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 toxic MAGA organization whose leaders espouse vile LGBTQ-phobic beliefs. The head pastor “shares violent messaging and images, argues for the ‘public hanging’ and ‘torture’ of people he disagrees with and encourages the violent overthrow of the government.”
What’s behind the tech industry’s mass layoffs in 2024?.
There is a herding effect in tech…. The layoffs seem to be helping their stock prices, so these companies see no reason to stop.
Layoffs “are contagious…. when one major tech company downsizes staff, the board of a competing company may start to question why their executives are not doing the same.”
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 the October raid. “One is accused of kidnapping a woman. Another is said to have handed out ammunition. A third was described as taking part in the massacre at a kibbutz where 97 people died.”
German-born photographer Evelyn Hofer captured beautiful photos of Dublin in 1965-66. “Hofer took her time composing each shot, whether it captured a pair of housekeepers in brief repose or James Joyce’s death mask.”
I had a Zoom meeting yesterday and I put it on my calendar but instead of “Zoom” I mistakenly wrote “Zoomies” and so instead of my meeting I went out in the backyard and ran around in circles as hard as I could for a while and then I collapsed and had a nap.