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Weeknotes: Mar. 29 – Apr. 4, 2025
red flowering currant season is one of my fav garden seasons Win of the week: freeing the car of its mouse overlord (probably, hopefully) Looking forward to: I want to make these snickerdoodle blondies...
View ArticleLetter to Senators re: Signal chat
Note: I’ve been trying to call but I didn’t get around to it last week, so I wrote in instead — don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good 🦾 I’m trying to pick one topic each week but it’s pretty...
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Dumbness is emotional, not intellectual
When I talk about people acting dumb, I don’t mean that they are unintelligent, but that they are failing to act towards the bigger picture / long term benefit. (Intelligence is multivalent,...
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The occupying administration is seeking to limit free speech by declaring it terrorism. They claim Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk are terrorists for advocating for human rights in Palestine, where...
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Weeknotes: April 5-11, 2025
the red winged blackbirds were putting on a show here Win of the week: my walking buddy and I both needed new walking shoes, and I found a running shoe store two blocks off of our normal route, so we...
View ArticleLetter to Senators re: illegal deportations
Note: I don’t know precisely what Congress can actually *do* in this situation since it’s in the courts, but hope that constituents showing political support for resistance is valuable should this...
View ArticleMedia incentives
“the platforms we use have actively made it harder for you to find written work” — Mia Sato @webkinzarchive re: anti intellectualism and the media literacy crisis ♬ original sound – Mia Sato – tech...
View ArticleOn hobbies and the difficulty of embracing slowness
Our perception of time –the pace of now, and how long it takes to get things — shapes our expectations about the future and how long change takes: “Americans are not used to waiting for the good...
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Blogs are personal infrastructure
Liked Marking the Occasion :: 100425 - thejaymo by Jay (thejaymo.net) I wrote a long post last year reflecting on the 15th anniversary of this website, but let its 'Sweet Sixteen' last month pass by...
View ArticleThe contradictions of fascist communication
The tyranny of relatable content by Ryan Broderick If a brand is a person, then a person has to be a brand, especially in an algorithmically-controlled attention economy that’s increasingly shifting...
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