war. — The ADL says anti-Zionism is …
: A Wikipedia dive on ships named “Enterprise” I knew about the starship and aircraft carrier, of course, but I got to wondering about other ships …
: Resident Alien is coming back for a fourth season. This is NOT some bullshit.
: Kevin Drum provides a brief rundown of lessons learned from the Covid pandemic. What worked and what …
: Sinclair is flooding local news websites with hundreds of deceptive articles about Biden’s mental …
: 🦆Today’s ephemera: Every ceiling fan I’ve ever used
: I’ve been using my iPhone as my webcam and it works great I have been using use a feature called Continuity Camera to turn my iPhone into a webcam and I’m …
: 📷 Julie and I went to Old Town, where we saw these T-shirts. I was tempted to buy a couple but …
: How to make diner coffee: a delightful Reddit thread A delightful Reddit thread from a former foreign student who studied in America and misses diner …
: What happened to utopias? We dreamed about utopias and created utopian communities in the 19th Century. Why’d we stop? …
: Today’s ephemera: The Demolished Man
: Homebrew reader brings paper tape programs back to life — “ … the storage media of yesteryear has so …
: “Goblin band is an attempt to replicate the collective creative energy that happens on tumblr and …
: I love jwz’s capsule movie and TV reviews. I made a list of about nine movies and series to check …
: CSP leaders don’t fear losing jobs to AI, according to a Fierce Network survey — Despite gloomy …
: Why Dining Rooms Are Disappearing From American Homes M Nolan Gray at The Atlantic The dining room is the closest thing the American home has to an …
: Former President Donald Trump led House Republicans through a gripe-filled closed-door meeting on …
: The US has the rich world’s most expensive healthcare system, and that system delivers the …
: Photographer Disqualified From AI Image Contest After Winning With Real Photo
: The Oklahoma Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit brought by the survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre. …
: An end to the climate emergency is in our grasp — Good news/bad news from Cory Doctorow …
: Federal judge strikes down Florida ban on medical treatments for transgender kids — In overturning a …
: Trump Is Not America’s Le Pen. He’s worse — Le Pen and other right-wing European politicians tone …
: The Repubs are coming uncloaked. Their slogan might as well be Revenge. It’s the one thing …
: Clarence Thomas is far more corrupt than anyone knew—including his peers
: A level-headed evaluation of decisions and policies made during the pandemic is helpful and needed, …
: Did we really need the most screen time given to the Math Notes feature of the all-new and …
: “The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing …
: Trump vows to stand “side by side” with the Danbury Institute, a group that wants to ban abortion.
: In a secret recording, Justice Alito’s wife vowed revenge for the flag controversy. “You come after …
: A study found that a quarter of bosses hoped return-to-office mandates would make employees quit The Register: A study claims to have proof of what some have suspected: return to office mandates …
: Random thoughts about today's Apple news AI? I guess it’s cool, but none of the demos I’ve heard about look all that interesting. If Siri is …
: Justice Alito was caught on tape “discussing the difficulty of living ‘peacefully’ …
: Not a show to watch before bedtime. It will keep you awake for 36 hours.
: The Economic Theory That Explains Why Americans Are So Mad — The economy is great, so why are …
: Are Linkblogs Making a Comeback?
: 📷🐈⬛🏳️🌈Here’s something I saw while walking the dog. Happy Pride!
: Dave Winer @davew@mastodon.social says that “there’s a new interest in linkblogs." …
: The Breslin Era: The end of the big-city columnist. Jimmy Breslin was and is one of my heroes. Ross …
: Glyph: A Grand Unified Theory of the AI Hype Cycle: — “I’m sorry, but as an AI language model, I …
: My hour of memoryless lucidity — For Eric Neyman, the hour after being sedated for oral surgery …
: Conspiracy theories and the people who love them: What QAnon supporters, butthole sunners and New …
: The political world is still addicted to Twitter.
: A Republican Election Clerk vs. Trump Die-Hards in a World of Lies [NYTimes] — Cindy Elgan has …
: About 3 million Americans are already “climate migrants,” analysis finds. Here’s …
: “To understand how software will change, we can benefit from studying how technology has changed …
: The Congressional Progressive Caucus Proposition Agenda Executive Summary. — Four pages, a quick …
: Homeowners want housing prices to go up. This is ultimately the biggest hurdle for affordable …
: J.K. Lund has a modest proposal for reforming American zoning and encouraging the growth of cities, …
: I use Instagram the way other people use TikTok (or how I assume they use TikTok—I’ve barely …
: Cisco: We were unprepared for the cloud. But we’re ready for AI — Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins admitted …
: A neighbor is loudly playing and singing along to the greatest hits of the 70s and 80s. “I …
: We don’t need to burn down the planet for AI — AI is increasing data center energy consumption, …
: 📷🐕🦖Something I saw while walking the dog: This house with a velociraptor in the front yard.
: People are wonderful. I love individuals. I hate groups of people. I hate a group of people with a …
: Fredrik Flornes Ellertsen repairs a broken coffee mug using the Japanese art of kintsugi — I love …
: Dave Barry said he works hard 40 hours a week to make every column sound as if he tossed it off in …
: Box CEO Aaron Levie: “The reason I’m insanely bullish on AI… “ AI provides the possibility of …
: Parable of the Sofa — Tim Bray praises lifestyle businesses.
: In the 2000s and early 2010s I developed a 3- to 4-can a day Diet Dr Pepper habit. Our …
: Dr Pepper is now the second-most popular carbonated soft drink in the US, beating Pepsi. Coke is …
: Where's a good place to post links, and just links? I like the idea of having a public record of noteworthy and interesting things I’ve read, …
: Is Altsore in the US stable and safe to run on a daily driver iPhone? I’m tempted but I don’t want …
: Hamilton Nolan: The Left Is Not Joe Biden’s Problem. Joe Biden Is — Almost nobody on the left …
: Convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, 11-times bankrupt and two-time loser of the popular vote.
: I found out last night that Facebook allows me to automatically cross-post to Threads, so I switched …
: I’m consolidating social. I’ll post memes and other found media to my Tumblr and Facebook. …
: Reviewing my notes app I find the following, which I wrote to myself at 9:29 last night: Dogs Cats …
: The Epson HX-20 was the first notebook-sized portable computer, released in 1982.
: I loved the Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100 I used a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100 computer in the 1980s, and loved it. I worked for a community …
: The Hugos There podcast discusses “A Wrinkle in Time,” by Madeline L’Engle — Good episode. I want to …
: 📷🐈⬛I guess I’ll put this sweatshirt in the laundry bin later.
: Advertising for the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.
: Helen Keller remembers her life before she became conscious of her self. “Before my teacher …
: After the previous episode, why hasn’t the Doctor learned to watch where he’s walking? Sure, Ruby, …
: If you do not want to see a very fun movie you should not see “Road House.”
: “This is the most exciting piece of excrement I’ve ever seen…. Possibly the …
: Noseart of B-17 Flying Fortress “Daddy’s Delight” ca 1944
: Jim Morrison in Paris, 1971. Last known photo taken of him before his death.
: I’m turning my home office upside down looking for my passport and have not found it. But I have …
: Harlan Ellison tells the story of his encounter with Frank Sinatra. Gay Talese wrote about the …
: Thinking about this one time I listened to a podcast episode about imposter syndrome and thought …
: Carrie Marcus Neiman, bridal portrait, 1905, who co-founded Neiman Marcus luxury department stores.
: The Infinite Brain illustration by Frank R. Paul
: ‘My songs spread like herpes.’ Why did satirical genius Tom Lehrer swap worldwide fame for obscurity? Francis Beckett profiles the caustic singer/songwriter, who is still alive at 96. Beckett never gets …
: 📷🏡👸Something I saw while walking the dog
: Gilbert Gottfried talks with Roger Corman YouTube. Podcast An enjoyable podcast, but a little sobering to consider two of the three men in …
: Yes, I will absolutely follow @worldof.farts. Instagram algorithm, you get me.
: The Valley of the Dolls — On the Last Archive podcast, historian Jill Lepore reads her essay on the …
: Holly Hunter will appear in a main role in the upcoming “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy” …
: 📷 🐕 💩I’m happy to report that Minnie is a healthy dog, she got her shots, she was very glad to be …
: I need to take the dog to the vet later today. So much drama! Whimpering and trembling and splooting …
: “A video posted to Donald Trump’s account on his social media network Monday included references to …
: The ChatGPT-4o demo was AI for incels.
: What We Lose When ChatGPT Sounds Like Scarlett Johansson — In making ChatGPT sound like Samantha in …
: The Clue of the Blue Bottle — On the Last Archive podcast, historian Jill Lepore attempts to solve a …
: Boat shoes are supposedly high fashion now. I boggled because I’ve been wearing the same shabby pair …
: No, I am not addicted to exercise I go for long walks every day with the dog—a little more than 90 minutes a day on average. I do it …
: Addicted to exercise? By Edith Zimmerman on Kottke.org
: Group chats rule the world. Most of the interesting conversations in tech now happen in private …
: A masterclass in photobombing.
: I loved the “Planet of the Apes” movies and TV series when I was a kid. We’ve recently seen the …
: Jamelle Bouie: The Underappreciated Genius of ‘Planet of the Apes’ There is no franchise in Hollywood filmmaking that is as consistently good, and as consistently …
: John Scalzi has finished writing his next novel. It looks ridiculously cheesy. How the hell does he …
: When Humanity Gets Messy, Sometimes the Best Tech Solution Is To Do Nothing — The people who set up …
: The rise and fall of the personal jetpack Jetpacks were ubiquitous in midcentury pop culture, including James Bond, the Jetsons and Gilligan’s …
: Floppy disks are still in use today, in planes, trains, industrial sewing machines and more. Steven …
: 📷 Something I saw while walking the dog.
: 🌮An Oakland, California woman was arrested after allegedly stealing a taco truck and being …
: I do not often work in Microsoft Word, and when I do, I remember why. WORD: “You’ve been …
: We saw a trailer for “Evil” last night and liked it enough to add it to the to-watch …
: We like our current vet but they do not take appointments. I got up early on two Saturdays in a row …
: Grantchester returns June 16. By extraordinary coincidence, I bet the new vicar solves murders too. …
: Hai! Shogun seasons 2 and 3 are in the works. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-new…
: RIP Dabney Coleman, 92 [nytimes.com]
: The House Oversight Committee erupted into a pissing contest after Marjorie Taylor-Greene made a …
: For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been using Continuity Camera for meetings. This feature …
: An editor advised me at the beginning of my career that when I’m editing someone else’s …
: Esperanto was a popular trope in some of the science fiction I loved as a kid. Harry Harrison. …
: On our team meeting this morning I explained that Christopher Pike was not the first Captain of the …
: Overheard: Don’t forget Moms are half price tomorrow.
: men are hitting on scheduling bot because it has a woman’s name. askamanager.org lolwut
: Attempting to talk about the movie “American Fiction” without using the word “woke.” We watched “American Fiction,” a 2023 movie which opens with a blank screen and the unmistakable …
: Newly added to my RSS reader: AppAddict, a site for exploring new apps.
: Roger Corman, The B-Movie Legend Who Launched A-List Careers, Dies At 98. npr.org The movies Corman …
: It has taken me literally years to figure out how to drink hot coffee directly from a Zojirushi …
: This nuclear engineer can’t stop getting hit on by furries.
: … in the US, the car, philosophically, is a house you drive around. While in China, EV manufacturers …
: I've started a new thing with Fierce Network It’s a weekly research bulletin, called the Fierce Network Research Bulletin (it does what it …
: OpenAI has an announcement Monday. openai.com I feel like generative AI is on the verge of being …
: Nifty: Cometeer ships concentrated frozen gourmet coffee in single-service pods for your home and …
: Google Cloud’s asteroid hunt could mean better AI models for astronomy. [fierce-network.com] …
: Something I saw while walking the dog at the park this morning. A young light-skinned, slender Black …
: Are Americans losing their taste for Starbucks? “The whole concept got old,” one …
: Jack Dorsey quits Bluesky board and urges users to stay on Elon Musk’s X [theguardian.com] “Don’t …
: You’re not a sinner for gaining weight. You’re a typical product of a dysfunctional environment that …
: A local government in England is eliminating apostrophes from street signs The “problematic punctuation point” messes up geographical databases. [bbc.com] The …
: My new favorite subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/OhNoConsequences/. For people shocked by the …
: We watched the first episode of Fallout. It has given me many excellent ideas for interior design …
: The AI-Generated Population Is Here, and They’re Ready to Work. AI that can predict how …
: Romance writer K. Renee was locked out of Google Docs without warning or explanation, losing access …
: “Hazel,” a self-described “tab hoarder,” kept 7,500 tabs open for two years. Then Firefox refused to …
: NYC early 1900’s [reddit.com]
: A Native American girl of the Kiowa tribe Oklahoma 1894 [reddit.com]
: 500 Briggs St, Erie, Colorado. Late 1890s - Present [reddit.com]
: Dinosaur Beach Keith Laumer 1971 (cover by Kelly Freas) [reddit.com]
: The Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez You Don’t Know [nytimes.com] — “… the coalition Democratic …
: Bill Gates, ousted for misconduct, is still pulling the strings at Microsoft Business Insider: Publicly, Gates has been almost entirely out of the picture at Microsoft since …
: Walter Molino 1915-1997, Italy, “Il Gatto Infuriato” 1967. The angry cat. [facebook.com]
: Reading about James Clavell. We have two episodes left to watch in “Shogun.” [en.m.wikipedia.org]
: Barbaric: A Texas man filed legal action to scrutinize his ex-partner’s out-of state abortion. [wapo.st] If the woman proceeded with the abortion, even in a state where the procedure remains …
: Dairy Barn was a drive-through convenience store popular on Long Island when I was growing up.
: Archie Goodwin on the joy of voting From “A Family Affair,” a Nero Wolfe novel by Rex Stout: I have never understood why …
: Something I wrote: Walmart scales stupendous global network on open source fierce-network.com
: Jarrod Blundy loves his Meta smart glasses for rock climbing and running I’ve been using the Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses for about a month now, and I’m finding …
: The Sci-Fi Writer Who Invented Conspiracy Theory Analee Newitz: Paul Linebarger was a US Army intelligence officer who pioneered psyops and wrote …
: 📷Something I saw while I was walking the dog
: 77 Types of Notes to Keep in #Obsidian [amerpie.lol] Also: 10 Lesser Known But Super Useful Obsidian …
: Inner Cosmos with Stanford University neuroscientist David Eagleman: Is AI truly intelligent? How …
: Alt Text Hall of Fame [alttexthalloffame.org] — Honoring the excellent use of descriptive text on …
: The Comfortable Problem of Mid TV [nytimes.com] — We are entering a golden age for mediocre …
: Federico Viticci talks about his homemade MacBook-iPad hybrid with John Gruber on The Talk Show Viticci sawed the display off a Macbook Air, attached an iPad in its place, and has been using that …
: Doctor Who: “The Man in the Box" On the Last Archive podcast, Harvard journalist and historian Jill Lepore reads and discusses her …
: Meeting Alaska’s broadband infrastructure challenge [fierce-network.com] — MTA’s Jessica Gilbert …
: 1968 is making a comeback Rusty Foster [todayintabs.com]: Now we have a historically unpopular Democratic President …
: Would you rather be alone in the woods with a man or a bear?
: I brought five Lightning cables and one USB-C cable. My brain thinks it’s 2014 I guess.
: I'm packed and ready for my first business trip since December 2019 I was a frequent business traveler from the 90s through the 2010s, but I’ve only done one …
: Carnival impresario Bob Noell & one of his trained apes [reddit.com]
: We started watching Wonka but we wonkad out of it after 45 minutes. OTOH, we got nice naps when the …
: I embark on the dangerous mission of changing task management software For to-do-list software, I’ve been using Things 3 by Cultured Code for most of the past 14 years, …
: Jon Udell: Best Practices for Working with Large Language Models [thenewstack.io]: … you don’t need a low-level understanding of the neural networks at the …
: More like NOPE in a jar amirite
: Californians voters will be asked to vote on two opposite initiatives: One will enshrine same-sex …
: Utahns reunited with pet cat they accidentally shipped with Amazon return [ksltv.com]
: A Catholic advocacy group created an AI chatbot to answer religious questions. The bot claimed to be …
: I went down a YouTube rabbit hole of 60s kitsch pop music One Tin Soldier youtu.be/o8JtNHGSO… Written by Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter, first …
: I had a conversation with a new neighbor. His name is Oscar. He has a husband, whose name is not …
: I can’t understand why the dog continued with her behavior One of our neighbors has a new dog, a big rambunctious golden retriever that repeatedly jumped up on …
: I was awakened with a start in the middle of the night I was abruptly jarred out of a sound sleep by terrible screaming. At first I thought Julie was in …
: I’m leveling the playing field, transforming and revolutionizing business models and …
: Elon Musk – Dead at 52 – Says There Is No Need for Misinformation Laws …
: Nurses Protest “Deeply Troubling” Use of AI in Hospitals [404media.co]
: The specific process by which Google enshittified its search [pluralistic.net] — Cory Doctorow …
: Elon Musk wants to turn Tesla’s fleet into AWS for AI — would it work? Andrew J. Hawkins [theverge.com]: During last night’s earnings call with investors, Elon Musk threw …
: Various cover illustrations by John Schoenherr [reddit.com]
: 📷 Things I saw while walking the dog
: Something I wrote: Blue Planet OSS lets you BYO AI fierce-network.com — Telcos can beef up …
: 📷 Things I saw walking the dog this morning I walked by Maryland Avenue Elementary School, La …
: I walked past a school this morning and saw a couple of dozen sweatshirts. neatly pinned …
: “I’m a major hypochondriac. I won’t even masturbate anymore. I’m afraid I might …
: We watched the first episode of Shogun. I don’t understand a lot of what’s going on, but I think I …
: Things I saw while walking the dog
: Dolores Costello, Ziegfeld girl, by Alfred Cheney Johnston (1923) [reddit.com]
: Chef Boy-Ar-Dee pizza mix ad w/Joe E. Ross (1968) [reddit.com]
: Please enjoy this Instagram reel of five classic Hollywood accents. [instagram.com]
: How Meta is paving the way for synthetic social networks Casey Newton [platformer.news]: The first era of Facebook was for talking with friends and family. …
: Some ways I find ChatGPT and generative AI useful today Generating questions for interviews. ChatGPT is surprisingly great at that. Generating images. …
: Tempest in a teapot And by “teapot” I mean massage parlor Lloyd Evans, theater critic for the British magazine The Spectator, writes about how he attended a …
: A member of Delta’s Diamond top-tier frequent flyer program is getting backlash for habitual …
: Meta’s battle with ChatGPT begins now [theverge.com] — Meta is putting its AI assistant across …
: The US Air Force confirmed its first successful AI dogfight [theverge.com]
: Good to see Grace Slick/Michael Burnham again.
: Something I saw while walking the dog that put me in a good mood.
: Is Apple Universal Control unreliable? I just set it up yesterday between two Macs located about three feet from each other, and find …
: A San Diego state senator's bill would ban the plastic bags you buy when you forget yours “The bill would tighten standards for reusable bags and require stores to provide 100% …
: USC canceled a Muslim valedictorian’s speech over safety concerns over the Middle East conflict USC Jewish groups pointed to a five-year-old social media post by her calling for “one Palestinian …
: ‘Intentional’ AT&T cable cut takes down Sacramento airport comms — The Sacramento …
: A rule I try to live by: Why do old men wear white athletic socks with sandals? Because they …
: I just looked up “fuggedaboutit” in the dictionary to make sure I’m spelling it …
: I'm taking my first business trip this month in more than four years I’m going to the Linux Foundation conference in San Jose. I’ve only taken one trip since …
: Our new coffee machine makes 12 cups so I feel the need to make 12 cups even though I normally drink …
: 🦆Today’s memes: Literally the same sentence
: January 1981. www.tumblr.com/oldshowbi…
: 🔥Colorful collared lizard on a colorful 200+ million year old petrified log in Arizona
: Archduke Franz Ferdinand pretending to be a mummy (1896)
: A history of disco in America–not so much the music as the cultural movement. I lived through …
: It’s Still Alive — “Frankenstein” is often presented as a warning against new technology run amok, …
: Something I saw while walking the dog: This house has a lot going on–a model train set in the …
: I’ve been abstaining from posting political content, news headlines, and speculation about the current global crisis I don’t feel like I have anything to contribute to the discussion. My contribution might, in fact, …
: 📷 The scrap of cloth in Minnie’s mouth was once a toy duck. It was one of the first toys we …
: Blue Planet sends OSS soaring to the ‘smart cloud’ — Blue Planet says its Cloud Native …
: 🦆Today’s memes: A shape called a rhombus
: I need to use the puke emoji more.
: What signal do I send when I’m walking the dog and I wave to a neighbor with a full poop bag in my …
: My latest on Fierce Network: I’m happy to be here. Where’s the coffee? — If you’re interested …
: “A tendency to the lurid.” Reading the November, 1932 Astounding Stories I am reading the November, 1932 issue of Astounding Stories, starting with “The Cavern of the …
: I used a 😊 when I should’ve used a 🙁 in a business email, so my making a good first impression in …
: I've been hired! The eclipse isn’t the only cosmic event happening today. I’m pleased to say that I’ve joined the new …
: The new science of death: ‘There’s something happening in the brain that makes no sense’ …
: NYC’s AI chatbot was caught telling businesses to break the law. The city isn’t taking …
: Crying Myself to Sleep on the Icon of the Seas [theatlantic.com] — Curmudgeonly travel writer Gary …
: 📷 Something I saw while walking the dog: This osprey, on a platform on a pole about 50 feet above a …
: Anyone who fears that we may be wiped out by artificial intelligence should just buy a robot vacuum …
: Star Trek: Future Astronauts Having Feelings I want to like “Star Trek: Discovery” more than I do. The characters all seem to be having big …
: 📷 Something I saw while walking the dog.
: 🦆Today’s memes: Don’t let Lois Lane find out
: 🦆Today’s memes: Harold, you’re my role model
: On our African safaris nearly five years ago, Julie and I saw this elephant reaching for foliage. …
: I thought yesterday was Thursday and I thought today was Thursday. Eventually, I will be right.
: The best Stephen King novels chosen by you: NPR readers share their favorites. [npr.org] — I have …
: 📷 I saw this Star Trek card deck in a shop in Austin when I traveled there in 2016. April 2024 …
: We watched the pilot episode of “Law and Order,” which first aired in 1990. Only 495 episodes …
: 📷 Here’s something I saw while walking the dog. Micro.blog Photo Challenge Day 2: Flowers.
: 🦆Today’s memes: Secret cheese pocket
: 🦆Today’s memes: Has science gone too far?
: If ActivityPub support remains off by default for Threads, fewer than 1% of Threads users will …
: Neil Gaiman: ‘Terry Pratchett isn’t jolly. He’s angry’ (2014). [theguardian.com]. Thanks,Cory!
: Suicide Mission: What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane John “Swampy” Barnett, a 26-year quality manager at Boeing, tried unsuccessfully to stop management …
: How the Atlantic Went From Broke to Profitable in Three Years. Rather than chasing clicks and …
: AI hallucinates imaginary software packages, which could be used to trick developers into installing …
: 📷 Here’s something I saw at the park yesterday.
: 🦆Today’s memes: Jorts is just …. kind of a simple guy
: Cory praises “unreasonable and angry people who refuse to sideline principle in order to get along.” …
: 📷 Here’s something I saw in San Francisco in 2018.
: 🦆Today’s memes: “These are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the New West.”
: Women’s faces stolen for AI ads selling ED pills and praising Putin wapo.st
: NYC AI Chatbot Touted by Adams Tells Businesses to Break the Law thecity.nyc
: The condo association rules say no pets.
: I think we may have an ant problem.
: How Would You Turn This Dial To Make The Freezer Colder? kottke.org
: “The most accurate thing you can base your self worth on is what a dog thinks of you.” — …
: There were people born in the 1800s who used the Internet. reddit.com
: Here’s something I saw while walking the dog. I can envision myself starting to learn …
: Lately, it feels like I have to tie myself up in a pretzel to make Obsidian do what I need and want …
: Today I learned that Cleavon Little, who starred as Black Bart in "Blazing Saddles," grew up in San Diego. Little graduated Kearny High School in 1957. He went on to San Diego State College, worked his way …
: 🦆Today’s memes: Welcome to my Web Site
: I rarely use Venmo, and when I do I’m always startled by its news feed. It seems like such a …
: For the past two nights, I’ve been unsuccessfully trying to induce lucid dreaming This started with my listening to a podcast episode about lucid dreaming on Inner Cosmos, hosted by …
: 📷 Here’s something I saw while walking the dog.
: 🦆Today’s memes: Has your mother told you these intimate physical facts?
: What is lucid dreaming? [eagleman.com]
: In 51 minutes since I posted this update, I’ve received two requests from companies asking me …
: No, I will not take your customer satisfaction survey. Not now, not ever.
: I’m doing more writing for Silverlinings and the upcoming Fierce Network site and looking for …
: Do you do lucid dreaming? If so, do you find it beneficial? Harmful?
: Whenever I talk with someone with a New York/Jewish accent, I start reflecting it back to them. One …
: Here's why AI search engines really can't kill Google AI search tools are improving but they don’t match how we use search. [David Pierce / theverge.com] …
: 🦆Today’s memes: Nothing smells better
: I needed to get my glasses repaired, but I couldn’t remember what you call the person who does that. …
: 📷 Good morning! Here’s something I see on my walk every day. She says she has been a good dog …
: Overheard: “My teacher told me years ago not to worry about spelling because in the future there …
: Death and typos: Writer/musician David Safran describes his six strange years screening online …
: Elon Musk has fully bought into the ‘great replacement.’ Musk thinks Democrats are using …
: Margaret Atwood on Stephen King’s “Carrie,” which turns 50 and is still relevant today. Like much of …
: First impressions of my new MacBook Air, after using it just a few minutes Holy cow, this thing is fast compared with my 2018 MacBook Pro. I did a thing where I open 30+ tabs …
: Before upgrading to my new MacBook Air, I am being responsible, updating the operating systems and …
: My new MacBook Air is here! My current machine is a 2018 MacBook Pro. It works fine,although of course it’s slow. But I …
: Excellent post from Cory about how widespread corruption in public institutions leads to anti-vax, MAGA and other conspiracy theories. “Conspiratorialism and the epistemological crisis: We may not know what’s in the box, …
: Roman Mars Describes Santa Fe As It Is [99percentinvisible.org] — A podcast tour of Santa Fe. …
: It’s Not the Economy. It’s the Pandemic. Joe Biden is paying the price for …
: Photos of the original McDonald’s in in Illinois, which opened in 1955, and has been preserved as a …
: A third and final “Downton Abbey” movie is in the works. [collider.com]
: The “Reitoff principle”: Why you should add “nothing” to your work-life …
: William Shatner is 93 Kevin Mims makes the case that Shatner is a superb actor, and his much-parodied over-the-top style …
: Go read some Vernor Vinge Noah Smith [noahpinion.blog]: Vinge was perhaps the most technologically visionary sci-fi writer of …
: My encounters with Vernor Vinge I used to enjoy doing panels at science fiction conventions. Fear of public speaking is supposedly …
: Researchers analyzed digital archives of an obscure document thought to have been written by …
: Like a Phish concert but with more grievance. This is what it’s like at a Trump rally. …
: Overheard: “As you age, it’s ridiculous how fast bird-watching creeps up on you. You spend …
: 20 Years After ‘Fargo,’ Marge Is Still the Best Coen Brothers Character [thrillist.com]
: 🦆Today’s memes: Damn it, Derek Greyhound Station, Manhattan New York - 1936 The Stone House on the Bull Run battlefield in …
: Constant bad news doing your head in? Why not read about the fish doorbell instead [theguardian.com]
: Lawmakers are pushing a bill to stop distribution of anti-Semitic flyers in San Diego. They’re …
: Wind project in San Diego’s backcountry runs into turbulence [sandiegouniontribune.com] — …
: California regulators want to protect indoor workers from oppressive heat. Politicians are blocking …
: For seniors, medical care can be a slog, but there are ways to rein it in. [washingtonpost.com] — …
: Fresno High School in California limits kids to two seven-minute bathroom breaks per day and tracks …
: “Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the …
: BookTokker wants books to have a list of tropes in front.. She gives “romance, love …
: I tried using the AirPods Pro as sleep earbuds. That didn’t work. It started off well. I put the AirPods in my ears and tried lying down in bed to see how it felt. …
: Have We Reached Peak AI? Edward Zitron’s apocalyptic vision [wheresyoured.at]: Every bit of excitement for this technology …
: Things that don’t work [dynomight.net]
: RIP Vernor Vinge Vernor Vinge, father of the tech singularity, has died at age 79 [arstechnica.com] I had an …
: It’s taken her 11 years, but Minnie now has me trained to let her back in the house from …
: ME: “You are REALLY into grabbing my junk.” HIM: “Sir, I am a urologist.”
: I just activated the new, beta ActivityPub integration for my Threads account. We’ll see where …
: Just Out There Running For Prez As A Straight Up Mob Boss [talkingpointsmemo.com] — “Trump is a …
: Tapping around in the Lose It app yesterday, I learned that I’ve been using the app since …
: I’ve been futzing with saved sessions, tab stacks and tab groups in the Vivaldi browser. Tab …
: I tried the API version of ChatGPT, which is supposedly more flexible and less expensive, but it’s …
: US DoJ v Apple Is Apple a monopoly? Does it engage in illegal anticompetitive behavior? Perhaps. But I’d rather see …
: Green bubbles Only idiots or children think “green bubbles” make somebody else inferior. Apple is not responsible …
: Here’s a moderation tip I observe on the GEnie online service more than 30 years ago If you have people on your service who like to argue and use insulting language, give them a place …
: Reddit's I.P.O. Is a Content Moderation Success Story Kevin Roose/nytimes.com: The site’s journey from toxic cesspool to trusted news source …
: DOJ sues Apple over iPhone monopoly in landmark antitrust case [cnbc.com]
: Building an “online local chronicle:” a website that would list facts and news about a location, …
: Here’s something I saw on a 2017 business trip to San Francisco: The retro-futuristic lobby of …
: I have no doubt that Adam Mosseri and his team are talented, hard-working and sincere about making …
: An ongoing coffee near-disaster
: 🦆Today’s memes: da fuck they doin ova der
: Filipino police freed hundreds of slaves toiling in a romance scam operation [theregister.com] — One …
: Thomas Friedman: What Schumer and Biden Got Right About Netanyahu [nytimes.com] — Israel needs a …
: A conversation with Stephanie ‘Snow’ Carruthers, Chief People Hacker at IBM X-Force Red …
: 17 percent of Americans report experiencing long Covid. That is an extraordinarily high number of …
: “How Are You? Just Give Me Your Stock Answer. No, really. I want to know your stock …
: My editor won’t sent me to to KubeCon in Paris, France. She says if KubeCon comes to Paris, Texas, …
: My latest on Silverlinings: Red Hat jockeys for pole position as enterprises cloudify critical apps …
:
I have zero coding skills, but I coaxed ChatGPT to write a JavaScript blogging tool
My goal was simple but it eluded me for ten years.
: Here’s something I saw while walking the dog.
: “Our cousin lives in Jupiter, Florida so you can imagine my 8yo’s disappointment once we …
: A Magic 8 Ball would be a superior weather predictor to my iPhone weather apps
: It’s sunny and clear and I just got a weather alert to expect severe thunderstorms in 40 …
: Praise for the Vivaldi browser
: I’m trying to be more mindful about adding articles to my read-it-later list. It becomes just …
: My latest on Silverlinings: Oracle climbs to the hyperscaler A-list — Oracle’s growth and …
: I tried steel-cut oats for my morning oatmeal and the texture was like tiny styrofoam pellets. Not …
:
It's nice to be recognized
I am delighted to be included in the new blogroll for Dave Winer’s Scripting News —consistently one …
: Something I thought about while naked
: Something I saw while walking the dog. This would have been a fantastic photo if not for that …
: LED light bulbs have gotten great—inexpensive, energy-efficient, bright and reliable. Kevin Drum: We …
: Something I saw while walking the dog.
: Two weeks ago, executives from TikTok’s U.S. operations flew to their company’s …
: I’m half-bald. I don’t see myself getting a hairpiece, even if they are realistic now. I …
: How Toupees Got So Realistic That Young Guys Started Wearing Them. [robbreport.com] — My feelings on …
: The road from “I agree; the cat will never sleep in our bed” to “Of course she …
: Why people are falling in love with AI chatbots. [theverge.com] — Generative AI is transforming …
: Looks like there’s a TV series in the pipeline based on the 1993 novel “Manhattan Transfer,” by John …
: An app called Bless Every Home, backed by some of the biggest names in evangelical circles, is …
: Nerdy Saturday morning: I’m messing around with having ChatGPT write Drafts actions to …
: I wanted to be able to automatically update my daily note in the Obsidian app with a list of …
: 🦆Today’s memes: Airplane glue will not be sold to minors Can confirm Step 2. Still shudder at the memories. I’ll stick with the beef with broccoli. 1920, …
: Here’s something groovy I saw while walking the dog.
: Today’s memes: I cannot help you with printer issues via via
: I’m getting spam text messages from the Easter Bunny.
: Here’s something I saw while walking the dog
: On the limitations of writing for the fediverse Ben Werdmuller: I’m not bullish on squeezing long-form content into a microblogging platform, …
: Today’s memes: so excited to start my new job here at the Mutant Animal Weaponization Program 🤗
: Cory Doctorow: “Bullies want you to think they’re on your side: Bosses (not migrants) take …
: You know what’s an excellent thing to do when you’re having trouble sleeping? Go through your notes …
: I keep bags of dog treats next to the bags of dried fruit that I put in my cereal in the morning. …
: The “True Grit” movies came up in a conversation so I went down an Internet rabbit hole This 2010 article in The New York Times includes a conversation with Charles Portis, the author of …
: Do you prefer video on or video off for remote meetings? I prefer video on but I would not demand it. And I don’t even tell colleagues I prefer video on …
: The White Castle System of Eating Houses [99percentinvisible.org]. White Castle, founded more than a …
: Why Do So Many Coffee Shops Look the Same? On the Decoder Ring podcast, host Willa Paskin interviews …
: Adolfo Ochagavía is an “undercover generalist." [ochagavia.nl] To find work as a generalist, he …
: The Cult of AI. Writer Robert Evans returns from CES in January with a “sinking feeling” about the …
: High-speed grocery-shopping is my superpower. I should put it on my LinkedIn profile.
: I just got off the phone with AT&T customer service. Years ago, I accidentally slammed a car …
: Here’s something I saw while walking the dog.
: Sleep is weird and magic. We sleep more than we do anything else. We spend a third of our lives in a …
: Today’s memes: Stop thinking that you are ugly
: I walk across the deck between my office and the kitchen a million times a day, and sometimes, when …
: I cannot be arsed to keep up with culture wars bullshit now. Like, there is a young woman named …
: I’ve seen articles pointing out exactly where the Royal Family photos were clumsily edited, …
: Today I learned that if you spill a nearly full cup of fresh hot coffee on your lap, it doesn’t hurt …
: Profile of Steve Nikoui, the Gold Star father arrested for protesting at the State of the Union last …
: Cory Doctorow: Palantir is looting the UK’s National Health Service, under cover of the Big Lie: …
: Five ways Israelis have changed, after 5 months of war. [kpbs.org] — Israelis believe the world has …
: I loved all five of Frank Herbert’s Dune books and enjoyed the first Villeneuve movie, but I …
: Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than U.S.-born Americans kpbs.org
: I like my windows the way I like them Many people have multiple overlapping application windows open on their screens while working. But …
: We Talked to the Guy Who Wore a Vision Pro VR Headset at His Wedding. He did it for the meme. …
: This is funny: How Do Dudes Pee? An Earth-Shattering Reveal
: I need a nickname. Help me choose one: The Bandit Big Mitch “Mitch” is already a nickname, you …
: I’m having a tough time getting started this morning, so please enjoy this video of Jerry Reed …
: Hell of a great speech by Biden last night. His Presidency is in many ways like Harry Truman. That’s …
: Coming Of Age In The World Of Pay-Per-Minute Porn. A 2010 essay by Dave Pell. He’s not just …
: “… the strange and fascinating creature known as the American teenager – as we now understand …
: Los Angeles Rabbi Sharon Brous: Since Oct. 7, “many American Jews … understand themselves …
: … being a journalism grad student right now must feel like studying paleontology in the hopes that …
: The This American Life podcast shares “a series of phone calls to a man in Gaza named Yousef …
: A friend reminds me of this scene from “Escape From the Planet of the Apes” (1971). Of …
: … instead of passing a privacy law or regulating data brokers, Americans get a sort of …
: AI needs bigger and more powerful data centers, driving electrical demand and undermining …
: The Our Opinions Are Correct podcast obsesses about the politics of “Dune.”
: The Golden Age of American Jews Is Ending. Franklin Foer at The Atlantic with an in-depth report on …
: I’m re-reading “Everybody’s Fool,” by Richard Russo (or, more precisely, listening to the …
: Are we dating the same guy? Facebook groups offer intel but upend lives [Brittany Shammas and Marisa …
: What in Tarnation Is ‘Tarnation’ [Mental Floss]
: I asked the AI-powered Perplexity search engine “Who is Mitch Wagner?” Mitch Wagner is …
: Today’s memes: Dr Wiggles Weiner Wagon This is me Tuesday morning. I am both these people.
: A Department of Veterans Affairs official tried to ban the famous Kiss photo, taken on VJ Day after …
: Cory Doctorow: Exxon CEO Darren Woods says the quiet part out loud: The problem with renewable …
: If you sawed open my skull and examined my brain (and I’m not actually asking you to do …
: Here’s a nice house I saw while walking the dog.
: Russia plans to put a nuclear reactor on the Moon – with China’s help …
: Medieval historian Dr Eleanor Janega hilariously and informatively refutes a Twitter troll’s …
: I asked ChatGPT to generate illustrations for a few books, TV shows and movies, including “The …
: Hours before the deadline, I just pledged to back the Kickstarter for Tapestry from Iconfactory. I …
: Here’s something I saw while walking the dog.
: Millions of people — including me — were locked out of Facebook, Threads and Instagram this morning …
: Cory Doctorow at Pluralistic: “You can’t shop your way out of a monopoly. Any election where …
: Anthropic’s Claude 3 gave a response that made it appear as if it knew when researchers were …
: Benj Edwards at Ars Technica analyzes Anthropic’s announcement of the latest version of its …
: Google and XPRIZE launch $5m prize to find actual uses for quantum computers. This seems like …
: I updated the DNS for mitchwagner.com to point to a static page on micro.blog and now I feel like …
: I used Google to find a PDF of the movie “Love, Actually.” I fed the URL to ChatGPT and told it to …
: I used Google to find a PDF of the screenplay of “Die Hard.” I fed the URL to ChatGPT, with the …
: I asked ChatGPT to create a poster to promote the TV show “M*A*S*H.”
: “Daddy, why doesn’t Trump ever go to church?" Doonesbury’s still got it.
: City leaders in Escondido reject “Housing First” policies for homelessness because they …
: Rogue Editors Started a Competing Wikipedia That’s Only About Roads. A fight over Wikipedia’s …
: Inside me are two wolves. One wants only the finest coffee, ground just before brewing from the …
: Dave Winer used ChatGPT to illustrate a few of his favorite songs. I tried it with books.
: I asked ChatGPT to create an illustration for the book “Cities in Flight” by James …
: I asked ChatGPT to create an illustration for the novel “The Long Way to a Small, Angry …
: I asked ChatGPT to create a cover illustration for the novel “The Yiddish Policeman’s …
: I asked ChatGPT to create a cover illustration for the novel “The Long Way to a Small Angry …
: We watched Rise of the Planet of the Apes, the 2011 movie starring Andy Serkis as a motion-capture …
: Hands up if you want to volunteer for layoffs, IBM tells staff (The Register).
: MyHeritage debuts OldNews.com, offering access to millions of historical newspaper pages …
: Elon Musk’s legal case against OpenAI is hilariously bad (Nilay Patel/The Verge).
: Today’s memes: Socks for his wife Sony 4-204UW 4-inch portable TV (1965) and Panasonic 1030p 3-inch TV (1984) ngl they have me at 8 …
: Seen on a Techmeme headline: Threads is planning to open a developer API in June. I’m happy to …
: Facebook is my favorite social network. It is also the one I hate most, and consider quitting …
: Something I saw at the supermarket.
: Terry Pratchett doesn’t work for me because he writes loving parody of a genre I don’t read.
: I started reading Chasing the Dime by Michael Connelly 📚 He’s always reliable.
: I started the audiobook to Everybody’s Fool by Richard Russo 📚. It’s the sequel to Nobody’s …
: I finished the audiobook of Nobody’s Fool by Richard Russo 📚My third reading. I think I …
: I quit The Colour Of Magic by Terry Pratchett 📚I think I’m not a Terry Pratchett guy.
: Here’s something I saw while walking the dog.
: American small towns are erecting statues to Star Trek characters born there. (The Register)
: Nazis are openly mingling and making friends at the CPAC conference, Trump is getting cheers for a …
: Julie started drinking coffee again regularly, and I’m drinking more. The Aeropress is getting to be …
: “she’s like kryptonite for sexist podcast bros”
: The Shirky Principle: Institutions Try to Preserve the Problem to Which They Are the Solution. …
: Cory: “Vice surrenders: Literally the stupidest publishing strategy I’ve ever heard of (ever). …
: Today’s memes: Stop thumb sucking! STOP Thumb Sucking! Baby Alice Metal Wire Thumb Gaurd. 1931 …
: Josh Marshall: The Republican effort to impeach Biden was a Russian operation. Press Watch: … the …
: I’d like for micro.blog to become a Mastodon superset, supporting the important features of …
: The Twenty Thousand Hertz podcast does a delightful episode on industrial musicals. For more than …
: I did a little blog maintenance yesterday: streamlined the header to mitchw.blog, updating the about …
: I love that Pat Gelsinger’s plan for turning Intel around is to make things. He’s not …
: Vice is abandoning Vice.com and laying off hundreds (The Verge). Vice published for 30 years. …
: Right-wing influencers and Republican lawmakers are spreading rumors about an imaginary illegal …
: Cory: The majority of censorship is self-censorship. But the majority of self-censorship is …
: Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis. Wingnuts on …
: I’m always surprised to hear about companies still using faxes. Bring back pneumatic tubes!
