Woke Sparrow!
You probably already saw this on Notes or over at Bluescold, but it is just such a hilarious fail I have to share it here.
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I think this movie about a medieval peasant uprising is really about Elon and Jeff.
It was Stephen King, in his first book about writing, Danse Macabre, who theorized that horror movies weren’t about vampires and werewolves.
I hate you, Airpods Pro 3
I hate you so much
Air guitar riffs over dirty bird toasties.
I was making dinner last night, having been on the road all day, delivering various relatives to various medical appointments, and I got home pretty tired at the end of the day so I wasn’t feeling like cooking.
Watched The Odyssey. It was good.
I think I mentioned that we watched The Odyssey on my birthday down in Hobart.
Back from the Deep South.
After spending most of last week in Hobart, I planned on returning to my desk on Monday, forgetting I’d booked a couple of skin cancer excisions for the morning—three of them, in fact.
Not an especially deep thought about the phones, but I had it so now you do too.
I was listening to John Gruber’s podcast, The Talk Show, on my walk this morning.
Morning people choose violence
I saw this note, blearily, at about 4:45 AM this morning, while waiting for the kettle to boil and fending off the depredations of two dogs and two cats none of whom could believe I hadn’t got up an hour earlier to feed them.
This could be me
If I was funnier
Dark Matter S2 trailer
I think the first season of this AppleTV sleeper was one of my favorite TV shows ever.
First lines: Quarterly Essay
After two months of research for my QE on the new/far/alt right in Australia, two months of deep diving into the history of the neoliberal think tanks, German research papers on radicalisation, polling data and focus group research, funding sources for the Atlas Network and Advance Australia, academic papers on the algorithm and epistemic collapse and, well, heaps more, I finally placed arse to…
Maybe we don't have to welcome our robot overlords.
Gotta say, the ol’ bot looked a bit shakey walking out.
Caught Stealing
I had the house to myself last night and decided I’d watch this recent Austin Butler film because I’ve become quite the Austin Butler fan.