Philip Greenspun’s Weblog

A front-page story in the New York Times today, the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 jihad: Many American Muslims have faced a quarter-century of suspicion and hostility since the Sept. 11 attacks … the city’s first Muslim mayor, Zohran Mamdani.

Yesterday was supposedly when people from El Salvador, “temporarily” in the U.S. for 25.5 years, would begin to head home to the country that, for the past few years, has (1) had a lower murder rate than the U.S., and (2) is too dangerous for humans to oc…

Apple has announced the iPhone 18.

After Boston and Brookline, I proceeded to KBHB.

One of my theories for why colleges are facing price resistance (example) is that colleges and universities are now, by definition, collections of second-rate humans.

I was gathered with friends, mostly from Brookline, Maskachusetts, to celebrate the marriage of a widow to a widower.

My first stop during the August trip to Maskachusetts was in Brookline, which vies with Cambridge for intellectual elitism and maximum credentialism.

Happy Labor Day and National Payroll Week (imagine creating a system of taxation so complex that no company could pay its workers without the assistance of a contractor who in turn must rely on at least 1 million lines of software).

Friends have been asking me to help them understand the recent Boeing 767 crash at KMIA (see “5 dead, 5 injured after Amazon cargo plane overruns runway at MIA, sheriff says” (NBC)).

I visited The Great Elephant Migration, “a coexistence story”, in Boston’s Back Bay.