: App review: Map routes with your finger using Footpath The Footpath app makes it easy for you to plan a route for walking, running, biking or driving, and …
: There is a road called Princess View Drive near our house that I have driven on many times, but I …
: The American Nazis (the organization formerly known as Republicans) aren’t coming for Jews—now. They …
: “AI search is a doomsday cult…. Does anyone even want an AI search engine?” when they aren’t hallucinating, what they’re capable of is still impressive, though …
: During our last time going out to lunch before the pandemic, my dad (who was the only member of his …
: Apple warns users to stop putting wet iPhones in rice (Gizmodo) That was a big clue on a crime show. …
: When I was a boy attending Hebrew school, the Holocaust was living memory for the adults teaching …
: Doc Searls: “Blogs are newsletters that don’t require subscriptions."
: Today’s memes: Everything is on track
: Cory’s Pluralistic blog turns four. Here, he talks once again about his Memex Method of taking notes …
: Alabama’s supreme court rules frozen embryos are ‘children’ theguardian.com In a decision …
: Haley’s plan to unite the United States: pardon Trump. “It is unclear why or how Haley thinks …
: “I just kind of think of her as a lowlife” Colorado GOP voters reject Lauren Boebert boingboing.net
: My five-year-old Mac wheezes to a halt if I have more than a few Safari tabs open, but I recently …
: Stickers to manage social media replies. “Do not reply to deny my lived experience.” …
: An in-depth explainer why the New York Times might win its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, which …
: Japanese startup Astroscale’s mission is cleaning up space junk. arstechnica.com
: We watched the first episode of “Resident Alien,” about an extraterrestrial who assumes the identity …
: Before the IBM PC, There Was the TRS-80 Radio Shack, known for its DIY kits and gear, unveiled this …
: Trust Between Southeastern San Diego Flood Survivors and Local Government Is Dead Flooded residents …
: EFF: Don’t Fall for the Latest Changes to the Dangerous Kids Online Safety Act. KOSA supporters …
: Today’s memes: Rockford’s cute letterpress Redditor shares photo of their father, 1940s. Via
: The season finale of “All Creatures Great and Small” was satisfactory. Drunk Carmody is my role …
: Ezra Klein: Democrats Have a Better Option Than Biden. Biden is a great President, but he’s running …
: The New York Times explains the controversy around the 2023 Hugo Awards, hosted by China Alexandra Alter: The Hugo Awards, a major literary prize for science fiction, have been engulfed in …
: The Cluetrain Manifesto is turning 25.
: Chuck Mawhinney, a Camp Pendleton Marine who became the deadliest sniper in corps history, dies at …
: Today’s memes: This is love Superman II (1980) featured some ground breaking special effects, in particular the battle between …
: Facebook just sent me notices that it removed two of my posts for violating its rules. It won’t show …
: RSSParrot turns your Mastodon timeline into an RSS feed reader.
: Joey deVilla: If you’ve been laid off – and especially if you’ve been laid off …
: Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr: How America’s oligarchs lull us with the be-your-own-boss …
: Bose introduced pricy open-air earbuds that sit on your ears, rather than in them. Bose is touting …
: After much practice, I am now expert at photographing my own left ear. I do not expect this skill to …
: Antisemitic callers overwhelmed a La Mesa City Council meeting with hate speech. …
: ‘A Black Thing.’ Fani Willis’s father explains why his daughter keeps cash: John …
: "Stinge-watching" vs. binge-watching “Stinge watching” is the opposite of binge watching, says Jason Kottke—when you love a show so much …
: I went out to walk the dog the other day and discovered I’d forgotten to charge my AirPods. I found …
: Today’s memes: I guess my brain is just really big
: I’ve been hearing about the Perplexity search engine, a competitor to Google. www.perplexity.ai I …
: Play this video when you want to pretend to be busy so people will leave you alone. Say “yeah” at …
: Enterprise leaders swing between confidence and sleepless terror over AI. Fear of missing out (FOMO) …
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“The Hucksters:” A sitthroughable 1947 romcom and satire starring Clark Gable
Clark Gable is a veteran returning home from World War II eager to resume his pre-war lifestyle as a …
: Are there not-too-expensive alternatives to Grammarly? I’m starting to get fed up with it. I …
: I saw this extremely handsome pig in the front yard of a house in the neighborhood.
: Young people may find this hard to believe, but I remember back in the old days we spent hardly any …
: Overheard: A chain of grocery stores that specialize in donuts, bagels, Swiss cheese, Cheerios and …
: I don’t know why the new generation of productivity apps hates folders, but I’m sure …
: I have rediscovered the “hide” command in Apple Photos. It’s great if you want to get photos out of …
: A mob set a Waymo self-driving car on fire over the weekend. arstechnica.com Videos of the incident …
: “so there’s a special drug that makes you hallucinate so hard you can fold space… …
: I had a blood draw this morning, and I had a skilled phlebotomist. “Skilled Phlebotomist” would be a …
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The dog and I walked part of Junipero Serra Trail yesterday at the Old Mission Dam.
: Today’s memes: Mickey Dolenz’s Moog
: Meanwhile, in a holosuite on Deep Space Nine, Ben Sisko is a 20th Century Earth Boston legbreaker …
: I hear Taylor Swift‘s boyfriend is participating in something today.
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We watched “Mr. Holmes,” a 2015 movie featuring Ian McKellen as 93-year-old Sherlock Holmes.
It’s 1947, and Holmes is long retired to a country house, where he tends his bees and his failing …
: Sad Clown Paradox: Why You Should Check In On Your Funny Friends Humor has long been used as a tool …
: Today’s shitposts: When the insurance company wants a diagram of the accident
: Do you read books on your phone?
: Seems like smart glasses wouldn’t be usable by people who wear glasses only part of the time.
: Today’s memes: Talk dirty to me
: How do you survive fame? Podcaster P.J. Vogt talks with his friend, the actor and writer Molly …
: The Freakonomics podcast is doing a series of episodes on the physicist Richard Feynman. The first …
: NYTimes: Could a Giant Parasol in Outer Space Help Solve the Climate Crisis? Researchers are …
: It has stopped raining and the sun is out at last, but it is so, so wet and chilly and unpleasant …
: Today’s memes: I think cat people are psychopaths
: TV show idea: Just Chrisjen Avasarala from The Expanse and Susy from The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel …
: Currently reading: Nobody’s Fool by Richard Russo 📚My third or fourth time reading this …
: What are your favorite and second-favorite social media services? Where do you spend the most time?
: Cisco and NVIDIA did a technology integration deal this week—here’s why it matters: Cisco and NVIDIA …
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Listen to our talk about the novel “Alas, Babylon” on Seth Heasley’s Hugos There podcast
Thanks to the indomitable Seth, who had me as a guest to talk about one of my favorite novels, …
: Clarkesworld: “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole,” by Isabel J. …
: Today’s ephemera: Apple Vision Pro Version 2
: Shakshuka is better than winning the Darwin Award I had a meeting at 11 am at a local coffee shop. It’s been raining hard nonstop since Monday …
: I saw this dog at the park yesterday. He hopes your week is off to a good start. He’s 16 years …
: Friends came down from Los Angeles yesterday and we visited the San Diego Zoo Yes, that is my finger …
: Today’s ephemera: Possum in the bedroom
: A tumblr thread on the edginess of classic Fleischer cartoons and the awesomeness of Cab Calloway.
: A toddler got stuck after climbing into a claw machine looking for a toy in an Australian shopping …
: Watch an elephant family working together to save a baby elephant that got stuck in the mud. “This …
: Today’s ephemera: A man walks into a zoo
: I saw this spectacular rainbow while walking the dog this afternoon.
: Shorter version of my earlier post about Tapestry: Yes, today I can consume Mastodon, Threads, …
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What if you had a universal app to access every social media platform in one screen?
I think I now get the point of what Iconfactory wants to build with the Tapestry project.
: Today’s ephemera: The crucial fourth ice cream bowl
: Cory Doctorow: Companies like Tesla, Amazon and Cruise that claim to have replaced human workers …
: I’m upgrading from a five-year-old iPhone XS to an iPhone Pro Max. Any advice? What should I …
: Today’s ephemera: Frog ball nine thousand
: Kevin Drum: Congress got to yell at social media CEOs today. … research really doesn’t …
: Boing Boing: “There is no plan beyond blaming Biden.” Trump’s border plan “consists of moats filled …
: Taylor Swift vs. the manosphere Ryan Broderick at Garbage Day ties together far-right movements …
: A Pennsylvania man decapitated his father and posted a video in which the son displayed the older …
: Today’s ephemera: Simulated chimp attack
: Meanwhile, in Soviet MAGAstan: Transgender People in Florida Face Having Their Driver’s …
: Lawyers Guns Money: “It turns out the whole Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce romance is just another …
: NYTimes: MAGA nincompoops are losing their shit over Taylor Swift dating Travis Kelce—Vivek …
: Reading about Yusef Salaam’s traffic stop in both the New York Times and NY Post I can’t …
: Tuesdays, the Savage Love podcast drops and I always enjoy that. But I’m going to listen to the …
: I’m intrigued by Project Tapestry, an app in development from Iconfactory that creates a single feed …
: Forbes: Google’s AI will read all your private messages—and Apple might do the same. This is a …
: Ars Technica: The National Security Agency (NSA) has admitted to buying records from data brokers …
: An 18-year-old British man was acquitted of charges of public disorder after he joked with friends …
: Today’s ephemera: A sufficiently large trebuchet
: Currently reading: The Life of the World to Come by Kage Baker 📚
: Finished reading: A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers 📚
: Coronado residents are protesting the Hotel Del agreeing to host a service by the Awaken Church, a …
: What’s behind the tech industry’s mass layoffs in 2024?. There is a herding effect in …
: The San Diego Union-Tribune looks at my favorite hiking trail
: Israeli officials presented details to back up their claims that UN relief workers helped Hamas in …
: German-born photographer Evelyn Hofer captured beautiful photos of Dublin in 1965-66. “Hofer took …
: I had a Zoom meeting yesterday and I put it on my calendar but instead of “Zoom” I …
: Today’s ephemera: Don’t buy the cheap stuff
: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This. The halfway point of this essay is where my Web development …
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How Cory Doctorow uses browser tabs for productivity superpowers
Cory defends lifehacking, which “is in pretty bad odor these days, and with good reason: a …
: Your Local Epidemiologist: How to (and not to) boost your immune system Works: “A balanced, …
: How Cory Doctorow cured his writer’s block: … the key turned out to be the realization that while …
: On the futility of blocking spammers on social media People who spend a lot of time posting to social media often spend time going through their follower …
: “Brand New Key” is actually a song about sex! Holy shit!
: The word of the day is “pharmacovigilance.”
: Penn Jillette Wants to Talk It All Out I was going to move to France with my girlfriend and be a …
: Today’s ephemera: Weiner Bar Mitzvah
: Downworthy: A browser plugin to turn hyperbolic viral headlines into what they really mean: …
: The lost ancient practice of communal sleep. “Until the mid-19th Century, it was completely …
: Powerful and disturbing: My grandpa was a Nazi, by Bastian Allgeier.
: I canceled my ChatGPT subscription. I’m just not using it enough to justify the $20/mo. I had …
: Is anyone else having a problem with micro.blog posts propagating out over ActivityPub? Maybe …
: Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr): The most amazing things about monopolies is how the contempt …
: For a moment there, Lotus Notes appeared to do everything. The program was a weird combination of …
: A tale of two cities: one real, one virtual. Digital city-building has become a legitimate part of …
: Today’s ephemera: What’s all this then?
: The Price of Netanyahu’s Ambition. Amid war with Hamas, a hostage crisis, the devastation of …
: Skepchick: No, Charles Lindbergh did not let a pal vivisect the Lindbergh Baby and then cover it up …
: … for more than 200 years, the American people have elected a buffoon’s gallery of rogues, …
: Forget 10,000 steps: 7 tips for step counters. The notion to take 10,000 daily steps stems from a …
: The New Yorker: How Ten Middle East Conflicts Are Converging Into One Big War Robin Wright: Ten conflicts among diverse rivals or in different arenas over disparate flash points …
: The Reason the Office Isn’t Fun Anymore. Employees are hiding out in privacy booths and empty …
: A company backed by Silicon Valley billionaires is seeking local voter approval to build a walkable …
: This has been bugging me for more than a year. Now I have the answer and can relax and move on.
: The three-decade saga that led to the Crown Heights Tunnels: A group of anti-establishment yeshiva …
: ‘It hasn’t delivered’: The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology
: David French: Disqualify Trump (or else). There’s no doubt that knocking Trump off the ballot …
: Bobi, the “oldest ever dog,” has lost his title as Guinness World Records launches an investigation …
: Winter storms brought big pieces of a a 112-year-old shipwreck to a beach in Maine, where visitors …
: Office vacancies plague San Diego as companies embrace remote work. Thousands of people get to enjoy …
: The secret history of Napoleon Bonaparte: Watching “The Emperor’s New Clothes” (2002) starring Ian Holm We saw “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” an idiosyncratic and charming historical romantic-comedy that …
: At 93, he’s as fit as a 40-year-old. His body offers lessons on aging. Champion rower Richard Morgan …
: Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr is kickstarting the audiobook of his new novel, “The Bezzle,” …
: IT Employment Grew by Just 700 Jobs in 2023, Down From 267,000 in 2022. Holy shit.
: This morning I looked at a “this day in history” calendar and saw that Martin Luther King was born …
: On Reddit, somebody asked how non-Americans identify Americans visiting their country. The top …
: Allie Brosh at Hyperbole and a Half: Dogs Don’t Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving (2010). …
: Mapped: Which countries still have a monarchy?
: Sympathy for the spammer. Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr posts a terrific essay about how …
: Searching for “finally got my Emacs setup just how I like it” yields excellent results.
: While most big companies are only in the proof-of-concept stage with AI, Wells Fargo is moving fast. …
: AI models can be trained to deceive and the most commonly used AI safety techniques had little to no …
: The Texas National Guard has seized control of Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, Texas, and is denying U.S. …
: Exploring the life and mysterious death of Mary Haxby-Jones, whose body was found in a San Diego …
: Artifact, the social news app founded a year ago by Instagram’s co-founders, is shutting down.. I …
: Amazon sells products with names like “I’m sorry, but I cannot fulfill this request as it goes …
: OpenAI Quietly Deletes Ban on Using ChatGPT for “Military and Warfare”. Generative AI’s …
: It’s uncertain where personal technology is heading, but judging from CES, it smells
: Your pacemaker and open source software. Using embedded medical technology, such as a pacemaker, …
: So, are we going to talk about how GitHub is an absolute boon for malware, or nah
: Why Google will waive egress fees for customers ditching GCP. The Register says Google is trying to …
: Here is what puzzles me about “Bears Discover Fire:” There are at least three storylines …
: RIP Terry Bisson. Here is one of his most famous stories, the excellent “Bears Discover …
: A client asked for a synopsis of each of five articles, and I think it makes sense to do them all as …
: The Weirdest Advice From Vintage Entertaining Guides. “Here, written between 1880 and 1987, is …
: Oxiclean gets an insulated coffee carafe or Thermos clean as a whistle, without scrubbing First, put the Oxiclean in the carafe. I used a partial scoop of Oxiclean, just above the line on …
: I read the Robert B. Paker Spenser novels voraciously in the 80s. Spenser often eats food with …
: Katelyn Jetelina, Your Local Epidemiologist: Real-world data shows fall 2023 vaccines are effective. …
: … AI isn’t going to replace you at work. But it’s already augmenting your shitty …
: Today’s fun fact: Rachel Bloom, who plays Elaine, Julia Child’s new director on “Julia,” became …
: ‘Julia’ Canceled After Two Seasons at Max. Disappointing. We just started watching the …
: What ‘The Sopranos’ Iconic Filming Locations in N.J. Look Like Now. On the anniversary of the show’s …
: Clarence Thomas and the bottomless self-pity of the upper classes. Poor bastard had to scrape by on …
: Things I can’t be arsed to care about: Hunter Biden’s crimes, Lloyd Austin’s prostate, Taylor Swift, …
: Thousands of Software Engineers Say the Job Market Is Getting Much Worse. I did an article nearly a …
: Far too many software services are sending me 2023 year-in-review emails I’m still getting 2023-in-review emails from my software subscriptions. I got one from Grammarly …
: “San Diego is short around 90,000 homes…. We’re not going to overcome this deficit …
: We watched the first episode of 1923 tonight, after watching Yellowstone and 1883. I am not smart …
: “A reporter who was fired last year when his employer found clips of his standup comedy online must …
: In the news this weekend: Donald Trump referred to Jan. 6 defendants as “hostages;” refused to swear …
: There is no such thing as a good book. Bookstore worker Kyle Frances Williams reads “The Art of …
: Remember I said I wasn’t going to post links here? Forget it. I like posting links here. You …
: Vicki Greene is the current owner of Flossie, age 28, the world’s oldest living cat. “I …
: “You’ve got me? Who’s got you?!” Rewatching Christopher Reeve’s “Superman” The 1978 “Superman,” starring Christopher Reeve, launched the superhero film genre as it …
: I’ve decided to take a break posting links here. By nature, they’re ephemeral. And they’re not …
: I was just reminded of New Year’s 2000. I was an editor on a tech newspaper. We searched desperately …
: For years, our cat Lulu has pestered Julie at night and left me alone. I was OK with this situation. …
: Writing a datasheet for a networking product, I typoed “brogrammable” instead of “programmable” and …
: I walk Minnie every day for an hour and a half. We go 3.2 miles in that time. If we went at her …
: I was going to get a tattoo on my 50th birthday, but I would’ve needed to decide what pattern to …
: The cashier asked me how I was doing and I said I’m good how are you and he said I’m good how are …
: “Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” is “Guardians of the Galaxy” …
: Of all the great mysteries of the universe, I would like to know just one thing: When I’m walking …
: Thinking about a time I was sitting with a small group of people, and one of the women in that group …
: My 15 minutes of badass literary scholarship In another online community, somebody asked for the title and author of a story about humans …
: I remember when I finally laid my hands on a reproduction of a 1939 Astounding Stories magazine. I …
: I’m beginning to think that carrying a distraction machine in my pocket might not be a great idea.
: ‘Screams Without Words’: How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7: A Times investigation …
: Eddie Murphy is making a fourth Beverly Hills Cop movie, with Judge Reinhold and John Ashton. Looks …
: On a private community, someone said they’ve just started watching “Babylon 5” on Season 2, and they …
: ‘The Gilded Age’ Shows the Virtues of Inauthenticity: John McWhorter discusses how the characters in …
: Every so often I like to get inspired by reading about the writer Robert B. Parker Parker died in 2010. Here’s what Sarah Weinman wrote about him at the LA Times: Robert B. Parker, …
: Politico: John Fetterman isn’t the politician you thought he’d be — and he doesn’t care. Fetterman …
: Demand for Abortion Increased Under Florida’s Ban. Anti-Abortion Activists Think Another Ban Will …
: After crime writer Robert B. Parker died in 2010, his estate hired several writers to continue the …
: I’m going to set this as my virtual background for Zoom calls. It will create the right …
: On the Fresh Air podcast: Barry Manilow reflects on writing songs — and making the whole world sing. …
: They Spend Thousands Decorating Homes No One Will Ever Go Inside. Sarah E. Needleman at The Wall …
: The Rest Is History podcast: Victorian Britain’s Maddest Mystery . Roger Tichborne, a …
: The Imaginary Worlds podcast looks at Doctor Who’s regeneration, which began nearly 60 years …
: I went around and around the house looking for my phone, searching the usual places again and again, …
: Ryan O’Neill: Let me repeat that back to you. One of the most effective communications …
: The Hyperloop was always a scam. The tech industry’s move into transportation was not only a …
: “100 little ideas: A list of ideas, in no particular order and from different fields, that …
: What Happened When the U.S. Failed to Prosecute an Insurrectionist Ex-President. Historian Jill …
: “Bertie Sheldrake was a South London pickle manufacturer who converted to Islam and became …
: I saw this sign on the ground next to an impressively large poop.
: It’s All Bullshit: Performing productivity at Google. Journalist JS Tan, writing at The Baffler, …
: I have seen the Doctor Who Christmas special and I have thoughts (SPOILERS)
: Ars Technica rates 20 time travel movies by entertainment and scientific plausibility. What modern …
: Reading “A Christmas Carol” as antisemitic is pretty easy. The main character, Ebenezer Scrooge, is …
: The supermarket did not have Chianti. I talked to four employees, and they did not know what Chianti …
: We saw this festive holiday display of leg prostheses. Please enjoy it.
: “Elf” + “Enchanted” = “Noelle” The premise of the movie “Noelle” is that Santa Claus is a family business, with each Santa passing …
: “Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled." Bill Watterson’s …
: Plumshell: Lately, I’ve been realizing the value of having something that excites me enough to jump …
: Tyler Cowen: Is Bach the greatest achiever of all time?
: Stackexchange discussion: Can Microsoft Flight Simulator help me learn to fly (or make me a better …
: Ace Atkins bids Robert B. Parker’s Spenser farewell. After 10 novels, Atkins looks back at what …
: The Surprising Possibilities of See-Through Wood. Transparent wood is tougher than transparent …
: How the press manufactured consent for never-ending COVID reinfections. Continual reinfection was …
: Why Do We Build Houses in the Same Way That We Did 125 Years Ago?
: Walking the dog in the park this morning, I saw a runner wearing a Santa hat, a runner wearing a …
: Every once in a while, I pick up a call from an unidentified caller rather than letting it ring …
: I’m intrigued by Dave Winer’s distinction between conversation and publishing. He’s talked elsewhere …
: BlueSky upgrade: Now you can see Profiles and posts on the web without logging in, and it also …
: How to draw irregularly shaped polygons, such as L-shaped boxes, using Excalidraw This was a pain for me to figure out but once I got it figured it, it was simple. Use the line tool. …
: Yet another example why YouTube instruction videos for software are evil and you should use written documentation instead I needed to draw an L-shaped box for a diagram. I spent an hour trying to figure out how to draw it …
: Ted Gioia at The Honest Broker: In 2024, the Tension Between Macroculture and Microculture Will Turn …
: Charles Stross: Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on …
: A Knight’s Tale is the Best Medieval Film (No, Really)
: One of the things I absolutely adore about A Knight’s Tale is that it makes no pretense at …
: I think Democrats wake up every morning and they look at the calendar on the iPhone and it says …
: Federal Judge Blocks New California Law Banning Concealed Handguns in Public Places. I bet U.S. …
: Trump vows to amp up the Hitler talk
: A fanatical Ohio prosecutor charged a woman with abuse of a corpse after she had a miscarriage in a …
: The family of an Israeli woman kidnapped by Hamas is suing the Red Cross over ignoring the needs of …
: The Rise and Fall of the ‘IBM Way’ Deborah Cohen at The Atlantic: IBM has a history of more than a century of innovation. The company …
: JULIE: “I’m going to try a new herb and rice.” ME: “I don’t think I should be eating rice.” JULIE: …
: Threads is getting an API. This seems to be separate from ActivityPub. I’m looking forward to …
: I am quite enjoying John Scalzi’s December Comfort Watch movie list and have added about half …
: We went to the San Diego Natural History Museum Sunday, which proved to be a personal milestone for …
: The Everywhereist: Every Relationship In Love, Actually, Listed In Order of How Dysfunctional They …
: RIP Luiz Barroso, who pioneered the modern data center for Google and made the modern internet …
: Sivraj and Me. Phil Gomes created a personal AI advisor using GPT Builder, with a sarcastic …
: Humans are a basically civilized species. We know not to go barefoot in restaurants, treat our …
: Amazon is asking workers experiencing financial hardship to write to the company mascot (named …
: John Scalzi has a delightful short essay on “Die Hard," a movie that works so well …
: Christine Baranski and Cynthia Nixon in the last scene of The Gilded Age. Oh boy.
: Merry Christmas from these grizzly bears at the Natural History Museum at Balboa Park.
: The iPhone’s Notes App Is the Purest Reflection of Our Messy Existence. If you want to know who …
: Alexandra Petri: GOP baffled that ‘We Don’t Care if You Die’ is not a winning slogan
: I have a short observation about last night’s “For All Mankind.” I posted it …
: Jason Snell @jsnell@zeppelin.flights makes the case for clipboard managers—software that saves a …
: Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr: How the NYPD defeated bodycams. “NYPD leadership were …
: I hate to say I told you so but Death’s hand rests on the shoulders of some of the largest Western …
: Are Red Hat, VMware selling multi-cloud snake oil?
: I bought supermarket coffee beans yesterday—and like them. My status as a coffee snob is in grave …
: At the supermarket today I was in line at the cash register behind a rotund voluble middle-aged …
: Apple buried the setting in WatchOS 10.2 for re-activating swiping to change watchfaces. You need to …
: My latest: Cloud cost-consciousness is having a moment. Companies are rediscovering cost awareness, …
: Twitter Is Just Running Ads for Stealing Semen Now
: What if it learned from its training data that people usually slow down in December and put bigger …
: Why candlepin bowling took off in New England — and not anywhere else
: Terry Gilliam and Jonathan Pryce on making “Brazil.” “Robert De Niro prepared to play a plumber by …
: “Ask a Manager” says “this is the best office holiday party date story of all …
: I’m glad to see work is continuing on ActivityPub support in Tumblr (here’s a statement …
: We brought Minnie in for a good dog wash for the first time in too long. We tried a new place. They …
: “… blogging never died…. journalists just stopped paying attention.” — What if the Twitter …
: The race to 5G is over — now it’s time to pay the bill
: AI is transforming literary analysis and could help us uncover insights into our own minds, …
: Bruce Schneier: The Internet today has been an engine for mass surveillance, and AI will potentially …
: Shakespeare’s First Folio is “arguably the most important secular book in western culture…. Were it …
: Bruce Schneier: It’s easy to think of generative AI as a friend rather than a service, making us …
: We have seen ”Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” and I have thoughts It was very enjoyable. I see fans ranking it as third of the five Indy movies. I’ll go with that. …
: “The metaphorical lynch mob that has come after the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and Penn for the …
: Life for the Lowest Class in Ancient Pompeii? It Was Awful. Excavations in the ancient ruins have …
: Jim Geraghty at National Review: “Hunter Biden’s entire life, so far, has been a bold, defiant, …
: Today I learned the tradition of eating jelly donuts to celebrate Hanukkah dates back to the 1920s …
: Fantasy disguised as science fiction disguised as fantasy: Roger Zelazny’s “Lord of Light.” Jo …
: Making DevSecOps more than just lipstick on a pig. If your answer to implementing DevSecOps is …
: Everyone and everything is pissing me off today. Not you. You’re awesome.
: The presidents of Harvard, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania said calls for genocide against …
: GOP senator demands DOJ investigate reporter who wrote about potential Trump dictatorship. Radley …
: Back to Reddit After a recent discussion with friendly fellow journalists, I started using Reddit again. I’d dumped …
: On a private discussion group, a friend asked what we use to clean our computer screens. I said I …
: I’m trying the Spark email app for Mac and iPhone. Impressive but confusing.
: Lucid dream startup says you can work in your sleep. Despite the linkbait headline, the article …
: The most popular articles on Wikipedia in 2023: ChatGPT is #1. The list also includes Taylor Swift, …
: Jewish women’s advocates share graphic descriptions of Hamas’s brutal rape, mutilation and torture …
: Facebook and Instagram’s recommendation systems are finding and promoting blatant pedophilia WSJ: Meta Is Struggling to Boot Pedophiles Off Facebook and Instagram The headline and deck on this …
: “Bertie Sheldrake was a South London pickle manufacturer who converted to Islam and became king of a …
: First Zoom meeting of the week is in 20 minutes. I’m ready.
: I’m going back to cross-posting from mitchw.blog to @mitchw@mastodon.social. Mastodon is part …
: “I reversed my type 2 diabetes. Here’s how I did it” Neil Barsky at The Guardian: One gray Sunday in the middle of the Covid lockdown, I received an …
: A new theory of “wobbly spacetime” potentially reconciles quantum mechanics and …
: WSJ: Is This the End of ‘Intel Inside’? Intel is competing with nearly every other tech giant, …
: Notes toward a theory of the Dad Thriller Max Read: .. you know the kind of movies I’m talking about: Movies set on submarines; movies …
: What went wrong with ‘the Metaverse’? An insider’s postmortem. The Metaverse …
: The way we live in the United States is not normal. Kirsten Powers: I began to notice a learned helplessness in the United States, where people …
: Everybody Knows Flo From Progressive. Who Is Stephanie Courtney? How “Flo” transformed Progressive …
: Archaeologists reveal life stories of hundreds of people from medieval Cambridge
: ‘I was told not to make eye contact with Tom Cruise’: meet the world’s most prolific film extra. …
: Raycast has a new feature where you can activate your Mac camera and look at yourself before jumping …
: So it begins. My Tumblr blog, formerly known as “Atomic Robot Live,” is now …
: Hollywood Goes Home: How Celebrity Endorsements Are Helping Dems Win Down Ballot. “In towns across …
: A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending. Also, by Alexandra …
: I’m having a couple of mandarin oranges with lunch. They’ve been sitting around the house a while. I …
: I recently discovered the power of not having opinions about things. Was Henry Kissinger a war …
: I registered the domain mitchipedia.org and now I love it so much I’m thinking about going to …
: Red Hat kickstarts king-size Kubernetes cloud cost cuts. The Flaming Fedora fellowship debuts …
: RIP Frances Sternhagen, 93, a solid character actor whom I have always liked. She had prominent …
: Before I upgraded to Sonoma I heard people saying the screensavers were great and I thought that was …
: I’m going to try using this account as my main place in the fediverse. I’ll only use …
: The Washington Post: Race isn’t real, science says. Advocates want the census to reflect …
: Why Do Superheroes Wear Spandex? The Rise, Fall, and Return of the Super-Stretchy Material
: Thousands of papers seized from Spanish ships during the 18th Century are now online. The letters …
: Everybody who was Anybody had Dr. Feelgood and his Speed Shots on Speed Dial Dr. Max Jacobson, aka …
: On the Our Opinions Are Correct podcast: While robots and self-driving cars get all the attention, …
: … the Court felt that bringing the chicken into the courtroom to play tic-tac-toe would degrade the …
: The real AI fight Last week’s spectacular OpenAI fight was reportedly a donnybrook between “Effective Altruism” and …
: The Pneumatic Tube Mail System in New York City … the first cylinder tube to travel through the New …
: Residents of North Sentinel Island off India are one of the few surviving tribes that resist contact …
: Placebos are effective treatments for many conditions, such as chronic pain. They work even when the …
: An ode to ‘Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast’. “… if you want to understand …
: Microcelebrity in 2007 Writing in 2007, Clive Thompson describes the phenomenon of “microcelebrity”–how …
: Moving furniture on the blog I’m moving furniture around on the blog again (metaphorically speaking). The main visible change: No …
: Today’s ephemera: The ethics of transmogrification
: Extra-good Beyond Belief episode on Thrilling Adventure Hour this week, with guest stars Kevin …
: RIP Marty Krofft, of Sid & Marty Krofft.
: Problems vs. situations: When facing a problem, ask yourself “is it a problem or a situation? …
: “If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?” Outstanding …
: Feynman stories, Richard Feynman and scientism A “Feynman story” is “any anecdote that someone tells that is structured so that the teller comes …
: “Avoid situations that someone you love might later have to explain on a medical or government form.” Merlin Mann has been collecting life lessons in a lengthy bullet list on GitHub. Merlin’s Wisdom …
: What Old Age Is Really Like. Writer Ceridwen Dovey discusses the role of the very old in society, …
: Are Men Obsessed With the Roman Empire? “In posts shared on social media, women have been asking the …
: Aack! A Millennial’s Audio Odyssey Through the ‘Cathy’ Comic Strip . “The comedian Jamie Loftus …
: Turn Off Push Notifications. App developers want to blast you with trivial notifications all day, …
: Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles I read Anne Rice’s “Interview With the Vampire” when I was a teen-ager, and did …
: The Incredibly Strange Career of Anne Rice Anne Rice is known for her Vampire Chronicles, including “Interview With the Vampire” …
: I tried to draw a turkey in spray cheese for the dog’s Thanksgiving dinner last night. Spray …
: AI developers have turned science fiction stories about godlike supercomputers into a religion, …
: I just got back from lunch. How many CEO changes did I miss at OpenAI?
: Today’s ephemera: As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly
: Today’s ephemera: Uninspired barbecues
: OpenAI’s alignment problem. The company’s board failed the institution. But did it have …
: Today’s ephemera: Their remarkable ubiquity
: Our server at lunch was named Ginger but her hair was magenta.
: I visited with a friend in Oceanside
: Today’s ephemera: Worse than a crying baby on a plane
: Ryan Reynolds and Ryan Gosling are different people. I know that now.
: Whenever I see an Econoline van, I think of a short story that Joe Haldeman wrote about a man who …
: “Doctor Who” showrunner Russell Davies says he grew up twice-closeted, hiding that he was gay and …
: Recent college graduates are drinking less. It’s even a movement with a name, NoLo—no-alcohol, …
: Search Engine: Why don't we eat people? Today I learned that on Christopher Columbus’s second voyage to the Americas, he encountered a …
: Why the Senate is increasingly skewed on race, parties and policy The Senate overrepresents …
: The likely GOP nominee is forgetting where he is, stumbling over words, and waxing full fascist…. …
: “The antisemitic left hates Biden. The antisemitic right loves Trump.” — Jonathan Chait. Republicans …
: Trump says he wanted to participate in the Jan. 6 insurrection, but the Secret Service would not …
: No, there isn’t a wave of TikTok teens supporting Osama bin Laden. … everything we see about TikTok …
: For several months, I noticed that my MacBook Pro made weird hissing and clicking sounds in the …
: I recently received this message in text spam: Evelyn, it’s no sin to love each other and it’s not …
: Red Hat: ‘The power of AI is open’. I wrote about how the crimson cap crew at Red Hat says open …
: I hate when blueberries get wrinkled. They’re like Oompa Loompa scrotums.
: Esquire: Nazi-Curious Madman Currently Under Indictment For 91 Felonies Gives Speech. Headline of …
: Interesting analysis on using social media to drive traffic by Ryan Broderick at Garbage Day (one of …
: Red Hat debuts edge platform for vast device networks. I wrote about the Burgundy Beanie bunch at …
: Today’s ephemera: Collateralized equine product
: It’s Official: With “Vermin,” Trump Is Now Using Straight-up Nazi Talk Michael Tomasky at The New …
: Plans to add ActivityPub support for Tumblr are likely dead. I can’t see that as a priority given …
: Trump thinks Veterans Day is the day we salute veterans of the Nazi Wehrmacht.
: “Imagine a mug that’s left on a coffee table.” — Anil Dash, That goddamn mug
: “Reality isn’t brand safe. If you’re in the reality based community, brand safety should …
: The US Tried Permanent Daylight Saving Time in the ’70s. People Hated It
: Alleged pickleball masturbator nabbed after Columbia Pike peeping incident. From the comments: …
: The documentary “Sly” reveals depths to Sylvester Stallone. What emerges isn’t the superstar …
: A surprisingly moving profile of Geddy Lee. “… in the era of headbanging and ‘Cat Scratch Fever,’ …
: A researcher identified the man on the cover of Led Zeppelin IV, 50 years after the album’s release. …
: Britain’s ‘loneliest sheep’ was rescued after two years at the foot of cliff. “The ‘over-fat’ ewe, …
: Jezebel: Feminist media site shuts down after 16 years. Jezebel was a great site that …
: When they wear the hats it’s in a dramatic scene and rather than focusing on the emotional action …
: Marvel TV shows and movies need to get rid of the ridiculous headgear. The costumes are fine but the …
: Tonight‘s TV choices: Season finale of “Loki,” season debut of “For all Mankind,” final two episodes …
: I’m grateful to the Automattic team for keeping Tumblr running and being good custodians of the …
: Sad news. Tumblr is downscaling after failing to ‘turn around’ the site
: Today’s ephemera: Dinosaurs are like the coolest thing possible
: This runner finished last at the NYC Marathon. He feels ‘blessed.’. Of course he should be proud. He …
: No, Grammarly, “fertile AI” is not a better way to say “generative AI.”
: El Cajon Mayor Urges the ‘Immediate Shutdown’ of Border to Palestinians. Racists gotta …
: Today I learned Barbra Streisand has a mall in her basement.
: TIL Barbra Streisand cloned her dog. Twice.
: A guide for visiting journalists on how to write a San Francisco “doom loop” story: You’re here to …
: Welcome to dating in 2023: Today’s oddly satisfying and mildly interesting things I saw on the internet
: I would not say I have “sensory processing issues” (autism, PTSD—I probably do have ADHD) but …
: I just did a rough tally of our monthly streaming video and cable bill.
: Minnie wants you to know you’re awesome and she hopes you’re as comfortable as she is.
: Food insecurity on the rise. 10% of California households can’t afford to buy enough food for …
: I have seen no policy or legislative proposals from No Labels. It’s all a bunch of handwaving …
: The timelessness of the Meg Ryan rom-com era. Meg Ryan’s latest film, “What Happens Later,” …
: How do I stop the “Start your day?” notifications every morning on Apple Watch? They are …
: Jason Parham at Wired: “The internet promised us access, but I didn’t realize the totality of what …
: “… a bunch of predominately white, upper-middle-class Londoners fall in love while being …
: Get weird about that thing you're weird about: Today’s oddly satisfying and mildly interesting things I saw on the internet
: While walking with the dog this morning, I saw these. Seeing an El Camino first thing in the morning …
: I have seen this sign often while walking on Del Cerro Blvd. I have no idea what the story is. …
: Time’s 200 Best Inventions of 2023 includes Sightful, an AR laptop with a 100-inch virtual screen. …
: That poor couch: Today’s oddly satisfying and mildly interesting things I saw on the internet
: I hope I love anything as much as my grandma hated ‘The Sound of Music’. A sweet and loving tribute …
: Daylight Saving Time as Americans know it was instituted by corporate lobbies, not farmers
: I love Dave Winer’s vision of textcasting—write anywhere you want, using any tools, and read …
: A starfish is a “disembodied head walking about the sea floor on its lips,” according to recent …
: Everything peaked in the 70s: Today’s oddly satisfying and mildly interesting things I saw on the internet
: Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for September 22, 1971. Zonker has a Maynard Krebs vibe.
: Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for September 21, 1971. Introducing Zonker.
: Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for September 19, 1971. Mike tries to meet a woman at a bar. At first it …
: Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for September 15, 1971. Introducing Boopsie. She evolves over the years.
: Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 30, 1971. Nixon goes to China.
: Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 17, 1971. Meanwhile, here in 2023, there’s a dispensary on …
: I’m attending an event in a few days for which I’ll be wearing a suit and tie, which …
: Ron Rosenbaum is from Long Island. The Long Islandest part of Long Island—South Shore. And yet he …
: Enjoying giving office supplies and travel size toiletries to trick or treaters.
: Jinkies! Today’s oddly satisfying and mildly interesting things I saw on the internet
: The beauty of finished software: Finished software is software that’s done—it doesn’t need updates. …
: “I started reading Ed McBain when I was probably 11 or 12,” [Stephen] King said, looking at his row …
: Either CAPTCHAs are becoming harder or I’m becoming less human.
: When I was 11 years old, I wanted to be Barnard Hughes when I grew up. I’m behind schedule.
: I don’t like Halloween. It celebrates death and decay. I like a little of that—I loved the Addams …
: The dog usually has to be coaxed down the front outside stairs to the front gate. I think it’s …
: Overheard: There’s over 7 billion ppl in this world and I’m really the best driver, …
: Overheard: Just wait until conspiracy theorists discover they’re part of a conspiracy to use …
: Cory Doctorow “The idea that creative workers aren't workers is bullshit.“ Cory: Why creative workers get screwed in labor negotiations (until very recently): Creative …
: Trolled by a fucking goat: Today’s oddly satisfying and mildly interesting things I saw on the internet
: Threads is in the early days of the social media enshittification cycle. That’s why it’s so great—for now The goal now is to attract users by the hundreds of millions, so Facebook is making Threads great …
: Dave Winer: We can do better than Threads. Running from the arms of one billionaire to another is a …
: Ask a Manager: I want my coworker to stop giving me “psychic messages” from my dead …
: Why’d I take speed for twenty years? Podcaster PJ Vogt writes about his 20-year use of …
: New GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson has proposed trillions in cuts to Social Security and Medicaire.
: What if we kissed on the jouch? Today’s oddly satisfying and mildly interesting things I saw on the internet
: Daring Fireball: The Aftermath of a Massacre Is Always the Time to Push for Gun Legislation
: Ask a Manager: my employee wasn’t respectful enough after the company messed up her paycheck. …
: San Diego GOP Lawmakers, Candidates Call for Tightening Border Over Hamas Threat. Building a wall …
: Cory Doctorow: A taxonomy of corporate bullshit: “… six lies that corporations have told since time …
: We’ve all collectively decided that the 22 years since 9/11 have gone so well that we’re just gonna …
: Mike Johnson Blamed Shootings on Teaching Evolution, Abortion
: ‘Scripture is very clear’: New House Speaker tells Congress God has …
: I think maybe video has taken off and text is declining simply because TikTok and YouTube make it …
: A little bird tells me that Tumblr is going to put some effort into fixing its RSS feeds. O frabjous …
: Reading about our new Speaker of the House and seeing absolutely nothing good. He’s an …
: Today's oddly satisfying and mildly interesting things I saw on the Internet
: I had to cold-call a relative stranger for social reasons just now. I knew it was coming and I was …
: Until yesterday, I had never seen “Moonlighting.” Now I have. The first episode at least. Much comedy. Much fast witty dialogue. Some action-adventure. The …
: Finished reading: Pax by Tom Holland 📚A history of Rome’s golden age.
: “If I define myself, what do I exclude to make a tidy boundary?"
: For a long time, I defined myself by my work That was fine when I was in my 20s, but it became less and less useful. I stayed with it anyway, …
: Today I learned about the three types of fun, as categorized by outdoorsy folks: Type 1 fun is just …
: Things I saw while walking the dog. We tried a new neighborhood today, Allied Gardens
: I’ve passed this roadside shrine dozens of times over the years. I don’t think I’ve read the plaque …
: I’ve started reading Doonesbury from the very beginning, and I plann to keep going until I …
: Ask a Manager: Should you list hobbies on your resume?
