I’m trying Microsoft Edge as my primary browser, after hearing Federico Viticci rave about it on the Macstories podcast. He also loved Arc, but I need a browser that syncs with my iPad and iPhone.
I’m going to move linkblogging to <atomicrobotlive.tumblr.com>, for a while at least, and see how I like that. You can also find the links and everything else I post here at @mitchw@mastodon.social and <www.facebook.com/groups/at…>
There’s a new version of the Castro podcast player, which is nice, but holy cow the version notes make no sense.
New York Mayor Eric Adams said he was chosen by God, after denouncing the separation of church and state and supporting school prayer.
This is a perfectly normal and not-crazy thing for the mayor of one of the most important cities in the west to say.
MANDATE OF HEAVEN: Adams cites divine influence in election [WCBS Newsradio 880, New York]
Janice Eberly, a “corporate ghoul who helped Obama Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner steal Americans' houses on behalf of the bankers who destroyed the world economy in 2008,” seems likely to be tapped by Biden an open seat on the Federal Reserve Board.
Eberly helped throw millions of Americans into the street in order to reward reckless banks, already wildly profitable banks, with even more profit.
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Personnel are policy. Eberly has explained, in excruciating detail, exactly what policy she favors – policy that rewards reckless speculation by incinerating the life chances of everyday Americans. Appointing her to the Federal Reserve board would be a giant Fuck You from the Biden admin to every person who got their home stolen by a bank.
CPAC is going Nazi.
CPAC Speaker Michael Knowles Calls for Transgender People to Be ‘Eradicated From Public Life Entirely’. By John Gruber at Daring Fireball.
I updated mitchwagner.com. It’s not a fancy website; it’s just a where-you-can-find-me page for my various social media and other Internet activity.
At one time, it was the domain for my personal blog, but I switched that to mitchw.blog. My email address is mitch@mitchwagner.com. I think people expect something to be at mitchwagner.com, and now there is.
Science definitely hasn’t figured things out, and that’s what makes it exciting. There are all sorts of blindingly obvious things we still don’t know.
Why do we sleep, anyway? Why does every living thing seem to sleep? Even microscopic organisms demonstrate sleep-like behavior.
Theory says time travel should be possible. In fact, theory says there’s no difference between the past, present, and future. Obviously that’s not the case. What’s up with that?
Our common sense is based on extremely parochial conditions. We are these tiny little creatures living in a micro-instant of time, and the universe contains multitudes that are both vastly bigger and smaller than we are,. A lot of it moves a lot faster than we do. Get down to the subatomic scale, or up to the interstellar scale, and things are very, very different.
Twitter is far too angry and I have to ration it. Same with Mastodon. People are outraged all the time. This is probably due to the people I follow rather than anything built into the platforms. I am not motivated to find other people to follow. I’ve got other things to do.
On the other hand, I find Facebook to be mostly a positive place, and I like it.
This is completely the opposite of the common wisdom among the extremely online millennials who I follow. They’re all convinced that Mastodon, the Fediverse, and Discord are islands of sunshine and Facebook is a iniquitous pit of Boomers doing nothing but swapping Qanon theories and minion memes.
I’m amused to see that New Balance sneakers are now the cutting edge of fashion. I’ve been buying New Balance shoes for decades. I wear them when I walk, which I do for a bit more than 3 miles daily.
A few years ago I read that New Balance shoes were hopelessly dorky and middle aged, and I have to admit I felt self-conscious about that.
But now New Balance shoes are hip and trendy and I can wear them proudly.