Exploding Comma

Once again, I have run across someone who has read or seen something about how George W.

In one of my philosophy of language classes in college, we were talking about how words work, how they have power in some contexts but not in others, or have different powers in different contexts.

🔗 A Modest Proposal - by Damon Krukowski: What we’re facing in streaming is a system that profits from volume regardless of legitimacy.

🔗 How Meta’s $17.1 Billion Social Media Settlement Came Together - The New York Times: Over bagels and coffee in an Art Deco office on Tennessee’s Capitol grounds, Mr.

When I was a kid and we would go to Toronto to visit my mom’s family there, this commercial came on the TV: There is certainly no shortage of commercial jingles that have gotten stuck in my head over the course of my life, but I don’t think any of them has

On many of the podcasts I listen to, an episode will occasionally be prefaced with an apology for the poor audio quality.

Last weekend, I noticed that Cold Storage turned up on Kanopy.

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 get some mp3 sounds.

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 10% of our brains or that there’s the lizard brain and the limbic brain and the pre…

🔗 Vertical Farming Raised Billions.

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 my YouTube recommendations.

Staying at a hotel for work, I managed to drag myself down to the gym this morning for a run on the treadmills.

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.

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 watched the first Ready Or Not movie earlier this week.

🔗 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 of adult voting was an obvious good and efficiency.

Pika has added support for posting via API from both Drafts and IA Writer, and I am pretty excited about it!

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 who threatened to take away the iPhone, and the kid said “fine!”

I hate how so many recipes are now optimized for online video appeal rather than—you know—actually being good.

While I obviously prefer good coffee over bad, I generally try to avoid being a snob about it.

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 and force us all into dumb terminal/thin clients connected to those same companies’ c…

🔗 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 dedicate to that task is currency we can’t spend on the essentials we need to live.

🔗 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 and collectively bargain.

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 than a little freaked out by what New Mexico attorney general Raúl Torrez said

🔗 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 corners cut here, there, and everywhere.