: A long thread of stories about people bombing job interviews, on Ask a Manager: When asked a …
: The myth of rural America: “ … the rural United States is, in fact, highly artificial. Its …
: While walking the dog this morning, I saw this house. These guys own Halloween
: Overheard: I don’t want to brag but I walked into a room and remembered why I walked in.
: Can I list “speed grocery shopping” as a skill on my LinkedIn profile? Because I slay at …
: Last night we watched the first episode of “Lessons in Chemistry,” about Elizabeth Zott, a chemist …
: Today I learned Alison Brie and Brie Larson are two separate people.
: Ezra Klein: Israel is giving Hamas what it wants Klein: Israel’s 9/11 — that’s been the refrain. And I fear that analogy carries more truth than the …
: The youth are not slow-dancing anymore. Decoder Ring: The Fast Decline of the Slow Dance. Rise and fall of an awkward rite of passage. …
: Jacob Mikanowski, author of the book “Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided …
: Discuss: Identity politics is a game Jews can’t win.
: U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force Struggle for Recruits. The Marines Have Plenty. When asked earlier …
: Elizabeth Spiers: I Don’t Have to Post About My Outrage. Neither Do You. I agree. Nobody’s …
: Robin Sipes was feeling sad. Her doctor prescribed her a cat. Her doctor said he wrote it down …
: These five toys are regular finalists for Hall of Fame honors. Now fans can vote one in. The pogo …
: Just a couple of things I saw while I was walking the dog this morning.
: I was having fun with a telemarking scammer and they hung up on me and I’m disappointed. CALLER: …
: “I had to quit a job because of aggressive nesting geese.” I have rediscovered “Ask a Manager.”
: I was having system problems several months ago, the solution for which was to reinstall the …
: Where does the coyote get money to buy all that stuff from Acme? I don’t know how much a 25 foot …
: RIP Mark Goddard, who played Major Don West on the 1960s “Lost in Space.” Lovely statement from Goddard’s co-star Bill Mumy, who played Will Robinson. Variety: R.I.P. to …
: That was a bad idea. I’ve done it several times previously and it was a bad idea those times. I …
: The word ‘But’ asks to not appear in these sentences. Alexandra Petri: “The word ‘But’ has been …
: The Most Iconic Vintage Dessert from Every Decade 1940s: Bread pudding. I love bread pudding. I eat …
: A 21-year-old computer science student from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln won a global contest …
: Praying that Israel exercises compassion, clemency, pity, forbearance and love.
: Mary Lou Retton Crowdfunded Her Medical Debt, Like Many Thousands of Others But unlike the Olympic …
: The Progressives Who Flunked the Hamas Test. Helen Lewis at The Atlantic: Fitting Israel into the …
: I donated to the United Jewish Appeal Israel Emergency Fund to support the people of Israel. The …
: Tyler Cowen interviews the fascinating Ada Palmer, Hugo Award winning author of the “Terra Ignota” …
: “I came to realize that my Woody was my impression of Tom yelling at his kids.” On the Twenty …
: Go online to make a payment. Apple Pay needs me to reenter my credit card Go into the house to get …
: Sometimes I want a nice turkey sandwich but I do not want the side order of doggy drama so I eat …
: “Whatever calculation you make must begin with the premise that the deaths of innocent people are …
: I was already losing interest in Twitter when Musk took over. The constant arguing and anger were …
: Hard-Core Sleepers Obsess Over Their Snoozing Stats … for millions, chasing winks with the latest …
: For more than 70 years, filmmakers have been reusing the sound of a particular scream. Many people …
: The One Year podcast looks back at the 1955 Davy Crockett craze and how it saved the then-struggling …
: A reporter made sure a retired police chief’s death didn’t go uncovered. Then social media attacked …
: smh when I think I used to feel obliged to have opinions about global crises based on a few hours of …
: Digital Equipment Corp. (1957-98) was a titan of the computing industry for decades, aid its …
: For the lonely, a blurred line between real and fictional people In lonely people, the boundary …
: I Was a Pop-Tarts Taste Tester. Writer Laura Holson remembers her family regularly received mystery …
: Long gone, DEC is still powering the world of computing. Digital Equipment Corp. was a computing …
: How magical combat can win the next election For the last half-century or so, the main US political …
: Stormtrooper Syndrome has seduced the West. The West has a bad case of “Stormtrooper Syndrome”—utter …
: Irish people not being superstitious. I am not posting this to ridicule Irish people. I feel the …
: Congressional Term Limits Might Break Congress. Jamelle Bouie makes a case against legislative term …
: Fervently hoping friends and business associates in Israel remain safe.
: The Long History of Jewface A wonderful, playful look at more than a century of Jewish ethnic humor …
: People are saying “whom of which” now. Alrighty then.
: A California entrepreneur’s $60 million battle to stop Apple from steamrolling startups
: Rand = Buffy. Moiraine = Giles. Lanfear = Cordelia. Mat = Xander. Egwene = Willow. Hopper = Oz. …
: New PEN America Report Documents Surge in ‘Educational Intimidation’ Bills a new report released …
: A California bakery sculpted a “Last of Us” “clicker” zombie from bread
: I saw this squirrel chilling on the fence in our backyard. If you gaze long enough at the squirrel, …
: Finished reading: Void Moon by Michael Connelly 📚Starts slow but but worth staying with. Builds to …
: Things that don’t get you kicked out of GOP leadership: Heavy petting in a crowded theater in …
: Because today has been weird, I am just now having my first coffee of the day, at nearly 1:30 pm. …
: I got the RSV vaccine, flu shot and Covid booster Saturday afternoon and it flattened me the rest of …
: I got the flu shot, Covid booster and RSV vaccine all at once yesterday, and that flattened me for …
: I usually work at a standing desk but today I did some work sitting on the couch and learned I can …
: Occasionally I get annoyed at Inoreader’s quirks and I try alternatives for reading feeds. But …
: News about retrieving samples from an asteroid have got me thinking about a Lovecraftian eldritch …
: I’m thinking about “Level 7,” an apocalyptic 1959 novel that had quite an effect on me when I read it as a boy 📚 ”Level 7,” by a Ukrainian-born Israeli writer named Mordecai Roshwald, is written in the first …
: Despite myriad potential distractions, it’s good to see Washington lawmakers focused on what …
: A friend’s post on social media was too funny for the simple thumbs-up or smiley emoji, but …
: Our new mortgage company wants to have a closer emotional relationship with us than we are …
: Quit: The Silo Series Collection by Hugh Howey 📚 Grinds to a halt 300-400 pages in with 1,200-1,300 …
: Finished reading: Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum 📚 …
: I’m finishing up writing a networking product factsheet now. Grammarly suggested I change …
: I observed with interest the recent meme by young women who were amazed to find the young men in …
: By me: Oracle & Microsoft’s big cloud partnership: It’s about AI: For the first time, Oracle is …
: I have discovered Excalidraw and achieved nerdvana. I, a complete design illiterate, was able to …
: Earlier I mentioned the movie “The Postman Always Rings Twice” but I brain-farted and called it “The …
: My latest article: Oracle boosts multi-cloud support for AWS and Red Hat OpenShift. It’s a big …
: A note to my fellow Jews, particularly Jewish-Americans Do you feel any connection to the place where your grandparents came from? My grandparents came from …
: We have seen “Double Indemnity” and I have thoughts I have avoided nearly all noir movies until now because I like stories to have good guys, and my …
: A dog is a wondrous machine masterfully designed by billions of years of evolution to produce guilt.
: The chest freezer in our kitchen is like the warehouse at the end of the first Indiana Jones movie.
: A literary history of fake texts in Apple’s marketing materials. Read Max: These eerily …
: Sandra Bullock and the Rise of Tech. Sandra Bullock movies reflect society’s changing attitude …
: A Rachel can be either a sandwich or a haircut. And yet I think this is rarely a source of …
: Walking the dog, I saw a house with a five-foot “Christmas Story” leg lamp in the front window.
: Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter are ‘coming to the end’ but together and ‘in …
: Google.com was registered as a domain name today in 1997. (via)
: “The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his …
: Enjoying a quiet evening at home shopping for nose hair trimmers.
: “For All Mankind” returns Nov. 10. Looks great! On the show, the year is 2003.
: I was thinking last night that my brain is still broken from the pandemic. It exaggerated my normal …
: This one time I narrowly escaped being a clown for a children's party Some years ago, a couple I was friends with pressured me to be a clown at the birthday party they …
: Historically, clowns go back thousands of years, and for that whole time, they were creepy, just as …
: The Half-Truth of America’s Past Greatness. Esau McCaulley at The New York Times: Where can African …
: USENET, the original social network, is under new management. rec.arts.sf.written and …
: I’m glad to see the release candidate iPhone and Watch OS betas are now available. Every year, …
: This year's iPhone announcement is the least consequential iPhone announcement ever (and that's OK) Pundits like to say that every Presidential election is the most consequential election in our …
: Is Biden Too Old to Run Again? We Asked People Born on His Exact Birthday. I’m 62 and I worry …
: While walking the dog this morning, I saw this car. Kermit looks like he is desperately trying to …
: I’m busy with work and other aspects of life and don’t have a lot of time for social media right …
: Uh oh. Is it safe to let my dog lick my face?
: Things I saw while walking the dog today
: When Moviegoers Started Watching Films From the Beginning. Throughout the classical Hollywood era, …
: How the Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive Writing
: Do you really need to walk 10,000 steps a day? And 17 other fitness ‘rules’, tackled by the experts. …
: People & Blogs: Manuel Moreale is doing a series of interviews with bloggers. Here are Rachel K. …
: Cory Doctorow: The proletarianization of tech workers. As employers turn the screws, tech workers …
: Things I saw walking the dog this morning. I wish I’d stood directly in front of that rattan couch …
: Currently reading: Track Changes by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum 📚
: Finished reading: Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World by Maryanne Wolf 📚
: I saw this car at the park today. It has been places.
: Overheard: My kid throws such a fit any time his bread gets a little burnt, I’m starting to …
: Overheard: Sometimes a joke is a great way to break tension during an unpleasant situation, and …
: Trash pick up is delayed by a day. Some of our neighbors will put the trash bins out tonight anyway, …
: Meanwhile, at a meeting of Elon Musk’s X Corp.
: America peaked more than 50 years ago. Since then, we have been a society in collapse. “Americans …
: Mike Masnick on Techdirt: Hey Elon: The ADL Convincing Advertisers To Run Away From Your Site Is …
: Yesterday I accidentally made myself super-strong coffee and liked it. This morning, I attempted to …
: Cory Doctorow reviews “Doppelganger,” Naomi Klein’s memoir about how she’s often confused with Naomi …
: Late lunch with Julie at Shakespeare’s Pub, San Diego. Good food and spirits, comfortable interior, …
: 10 fall TV standouts, including “Changeling” debut and “Frasier” reboot. I’ll give the “Frasier” …
: Currently reading: The Silo Series Collection by Hugh Howey 📚 1,663 pages. That’ll take a day or …
: Overheard: me at 13: wow i can’t wait til we have immersive computers everywhere like Star …
: NotebookLM, Google’s AI-powered note-taking app, is the messy beginning of something great. …
: Burning Man festival-goers told to conserve food and water
: Plan for 55,000-acre utopia dreamed by Silicon Valley elites unveiled
: The Story of Our Universe May Be Starting to Unravel. Recent astronomical observations are shedding …
: At Yale’s Long COVID Clinic, Lisa Sanders Is Trying It All Long-COVID patients, generally speaking, …
: In America, the Cheese Is Dead: … in France the cheese is alive, which means that you can buy it …
: 25 Perfect TV Episodes From the Last 25 Years
: I saw this sign while walking the dog. We did not see the bird. 😢🦜
: Vivvy would like me to put down the phone and pay attention to her.
: Caitlin Flanagan: In praise of heroic masculinity: Teach boys that strength can be a virtue.
: Kottke: The Infinite Hotel Paradox. A guest walks into a hotel with an infinite number of rooms….
: The director of the “John Wick” series is talking about rebooting “Highlander” starting Henry Cavill …
: No, Trader Joe’s employees are not trained to flirt. Or so they would like us to believe!
: I loved the final scenes of “Justified: City Primeval” and I hope they’re setting up for a second …
: The Best Cheap Place to Eat in Every State, According to Yelp
: Scientologists ask the federal government to restrict Right to Repair. The church says it wants to …
: 10 years ago this weekend we brought this little girl home. Poor kid had a rough couple of days adjusting to the new environment. It was a tough couple of …
: Modern physics can’t explain life, but a new theory of time might.
: Yes, Brussels Sprouts Taste Better Now—Here’s Why Brussels sprouts bitter flavor was bred out of …
: Horse- race journalism Journalists need to stop covering elections like horse races. Don’t obsess over who’s winning—help …
: The “Paperless Office” Is Finally Arriving
: Daily Tar Heel staffer Georgia Roda-Moorhead: “We are the Sandy Hook generation. We grew up …
: Burger King is being sued for making its Whoppers appear bigger than they are.
: What time do Americans have dinner? Which state eats dinner earliest? Latest? Using data from the …
: “The Corduroy Appreciation Society was a club where people gathered secretly to celebrate …
: It's Time to Talk About 'Pandemic Revisionism' Epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina discusses school closures, mask mandates and the pandemic response, …
: My 20-year-old self-inking return-address stamp still works. That is some seriously well-made …
: Continuing with decluttering my home office. Can all the drawers in all the furniture be junk …
: Hi, @mtt! Thank you for the nice work on the Tiny theme and plugins. Regarding the Summary Posts …
: How can we learn to speak alien? On Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman. If we meet extraterrestrials …
: How To Practice “Productive Procrastination”. By Clive Thompson.
: My latest article: Is cloud networking convergence just around the corner? Dell’Oro says yes.. …
: Clive Thompson: How I Use RSS To “Rewild” My Attention I use RSS for an hour or so every day to …
: As TikTok Ban Looms, ByteDance Battles Oracle For Control Of Its Algorithm Emily Baker-White at Forbes: The relationship between ByteDance and Oracle has become deeply …
: A look at Smallville, a virtual village populated by AI chatbots, built by Stanford and Google …
: When was the first time a waiter asked someone whether they saved room for dessert? Is that guy …
: Want to read—nonfiction: Empires of the Steppes by Kenneth W. Harl 📚
: From landlines to Zoom, a brief 30+ year history of business phone technology and etiquette. By …
: Wanted: A combined RSS/Mastodon client. Yes, Masto generates RSS feeds but that doesn’t give you …
: Cory Doctorow: How the kleptocrats and oligarchs hunt civil society groups to the ends of the Earth: …
: One Weird Trick for Writing a First Draft. By Clive Thompson
: Clive Thompson: How I Take Notes When I’m Doing Research
: Clive Thompson: Writing Tools I Use All The Time. My go-tos for reporting, research, and writing
: Excellent discussion of “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” On the You Are Good podcast with hosts Sarah Marshall and Alex Steed and guest Rain DeGrey. The only …
: WSJ: Tech Leaders Emerge Behind Plan to Build New City Near California Air Base Venture capitalists …
: An ode to “Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast. I loved this podcast. “… one of the great …
: From Brooklyn to Astoria (Oregon): Journalist Clive Thompson cycled 4,150 miles coast-to-coast …
: What’s the biology behind why we find some people attractive?. On Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman
: Last night before bedtime, I stepped into the backyard and found myself standing with a big red spider a couple of inches in front of my nose. The spider was about an inch wide, and furiously busy tending its web, scurrying back and forth and …
: Casey Newton at Platformer: Why note-taking apps don’t make us smarter. I’m surprised to …
: Decluttering continues. Two observations: • A surprisingly significant amount of the clutter in my …
: What Happened to Wirecutter?. By Charlie Warzel at The Atlantic. I rely on Wirecutter for any …
: The police came by to do a wellness check. They said Amazon had requested it because I hadn’t …
: Things that are annoying me today: Password management The acronym PTO. I don’t care whether you’re …
: Currently reading: Somebody’s Fool by Richard Russo 📚 A pleasant surprise—I did not know Russo …
: Finished reading: This Bird Has Flown by Susanna Hoffs 📚Excellent!
: I uncovered this book while decluttering my home office. I loved it when I was a kid, and bought a …
: In the course of major decluttering, I just found a ring of keys. It doesn’t fit any of our …
: While walking the dog, I saw this SUV 📷
: My latest article: Ancient programming language gets new life in the cloud thanks to IBM, watsonx …
: Why Calvin and Hobbes author Bill Watterson vanished from the public eye.
: My friend Marc Gorelick shares lessons from more than 40 years playing the tuba. Can confirm that …
: Watching a security awareness training video as required by a client. Holy mackerel, Doug, stop …
: I saw this sign. Poor Sadie. 😭😢😭📷
: TidBITS is doing a poll on whether Apple users use Apple Weather or some other app for weather …
: All is well here following the storm. Reviewing the news today I see a dozen people had to be …
: Meanwhile, here in San Diego and nearby Southern California
: Unimpressed by Hurricane Hilary. Demoted to a tropical storm. So far, we’ve gotten some heavy rain, …
: Tracy Durnell: My Reading Philosophy in 17 Guidelines I love all 17 guidelines in Tracy Durnell’s reading philosophy. Two highlights jump out at me. …
: Small changes in daily activity levels, like doing a little more walking, stair-climbing, chores …
: Getting ready for the (actual)(non-metaphorical) storm I was kicking myself because I only thought to stock up on water this afternoon, and was sure the …
: Finished reading: The Gutenberg Parenthesis by Jeff Jarvis 📚A thoughtful history of five centuries …
: Preparing for the hurricane We got the front and back of the house as clear as we could of items that might blow around. Julie …
: The pizza delivery guy says the weather outlook is changing rapidly and he is optimistic that when …
: Want to read—nonfiction: Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World by Maryanne Wolf 📚
: Want to read—nonfiction: Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf 📚
: This weekend we’re supposed to get a hurricane and an invading army of lustful tarantulas. How does …
: Finder stealing focus on the Mac: Fixing the problem with help from ChatGPT Yesterday morning, I was typing happily on my Mac when I noticed the cursor disappeared. I was …
: PB&J: An American Love Story A brief history of an American gift to world cuisine: the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. This …
: How "Animal House" changed the world and invented today's Republican Party “Animal House” is where the 1960s finally and decisively turned into the 1980s — the 1970s being …
: “The Warriors” keeps popping up in my Internet wandering. Time to watch it again?
: What does the British Home Secretary do? We’re watching “Hijack,” a miniseries about an airline hijacking, focusing on …
: Jews don't count We Jews are left out of progressive discussion of diversity. Jews don’t count. A significant part of …
: Bradley Cooper is getting criticized by Jewish activists who are accusing him of “Jewface” for …
: Want to read: Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient World by Mary Beard 📚A new book of Roman history …
: The same lawmakers who want to rob their constituents of the right to bodily autonomy have also …
: Me, watching @manton ’s video demo of the Epilogue app for micro.blog: “Hey, I just …
: Are kids ever unsupervised anymore? When I was a kid, we rode bicycles for miles every day, unsupervised. Also unsupervised: We played …
: I saw this while walking with the dog this morning. I was disappointed that I did not see the pig, …
: I never see pre-teens outdoors unsupervised by adults. Not playing in their front yard, not walking, …
: The Case of the Internet Archive vs. Book Publishers David Streitfeld at the NY Times: In the …
: “Sweet sesame chicken!” sounds like something a person would say instead of swearing.
: Lunch yesterday with friends at Shakespeare’s, a British pub here in San Diego. One of the …
: A quick look back at the first IBM PC that launched 42 years (and two days) ago My Dad had one of …
: Three things Elon Musk and I have in common. I’ve been listening to the Age of Napoleon podcast for months now, which covers Napoleon’s life, …
: Trump tells Georgia witness not to testify
: The Marion County Record was investigating sexual misconduct charges against police chief Gideon …
: Police in the small town of Marion, Kansas, raided the local newspaper office, leading to worldwide …
: What if generative AI turns out to be a dud? Gary Marcus: … we are building our entire global and national policy on the premise that generative …
: Want to read: Sh*tshow by Richard Russo 📚
: Want to read: Chances Are . . . by Richard Russo 📚
: Want to read: Triage by Richard Russo 📚
: Want to read: Elsewhere by Richard Russo 📚
: Want to read: Somebody’s Fool by Richard Russo 📚
: Want to read: My Life as a White Trash Zombie by Diana Rowland 📚
: Currently reading: This Bird Has Flown by Susanna Hoffs 📚
: San Diego attorneys fought to prosecute an unhoused woman for blocking a sidewalk. Now they’re …
: The History of Command Palettes: How Typing Commands Became The Norm Again
: Cory Doctorow: Paying consumer debts is basically optional in the United States. The Fair Debt …
: A short collection of delightful and/or appalling confessions, rendered in an excruciatingly painful …
: Jamelle Bouie: Why an Unremarkable Racist Enjoyed the Backing of Billionaires Silicon Valley billionaires and millionaires support racist Richard Hanania, who advocated eugenics, …
: I could watch a 2-1/2 hour movie of Peter Quill and his grandpa eating breakfast and gossiping about …
: We just watched Guardians of the Galaxy 3. I hope they make about ten more of those movies. So good.
: Kottke: Glamor photos of vintage calculators, 1968-83. In the 1970s, calculators weren’t just for …
: Kottke: The accidental secret ingredient that made Chicago Vienna Sausages delicious.
: Reddit seems to have successfully put down its moderator revolt, but is destroying the site in the process Occasionally I like to not dress like a person who works from home and dribbles food down the front …
: I saw this leaflet on a utility pole when walking with Minnie.
: Currently reading: The Gutenberg Parenthesis by Jeff Jarvis 📚
: Cory Doctorow: Verizon’s “repeated incompetence and waste on an unimaginable scale.” “The long bezzle: Verizon can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” Verizon …
: How Will Artificial Intelligence Change Journalism?
: EFF: Congress Amended KOSA, But It’s Still A Censorship Bill. Despite small changes, the Kids …
: To demonstrate representational bias, the London Interdiscipinary School asked the AI tool …
: My latest: Snowflake wants to help telcos ditch silos with a blizzard of data. With its telco …
: “This question has two parts, neither of which have anything to do with the other or the subject at …
: Daring Fireball: “Colonel Harland Sanders, who founded Kentucky Fried Chicken, sold the company to a …
: Jason Kottke writes about the joys of being a regular at your neighborhood restaurant.
: Despite’s Zoom’s attempts to walk back its changed terms, the service is still a privacy …
: Oracle expands its hybrid cloud footprint to the enterprise. My latest: Big Red introduces Compute …
: Investigating the provenance of archive.today, useful for circumventing paywalls to read articles on …
: The dirty little secret that could bring down Big Tech. New research reveals that Silicon Valley …
: Cory Doctorow: “Private equity plunderers want to buy Simon & Schuster: From the same …
: Caleb Sasser writes about “Turn-On,” a legendary hyperactive sketch comedy show from …
: Life before cellphones: The barely believable after-work activities of young people in 2002. “I …
: What it was like to travel before smartphones and the internet.
: SJVN: The best Twitter alternatives of 2023: Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, and more.
: Don’t give your heart to Bluesky or Threads Cory Doctorow hasn’t joined Bluesky or Threads, and is sticking with Mastodon, because Bluesky and …
: Douglas Rushkoff: Embracing the Impossible. What if magic is our most probable path to a sustainable …
: Paul Reubens Never Got the Critical Reappraisal He Deserved. Reubens brought joy to millions. Many …
: The American Dream has lost its hustle: Young workers just aren’t buying it Felix Salmon at Axios: Even before the pandemic, young people mistrusted capitalism. “Now, with a …
: Jo Walton at Tor.com: The Dystopic Earths of Heinlein’s Juveniles. Thanks, Cory!
: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” musical episode trivia Actor Bruce Horak, who played Hemmer, returns as the Klingon general. In real life, the actor …
: Lin-Manuel Miranda is reportedly turning The Warriors into a stage musical. I’ll watch whatever …
: I saw this while walking with the dog today. 📷
: “Fighting junk fees is ‘woke’: Visa and Mastercard want you to pay credit card swipe fees to own the …
: Tired of Dating Apps, Some Turn to ‘Date-Me Docs’ The youngs today are burned out on dating apps so they’re posting long personal profiles to the …
: Cooking With Gas: The decades-long marketing campaign by big business to get us to love our gas …
: Casey Newton at Platformer: How the Kids Online Safety Act puts us all at risk. KOSA gives the …
: Hard Fork: “Researchers in Korea claim they’ve identified a material that could unlock a …
: On the Search Engine podcast with PJ Vogt: Why can’t we turn all the empty offices into …
: Things I saw while walking with the dog this morning. 📷
: I’m happy to support the Kickstarter for the audiobook for Cory Doctorow’s next book, “The Internet …
: Maybe you’re saying I should watch where I’m walking more carefully. And maybe you’re right. But …
: In recent weeks I have cleaned my shoe soles of great masses of dog poop twice and an extraordinary …
: This is what it’s like to spend your life in prison. Listening to the men in the short Opinion …
: My essential and useful Obsidian plugins A friend is getting started with Obsidian, making the switch from Evernote, and he asked me for …
: I’m working on an article about Snowflake Inc. and trying to get in just the right amount of …
: Yesterday afternoon, I went into the sunroom to lie down for a few minutes, and found that Minnie …
: I started reading “Pursuit of the Pankera,” which is I think the only book by Robert A. …
: The Life I Never Intended to Love: Dog Owner. Katherine Bindley: “During the pandemic I chose a …
: The Criminal podcast: A Glamour and a Mystery. In the summer of 1917, 16-year-old Elsie Wright took …
: When posting memes, is it a good idea to put the text of the meme in the alt-text of the image? Can …
: Things I saw walking the dog this morning. I like the lines of that building, and the stone facade. …
: The Eagles are the ultimate 70s band, and “Take it Easy” is their ultimate song.
: Ringo looking groovy and other oddly satisfying and mildly interesting things I saw on the internet
: https://www.tumblr.com/allhailthe70shousewife/724246770029314048/some-lovely-anonymous-person-sent-m …
: A surprising number of you seemed to enjoy the video of Minnie walking down stairs. Here is another.
: On my walk with the dog this morning, I saw this gentleman living his best life.
: You are Atlas. You hold up the sky. If no one is on this page, the sky will fall. youareatlas.com …
: Larry’s red space suit and other oddly satisfying and mildly interesting things I saw on the Internet
: The San Diego Human Relations Commission is a safe space for anti-semitism and transphobia. Or it …
: Things I saw walking this morning: That lawn has a lot going on. And Purple Snoopy does not live up …
: Sci-fi writer Ted Chiang: 'The machines we have now are not conscious' Chiang is the author of brilliant stories which explore themes of consciousness and free will, …
: In the 1970s, a Soviet journalist named Valentin Zorin made a series of documentary films about the …
: “Over my many years in politics and business, I have found one thing to be universally true: …
: A Dad shows off for his delighted toddler daughter and other oddly satisfying and mildly interesting things I found on the internet Dad shows off his skills for his delighted daughter in Melbourne, Australia, around 1940. via via …
: Buck Martinez needs a spinoff series because that name is awesome.
: Thunderation! The Speaker Demands Bean Soup (1904) On July 27, 1904, Speaker of the House Joseph …
: You’ll never guess what Twitter did with the guy who had the @X handle (spoiler: you will …
: The FBI is once again violating legal restrictions on spying on American citizens, querying …
: Red Hat’s recent decision to restrict the source code for its enterprise Linux build has led …
: It’s uncomfortable when you’re at the supermarket and you hear a song that you once thought …
: A brief history of making out. Turns out “romantic, sexual, steamy” kissing isn’t instinctual …
: Ghost Church: The delightful Jamie Loftus looks at the American spiritualism movement, including its …
: “Majorly” seems to me like it’s just plain wrong. Bad English. Not a real word. …
: I am in awe of the mental gymnastics required to conclude that there's any solution to homelessness other than finding housing for people. It's like telling a drowning person that their real problem is they eat fatty foods. “Housing First” policy does what it says—it attempts to address homelessness by finding …
: Sunday morning comics, Ohio, 1950s. And other things I found on the Internet Sunday morning comics, Ohio, 1950s. Via www.reddit.com/r/TheWayW… On Reddit: “My …
: Republicans want to pass the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) to suppress LGBTQ+ voices. “Pass it, pass …
: “Lies I’ve told my 3 year old recently.” Extremely short. Just read it. …
: The San Diego Police Department is being scrutinized for reliance on CalGang, a California database …
: ICYMI: Microsoft and Google reported strong cloud and AI growth in their quarterly financial …
: Today’s ephemera: An “ANIMALS TALKING IN ALL CAPS” throwback “San Francisco or vicinity circa 1921. ‘Studebaker “Big Six” touring car.’ Cigar-chomping …
: Our Long, National Taco Tuesday Nightmare Is Finally Over. Taco John’s was happy to bully …
: Influencers are starting to realize that the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is dangerous. It …
: Republican Counties Had Higher COVID Death Rates After Vaccines Became Available …
: Decoder Ring: What’s really going on inside a mosh pit? The mosh pit is “a violent place where …
: Virginia Postrel: Gadgets and Gizmos that inspired Adam Smith Pocket gadgets were all the rage in Adam Smith’s day…. The best known are watches. A …
: David Eagleman: Could you upload your brain to live forever? eagleman.com/podcast/c…
: “Wilder” is a limited-series podcast about Laura Ingalls Wilder, the author of the “Little House” …
: Today’s ephemera: Marty Feldman and Ann-Margret, 1977 New York subway, 1980 Marty Feldman and Ann-Margret, 1977. Via www.reddit.com/r/OldScho… …
: Every time I bring in the car to be washed, I end up choosing add-ons at random. I finally decided …
: Five years ago: At last night’s press reception I mistook another editor for a waiter and tried to …
: New Project Uses AI To Turn Project Gutenberg Texts Into Free Audiobooks With Lifelike Voices — In …
: Red Hat saved IBM’s bacon this quarter techcrunch.com/2023/07/2…
: Surgeon warns against the most dangerous sex position, which causes 50% of penile fractures …
: How did we fill our in-between time before smartphones? I’m constitutionally incapable of ignoring …
: My career goal is to become a cowboy at a “wild west” roadside attraction. I want to be the guy who …
: When the Town Square Shatters. Cory Doctorow remembers GEnie, where I made a lot of friends …
: Today’s ephemera: Looking in the bathroom mirror first thing in the morning 1960 The voices of the Flintstones Via www.tumblr.com/lew-basni… Video. Watch here: …
: Minnie goes down 13 steps. It’s a lot for her to process. We do this a couple of times a week.
: Today’s ephemera: Wasabi Bobby's coping mechanism A hotel in Germany uses 3D carpets to prevent guests from running. Via …
: Today’s ephemera: And how do we cope with stress? In 1909, Alice Ramsey became the first woman to drive an automobile across the United States …
: Google shows off AI “news article” writer to newspapers, leaving newspapers to wonder …
: Florida is requiring schools to teach how slavery benefitted the slaves, and require teaching “acts …
: Donald Trump warns that “it would be very dangerous” for Jack Smith to jail him. …
: I bet a lot of people are found dead in the act of Googling whatever killed them. “Is this spider …
: Today’s ephemera: moonshine, guns and a Chevrolet coupe H.S. “Dick” Hickman, Chief of Police in Colorado City, Texas, poses at City Hall with moonshine, …
: Jason Snell: Why everyone should be running the latest betas on their Apple devices …
: Google Tests A.I. Tool That Is Able to Write News Articles www.nytimes.com/2023/07/1…
: That moment when you drink thirstily from a big glass of water that had been sitting on the counter …
: Cosmic Crisp apples are 50% less expensive than Honeycrisp apples, and Cosmic Crisps are better. I …
: I made several comments to Julie as I was making coffee. The last one seemed to require a response, …
: Comic Sans has been reinvented as a monospace font for programmers, according to this article which …
: Marjorie Taylor Greene is a Biden supporter now? Wait, what? boingboing.net/2023/07/1…
: Dictator-wannabe Donald Trump praises Xi Jinping as a “perfect” leader who rules …
: Today’s ephemera: This beagle would like you to know he is helping Via www.tumblr.com/wilwheato…
: We’ve been watching “Yellowstone,” “1883,” and “Justified: City Primeval.” I’m trying to talk myself …
: Famed Hacker Kevin Mitnick Dead at 59 www.securityweek.com/famed-hac…
: Five years later, I do that with the Apple Watch when my hands are busy.
: On this day in 2018: My Apple Watch alarm went off while I was watching the dishes, and without …
: On this day in 2018: Today at the park we saw a black lab with its hind quarters resting in one of …
: Vivek Ramaswamy repeats threat, telling two MAGA hosts that Jan. 6 was a “friendly preview of …
: Universal Studios trimmed a row of trees so they no longer provided shade for WGA strikers in …
: Cory Doctorow: Denazification, truth and reconciliation, and the story of Germany’s story Germany’s denazification was compromised and accommodated powerful, wealthy former Nazis, leading to …
: Today’s ephemera: Festive chicken salad log Harrison Ford on “Love, American Style,” 1969. Sally Field in “The Flying Nun.” “Room 222.” ngl I …
: ME: “Get out of the way so I can get an artsy photo of those rocks.” DOG: (gets out of …
: While walking the dog this morning, we saw this excruciatingly artistically arranged bicycle and …
: Mandela Goes From Hero to Scapegoat as South Africa Struggles. “Nelson Mandela is revered …
: Rands in Repose reviews Bear 2.0. Don’t tempt me! randsinrepose.com/archives/…
: On covid, California’s supreme court just said the quiet part out loud …
: ChatGPT makes bad writers good and good writers better, according to a study. …
: There Will Never Be Another Second Life. (Wagner James Au / The Atlantic) The OG metaverse found a …
: Texas ranks dead last in livability, and Florida is in the bottom 10 of the 50 states, due to poor …
: RFK Jr bares his inner Nazi boingboing.net/2023/07/1…
: Chick Tracts (99% Invisible). Jack Chick was the Leni Riefenstahl of comics. Chick devoted his life …
: Today’s ephemera: Alright everybody ... let’s find that grape Pink 1967 Mustang Tussy Hardtop Advertisement. 31 Photos Of New York City In The Summer Of …
: Study: Cities with Expensive Housing Have Highest Rates of Homelessness …
: Do kids in New York still play stickball, skelly, and hopscotch? Or has that gone the way of rolling …
: Plausible Sentence Generators. Cory Doctorow finds an AI chatbot is an excellent tool for helping to …
: Louis Vuitton is fighting a trademark application by a maker of garden tools because the fashion …
: No Relief: Temps Reach 122 Degrees as Heat Bakes Mexicali, Border Communities (Reuters / Times of …
: Tiny Awards, a celebration of the small, playful, and heartfelt web (waxy.org)
: Elon is paying far-right influencers, including Andrew Tate, to post on Twitter (Taylor Lorenz / The …
: More than 100 people were stuck at Agatha Christie’s house for seven hours _(Devon Live) And …
: Riley Moore, a US House candidate backed by Kevin McCarthy, made six appearances on virulent …
: I’m looking into joining the Freemasons.
: Today’s ephemera: Welcome to this absolutely massive and surprisingly clean sewer! via “BEER IS BEST” via
: Vulcans really are jerks. The shuttle was huge. It was big enough to serve as a Starfleet Academy …
: Is distributed computing dying, or just fading into the background? (Ars Technica/Andy Patrizio) …
: Superman: Legacy and What It Takes To Be a Great Onscreen Man of Steel (Den of Geek / Joe George)
: I saw these steps while walking Minnie a few days ago. They’re beautiful and my knees hurt just …
: Even the old guys at the park were wearing ankle socks with their shorts, rather than full-length …
: Walking the dog this morning, I wore baggy checked cargo shorts, black calf-length socks, white New …
: Today’s ephemera: Wholesome yet dystopian
: Steven Vaughan-Nichols: I’ve used social networks since the 80s. Threads is the most annoying …
: It was at this moment that I decided to switch off Apple News notifications on my phone.
: Jews, Christians and Satanists are taking legal action to protect reproductive freedom, …
: Everyone Has ‘Car Brain’. “Online communities dedicated to criticizing cars and the people who love …
: Twitter is burning, Bluesky is smug. Where is the best place to do your pathetic doomscrolling? (The …
: What Makes Putin and the World’s Autocrats So Resilient? (WSJ / David Luhnow and Juan Forero)
: New York State Built Elon Musk a $1 Billion Factory. ‘It Was a Bad Deal.’ “In terms of sheer direct …
: What 120 Degrees Looks Like in One of Mexico’s Hottest Cities. Residents of the northern city …
: Los Angeles’s Bradbury Building is a gorgeous edifice built in 1893. You’ve seen the Bradbury if …
: Today’s ephemera: Atomic nemesis via via Card-punch machine 1960
: A bad day for local journalism. LA’s Richest Man Sells Union-Tribune to Feared ‘Chop …
: Update: I emailed Slate to cancel my sub, and they replied promptly and said they had done so. So, …
: At the park this weekend I saw a bulldog wearing a pearl necklace. Big chunky pearls, like Barbara …
: Slate Plus is raising its subscription rate from $59 to $119 annually. That’s a nope. I …
: Parakeet Panic. “When invasive parakeets began to spread in New York City in the 1970s, the …
: An odd ChatGPT conversation I was trying to remember a quote about writing, but I couldn’t remember the exact words. Something …
: Wait, should I not be drinking airline coffee?. On the new Search Engine podcast, PJ Vogt …
: “Harry Milas' sleight of hand skills are so good that he now helps to expose gambling rings. He …
: In her new book “Nuts and Bolts Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big …
: Born into extreme poverty, [Cary] Grant was told as a child his mother had died. She had actually …
: Today’s ephemera: A few funny toots
: Want to read: This Bird Has Flown by Susanna Hoffs 📚Good interview with Hoffs, formerly of The …
: Finished reading: Persian Fire by Tom Holland 📚 Fascinating story, a non-fiction history of the …
: Yesterday at the supermarket, I saw a man with a dog. The dog wasn’t wearing a service dog vest. It …
: Today’s ephemera: Wow! See the unbelievable mystery hole Google Image Search for “dogs wearing shoes” does not disappoint. 🤔
: Today's memes, tweets, vintage photos etc. 1961 - Shakespearean Tootsie Roll ad Superboy #8 May 1950
: I deleted Meta Threads from my phone. I may come back to the service, but I’m not feeling …
: Has anybody found a news alerts service for the phone that only alerts you for world-changing news? …
: Dolly Parton does not want to be an AI hologram, thank you very much: ‘I don’t want to …
: Jo Walton writes about Heinlein’s Worst Novel. I 98% agree. My favorite Heinleins are his early …
: How actors are losing their voices to AI.. Actors who signed away their voice rights many years ago …
: In a sign of what’s to come for many white-collar workers, artificial intelligence is eating …
: I asked ChatGPT to write an episode of “Gilligan’s Island” in the style of Ayn Rand.
: How Tom Brady’s Crypto Ambitions Collided With Reality. “The superstar quarterback is among the …
: Here are some funny tweets and a classic Norman Rockwell illustration Saturday Evening Post, July 26, 1941 cover by Norman Rockwell
: I remember when I did not have to spend quite so much of my life charging things and making sure …
: Josh Withers shares frustration with stagnation in the ebook market. I agree, and blame the Amazon …
: Threads: A mall inside the store inside the mall I signed up for Threads. Unenthusiastically. I want to use fewer social media platforms, and …
: Every so often I am tempted by an Ember coffee mug and then I look at the price and I fall over …
: Historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook “delve into the mysteries surrounding the Ark of …
: “Why do we have so little access to what’s happening under the hood?" …
: I made heavy use of Google Reader, checking it several times daily every day. But I never used the …
: Raymond Scott was one of the most famous musical composers of the 20th Century, though his name is …
: The Last Archive: The Word for Man is Ishi: The amazing story of Ishi, only member of his Native …
: Marc Maron interviews Hugh Grant on the WTF podcast. Grant is self-deprecating and surprisingly …
: Google bungled by killing Google Reader to build Google+, and then bungled again killing Google+ The …
: Doctors are starting to use generative AI to help with paperwork, which takes them literally hours …
: Today’s funny found photos, a meme, skeet and tweet and a vintage photo of Harrison Ford Harrison Ford takes a leap of faith in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) OceanGate is …
: Question for my vegetarian/vegan friends: Would you eat lab-grown meat? I’m seeing in the news that lab-grown meat is coming to the market. This is not fake meat like …
: I also talked with ChatGPT. I asked it whether AI is a threat to people’s jobs, and how people …
: My latest: Surviving the AI job apocalypse. AI won’t kill the human race or take everybody’s job. …
: I recently came across the IndieWeb concept of POSSE. Not the first time I’ve seen it, but this time …
: Suddenly, It Looks Like We’re in a Golden Age for Medicine. David Wallace-Wells / NYTimes. Hard to …
: I’m fiddling with my RSS/read-it-later setup—again! This is an area I’m never satisfied with, and I seem to fiddle with it every few months. I find …
: There will never be another Harrison Ford The guy’s 80, and instead of sliding into the traditional …
: As AI becomes more prevalent, a vast underclass of people training the machines is emerging …
: Ephemera XCII: Star-Spangled Ding-Dongs Down the rabbit hole Spiegel, 1972
: Not to brag but I just selected the perfect size container for Julie’s leftover chili.
: I saw this sign 10 years ago today in a barbershop window in Coronado.
: Casey Newton at Platformer: How the Kids Online Safety Act puts us all at risk
: Happy Independence Day to all of my American friends, and may you finish the day with the same …
: RIP Frank Field, a local New York TV weatherman who was a fixture of the television landscape when I …
: President Eisenhower signed the National Highway Act, “the largest infrastructure project in …
: I had thought the end of “Endeavour” might take place immediately prior to the first season of …
: Lovely, sad ending to “Endeavour.”
: We have watched four episodes of “Silo,” and so far, I would absolutely live there. Friendly people, …
: Currently reading: Angels Flight by Michael Connelly 📚
: Finished reading: Blood Work by Michael Connelly. Not his best, but very good nonetheless. This is …
: Supermarket speedrun: 40m22s.
