My second choral premiere "River Song" happened Thursday night. Here is a studio demo with video imagery. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9oH...

Accounts of resistance are invaluable

This may be the most important thing I've done as an analyst. www.linkedin.com/posts/charle...

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

Useful thread for all frequent travelers to the US or elsewhere

An LLM does not make coding *easy*. It accelerates you (dramatically), but the cognitive load (in my experience so far) is just as intense as it ever was.

LLMs, graph databases, and IT management www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

I’ve seen a couple stories along these lines and they have the ring of truth to me. I am disinterested in supporting the Democrats until they fix this. newrepublic.com/article/1891...

The much needed response to the unitary executive theory.

Hoo boy. New article says lower courts are obliged not to follow SCOTUS precedents that are “demonstrably erroneous and conflict with positive law, especially the Constitution which is the nation's supreme, paramount, and fundamental law.” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This is a seriously freaking deep cut in retrospect. I suspect I have stumped 99% of you. And yes, my first album I paid for with my own money.

This AM I got up and the first thing I did was doomscroll. Regardless of the merits of staying informed, this can't be good and I am going to stop. It starts with removing the smart phone from the sleeping area.

Thank you, Jesse. I'm mad as hell, I'm not going to take it anymore. 💙 Following all.

It’s real weird reading over the Declaration of Independence right now in light of the actions of the current administration, because a good 50% or more of those “Facts submitted to a candid world” are… super accurate: 🧵

Today's blog. www.forrester.com/blogs/a-simp...

NEW: A letter from an anonymous federal worker. Please read and share: www.muellershewrote.com/p/letter-fro...

I just deleted 350 Google contacts as part of re-orienting my digital life. This was hard and emotional, recalling once-passionate parts of my life I don't expect to ever revisit. All too many who have passed on, as well. But I have new challenges, friends, and horizons.

For some reason the fable of "The Frogs Who Desired A King" is on my mind. aesopsfables.wordpress.com/the-frogs-wh...

I'm starting to exit Facebook. One thought I'm having: going back to email, A LOT. Cleaning up all my old addresses. Trying to figure out a sustainable strategy for elevating high priority conversations. Etc. Anyone else have similar thoughts?

www.politico.com/news/magazin... I never would have guessed

Happy 60th anniversary to A Love Supreme www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

This thebulletin-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/thebulle...

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals. Take a look. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

I’m sorry, but Bluesky is still nowhere near what Twitter was for me. Trying to rebuild, not succeeding yet.

Truth

I really needed to see something like this today

I've heard a number of people say, "I live in a safe blue district/state--there's no point in calling my reps since they're already on the right side." Yes, there is: You can call and insist that they be among the loudest voices on the issues you care about, since they can afford to be.

AI Keynesianism.

The economy runs on "unnecessary" spending. This is just supplementing military Keynesianism with AI Keynesianism.

It's definite, I am premiering another work with Crescendo Community Chorus (www.crescendochorus.org) on May 15, working title "River Song." This concert is in partnership with Friends of the Mississippi River, headed by my good friend Whitney Clark.

This is the real game, folks. prospect.org/politics/202...

New blog on the relationship between the product model and technical debt www.forrester.com/blogs/the-pr...

Angertainment is a great way to describe the emotional experience most social media platforms are optimizing for.

At the 20th Code Freeze, in the spectacular McNamara Center at the University of Minnesota.

MSP deep cut. IYKYK.

for Minneapolis Bluesky - Lori is a brilliant mosaic creator and public artist - please consider attending -

Cleaning for Solstice party and listening to seasonal music. Appreciating "Good King Wenceslas" for its message: the powerful have duty to the poor. That one stays in rotation.

Hearing about more EA teams taking over CMDBs.

Today's essay from my Medium archive. As always, no paywall. timjwise.medium.com/stop-lying-t...

Exactly one week from today, Cody Scott & I will have delivered our keynote at #Forrester #security #risk summit & will be enjoying a cocktail with clients & colleagues. Will you be there? Drop me a note.

#Babylon5 is better preparation for the coming political storm than any substack, I guarantee it. Better written, too.

So I have had reversible jackets, reversible vests, and reversible belts. Why are reversible socks not widely seen? Same appearance both sides so they come out of the laundry ready to fold. No “inside-out.”

Fun musical theater thread and probably a good starter pack for that topic

What I have been doing past 2 weeks - pro-level musical theater workshop. www.startribune.com/composers-an...

My TBM Council write up www.forrester.com/blogs/a-week... “Product centricity isn’t just a leading-edge trend; in many large orgs, it’s a done deal…”

Hello, Bluesky! Join me and fellow Star Trek ladies on October 3rd for a virtual event, Women of Star Trek for Kamala! We are supporting the Harris/Walz campaign as we look toward a brighter future - one that we need to start building today at the ballot box. 🗳️ #HarrisWalz2024 #Kamala2024

Just tested positive for Covid. Probably picked it up at the Enterprise Technology Leadership Summit.

hey @writtenndust.bsky.social please post your Kamala/Kathryn pic here!