Cybersecurity!
Yesterday while driving the camp carpool I was listening to a kid—not one of mine, fortunately—describe how, while working on a Roblox edit, he had gone to some website to...
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I really just can’t help but think that...
I really just can’t help but think that we can blame a lot on “common sense” but totally incorrect and long-debunked notions about how science works—stuff like we only use...
🔗 Vertical Farming Raised Billions...
🔗 Vertical Farming Raised Billions. Most of It Is Gone.: “The vertical farming crash is a case study in what happens when technology investors treat agriculture like software. The farms...
The greatest spectacle in racing
Since watching a few days of the Indy 500 practice livestream earlier this month and then a bit of qualifications, I have been getting a bunch of Indycar-related videos in...
I guess running on a treadmill is better than not running at all.
Staying at a hotel for work, I managed to drag myself down to the gym this morning for a run on the treadmills. I’m glad for treadmills when the weather...
Living in someone else’s art
We went to tour a Frank Lloyd Wright house earlier this week and it confirmed for me something I have thought about on and off over the years. As we...
Ode on an airport bookshop
Looking for a books to bring with me on vacation earlier this week, I came across the second volume of Karl Ove Knausgård’s My Struggle. I bought it a couple...
Ready Or Not is pretty good.
I watched the first Ready Or Not movie earlier this week. I had never even heard of this movie until I saw the trailer for the sequel that is out...
People think the economy sucks because they feel they’re on their own.
🔗 Thoughts on a New Civic Contract - TPM – Talking Points Memo: “I think many of us grew up taking for granted that allotting political power on the basis...
Posting from Drafts!
Pika has added support for posting via API from both Drafts and IA Writer, and I am pretty excited about it! To be clear, their web UI is great and...
Escalation never works, and you don’t actually have authority over other people.
About halfway through the day yesterday, my wife and I were talking about [WAVES HANDS AROUND] all of this going on and she said: “I feel like he’s a parent...
Food that is made for TikTok instead of for eating
I hate how so many recipes are now optimized for online video appeal rather than—you know—actually being good. Like, I don’t want cheese that makes for a good “cheese pull”,...
Bad coffee is bad. But it’s still coffee.
While I obviously prefer good coffee over bad, I generally try to avoid being a snob about it. I also believe that bad coffee is better than no coffee at...
There is no plan.
I keep seeing posts about how big tech companies are deliberately driving up the price of GPUs, RAM, and other PC components in order to destroy the home computer market...
Maybe our currency represents the wrong sort of value.
🔗 currency is an abstraction of value: “The capitalist system we live in does not allow us to fully express the value we hold for things, as any currency we...
If you support unions, you ought to support people who want to unionize.
🔗 House Democrats spike bill to let legislative staffers unionize: “House Democrats have quietly smothered legislation that would have given aides in both chambers a clear legal right to organize...
The Facebook verdict is not about Section 230...
The Facebook verdict is not about Section 230 Ryan Broderick, writing at Garbage Day about this past week’s New Mexico court decision against Facebook and YouTube: “But I am more...
If we don’t keep building bigger and faster, people might realize they don’t need to keep buying our stuff.
🔗 Why Apple’s New “MacBook Neo” Has Stunned the Tech World – Lauren Weinstein’s Blog: “The first reactions were that this must be a really stripped down laptop with quality...
Too many concerts! 😭 🤘
I just found out that Worm is going to be playing a show not too far from here in June, but it is the night before the weekend-long music festival...
Stable products that just work
Earlier today, I saw someone on Mastodon posting about how much money a company could make if they just said “We’re going to build a product that will work the...
Just let me read the damn article, part eleventy-billion
I was vaguely interested in reading this NYT feature recounting Michael Moore’s controversial-at-the-time/subsequently-proven-entirely-correct speech at the 2003 Oscars denouncing George W. Bush and the Iraq, but it consists of a...
Time changing
When my kids were little, I absolutely dreaded the bi-annual changing of the clocks because it aggravated their already problematic sleep patterns and made life in that regard even more...
New shirt!
My new Pushead “Cleanse the Bacteria” shirt arrived yesterday and I am super goddamned excited about it! I had two of these shirts back in the day. I lost one...
War is evil and stupid and we shouldn’t do it.
Now in my sixth decade on this planet, I have seen the US and other countries (but mostly the US) start a bunch of wars, and I think I have...
Nosferatu With Radiohead seems cool.
While I was walking by the local movie theater downtown yesterday, I noticed on one of the flyers posted out front that they are going to be showing the Nosferatu...