My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

Looking forward to finding out more about this www.npr.org/2025/07/05/n...

Fun to be on the panel with Teresa, Roy, and Anushah at the Computer History Museum. Good discussion, good questions — www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vcuy...

So happy for @marthawells.com and all the rest of us that Murderbot the TV series is now out in the world!

ART OF THE FOLD........

Excited to be speaking at the upcoming event (May 13, 2025). There are always good questions about Unicode and language support. computerhistory.org/events/chara...

What’s happening in Los Angeles’s ports suggests that financial markets have yet to fully price in how much Trump’s tariff war is hurting the economy, @juliettekayyem.bsky.social writes. “The stock market goes up and down. Maritime indicators keep on sinking”:

Very interesting evening, and surprisingly funny, especially when Klein was channeling a Nimby liberal. sfstandard.com/2025/03/27/e...

Head to Japan on vacation; my wife's first visit. A long time since I've been there — my first extended visits were when we did the first Kanji Macintosh

Very kind words — and accent bombs as an added 🎁

Stepping aside as Unicode Board Chair: blog.unicode.org/2025/02/unic...

Hard to pick out our waymo out of the 9 !! coming down the block at the same time.

Let’s take a quick look at LOTR from Sauron’s perspective, where it resembles nothing so much as a counter-espionage spy thriller.

“In one of the most astonishing political transformations in the history of democracy,” Hitler destroyed “a constitutional republic through constitutional means,” writes Timothy W. Ryback. Read about how Hitler overcame democracy in just 53 days:

"…, there seems to be an agreement that the ‘90s were the zenith of prosperity and happiness." and later "When people say the ‘90s was a golden age, it’s possible they’re just stupid, but …" open.substack.com/pub/matthewy...

Having lived in both places, I've seen first-hand how much better the initiative/referendum process is in Switzerland. What California can learn from the place that invented the initiative - POLITICO search.app/bDKypMJw8wHv...

Origami Black Hole xkcd.com/3033

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Someone, please, find me an article I can write where I can include this! I NEED to include this in something!

Crypto’s Legacy Is Finally Clear An anti-establishment technology for an anti-establishment age By Charlie Warzel via The Atlantic archive.ph/HR1Iy

Time for another pastry crawl in SF

Having experienced for 10+ years the medical system in Switzerland (one that is not single-payer), this makes a lot of sense.

This proposed draft technical standard by my colleague @macchiato.com addresses long-standing interoperability issues with linkifying plain text. While discussing the draft, we kept running into them: in email the link was to ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/, and here アルベルト is needlessly escaped to %E3%82%…

Finally someone who clearly explains the subjunctive in French and other romance languages — always a puzzle to me. I particularly like the section near the end with examples that could have either indicative or subjunctive, where it makes a difference in meaning. youtu.be/xdpvR3kaXaQ?...

Definitely a plus

what-if.xkcd.com/6/ please read this, and share my pain

The best-case scenario for Trump's second term

There is a proposed draft UTS #58 Unicode Linkification, with the goal that links applied to plain text don't fail for non-ASCII characters, such as: "The page ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%... contains information about Albert Einstein." blog.unicode.org/2024/11/feed...

One rough estimate of price increases for latest set of Trump tariffs (25% on Mexico, 25% Canada, 10% China), for a selection of goods:

I'm sure I'm not the first to notice the stylistic similarities between the art design of Dishonored (1/2/3) and Netflix's Arcane. I just checked, and there is a French connection: the Arkane Lyon studio for Dishonored, and French animation studio Fortiche for Arcane www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsQi...