Software as a Disservice in full swing with Acuity.

Can you imagine if this motherfucker used his budget to help people? Like, actually help, not help a select few get dopamine hits off their hatred.

Okay, that led to sales, which led to dopamine. So...

I think I'm not a very good songwriter. Primarily because, like a sandpiper searching the shoreline for shells, I don't really get how metaphors work.

The internet is mostly useless. Mostly.

Turned out to be 7 leads over the course of that week. And they've all gone dark. Not one no among them. Just silence. Y'all...

"I’m facing the reality that when I die, my stuff isn’t going to be meticulously catalogued and preserved for some sort of feminist Asian American museum collection– it’s going into a landfill." I wrote a blog about 2025 was my BUY NOTHING YEAR. www.kristinawong.com/blog/what-i-...

Last pitch (this year) to buy one-to-many of my books. @bookshop.org is a great starting point: bookshop.org/beta-search?... If you want higher quality (better ink coverage) for the picture books, you can get those through my site: matthewoliphant.com

Huh. Dogs are good. Who knew?

HEY GUYS WELCOME BACK TO THE CHANNEL

As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

we should all watch a rob reiner movie tomorrow, this entire site, just pick one and put it on at like 8pm est

Got my music on shuffle and this came on (from my 2005 SXSW list). Forgot the video is so...it has a lot going on.

Went to a "mall crawl" at the Lloyd Center yesterday. Someone had a petition to not tear down the mall. I am not sure why. Depending, of course, what would replace it. Malls are weird.

Look east!

Had a dream, woke early, 633 words later have a sci-fi short story outlined. I like it when I am able to capture these things.

Tied for first with "Cat Fud".

50 RSVPs, 12 show up. Keep it classy, Portland.

OH: "Weirdly, for two introverts, we know how to throw a party."

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

Yes, part of my brain is still 12 years old.

Got to work (stage) behind the bar of my favorite cafe in Portland for about 2 hours this afternoon. Was a lot of fun, but I forgot how taxing this kind of work is on working memory.

People who do talk-to-camera videos, but spend the whole time looking at the monitor.

Does it trigger a #pdxtst if it's balmy in the middle of December?

Shocking results. But I am onboard.

it's an oil painting?!?!!?

@claireoliphant.com makes cool things.

"Waffles just pancakes with little squares on them."

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Softly

sometimes...the algorithm is alright.

Streetview 1901.

The things you find when you walk to the cafe instead of driving. Maybe cars are great.

Going back to bed. I earned it. Wordle 1,631 2/6* 🟦⬛⬛🟦⬛ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧

Crocs.

If you see this, quote post with your model of positive masculinity

WHAT

A-trophy.

Everyone should respond as clearly and forcefully as Senator @wyden.senate.gov to #ACIP ruling to take away newborn vaccination for hepatitis B. A day of shame: www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

Got to go to some places in my dreams that I haven't been to a looong time.

WHAT

Not enough people spend time thinking (and planning for) how their designs might harm.

Work this morning thinking about a play I wrote (started?) in 1991. Found the old notebooks* and transcribed what I'd done at the time, then outlined the thoughts I had form this morning about where it could go. That was fun! *handwritten because, of course, computers didn't exist back then.

I have my novel on Google Play Books and was offered, by them, to have it turned into an audio book using their "AI"-ness. I was curious as to what it would do. Chat...hell no. Like, hell no in general, but also...ew.

I'm not posting the word cloud for mine.

Always Blame Technology

Not one of my typical "startup" conversations, but really glad I had the opportunity to sit down and chat about intersectionality youtu.be/chlRz9pgEhU

"You have clearly proved that ignorance, idleness, and vice, are the proper ingredients for qualifying a legislator. That laws are best explained, interpreted, and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding, and eluding them." Classic. Literally!