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Look! Over there! Something irrelevant that's none of our business!

What's weird about having lots of uninterrupted time is realizing that I have to practice doing something that engages sustained attention. It's been a long time since I've gotten to do that.

Thermal 👏 energy 👏 networks!

Via @digitalchicken.bsky.social: The first day of in-person early voting in Harris County: 2018: 63188 2022: 60863 2026: 104,660

The adult kid's significant person has arrived in Portland, but to maintain the mystery is staying in a hotel downtown. I assume we'll get to meet him before they board the train on Wednesday. How long before is anyone's guess.

A memo from senior insurance-industry officials warning that insurance modelers are being pressured to downplay climate in their models & that many insurers are already planning their exist from key markets. An explosive fuckup on the scale of the mortgage crisis is building.

I'm so done with living in exile.

So. The thing is. My mom is weird, but her coping skill was to externalize it -- she complained about others a LOT. So for about the first forty years or so of my life I thought it was nearly everyone else who was weird, not me. I promise you this was not better than knowing I am weird.

My cousin organized a series of masked concerts in NYC so immunocompromised and other covid-conscious folks can still enjoy live music events, and is raising funds so he can keep doing so! Love and appreciation to anyone able to chip in 🙏🏾♥️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/pos...

The work that makes money relies on the vast amount of work that doesn't. Basic income recognizes both, supporting the work such as that of care, creative work, research and study, and acting in the commons.

I saw "First They Came for My Campus" tonight at the Austin Film Society Theater - it covers what happened at New College of Florida. Highly recommend. I think they have a grant to help them show it at college campuses.

In hindsight it was not a good idea to marry someone who had never lived someplace where he could walk to shops. This is not the kind of thing anyone can warn you about.

Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”

My broader take on all three German state elections and why focusing only on the success of the far right is both incomplete and self-defeating.

How do we incentivize people to paint wizards on their vans again I haven’t seen a wizard van in a decade and it feels like we lost something precious Can we offer up a tax credit? Little bags of shrooms? Start a wizard van painting program at vocational schools?

I tell myself I wouldn't be sad if I had meaningful things to do, but is that true?

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How do I do better?

My husband has a little bit of a crush on Jamie Tartt, it's cute. He'd never admit it though 😄

My kid is moving across the country and my first thoughts this morning were about where and how I should live, which is a lot first thing in the morning.

Disappointing that fear and shame are never far from the surface.

if you tell me "A is a bully on social media(/in print, in whatever specific scenario) but very pleasant elsewhere" you are roughly 50x likelier to convince me that they have the additional vice of cowardice than you are to convince me that they have a hidden virtue of kindness

I have a dear historian friend who’s leaving academia for a different job. Instead of starting a podcast to bitch about it, he spent years organizing a faculty union. Instead of leaving academia to bitch more about it, he’s leaving to go do higher ed union organizing. Just something to chew on.

We are still suffering Covid trauma in this house.

At every step in the WI-Gov primary, my message has been the same: whoever you've been supporting, commit to doing all you can to ensure that the nominee wins in November. It's all on the line.

"When are these people going to understand they can't polyamory their way to a better city?" My 21yo, radicalized.

Love waking up at 4am to grieve all of this bullshit.

Hiding is not resilience.

I suspected this article would be extremely dishonest, and it was! King County's never had the highest rate of OD deaths in Washington, & it's brought those rates down much faster than other counties. It's also not an outlier when compared to counties in Florida doing no harm reduction at all

"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

This opinion piece, written by someone with no relevant expertise, cites two sources, both of them blogs by people who also have no relevant expertise, one of whom is employed by a sham think tank funded by the "Effective Altruism" propaganda network. Truly embarrassing decision to publish it. 1/2

I don't think I'm going to get there.

Can confirm. Big houses are a ton of work that eat time for friends and social events.

Another long night. But I am just going to end the day by leaving this here.