: That moment when you're finishing up a big project that's the last thing you need to do before a …
: Amazon Basics dog-poop bags come with documentation. Do people really need documentation to figure …
: I enjoy Star Trek more when I’m able to not try to make it make sense.
: I just completed a major project that I’ve been working on for weeks, and now I have to do it …
: The dog and I saw this in front of a neighbor’s house this morning. You can tell they mean it.
: Are you making changes to stay successful in your career as AI transforms workplaces? Getting new …
: Existential threats from AI aren’t on my list of things to worry about. That the super-rich and …
: That’s not what happened with Twitter. The Twitter acquisition was unique. I’ve never seen or heard …
: As a business/technology journalist, I’ve covered many M&A deals. Often, they start hostile, …
: Ian Welsh predicts that the US will be a big loser of the Ukraine war, ending the US global …
: “It is a truth universally acknowledged that an American billionaire, in possession of sufficient …
: Lemmy and Kbin potentially change the face of at least part of the Fediverse, making it more …
: “Stunning”—Midjourney update wows AI artists with camera-like feature (Ars Technica / Benj Edwards) …
: Logseq vs Obsidian: find the best note app for productivity needs. I am occasionally tempted by …
: A viral search helped a radio host track down a man she spontaneously kissed at a music festival. …
: Why Some Americans Buy Guns (NY Times / Roni Caryn Rabin) Confirming yet again that if you own a …
: A Titanic Disparity in How the World Responds to Maritime Disasters “All travelers, whether migrants …
: Still thinking about last night’s episode of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.” It …
: "…. Reddit is blindly following Digg’s failed path." (Steven Vaughan-Nichols …
: Gearlinx taps the cloud for ‘Network Resilience as a Service’. Gearlinx provides network resilience …
: That was one of the best Star Trek episodes I’ve ever seen. Moving and inspirational. We often get …
: I was just reminded that we moved to San Francisco on Halloween and moved away on Halloween. This …
: Oracle says ‘oui’ to European cloud sovereignty. Big Red launches EU Sovereign Cloud to help …
: Whenever I hear an anti-woke clown going on about soyboys, alpha males, beta males, and the …
: Seven Rules For Internet CEOs To Avoid Enshittification (Mike Masnick / Techdirt) These are good …
: When the press talks about the layoffs and chaos generated by a series of completely pointless …
: “Cellphones were for emergencies, or for calling people when you were drunk.” Dan Kois at Slate asks …
: VMware’s plan for cross-cloud conquest. I talked 1:1 with Vittorio Viarengo, VMware VP of …
: On Today in Tabs, Rusty Foster has a good backgrounder on the Titanic submersible: Ok look, in my …
: Meanwhile, on Twitter, free speech absolutist Elon Musk has declared “cis” and …
: Businesses have been laying people off and breaking promises to workers for 40+ years, and now these …
: When Minnie and I walk in the park, we like the opportunity to say hello to other dogs. This was a …
: I’m surprised the Republicans don’t like Hunter Biden. Guns and tax dodging are essentially the …
: The Onion: One Of Saturn’s Moons Discovered To Have All The Ingredients For Mouthwatering Enchiladas
: The US has an internal refugee crisis, as 130,000-260,000 trans people have fled persecution in …
: Samuel L. Jackson Is Confused Why He’s Not in ‘Black Panther’ Movies (Samantha Bergeson / IndieWire) …
: Can IBM bring Watson back to life?. Watson never fulfilled the promise it showed during its …
: Every self-help book ever, boiled down to 11 simple rules. Outstanding life advice. I plan to write …
: We get a lot of ravens and/or crows around here. Julie found this article about how to tell them …
: A toymaker and doctor partnered to create Resusci Anne, a doll to teach people how to perform CPR. …
: Marc Maron interviews Quinn Cummings, writer and former child star who won the Best Supporting …
: “We are living through the end of the useful internet.” The Last Page of the Internet, by Alex Pareene: The internet’s best resources are almost …
: Reddit is speedrunning enshittification. Hypothesis: The owners of the company are no longer interested in keeping the business going, and …
: I’m going to move linkblogging to other platforms, primarily Facebook, …
: An Anti-Porn App Put Him in Jail and His Family Under Surveillance. After an Indiana man pleaded not …
: Julie found this in her papers. I was the one with the PalmPilot; she never had one.
: Do you believe in life after death? Are you sure you know? Really sure?
: We’ll watch any TV show with a main character whose first name is DCI.
: The Binge Purge. TV’s streaming business model is broken. A good long read by Josef Adalian at …
: This is a working weekend for me. I had trouble writing, but I think I have it under control now.
: I usually listen to podcasts on my walk but today I listened to this.
: For $20, Dumb Cuneiform will turn your tweet (or tweet-length text of any kind) into a real …
: You don’t need 10,000 steps a day. Recent research shows 8,000-10,000 per day is good for people …
: Well, I’d like to see ol Donny Trump wriggle his way out of THIS jam! Trump wriggles his way …
: Gavin Newsom wants 28th Amendment for guns in U.S. Constitution. The amendment doesn’t go far …
: Elon Musk is America’s most dangerous antisemite
: OpenAI Hit With First Defamation Suit Over ChatGPT Hallucination. A Georgia radio host is suing …
: The Apollo story is even uglier. Apparently, Reddit CEO Huffman is telling people that Apollo …
: Enshittifying the Internet seems to be a theme this week. In addition to Reddit knifing third-party …
: Today is a day of petty disappointments. I’ve had a couple of business developments that are …
: I’m disappointed that Reddit is jacking up its API pricing and forcing developer Christian Selig to …
: To me the Macintosh has always felt more like a place than a thing. Not a place I go physically, but …
: No, a rogue AI drone simulation did not kill its operator, despite recent news reports. Why make up …
: Ted Cruz is citing the Bible and preaching on Twitter in defense of gay people, and it’s quite …
: Why Is Everyone Watching TV With the Subtitles On?. By Devin Gordon at The Atlantic. Good article, …
: I have a pet theory that a four- or even three-star review would be fine in a rational universe. …
: I, for one, appreciate Roman numerals.
: AI chatbots lose money every time you use them. That’s a problem.. By Will Oremus at The Washington …
: On this day of the big annual Apple product launch, I’m remembering that day many years ago when …
: Writing a corporate blog this morning, I was able to dodge using the word “paradigm,” …
: Coming back from the grocery store, I dropped six bottles of iced tea in the driveway and gave the …
: When reading genre novels, often my favorite parts are the parts before the bad things start …
: Idea for the beginning of a horror story: A friend mentioned recently that he works in a six-story …
: Kitty confidential: 13 secret signals all cat owners need to know – from a quivering tail to …
: Ashton Applewhite: We talk too much about generations. People who happen to have been born at around …
: The Passover origin story of matzoh. It’s not supposed to taste good.
: 📺 We watched the final two episodes of "Succession." I have thoughts. SPOILERS I’m seeing some talk that Tom isn’t the winner because he’s just Matsson’s puppet. But Tom is …
: ChatGPT and other LLM tools have already replaced some marketing and social media writers as many …
: The empty cult of The Big Lebowski
: It’s 1178 BCE and the Bronze Age Has Never Looked Stronger. No, I Won’t Lift My Eyes to …
: ‘They’re afraid their AIs will come for them’: Doug Rushkoff on why tech billionaires are in escape …
: Cory Doctorow: The long lineage of private equity’s looting Fans of the Sopranos will …
: When you think you have a full cup of coffee left in the carafe, but it’s only this much.
: Idea for a Star Trek spinoff series: “These are the voyages of the starship …
: Governor Newsom Desperately Begs NetChoice To Drop Its Lawsuit Over Unconstitutional AADC Bill. Mike …
: For my LGBTQ+ and/or accordion-playing friends: June is both Pride Month AND National Accordion …
: For social media and other Internet companies, the IPO announcement is when the enshittification …
: Today I learned that it is perfectly fine to say to someone, “I’m sorry, could you speak a little …
: Meanwhile, on the Bluesky social network
: Reddit’s new API charges would cost the developer of Apollo $20 million per year. Apollo is one of …
: Furries Now Have Serious Beef With Ron DeSantis: A furry fandom con in Florida just announced it …
: I wrote this: Today’s data centers require extreme makeovers to meet AI requirements, says Marvell
: The threat of human extinction by AI is only scary for billionaires and centimillionaires I see now that tech executives are once again warning about risk of human extinction caused by AI. I …
: Today I learned: A canary trap is a technique to identify an information leak by giving different …
: Researchers are using Shoggoth, a monster out of HP Lovecraft, as a mascot for AI. Kevin Roose at …
: Adam Engst at TidBITS writes an in-depth review of the new, experimental Arc browser for Mac. Lately …
: Cory Doctorow: The FDA literally granted pharma company Ferring a monopoly on shit. More precisely, …
: We recently learned about “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets,” a 2017 movie directed and …
: Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design: The term brutalism is derived from the French béton brut, …
: Panpsychism is the view that the mind “or a mindlike aspect is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature …
: Possibilianism is a religious philosophy that’s open to exploring possibilities. Neuroscientist …
: The iPhone will auto-reply to text messages—but only when you’re in Driving Focus. I want …
: What novel should I read next? 📚 I woke up this morning and decided to break up with the novel I’m currently reading. This is a new …
: Mr. Davies Giddy rose and said, that while he was willing to allow the hon. gent. who brought …
: Last night I got up for the reason one usually gets up in the middle of the night and walked into a …
: A national eating disorder hotline fired its staff and replaced them with a chatbot, four days after …
: A Day in the Life of a Woke Third-Grade Teacher, as Imagined by a Far-Right Politician I pull into …
: ‘Ace of Cakes’ Creates “Star Trek: The Cake”
: Vacant Arizona big-box store will become nation’s first “Picklemall”
: We are five episodes behind on Succession, and I am wondering if I have the willpower to avoid news …
: My latest: Broadcom-VMware merger will hatch a new ‘supercloud’.
: “I tried the AI novel-writing tool everyone hates, and it's better than I expected” Adi Robertson at The Verge: Last week, generative fiction tool Sudowrite launched a system for …
: I wrote this: Red Hat brings AI to IT operations. Red Hat is putting artificial intelligence (AI) to …
: Jealous of other people's excellent videoconferencing backgrounds I have an expanse of blank white wall behind my desk, which always bugs me when I see myself on Zoom …
: I wrote: Red Hat secures the software supply chain. Red Hat unveils Trusted Software Supply Chain, …
: Oracle’s Larry Ellison gears up to spend millions to back Tim Scott’s 2024 run. Of interest to my …
: Ray Stevenson Dead: ‘Punisher: War Zone,’ ‘RRR’ Actor Was 58. I’m sad …
: I can proofread my article or generate a cool Midjourney image to accompany said article. Gee, tough …
: If the Apple VR/AR headset debuts, and it’s as described in leaks, it’s going to be the biggest flop …
: Ex-Apple marketing executive says the company’s upcoming ‘Reality’ headset risks …
: Mimestream is a Mac Gmail client that’s worth paying for Mimestream is a native Mac app for accessing Gmail. It gives you Gmail’s advanced capabilities, …
: Daring Fireball notes that the first version of many Apple products is historically overpriced and …
: Surprisingly insightful art observations from “The Simpsons."
: Kraft Heinz unveils Remix, a customizable Internet of Things sauce dispenser with more than 200 …
: I’m looking forward to listening to the State of Micro.blog presentation with @jean @manton …
: A man named Wilfred Pickles brought regional dialect to the BBC in 1941 as part of an …
: School librarians in seven states face possible jail times and hefty fines for giving kids books …
: A lawsuit in Florida illustrates how two racist LGTBQ-phobic fanatics can get books banned in an …
: Pizza Pizza is my favorite food. We have pizza once a week. There have been times in my life when I have …
: Walking with the dog the other day, I saw a big snake on the path. 5-7 feet long and fat. This was a …
: What if we had a political party that represented working people? All working people. Everybody. All …
: Am I too old to use the word “banger?”
: There’s been a lot of ink spilled on the Trump transformation of the GOP, but Dems’ transformation …
: Supreme Court Leaves 230 Alone For Now, But Justice Thomas Gives A Pretty Good Explanation For Why …
: “It makes you really appreciate how free we are as a country when you’re hiding under a desk with …
: Jamelle Bouie: There is a reason Ron DeSantis wants history told a certain way. DeSantis is …
: The Four Freedoms, According to Republicans Jamelle Bouie at the New York Times: There is the …
: It amazes me when I see someone has worked at the same company for 20+ years. I respect that …
: De-nerding on coffee A few years ago, I nerded out on coffee-making methods and eventually settled on using an Aeropress …
: Today I learned Alexander Skarsgård and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau are not the same person.
: On YouTube: Unboxing Shakespeare’s First Folio.. Amazing. The books look so new. I’ve …
: This is Catfishing on an Industrial Scale Laura Cole writes at Wired about fake dating sites that employ hundreds of freelancers around the …
: Quite a lot of nature this morning This morning, a little after 8, I was on my way home from walking the dog, one street over from the …
: Big Tech is parasitic on the news industry, but click taxing isn’t the answer, says Cory Doctorow, …
: jwz: “Today I learned that Church Molestation Liability Insurance is a thing that exists You know …
: Disney Pulls Plug on $1 Billion Development in Florida. Daring Fireball: “Vote for Republicans, …
: Kieran Culkin, who plays Roman on “Succession,” would be outstanding as Random in the miniseries of …
: ME: I can drink three strong cups of coffee every day without any negative effects! ALSO ME: I …
: Today I learned the phrase “Taco Tuesday” is a registered trademark of the fast food chain Taco …
: Cory Doctorow: The IRS will do your taxes for you (if that’s what you prefer) “After years of …
: Today I learned Jeff Bezos’s biological father was a unicycle hockey player and owned and operated a …
: Elon Musk: Work from home ‘morally wrong’ when some have to show up (CNBC). Wait til he …
: Cory Doctorow: Rent control works. It keeps housing costs down, doesn’t constrain supply, and …
: I Will Defend Free Speech to the Death. Or Until an Autocrat Asks Me to Stop. “Let every petty …
: Want to read: Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders by John Mortimer 📚
: The people who design public bathrooms like to change the faucet designs just to fuck with us. …
: The Ugly Truth Behind “We Buy Ugly Houses”. ProPublica’s Anjeanette Damon, Byard Duncan and Mollie …
: BlueSky supports Markdown links when cross-posting from micro.blog (which is how I post to BlueSky. …
: You’re not uncool. Making friends as an adult is just hard. One important suggestion: Assume …
: Bluesky should be pronounced “blooski.” Follow me for more branding tips.
: For years I’ve complained that there’s no online equivalent to being able to buy one issue of a …
: Things I am grateful for this morning: The dog does not smell as bad as she did this weekend. (She …
: Tens of millions Americans suffer from chronic, debilitating pain that often drives them to …
: I meant to write “QR Codes” but instead wrote “QR Cods.” Microsoft Word …
: I’m doing some work in my home office this afternoon and I was literally distracted by a …
: Today I learned there’s a “Babylon 5” animated movie coming. Casting details here. I’ll watch!
: America’s Caffeine Addiction: Why Some Experts Say It’s Time to Quit. Good article, clickbait …
: Inside the Last Old-School Seltzer Shop in New York. “Good seltzer should hurt — it should be …
: The Enduring Mystery of Barbara Lowe and the Lost ‘Jeopardy!’ Episodes. I had no idea “Jeopardy” …
: Please enjoy this 11-second video of geese and goslings, which I saw at Lake Murray this morning.
: Just as I got my mind un-blown about generative AI, I’m now learning about autonomous agents. …
: That time Heather Armstrong roasted me on her popular blog, dooce I mentioned yesterday that I interviewed Heather Armstrong, who wrote the blog dooce and that she …
: I’m sad to learn about the death of pioneering blogger Heather Armstrong, author of dooce. She …
: I found IBM’s AI announcement yesterday confusing; this write-up by Tobias Mann on The …
: Don’t replace your people with ChatGPT or other AI services (Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / …
: The dog caught all three of her nutritional supplement treats in the air this morning, so that means …
: Mrs. Maisel spoiler speculation In my head canon, the final episode is set today, in 2023. Midge and Susy are in their 90s and …
: I’m on the hot new social app. @mitchw.bsky.social. Instead of Bluesky, they should call it …
: If you're looking to procrastinate, Midjourney is great for that.
: It's hard to have a nap when there is a cat standing on your pillow demanding attention.
: I’ve got a 1,500-word article due Thursday but I’m going to try to get it done today. Am …
: Scientists have invented a technique for reading a person’s thoughts without the need for invasive …
: My latest: VMware customers should find ‘exit ramps’ ahead of Broadcom deal: Gartner. …
: Paramount Can’t Say No to the Man Behind ‘Yellowstone’: $50,000 a Week for His Ranch, $25 Per Cow. …
: ChatGPT is powered by these contractors making $15 per hour. Two OpenAI contractors spoke to NBC …
: Steven Spainhouer’s son was working at Allen Premium Outlets when he received the phone call no …
: Marissa Mayer says she wishes she’d bought Hulu or Netflix instead of Tumblr. She also talks about …
: AI text generators are writing more of the internet. More AI-generated books and personalized …
: TikTok tracked users who watched LGBTQ content. (WSJ) Imagine what a backward religious dictatorship …
: Elon Musk’s goal for Twitter is “unregretted user-minutes.” (WSJ) A good idea, but how do you …
: Republicans have the answer to food insecurity in America: More guns, ban abortion, and stamp out …
: Lines stretch down the block at food banks as costs go up and pandemic aid expires. The line …
: The oats only need to soak two hours and I have an excellent battery case for the phone. Me vs. …
: I’ve been awake less than a half hour and already found I forgot to make overnight oats last night …
: Corporate greed, not workers, is the cause of inflation. We know this because CEOs tell us: Call me …
: “Insufficiently Caffeinated” would be a good name for a band.
: “… when you refuse to learn why something weird is happening online and just stop and gawk at it, …
: Dave Winer: “I definitely want Bluesky to just go away. I don’t like it because if it …
: Dave Winer: “As a user, I no longer want to have to visit five sites to see what’s new. …
: Ostromizing democracy: Cory Doctorow discusses a proposed new subdiscipline of political science, …
: I used ChatGPT to do background research for an article I’ve got an interview with a VP at a major vendor that I followed closely while at Light Reading but …
: A new study by researchers at Duke University looks at the bumpy rollout of AI in healthcare …
: Nature red of tooth and claw came to the backyard: I was hanging here at my desk doing my thing and …
: Things I post that people seem to enjoy: Original stuff I write or photograph Memes, vintage ads, …
: I have been using Grammarly for a few weeks, and I am extremely impressed. Today’s insight: I …
: Self-appointed virtue police at the National Center for Sexual Exploitation (NCSE) are putting the …
: I saw these baby geese and momma goose at the park this morning. Gosling photos will continue until …
: Using the word “risible” makes you a pompous weenie.
: Optimism Optimized & Pessimism Prodded “An interview about THE FUTURE with Hugo Winning author …
: Mastodon needs to be more user-friendly, or people will just continue going to the platforms …
: jwz: Blue skies over Mastodon
: Donald G. McNeil Jr. cites many reasons why US pandemic response was disgracefully incompetent, and …
: Michael J. Fox says life with Parkinson’s is ‘getting harder’: “I’m …
: Boost Your ChatGPT Skills: 7 Gems Straight from OpenAI’s Dev Docs (TfTHacker)
: 5G Not Enough? Telecom Companies Look to 5.5G (WSJ) This time it’ll succeed, because it goes to 11.
: What Is Pleroma?. Like Mastodon, but different.
: Sexism Toward Secretaries: How Women Were Treated on the Job in the US (Teen Vogue)
: Gadgets I am tempted by: This Ultimate Hacking Keyboard. I like the way it separates in two parts, …
: Interesting: “Work is starting on a protocol bridge between ActivityPub and the AT protocol (the …
: Private equity finally delivered Sarah Palin’s death panels: Hospices are unregulated, heavily …
: This immature osprey was standing on the footpath at Lake Murray for a long time this morning; …
: I’ve been putting energy into Mastodon, but Bluesky looks interesting and may just lap Masto. I’ve …
: Techdirt’s Mike Masnick looks at options post-twitter. Six Months In: Thoughts On The Current …
: 35 Ways Real People Are Using A.I. Right Now (The New York Times)
: Why Your Family Name Was Not Changed at Ellis Island (and One That Was). (The New York Public …
: Tech journalist and online safety expert Larry Magid describes a terrifying exchange with scammers …
: Dropbox is laying off 500 people and pivoting to AI (The Verge). Dropbox is done. Steve Jobs was …
: Today I learned that Oxiclean does an amazing job cleaning years of coffee crust from the inside of …
: Ron DeSantis’s Disney Miscalculation: ‘Disney Is Playing the Long Game’. Even Florida Republicans …
: Today I am just saying nope to empty news calories. Two articles about Tucker Carlson’s last …
: This blog is a LGBTQ- and trans-friendly place. I’m posting less about politics nowadays, and …
: Anti-trans bigotry taps into the darkest impulses in human societies. It’s a step on a dark road …
: Timothy Lee: “Why I’m not worried about AI causing mass unemployment. Software didn’t eat the …
: You should always start the day with gratitude. This morning I’m grateful that the cat vomit on my …
: Somebody swiped samples of the “world’s most expensive chocolate” from the newsroom refrigerator of …
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Cory Doctorow’s “Red Team Blues” is the most exciting technothriller about a 67-year-old accountant you’ll read this year 📚
“Red Team Blues,” the latest novel by the prolific Cory Doctorow, is a gripping technothriller …
: Cats are always disappointed in you, whereas dogs always think you’re amazing and you’re …
: Just a reminder that ALL the sticks in the forest are free. Go out and get yourself a cool stick. …
: I’ll just switch notetaking apps and/or task managers and then my life will be perfect, right?
: The 65 newest series and movies to stream right now - The Washington Post. Some of these are already …
: Tonight I wiki’d and googled about the Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon stories 📚and their author, Spider …
: Noncompete clauses and related employment agreements are indentured servitude. Noncompetes …
: 18 Years Ago, an 18-Second Video Recorded at the San Diego Zoo Launched YouTube
: 📷 Julie and I walked around Hillcrest today.
: 📚I reread “Snow Crash, recently and recommend it. It gets better with age. When people talk about …
: 📷 Minnie and I hiked the Father Junipero Serra trail yesterday.
: ChatGPT Is Already Changing How I Do My Job. By Farhad Manjoo at The New York Times.
: Guillotinable. The bit about the dog isn’t even the worst thing this narcissistic dipshit said. Not …
: In his memo announcing the cuts Peretti took full responsibility, writing “I also want to be clear: …
: This speech was better in the original German. Trump touts authoritarian vision for second term: ‘I …
: I’ve been using Day One for journaling since 2011. It will be interesting to see where Apple goes …
: California Isn’t Special: California’s housing problem isn’t what you think it is Jerusalem Demsas at The Atlantic: California’s housing policies are the same as everywhere in the …
: Thanks for being obsessed with us, America. Red State conservatives don’t hate California for …
: I’d love to see a Star Trek miniseries focused on young James Kirk, in his first posting to a bridge crew. I always preferred the TV series Kirk to the movie Kirk. In the series Kirk, follows the chain of …
: "Picard" seemed to be setting up a spinoff focused on Seven of Nine, and I'm there for that. I love Jeri Ryan. And not just for the usual reasons men love her; she’s also an excellent …
: Cox shut down Internet service for scheduled maintenance this morning, because apparently it’s …
: I had no blue checkmark before having no blue checkmark was cool.
: My latest: Cisco tames cloud application security chaos with OpenClarity. Cisco enhanced its …
: Boggle, created in the 1970s, quietly changed its design in 1987 to put all the Fs and Ks on the …
: Instagram is letting users put up to five links in their profile and I guess that’s what …
: Ever since the dog snatched half of Julie’s Reuben sandwich from the kitchen counter on Sunday, I …
: “Headless Body in Topless Bar” turns 40 (Daring Fireball)
: I wonder whether the 12.9” iPad has a future. Seems like almost anybody thinking about buying one of the big iPads would be better off with a …
: Cory Doctorow has got me thinking about doing a better job structuring threads on Mastodon and …
: Ever since I was a little kid, I have thought men’s suits from the 1930s-50s looked great. When I was a little kid, I watched old black-and-white reruns of Superman, Abbott & Costello, …
: The dog would like me to go to the deli again today and pick up another sandwich. Less lean this …
: Julie put a lean corned beef Reuben sandwich on the kitchen counter and left the room for a minute. …
: I did 14,000 steps yesterday, about 4,000 more than usual. Climbed Cowles Mountain, about 3.4 miles …
: Amazon Web Services sales and support teams are currently “spending much of their time helping …
: Cats have no idea how arms work. They’ll park behind you or six feet away, and demand scritches. …
: Anxious about the coming week? Cowles Mountain has a message for you. I saw this sign while hiking …
: In defense of Mastodon threads (and Twitter threads too): Threading an essay requires the author to …
: It’s been years since I hiked Cowles Mountain and I think it’s gotten taller. Oh my knees. Good hike …
: Elon Musk’s Free-Speech Charade Is Over Musk’s “‘free-speech absolutism’ was mostly code for a high …
: … “traditional fact-checking and counterarguments are the least effective means of combating …
: The Lisa Personal Computer: Apple’s Influential Flop (Kottke)
: “What’s the Healthiest Way to Handle a Creeping Feeling That the World Is Ending?" …
: Customize Your AirPods Pro for Even Better Sound (Kottke)
: I shot this photo at Lake Murray using the pano setting on the iPhone. It came out a little wobbly.
: We watched “Executive Suite” (1954). The powerful head of a nationwide furniture company drops dead …
: Slouching is bad for your back, unless you’re in bed with a cat in your lap.
: When Picard and his posse took their stations on the bridge, I expected them to land in their seats …
: When Picard and his posse took their stations on the bridge, I expected them to land in their seats …
: 📷 Happy Friday and here are the ducks you asked for. I saw them at Lake Murray, and photographed …
: I have done laundry without first running out of clean socks and underwear. I am going to put this …
: Gentleman develops DIY 3D printed typeballs for vintage IBM Selectric typewriters. (Ars Technica) I …
: Pearl the chihuahua is the world’s shortest dog. I would die for Pearl.
: Why am I still watching the Mandalorian? I am tired of Star Wars. I fall asleep watching every …
: “‘Hunger Games’ meets ‘Lord of the Flies’” among employees at Facebook’s parent company, Meta, as …
: News Is Not a Normal Mac App (Michael Tsai). I like Apple News as a service, but I dislike the app …
: Surprising things happen when you put 25 AI agents together in an RPG town. Surprising? More like …
: I saw this car. I believe the owner may be an anime fan.
: DIY 3-D printed typeballs for vintage IBM Selectric typewriters
: Is 4th mover advantage a thing? I wrote: Oracle benefits from a ‘4th mover’ cloud advantage. …
: I worked at Google for -10 days A Russian was hired at Google after a lengthy and onerous interview …
: Cory Doctorow reviews “Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream,” a book by Alissa …
: Two men hospitalized after game of Monopoly ends in sword fight
: I very much like command palettes as an alternative to buttons, icons, menus, and other ways to …
: Hannah Arendt on “Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship:” Better to Suffer Than Collaborate …
: The American religion is “workism,” the belief that employment can provide everything we have …
: A marketing professor gave his students a challenge: If they made a video that got a million views, …
: By me: Tech layoffs surge—again—but mainstream businesses are hiring techies.. Tech layoffs this …
: Whoever said there’s more than one way to skin a cat is not someone I would want as a pet sitter.
: Easter Sunday. Lake Murray was packed with picnickers. It doesn’t look packed in this photo, but …
: Is there any way I can subscribe to a Mastodon user’s RSS or Atom feed that includes boosts and …
: Texas governor Greg Abbott says he will pardon Daniel Perry, who was convicted of killing a …
: Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars (Reuters)
: ChatGPT invented a sexual harassment scandal and named a real law professor as the accused. What …
: ‘Bees are sentient’: inside the stunning brains of nature’s hardest workers. Research suggests bees …
: Gruesome cache of severed hands is evidence of trophy-taking in ancient Egypt. Ancient Egyptian …
: Was this week’s “Picard” the first time “Star Trek” dropped an F-bomb? Did they boldly go where …
: The gambler who beat roulette. For decades, casinos scoffed as mathematicians and physicists devised …
: Smart glasses developed by Cornell researchers can read silent speech, tracking lip and mouth …
: Cardboard drones running open source software take flight
: Here’s What Retirement With Less Than $1 Million Looks Like in America (WSJ / Veronica Dagher and …
: The poop emoji: a legal history (The Verge / Sara Jeong). Amusing story about a serious problem: …
: … the only rational explanation for why he bought Twitter in the first place — aside from possible …
: New trailer for “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny." Holy cow, this looks fantastic.
: ‘Farce of Democracy’: Tennessee Republicans Just Expelled 2 Black Democrats for a Peaceful Protest. …
: The Republican-dominated North Dakota state senate voted to increase their own meal reimbursement …
: A Washington State Apple Store was robbed of $500K in iPhones by thieves who tunneled in through the …
: If It’s Advertised to You Online, You Probably Shouldn’t Buy It. Here’s Why.. Ads are serving us …
: A copy of the original Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS shipped since 2018. (Andy …
: Clarence Thomas has secretly accepted millions of dollars in luxury trips from a conservative …
: Today I learned “Fiddler on the Roof” is a smash hit in Japan. Since 1967, the musical’s seen …
: We watched “Murder Mystery,” a 2019 comedy-mystery starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston as …
: 📷 My Bar Mitzvah photo. That jacket was kickin in 1974.
: Well played, Switchzilla! Cisco trashed its offices and equipment as it rolled back operations in …
: We’ve been watching “Shadow and Bone.” I’m not into it but Julie is, so I guess I’ll give it another …
: I’ve been thinking lately that I read too much national political news and post too much about …
: New research shows even moderate drinkers have poorer health and live shorter lives than …
: A look at Bloomberg’s BloombergGPT, a domain-specific AI for business news trained on decades of …
: I’m supposed to go for a blood test tomorrow morning for life insurance, but the address they gave …
: A bit of family history, from my father’s service in Word War II My father received these humorous fake orders when he was discharged from the army in 1945, the end …
: I’m giving Readwise Reader another try as a read-it-later service after using Matter for …
: I have friends who used to go see movies at random. They caught movies the first days the movies …
: Today I learned that Fletcher Previn, CIO of $52 billion networking company Cisco Systems, is the …
: I can spell “sovereignty” as long as I don’t think about it.
: The Day Windows Died. By Thomas Bandt.
: Jackson Heights: The neighbourhood that epitomises New Yorkl. “Travellers may go to Central Park or …
: Why don’t we have Cher Horowitz’s automated closet from the 1995 movie “Clueless?”. On the Articles …
: I finally got a decent photo of this osprey at Lake Murray. I’ve seen it a few times a month for a …
: Cory Doctorow: Flickr takes action against Creative Commons/copyleft trolls; how Cory and his …
: Apple Photos has a feature where you can enter a word in a search box and images matching that word …
: We started watching a movie called John Wick tonight. We only had a chance to watch the first half …
: In March 2020, Emily Yang Liu spent hours each day in virtual meeting…. To keep herself engaged, she …
: “You can just eat ramen for breakfast, you don’t have to be a pervert about it.” Cup Noodles …
: “Paleontologists theorize the T-Rex had kissable lips and an ass that won’t quit”
: A second woman has come forward to charge San Diego County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher with sexual …
: People now living could break previous longevity records, and keep on going and going. But not in …
: Ian Welsh predicts dire outcomes for the US as a result of the Trump indictment. America and most …
: A Google VP says Microsoft is abusing its dominance in on-premises software and Office 365 to give …
: A Maryland court reinstated Adnan Syed’s conviction and ordered a new hearing. (NPR). This seems …
: I had been thinking the Stormy Daniels case was bullshit, but Judd Legum makes the case why it …
: AI and the American Smile A writer signing their name as “Jenka” on Medium describes a Midjourney …
: This Disturbing Theory Explains Pixar’s Cars. By Jason Torchinsky at Jalopnik.
: Things I saw around the neighborhood
: I wonder whether the new Wordpress version handles untitled blog posts better than previous …
: My latest: $61B Broadcom-VMware merger is probably toast, says legal expert. The British Competition …
: Five years ago today: I got hungry for a sweet before bedtime so I ventured out of my hotel at about …
: Things I saw while walking the dog
: Minnie and I saw this display at a house we walked past yesterday.
: Police raided the home of rapper “Afroman,” found nothing illegal, and then sued him for using …
: CNN: An appointee to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' new oversight board in control of Disney’s …
: A gentleman wishes to know whether he is an asshole for sharing his father-in-law’s porn browser …
: I tried Grammarly yesterday and I like it a lot I published two posts here yesterday and noticed copyediting errors after publication. This troubled …
: Shower thought: What’s the deal with Velcro, anyway? How long has it been around? The hook-and-loop fastener Velcro was conceived in 1951 by Swiss engineer George de Mestral. Ten …
: It would be funny if this was a 3,400-year-old rickroll. Hear the Oldest Song in the World: A …
: Logseq vs. Obsidian: First impressions I played with Logseq a bit as an alternative to Obsidian, or complement for it. Logseq seems like a …
: I just pledged $53 to the Kickstarter for Cory Doctorow’s upcoming novel, “Red Team …
: What does a Mandalorian like to eat with curds? This is the whey. How do Jewish Mandalorians …
: Good negotiating advice from @lex Friedman: Negotiation is a conversation.
: A Journalist Believes He Was Banned From Midjourney After His AI Images Of Donald Trump Getting …
: Reading about logseq as a possible alternative to Obsidian. Or maybe complementary?
: Laid-off tech workers find homes in the real economy while tech investors continue to transfer …
: RIP Bobbi Ercoline, who was photographed wrapped in a blanket, in the arms of her boyfriend, on the …
: People trust celebrities, politicians, and social media personalities, and discount scientists as …
: Poop, whiskey, and trademark law. The Supreme Court hears a surprisingly difficult case about poop …
: Daniel Lavery has a third dog, named Mr. Wilson, “a brief loan from a friend on vacation, and not a …
: Antisemites have a long and paradoxical history of supporting Zionism. White Christian nationalists …
: “You do it once when you’re drunk, then it becomes part of your life." Meet the Secret Society …
: A message for folks who follow me from Mastodon Micro.blog, the outstanding service I use to post here, just implemented a feature that lets users …
: Minnie at bedtime. She wants details about our planetary defenses.
: I enjoyed the first episode of “Lucky Hank,” a dark comedy starring Bob Odenkirk as the chair of the …
: We saw a bobcat on the paved trail while I was out walking the dog at Lake Murray this afternoon. It …
: “Toilet meal” is the Japanese practice of eating meals in “toilet rooms”—public bathrooms—to get a …
: “The Mariko Aoki phenomenon (青木まりこ現象, Aoki Mariko genshō) is a Japanese expression referring to a …
: If I was a Mandalorian, I would wait until the other Mandalorians were eating, and then I would say …
: Now, guys with zero game can try their luck with CupidBots. For $15 a month, an AI algorithm will …
: Cal Newport: If You’re Busy, You’re Doing Something Wrong: The Surprisingly Relaxed …
: Margaret Atwood: What I Read I like to feel that I can tell an apple from a pear, and I don’t …
: How to help friends and employees living with long Covid cnn.com
: We had our bathrooms remodeled in 2017, and I have finally figured out how to work the light …
: Why Did Men Stop Wearing Hats? gentlemansgazette.com
: I saw these two tiny girls while walking Minnie yesterday. We literally died from the cute.
: The turmoil at Sarasota Memorial, one of Florida’s largest public hospitals, began last year after …
: Who Is Still Inside the Metaverse? Searching for friends in Mark Zuckerberg’s deserted fantasyland. …
: Margaret Atwood: “The bathroom is a place where you can go in and pretend to be doing one thing …
: “Horny bro conservatism:” Republicans are trying to win over a new generation of sexually libertine …
: Jamelle Bouie: “The people who blame wokeness for the collapse of a bank do not want you to …
: “The only safe AI is open source. Closed AIs are dangerous.” johnrobb.substack.com
: A court will decide whether antifa is a political movement or criminal conspiracy. usatoday.com I’m …
: MSNBC viewers seem mostly interested in which books his supporters want removed from elementary …
: Trump Expects to Be Arrested Next Week. He’s calling on his supporters to protest. Because that …
: Amusing myself with a phone fraudster earlier today.
: Every time I play with FeedLand I come away thinking it’s a basic web-based RSS reader, of …
: 45 minutes to try to create a COBRA account and it turned out the problem was my password needed a …
: Title for a proposed spinoff series starring Captain Shaw and the Titan: “Star Trek: Just a …
: What is “wuthering”? As in, “Wuthering Heights”? What are the heights doing?
: This season of Picard is some of the most enjoyable Star Trek ever. We need a spinoff series …
: This morning I learned what the name is for the genre of music that the cantina band plays in …
: My process for getting ready to walk in the rain, and getting myself and the dog dry when we get …
: I saw a big fat squirrel sitting on the steel fence just outside my office window, licking rainwater …
: I’ve heard great things about “Children of Time,” by Adrian Tchaikovsky, and I’ve started reading …
: The Silicon Valley Bank bailout is yet another example of the old adage, attributed to Martin Luther …
: Staunchly anti-LGBTQ+ Tennessee Lt. Gov. Randy McNally is pausing his social media use after he was …
: I’m trying Orion, a third-party web browser for Macs, iPhones, and iPads. It’s based on Safari, and …
: Minnie and I walk past this house often.
: It Took Me Nearly 40 Years To Stop Resenting Ke Huy Quan A terrific and thoughtful essay by Walter …
: “Here’s the Satirical Piece About [Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate] Jim Renacci His Team …
: I updated my Mastodon bio. It’s very professional now.
: How to Eat Dinner Even Though You Already Watched All Your Shows — I feel personally attacked by …
: kottke.org turns 25. Congratulations, Jason!
: Online privacy is important, and good for Reddit for defending that right against Marvel’s petty and …
: Another photo of Minnie because why not?
: Rotating sandwiches. That’s it.
: Don’t date a man with a podcast. I do not have a podcast. Currently.
: This is a great “about” page.. I thought I knew a lot about the early days of blogging, just from …
: Minnie spent Saturday morning to Sunday evening at Camp Bow Wow. She has a lot to process
: JOB INTERVIEWER: Where do you see yourself in five years? ME:
: My brilliant joke about dog Viagra this morning did not get the acclaim I anticipated. I’m …
: We went away Saturday night. Here’s a view from our hotel window. I question whether this pastrami …
: I went to a party and the host had an elderly dog with a heart condition, being treated with Viagra. …
: I was preoccupied while shaving this morning, and I realized when I was nearly done that I had …
: With Captain Shaw’s attitude, he’s definitely Generation X. Also, Vadic’s hair is awful She needs a …
: Shower thought: The 1968 episode of the original Star Trek that guest-starred Teri Garr is a Doctor …
: While the dog and I were walking at the park, a gentleman wearing a Batman helmet and cape sped by …
: I’m trying Microsoft Edge as my primary browser, after hearing Federico Viticci rave about it …
: I’m going to move linkblogging to <atomicrobotlive.tumblr.com>, for a while at least, …
: There’s a new version of the Castro podcast player, which is nice, but holy cow the version notes …
: New York Mayor Eric Adams said he was chosen by God, after denouncing the separation of church and …
: Janice Eberly, a “corporate ghoul who helped Obama Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner steal …
: CPAC is going Nazi. CPAC Speaker Michael Knowles Calls for Transgender People to Be ‘Eradicated From …
: I updated mitchwagner.com. It’s not a fancy website; it’s just a where-you-can-find-me …
: Science definitely hasn’t figured things out, and that’s what makes it exciting. There …
: Twitter is far too angry and I have to ration it. Same with Mastodon. People are outraged all the …
: I’m amused to see that New Balance sneakers are now the cutting edge of fashion. I’ve been …
: I’ve been played by imposter scams a few times. I was only duped for a few minutes—once for a half …
: Scammers are using AI to perpetrate “imposter scams.” The voice sounds like a family member or other …
: Fox News is a purported news organization that knowingly and repeatedly reports lies to its …
: The worst children’s cartoons ever. Includes Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids, Clue Club, Goober …
: Americans historically were not big wine drinkers, and restaurants have worked at changing that for …
: Florida’s politicians are making the state a “laboratory for fascism.” Indoctrination is nothing new …
: The Mandolorians are a race of people repeatedly almost decimated by genocide who now live scattered …
: Gentleman on Twitter posts his “sleep stack”—12 products and three practices he uses to sleep. Ryan …
: jwz: Welcome to year four of 14 days to flatten the curve.. The pandemic is still killing 11,000 …
: At last we have a definitive answer to the question of whether masks work. That answer is “maybe.” …
: Just now I was unsuccessful trying to eat lunch and I realized after multiple failed attempts that I …
: I saw these ducks in a puddle. Not to be confused with snakes in a plane. 📷
: Our story opens with a Mandalorian Bar Mitzvah.
: On our walk today, the dog and I got caught in a surprise and intense hailstorm We were at Lake Murray, about a mile from home. It came on in seconds, and hit hard, a barrage of …
: Father of cellphone sees dark side but also hope in new tech (AP / Kelvin Chan) 94-year-old Marty …
: Do you have a Zoom shirt? When was the last time you laundered it?
