Mitchellaneous CL: Seven things I saw on the Internet: https://mitchw.blog/2025/09/24/mitchellaneous-cl-seven-things-i.html

Trump’s imperial court includes a gay evangelical Christian and a Jewish Nazi. I never thought the end times would be so ridiculous.

Peter Thiel Wants Everyone to Think More About the Antichrist. This guy is the kingmaker who lined up J.D. Vance to be the next President and he’s crazy as a soup sandwich. Meanwhile, Trump is ranting about Tylenol and antifa. But I’m sure everything will work out fine.

"… how is it that some AI's users describe their experience as a hellish ordeal, while others delight in the ways that AI is changing their lives for the better?": https://mitchw.blog/2025/09/23/how-is-it-that-some.html

A movie that seems utopian now: Watching "Three Days of the Condor": https://mitchw.blog/2025/09/23/im-not-a-spy-i.html

Mitchellaneous CXLIX: Six things I saw on the Internet: https://mitchw.blog/2025/09/23/mitchellaneous-cxlix-six-things-i.html

I need to explore the new OpenGraph support in Micro.blog. I saw a truncated post show up as a screenshot of the text when viewed from Mastodon, which I quite like. Presumably, the same thing happens for BlueSky? Thanks, @manton.

This is my love letter to my favorite product: electric cargo bikes www.theverge.com/transportati...

Approximately 70% of all people who get cancer have eaten pickles. Most people who have recently died in car accidents ate a pickle in the past year. All Americans who ate pickles in 1901 have died. Therefore, pickles obviously kill people. (This is a post about Tylenol and autism. )

I just got a notification that my Tumblr blog turned 17 years old today. Tumblr has rarely been my primary social media platform, but it has always been easy to syndicate posts from whatever my favorite is to there, and I’ve come to be quite fond of Tumblr.

The Verge staff lists books that changed their lives www.theverge.com/tech/774085/...

Why your next car should be an electric cargo bike. I am 100% ebike-curious, but I don’t feel like I can justify the expense in addition to the car, and an ebike doesn’t seem like it would be a car replacement. Also, riding an ebike seems like it would be dangerous on our local roads.

In search of Robert Redford’s most iconic jacket. It’s the herringbone tweed he wore in “Three Days of the Condor,” which we watched last night.

I migrated from Mastodon to Micro.blog, again. Great thing about both platforms is you can just do that, easily and without inconveniencing anybody. I may switch back in a bit because why not?

30. Not 20. I was sure that the original said 20.

Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in the last century. 🧵

How Tim Cook sold out Steve Jobs. By Anil Dash. “The son of an immigrant, a child of the counterculture, a man offering an unmistakable fuck-you to Big Brother, and a person who, above all, would never kiss the ass of someone who had absolutely awful taste. This was Steve Jobs.”

Hate the player AND the game: But above all, hate the crooked ump.. By Cory Doctorow @[email protected]. “The wellspring of enshittification isn’t poor consumption choices, it’s poor policy choices. The reason monsters are able to des... https://mitchw.blog/2025/09/21/hate-the-player-and-the.html

A short history of business cards, from the 17th Century to today. “Today, the format is functionally dead, displaced by email signatures, LinkedIn profiles, and QR codes (see also: the slow decline of paper menus, postcards, and rea... https://mitchw.blog/2025/09/21/a-short-history-of-business.html

What’s the Difference Between a Sport Coat, a Blazer and a Suit Coat? A sport coat is meant to be worn with pants that don’t have the same fabric or pattern. A blazer is a solid jacket with contrasting buttons, often metal. A suit coat has pants made from the same pattern and fabric as the coat.

Getting Yelled at By Dumbasses. The defining experience of fascism. By Hamilton Nolan

The school shooting industry is worth billions — and it keeps growing. “Tom McDermott, with the metal detector manufacturer CEIA USA, says schools used to be a small fraction of their U.S. business. Now they’re the majority. ‘It’... https://mitchw.blog/2025/09/21/the-school-shooting-industry-is.html

AI psychosis and the warped mirror. Cory Doctorow: “While the internet makes it far easier to find a toxic community of similarly afflicted people struggling with your mental illness, an LLM eliminates the need to find that forum. Th... https://mitchw.blog/2025/09/21/ai-psychosis-and-the-warped.html

Netscape Navigator was released 20 years ago.. By Jamie Zawinski, one of the first Netscape employees. I’m surprised that Usenet was apparently still doing well as late as 2005. I had thought it had died with the last century.

