If you're in NYC and a tech worker, it's not too late to link up with tech workers like those currently on strike at Kickstarter to learn how you can organize your workplace!

friend/mentor Fred Goodman differentiated between "fict"- a fact created by author of a work of fiction, "fact" as "only a fact to a faction" & finally "fuct" - a "fact that has been sold to folks on grounds that it's good for them when 'in fact' it's just the opposite" -I think about this often...

Something that'll spook a technologist (also support m-otherboard.ghost.io)

It’s good that they list the extension because with gargoyles there’s no time to wait for an operator

I love this! All projects should have to provide documentary evidence of the remaining mess when the project is officially done. mastodon.social/@cmconseils/...

HOLY MOLY. I've read the screenplay drafts, looked at the budgets, read the faxes but never dreamed there was some footage…

Highly recommend "Pirouette: Turning Points in Design". It's at MoMA and closes in November. Power symbol, 1973 International Electrotechnlcal Commisslon (IEC) Switzerland, est. 1906 @ sign, 1972 Ray Tomlinson, American, 1941-2016 Google Maps Pin, 2005 Jens Eilstrup Rasmusse, Danish, born 1966

BBC interviewer: Is there a fundamental flaw in American politics? Me: Absolutely. The US is operating political parties software on institutional hardware that assumes parties don't exist because checks and balances will prevent tyranny. That turns out to be wrong. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

Gather round, children. Let Memaw tell you about a time — in the 1990s — when shirts, and I mean every shirt, came all the way down. They all had tops, backs, sides, AND bottoms.

Whole thread up and down

The only way I could possibly enjoy this more is if it turned out that UW rowers were in the crowd chasing this guy.

Nigel Shadbolt mentions the Royal Society's slogan - Nullius in Verba. I liked the version of the slogan from Pirates, an adventure with scientists - "Playing God since 1687"

to avoid confusion I have made a little table of Mitford siblings

just gonna drop this one here read @sverrir.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/service...

Well. That...is multiple compounding problems, none of which are mine to solve, so I am going to pretend like I didn't see that.

not unlike the Abilene paradox: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene...

Making spice cake in honor of the first day of October: cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1026...

I must read this book.

ADHD and other neurospicy friends, I have a question: how do you take care of yourself when you recognize that you've fallen behind on something?

I yelled "why does everything take TIME?" into the abyss. Things are going great over here.

NYC friends, please go to this and tell me all about it! It looks glorious!

Is there any reason not to mute "Kennedy"? Are there Kennedy's I would *want* to hear what they think about anything?

“Goods that minister to physical needs — food or drink — are no less carriers of meaning than ballet or poetry. Let us put an end to the widespread and misleading distinction between goods that sustain life and health and others that service the mind and heart.” ~ Mary Douglas

I don't follow the legal system enough to know what's been going on with federal grand juries, but I recognize a judge that is big mad when I see one.

only tangentially related, but thanks to a conversation about gluten-free baking, my brain has decided that xanthan gum is the right thing to try Joe Dumit's Writing the Implosion on... journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...

Where is Miss Marple?

#MarsupialMonday : Dahlov Ipcar (USA, 1917 - 2017) #Opossum Family 2, 1968 Cotton, wire, buttons, 10 x 15 x 6 in. shelburnemuseum.org/exhibition/d... #WomenArtists

What's frustrating about wellness culture is it's such a mix of helpful things and harmful garbage. Diet and exercise can be very important for how you feel and your health, but 97% of chronic illnesses are NOT preventable with them, to pick out one bizarre thing I heard yesterday.

excuse me

Read this, it is lovely!

This isn't out until March 2026, but I couldn't wait to celebrate it here. I'm so glad to see regional African cookbooks getting published, but it's critically important that we preorder so publishers know there's a good market.

O this looks good...

most of our series are like that but Mercenary Librarians is probably the most on-the-nose-for-2025 series possible, since it's a trio of angry women who JUST WANTED TO READ AND GARDEN but instead are being forced to murder their way through a bunch of tech bros w/ the supersoldiers they co-opted

I would love to hear suggestions from political experts for practical, meaningful actions that ordinary citizens can take right now. (Let’s assume that we’re already making calls to our elected representatives and donating to good organizations.) 🇺🇸

strange women lying in ponds distributing swords RETVRN

The kittens are yelling at a squirrel through the screen door.

The next generation of peabirds is coming along nicely, tended to by diligent moms. 🪶 #overflowingwithpeacocks

I'm writing a piece gathering reactions from military veterans about Hegseth's address to the assembled flag officers of America. If you're up for it, ping me.

GILDED RAGE, my book about the rise of the tech right and the 2024 election, comes out a week from today. The shilling will continue until I move enough units to keep the loan sharks at bay. linktr.ee/gildedrage

"We've got a captured population. There are only two of those, BTW, students and prisoners. And frankly, the student data is richer, more diverse, [..] in ways that make it more valuable." -- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

the law of the short underpass is, at least, immediately self-enforcing

@rachelhands.com icymi ksmallgallery.com/blogs/events

Weirdly enough I was telling my first-years about "warrior ethos" last week. Here's the skill set of a Top Viking, as set out by a dude who'd have gone through anyone using the phrase "warrior ethos" like a well-aimed axe.

a thing instagram just brought me which I think is both an important individual project but also highlights the extreme hardship the current admin’s immigration policies are causing: www.baloproject.org

I haven’t figured out how to say this elegantly enough. Paul gets it.

I know Gautham to be an excellent cook. So when he says he's been working on this book for 20 years, I know the ideas and writing have had time to soak and marinate in his brain and it's going to be great.

If you’re noticing a parallel between the way people in the administration are demeaning most Americans and the way your boss is now treating you, you are in very good company. (Tyranny in government begets tyranny at work begets tyranny in the home.)

Data for spite and facts!