I think tonight will be the night that I introduce Julie to the wonderfulness that is “Severance.”

I watched it without her when she was visiting family in 2022, and I am definitely up for a rewatch. Season 2 drops in January.

“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. Gmail is no longer my primary email service because I am no longer self-employed. However, I dislike the Gmail web interface. And while Apple Mail works, it’s not as nice as Mimestream. So I renewed. $50/year isn’t nothing, but I still use Gmail a lot, and Mimestream is worth it.

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 hearing it for as long as I can remember.

Having successfully sabotaged the Biden campaign, leading Democrats are apparently moving on from attempts to push the President off the ballot. These guys ought to be on the Republican payroll. They have done far more to push Trump closer to the White House than anything anybody in the elephant party has done.

“Trump raped a woman, was revealed as being in constant contact with a sex trafficker, stole nuclear secrets, is old, forged electoral certificates, was convicted of 34 felonies, committed fraud, is literally on the Saudi payroll, sent a mob to hang his VP but the opponent is also old."

Videoconferencing services need a filter that makes your hair look neat and trim when you badly need a haircut.

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 content on a variety of social platforms. And individual blog posts on a number of other platforms. These are solved problems.

But it’s surprisingly challenging to publish books on the web in nice, cohesive, tight, easy-to-navigate HTML format. A collection of 20 essays can be a book. Or a company’s handbook can be a book. Or an actual book like Shape Up can be a book.

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So we did something about it. Introducing Writebook. It’s a dead simple platform to publish web-based books. They have covers, they can have title pages, they can have picture pages, and they can have text pages. Each book gets its own URL, and navigating and keeping track of your progress is all built right in.

Troubling: A left-wing alliance with history of antisemitism allegations declares victory in France’s split parliamentary elections.