: Micro.blog does not show follower counts. It doesn’t tell you when somebody follows you. It …
: Soon you’ll be able to see a restoration of one of the most infamous movies ever made: Guccione’s …
: How donkeys changed the course of human history (BBC / Dhananjay Khadilkar) From bearing the …
: Today I learned Pedro Pascal did an episode of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”
: Two very stable geniuses say Thomas Jefferson enslaved people but didn’t support slavery …
: Nazis openly harass Jewish people in Desantis Land (Boing Boing)
: Gov. DeSantis won’t condemn Florida Nazis, so Volusia sheriff steps in with message: …
: Native advocacy group to retire ‘Crying Indian’ anti-pollution ad (AP) The Keep American Beautiful …
: MAGA cultists advocate for Marxism to stop communist agenda (Boing Boing) Prankster Walter Masterson …
: The Horror of Realizing Everyone Can See Your Work Calendar Entries Naptime. Call Mom. Some …
: Find out how third-place cloud platform Google is pursuing a multi-cloud strategy to grab market …
: How ‘The Last of Us’ Cherishes a Bygone World. (By Shirley Li at The Atlantic) The …
: The Case for a Primary Challenge to Joe Biden (By Mark Leibovich at The Atlantic) Yes. Biden has …
: How old are you in your head? According to research, most adults feel 20% younger than their actual age. This past Thanksgiving, …
: I’m trying to avoid having opinions about the Scott Adams news, or even thinking about it. …
: The metaverse hype bubble popped. What now? I wrote this: By now, we were all expecting to be …
: Whatever you’re working on right now, whatever it might be, I ask: try to leave a little space for a …
: Get Me Risa Heller! (NYmag.com) If you’re Jeff Zucker or Mario Batali or Jared Kushner and you’re …
: “Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine,” published in 1958, was one of my favorite books when I was a …
: Pink Floyd songwriter Roger Waters is a loud and proud anti-Semite, and Frankfurt canceled his …
: The latest historical American Girl doll is from the 90s and makes zines. It comes with a PC that …
: Every presidential administration wants to fix America’s ‘crumbling infrastructure’ until they …
: The South Has Got Something To Say (Dissent Magazine) New books by Adolph L. Reed Jr. and Imani …
: The thing I find most suspicious/fishy/smelly about the current hype surrounding Stable Diffusion, …
: Jamelle Bouie: The Founders Were More Creative Than You Think The Supreme Court’s originalism “rests …
: Putin and the Right’s Tough-Guy Problem. (Paul Krugman) The right has an unhealthy fixation on men …
: Belief that the Earth is flat, not round, is having a moment. The return of Flat Earth, the grandfather of conspiracy theories It’s the uber conspiracy theory, …
: Salary jobs with fake “manager” titles cost workers $4 billion in overtime. Companies …
: “Hi, we’re machine babysitters.”
: Showerthought: Why don't the supporting characters in “The Office” just find other jobs? Why don’t they just go work elsewhere, where they don’t have to put up Michael Scott? Most of …
: Fucking knock it off, people. Blogs exist for a reason. Stop being awful. — jwz: Stop Doing Threads
: Fighting the privacy wars, state by state: Treating Congress as damage and routing around it. An …
: Roald Dahl Can Never Be Made Nice (The Atlantic / Helen Lewis)
: In Order to Keep Our Editorial Page Completely Balanced, We Are Hiring More Dipshits (McSweeney’s / …
: AI-generated fiction submissions are inundating science fiction magazines. Some 35% of the stories …
: Don Lemon’s statement wasn’t just sexist–it was stupid. Why should Americans trust …
: I’m burned out on superheroes, but I could get enthusiastic about a Superman movie starring …
: Ben Stein is sad that there isn’t a “large African-American woman” on his syrup …
: Original iPhone from 2007 auctioned for $63,356, topping prior sales (Ars Technica / Scharon …
: Elsewhere on the Internet, a friend started a discussion of the Danny Dunn books, which I absolutely …
: Can we really be sure the new Microsoft Bing isn't conscious or intelligent? AI-based chatbots like the new Microsoft Bing aren’t really conscious or intelligent, right? They’re …
: Reading "The Poet," by Michael Connelly I am reading “The Poet,” a murder mystery by Michael Connelly, and I notice the author does a thing …
: Maybe Roald Dahl books just aren’t suitable for kids today. If we have to twist them all out …
: “Why do Americans have to pay Intuit to tell the IRS things it already knows?” — Cory Doctorow
: Everyone bopmuggered by vomitous gobblefunk in censored Roald Dahl books (Rob Beschizza / Boing …
: Election-denying demon hunter will chair Michigan GOP (Mark Frauenfelder / Boing Boing) Doubling …
: Marjorie Taylor Greene wants “national divorce,” but dummy doesn’t see who a …
: Florida woman who waved gun at McDonald’s was still angry after they gave her the free cookie …
: Marjorie Taylor Greene tells Black people to be “proud” of statues of their treasonous …
: Woman records her dinner date with a creepy “nice guy” (Mark Frauenfelder / Boing Boing) …
: Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”(Simon Willison) Bing gaslights a user, goes …
: Congressional Republican leader Marjorie Taylor Greene backs “national divorce.” (MSNBC / Steve …
: Cory Doctorow’s Pluralistic turns three. Congratulations, Cory! Interesting behind-the-scenes look …
: RIP Richard Belzer, 78. Very good overview of Belzer’s life and career, by Chris Koseluk at the …
: 1958: The San Diego Evening Tribune interviews 18-year-old local beauty pageant winner Raquel …
: My Favorite Times to Use Incognito Mode (The New Yorker / Jade Orlando) A fun one-minute read.
: Watching RoboCop on the Spanish language channel while getting a haircut. You really lose out on the …
: How to Win at Monopoly and Lose All Your Friends. Monopoly starts as a fun exciting romp, only to …
: The Onion: It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible …
: I asked ChatGPT for my bio. The result has a staggering number of errors packed into a small space. …
: TurboTax parent Intuit is stepping up lobbyist spending to stop Washington from simplifying taxes. …
: Picard rummages through a trunk, searching for the source of the sound of an Enterprise-D commbadge …
: On Lake Murray: This metal platform is usually attached to the concrete walkway, and people fish …
: Lake Murray from Baltimore Dr., first clear day after this week’s storms.
: Geese on Lake Murray. Watch with the sound on!
: A little while back I heard about a conspiracy theory claiming the Roman Empire didn’t …
: Bruce Willis has been diagnosed with dementia, his family announced. Last year, they announced …
: Stifling Free Speech Is Now A Core Plank Of The Republican Platform (Mike Masnick / Techdirt) …
: Google’s chatbot panic Cory Doctorow: The really remarkable thing isn’t just that …
: Honestly, I don't need reporting to the Social Media Mental Health Police I received this message when I logged in to Facebook just now, and I find it sweet (aww, somebody is …
: The FTC wants to ban non-compete contracts, which are exploitative and unfair to workers. (Steven J. …
: Workplace coffee gets weird and ugly. the $15,000 coffee fund, the cheapskate executives, and other …
: I went indy three weeks ago and since then I’ve had many discussions about about potential full-time …
: Teaching generative AI to give factual answers is going to prove as difficult as teaching it to …
: I’m continuing my project of relearning how to read books. Remembering that as a voracious teenage …
: In 30 years as a journalist, I’ve never been part of a crowd of reporters shouting questions while …
: Wyoming Republicans are fighting to keep child marriage legal. Wyoming Limiting Child Marriage …
: Mars Wrigley fined after workers fall into vat of chocolate (AP) Have we learned nothing from …
: Codebreakers have been able to read a cache of more than 50 encrypted letters written by Mary Queen …
: Bernie Sanders Has a New Role. It Could Be His Final Act in Washington. (Sheryl Gay Stolberg / The …
: A Yale Professor Suggested Mass Suicide for Old People in Japan. What Did He Mean? (Motoko Rich and …
: J.K. Rowling and “Separating the Art from the Artist." Charlie Jane Anders discusses how …
: Source code containing swearwords is better. (jwz)
: After the Ohio rail disaster, Buttigieg is silent on restoring the safety standards Trump repealed. …
: How Liberals — Yes, Liberals — Are Hobbling Government (Ezra Klein / NYTimes) The legal scholar …
: “The rich truly do get more hours in the day.” — Poor people pay higher time tax (Cory Doctorow / …
: The Last Man Without a Cell Phone Anne Kadet interviews New Yorkers without cell phones. 3% of …
: … iPhone users are extraverted, free-spending, narcissist party monsters. The Android users, …
: Small Government: The ref has to be more powerful than the players (Cory Doctorow) Companies should …
: Some archaeologists believe that when future civilizations sort through the debris of our modern …
: Kansas City residents react to seeing their city featured on “The Last of Us.” (Robert A. Cronkleton …
: Why did ‘The Last of Us’ Change Pittsburgh to Kansas City? An Investigation (Dais …
: I want to make this abundantly clear: If there’s one thing you must do flawlessly in your career, …
: Put plainly, the attack on the dignity of transgender Americans is an attack on the dignity of all …
: Julie replaced our toaster oven with a convection oven that also makes toast, with a fancy …
: Artificial intelligence is not a threat. The threat is that we live in a society that considers …
: If I ever think about adopting a puppy again, I’m going to first reread my journal entries from late …
: Ohio police put a TV journalist on the ground, arrested him, and put him in jail for talking while …
: Lazy Reporters Claiming Fediverse Is ‘Slumping,’ Despite Massive Increase In Usage (Mike Masnick / …
: Elon Musk asked Twitter engineers why views of his tweets are declining. One engineer suggested the …
: Microsoft unveiled its AI chatbot-driven Bing search this week, presenting possibly the first …
: Epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina and plant scientist Cassandra Quave watch “The Last of Us” and …
: I posted a photo here this evening that I took at the park this afternoon. It was a photo of a woman …
: James Cameron did an experiment to confirm the ending of Titanic. Conclusion: the door almost …
: jwz: ChatGPT is a dangerous “bullshit fountain.”
: RIP Harry Whittington, 95. He was shot in the face in a 2006 hunting accident by Dick Cheney, and …
: “Shift Happens” is a book about keyboards, “starting with typewriters and ending with modern …
: An animated sitcom based loosely on “Seinfeld,” powered entirely by AI, ran continuously for six …
: Joe Rogan, who gets paid $200 million to share whatever stupid thing comes into his head, shares the …
: Please, My Wife, She’s Very Online. Jia Tolentino does not like the word “wife.” …
: It’s way too early to start nailing the coffin shut on Mastodon The Mastodon Bump Is Now a Slump (Wired). “Active users have fallen by more than 1 million since the …
: AI is going to make it a lot harder for journalists, as CNET and other publishers turn to machines to generate copy. [Many publishers] no longer have audiences in real sense; what they have instead is traffic — a huge …
: I used to think I had become unplugged from pop culture. Now I think pop culture might not exist anymore. For an example of my ignorance today: I only have a vague idea who “Drake” is. I gather he’s a …
: “Procrastination is not a result of laziness or poor time management. Scientific studies suggest procrastination is due to poor mood management." This makes sense if we consider that people are more likely to put off starting or completing tasks …
: Obsidian is growing up: The company that makes the note-taking and document management app …
: Eleven years ago today I deposited $21.45 in cans to the recycle center. I drank a lot of club soda …
: I saw this in the sidewalk while walking the dog. Someone was trying to send a complex message to …
: Strangely, this is the second house I’ve seen with a dinosaur in front of it.
: We have monarch butterfly larvae in the garden
: We have now watched episode two of The Last of Us. The special effects just get more and more …
: We enjoyed the first episode of “Last of Us.” But I’m disappointed that’s apparently all the John …
: We watched the first episode of “The Last of Us.” Can I expect to unclench anytime soon?
: The grass at Lake Murray is tall after all the rain we’ve had, and yesterday I saw a golden …
: LinkedIn just showed me a suggestion that I should follow Dr. Bronner’s for …
: We took a break for a few months after watching the end of season one of “Succession,” because the …
: I’m going to say “don’t forget to like and subscribe!” instead of “good-bye.” When leaving social …
: Discord and I disagree about when it’s appropriate to send me notifications, and about how to …
: I’m learning to use Midjourney for a work assignment. This is my professional headshot, …
: That was fast. I started a new job in September and was let go about 10 days ago. You know the business cliches: “It was a bad fit” and “it was a mutual …
: I saw another classic car today.
: The best possible use for a mini-USB cable From my journal, this day in 2014: A group of teenagers rang the doorbell last night. I went down …
: I'm relearning how to read books I’m in the process of relearning how to read books, particularly novels. I’ve gotten so …
: Young woman at the supermarket checkout a packet of flowers, a bottle of wine, and nothing else. …
: Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward. …
: We watched the first episode of the new series “Poker Face.” Big “Columbo” vibe.
: My review of “Black Ice,” a Harry Bosch novel, by Michael Connelly I finished reading “Black Ice,” the second Harry Bosch novel, by Michael Connelly. Good at the …
: We only have 37 more episodes of Yellowstone to watch, plus eight episodes of 1923, plus ten …
: I’m not seeing much interest in my linkposts here, so I’m just going to post them on Tumblr …
: After watching the first season of “Yellowstone,” I have concluded we need a helicopter.
: Tiktok’s enshittification. How platforms—like Amazon, Google, Twitter, Facebook, and now Tiktok—turn …
: Will the sun ever set on the British empire?. This article by Randall Munro, author of the xkcd …
: Amid Rising Homelessness, City Council Declares Housing a ‘Fundamental Human Right’ …
: Opinion: Antitrust Suit Against Google Ad Business Undermines a Growing Free Press Online [Times of …
: Google’s most serious antitrust challenge to date [Casey Newton]
: Apple Has Begun Scanning Your Local Image Files Without Consent [jwz]
: Laid Off in Your Living Room: The Chaos of Remote Job Cuts. (NYTimes/Emma Goldberg). First time …
: A Happy Memory Can Help You Fall Asleep, if You Know How to Use It. “Lying in bed each night, …
: Fort Walgreens The recent spike in shoplifting is both overblown and real. And almost everyone is …
: “Mandy” was Barry Manilow’s first #1 pop hit this month in 1975. He scored 21 more top-40 hits …
: Seth Godin nerds out about typography for a bit. “Typography is a signal, not just a way to put …
: “When I tell people I earn my living as a copyeditor, I am typically met with one of two responses: …
: “… a close examination of the work produced by CNET’s AI makes it seem less like a …
: A brief history of the Apple Lisa computer, lavishly illustrated with historical images. Released in …
: Eggflation is just more price-gouging. Cory Doctorow: One company controls the US egg industry, …
: Dumb and shameful until it’s not Ryan Broderick at Garbage Day says Web 3.0 is here. …
: The Reality of Being a Parent With a Controversial Past Lily Burana wrote a bestselling memoir about …
: Prisoners use contraband cellphones to educate themselves, get healthcare, earn income in legitimate …
: Florida teachers face threatened felony prosecution for having unapproved books in classroom …
: The Last Days of Hollywood’s Most Reviled Reporter (NYTimes). A profile of the late Nikki Finke, the …
: Julie and I went for a walk and saw this house around the corner. It looks nice.
: This Guy Noticed Jigsaw Puzzle Companies Use The Same Patterns, So He Made Some Mashups. “Jigsaw …
: Seth Godin: Bitterness is “a wall you can lean against, whenever you choose.”
: Jacobin: A Marxist View of Tolkien’s Middle Earth J. R. R. Tolkien’s fantasy world is a medieval …
: Good morning. Here are your daily ducks. That strange quality of light you’re seeing in this photo …
: Everywhere on Earth, from Europe to China to Africa to Australia and the Americas, is dominated by …
: In Santee, which is a few miles from where we live, 17-year-old Rebecca Philips says she saw a naked …
: Instagram video: British comedian loves Fahrenheit. Fahrenheit is the best. Celsius is for losers.
: Is Micromanaging Your Life With an App Really a Good Idea?. I’ll add a reminder to myself to …
: Winners of the 2022 dog photography awards.
: Good morning. Here are your daily ducks.
: An unofficial list of the most influential science fiction works ever. The science fiction that …
: “I’m a man who appreciates it when food dares you to eat it.” I am quite enjoying the AwkwardSD …
: Ducks love the rain. They can keep it.
: These dogs ride a bus like humans ‘and now the internet is in love’. ‘The puppy bus just took off,’ …
: You Don’t Know How Bad the Pizza Box Is. The delivery icon hasn’t changed in 60 years, and it’s …
: This charming 1949 article from The Atlantic introduces pizza to middle America.
: It’s the Coolest Rock Show in Ann Arbor. And Almost Everyone There Is Over 65. At the “Geezer Happy …
: Minnie and I did a 4+ mile walk in heavy, chilly rain yesterday. She seems fully recovered.
: Ars Technica: I disconnected from the electric grid for 8 months—in Manhattan
: Day One at Rikers Island … the most horrible thing about being locked up is that you are being …
: If you ever connected to the Internet before the 2000s, you probably remember that it made a …
: Anti-Semitism is on the rise in the US
: 9 years ago today High temperature was 91 degrees. I was in talks for a job at Light Reading. I was in the midst of a …
: Political labeling considered harmful Journalist Mike Masnick at Techdirt avoids naming politicians' party affiliation unless it’s …
: A brief history of the phrase “leaving everything on the field.”
: Microsoft is offering unlimited time off for US staff. Not always a great deal for employees, who …
: An indigenous tech group asked the Apache Foundation to change its name. Brian Behlendorf, a …
: Gentleman logs every slice of New York pizza he’s eaten since 2014, including photos on an Instagram …
: We just started watching this show “Jellystone” with Kevin Costner and we’re still waiting for Yogi …
: A couple of weeks from now, I’m taking my first business trip since December, 2019. It’s more than …
: WINDOWS: Your fingerprint couldn’t be recognized. Try again with a different finger. ME: Yeah, sure, …
: 12,000 California seniors went to the emergency room in 2019, reporting cannabis-related problems. …
: Laid-Off Workers Are Flooded With Fake Job Offers. “Virtual hiring and remote work have made it …
: Did the Mother of Young Adult Literature Identify as a Man? “Little Women” author Louisa May Alcott …
: Exit. Libertarians such as Peter Thiel dream of escaping society, and they’re tearing society apart …
: A lot of rain today here in San Diego. Flooding hundreds of miles north of us in Santa Cruz and …
: Here in San Diego, it’s very wet.
: The learned helplessness of Pete Buttigieg [Cory Doctorow] Obama and Trump were patsies for the …
: Why The American Radical Right Is Powerful And The American Left Is Meaningless. Ian Welsh: You …
: Independent Reporting Shows Cops Are Still Killing People At An Alarming Rate [Techdirt/Tim …
: Microsoft’s new AI can simulate anyone’s voice with 3 seconds of audio. [Ars Technica/Benji Edwards] …
: On the cutting edge of insurrectionist terrorism Brazil riots weren’t a repeat of Jan. 6. They were …
: We watched “The Thin Man” Saturday night. Second time for me, but I had nearly forgotten …
: Advantage to working from home: When you’re completely stuck creatively, you can clean the massive …
: Researchers at Columbia University are working on building a conscious robot. If they succeed, it …
: Insomnia is not so bad if you have something to do to pass the time. When I have trouble sleeping, I …
: Things I saw while walking the dog 📸 This yard decoration. Clever and patriotic! These pretty, painted rocks This house with a cozy …
: A gray, chilly, wet morning at Lake Murray.
: San Diego Union-Tribune: ‘It’s cold, wet, exhausting.’ Homeless people have few options when it …
: Why the [expletive] can’t we travel back in time? [Ars Technica/Paul Sutter] No known law of physics …
: I saw this dog at Lake Murray. He would like to say hello, and for you to admire his eyebrow.
: Coolio talked about ancient aliens, and making big investments in the metaverse and crypto, in an …
: The holiday break is over. It’s time to get back to work.
: Apparently you can re-use 2017 calendars this year, which is funny to me because I have a 2017 …
: The book Shift Happens tells the 150-year history of keyboards, from primitive typewriters to …
: I saw this SUV while walking the dog. I feel better knowing we’re protected.
: My car keys got hidden in a fold in the pocket of my rain jacket after I was done walking the dog …
: I saw this house flying a Starfleet flag. I was tempted to ring the doorbell to express my approval.
: Portland Startup to Mine Artisanal Bitcoin Using Only Slide Rules and Graph Paper “… powered 100 …
: While walking the dog, I saw this tasteful Christmas decoration.
: By the time New Year’s comes around, I have holiday exhaustion. New Year’s needs to be in March. Not …
: Quintessence is a “barebone Nuzzel clone” for Mastodon, in open beta. It’s pretty simple: if you …
: The exiled chief rabbi of Moscow says Jews should get out while they can. [The Guardian/Stephen …
: Hooters tried to recruit Elon Musk to refute rumors that it was closing down because of a study …
: Julie and I saw this sign 11 years ago today.
: Sign on the restroom door at Shakespeare Pub & Grille, San Diego, where we had Christmas dinner.
: Musk’s Twitter cuts include a data center, janitors, and toilet paper [NYTimes/Kate Conger, Ryan Mac …
: Jo Walton: In Search of Books in Which Nothing Bad Happens
: Cal Newport: On Quiet Quitting. “Every generation reaches a point where they begin to think more …
: Ian Welsh: How To Relax, Change & Be Free. “… everyone is acting according to conditioning: …
: Ben Dreyfuss: Romanian Cops Did Not Find Andrew Tate Because Of His Greta Thunberg Video: “This is a …
: I saw a bulldog wearing a sweatshirt today.
: This seems like a black-funny story until you read the charges against Tate. He”s not just your …
: Four days after Elon bragged about unplugging an important server rack, Twitter went down hard. — …
: “I remember reading an interview with a minister of an African state who said approximately, ‘every …
: Religious upbringing is great for kids, even for those of us who find ourselves nonbelievers, …
: Talented trans woman writer Charlie Jane Anders @charliejane@wandering.shop remembers her time as a …
: Do you set aside time every day to unplug? Yesterday I read this post by Craig Mod about how he spends a big part of his day just walking …
: Hello insomnia my old friend.
: While walking the dog, I saw this splendid holiday display.
: Crypto craziness craps out — and about time too. By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols …
: The Sorta Kinda Life Changing Bliss of Walking Solo. By Craig Mod @craigmod@mastodon.social Folks …
: Dogs start the day with a spoonful of Alpo or some other canned meat on top of a heap of patented, …
: Texas Cop Sentenced To More Than 11 Years In Jail For Killing A Woman During A Welfare Check. By Tim …
: Amazon begins drone deliveries in California and Texas. Residents of two towns, one in each state, …
: Republicans Can Still Win in Blue San Diego. By Andrew Keatts at Voice of San Diego.
: Mastodon has rejected five recent funding offers to preserve its nonprofit status. “Mastodon will …
: Southwest’s super-efficiency is destroying it Seems like the super-efficiency that made Southwest a great airline in good conditions is making it …
: We saw this sobering sign and candle at the vet a few days ago.
: If you’re seeing this on Mastodon, I suggest you follow me at @mitchw@mastodon.social. If you think …
: San Diego needs to build housing and plenty of it. Forget “neighborhood character” and the …
: When Britain abolished slavery, slaveowners received compensation. But what about the enslaved …
: How a Town Famous for Xenophobia Fell in Love With Immigrants “We now want as many immigrants as …
: The Central African Republic, one of the world’s poorest countries, became one of only two nations …
: My favorite part of George Santos’ self-defense is where he says he never claimed to be Jewish, he …
: Jackie Hoffman steals “Glass Onion.”
: Get Blogging! Your easy guide to starting a new blog..
: Elon Musk was never a liberal, and his plans for Twitter were never benevolent. “Tech barons’ …
: “Karens for Hire”—slogan, “We Karen so you don’t have to”—promises “to harness the power of …
: The Real History Behind ‘The Woman King’ | The Agojie Warriors of Dahomey. By Meilan …
: A secularised Jewish American thinks about celebrating Christmas. As a secularized Jewish American, …
: Matt Stoller: Private Equity Gave Your Bank Password to Hackers Francisco Partners and Evergreen …
: Busloads of migrants dropped off at vice president’s DC home on Christmas Eve The Bible literally …
: Building a keyboard with a rotary dial instead of a number pad.
: In rural Georgia, an unlikely rebel against Trumpism. By Stephanie McCrummen at the Washington Post. …
: We watched the first episode of the first season of “Yellowstone.” We liked it. It’s like …
: I migrated my mastodon account to micro.blog but decided I don’t like micro.blog as a mastodon …
: I’m going to use “Bomb Cyclone” as my porn star name.
: While walking, the dog and I saw this tree. This is Christmas in a subtropical, semi-arid area.
: From my journal, this day in 2013: We still haven’t seen the two female cats we had that …
: I just migrated my mastodon.social account to micro.blog—which had the side effect of deactivating …
: McSweeney’s: A Parent’s Typical Day, as Envisioned by My Child’s Preschool
: A 28-year-old Meta employee paid $300,000 for a 12-year-lease on a studio apartment on a cruise …
: I don’t think I am the target audience for Andor. Unless you’re supposed to fall asleep halfway …
: A house down the street has a Santa hologram in the living room window, which I’ve never seen …
: We took one of the cats to the vet today.
: “There is some kind of a creative power there, to have an unusual name.” Johnny Cash did a song …
: The best headlines of 2022 Included: ‘How to Murder Your Husband’ writer guilty of murdering her …
: What Happens When a Group of 12-Year-Olds Is Left with No Supervision for Five Days? Jason Kottke: …
: Who are the most influential and important people in history? Jesus, Mohammed, the Buddha, Genghis …
: People who wear short pants and long sleeve, heavy sweatshirts in chilly weather are monsters.
: People who wear short pants and long sleeve, heavy sweatshirts in chilly weather are monsters.
: “I can’t go here. It would be too easy for him to pick up if I go here.” — The dog, looking for a …
: "… the App Store’s financial success is the worst thing that’s happened to Apple this …
: Mastodon is getting popular enough that it’s going to start attracting litigation and …
: As if you didn’t have enough to worry about: eating too many apples might be bad for you.
: Why Would Anyone Use Another Centralized Social Media Service After This? — Mike Masnick at Techdirt …
: We don’t need a new global town square to replace Twitter. We already have one: The Web. The web is the world’s town square.I t’s been right there along along, and Twitter, Facebook, …
: I like that micro.blog doesn’t support likes or reblogs. On Facebook, Tumblr, and Mastodon, I’m …
: Hi, @manton! Feature request for micro.blog: Let me import my Mastodon follower list, which I can …
: Daring Fireball @gruber@mastodon.social: Quora is beta testing an AI chatbot. Shouldn’t be …
: Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr: How Apple could open its App Store without really opening its …
: Hearing Wendell Pierce say “fuuuuuck” in an early scene of S3E1 of “Jack Ryan” makes me want to …
: While walking, the dog and I saw this mobile axe-throwing setup. Because is it really the holidays …
: While walking, the dog and I saw this dapper gentleman.
: The right believes in absolute free speech for everyone they agree with.
: Soon as I saw the headline cross Mastodon, I checked my twitter account. Still active. I feel …
: Thursday Night Purge: Elon Musk’s Twitter Bans Tons Of High Profile Journalists — Mike Masnick at …
: How cable monopolists tricked conservatives into shooting themselves in the face – Cory Doctorow “No …
: While out walking the dog late this afternoon I saw a little four-year-old girl wearing a beautiful …
: Years ago, two friends of mine, one at the CIA, one at the Pentagon, advised me to delete the app. …
: … a conservative is someone who believes that some of us were born to rule, and the rest of us were …
: The idea that “if you’re not paying for the product, you’re the product” is utter nonsense. The …
: I have just disabled micro.blog’s cross-posting to my main mastodon account, and will instead …
: I can’t make up my mind whether I want to cross-post from micro.blog to my primary mastodon …
: Crypto Was Always Smoke and Mirrors: The fall of FTX shocked everyone. Except this guy. The world …
: Support Railroad Workers Fighting for Humane Conditions and Paid Sick Leave. The RR workers get NO …
: American healthcare is split into 2 piles: Face holes Not face holes — US Healthcare, by Matt …
: “I believe that marriage is a lasting partnership between one person without health insurance and …
: “Is there such a thing as accidental praxis? Because as much as I hate oligarchs, in a million years …
: jwz: “I would like to report an absolutely absurd use of metaphor.” Truck fire leads to huge pile of …
: The service I use to track of TV and movies to watch, trakt.tv, has been down for two days. They …
: Idea for a crime novel about a man who steals a yarmulke from his male sibling. Working title: “His …
: Contrary to all good writing advice, sometimes I like to use baroque, sesquipedalian language where …
: Orphaned neurological implants. By Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr. Second Sight, a company that …
: Heavy rain when walking the dog this morning. The dog didn’t like it. Neither did I, but only one of …
: A few weeks ago, I was communicating with a 26-year-old colleague, talking about increasing work …
: Enjoyable article about Generation Z’s struggle to adapt to communication style in the office …
: I was standing on the sidewalk outside the pet store tapping on my phone. An old guy walked by very …
: How the Hospice Movement Became a For-Profit Hustle. Half of all Americans now die in hospice care. …
: I’ve been sleeping better for the past month or so. I attribute to more consistent bedtimes and wake …
: What you can learn about sleep from truckers Stephanie Vozza at Fast Company: [Dean Croke, …
: Freedom of reach is freedom of speech. The online debate over free speech suuuuucks, and, …
: What if failure is the plan?. danah boyd has been studying social media for decades, with a …
: It is a cold and blustery day here in San Diego. We had brunch with friends. I walked the dog before …
: Blogging is its own form at this point. It isn’t an essay. Nor is it a scholarly article. It has no …
: Author Scott Lynch responds to a reader who objects to “unrealistic stereotypes of political …
: Molly White: On anti-crypto toxicity. I don’t think anyone should be pressured to be nice to evil …
: Twitter to Increase Tweet Character Limit to 4,000, Elon Musk Says. By Sami Fathi at MacRumors.
: Where Veteran Rockers Go to Reinvent Themselves. How the Hudson Valley and the Catskills became the …
: On 2024, Romney won’t back Trump, even if he’s the GOP nominee. By Steve Benen.
: When you live in a semi-arid climate and you only drive a couple of times a week, you can go for …
: Highbrow Films Aimed at Winning Oscars Are Losing Audiences. By Brooks Barnes at The New York Times. …
: We watched the first half of “Spirited” last night, because I thought I was in the mood for a …
: A remake of “Happy Days” would be set in the 2000s.
: Yesterday I mistakenly had coffee at four in the afternoon. I thought it was decaf. But I slept …
: I saw these ducks do this mildly surprising thing at Lake Murray.
: The Los Angeles Police Department is here to serve and protect… the powerful. The rest of you are on …
: This letter from Mickey Mantle, recalling his ‘outstanding experience’ at Yankee …
: Dyson’s Air Purifying Headphones Will Cost $949, Plus Your Pride. By Andrew Liszewski at …
: McSweeney’s: Middle School Party Games, Revised for Thirty-Five-Year-Olds. Truth or Dare If a …
: The New Yorker: Cory Doctorow Wants You to Know What Computers Can and Can’t Do. A conversation …
: I saw this dapper gentleman at the park today.
: The promise and the peril of ChatGPT. By Casey Newton. Reading about the potential for abuse here, I …
: Yes, It’s Censorship: Stop picking that nit, it’ll never heal. A few big companies, including Apple, …
: Ancient Rome did not fall. It was destroyed from within, by the same forces we see playing out in …
: While walking, the dog and I saw these houses with the holiday spirit, and this car 🦮📷
: Eugene from Wednesday is my role model. I’m going to wear a retainer and keep bees.
: A new Indiana Jones movie, starring 80-year-old Harrison Ford? Sure, why not? Here’s the trailer. I’ve seen criticism of the trailer and of all the movies after “Raiders.” And …
: Proud Boy terrorists threaten Columbus, Ohio, drag queen story hour, school asks for protection, …
: MetaFilter: “Television news is about consistency and companionship."
: jwz: Let Me Kill the Billionaire.
: jwz: Normal Country. Functional Democracy
: Seth Godin: Confidence doesn’t help win the lottery. There are lots of lotteries in our lives. …
: One of the best blogs on the Internet. is back. I’m glad to see Jason Kottke has returned to …
: South Dakota Bans Government Employees From Using TikTok. The Countless Other Apps And Services That …
: Dave Pell is on a roll on NextDraft today: ”At 8:10 p.m., more than nine hours after his family …
: Elon Musk gets mail. “Akiva Cohen, an attorney representing 22 laid-off Twitter employees, …
: “Robert Moses Is A Racist Whatever.” Jason Kottke blogs about an interview with Robert Caro, author …
: What weird food habits did you have in your family when you were a kid? If you’re a parent, how would your kids answer that question? I’m remembering that one summer when I went to day camp where the kids brought their lunches. My mom …
: Alexandra Petri: “Free speech is when you pay me money for goods or services. That’s free …
: Disney’s new neural network can change an actor’s age with ease. The “production ready” …
: This made me happy this morning This morning while walking the dog I saw one of the neighbor men in front of his house, getting …
: How can the Democrats claim to be pro-union and pro-labor and also do this? The bill that the House passed forcing railway workers back to work requires the workers to take a …
: I have become fastidious about washing my hands, maybe even OCD, but I have also decided the dog and …
: I have become fastidious about washing my hands, maybe even a little OCD, but I have also decided …
: On Twitter: “You ever just think about how Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is basically …
: “You’ve got to vaccinate people against the hate” MetaFilter: In Russia, China, Iran, and the United States, autocracy is stumbling and liberal …
: A friend reminds me that I started getting healthy and fit after I attended a science fiction …
: Hello again, micro.blog! It’s me, Mitch Wagner, getting a fresh start on a new blog. If you follow …
: Wherever you go, go with all your heart. 📷
: 27 years in California and sometimes I’m still amazed by palm trees. 📷
: Would you like to see a one-minute video of Minnie running around the backyard and digging? Of …
: Lake Murray in the morning, San Diego, CA, 7:40 am PT. A Day In The Life #adayinthelife
: My home office needs a name. I am choosing between: The Room Where It Happens The Cockpit The Boom …
: Robert A. Heinlein’s Red Planet was the gateway drug to books for me. My 3rd grade teacher, …
: FBI Demands Apple’s Assistance In Opening iPhone Packaging
: This house has a dinosaur in the yard. The dinosaur wears a nametag. His name is Burt. 📷
: Out of curiosity, I rewatched “Dance of the Dwarfs,” a 1983 low-budget horror-adventure that was in …
: We don’t get many majestic trees like this in San Diego. 📷
: We’ve been living in this house more than 20 years and last night Julie showed me an extremely …
: My brothers and me having a Tarantino moment at Niagara Falls around 1971. 📷 I think the white car …
: Even when I was a little boy, I understood the importance of personal style. Around 1964. 📷
: Just look at this beautiful house we saw on a trip to Athens, Ohio, to visit family a few years ago. …
: African safari journal: Homeward bound June 2019 Our final Africa safari stop was Little Kulala Desert Lodge, in Sossusvlei, the …
: "Dance of the Dwarfs" In the early 1980s cable movie channels didn’t have much inventory and they’d play the …
: I’m about halfway through reading the very first Perry Mason novel, “The Case of the …
: A colleague on a Zoom meeting this morning shared his Mac screen with red numbers in the dock for …
: We are enjoying “Endeavour.” It gives me an idea for a Star Trek series: “Ensign …
: In the 90s, Justin Hall was a rich kid with distant parents and a need for attention. He fell in …
: I get relaxation from certain kinds of low-stakes digital activities, requiring little or no …
: What is a “digital garden?” I encountered the idea of a “digital garden” Friday and was instantly enthusiastic and spent some …
: I updated mitchwagner.com to index the best of my personal writing. I’ve heard people call that a …
: Our Africa journal – Saying goodbye to a new friend June 23, 2019 — Yesterday, we left the camp for our next stop. Festus drove us two hours over those …
: In “Man of Steel” there’s a scene at the end where Superman and the big villain are having a fight …
: The house 🎃 across the street ☠ is starting 👻 to decorate 🧛♀️ for Halloween. 🧙 Too soon!🦇
: “Digital gardens” are personal spaces on the Internet that avoid the one-size-fits-all …
: Like I said about 10 hours ago, I thought I had insomnia licked because I got a good night’s …
: “I’ve got this insomnia thing licked,” I said. “I’ve slept well six nights in a row,” I said. Note …
: Minnie in a weird position, 2017. 📷
: Casey Newton: “Few will cry any tears for Facebook… But the events of this summer have folks I know …
: Big Tech doesn’t have persuasion superpowers. The companies are toxic because they’re …
: Using machine learning to optimize the layout of banana slices on a sandwich. [Cory Doctorow] I …
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: RNC Speaker Mary Ann Mendoza Cancelled After Boosting Conspiracy About Jewish Plot to Enslave the …
: If you want to see women walking while talking on the phone, most with dogs, some pushing strollers, …
: I dropped a container of imported parmesan cheese flakes on the floor the other day and swept it up …
: I stopped briefly on my walk yesterday to fiddle with my iPhone, and this beautiful cat came out …
: Epic Games' assertion that there's an iPhone market that Apple monopolizes, distinct from the smartphone market that includes Android, looks like bullshit to me. Apple kicked Epic’s Fortnite out of the App Store for terms of service violations. Fortnite …
: The bizarre dimming of bright star Betelgeuse caused by giant stellar eruption [Space.com]: …
: Simulate driving through dozens of world cities while listening to local radio. …
: If you start reading a book and it’s not grabbing you, how long do you give it until you give up? Or …
: Facebook is refusing to remove a doctored Nancy Pelosi video. Factcheckers put ‘partly false’ label …
: When Covid Subsided, Israel Reopened Its Schools. It Didn’t Go Well. …
: Photorealistic portraits of Roman emperors, generated by machine learning and Photoshop. …
: Trump has had more nice things to say about a woman arrested for sex trafficking than he has about …
: How to spell “entrepreneur:” It’s got more Rs than you think.
: Wilford Brimley was once a bodyguard for Howard Hughes. twitter.com/rstephens…
: Clashing privacy laws between the US and Europe spell trouble for big tech “If you’re a U.S. subsidiary of a big U.S. firm and you’re based in Europe, whom do you obey? The …
: Mirrors only became commonplace and inexpensive in the 19th Century. Until then, almost everybody …
: I saw this regal gentleman at Lake Murray. 📷
: Drive-through communion at the church up the street from us. 📷 Communion was no longer running when …
: Too often I try to get just a couple more shaves out of an old blade. That’s a metaphor for …
: The good: I shaved with a new blade this morning and I’m wearing a new shirt. The bad: I have a …
: I resolved on Thursday to do less Facebook, because Facebook doesn’t make me feel good. I was on …
: Vacation photo, Borrego Springs, California, 2013 📷
: A photo essay of classic Japanese ads
: A photo essay of classic Japanese movie monsters. Where Western movies used animated clay figures, …
: “The line of troopers walked forward, billy clubs out. They knocked Lewis to the ground and struck …
: “Aggravation is an art form in his hands.” RIP Regis, my friend and companion on many a business …
: I have an idea for a movie. An action-comedy about two cops who are partners and best friends and …
: We watched Bad Boys tonight, which we had never seen. It was the least enjoyable film I have watched …
: This is a good look for me. In no way does it make me look threatening or mentally unbalanced. 📷
: meet my new BFF https://t.co/4WDhx3BpZo — Michelle 🍵💻 (@tinymwriter) July 24, 2020
: More than half the people born in 1980 are over 40. My brain cannot process this information.
: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols at ZDNet: The 5 most over-hyped tech devices. Don’t be a hater – …
: David Roth at The New Yorker: How “Starship Troopers” Aligns with Our Moment of American Defeat: …
: Eli Reiter at OneZero: My Bizarre Stint As an Amazon Reviewer for Hire
: I saw this lost dog sign on my walk yesterday. I hope they find the little guy. He looks sad. 📷
: Lake Murray from Cowles Mountain, five miles from home, 2018. Maybe I’ll do the climb again …
: Two years ago today I was at the Google Next conference in San Francisco. I mistook another editor …
: Julie got me this cunning hat for my birthday yesterday, which I will wear with pride on my next …
: The least likely scenario for the 2020 election is that Trump both loses and accepts defeat …
: “Hurting people at scale: Facebook’s employees reckon with the social network …
: I don’t know how how to spell “entrepreneur” but I know there’s an extra R …
: “Delicious, but too messy to handle,” was how Ruth Burt described the new ice cream treat her …
: That was, indeed, unexpected. Zoom and Enhance! from r/Unexpected
: Ladies and gents, I present my husband who did not want a cat from r/aww
: In his biography of Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson makes a case that Franklin was one of the …
: Venice is reducing the number of people allowed on individual gondolas, as tourists have gotten …
: Biden went into this campaign with his chief credential being that he was a nonentity who would do …
: Biden’s $2 trillion climate plan.
: Country-themed sitcoms ruled the TV airwaves for a decade, but in the early 1970s, CBS axed them. …
: I had not planned to spend quite so much time this morning updating my Mac but here we are.
: When did we stop having “problems” and starting having “issues”? Because I …
: That’s sorted. Moon vs. Sun utilization question answered The Monroeville Breeze, Indiana, September …
: Light and time are great ways to disinfect masks. Washing is generally unnecessary James Hamblin MD, writing at The Atlantic: Have several masks, made to fit well around your nose …
: The Amazon Critic Who Saw Its Power From the Inside: Tim Bray was a celebrated engineer at Amazon. Now, he is its highest-profile defector Bray walked away from $1 million because he couldn’t stand Amazon’s labor and business …
: Mexican cave relics suggest humans were populating the Americas up to 17,000 years earlier than …
: This is a photo of a kitten Honestly trying to work here. Joyce Garcia …
: I was looking through my wallet for a particular document, which I did not find, but I did find …
: Facebook is adding security and privacy protections to Messenger. That’s like Ghislaine …
: We ordered a new couch which was supposed to arrive today but which seems to have disappeared in …
: America can become the country claims to be, starting by telling the truth about its history of …
: Tucker Carlson, the most popular host in the history of cable news, returned from a week-long …
: I walked a different route than I usually do today, and saw several noteworthy vehicles. Two were …
: Lush photo essay from the golden age of shopping malls. Cruising the Past & Future of the Retro Shopping Mall I loved to go to the mall in my 20s. I’d …
: From my journal two years ago: My Apple Watch alarm went off while I was watching the dishes, and …
: I was feeling down and blue so I spent a lot of time on social media and now I feel ever so much …
: 📚I finished reading “Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic," by Tom “insert …
: Man, It’s Boss! Monogram’s Red Baron model kit, the Groovy Custom Show Rod Now at Your …
: I am continuing to fiddle with handwriting recognition (aka Scribble) on the iPad. I’m getting …
: Was Orwell an anti-Semite? Orwell struggled with anti-Semitism — others' and his own.
: Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow: “Trump’s decisions to politicize voting and …
: Americans saw the story they wanted to see. Some saw respected professionals fearing for their …
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: Your mask feels uncomfortable? Get over it. As a surgeon, I know how vital they are.
: The World Is Drinking Less Coffee While Office Workers Stay Home. More for me!