About a year ago, after a good but long day at a conference, I had a business dinner with a colleague who was also a friend. After we sat down, I said, "I really want a beer now!" My colleague perked up, "Oh! What kind of beer do you like?" ME: COLLEAGUE: "Do you like IPA? Pilsner?" ME:

Read Whatever the Hell You Want charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/read-wh… 💯

You’re not going to believe the number of headphones I think you should have jasper.tandy.is/blogging/… I admire the spirit of this article, though I stop at one headphones, the AirPods Pro 2. I am tempted by the AirPods Pro 3 but so far am not having trouble resisting.

Construction workers in Iowa rushed into a burning house to save a family, and used a backyard trampoline to save a boy trapped on the burning third floor. wsvn.com/news/us-w…

Mitchellaneous CXXXXV: Six things I saw on the Internet: https://mitchw.blog/2025/09/20/mitchellaneous-cxxxxv-six-things-i.html

If Trump is concerned that 97% of the coverage about him is negative, maybe he should try doing something right more than 3% of the time. Because if 3% of the news coverage of Trump is positive, they’re going easy on him.

Ocasio-Cortez Statement on Charlie Kirk Resolution and Trump Administration’s Assault on Free Speech  ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/pre…

Petulant sexual predator and convicted felon Donald Trump "reiterated his claim that critical television coverage of him is 'illegal' and pushed back on criticisms that his administration was taking actions that chill free speech.” www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Republican Ted Cruz says FCC chair’s threats about Kimmel are ‘dangerous.’ “That’s right out of ‘Goodfellas.’" www.seattletimes.com/nation-wo…

Mitchellaneous CXXXXIV: Seven things I saw on the Internet: https://mitchw.blog/2025/09/19/mitchellaneous-cxxxxiv-seven-things-i.html

I think a person can stay sufficiently well informed on five minutes of news consumption daily, 360 days of the year. That excludes professional news, news you legitimately enjoy consuming and news about events that directly affect your lif... https://mitchw.blog/2025/09/19/i-think-a-person-can.html

Why more and more people are tuning the news out: ‘Now I don’t have that anxiety’ www.theguardian.com/society/n…

OpenAI released a report on who’s using ChatGPT and how. Most chats aren’t work-related, younger people are core users, most people use ChatGPT for writing, advice and information. www.theverge.com/news/7797…

Mitchellaneous CXXXXIII: Seven things I saw on the Internet: https://mitchw.blog/2025/09/18/mitchellaneous-cxxxxiii-seven-things-i.html

Mitchellaneous CXXXXIII: Seven things I saw on the Internet: https://mitchw.blog/2025/09/17/mitchellaneous-cxxxxiii-seven-things-i.html

"Nobody knows what socialism means. Perhaps a better way to say this is that everyone who says “socialism” means something different. The worst person to ask about what socialism is is a Republican%2C who doesn’t know what soci... https://mitchw.blog/2025/09/17/nobody-knows-what-socialism-means.html

New York Socialist City. Where taking care of everyone is common sense. “… what socialism really means in the context of US politics is public services for the public good. Using government to socialize the things that can help eve... https://mitchw.blog/2025/09/17/new-york-socialist-city-where.html

In retrospect it is obvious that drinking 48 ounces of cappuccino and Coke Zero in the two hours prior to my taking a window seat on a full three hour flight was not conducive to my comfort and would not endear me to the two other people seated in my row.

Balderdash: Like many people, I swear a lot, and I'm even a little proud of it. But I have resolved to reduce swearing to special occasions after reading this New York Times article (even though I disagree with the author's conclusions) https://mitchw.blog/2025/09/17/poppycock.html

Mitchellaneous CXXXXII: Seven things I saw on the Internet: https://mitchw.blog/2025/09/17/mitchellaneous-cxxxxii-seven-things-i.html

Yesterday I unplugged as much as I could from social media and national political news, to the extent that’s possible for someone like me. I felt pretty good about that so I think I’ll see if I can do the same today. Alas, my idea of “unplugging” looks like a normal person’s “fanatically online.”

I am trying to at least partly unplug from the national political news today.