I'm looking for testers for a Mac app I've built. It's called Humanist, and it's designed to take PDFs and turn them into clean, searchable text (EPUB, md, better PDFs, etc). It's got a versatile editor built in so you can compare the original to the output and correct it. I built it fast & it's fun

The new Lorem Ipsum

I am obligated to post this, from my own inbox

My elite strategic consultancy of women dedicated to fucking up the lives of terrible men in small but annoying ways. We'll have an underground lair.

It’s slightly strange than in embracing dogs as a preferred pet, we’ve accepted into our households animals that are even more directly obsessed with status* than we are * also snacks, which may be related to status in deep ways we can’t fully see

Tim informed me of this last night and I was like uhhhh perverts? My take is simply that regular people are too precious about what they’ve written and professional writers are accustomed to having their words eviscerated by other people. So don’t ask them for advice.

From what I was led to believe, I thought The Pitt was going to be like the gay sex hockey show but with medicine, but instead it's just really a lot of medicine

Pleased to announce I have a new name

Yeeted a chunk of mine, good riddance

He doesn't know we have to pay his friends to hang out with him

I hate every bot I see. From gpa to gpt

One of my most hated enemies loves Miami and I feel validated that it is the worst place on Earth

One of my most hated enemies loves Miami and I feel validated that it is the worst place on Earth

It is my birthday, I am 54. The big round number birthdays matter to everyone, but being born on 4/4 the ones that end in 4 are special to me.

@jacobharr.is Jake I keep meaning to message you. I need your help deciphering the back of the Cheez-its box again. Next time I am downstairs I will take a picture.

He's saying this becuase I found out he had hash browns I didn't know about, possibly the worst marital crisis we've ever overcome. He's trying to save face now.

We had a spirited debate I was confident I would win about the number of lakes in our respective states. Minnesota puts it on the license plate! Land of 10,000 Lakes! We have butter named that! Turns out if you question the definition of a "lake" Minnesota is really not all that competitive.

SOME DOGS HAVE JOBS, ORZO. You don't have a job. You don't have any money. You don't even have thumbs.

RIP Daniel's Bagels, the last real one. It was right next door to a Dunkin and I would get a bagel from Daniel's and an iced tea from Dunkin (it's good! actually brewed!) Once in line saw a tourist order a bagel at Dunkin and almost physically accosted her but then minded my own business.

I had to ask "Are these bagels getting better or are my standards getting lower?" The answer is "both." They are decent bagels, for Philly.

Tim has gotten me to care about professional football and basketball but I had to tell him I draw the line at college sports. I will make an exception for his primary rivalries but otherwise he can't make me care.

This is my preferred seat, particularly for long distance travel. You can lean up against the wall and sleep and it isn't cold. I would deliberately check seat maps in order to confirm I could find this seat. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/u...

Hostile information architecture

I can confirm this is real, just took my own screenshot

Think WIAD Philadelphia won't be enough community and nerd stuff? Don't worry! IAC is back in Philadelphia this April, and look! One of local faves @karenmcgrane.bsky.social is co-conducting a workshop! Find more details at theiaconference.com.

In general, I believe that when you fly an American carrier back to the US the food is better because it’s coming from a supplier in your departing country. This American flight from Italy has really put that theory to the test. Italy! Your food is supposed to be better than this!

I'm leading a reading group on liberal-to-lefist ethics in the European antifascist tradition (think Weil and Arendt to Gramsci and Fanon). We're reading one short book a month w/ongoing discussions from now until December. No pressure! If you're interested and a mutual, DM me for a Slack invitation

I have been in this hotel for two weeks and I am almost to the point where I can consistently choose one of the (many, MANY) light switches to turn on the light I want. Maybe up to 90% accuracy, starting from near zero. We leave Friday, maybe tomorrow I’ll figure it all out.

The bill for storing so much information online in formats designed for printing rather than in HTML was always going to come due, although I confess this wasn’t how I imagined it

Our Roman hotel brings us a little treat every day and I’m so disappointed when it’s tiramisu and not fruit. That’s how good the fruit is.

Please let us also express our gratitude for the amazing, wonderful, helpful and delightful @di-trnr.bsky.social, who is the world’s best travel agent. She’s saved us TWICE on this trip from the agony of cancelled flights. If you are going anywhere you should hire her and you will have the BEST trip

My new health insurance plan has a “Rewards Program.” So far I’ve earned $30 just for using healthcare! I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to wonder if capitalism might be bad?

I like to tell my team at Contentful that we need to “win HR” which to me means that whatever weird shit they throw at us with good but maybe misguided intentions we handle with commitment and grace Here’s me and @tcarmody.bsky.social winning housekeeping here on Valentine’s Day

I bought Tim a signed framed copy of this Achewood, mostly because he did a dramatic interpretation of the entire comic for me (quite enthusiastically) but also because, well, it’s true

Me: I am celebrating my five year anniversary with the love of my life in Rome, in an amazing hotel suite where the staff wants to know when we’re leaving so presumably they can scatter Valentines rose petals Also me: Where are my updates on what the dog is doing, I crave them

“How’d you meet?” “Well, he moved in to my house and has never left.” We’ve spent the past five years and one week basically spending our lives together 24/7 (with very occasional work travel) and we’re happier than ever each and every day.

It’s 2026. Everyone is talking about a hyperpersonalized, AI enabled future. Every time I leave the country they still show me ads in the local language, which I do not speak

We had three copies at one point, that’s how much @tcarmody.bsky.social loves me

I said all this last night but I don’t write for a sports blog

Excuse me?

I don’t know anything about luge, and I don’t really want to find out more about luge, and yet: I have questions

All the Epstein files news - where there's evidence of men closing ranks, dismissing the known facts and suffering of victims, positing doubt in the face of evidence, historically and currently - reminds me of the behavior I saw on LinkedIn ->

I’m on a plane

I was so proud that I led the redesign of The Atlantic in 2008 and advised them on rethinking what it means to be a magazine to being an online publication. It was a fun project. As with everything, it all falls apart. See also: redesigning the New York Times in 2005. Common thread: James Bennet

Notion is the modern tech company's version of "we'll keep it in a wiki." I will not be taking questions.

We are at another basketball game and I have gotten to see Franklin the Dog Up close and personal and the suit is SO MUCH WORSE than I’d even imagined

"Never again" wasn't supposed to mean "nothing that ever happens can be compared to this"

This dog loves me