: not all heroes wear capes. pic.twitter.com/KEG2P2Qbz2 — Love Yo Self ✨ (@MichellCClark) July …
: How old is your dog? New equation shows how to calculate its age in human years Dogs age quickly …
: David Frumat the Atlantic, about Roger Stone: The Most Conspicuous Scandal in American History. …
: David Gerrold’s 1983 novel “A Matter for Men” features the Earth facing a biological menace which …
: Hello, again, Lake Murray. 📷
: This may sound like Trump’s wackiest conspiracy theory. But it’s actually true. Republicans have …
: Scientists thought they found evidence of a new planet at the edge of the solar system. Now they …
: On Cory Doctorow’s Pluralistic: Hospitals are using homebrew dongles with code from a Polish …
: For me, texting is a full-duplex conversation. I think possibly most people think of texting as …
: “Ghislaine, Is That You?”: Inside Ghislaine Maxwell’s Life on the Lam I did not know this: Ghislaine Maxwell is the daughter of the late media mogul Robert Maxwell, …
: Bill Murray dances with Gilda Radner at Studio 54. via In the 70s, overalls and high heels were …
: How AI makes policing more racist: AI is biased as the people who program it.
: I like writing things by hand … in theory. I like the idea of being the guy who carries around a …
: Al Pacino with his parents, Salvatore and Rose, in 1940. via He’s just a few months old and he …
: I often see this bus parked around the corner. I keep expecting 11-year old Danny Bonaduce to …
: I installed the new iPad beta and I think I like the scribbling feature it takes getting Used to. I …
: Incoherent Conspiracy Suggests Ghislaine Maxwell Is a Powerful Redditor: Because a supercriminal …
: Cory Doctorow: Cops are buying breach data. Why get a warrant when the crooks can do the work for …
: A Twitter Account Is Tracking the Cringiest Misuses Of Black Language
: 3 Mac apps I'm not using anymore I configured a new MacBook Pro a month ago. Usually I use Migration Assistant for that kind of thing …
: Spies, Lies, and Stonewalling: What It’s Like to Report on Facebook: “… operating with the …
: The Militarization Of Police: Journalist Radley Balko, author of ‘Rise Of The Warrior …
: Study finds asteroid impact, not volcanoes, made the Earth uninhabitable for dinosaurs: ‘Only …
: Two racist cops threw me in jail 13 years ago. Let me tell you what needs to happen now. Searing …
: How to Buy Tech That Lasts and Lasts Brian X. Chen at the New York Times: When we buy a gadget these days, we rarely assume that it will …
: Sheboygan toilet clogger sentenced to probation, 150 days in jail Headline of the week.
: Microsoft did a virtual-reality/augmented-reality thing to make video meetings look more like physical meetings You get an avatar that sits at a table or – for bigger meetings – in a virtual lecture …
: I got the new Facebook layout yesterday evening. That’s late – many people were getting …
: I’m not a Boomer. I’m Generation Jones Generation Jones is the younger cohort of boomers. We are a separate generation, raised in the …
: Julie got a new handbag. Sammy says, “Mine now!” 📷
: We watched Hamilton last night and 1776 tonight. That’s five hours and 25 minutes of movies. My butt …
: My reaction immediately before watching “Hamilton:” “Nearly three hours? You’ve got to be kidding …
: The 1776 drinking game: Take a drink — of rum — every time John Adams says “Good God!” or …
: The first movie I saw in a theater A friend asked her Facebook friends what was the first movie that they remembered seeing in a …
: I like that the instructions for Hot Pockets say I should “prep” it first. Like sticking a thing in …
: Minnie supervises my second Covid haircut, by Julie, who did an excellent job. 📷
: I’ve had to teach myself how to read books again. When I was a kid and into my 20s I read books …
: Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime associate, has been charged with enticement of …
: Trump Mistakes Cowboy Sculpture In His Office As Teddy Roosevelt In Interview About Knowing The …
: I wish Trump put as much energy into protecting live Americans as he does for dead Confederates and …
: The Decline of the American World Other countries are used to loathing America, admiring America, …
: A volcanic eruption in the Aleutians triggered climate change that accelerated the fall of the Roman …
: Doomscrolling Is Slowly Eroding Your Mental Health Checking your phone for an extra two hours every …
: Kellogg’s Mashups Cereal Combines Frosted Flakes and Froot Loops Not enough sugar and …
: Duke researchers say all brain activity studies are wrong
: Milton Glaser, Co-founder of New York Magazine and Creator of ‘I❤NY,’ Dies at 91 Christopher Bonanos at New York Magazine: He wrote, too. Starting in our first issues, Glaser and …
: "You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument" Caroline Randall Williams says that as a light-skinned Black woman, her body is a monument to the …
: Remastered silent movies from the 1890s look breathtakingly real and contemporary, like the people …
: African safari journal – one year ago – we visit a tribal village June 21, 2019 - Yesterday was busy even by the standards of this trip. Up at 6 and out at 6:30 to …
: What happened to Brexit? Last night I woke up in the middle of the night unable to sleep – which I’m doing now at least …
: African safari journal – one year ago – never get tired of the elephants June 19, 2019 — We got our cold weather yesterday, up at 5 am for the morning game drive. Camp Kipwe …
: Petition calls for statue of Christopher Columbus in Ohio city to be replaced with Chef Boyardee The …
: Remarkable time-lapse video of a toucan growing up from hatching to adulthood. Seems like an …
: Black Lives Matter is working
: “ ... trying to shame people into wearing condoms didn’t work—and it won’t work for masks either.” Shaming didn’t work to get men to wear condoms during the early days of the AIDS epidemic, but …
: New research explores how conservative media misinformation may have intensified the severity of the …
: The White House is taking increasing measures to protect Trump from covid, even as he insists publicly the disease is no big deal As he seeks to insert rival Joe Biden’s health into the presidential campaign, Trump has …
: Not the first time Sammy got to the glass of water I put out for myself.
: Russia offered the Taliban bounties to kill American soldiers, and Trump has been dithering about a …
: House passes bill to provide D.C. statehood Republicans oppose statehood for DC because DC is mostly …
: Pence tries to put positive spin on coronavirus pandemic despite surging cases in South and West …
: Obamacare Must ‘Fall,’ Trump Administration Tells Supreme Court No, it is the Trump …
: In the middle of the worst pandemic in a century, Trump wants to eliminate medical insurance for 20 …
: YouTube views of sourdough videos jumped 400% in coronavirus lockdown. And “workout from …
: A subsurface ocean on Europa, a moon of Jupiter, may have been habitable. For microbial life at …
: Paradise, California, suffered extensive damage and deaths in 2018 forest fires, and is now grappling with the pandemic and recession. The high school graduating faces uncertainty with hope for the future Justine Calma at The Verge: For the second year in a row, graduation at Paradise High School became …
: "The Great" – it's great 📺 Julie and I are loving the Hulu series “The Great,” about the rise to power of Catherine …
: How to “manage up” from home Getting ahead at the office when you’re not at the office. Crises are not a time to negotiate …
: He got it from the mask.. I just bet he did.
: U.S. Used Missile With Long Blades to Kill Qaeda Leader in Syria American Special Operations forces …
: Working at Home Means Softer Toilet Paper – and a Climate Toll Soft toilet paper is better for …
: How big tech distorts discourse: It’s the monopoly, stupid. Making the case for job …
: More photos from our African safaris – one year ago These were taken June 18, 2019, in Namibia. Our cabin at Kipwe Lodge in Namibia. View from the …
: We’ve had big, gorgeous monarch butterflies in the yard recently. 📷
: Africa journal – one year ago – spectacular leopard encounter June 17, 2019 [Note from 2020: Overlap here with yesterday’s entry. I’m repeating myself.] We …
: I saw these chairs on a New York City street a few years ago. The gentlemen who occupied the chairs …
: African safari journal – one year ago – a travel day June 15, 2019 – Yesterday was a travel day. We had an 11:25 am charter flight from the LLT airstrip …
: "City of Girls," by Elizabeth Gilbert, was very enjoyable and a nice change of pace from my usual reading 📚 Elizabeth Gilbert is of course the author of “Eat Pray Love” and a writer who until …
: The pandemic comes close to home This morning I talked with a friend who lost his sister to covid Friday. I learned about that on a …
: Rosebud at the side of the house. “Feed me, Seymour!” 📷
: Alaska Airlifts ‘Into the Wild’ Bus Out of the Wild Alaska has airlifted the “Into the Wild” bus out of the Alaska backcountry. Too many tourists made …
: Trump wants to dismantle the OTF: Trump wants to dismantle the US Open Technology Fund, a nonprofit …
: Algonauts: Experimental artist Shardcore uses machine learning to generate “Algonauts” – …
: That’s the art of the deal, people! Trump paid $7.3 million for covid “test tubes” …
: Avia, c’est mort: French courts struck down a law that would have required the Internet …
: Austerity in disrepute – Cory Doctorow: 75% of Americans favor maintaining or expanding extended …
: Cory Doctorow: Microsoft criticizes Apple’s monopolism – and Microsoft oughta know about …
: A Man Has Raised Over $10,000 To Tap-Dance Over His Downstairs MAGA Neighbor And Says He’s …
: Thousands of tampons! The Hugo Girls discuss Mary Robinette Kowal’s Hugo award winning novel, …
: Today, Explained: A good day for DREAMers: The Supreme Court’s decision upholding DACA was a …
: Ice skating in a suit. 1930s via
: My new employer needs a professional looking photo.
: Medical supply company threatens to sue to stop iFixit from distributing repair manuals Cory Doctorow: When a once-in-a-century public health emergency strikes, some people leap to help. …
: The EU has an opportunity to break Big Tech's monopolies by requiring interoperability This is the EU’s interoperability moment – Cory Doctorow It should be legal for you to buy a …
: Oracle: How sports teams are keeping fans engaged during the pandemic shutdown: Money quote: “Sports …
: How to stop Google Calendar from automatically including Google Meet links in meeting invitations. Zoom: Disable Google Hangout on Google Calendar This has been a stone in my shoe for years; now that …
: Television promo photo 1970 in Hungary via
: Welcome to the future, brought to you by America’s Independent Electric Light and Power Companies, …
: Cory Doctorow: “Hue and cry, posses, sheriffs: What did we do before cops?” Professional …
: Cory Doctorow: Americans don’t trust Big Tech to moderate their communities: Censorship by big …
: Cory Doctorow: The Earbuddy is experimental technology that takes advantage of wireless earbuds' …
: Cory Doctorow: “Robots aren’t stealing your job: Your boss is destroying it and blaming …
: Cory Doctorow: “SF anthology to benefit covid charities: Surviving Tomorrow is a new anthology …
: Cory Doctorow: Politics and sf: People look out for each other during a crisis, despite stories …
: You know that thing where I was doing daily digests of links and occasional image digests? I’m …
: After many years working from home, suddenly I feel like I need to wear nice shirts for work most …
: I’m doing a few Zoom calls a day now. I hate my meeting face.
: Found images: June 17, 2020 1930s via via via
: Link list: Tuesday, June 16 2020 Cisco rolls out new solutions for remote work, learning, post-pandemic For instance, one solution …
: Interesting finds in my home office After my Mom passed away in 2000, and then my Dad in 2004, I inherited my Mom’s rolltop desk. …
: Found images: Tuesday, June 16 2020 Theodore Roosevelt’s daughter, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 1910s. She wore pants, smoked …
: Link list: Monday, June 15 2020 On Cory Doctorow’s Pluralistic: Mad Magazine’s Al Jaffee is retiring young – he’s …
: As a Jewish New Yorker I’m supposed to be appalled by thin-sliced bagels – particularly …
: Nathan Lane’s performance in “City of Angels” is particularly amazing because, well, he’s Nathan …
: We hate “Penny Dreadful: City of Angels,” but can’t stop watching. We don’t hate Nathan Lane though. …
: Linked list: Sunday, June 14, 2020 The reality show “Cops” was canceled a short time ago. Should scripted police dramas follow? On the …
: Exercise is not just important to health; it also stimulates the mind. For example, when I was …
: Africa journal - one year ago today - Tswana language lesson Julie has picked up a few words of Tswana, one of the two major languages of Botswana. The other …
: People attending Agent Orange’s June 19th rally need to sign away their right to sue if they get …
: African safari journal – one year ago today – a visit to a local village In the morning at home, I look at the news. Here in Africa, in the morning I look at the gnus. A …
: Safari journal – one year ago today – we learn the local language and speak it badly Leroo La Tau, our current safari camp, is in the Makgadikgadi Pans National Park in Botswana, on the …
: African safari journal – one year ago today – Camp Xakanaxa to Leroo La Tau We’re on a 12-seater Cessna now, on our way from Camp Xakanaxa, where we spent three lovely days, to …
: We are watching “The Great” and rewatching “Rome.” Great TV. So many severed heads.
: I have a new job! I’m happy to say I started work this week as a senior writer at Oracle, …
: The real lesson of William Shatner's “Get a Life” sketch William Shatner’s “Get a Life” sketch from Saturday Night Live in the 1980s. …
: Our African journal – One year ago today – At the Okavango Delta in Botswana I literally squeed when I saw a mother baboon carrying her baby. “Oh my god it’s a baby baboon!” I …
: Julie received a text message that just said, “Mom I’m sorry.” It was a wrong number. Julie did not …
: Riot aftermath here in La Mesa, California: Murals by local artists cover smashed storefronts 📷 About 10 days ago a video went viral of Amaurie Johnson, a young African-American man, apparently …
: African travel journal – one year ago today – I complain like a Karen Yesterday was our first full day really in Africa, when we got out of the airport/hotel complex in …
: Seen at the supermarket: a woman wearing a mask and tiara.
: Consumer reports: How to safely and effectively record video during a protest …
: Our Africa trip journal - one year ago today: Botswana We arrived at Kasane Airport, a small airport outside Chobe National Park in Botswana, yesterday, …
: African safari journal: One year ago today, Julie and I arrived in Africa From my travel journal, lightly edited for typoes: We’ve been in transit nearly 2 days now. And we …
: Who is Alan Tarica and why does he say I’m an idiot? I fell down an Internet rabbit hole this morning. I received an email from someone signing himself …
: 📷 Baked potato, deli turkey breast, spicy brown mustard. Delicious!
: Pluralistic: Ferguson's first black mayor, why do protests become violent and more On Cory Doctorow’s Pluralistic pluralistic.net/2020/06/0… Ella Jones is …
: 📚Reading "The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic." I finished reading “Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic,” by Mike …
: QAnon: 'Where We Go One' QAnon believers, united in a battle against what they see as dark forces of the world, reveal where …
: 10 things Democrats could do right now - if they actually wanted to stop Trump’s power grab Democrats control the House, many state Houses, governors’ offices, and the City Halls of major …
: How ‘antifa’ became a Trump catch-all www.politico.com/news/2020… Antifa isn’t an organized …
: RIP Irene Triplett, the last living person to receive a US Civil War pension Triplett’s father, Mose, fought for the Confederacy and then joined the North and fought as a …
: 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice medium.com/equality-…
: The systems that protect bad police. www.nytimes.com/2020/06/0…
: Conspiracy theories have been fundamental to American history since the Revolution. …
: George Will: ‘There is no such thing as rock bottom for Trump. Assume the worst is yet to come.’ Those who think our unhinged president’s recent mania about a murder two decades ago that never …
: KC Short, the Army veteran who organized Saturday’s protests in La Mesa, CA, the San Diego …
: Fans rally around Crazy Fred’s, a comic book store in the San Diego suburb La Mesa (where I live), …
: Protesting is important, but it's not the hard thing, or the most important thing To be honest, it’s not that hard to protest. It’s not that hard to go someplace. And it doesn’t mean …
: "It's enough to break a true patriot's heart" I’m trying to understand why wearing a mask — which is meant only to protect the most vulnerable …
: Trump’s bailout czar makes out – how to stop police brutality Today on Cory Doctorow’s Pluralistic pluralistic.net/2020/06/0… Trump’s bailout czar, Justin …
: Protesters Dispersed With Tear Gas So Trump Could Pose at Church Old Yellow Stain declared himself a friend to peaceful protesters, and then ordered in flash bang …
: An American Uprising: Who, really, is the agitator here? – David Remnick at The New Yorker He quotes AOC: “If you’re calling for an end to unrest, but not calling out police brutality, not …
: In late 2001, after 9/11, I got in the habit of having my clock radio set to an all-news station to …
: While cowering in a bunker and doing nothing, President Tweetie demands other people get tough. …
: @dave Winer compares Trump to Captain Queeg — Old Yellow Stain. Hell yeah. Trump in the bunker with …
: Let’s just leave Trump in his protective bunker until January, and shut off the Wi-Fi too.
: Saturday after another night of rotten sleep I decided I need to minimize going on the Internet …
: Good morning! I spilled a little coffee on my hand this morning and the dog licked it off …
: Minneapolis has a deep history of police abuse and racism On Cory Doctorow’s Pluralistic.net: Minneapolis police have flouted reforms. “[P]olice union boss Lt …
: Looting and arson come close to home (but we’re fine) I slept in this morning, woke up a few minutes before 10 am and found my phone was lit up with …
: Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First Look, we all have the right to protest, but that doesn’t mean you can just rush in and destroy any …
: ThreadReaderApp now has beta support for the Micropub Spec so you can publish Twitter threads …
: New York couple decides to quarantine together after one date Gali Beeri is 37 and works as an executive assistant. Joshua Boliver is 42 and creates visual …
: US anti-vaxxers aim to spread fear over future coronavirus vaccine. A dangerously large numbers of …
: Norway and Denmark say they will reopen tourism between their two countries soon, but will maintain …
: Trump wants a race war to get himself re-elected David Pell on NextDraft: Remember, this is a guy who ran on Birtherism and walls, and has led with …
: I don’t have any useful judgment to share for or against the rioters in Minneapolis. I …
: How I cynically exploited "Hands Across America" On May 26, 1986, millions of Americans across America joined hands for 15 minutes to form a line …
: Talking about “A Canticle for Leibowitz” 📚I found myself thinking about the novel “A Canticle for Leibowitz,” by Walter M. Miller Jr., …
: A Piers Anthony encounter I saw these books in the neighborhood Little Free Library. I read and enjoyed them in the 80s when …
: Agenda: Great app, but not for me I spent some time yesterday fooling around with Agenda, an app for taking time-sensitive notes, such …
: I don’t use ad-blockers because I hate ads I’m a journalist. I’m fine with ads. They pay my income. I don’t use ad-blockers to protect my …
: Dune is a rational space opera, as logical and geometrical as a Sherlock Holmes story, with an …
: 🍿I watched the end of the Coen Brothers comedy “Hail Caesar” yesterday. We’d watched the first part …
: Who’s watching Lawrence Welk anymore? My grandparents watched it in the 70s. They were in their 80s …
: I stopped in at Mystic Grill & Bakery last night to pick up a takeout dinner for myself and …
: Julie and I watched “Dune” again not long ago. The only other time I’d seen it was in the theatrical …
: On the It’s the Pictures That Got Small podcast: Dune, with Karina Longworth, Nate DiMeo and Natasha …
: 📷 Two ducks 🦆 🦆 hanging out in the pond, a third duck 🦆 joins them. A brisk discussion of etiquette …
: 📽Last night we watched “Saving Mr. Banks,” about the making of Mary Poppins. The movie stars Emma …
: Patton Oswalt: Joey Pants is the real hero of “The Matrix,” and the computers are trying …
: The last typist was kicked out of the Writers Room in New York’s Greenwich Village 10 years …
: Did the Black Death lead to the Renaissance? What does that history teach us about what to expect in …
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: Coronavirus: The Mask Wars – Science Vs Scientific studies suggest no conclusive evidence that cloth …
: “Shoe-leather” contact tracing works – Cory Doctorow The only effective way to do …
: HP Lovecraft warned readers to stay away from pulp magazines – Cory Doctorow. Readers should turn to …
: Department of Justice Reopens Spat With Apple Over iPhone Encryption Daring Fireball: Saying you …
: On Cory Doctorow’s Pluralistic ++ This is the first pandemic ever experienced by a society …
: “Get your stinking paws off me you damned dirty ape!” and 99 more favorite movie quotes.
: If Not 10,000, How Many Steps Should We Be Walking Each Day? The 10,000-step rule is completely arbitrary, writes journalist Tanner Garrity at InsideHook. There …
: What We Might Learn From The 1918 Flu Pandemic – Fresh Air – In broad outlines, public reaction to …
: Knockoffs – 99% Invisible – Dapper Dan went from street hustler to fashion impresario and has spent …
: Inside Trump’s coronavirus meltdown Edward Luce delivers a fast but deep read on the Financial Times, about how Trump and his henchmen …
: A pandemic is no walk in the park, except yesterday that's exactly what it was Yesterday, Lake Murray was open for the first or second day since the social distancing order became …
: Fred Willard doing opening monologue on SNL, 1978 via
: Trans World Airlines (1952) via
: Janis Joplin Woodstock 1969 via
: Jughead, 1970. It doesn’t require much individuality to be viewed as an eccentric iconoclast in …
: There’s Nothing Like a ‘54 Ford via
: The death cult at the grocery store – Retail workers are being called on to enforce facemask …
: Why Is Facebook So Afraid of Checking Facts? – Facebook refuses to factcheck fake news, based on the …
: Hackers who broke into a law firm claim to have dug up dirt on Trump, and will release it in a week …
: Facebook’s Giphy acquisition would be a privacy disaster How Facebook Could Use Giphy to Collect Your Data – Giphy already tracks users online behavior, and …
: Coronavirus: The last ‘normal’ photo on your phone
: Qanon is so popular because there are so many real-life conspiracies Cory Doctorow: Social media isn’t particularly great at persuasion. But it is excellent at …
: Former newspaper editor is now a homeless blogger The New York Times: Rick Jackson, 54, was top editor of The Herald-Times, Bloomington, Indiana. He …
: New Christopher Pike "Trek" series in the pipeline. SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!! Hollywood Reporter : CBS All Access is doing a new Star Trek series, based on the adventures of the …
: I like the way the dog looks at the camera for approval. "Did you see that move?" Stop what you’re doing and watch my weird dog fight a tree. pic.twitter.com/Tam5fBLZBc — K.B. …
: Losers who use “loose” when they mean “lose.” Makes me lose my shit.
: Excitement during the pandemic. I like that it’s a professional model. Don’t want to use …
: The Saga of Michael Flynn – Politics doesn’t permit nuance. Either Michael Flynn is a hero or …
: Rumors that some horror movies are cursed become their own kind of curse for the people who make those movies The Curse of The Curse – Great episode of the Imaginary Worlds podcast: filmmaker Jay Cheel talks …
: Thoughts following my my first-ever at-home haircut I had long, thick hair when I was a young man and I miss it. For years I’ve wondered if I would look …
: Help Garry Armacost, a Vietnam vet, fight cancer and VA bureaucracy Garry Armacost, was wounded fighting for his country in Vietnam. Now he’s in the fight of his …
: Julie gave me my first rona haircut. Fine job and I still have all my ears!
: Kiss cam finds the best couple. via Gfycat
: Little Richard, Rock Pioneer Who Broke Musical Barriers, Dead at 87 – He pioneered rock and …
: The Sopranos: How Would Tony Soprano Handle the Coronavirus? – The dancers at the Bada Bing get …
: My Facebook profile recently got upgraded to support formatting text: Bold, italic, blockquotes and …
: Today (and yesterday) on Cory Doctorow’s Pluralistic – Armed Michigan voters are escorting …
: Ocasio-Cortez claps back at GOP criticism for playing Animal Crossing: ‘Curious for your …
: I think I will suggest to Julie that we should watch “The Andromeda Strain” tonight. Not the 2008 …
: Wilford Brimley was only 48 when he appeared in “The Thing” and 51 in …
: As Restaurants and Stores Reopen, What’s Safe? – Are haircuts, going back to work, eating in …
: Microsoft and AWS exchange poisoned pen blog posts in latest Pentagon JEDI contract spat – Microsoft …
: Roaming ‘robodog’ politely tells Singapore park goers to keep apart – A roaming robot …
: Zoom is adding data center capacity in Equinix, as it signs a deal for cloud service from Oracle.
: Google unifies all of its messaging and communication apps into a single team – A good move. Google …
: House GOP urge Trump against supporting additional funding for state and local governments – …
: James Carville Warns Trump: Your ‘Grifter’ Campaign Aides Are Lying To You — “Trump is …
: Which Supreme Court Justice Flushed the Toilet During Oral Arguments?
: Now I’m curious which book it was and what was the so-called virtue signaling? It's true: …
: Today on Cory Doctorow’s Pluralistic The TSA is being sued for hoarding 1.3 million N95 masks: …
: Supreme Court throws out convictions of New Jersey officials in Bridgegate scandal – Political …
: The first Google account you sign in to is set as the default account. This was driving me nuts …
: “She’s starting to shake! She’s starting to shimmy!". Thanks, @odd!
: Everybody alive today will be somewhat germophobic the rest of their lives. Like the way my parents' …
: [Several years ago] JULIE: “What is ‘mansplaining?'” ME: ME: “This is a …
: Today on Cory Doctorow’s Pluralistic ++ Alvim Corrêa’s beautiful, bleak illustrations …
: I am hosting a video conference for dozens or hundreds of people this evening so of course today …
: The grocery store was nearly out of our favorite brand of cookies, Tate’s. Lots of gluten-free …
: We watched the first episode of “Rome” last night. Polly Walker is va va va voom. I am …
: We may be dramatically overestimating China’s capabilities – David Ignatius on The Washington Post – …
: Parking Lots Have Become a Digital Lifeline — Without home internet access and with libraries and …
: Over on Twitter, I’m suggesting to @MikeElgan that he might want to consider moving to …
: On Twitter, @mat asks: “With the benefit of a couple of months of hindsight, what was your …
: That is an awful lot of Rome Yesterday I read some of “Storm before the Storm” a history of the fall of the Roman Republic, by …
: One year ago today I saw possibly the most ridiculous example of security theater I have ever witnessed A young woman ahead of me at airport security was walking with a cane and had a “boot” …
: 📺 I have finished watching I Claudius, for the fourth time. I now realize why I didn’t have any …
: I just want a professional haircut. I realize this is literally the smallest problem in the universe …
: The Hollywood Vigilante Actress Marisol Nichols, star of the TV series “Riverdale,” is a …
: “Having no plan is the plan! … Plans are for commies and the Danish. Here we do it fast …
: As a newly self-employed person, I’m learning that the weekend is a thing you schedule. My …
: John Cleese: “If you’re absolutely no good at something at all then you lack the skill …
: Hospital CEOs are keeping their seven-figure salaries while frontline workers go without pay
: Today on Cory Doctorow’s Pluralistic ++ The pandemic could make Big Tech our permanent …
: Larry Ellison Reveals His Big Data Battle Plan To Fight Coronavirus In Partnership With Trump White …
: AWS engineer Tim Bray resigns from Amazon following worker firings – Bray quit Amazon in protest …
: Inspired by a conversation with Mike Elgan yesterday, I’m going to do Facebook a lot less for …
: This Woman Was Isolated In Her Nursing Home, So Her Grandchildren Stood Outside With Signs To Ask …
: Man In Quarantine Can’t Remember How Long It’s Been Since He Danced Through Town Square Followed By …
: The Scientists Who Won’t Give Up on the Warp Drive — Dozens of engineers and physicists are …
: Terry Pratchett: Doctor Who is not science fiction. Thanks, Cory!
: School bus converted to mobile, full-time off-grid home. And it’s a really NICE home too.
: It’s the 50th Anniversary of Humanity’s Favorite Activity: Staring at an LCD
: The Coronavirus Is Rewriting Our Imaginations Science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson went off …
: Welcome to your work-from-home dystopia: Employers are using spyware to monitor remote employees' …
: What The U.S. Might Learn From China’s Approach To COVID-19 – New York Times health and …
: Boy raises a hammer during a solidarity rally for the 42,000 miners on strike in the Zonguldak coal …
: Wearing a mask is for smug liberals. Refusing to is for reckless Republicans. – Mask-wearing and …
: John Belushi reportedly visited the set of “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” on the day …
: The U.S. Needs Way More Than a Bailout to Recover From Covid-19 – We need a new New Deal to fix …
: Funniest work videoconferencing misadventures When videoconferencing meetings go wrong, you get to see flossing, naked husbands and more. …
: Every Question In Every Q&A Session Ever
: Airplane Mode – For grounded frequent flyers, this web page replicates the experience of being on a …
: Today on Cory Doctorow's Pluralistic Pluralistic: 02 May 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow ++ The mistrust epidemic The …
: Increasingly Desperate Alex Jones Says He Will Kill and Eat His Neighbors
: Microsoft lays out more detail on its 5G, edge computing and private wireless ambitions
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: Harlan Ellison: “I don’t take a piss without getting paid for it."
: Me, deciding to take advantage of pandemic downtime: “Yeah, 220, 221, whatever it takes."
: Covid-19 is 9.5-44x more fatal than seasonal flu — Scientific American — Flu deaths are counted in a …
: ME (1 month ago today): “How is it April already? This situation has been going on a long …
: We watched the latest episode of “The Good Fight” last night. I liked it. I …
: Cover art for the Erber Science Fiction series, Germany, 1976-1977. via
: The Invisible Man – Today, Explained podcast: Where in the world is Kim Jong Un? Vox Journalist …
: Biden’s Campaign of Isolation – The New York Times Daily podcast: Joe Biden is campaigning from his …
: URL for the micro meetup? I did not see that advance registration was required!
: In the Republican solution to the Trolley Problem, the top priority is saving the trolley.
: Ernest Hemingway supposedly wrote a six-word short story: “For Sale: Baby Shoes. Never …
: A former prosecutor dismantles Tara Reade’s sexual assault allegations against Biden. It just …
: California official calls for reopening so coronavirus can kill off the old and the weak: ‘It would …
: I’m hosting a “town hall” style Zoom meeting next week and I’m looking for a …
: Today on Cory Doctorow’s Pluralistic ++ “Swedish covid death rates soar above …
: They died for junk mail: Six workers died of COVID-19 at a Long Island, New York, warehouse for a …
: Last night, Julie and I watched the first episode of “Tales from the Loop,” an anthology series on …
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: Zoom Crasher Becomes Too Engrossed In Sales Meeting To Scream Obscenities
: Congress Concierge Health Clinic Quietly Gets Funding Boost — Congresspeople who reject government …
: The corporate right is giving us two choices: Work, or starve
: 67 bits of good unsolicited advice, and one modest joke, from Kevin Kelly on his 68th birthday.
: Underrated Netflix gems to add to your must-watch list — I’ve added most of these to the watchlist. …
: Today on Cory Doctorow’s Pluralistic ++ Cigna health insurers are telling investors …
: 101-year-old Angelina Friedman tested positive for coronavirus and recovered. Previously, she …
: Google is making Meet free for everyone — I’m sticking with Zoom for now. I know it works and I …
: I seem to be on a Rome kick lately I watched Britannia, with Julie, and am rewatching I, Claudius. I just started reading “Silver …
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: Damning Report Finds White House Ignored Skeletal Horsemen Galloping Through Sky As Early As January
: Obama: ‘I’m So Proud To Endorse Joe Biden—That’s Who They Went With, Huh?—For President’
: Trump Accuses New York Of Padding State’s Mortality Rate By Including African American Deaths
: Undaunted Texas Waffle House Waitress Has Been Expecting To Die There Every Day For The Past 20 …
: Teleconferencing Pastor Requests Any Worshipper Currently Speaking In Tongues Go On Mute
: Walgreens Introduces New Dumbass-Only Shopping Hours For Dipshits Who Don’t Know How To Stay 6 Feet …
: I’m thinking of trying Amethyst, a tiling window manager for the Mac, even though I have a mental …
: How to pitch an editor – Great tips from Esther Schindler, who knows, for freelance writers on how …
: Zoom taps Oracle for cloud deal, passing over Amazon, Microsoft
: Six years ago today, a girl in the park wanted me and Minnie to participate in a science experiment …
: Feels like the news has been the same every day for a couple of weeks, but something big will reach …
: Doctor Who: McGann, Eccleston & Tennant Doctors Unite For New Story — New Doctor Who miniseries …
: Fortnite and the Metaverse: Why Epic Games may build the next version of the Internet – Fortnite is …
: The Computer Scientist Who Can’t Stop Telling Stories – Pioneering computer scientist Donald Knuth …
: First-person account of how Covid-19 hit hard in a rural Georgia town – On the Today, Explained …
: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter was out of stock last time I was at the supermarket. I …
: Today on Cory Doctorow’s Pluralistic ++ Indie booksellers are doing pretty well in the …
: A former neighbor of Joe Biden’s accuser Tara Reade has come forward to corroborate her …
: The chairman of Tyson Foods warns the food supply chain is breaking – Neoliberalism treats …
: A New York ER doctor who treated coronavirus patients took her own life. – The New York Times “Make …
: San Diego officials are struggling with finding permanent housing foe 1,000 homeless people now …
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: Six years ago today was a weekend day and I went to the mall. Out and around people, not wearing a …
: I went grocery shopping yesterday. Plastic bag reuse has been suspended in California for the …
: You’ll Probably Forget What It Was Like to Live Through a Pandemic — People who live through big …
: When all this handwashing began I was using a harsh soap that gave me a small rash on my left wrist. …
: John Ritter guest starred on the last episode of Mannix in 1975. They used “The Brady …
: I went through a Southern Rock phase in college. I wore a cowboy hat. I was a pudgy Jew from Long …
: Microsoft Word Now Flags Two Spaces After a Period as an Error – “Wake me up when Word starts …
: I suck at not touching my face but I think about not touching my face while I’m touching my face so …
: Dog, me and Julie were sitting on the couch just now. Dog looked at me and straight-up belched, …
: Found Snapshots of a Secret 1960s Crossdressing Resort in the Catskills By Amy Faith on Messy Nessy …
: What We Can Learn From 1918 Influenza Diaries Smithsonian Magazine: When Dorman B.E. Kent, a …
: The 1Password team share their work-from-home setups “I’m going for “Mom from Kiki’s Delivery …
: Injections of Bleach? Beams of Light? Trump Is Self-Destructing Before Our Eyes “The notion …
: The Lockdowns Were the Black Swan [Holman W. Jenkins, Jr./WSJ] We did not need to lock down the …
: Coronavirus Overtakes Ninjas As Top Invisible Enemy [The Babylon Bee] What makes coronavirus even …
: The week before the shutdown here in San Diego I went to two social events – which is a lot …
: Ben Affleck Smoked A Cigarette While Wearing A Face Mask So Here Are The Pics [Lauren …
: Navy recommends reinstating captain of coronavirus-stricken aircraft carrier [Amanda Macias/CNBC]
: Opening a can if wildly corroded Spider-Man pasta [Twitter/DinosaurDracula]
: Today on Cory Doctorow’s Pluralistic ++ A GoFundMe to save NYC’s Forbidden Planet store. …
: I miss going to the grocery store to buy three things I’d realize I was out of apples or coffee, and then I’d go to the store and buy that and …
: Can the coronavirus be spread through farts? [Eric Hegedus/NYPost] Australian doctors aren’t …
: How close are we to breaking encryption with quantum computing? [Steven J. …
: Breitbart literally says that Trump’s opponents misquoted him by reporting the exact words …
: Wi-Fi is getting its biggest upgrade in 20 years [Jacob Kastrenakes/The Verge] Wi-Fi is getting 4x …
: I feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out for coffee.
: TV show idea: “Zeno, Warrior Princess,” about a transgender Classical Greek philosopher …
: Not a Joke: The Trump Admin Hired a Dog Breeder to Run Its Coronavirus Task Force [Bess Levin/Vanity …
: An old friend just shared a Dropbox folder of hundreds of photos he took when we were teenagers …
: Claim that coronavirus came from a lab in China completely unfounded, scientists say [Kashmira …
: The Coronavirus in America: The Year Ahead [Donald G. McNeil Jr./The New York Times] An excellent …
: Are You Sitting Down? Standing Desks Are Overrated [Aaron E. Carroll/New York Times] I’ve been …
: The Year 2038 Problem [Reset]: If you enjoyed the Year 2000 crisis, we get to do it again in 2038. …
: Who’s Organizing the Lockdown Protests [The Daily] “An informal coalition of influential …
: Wheels on a shopping cart be like [yeahiwasintheshit.tumblr.com]
: The problem with read-later bookmarking services like Pocket and Instapaper is your queue is filled …
: My women friends are showing their coronavirus hairdos on Instagram. Here’s mine.
: “Remain calm! All is well!" The White House maintains order during the coronavirus …
: CDC Director Robert Redfield warned the coronavirus pandemic might come back in the winter, worse …
: Why do people think 5G causes coronavirus? The 5G coronavirus conspiracy theory[Reset] A vague throwaway line in a European newspaper in …
: What to expect in the next year or two of the pandemic Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times science and health reporter, who has successfully anticipated …
: Gentleman on Reddit espouses the brilliant fan theory that “Star Trek” takes place in …
: Stories to Wash Hands By [The Memory Palace/Nate DiMeo]: “20 stories, each 20 seconds, to …
: Today on Cory Doctorow’s Pluralistic ++ Calls by the music industry to put copyright filters …
: Trump is going down hard in November Everyone is in denial about November [Daniel W. Drezner/The Washington Post] We’re only in the …
: "World on Fire" Last night we watched about 15 minutes of the second episode “World on Fire,” a British …
: A view into an alternate universe A big part of my job is – or was – attending conferences. When I learn – or …
: With the nation healthy, tranquil and prosperous, our President turns his attention to thoughtful …
: Barr Threatens Legal Action Against Governors Over Lockdowns [Chris Strohm/Bloomberg] Even before …
: McConnell slams brakes on next round of coronavirus aid [Burgess Everett/Politico] Captain of the …
: Whole lotta love: Robert Plant gave a big donation to a company that makes PPE [Erica Banas/WMMR]
: Today on Cory Doctorow’s Pluralistic Beware of fake “Someone you came in contact with …
: How far back does your resume go? Question for my over-50 associates: How far back does your resume go? I’ve seen tips that …
: How Coffee Became a Modern Necessity [Augustine Sedgewick/WSJ]: “For much of its 500-year …
: Vintage Season: C.L. Moore and the “Golden Age” of Science Fiction [Eric …
: The Woman Who Might Find Us Another Earth Sara Seager is a tenured professor of physics and …
: vintagegeekculture: Star Trek art designer Matt Jeffries, with one of his most famous creations: …
: KOOL cigarette ad from the 1960s. via
: The temperature will probably get up past 90 by Saturday. I am looking forward to complaining about …
: Today on Cory Doctorow’s Pluralistic.net: Denmark is denying bailouts to companies …
: Tales of romance and relationships during the pandemic Covering Covid [Embedded] A woman tries …
: The poop emoji was born in Japan in 1997 and launched a generation of cute poop. This is the cute …
: Cast of Pulp Fiction and Quentin Tarantino, 1994 via I remember I didn’t want to see this for years …
: “Wouldn’t you like to be a Pepper too?” 1970’s campaign via
: A paid testimonial from Basil Rathbone. 1960. via
: “Kids are murder!” - Sanatogen Tonic Wine ad with a mail-in coupon to receive a sample …
: Del Cerro hills, from a few minutes’ walk from home. The air is amazingly clear. 📷
: Don’t care what the answer is. I’m keeping mine.
: Coronavirus will also cause a loneliness epidemic COVID-9 exacerbates another long-standing and …
: Procrastination is Not Laziness David Cain at Raptitude: … procrastinators tend to be people …
: Why Walking Matters—Now More Than Ever Shane O’Mara at The Wall Street Journal: Walking is …
: How NOT to Wear a Mask [Tara Parker-Pope/The New York Times]
: Aaron E. Carroll at The New York Times: “I’m a Doctor. If I Drop Food on the Kitchen Floor, I Still …
: Who’s Right About The Economy? Wall Street Or Silicon Valley? Brian McCullough, host of …
: Remdisivir, a drug that shows promising signs as a potential treatment for COVID-19, was developed …
: “80% of the stimulus tax break will go to 43,000 people” [Cory Doctorow/Pluralistic]
: “If Americans pour back out in force, all will appear quiet for perhaps three weeks. Then the …
: Sweet Farm, in Half Moon Bay, CA, will let you add a live goat cam to your next virtual meeting. The …
: I’m trying to remember when I last had a day off work, and I can’t recall. Weekend …
: Tell-Tale Tongue, Holloways Brand Pills, 1956 via
: Is the Virus on My Clothes? My Shoes? My Hair? My Newspaper? - Tara Parker-Pope on The New York …
: Peter Tsai, who invented the N95 mask 30 years ago, is coming out of retirement to help find safe …
: An Austin school district deployed 110 buses equipped with Wi-Fi to neighborhoods and apartments …
: I’ve done something counterintuitive to ease news anxiety: Turned on news notifications on my …
: Caleb, a young man whose life is going nowhere, finds escape and purpose on YouTube. First of a new …
: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez interviews from quarantine with the New York Times Daily podcast and …
: Nearly a half century after the OPEC oil embargo almost brought the US to its knees, we’re now …
: In this prophetic science fiction story from 2015, a cooking blogger keeps up a cheerful attitude …
: Julie sent this to me idk why
: Cory Doctorow at Pluralistic: The health insurance industry is thriving during the pandemic. With …
: An Australian family recreates a 15-hour holiday flight in their living room, after coronavirus …
: Carnival kept sending out cruise ships while knowing it was risky. And the chairman of Carnival is …
: Armed far-right groups are behind anti-lockdown protests in Michigan and elsewhere. They love Trump …
: ME: I have 300+ podcast episodes in my queue. I will never listen to them all! ALSO ME: This looks …
: Comic-Con Cancels 2020 Event, Sets 2021 Return - Erik Pederson on Deadline.com. Disappointing but …
: John Horton Conway, a ‘Magical Genius’ in Math, Dies at 82. Siobhan Roberts writes The New York …
: China Police Censor Tales of Post-Coronavirus Renewal. New York Times journalist Paul Mozur finds …
: Some people say we need to open the economy soon and if a few thousand people – or hundred …
: Dr. Tony Fauci: From One Pandemic to Another - Epidemic. AIDS activists in the 1980s were surprised …
: Judy Garland and the long history of ‘Me Too’ in Hollywood - Retropod: Judy Garland …
: Kicked Out of China - The New York Times Daily podcast. As the pandemic spread, China expelled …
: All praise, no pay - Today, Explained: Essential workers in the food, transportation, and retail …
: We had drama. Julie commented at bedtime that she hadn’t seen Vivvie, our slate-gray cat, for …
: Trump meets “The Honeymooners.” - video Ralph Kramden for President!
: What AOC Gets that Bernie Didn’t - Michael Grunwald at Politico Progressive pot-stirrer Sean …
: Why Aren’t We All on the Same Time Zone? - Patrick J Kiger on How Stuff Works Time zones are …
: One of my favorite features of the iPhone is the ability to get notifications for replies to …
: Police department reminds residents to wear pants while checking mailbox “You know who you …
: “It’ll all be over by Christmas”: Charles Stross predicts a two-year coronavirus …
: Watch the weird cinematic rabbit hole that is Blade Runner: The Lost Cut - Adi Robertson at The …
: Rodney Dangerfield is cooler than you are
: The coronavirus pandemic is heightening the need for “Right to Repair” – …
: (How) American Collapse Resembles Soviet Collapse: Six Ways America’s Collapse is Eerily Like the …
: I did not love the Deadwood movie, but I loved Al Swearengen’s final line. [YouTube]
: ‘That Thing You Do’ cast plans reunion fundraiser for coronavirus relief [USAToday] The …
: Bloomberg News Killed Investigation, Fired Reporter, Then Sought To Silence His Wife [David …
: Today on Cory Doctorow’s Pluralistic: Amazon fires tech workers for warehouse worker …
: I’ve always thought that fundamentalists support Trump because they’re idiots who choose …
: This does not look comfortable to me but Minnie seems to love it. I think it’s because the concrete …
: Minnie is back to herself, energetic and cheerful. This morning when she came in she was very …
: We watched episode one of “World on Fire,” a big-budget British miniseries about England …
: John Scalzi talks about how he did a “reboot” of the classic H. Beam Piper novel …
: Matthew Yglesias explains the argument over the post office bailout [Vox] No, the post office …
: 5 of the 13 things Messy Nessy Chic found on the Internet Monday 100-year-old Bell Telephone ad; …
: Trump goes postal, coronavirus in the UK vs. Ireland, and more on Cory Doctorow's Pluralistic.net Today on Cory Doctorow’s Pluralistic.net Trump plans to murder the US Postal Service, in …
: Minnie is recovering nicely, but she won't eat her regular kibble or canned food. Minnie is hopping around on three legs and occasionally using the injured one, which suggests it is …
: I am having my feelings and thoughts without guilt Monotony, frustration over having to wear a mask, being unable to take the dog to the park, or go …
: Giving men false confidence starts early.
: I, too, am an armchair epidemiologist and I’m pretty sure I’m spelling that right. …
: This is one of our neighbors. He is unfriendly and never says hello. 📷
: I’ve always like this house around the corner from ours. 📷
: I am not a sentimental man who cries at rainbows and flowers, but when I saw this in the supermarket …
: The Jungle Prince of Delhi For 40 years, journalists chronicled the eccentric royal family of Oudh, …
: If TP shortages continue there’s always the three shells youtu.be/n7nFEnFtv…
: James Nicoll reviews Isaac Asimov’s 1950s time-travel novel, “The End of Eternity,” and finds it …
: Passover was a really big deal when I was a kid We had the second seder at our house, with upwards of 20 aunts, uncles and cousins swarming over the …
: Happy Easter! He is risen! But do not talk to Him until He has had coffee because seriously he’s …
: One of the crazy things about this pandemic is that it’s all going to be over in a year or a few …
: Last night I was getting ready for bed and looked at my pedometer app and saw it was at 9,800 steps …
: Today on Cory Doctorow’s Pluralistic.net [Private equity] companies that “looted …
: I just cancelled my $119 annual Dropbox account, which expires in 10 days. I’m pretty sure I …
: The vet gave us parking lot service: when I arrived, I called from the parking lot, a vet tech came …
: I filed a bug report with Flexibits about a Fantastical 3 problem I had in February. I’m just …
: Manischewitz wine is popular in Caribbean communities. [Nadege Green/WLRN] This story makes me …
: Minnie was still hopping along on three legs this morning and looking pretty miserable. I called the …
: Gavin Newsom Declares California a ‘Nation-State’ Last year, Democratic state Senator and party …
: Alan Brown reviews a the recently published lost Robert A. Heinlein novel, “The Pursuit of the …
: Well, shit. Minnie injured her foot and now she’s walking on three legs. Nothing visibly wrong …
: Larry David, Master of His Quarantine Maureen Dowd at the New York Times: When I ask if he is …
: I've been drinking a meal replacement shake called Huel for breakfast for months For several months, my daily breakfast has been about a pint of a thick “nutritionally …
: Kansas Republicans are fighting to kill Christians and Jews [Zack Budryk/The Hill] Kansas’s Republican-led legislator overturned the Democratic governor’s ban on …
: Automating micro.blog categories using emoji. Nerdy fun! Listening to the Monday microcast with @macgenie and @manton yesterday, I learned that you can use …
: Appalling/delightful Disney horror/comic mashups! IT heroes! Forging PDF signatures! And more! On today’s Pluralistic by Cory Doctorow Disney horror/comic mashups are appalling/delightful …
: Feds are seizing medical supplies from hospitals without saying what they’re doing with it [Noam N. …
: New study investigates California’s possible herd immunity to COVID-19 [Caitlin Conrad/KSBW] …
: The 10 Most Offensive Movies Ever Made [Keith Langston/Screenrant] (1) The writer Tad Williams and …
: Swiss physicist Nicolas Gisin may have solved one of the fundamental mysteries of physics: Does time exist? Does Time Really Flow? New Clues Come From a Century-Old Approach to Math Relativity makes no …
: Coronavirus breaks my iPhone: FaceID doesn't work when you wear a mask Privileged person problem: When I go to the supermarket, I keep the shopping list on my iPhone. When …
: Cory Doctorow's Pluralistic.net: Cleveland Plain Dealer massacre; TSA child molesters and more Today on Cory Doctorow’s Pluralistic.net Cleveland Plain Dealer’s new owners massacre …
: What will you do the day social distancing ends? I think we’ll be cautious and not rush out to any restaurants or crowded social gatherings. …
: The computer language COBOL debuted in 1960, and it’s still running the world’s …
: Rules Rewritten: Managing Data Centers Through the Pandemic: Data center operators are reducing …
: This looks like a useful new feature on Inoreader: Convert Almost Any Webpage Into RSS Feed With …
: Social distancing is getting hard in our house. And we’re normally people who have a limitless …
: 500-year-old manuscript contains one of earliest known uses of the “F-word” Scotland is the home of …
: Life Without Toilet Paper Is Better Frank Bures at Vice: If you were walking barefoot through your …
: Shkreli’s plea from prison: Free me and I’ll cure COVID-19 [Beth Mole/Ars Technica]: Disgraced …
: This is what happens when a narcissist runs a crisis Jennifer Senior at the New York Times: Since …
: White House creates ‘Team Telecom’ to probe whether foreign telcos should be allowed …
: New Jersey seeks COBOL programmers to fix unemployment system: “… many of the state’s systems …
: Cato Networks raises $77 million for cloud security platform that protects remote workforces Cato …
: Cambridge Analytica and other abusers killed the open, collaborative, API-driven Web 2.0. …
: Photos of a computer shop that’s been locked since 2001, when the store owner, who also owned …
: LA crime drops 23% during the pandemic, including an 11% drop in family violence crime, even though …
: The stimulus bill seems big – $2 trillion – but it’s just one week of median …
: After a church pastor in California announced he would defy shelter in place orders and hold …
: New video technique lets you replace the background on videos without any greenscreen required. Via …
: Why is Trump touting hydroxychloroquine? Follow the money Trump and his cronies are investors in Sanofi, the French drugmaker that makes Plaquenil, the …
: Most New York coronavirus deaths were among men and 86% were people with underlying illnesses such …
: Irony: Calling someone stupid, naive or malicious for failing to anticipate a leak in a speech that …
: “Nuclear-powered locomotive” 1979Via
: Why not the best? Red Hat vet Paul Cormier takes over as CEO Red Hat’s new CEO and president …
: Who Reads Cosy Catastrophes? Jo Walton: Cosy catastrophes are science fiction novels in which some …
: Bug bounty platforms buy researcher silence, violate labor laws, critics say Bug bounty platforms …
: I have long thought that the two greatest threats the United States face are hyperpartisanship and …
: A Recipe for Caesar [Common Sense With Dan Carlin] Either we find our way out of the current …
: Frontier says insufficient fiber investment led to bankruptcy [Mike Robuck/FierceTelecom]
: New IBM CEO Arvind Krishna is shaking up the leadership team his first day on the job. [Maria …
: ‘You’re basically right next to the nuclear reactor.’ Dr. Cory Deburghgraeve has volunteered for one …
: How do you win a war when your government abandons you? Interviews with doctors and nurses …
: During a Pandemic, an Unanticipated Problem: Out-of-Work Health Workers Healthcare providers are …
: Apple has sourced over 20 million protective masks, now building and shipping face shields - …
: A Letter to the City - NextDraft Ex-New Yorker Dave Pell: I lived above an off-Broadway theater on …
: YouTube is boosting ridiculous conspiracy theories about how 5G is the real cause of coronavirus. …
: Illinois is reinstating use of barbarically cruel physical restraints against special needs kids - …
: Apple acquires Voysis for natural language recognition, presumably to beef up Siri - Bloomberg …
: Is Huawei an open source champion now? Huawei? The company joined the US-based open-source patent …
: “I wouldn’t worry about even getting COVID-19 when COVID-20 is going to be released in a few months …
: Coronavirus cooking: Isolation is teaching us a better way to think about food. - Rebecca Onion at …
: Consider the Possibility That Trump Is Right On China And consider that Trump might be right about …
: Coronavirus hurts Silicon Valley caterers and event businesses Salvador Rodriguez at CNBC: …
: Today is looking like it was not a great day to cut down on coffee. Tomorrow is not looking great …
: I think we’ll go out to brunch today at DZ Akins, an excellent kosher-style deli just a few minutes …
: Jack Butler at the National Review calls Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation” series a …
: Julie and I are both easily annoyed today. I came into her office to tell her about something that …
: Private equity is using the pandemic to loot public health facilities, such as hospitals and medical …
: A dystopian Reagan era video game foresaw the economic crises of the 21st century.
: LA landlord threatens to evict 300 tenants if they don’t pay rent in full, in violation fo …
: Supercut of Fox News hosts insisting coronavirus is no cause concern, a Democratic/MSM conspiracy, …
: What did people do before toilet paper? The ancient Romans wiped their butts with a …
: One month ago today I went to the La Mesa-Foothills Democratic Club general meeting with a hundred …
: Earthquake. About 50 minutes ago. Just a minor one, no damage or injury that I’m aware of. But it’s …
: Help me with a thought experiment here. Those of you who identify as Republican or conservative: …
: From Google News a few seconds ago. Republicans and Democrats perceive parallel universes with …
: Researchers are building nearly microscopic robots, made from living cells, that live in petri dishes Meet the Xenobots, Virtual Creatures Brought to Life Xenobots are designed to roboticists using …
: A long and pointless post about coffee Just before the lockdown went in place in California, I had brunch with Julie at Farmer’s …
: If you’re not nice to the barista, you’ll get decaf. 11 Behind-the-Counter Secrets of …
: I’ve been troubled by insomnia for months, but just last night I was thinking how glad I was …
: I’ve seen a bunch of inspiring chalk messages around the neighborhood this week.
: ME (grocery shopping while wearing mask, consults shopping list app on iPhone) MY iPHONE’S …
: Report on an excursion to the supermarket I went to the big Von’s on University Avenue to stock up today I wore nitrile gloves, as I did …
: I still get occasional comments on this article I wrote 10 years ago. Ten years! 5 reasons why people hate Apple I just got an email this morning. The email had no context. Just a …
: Baked potato + kosher-style spicy brown mustard: Good idea? Discuss.
: I just did the census. For “origin” I put in “American,” after Julie pointed …
: In the “Reign of Terror” episode of “I, Claudius,” a character being beaten …
: On a very special shelter-in-place episode of the design podcast 99% Invisible, host Roman Mars …
: Something else to think about: Potential disruptions in the food supply chain. Skimmed and bookmarked for later reading. Food supply worries farmers in US as coronavirus disrupts …
: How to play Scrabble. Classic Ze Frank. Funny - YouTube
: Larry David: “I basically want to address the idiots out there…. You’re passing …
: The US is losing jobs drastically faster than other nations -- by design Emmanual Saez and Gabriel Zucman, economists at the University of California, Berkeley, writing at …
: A major medical staffing company just slashed benefits for doctors and nurses fighting coronavirus Yes, you read that right. The company, Alteon Health, slashed benefits to emergency room healthcare …
: Seth Davis was stranded at Los Angeles Airport for three months after his wallet was stolen Christmas Eve. Until a few days ago, he and his seizure dog, Poppy, lived at Terminal 6, sleeping on the floor …
: Loss of taste is a warning sign for COVID-19 so if you wear any of the following, immediately …
: A year ago today I was at San Diego Airport and saw this tile for sale at one of the shops. For the …
: That sad moment when you realize it may be time to throw one of your favorite T-shirts into the rag …
: The GOP is pushing forward with plans to kill Obamacare because if you’re a Republican now seems to …
: Las Vegas, with 150,000 vacant hotel rooms, has the homeless sleeping on the ground in parking lots. …
: That time there was a Communist revolution inside the online game Runescape - Emilie Rākete at The …
: Joe Biden is getting a pass on sexual assault and misbehavior allegations Arwa Mahdawi at Common …
: OpenTable will allow people to reserve shopping times at supermarkets - Taylor Lyles at The Verge …
: How social distancing looks from the virus’s point of view. Thanks, Cory!
: You shouldn’t use Zoom; it’s a privacy disaster. - John Gruber at Daring Fireball I …
: High Fidelity at 20: the sneakily dark edge of a comedy about bad breakups Scott Tobias at The …
: His actual name is “Victor Von Doom.” Shouldn’t that have been kind of a red flag?
: 📷I saw this sign today on my walk. No, I have not got religion. I am still the same nonebelieving …
: Saying the quiet part very loud, Trump admits “You’d never have a Republican elected in this country …
: A Las Vegas farm feeds 4,000 pigs slops made from waste food from casinos. The farm is now struggling. Tiana Bohner at Fox5 Las Vegas: “Pigs are a lot like us so they love sweets, candies, ice …
: Glice is building artificial skating rinks with plastic panels instead of ice On Roofs or in Basements, a New Way to Ice Skate You can use Glice rinks year-round or in tropical …
: An astrophysicist proves he is not a rocket scientist when he gets magnets stuck up his nose while …
: According to BMI calculations, I am at the high end of healthy weight range and could still be …
: Making the case for municipal broadband - Cory Doctorow
: The Koch network is pushing for an end to covid lockdown and social distancing, while sending its …
: Lax antitrust regulations killed a plan to stockpile ventilators Cory Doctorow:: 13 years ago, the US Dept of HHS awarded a contract to design low-cost, reliable …
: Pandemic surveillance will be abused Before using tools built by data harvesting companies to track the coronavirus pandemic, we must …
: Big tech conferences could be a COVID-19 casualty Lindsay Clark at the Register predicts smaller, fewer tech conferences post-COVID-19. My first was …
: Julie took this photo of Minnie saying good morning to her. My legs at the right. 📷
: Julie took this marvelous photo of a mallard swimming in the pond in our backyard. 📷
: Julie took these outstanding photos of Vivvie. 📷
: The problem with making coffee is you haven’t had your coffee when you’re making your coffee.
: I saw this excellent sidewalk chalk art walking the dog yesterday. Drive to the flower.
: Portrait of a weekly newspaper in the small town of Julian, California, circulation in the hundreds, …
: Social distancing vs. economic recovery is a false choice. According ta recent study, cities that …
: Cory Doctorow: The US coronavirus epidemic is Part 2 of the 2008 financial meltdown, in the wake of …
: Zacharius Braciszewicz says Trump will be turned out of office in five weeks, but the butcher’s bill …
: Before reporting to the American people, coronavirus task force members need to say how wonderful …
: Doonesbury captured Trump 44 years ago, in this strip about Chairman Mao. via
: Screenwriter J.D. Shapiro on the making of the 2000 movie, “Battlefield: Earth:” …
: Stella, a dog, jumps with gusto into piles of leaves. - video
: Sophie Lewis at CBSNews.com: Walmart reports increased sales for tops but not pants
: We’ve come full rectangle: Polaroid is reborn out of The Impossible Project Devin Coldewey at …
: Mike Dano on Light Reading: Satellite company OneWeb is reportedly filing for bankruptcy and Elon …
: Podcast downloads in the US have fallen about 10%. True crime podcasts are down the most, and comedy …
: The San Diego City Attorney is seeking an injunction against Instacart Chris Jennewein at the Times …
: British Drivers Swearing I found this enjoyable both for the colorful expletives and for the many …
: How Huawei is dividing Western nations Scott Bade at TechCrunch: Western countries are split on …
: Uranus Ejected a Giant Plasma Bubble During Voyager 2’s Visit - The New York Times Uranus is very …
: This painting by Rudolf Sieber Lonati was used on the covers of Silber-Grusel-Krimi #213 and Larry …
: 1961 cover art by Mitchell Hooks Via
: SF Bar Owner on Yelp’s GoFundMe partnership: ‘Fuck All of These People Entirely” - Eve Batey - Eater …
: Fearsome Flush - Real Ghostbusters (Kenner) Via
: The sexual assault allegation against Joe Biden, explained - Anna North - Vox
: Opinion - The Religious Right’s Hostility to Science Is Crippling Our Coronavirus Response Katherine …
: ‘White-Collar Quarantine’ Over Virus Spotlights Class Divide Noam Scheiber, Nelson D. Schwartz and …
: I have developed my own modification to the standard hand-washing technique you’ve seen on …
: Nurses Share Coronavirus Stories Anonymously in an Online Document - Edmund Lee - The New York Times …
: How the Pandemic Will End - Ed Yong - The Atlantic
: One month ago today I took Minnie in to the vet for her bordatella and heartworm test. Two years ago …
: Coronavirus changes everything about the 2020 election. Trump is now the favorite to win. All he has …
: Cory Doctorow: San Francisco’s DNA Lounge is delivering cocktails in mason jars. A mason jar …
: Cory Doctorow: “Reasonable covid food-safety advice: Sanitize your hands and your cart, …
: Cory Doctorow: Right-wing extremists who denounce their opponents' incivility are using the same …
: Cory Doctorow: Real-estate plutocrats are making a killing on the Senate stimulus. And guess what …
: Cory Doctorow: [The US is now the epicenter of the pandemic] a: “Trump wants the country to go …
: Gentleman buys a DVD at a flea market containing 80 minutes of previously unseen Seinfeld bloopers.
: Andrew Sullivan uses his memories of the AIDS epidemic to cast light on coronavirus and society. How to Survive a Plague It’s quite possible that by the end of all this, almost every American will …
: If we need to kill grandma and grandpa to save the economy, then fuck the economy. A far-right rallying cry: Older Americans should volunteer to work This article compares current …
: Not even three weeks on lockdown and the people who were once sneering at this as being no worse …
: People who say cruel things on the internet are often not the cartoon villains we imagine them to be. He urged saving the economy over protecting those who are ‘not productive’ from the …
: Any micro.bloggers in San Diego?
: As part of our morning wake-up routine I’ve been giving Minnie three chicken-flavored treats …
: With Affirmed Networks purchase, Microsoft looks to plug 5G into Azure - Light Reading. With its …
: How Triscuits got their name It has nothing to do with the number “three.” And it’s actually very …
: Good news for gig workers in stimulus bill, but Uber CEO talks rubbish about “third way” to classify employees Gig workers for companies like Uber, Lyft would get unemployment benefits under $2 trillion Senate …
: Huawei ‘rip and replace’ price tag doubles to $2B amid coronavirus outbreak …
: Microsoft is right now groaning under the weight of a 52,000-person internal Reply-All email storm. …
: Trump threatened to sue media outlets that air a political commercial that accurately quoted his …
: Cory Doctorow reviews Thomas Pikkety's new book, "Capital and Ideology." The thesis of the new book is that “the ‘laws’ of economics are actually policies, …
: Journalist practices social distancing in unexpected encounter with a herd of bison. “Oh my …
: Who would you be willing to sacrifice – have them die – to keep the stock market up? Sullen teen …
: A programmer switches gears – so to speak – and takes up a career as a bike courier. …
: On Reddit: “My dad is a pilot and during the pandemic decided to make a work simulator at …
: Teaser that ran in movie theaters for the Max Fleischer “Superman” cartoons, 1941 …
: My little experiment using micro.blog categories to automate selective syndication to Tumblr and …
: Today on Cory Doctorow's Pluralistic.net The Internet Archive is supporting unlimited book-lending during the crisis. “… they …
: Second Life-maker calls it quits on their VR follow-up techcrunch.com/2020/03/2… Linden Lab …
: The travel, conference and tourism industry are going to be in recession for a long time after coronavirus is a distant memory. As Charles Stross notes here in another context, people are going to be reluctant to gather in big …
: Shopping run: I went to the supermarket yesterday – for the benefit of my local friends, the …
: Julie said today that I am “contumacious.”
: So like I said, I ordered a new iPad Pro last night. I am a confessed Apple fanboy, so I’m …
: I excavated my briefcase from where it was buried under cardboard boxes in my office. I thought I …
: "Even during a global pandemic, nobody in Boston eats manhattan clam chowder" The coronavirus leftovers: Twitter users share grocery store items no one is apparently buying …
: "Julia Roberts’ performance is the magic spell that makes Pretty Woman work." Appreciating “Pretty Woman,” 30 years later www.refinery29.com/en-ca/202… I …
: I see a few social media darwinists saying we should be willing to sacrifice lives in the short term …
: Protect Yourself From Coronavirus Grocery Shopping www.consumerreports.org/food-shop… This is …
: I have committed iPad Pro 13" My brain has been tempting me with the new iPad Pro, about how nice it will be to have that big …
: How Biscoff Cookies Became the Snack We Crave on Planes www.cntraveler.com/story/how… I never …
: How to boost your home’s Wi-Fi www.theverge.com/2020/3/19…
: It’s time to track people’s smartphones to ensure they self-isolate during this global …
: Video: Italian mayors berate citizens for breaking quarantine. “Getting in your mobile …
: My first multi-person Zoom coffee break this morning. We discussed bronies and the catechism. I …
: I saw this excellent sidewalk art near the house. “Just keep walking” can be seen as inspirational …
: The Grass Is Always Greener by George Malcolm-Smith Bantam Books 410, 1948 Cover by Casey Jones …
: Law firm warns work-from-home employees against eavesdropping by Alexa, baby monitors, etc. Locked-Down Lawyers Warned Alexa Is Hearing Confidential Calls - Bloomberg Mishcon de Reya LLP, the …
: Tlaib proposes minting two $1 trillion platinum coins to finance monthly coronavirus debit cards …
: Today on Cory Doctorow's Pluralistic A law firm is telling employees to switch off smart speakers and similar devices while working from …
: Cory Doctorow: How prepper media is dealing with coronavirus Prepperism is about being the individual savior, while solving a community or global crisis requires …
: “woefully concupiscent snails” would be a good name for a podcast.
: ME THERMOMETER: Your temperature is “don’t be such a hypochondriac you don’t have …
: ME (before the rona): <Bleeding profusely, skin inflamed, boils, hacking wheezing cough, …
: We’re “taking our temperature with a mercury thermometer” years old.
: ME (before the rona): I haven’t been out except to walk the dog and run essential errands. All …
: From the comments: She is holding the floppy in the one spot you’re not supposed to touch it. via
: If you’re going to fake paying attention with Zoom backgrounds, make it a looping video Use a …
: I saw this hopeful sign while walking the dog. 📷 🎉
: I just ordered clippers for a home haircut. I am prepared for the apocalypse.
: I followed @bestoftimes this morning and added two books to my to-be-read list from his feed. …
: Coronavirus: Drive-in theaters report uptick in business - Axios Fond memories of going to drive-ins …
: Mel Gibson - The Road Warrior (1981) via
: Jungle Comics #93 (1947), cover by Joe Doolin Via There is a lot going on here.
: We need a moonshot program to build a first-class healthcare system in the US in the next year or …
: This Is How We Beat the Coronavirus www.theatlantic.com/ideas/arc…
: Trump viciously attacks NBC News reporter in extended rant after being asked for message to …
: Trump is outbidding state agencies for medical supplies. “Trump has refused to coordinate federal procurements of emergency supplies for states, saying …
: Right to Repair is important during a pandemic, because medical professionals are the right people to make decisions on field-repairing hospital equipment, not med-tech company shareholders and their lawyers - Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net/2020/03/2…
: Charter is now letting employees to work from home . www.lightreading.com/cable-vid…
: I saw Lake Murray looking spectacular this afternoon. 📸
: We’re not going back to normal: Social distancing is here to stay for much more than a few weeks. It …
: Senator Richard Burr Warned Of Coronavirus Effects In Private Meeting - NPR Even while GOP leaders were ridiculing and downplaying coronavirus risks, at least one – …
: Steve Sinofsky compares the evolution of the iPad Pro vs. laptops replacing many PCs and PC servers replacing mainframes. The newer, smaller, more flexible device begins to take on the characteristics of the older, bigger, …
: Empty Grocery Shelves Are Alarming, But They're Not Permanent America’s grocery supply chains are going strong. Shelves are bare because of spiked demand. …
: Cory Doctorow: Fox News is a suicide cult. Theirs and Trump’s initial coronavirus denialism is …
: Cory Doctorow: “How to structure a fair covid bailout: Stimulus, not private jets.” …
: Cory Doctorow: The Democrats' worst Congressman is out of a job “Congress’s worst Democrat is Dan Lipinski, a corrupt, anti-abortion, corporatist, …
: 15 Broadway Plays and Musicals You Can Watch On Stage From Home www.playbill.com/article/1…
: Beijing fears Covid-19 is a turning point for China and globalization China didn’t start coronavirus, but Chinese incompetence and authoritarianism is a big part of …
: Jeet Heer: The Democratic party's DC leadership is failing the coronavirus test Congressional Democrats are to the right of the GOP on coronavirus relief. If Sanders, Warren, and …
: We live in Zoom now www.nytimes.com/2020/03/1…
: ‘Friends’ Reunion Special Delayed at HBO Max www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed… …
: I heard you like coronavirus memes so here are 28 coronavirus memes
: When your phone links you to a crime: How law enforcement used a “geofence” warrant to identify a suspect of a crime he didn’t commit. Google tracked his bike ride past a burglarized home. That made him a suspect. …
: Dr. Fabiano Di Marco, a doctor in a hospital in Bergamo, Italy, shares his story: “It’s …
: The origin stories of the peace sign, smiley face and power button symbol. There are symbols all …
: If you must smoke while wearing your influenza mask, 1918 reddit.com/r/OldScho…
: How to avoid the time-suck of social networks while working at home www.zdnet.com/article/h…
: Bill Gates: Countries shut for coronavirus could bounce back in weeks — …
: Sister Maria Elena Romero, a cloistered nun, offers advice on social distancing, which nuns and …
: U.S. Virus Plan Anticipates 18-Month Pandemic and Widespread Shortages …
: Cory Doctorow: Plague precautions from 1665. A comprehensive list, resembling extreme measures we might see today – both virtues and flaws …
: Cory Doctorow: "Bigoted Republican Congressjerk votes against coronavirus relief because it might cover same-sex partnerships." Cory: “The Republican Party, folks. The party of death and poverty and tragedy and hate. …
: John Green on coronavirus: “Togetherness is the superpower of our species. Like, yeah, we as …
: American Airlines blew $15B on stock buybacks to benefit shareholders, jacked up prices and …
: NYT: Trump Now Claims He Always Knew the Coronavirus Would Be a Pandemic www.nytimes.com/2020/03/1… Trump lies compulsively, and many times a day, about things that …
: Scientists warn we may need to live with social distancing for a year or more …
: Facebook was marking legitimate news articles about the coronavirus as spam due to a software bug …
: San Diego leaders back freeze on evictions tied to coronavirus outbreak despite landlord concerns …
: California Governor Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday he has put the California National Guard on alert …
: Suddenly unemployed, San Diego workers grapple with how to pay rent and utility, grocery bills …
: The Atlantic: America’s Restaurants Will Need a Miracle Social distancing could prove devastating to the restaurant industry, as restaurants are becoming …
: Having a wonderful time, 1969 www.reddit.com/r/TheWayW…
: Scientific American: Time Has No Meaning at the North Pole On the research vessel, Polarstern, at the North Pole, time zones, seasons and even day and night …
: This Tom Hanks Story Will Make You Feel Less Bad www.nytimes.com/2020/03/1…
: “There is nothing in this world that occurs to you that has not occurred to me first. That is …
: Charter employees are fuming as the Internet and phone provider prohibits working from home, despite coronavirus. One engineer sent an angry mailblast to a SVP and hundreds of engineers. He doesn’t work at …
: Cory Doctorow: Be sure to fill out your census. Do it online or by phone. Filling out your census is …
: Cory Doctorow’s Twitter account was suspended for a day, because of a list of trolls he …
: Family Room Decor, 1970s retropopcult.tumblr.com/post/6128…
: Andrew Cuomo Is the Control Freak We Need Right Now www.nytimes.com/2020/03/1… The qualities …
: We are legit running low on TP. May have to use cats instead.
: Andrew Sullivan: Reality Arrives to the Trump Era Andrew Sullivan finds similarities between the initial public reactions to the coronavirus, the gay …
: A white Republican mayor seeks the truth about Tulsa’s race massacre a century ago …
: Two more seasons of Bosch, then no more. Alas! www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed…
: Even with coronavirus, the US toilet paper supply remains strong. Interesting article for supply chain nerds. “Barring a new craze for mummy costumes, the actual use of toilet paper is unlikely to …
: He comes to talk to his dad every day since the nursing home is on lockdown …
: Anbara Salam on Twitter: “As a public service in these stressful times I’d like to …
: The Man With 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer Just Donated Them www.nytimes.com/2020/03/1… Cut the guy some slack. He’s in a perfectly legitimate …
: Cory Doctorow: TikTok’s secret guidelines require moderators to suppress videos from old, …
: How to prepare for coming layoffs: Good advice from Cory Doctorow, who’s been self-employed …
: Cory Doctorow: An Italian hospital fixed its ventilator with 3D printed parts. …
: Stupid TiVo didn’t record the debate. What’d I miss?
: Went to the store. Did not buy extra TP. Did buy extra coffee. It’s called …
: NBC’s Saturday Night Live Various Artists Arista Records/USA (1976) …
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: The opening to Chiller Theater scared me when I was a kid. I couldn’t watch it. Still scares …
: Republican blogs are pushng the meme that Uncle Joe has dementia. I guess I shouldn’t be …
: He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Sell Them On March 1, the day after the first coronavirus death was announced, Matt and Noah Colvin started a …
: The “tragedy of the commons” is junk science developed by a racist who espoused eugenics …
: We’ve stocked up on about two weeks of emergency supplies, like you’re supposed to. It …
: I have two important videoconferences scheduled for Monday, and I spent much of the day getting the …
: Cory Doctorow: The CIA’s information security is really terrible …
: “Like Japan in the mid-1800s, the United States now faces a crisis that disproves everything the …
: Meghan and Harry Overplayed Their Hand www.theatlantic.com/ideas/arc…
: The 1918 flu pandemic in San Diego: 366 deaths, sheep dip and mandatory masks 0.5% of San Diego’s …
: From the San Diego Evening Tribune Archives: How San Diego officials reacted to the 1918 flu …
: The ballet dancer who led a prisoner uprising at Auschwitz Franceska Mann, a 26-year-old Jewish ballet dancer from Poland, arrived in Auschwitz in 1943, part …
: “It was my first time ordering bulk crickets off the internet….” Funny Twitter …
: Covid-19 needs a new name. Branding matters, people!
: I’m getting email from every company I’ve ever given my address to, earnestly telling me …
: Apple TV+ 'Foundation' series production halts over coronavirus fears appleinsider.com/articles/… What this tells me is the long-rumored series based on Asimov’s …
: “Sad ukelele” would be a great name for a podcast. mcmansionhell.com/post/1834…
: Trump administration blocks states from using Medicaid to respond to coronavirus crisis …
: The Ezra Klein Show: Trump didn't break democracy. Broken democracy gave us Trump. Also: Republicans understand that politics is transactional. The NRA has been great for the GOP, and …
: A brief history of the floppy disk. Fascinating! www.redhat.com/en/comman…
: Find out which weather service is most accurate in your area ForecastAdvisor shows you the accuracy of major weather forecasting services in your area. It says …
: AT&T CEO pay rose to $32 million in 2019 while he cut 20,000 jobs …
: The Verge guide to Twitter (with a contribution from yrs trly) www.theverge.com/2020/3/13…
: Reporters Without Borders uses Minecraft to sneak censored works across borders. …
: The Zoom virtual background for videoconferences doesn’t seem to work with my Mac. I can buy a …
: “Social distancing” is actually not that big a change for me. #JokingNotJoking
: Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (aka MBS) is a brutal tyrant, who has also …
: Barbara Krasnoff: How to hide your messy room during a Zoom video conference …
: Jason Snell: How to customize the display of the Apple Watch Workouts app. Useful tips - I did it …
: Twitter 101: how to follow people and discover topics. Should be headlined: “How To Tell Your …
: The FCC is giving out big bucks for rural broadband, and New York is the one state in the …
: IBM says it’s number three in cloud sales, but analysts say nope. Not even close. Interesting …
: These face-touching memes have been canceled for public health reasons. Funny. …
: Cory Doctorow: “Senate Republicans have killed emergency sick leave legislation, a move that …
: Cory Doctorow: A former top Cigna exec calls baloney on Biden’s claims that Medicaire-for-all …
: The head of the TSA says he’s standing by a decision to take away healthcare coverage from …
: Trump’s ban on European travel exempt nations where he owns resorts. What an extraordinary …
: Cory Doctorow: A scam-buster hacks into a scam factory and surveills the heck out of them. …
: Cory Doctorow: Details of Italy’s “I stay in the house” law. …
: Cory Doctorow: Twitter upgraded its terms of service to permit academics to use bots for research …
: Cory Doctorow: Sensor Tower, which provides VPN and other software it describes as privacy …
: Cory Doctorow: The satiety index: Which foods make you feel the most full? …
: Cory Doctorow: Nobody knows why people have gotten fatter since the 1950s. Diet and levels of …
: Michael McConnell, a prominent San Diego homeless advocate, fought against Proposition C in San …
: A California software engineer found paragraphs and themes in the novel “The Manchuriam …
: Astronomers are using computer models for for slime mold growth patterns to trace filaments …
: Cory Doctorow: Farmers are fighting John Deere for the right to fix their own tractors. This is …
: Cory Doctorow: A woman sued the TSA over a “pat-down” that penetrated her vagina. …
: Led Zeppelin wins a ruling that “Stairway to Heaven” was not plagiarized from an earlier …
: Virginia Dare (1956) advertisingpics.tumblr.com/post/6122…
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: X-ray Shoe Fitting “Customers Expect It!” [1940s] www.reddit.com/r/OldScho…
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: 1975 apartment danismm.tumblr.com/post/6122…
: Dick Van Dyke for Colorburst instant cameras (1978) www.reddit.com/r/vintage…
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: IBM’s outgoing boss Rometty awarded $20m+ in 2019 for growing revenue 0.1% Nice work if you …
: IBM Food Trust: Who’s using blockchain to track supply chain? IBM has pushed blockchain hard …
: I came into my office at about 4 am. Minnie had been closed up in here for six hours. It’s now …
: VMware is looking to rejuvenate again with a Kubernetes injection: VMware today rolls out an …
: “The power of Frenchmen in your intestines” (1919) via
: Back of the famous 1 Hacker Way Facebook sign via
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: Can You Really Hire a Hit Man on the Dark Web? The dark web is swarming with hitman-for-hire sites, …
: What Bernie Sanders Gets Right About the Media: much of the U.S. media still covers elections as if …
: California’s Gig Economy Is Under Attack. AB5 is limiting freelancers' ability to work, going far …
: Self-described political hack James Carville thinks Trump will lose
: Grace and Frankie is Golden Girls minus the rattan furniture.
: Like Cambridge Analytica, “but more nefariously, arguably:" Banjo, an artificial …
: Airlines are burning thousands of gallons of fuel flying empty ‘ghost’ planes so they …
: Cory Doctorow: Europe looks like it may be getting the courage to take on Apple, mandating that …
: The Last Alternative: A 1978 Soviet TV adaptation of Isaac Asimov's "The Naked Sun" Cheesy even by 1978 standards, according to this fellow on Reddit. On YouTube: here and here and …
: How Old Is Too Old to Work? Old age is very different today, when the average lifespan is 79, than …
: A driver was pulled over with expired 1997 license plate tags. He says he’s been busy
: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Coronavirus really is that bad and you should work from home
: We watched “Sharpe’s Gold.” I bet the men in the 95th Rifles found Hagman annoying …
: How to Tell If You Have the Flu, Coronavirus, or Something Else I think I had norovirus almost …
: I have been that tourist. It’s why I often patronize Starbucks when I’m out of town.
: Minnie found a steak-bone on our walk the other day, and I let her carry it home and work on it in …
: Bernie has done fine this far appealing to a radical, burn-it-down revolutionary base. But now he …
: Cory Doctorow: “Libraries, of course, are the last place in our civilization where you are …
: The right to repair is the right to resilience Cory on Pluralistic.net: It’s no coincidence that farms and farmers have been leaders in …
: Cory Doctorow on "Right to Repair" and more Cory Doctorow talks about how big business and government have taken away your right to repair …
: June Lockhart in a wardrobe test for “Lost in Space,” 1965. Via Still alive; she’s …
: Ezra Klein: Sanders can’t lead the Democrats if his campaign treats them like the enemy …
: Coronavirus Porn Is Going Viral on Pornhub www.vice.com/en_us/art…
: 8-year-old boy wins $200 worth of cannabis products at hockey tournament …
: Trump blasts Sessions on Twitter, inadvertently confirming key Mueller finding Trump publicly admits …
: AT&T is looking to cut billions of dollars in spending, starting with “headcount …
: Sisters Margaux and Mariel Hemingway struggled with the family history of depression, substance abuse and suicide Their grandfather, Ernest Hemingway, killed himself, as did Margaux and six other members of the …
: Americans only started calling our country "America" around the turn of the 20th Century. Previously, we called ourselves the "Union," "Republic," and even "Columbia" and Freedonia. The transition to “America” came about the time the US became a bloody, brutal global …
: Cisco WebEx, Google and other companies are offering free videoconferencing to help restrict …
: Republican Darrell Issa moves on to face Democrat opponent Ammar Campa-Najjar in the November election for CA-50 Issa’s primary campaign against Republican Carl DeMaio was dirty. The campaign against …
: ICE's New York office uses a rigged algorithm to keep virtually all arrestees in detention. The ACLU says it's unconstitutional “… this ostensible problem-solving software was rigged to provide only one solution: …
: Why America is so vulnerable to coronavirus Ryan Cooper: America’s atrociously inadequate welfare state makes it by far the most …
: Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet It is one of the few remaining places that retains …
: American taxpayers have paid $152 million for Trump to play golf, making him the 10th highest paid …
: We have watched two episodes of the second season of “Altered Carbon.” We are almost …
: I just remembered Joe Biden is fine “Please don’t show me any footage of Joe Biden saying or …
: A Fantastic Night . . . If You Don’t Like Bloomberg, Warren, or Sanders …
: AP: Bloomberg is thinking about dropping out after a disappointing Super Tuesday showing. …
: Inside the race to build the best quantum computer on Earth Google and IBM are dueling to commercialize a new generation of computing technology, quantum …
: I tried to go 24 hours without touching my face. I made it 18 minutes Nestor Ramos at the Boston Globe: Surely I could give up wiping my mouth, rubbing my eyes, and …
: China is using Uighur slave labor camps for manufacturing for US brands including Nike, Apple and …
: Miss Staten Island banned from St. Pat’s parade after coming out as bi — still shows up …
: Jeff Huang: My productivity app is a single .txt file One file to track to-dos and have-dones. …
: Aaron Sorkin on his new play based on “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “The West …
: How Facebook has become one of the least trusted and most profitable companies in the world. Tech journalist Steven Levy, talks about the company’s history on Fresh Air. He’s got a …
: Herod Agrippa is the Lando Calrissian of “I, Claudius.” On the I, Podius podcast: …
: Super Tuesday, Explained: I listened to this entire podcast episode and I’m still confused. …
: The true story behind "You've Got Mail:" The movie was based on a real conflict between a New York Barnes & Noble and a local children's bookstore. At that time, B&N was the big bad soul-crushing superstore chain killing indy Mom-and-Pop …
: Today I voted, and spent a good chunk of time updating the local Democratic Club website and social …
: Cory Doctorow’s got a new blog. It’s Pluralistic.net. pluralistic.net It’s his …
: Everybody agrees that social media needs to suppress harmful content while promoting good content, …
: Hollywood is bending the knee to Peking to avoid offending the authoritarian Chinese government, by …
: What Happened to the Company That Raised Minimum Wage to $70k/yr? Business is better than ever.
: The four largest U.S. carriers face combined FCC fines totaling about $209M for selling customer …
: Telco spending is weak and 5G isn’t a cure-all, according to analysis of service provider and …
: Yesterday I did my 3+-mile walk with the dog through a residential neighborhood up at the end of …
: California Legislature’s Battle Over ‘Gig Economy’ Shows No Sign of Ending AB5 was intended to stop …
: How And Why To Keep A “Commonplace Book” This is my commonplace book.
: The Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford: Mark Twain’s Marginalia: Most of Mark …
: Pocket Notebooks: A Brief History | The Art of Manliness
: Unheralded ways that ordinary life has improved in the last 25 years.
: The Oxford English Dictionary is adding Nigerian words, which is proving controversial with some …
: Remembering Laser Books, a short-lived line of mediocre science fiction novels that tore through the …
: Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle = The Breakfast Club.
: There’s an Entire Industry Dedicated to Making Foods Crispy, and It Is WILD - Alex Beggs at Bon …
: Jason Kottke spent three weeks in Asia, including extended visits to Saigon and Singapore and 24 …
: Kottke: The secret of enduring Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) during a long winter is just roll …
: Monty Python’s “Always Look at the Bright Side of Life” is now the most popular …
: Renowned Mathematician And Physicist Freeman Dyson Has Died At Age 96 His daughter Mia Dyson, a …
: “Age of Treason” was a 1993 TV movie about Marcus Didio Falco, a threadbare private …
: Bailing on Afghanistan will be a disaster but staying will be worse. 20 years of the War on Terror …
: On Selling Your First Novel After 11 Years – Min Jin Lee: A moving essay about an …
: The last time Elyse saw her father was at her college graduation. They’d been close growing …
: Sansar, Linden Labs' follow-up to Second Life, was a victim of VR hype & failure to learn from …
: See Newly Digitized, "Super Detailed" Photos Of Old Greenwich Village The turn of 20th century found Greenwich Village in the midst of a transformation – as …
: Robots aren’t taking our jobs — they’re becoming our bosses- Josh Dzieza at The Verge: On …
: How to delete all your saved articles in Instapaper I wanted to delete all my saved Instapapaper article and make a fresh start, but had trouble …
: Charlie, the store manager, 1968 “Mine’s bigger. My cucumber. It’s bigger. I think vegetables can be …
: One, two, and three years ago today I was in Barcelona for Mobile World Congress. Four years ago …
: Mayor Pete says it’s ok to mix ranch dressing and salsa. I’ve never tried this combination, or even …
: “My Ex-Boyfriend’s New Girlfriend Is Lady Gaga” - Lindsay Crouse: Social media in 2020 …
: Facing Anger from Journalists, Assemblywoman Gonzalez Offers AB 5 Changes Good news for freelance …
: Do you watch scripted TV and movies, such as dramas and comedies, on a tablet, phone, or strictly on …
: Sarah Miller: The Diet Industrial Complex Got Me, and It Will Never Let Me Go “I did not see …
: I just spent 15 minutes shopping for dental floss on Amazon. Sometimes choice is not a good thing.
: Copied is a heck of a fine application for saving and managing multiple clipboards, particularly on …
: Dropbox’s Reverse Migration, Out of AWS, Five Years On
: Jeff Bezos pledged $10 billion to fight climate change, but Amazon is a big global contributor to …
: Sally Hemings was Thomas Jefferson’s slave and companion for many years, with whom he fathered …
: Interview and performance with Rachael & Vilray, a contemporary duet who write and perform new …
: Two San Diegans have developed an app to help “vanlifers” live on the road.
: Patricia Quinn, who plays Livilla on I, Claudius, also starred in the Rocky Horror Picture snow; she …
: Forget passwords: Secure yourself with a passphrase and these tools - Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
: THIS SUMMER MORE WOMEN ARE TURNING TO MEDS! (1944) via
: Lucky Skull Ring - made of genuine eternium! - 1950 …
: The Pat Boone & Family Christmas Special (1979) via
: New Viking Stereo Compact, 1960 via
: “I’ve Done It!’ MARTIN KLASCH via
: Apparently there’s a new Indiana Jones movie coming next year and Harrison Ford, who’ll be 78, is in …
: Megadonor urges Pelosi, Schumer to pick candidate to stop Bernie Sanders
: ‘People don’t get it’: inside the world of hyper-realistic baby doll collecting …
: Where Medicare-for-all is real Today, Explained] Looking at the healthcare systems in Taiwan, which …
: Why liberals keep losing: We confuse slacktivism for activism Eitan Hersh’s Politics Is for Power explains why liberals keep losing Sean Illing at Vox: If you …
: Researchers are tracking coronavirus disinformation, which could be behind the market drop. - Wayne …
: AT&T and Verizon axed nearly 30,000 jobs last year
: Firefox now stops ISPs from tracking the websites you visit.
: Why America Is Losing The Toilet Race It’s a race to the bottom.
: Case Elliott was a big woman, with a big talent and a big, beautiful voice. In life she faced …
: “Empty Porn Sets” by photographer Jo Broughton “offers an insider’s …
: Meanwhile, at the Democratic candidates debate.
: Playful dog enthusiastically fails service dog tests. Alternate title: Me on a job interview.
: The Register: Firefox now defaults to DNS-over-HTTPS for US netizens and some are dischuffed about …
: Mike Dano: Mirantis co-founder targets 5G ‘oligopoly’ with private networks startup …
: Warren Buffet finally upgraded from a flip phone to a smartphone – an iPhone 11 – but …
: On MAGA Caps and WordCamps: The WordPress community is talking about banning red MAGA caps at its …
: “Like Going Out Half Dressed When you Brush Your Teeth and Neglect to Massage Your Gums,” Hemp gum …
: The Milwaukee - ca. 1900 Via
: Mirantis co-founder leaves to create open-source 5G startup - Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Boris …
: Business owner says millennials are spoiled because they won’t work for free and are ambitious. I …
: Cory Doctorow: A Flat Earther commits suicide by conspiracy theory “Mad Mike” Hughes …
: “Authoritarian bias” kept Xi from dealing effectively with coronavirus- Cory Doctorow
: Why do people listen to #NeverTrump Republicans lecturing Democrats on how the Democrats are on a …
: A San Diego family cloned their dog for $50,000 “Marley,” a golden retriever, saved …
: Cadillac “Magnificent Beyond All Expectations!” 1950’s Nat. Geo Magazine Via
: I support Sanders. My first choice is Warren, but he’s a close second. And I’m glad to …
: “I, Claudius” drinking game: Drink whenever a character shrieks, shouts or weeps. Double …
: ME: I’m going to have to get up and pee soon. Not right now though. [Moments later a 15-pound …
: A group of ex-NSA and Amazon engineers are building a “GitHub for data” A service called …
: You don’t know Esther Williams Williams starred in midcentury movies featuring her water …
: Two stories about Americans who fled in search of better lives. While millions of people have come …
: The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake While politicians and pundits say we need to preserve the American …
: A Red Hat study finds enterprises are adopting open-source software rapidly.
: When a popular genre writer dies, should their characters die with them? After mystery writer Robert …
: Plastic bag bans may be bad for the environment, as reusable grocery bags may have a more harmful …
: Nicole Najafi went on a date with every Democratic Presidential candidate so you don’t have …
: Those feet tho autumnone.tumblr.com/post/1909…
: Be the death of the party. mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com/post/1909…
: Planet of the Apes (1968) atomic-chronoscaph.tumblr.com/post/1909…
: Robin Williams, 1980. He doesn’t look bad actually. reddit.com/r/OldScho…
: Supersonic Man (1979) gameraboy1.tumblr.com/post/1909…
: The presidential election is a grudge match between three cranky 70-something New Yorkers. …
: Former California Republican congressman Dana Rohrabacher confirmed he offered Julian Assange a …
: Sylvester Stallone on “The Tonight Show” with Johnny Carson, 1976.
: “Big Tits Potato Chips 10 ₵” - This is a 1930s era wax paper potato chip bag from Dunn, North …
: The Tandy TRS-80 Model 2000 Personal Computer in 1984. For only $1,500 extra, you could get it a …
: Sixth Column by Robert A. Heinlein, 1949 Cover by Edd Cartier Via
: Future President Harry Truman as a Captain, circa 1918
: Mezhninskogo St. in Astrakhan, Russia, now and 100 years ago
: Pablo Escobar’s hippos are running wild in Colombia.
: People who paid $2,000 for a Flywheel bike had them abruptly bricked to settle a patent dispute with …
: Mark Zuckerberg reportedly gets his armpits blow-dried before speeches
: Some Staples stores in Boston are getting podcast studios Great idea and/or sign of the impending …
: Making coffee with Aeropress, according to inventor Alan Adler Aeropress inventor Alan Adler demonstrates making three cups of coffee at once: YouTube I tried …
: One-day Friends-themed pop-up brunch restaurant is coming to San Diego. No one told me brunch was …
: “Then during the third reconciliation of the last of the Meketrex supplicants, they chose a new form …
: There is no Dana. Only Zuul. Via
: Ramesses: The First Arab Car Via
: Three views of a sleeping cat.
: If I had a dime for every time I went to the grocery store and forgot to bring reusable grocery …
: “i heard u guys like carpeted bathrooms so i made a whole post of carpeted bathrooms.”
: Fresh Air interviews Elie Wiesel, author, Auschwitz survivor, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate; as …
: NASA is working on testing a prototype for a robot spaceship that could save the world if we are …
: After a drunken slip of the tongue, Steve Marsh and his siblings discover a secret their mother has …
: A new "I, Claudius" podcast John Hodgman, Elliott Kalan and Jordan Kauwling have launched a podcast about “I, …
: This silly little $6.50 plastic gadget makes walking the dog more comfortable It’s called the Urban Pets Hands Free Dog Poop Bag Holder Waste Knot. It’s a clip that …
: Punk Princess: ‘Devastatingly Sexy’ Portraits of Debbie Harry 1977 to 1988
: A California entrepreneur plans a limited production run of the iconic 80s sportscar, the DeLorean And they’ve also restored the “Back to the Future” prop. The Original Back to the Future DeLorean …
: 1849 guide to the brothels and prostitutes of Philadelphia. A Vintage Guide to the ‘Gay …
: “I, Claudius” rewatch, episode 2: I really appreciate the subtle, restrained acting.
: If you’re going to take the dog for a random 3 mile walk around a nearby neighborhood, just to …
: Not for the first time, my barber was unfamiliar with men with copious body hair. Dude, just …
: Sometime after I turned 40 I stopped enjoying fiction as much as I used to. I think it’s been …
: This defense of Bloomberg’s appalling defense of redlining is bullshit. Redlining isn’t …
: Mike Bloomberg has been battling women’s allegations of sexist, profane comments for years
: There are two generations of Mexican luchador wrestlers named “Dr. Wagner.” How did I …
: The Age of Decadence. The real story of the West in the 21st century is one of stalemate and …
: Holiday-Travel Twitter Is the Best Form of Social Media. Play-by-plays from airports and bus rides …
: Using Tinder in Your Hometown Is Like Visiting an Alternate Reality
: “One might suppose that the popular prejudice against vaccination had died out by this …
: The story about how Mike "The Monkees" Nesmith's mother invented liquid paper is surprisingly interesting. She was a secretary. She saw a need and saw that the market would be women, because secretaries were …
: Who let “Who Let the Dogs Out” Out? 99% Invisible: The world’s greatest expert on …
: San Diego freelance writer Beth Demmon says California Assembly Bill 5, which regulates contract …
: Tinder's Most Notorious Men The users who reappear after countless left swipes have become modern urban legends. Like mayors …
: The Doc nails it. The sole issue for Democratic voters in the Presidential election is “make …
: 5’4”? 5’7”? 5’8”? How tall is Bloomberg, anyway?
: Good to know the ‘doomsday asteroid’ is not going to destroy the Earth Saturday, because …
: Dave Winer makes the case for Bloomberg: More than a candidate for president. I’m reserving …
: Molly Ringwald revisits “The Breakfast Club” and the other 80s teen movies that made her …
: The US is charging Huawei with racketeering TechCrunch: The DoJ alleges that Huawei and a number of its affiliates used confidential agreements …
: Rick Moranis is making a Honey I Shrunk the Kids reboot after a 23-year work break.
: As part of his research into Trump’s $1+B disinformation campaign, journalist McKay Coppins …
: A brief history of the "I, Claudius" TV series The TV production had a lot of problems, but Robert Graves, who wrote the 1930s novels on which the …
: I Claudius seemingly influenced The Sopranos – though Sopranos creator David Chase …
: Hulu is doing gender-flipped miniseries based on “High Fidelity,” the excellent Nick Hornby novel …
: “It’s a strange existence, being an autistic adult in a profession overflowing with autism …
: We’ve started rewatching “I Claudius.” “I Claudius” is the story of a …
: Oracle founder Larry Ellison is hosting a fundraiser for Donald Trump www.vox.com/recode/20…
: Michael Bloomberg says 2015 stop and frisk comments were ‘five years ago’ and are …
: I saw these geese at Lake Murray. Ready to rumble!
: Whenever cruise ships are in the news it’s never good.
: I am prepared to call the 2020 presidential election: it’s going to be Amy Klobuchar. The Democrats …
: Fresh Air: Michael Pollan Explains Caffeine Addiction & Withdrawal As part of the research for a new audiobook about caffeine, author Michael “Omnivore’s …
: Affluent parents are giving their children growth hormones, to keep the kids from growing up short. Seems like a bad idea. There’s nothing medically wrong with the kids, and studies have shown …
: Friend of Dorothy: How did Judy Garland become a gay icon? slate.com/podcasts/…
: A new wave of national conservatives are gaining power and wealth by claiming to be persecuted …
: Like smartphone users today, medieval monks wrestled with distraction. aeon.co/ideas/how…
: Merle Oberon, a star actress of Hollywood’s golden age, was biracial, passing as white, and …
: Teens are scrambling their identities on Instagram, so they can use the service without divulging …
: A brief history of the Apple Newton: 20 years ahead of its time, and still has a small but loyal fan …
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: Anybody tried posting automatically from Flickr to micro.blog? Should be do-able, right – last …
: Meet the Unlikely Hero Saving California’s Oldest Weekly Paper: I love this story so, so much “High in the Sierra, Downieville, Calif., was about to become the latest American community to …
: An Oklahoma University journalism professor likened the phrase "OK Boomer" to the N-word. This is such a weird story An OU professor in the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication used a racial slur …
: MWC 2020 canceled over coronavirus health concerns Mobile World Congress is the biggest telco conference of the year, worldwide. Maybe there’s a …
: This morning I updated <mitchwagner.com> and my LinkedIn profile. They look snappy.
: Matthew Yglesias: Mainstream Democrats shouldn't be freaking out about Sanders Sanders' rhetoric is revolutionary but his record shows he’s willing to make deals for …
: I saw this excellent collection of stickers on a car at Lake Murray
: I saw this shortcut between two streets while walking yesterday.
: Former CNBC anchor Michelle Caruso-Cabrera will challenge Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in House …
: Actor Jussie Smollett is being indicted for allegedly falsifying claims he was assaulted by Trump …
: Trump cannot go a day without committing an impeachable offense, and his lies are becoming more blatant and obviously untrue. His Republican defenders are half-right: Trump has learned his lesson from the impeachment trial. …
: The tricky economics of all-you-can-eat buffets They put the cheap, filling stuff first. They charge for extras. They save money on personnel, of …
: The making of “2001: A Space Odyssey” …
: Actor Steve Buscemi (“Fargo,” “Boardwalk Empire,” etc.) is interviewed by …
: I have several questions. gameraboy1.tumblr.com/post/1907…
: Entertaining interview of comedian Lewis Black by Gilbert Gottfried and Frank Santopadre. Many …
: “Captain” Jack McCarthy hosted the New York St. Patrick’s Day parade for 41 years, …
: “Officer” Joe Bolton hosted The Little Rascals and the Three Stooges for …
: Comparing the relative sizes of fictional buildings. Fun. youtu.be/hjIci91FR…
: Margarine vs. butter is a case study of naked, corrupt regulatory capture. The dairy industry spent …
: This magnificent, green condo is for sale - in Ramona, California, which is just a short drive from …
: Adam Sandler rips the Oscars for snubbing him. Funny. “A few, you know, a few weeks back, when I was quote-unquote snubbed by the Academy, it …
: In leaked audio, Michael Bloomberg defends racial profiling: “throw them up against the …
: Leaked audio captures Bloomberg defending racial profiling and stop-and-frisk policing. Bloomberg: “Ninety-five percent of murders- murderers and murder victims fit one M.O. You can just …
: I saw this school walking today.
: I wear flip up sunglasses. Flip ups are cool now.
: The theme to the "Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney Show." I loved this show when I was a little boy. If my mother had to listen to it every day on the living room TV, I'm surprised she let me live. Better audio quality here but no video.
: Gilbert Gottfried and Frank Santopadre interview not one but TWO Catwomen: Lee Meriwether and Julie …
: Amazon pulled out of this month’s Mobile World Congress because of the coronavirus outbreak, in …
: The GSMA is putting restrictions on Mobile World Congress attendees from China as big companies, …
: Taiwan has a sophisticated medical records system. Why don’t we?
: I’ve switched my podcast player from Castro.fm back to Overcast on the iPhone. Castro has …
: Zappos has quietly backed away from holacracy. Aimee Groth at Quartz: Six years ago, Amazon-owned …
: Reagan and Gorbachev Agreed to Pause the Cold War in Case of an Alien Invasion. The Gipper was a …
: Amid Layoffs, Xilinx Warns of Pause in 5G Activities - Mike Dano/Light Reading Xilinx, once a …
: 17th Century pirates had gay marriage, good pay, survivor benefits and health insurance
: Forget self-driving cars. We already have technology that can transform cities and help save the planet: Buses Missing the Bus on 99% Invisible: If you heard that there was a piece of technology that could do …
: Why the wrong movies win Oscars - Today, Explained
: “Native American actress Sacheen Littlefeather stepped in for Marlon Brando at the Academy …
: Amazon wants to depose the President and Secretary of Defense as part of its lawsuit to fight losing …
: The Justice Department indicted four members of the Chinese military for the Equifax breach. This …
: Advice from Medieval Monks on Avoiding Digital Distraction kottke.org/20/02/adv…
: Bloomberg plans to go after Trump’s business record Others have tried this tactic without success — remember Hillary Clinton? — but Mike Bloomberg plans …
: How women left the GOP and became Democratic partisans: Blame the Gipper …
: None of the movies nominated for an Oscar deserved to win, because none of them has Luis giving …
: Jack Kirby’s 2001: A Space Odyssey Via 70sscifiart.tumblr.com/post/1903…
: I’ve been on a nostalgia kick the past couple of days. This morning, I hit YouTube and found …
: Person who offered $500 for lost cat gets mad when cat finder wants the reward …
: South Korea is a 5G pioneer but the latest financial results from its telcos demonstrate why …
: Ericsson Shareholder Urges Firm to Explore Sale to US - Report Shares in Ericsson and Nokia received …
: College essay writing services – contract cheaters –are using aggressive email marketing …
: ME: I have very important financial documents I need to review today. ALSO ME: Helllooooooo, social …
: A modest proposal: Bernie should endorse Warren for POTUS, and immediately Warren should commit to …
: After a vote in Iowa that reeked of third-world treachery – from monolithic TV propaganda against …
: Climate change killed libertarianism - Jacobin
: Tyler Cowen coins the phrase “state capacity libertarianism” as an evolution of …
: Bram Moolenaar started work on the vim text editor on an Amiga in 1988, and has been its lead …
: US Attorney General William Barr suggested the United States purchase a controlling stake in either …
: We must fact-check this. Mission accepted. San Diego is a great pizza town. Here are the top 10. …
: “Now we’re going to hear more suggestions from the failed mayor of Chicago and New …
: Marie Dressler was the biggest female star of American movies in 1933. She wasn’t a sex symbol …
: The Ukraine was part of a broad pattern of behavior that makes Trump manifestly unfit to be …
: Animal rights activists say it’s cruel to keep elephants in captivity. [San Diego News Fix]
: Ezra Klein: America is a better country today than it has ever been: More inclusive and more …
: Gilbert Gottfried and Frank Sontopadre interview the delightful Ken Berry, star of “F …
: PETA claims victory after SeaWorld says no to trainers riding atop dolphins [San Diego Union- …
: How will coronavirus end? [Today, Explained]
: Youtube: Charlie bit me. Some days you’re Charlie. Other days you’re Charlie’s …
: A brief history of YouTube’s codependent relationship with content creators, after Google …
: Nat Eliason: How to take notes on what you’re reading. I never did highlights or took book …
: Candidates don’t matter much. What matters is getting your voters to come out and vote against …
: Not a lot: What $250,000 buys in NYC right now [Curbed NY]
: I can think of a couple of theories why the Republicans might want to do this. But it’s weird: …
: Dave Winer says we need a candidate who a Republican who believes in the rule of law will vote for. …
: RIP Issur Danielovitch, aka Kirk Douglas, 103 [nbcnews.com]
: Companies including Dell, Microsoft and AT&T are part of a White House effort to develop US 5G …
: Why IBM Choosing Arvind Krishna Over Jim Whitehurst Was a Smooth Move [Christine Hall/ITPro Today]
: I’m working on updating my resume today. I’ve decided to use the Pet Resume template in …
: Werner Herzog: ‘Piracy Has Been The Most Successful Form of Distribution Worldwide’ …
: Podfasting: I Tried Listening to Podcasts at 3x and Broke My Brain [Steve Rousseau/OneZero] Most of …
: Brave, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla gather together to talk web privacy… and why we all …
: You know the President is able to shut down all US comms, yeah? An FCC commish wants to stop him …
: Ex-principal in Holocaust furor defends his right not to say the genocide is a fact [The Palm Beach …
: I think I need to read “Atomic Habits." All four of these tips excerpted from the book …
: Column: San Diego author Laura Preble turns a germaphobe into a heroine you’ll want to hug [San Diego Union-Tribune] Karla Peterson: It’s the usual love story. Girl meets boy, girl loses boy, girl drives a borrowed …
: 'People were breaking down crying': Iowa vote-counters tell of caucus debacle [Tom Cullen/The Guardian] You had one job, Iowa! The drawbacks of electronic voting have been well known for more than 20 …
: Two people trying to protect a monarch butterfly sanctuary in Mexico from logging have been found …
: IBM, Marriott and Mickey Mouse Take On Tech’s Favorite Law [David McCabe/NYTimes] Section 230 …
: If You’re Over 50, Chances Are the Decision to Leave a Job Won’t be Yours [Peter …
: Socially conservative mom says racy halftime entertainment drove distraught 13-year-old son to his …
: Corruption in America: How the US became the center of global kleptocracy - Casey Michel - Vox When …
: Waze’s Cookie Monster voice is the only thing keeping me sane right now - Thom Dunn - Boing …
: Remarkably, this is six years to the day after I started at LR. I opened my journaling app to make …
: Big news: I’ve left Light Reading after six years. It’s been a great ride but it’s …
: How to torture telemarketers with one word
: Gary Gutterman design, New York 1980
: Remembering Clark Gable on this birthday, here with David O.Selznick on the set of GONE WITH THE …
: Young woman writes her boyfriend in the Navy a thank-you note for the bleached skull of a Japanese …
: I’m grateful for the iPad and social media because without them I wouldn’t be able to …
: I’m becoming convinced, for the third or fourth time in as many years, that the hassles of …
: Asian countries have a century of tradition wearing face masks, and they’re starting to appear in …
: Chicago is getting a “Princess Bride” themed popup bar - nbcchicago.com Have fun …
: Stephen King quits Facebook over concerns of ‘false information’ - CNN
: The Democrat candidate for President this year could win the popular vote by six percentage points – …
: Why this Seattle geek finally gave up and bought a car four years after going ‘full Uber’ [Kurt …
: Fractured America is uniting in its hatred of expatriate Californians [Derek Thompson/The Atlantic]
: Sammy is having a moment with my sweaty exercise T-shirt.
: Jim Whitehurst Becomes President of IBM. Why? He gets Culture. [Jono Bacon/Forbes]
: IBM’s New CEO Is Mastermind Behind Cloud Strategy for Growth [Olivia Carville/Bloomberg]
: Why Iowa? [Dan Zak/The Washington Post] I have been to Iowa more than once, and liked it.
: South Carolina seeks volunteer pig cuddlers [CNN] I foresee a career change.
: Headline of the week: As a 28-Year-Old Latino, I’m Shocked My New Novel, Memoirs of a Middle-Aged …
: An intriguing list of “little-known but obvious facts”. The word …
: New Jersey mayor John Roth admits to taking off pants, passing out drunk at party. Photo …
: New Bill Would Bar Duncan Hunter from Collecting a Congressional Pension Duncan D. Hunter is years …
: The Crown will end after five seasons – or “series,” as they say in the UK – bringing …
: Original 1965 ad for The Addams Family Haunted House kit, made by Polar Lights. The original kit was …
: “This facility has gone 5843 days without an assimilation.”
: A Collection of 40 Bad Christian Album Covers With Unfortunate Titles [vintage everyday]
: Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi has gone from Nobel Peace Prize winner to apologist for genocide …
: How an 'election meltdown' could throw the US into crisis in 2020 [Fresh Air] There are lots of ways the election could go terribly wrong What happens if one side doesn’t …
: Sex predators are operating against children through online video games. What can be done about …
: I have a Johnny Cash t-shirt that I wore today. When I’m wearing it I often forget I have it …
: San Diego smart streetlights raise privacy concerns San Diego sees privacy concerns from so-called “smart streetlights,” that collect data …
: IBM Names New CEO: Arvind Krishna, Red Hat Deal Mastermind, Replaces Rometty [Me/Light Reading]
: Minnie Mouse throws down. The cartoon shoes complete the scene. Somebody come look at this 😂😂 1) can …
: #Avasarala's hand terminal with the predictive text: "f*ck | f*cker | f*cked | …
: I bought a 16-ounce bottle of Dr. Brommer’s liquid soap a couple of weeks ago. It is …
: Surprisingly, China actually benefits from the perception that its vendors are government stooges. …
: It saddens me that it’s too late in my life for me to get a cool nickname, like …
: Boston-area natives Chris Evans, John Krasinski, Rachel Dratch and David “Big Papi” …
: PR pitch of the day: “Parents find sex education conversations easier than technology …
: This trailer for "Spenser Confidential" looks great! The Netflix movie coming March 6 stars Mark Wahlberg, Winston “Black Panther” Duke, and …
: Juniper Returns to Growth – No Thanks to Service Providers lightreading.com My latest on Light …
: You look like you’re having a tough day so here is the Addams Family dancing to Joy …
: Cory Doctorow: Climate denial has destroyed the libertarian movement boingboing.net
: The agony of weekend loneliness: ‘I won’t speak to another human until Monday’ theguardian.com …
: Photos Of 25 Dogs That Just Can’t Even
: Business Fashion, Australia, Summer, 1975. The socks make the outfit. via
: The iPad is fantastic but also disappointing daringfireball.net Great short essay by John Gruber. …
: Ivanka tells donors she got her moral compass from her dad politico.com Only Monday and we already …
: Trump Impeachment: A Ukraine Smoking Gun Exposes Republicans bloomberg.com The White House knew …
: Washington Post reporter Felicia Sonmez was suspended after tweeting a link to an article about Kobe …
: Is Corona Beer experiencing the AIDS/Ayds effect? [boingboing.net] Mark Frauenfelder: Ayds was an appetite-suppressant candy popular in the 1930s-80s with the …
: I feel that song would be POPular.
: Seeing reports about a woman physicist who developed a theory of gravity that, if proven, would …
: "Spenser Confidential," a movie based on the Robert B. Parker novels, hits Netfllix March 6. It stars Mark Wahlberg as Spenser and Winston “Black Panther” Duke as Hawk. “It is …
: 📸 Sweetwater River Trail, San Diego A beautiful gray afternoon for a hike.
: Quiz: Which of these 2020 Democrats agrees with you most? I came out Mayor Pete and Yang, which wow. [washingtonpost.com] 20 questions on the issues. I do not support Mayor Pete – the best thing I’ll say for him is …
: How is the most unpopular and divisive president on his way to a second term? – theguardian.com It’s the economy, says David Smith. Also, unlike 2016, Trump is running a highly organized, …
: The Story of Two Monks and a Woman: A parable about letting go of the past. kottke.org
: Ode to San Rafael: my unremarkable hometown [Carolyn Jones/SFChronicle.com] I had a vision …
: Scary Sea Monster Really Just Hundreds of Tiny Fish in a Trench Coat [kottke.org] As a defense …
: Copyright was designed to serve creators, but instead it serves big business against creators [Cory …
: No more free rides: US seeks to limit emotional support animals on planes [Joanna Walters/The …
: The head of ICE says he will deport DREAMers if the Supreme Court ends DACA - vox.com To Trump and …
: Gentleman ticketed for driving in carpool lane with plastic skeleton in passenger seat Mark …
: Dapper Adam overcoats. 1943. Via
: Role model Lord Jim hairpiece ad [1970s] via
: We’re All in the Bathroom Filming Ourselves Taylor Lorenz/nytimes.com Bathrooms are “the perfect stage set” for TikTok videos. …
: The case for replacing air travel with high-speed sleeper trains Cory Doctorow/Boing Boing. Like Cory, I’ve taken the sleeper train from London to Edinburgh …
: DirecTV Satellite at Risk of Exploding in Orbit — Jeff Baumgartner/Light Reading AT&T and Boeing …
: Podcast: Don’t Call Us an SD-WAN Provider – Cato Networks – Me/Light Reading Cato Networks …
: Automating cross-posts to Tumblr, using duct tape and rubber cement I’ve been having a lot of trouble over the years posting to Tumblr. The native Tumblr apps and …
: I have seen this car parked at Lake Murray occasionally for years. It’s always been beat up …
: On my walk today. Hello, Lake Murray, you’re looking fine.
: An earlier product name, “Gee, Your Hair Smells Like a Cheesesteak,” was rejected by …
: Clocks change in six weeks in most of the US (March 3). Are you ready?
: La Mesa Shop Owner Arrested After Attack on San Diego Media (I have a slight personal connection to this story) NBC 7 San Diego A La Mesa shop owner – already the subject of a sexual harassment …
: Black Texas teen told to cut his dreadlocks to walk at graduation nbcnews.com
: VMware Extends Its SD-WAN Tentacles With Nyansa Acquisition Me/Light Reading
: CenturyLink Inks $1.6B Networking Deal With US Interior Department – Me/Light Reading
: “In every artist’s depiction of a meteor that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, …
: Clearly we should not elect people President just because they are celebrities, but if we’re …
: We’ve started watching The Morning Show, which I am pleased to see continues an unbroken record of …
: Every time I read up about IndieWeb I get a headache. So confusing! I get that regular people may …
: Martin Luther King: Blacks and poor people get "welfare" but whites and rich people get "subsidies" kottke.org quotes King: Whenever the government provides opportunities and privileges for white …
: It is absolutely fine to rip your books in half Constance Grady/vox.com: On Monday morning, an apparently innocuous tweet summoned a storm of …
: Also, same deal for sockpuppetknifefight.com. If you want that domain for a real project – not to …
: My blog used to be called Monkeys in my Pants. Explanation. I own the domain monkeysinmypants.com. …
: On Reddit: “My great uncle Charley Brock. Played football at Nebraska then the Green Bay Packers. …
: Brooklyn, 1945. Students protesting the “no pants to school” rule via
: Does it have to be either/or? 1968 Via
: “Are you ready to get out the vote in 2020? Because I guarantee you these fuckers are.” …
: “Never Before So Much Livability in 35 Feet” - Richardson’s Regent Bi-level mobile …
: yeahiwasintheshit.tumblr.com/post/1903…
: Silicon Valley Abandons the Culture That Made It the Envy of the World theatlantic.com Alexis …
: Opening shot of one of my favorite movies, “Almost Famous,” then and now. Ocean Beach, …
: Bernie Sanders getting arrested at a civil rights march, 1963 Via
: Escape from a burning skyscraper by floating gently down like a giant inflated badminton birdie.. Or …
: Nonprofit plans to bring mobile showers to San Diego’s homeless – sandiegouniontribune.com
: The lost neighborhood under New York’s Central Park The land that is now Central Park was site of a village of 1,600 people, “many of whom were …
: Nototo note taking software organizes notes on a literal map, with islands, flowers, trees, etc. …
: I have several questions. Via
: A dentist was convicted on 46 felony and misdemeanor counts after filming himself performing a …
: Isaac Asimov's roaming hands Asimov’s Empire, Asimov’s Wall – daily.jstor.org Alec Nevala-Lee reflects on Asimov’s twin …
: Wild elephant walks into a Sri Lanka hotel, wanders around gently poking at stuff with its trunk. …
: Thanks to @manton for responding to a help request from me on Friday night, within minutes, and …
: Dave Winer: I'm re-thinking RSS now RSS forces “blogging into the title-description-body model of journalism. But blog posts are …
: A four-year-old answers job interview questions. The advice about writing is spot on.
: “911—what’s your emergency?” “Hi, I . . . uh . . . I work from home." [Colin …
: Tennessee governor seeks to amend law honouring Nathan Bedford Forrest, leader of Ku Klux Klan [The …
: National Archives sorry for blurring anti-Trump signs in Women’s March photo [The Guardian]
: The British “full breakfast” is dying: The fry-up may be toast – but, much to my own …
: Brawny Disneyland guest removes park’s sword in the stone/Boing Boing I guess he’s the king of …
: This statement could be read as Dave Winer disavowing blogging and RSS. Which would be …
: TSA issues apology to Native American woman who had braids pulled by agent The federal Transportation Security Administration has apologized to a Native American woman who …
: National Archives edited Women’s March picture to be less critical of Trump Vox The National …
: More pizza, fewer vegetables: Trump administration further undercuts Obama school-lunch rules The …
: Man hijacks Portland airport monitor to play video games, until PDX officials declare ‘game over’ …
: Larry David: The Incredibly Happy Life of TV’s Favorite Grouch Brett Martin: It is almost …
: That moment when you’re sitting on the couch and you tilt your head back to get the last few …
: I am enjoying Jack Ryan enough to watch one episode a night, but not enough for two. I’m glad Jim …
: Jack Reacher series author Lee Child ‘quits and lets brother step in’ [The Guardian]
: Oldest diving suit in the world reddit.com/r/oldscho…
: Seems like Jean is really into wieners 1940’s Visking Skinless Wiener Ad …
: Mavis is kind of passive-aggressive. Australian Women’s Weekly - 1936 …
: Bankers Flooding JPMorgan Event Bemoan San Francisco Squalor www.bloomberg.com/news/arti… My …
: Rep. Ayanna Pressley reveals she has alopecia: ‘It’s important I’m transparent …
: San Diego destroyer commander fired www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/mili… Cmdr. John “Bob” …
: Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Wants To Ban ‘Virginity Tests’ In California …
: You look like you’re having a tough day so here is a video of Jennifer Garner freaking out on …
: Micro.blog is making me better at social media in general. Instead of just mindlessly tapping …
: I’m back, micro.blog! Giving you another try.
: Canceled micro.blog but then resubscribed. Oh, micro.blog, why can’t I quit you?
: Our cat Sammy has far more confidence in my ability to avoid stepping on him when he’s …
: It’s 84 degrees in my office, I just started drinking a blazing hot cup of strong coffee, and …
: Ready or not, here comes the new Twitter Want.
: [Boonton New Jersey, circa 1960])reddit.com/r/TheWayW…)
: The Schramm javelin prototype, a single-seat aluminum body helicopter designed by B.J Schramm in …
: Neil Armstrong eating his last breakfast on Earth before leaving for the moon, July 1969
: Part plane, part truck, all badass
: On the 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy podcast: Pornography: Examining claims that …
: On the Our Opinions Are Correct podcast: Science Fiction Explains Our Messed Up Economy. Economist …
: Interview with Carol Downer and Francie Hornstein, who helped women get safer abortions in the 1960s before the procedure became legal in the US. The abortion underground: Downer and Hornstein helped women provide a safer alternative to brutal …
: Father tricks his toddler daughters into stopping crying by telling them to take turns. I thought it …
: Puppy Pride: Dogs of the San Diego Pride Parade. Aww. 📷 🐶
: Excellent comic. Something to think about before you sleep … if you can sleep after this.
: I’m finally remembering to bring grocery bags when shopping. Thus is the number of F-bombs …
: Tennessee’s Republican governor signed a proclamation into law honoring Nathan Bedford …
: Trump says progressive congresswomen should ‘go back’ and fix the places they …
: 📺 We got 10 minutes into the second episode of “Stranger Things” and we’re done …
: The song “Africa” is playing on infinite loop on outdoor, solar powered speakers in the Namib Desert …
: Computer password inventor Fernando Corbato dies at 93. His epitaph includes a mix of at least one …
: Jeffrey Epstein's arrest is leading to "I told you so" from supporters of #pizzagate, Qanon and other conspiracy theorists. Every crazy fake conspiracy theory in the world has a counterpart that’s true. #pizzagate is …
: Surveillance cameras show that bystanders will intervene to help in cases of emergency, debunking the so-called "bystander effect" that's been common wisdom in the social sciences for 50 years. Surveillance Cameras Debunk the Bystander Effect. Richard Florida writing at The Atlantic: It’s one …
: The Pinboard social bookmarking service turns 10 and creator Maciej Ceglowski celebrates with his usual dry, delightful wit I Can’t Stop Winning! Now that a decade has passed, I thought I would have some Yoda-like …
: Several US flags left by Apollo astronauts on the moon may still be standing, but probably not the …
: Kid comes to a video con in costume as an influencer apology video
: gail.com FAQ: Gail.com gets a lot of traffic from people who meant to go to gmail.com but made a …
: Three reasons the American Revolution was a mistake: “Slavery would’ve been abolished earlier, …
: Trailer for the upcoming new season of “Veronica Mars." Yes, that’s right – new …
: Good podcast about a bizarre relationship between psychiatrist and patient The Shrink Next Door: Marty Moskowitz, a successful New York businessman and attorney, was having …
: This is how you deal with Nazis who don’t understand how free speech works.
: The decentralized, open source Mastodon social network has been invaded by Gab, a pro-Nazi platform. Gab moved to Mastodon servers recently, leading Mastodon admins and developers struggling with the …
: Netflix's "Another Life" features Katee Sackhoff as commander of a starship making first contact between Earth and an an alien civilization, in the near future. Here’s the preview on YouTube. Looks good! I never got into “Battlestar …
: “The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass …
: John Carpenter’s “The Thing” but with adorable claymation penguins
: I hope the guy in the car had insurance.
: Dog: “Great job making the bed! I’ll just add some finishing touches.”
: A new technique uses space-based satellite surveillance to prevent bridge collapses, by detecting …
: When Natural Disasters Strike, Operation BBQ Swoops In With Relief — And Ribs Operation BBQ Relief: Competitive barbecuers flock to disaster scenes to serve up delicious hot food …
: Today I learned MetaFilter is still a thing and it’s still very good.
: A court in Dresden, Germany, sentenced two men to prison for copyright infringement – on Usenet Yes, …
: A judge ruled against Oracle’s lawsuit seeking to block the $10B JEDI contract for Pentagon …
: Matt Yglesias and Jenny Schuetz solve the housing crisis Vox journalist Matt Yglesias talks with Jenny Scheutz, housing economist and fellow at the Brookings …
: Wonderful, vintage photos posted to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11
: Oh, lovely, a bipartisan election hack alert law bill for Mitch McConnell to feed into the shredder “Two US lawmakers are pushing a bipartisan bill that would force the Department of Homeland Security …
: Rural America Might See More 5G With FCC's New 2.5GHz Order But the plan draws criticism. Mike Dano reports on Light Reading: “Today’s vote doubles …
: Metallica to publish children’s book, The ABCs of Metallica [Ben Beaumont-Thomas/The Guardian] …
: Instagrammers Love This Turquoise Lake, But It’s Actually A Toxic Dump [Salvador …
: Microsoft Teams overtakes Slack with 13 million daily users. [Tom Warren/The Verge] We use Teams and …
: Shoelace is Google's new social network Sarah Perez on TechCrunch A new project from Google’s in-house incubator, Area 120, aims to help …
: I see Google is starting yet another social network. Google+, Google Reader, Google Buzz, Google Wave, Orkut, and Dodgeball weren’t enough for …
: Novelist Stephen McCauley explores sexuality and relationships in “My Ex-Life." His novel …
: Recycling: People should stop thinking of recycling as a virtue, and start considering whether …
: Can You Hear It? Sonic Devices Play High-Pitched Noises To Repel Teens Philadelphia is putting a …
: Anti-“marihuana” ad, 1930s. reddit.com/r/vintage… I don’t think “dope peddlers” are giving …
: Elementary Education Has Gone Terribly Wrong In the early grades, U.S. schools value …
: They finally built a better ketchup bottle. And soon it’s going to be everywhere. …
: IBM: We Won’t ‘Bluewash’ Red Hat: IBM executives say they’d be fools to …
: ONAP ‘Dublin’ Lightens Network Orchestration: The latest release of the Open Network …
: 5G Will Be 100x Faster Than LTE? More Like 2.7x Faster www.lightreading.com/mobile/5g… 5G …
: " … much of the dysfunction of tech regulation — from botched anti-sex-trafficking laws …
: Built on Sand: “Wherever we go, we’re surrounded by sand. It’s in the floors beneath us, walls …
: RIP Rip Torn: Actor’s actor, political activist, badass boingboing.net/2019/07/0…
: IBM Builds Telco Muscle With $34B Red Hat Acquisition: IBM sees its combination with Red Hat as …
: “Draw me like one of your French girls.”
: On Reddit: I was just in an Apple Store while it was Robbed
: Zuck’s personal head of security resigns after allegations of homophobia, transphobia, …
: USA’s formidable women’s team is no accident. It’s a product of public policy …
: Greg McVerry: “Find a passion, start a blog.” Or you can just do what I do and post …
: Pratik talks about taking photos on vacation, blogging in a post-Facebook world, and inability to do …
: “Muhammad Ali is a singular figure in American life. But there are elements of a modern-day …
: Larri Thomas in The Silencers (1966)
: Why measles returned Why Is Measles Back? [The Atlantic] Peter Beinart, the author of this article, blames the anti-vax …
: Artificial coffee. I'm appalled. A Bitter End For Regular Joe? Scientists Engineer A Smooth, Beanless Coffee [NPR] A startup has …
: Conair Impressions crimper, 1989
: Researchers are working on plant-based fake fish Fish replacement may be the next big wave in alternative protein development I’m intrigued by …
: Bill Gates envies Steve Jobs's ability to mesmerize people with nonsense Microsoft’s Bill Gates: Steve Jobs cast spells on everyone but he didn’t fool me Sounds …
: Shedding Light On Domestic Violence [Fresh Air podcast]. An average of four women are killed by …
: Spreadsheet [50 Things That Made the Moden Economy podcast]. A grid on a computer screen gives us a …
: Weeding is Fundamental [99% Invisible podcast.] When the San Francisco Public Library renovated 20 …
: The Town that Stayed Quiet: The This is Love podcast visits a city in northern Italy where everyone …
: Welch’s Juice. LIFE, June 9, 1947.
: First impressions of micro.blog: Community, people and content looks great. Design and UI are …
: Get a Spine! Stories about people – including a scientist who studies invertebrates – who get a …
: Maureen Dowd: It’s Nancy Pelosi’s Parade - The New York Times I’m feeling warmer toward Pelosi after …