When I'm trying to reflect on what I did earlier in the week, I find that thinking to myself in a deep voice: "Previously on Rod's Life..." Kinda helps.

Going to start acting crazy with these telemarketers... "Is this Mr--" [in a hurried voice] "Yes yes....can you help? Some little green men are after me." "Um. Mr. Graham, are you interested in ---" "I think they want the Milky Way I bought from 7-11." "Um." "I think It's the nougat!" -click-

FYI fellow anti-surveillance enthusiasts. www.cape.co/blog/recogni...

The only indicator people have of bias is that the thing they are consuming does not jibe with their chosen ideology. From their POV, it *is* biased.

I started watching @hollyrandall.bsky.social when I was working on a sex work article. Nobody does a better job giving outsiders like me a peek behind the curtain of the adult entertainment industry. Great interview here with @cheriedeville.bskyverified.social youtu.be/odufDWsc81o?...

I'm sure someone has asked this somewhere... Are the folks proposing a salary cap in Major League Baseball socialist now? ...⚾⚾⚾⚾

Why is our vice president able to write a book and then travel around the country promoting it...while he's in office? He is the vice president of the United States. There's *got* to be something wrong with that.

Not 5. It's antiquated but I do like the idea that I can be kind-of-sort-of-a-little-bit be anonymous online. Maybe #5 can be something that a social media platform can do to distinguish themselves.

Whoever these angels are who maintain R, they have (are) performing a vital service. But have they exhausted their creativity w/r to version names? I always wonder how they decide on them anyway.

This is the correct take. Especially for the folks who practice what might be called "normal science". Scholar-activists not as much. We have abdicated our role in society to influencers whose incentive is attention not valid and reliable claims about the world.

Pretty sure we will we start to look for "human evaluated" badges or certificates like we do with organic. "This thing looks AI generated." "Well was it human evaluated?" "Yes." "Ok cool." Or... Our products are 100% human evaluated. We only provided the best quality to our customers.

If I were Obama, I'd sue. That seems to be Trump's approach to everything.

Similar to how Ted Lasso just couldn't get his head around the British love of tea: "it tastes like muddy water", I can't get on this avocado toast train. It's really like bland snot, and I feel someone is playing a joke on me with this violation of the senses.

“The concept of looking for love at the gym isn’t new. In 1983, not long after health clubs became coed, a Rolling Stone cover story called gyms ‘the new singles bars.’ But in the decades that followed, the culture and etiquette in most (though not all) gyms shifted.” Gift link:

A sociological observation... The third "digital divide" will between the more surveilled and the less surveilled. People with the knowledge and resources to do so, will purchase items resist data collection and harmful algorithms.

Don't be a shame shamer. Leave them shamers alone.

Uh...I'm not sure this is the best supporting evidence for your claim that you didn't burn the snapper. 😆

A bit morbid, but I usually support a person's decision to end their life. It is one of (the only?) aspect of our lives we can have complete autonomy over. This includes the law of the state, the biological imperatives of aging, and the social structure we are born into and compelled to follow.

But Wilson and Kaling are correct for the most part. Edgy comedies *will* face backlash from folks. The main thing I would disagree with is that it seems (maybe this is because of the outlet) that they are saying it is only the Left doing this. Left *and* Right are guilty.

"If knowledge production—research—can be understood as the soul of academic life, then knowledge sharing—teaching—is its heart." #sociology #neighborhoodsociologist open.substack.com/pub/rodgraha...

Sometimes it can be scary to adopt an entirely operating system. But I have been nothing but impressed with Zorin.

Remember this scene the next time a corporate reporter tries to insist that a rural diner full of white men in their 60s is somehow a more authentically "American" place, somehow more representative of who we are as a nation.

I have a strong urge to buy Transformers. Some men with a midlife crisis get a sports car, and I want Optimus Prime. What is it like to be what people call normal? Tell me please!

If you're going to create a new food in a lab, just give it a whole new name and not a take on something that folks originally liked. It will inevitably sound like it will either taste bad, or someone made a typo. I don't want..."Malk". Or "Tofurky" either for that matter.

A movie where the villain was defeated by...fatigue, a grown up ET is in the last 10 minutes, and aliens can travel to this earth and implant psychological powers in humans but not devise a Google translator, and FBI agents don't know how to surround a building. This is what I saw last night.

It's old news I know, but it still surprises me to see what is the functional equivalent to weed being sold in the most random places. Get high. Watch Disclosure! To be sure, it's no different than selling alcohol (and probably better overall). But still, it violates the expectations initially.

A trillionaire isn’t a success story. it’s a policy failure.

Cats would make great capitalists. Hmmm...maybe dogs would make great socialists?

This question is common in our circles. But it misunderstands something basic about human beings. Being seen is a benefit. Having one’s identity and values affirmed by the current administration, and being spoken about positively matters to us all. Sometimes more than material gain. 1/3

It's wild to me that not only is this the one foreign country that politicians talk about this way, but if you say how insane it is, they'll call you a bigot. No, you shouldn't be serving any foreign country or fighting for the people of any foreign nation.

Is it possible to sue ourselves? That's the best course of action here. Because really it is the parents who should control access to that technology and how their kids use it. Litigation leads to unnecessary restrictions for most folks (youth included) who can use it properly.

Norfolk Tdes player Christian Encarnacion-Strand has a walk-up song of The Ballad of Boot Hill. The next batter up, Creed Willems, has (Ghost) Riders in the Sky. Makes me think it would be cool if all the batters had walk up songs from the same artist.

I hope this doesn't turn into a Nam situation.

I wasn't even watching that game...I was just refreshing the score on my phone, and it was exciting. Damn.

I get why people say tough "road" to hoe. It sounds right. It makes you think of someone hoeing down a road, and geez and it's tough! Having to hoe a "row" is conceptually far afield for most folks who didn't grow up around farms.

We have these cannons here all lined up and trained on the enemy, sir. But see this one over here, it's a little loose. There's no telling what will happen if you try to use that thing cap'n. Yeah, we can't have loose cannons in this unit, Sargeant. Use it for spare parts. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

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He has a gift for generating pithy claims that require a lot of excavation. And sometimes what's excavated is not very enlightening. But I think there's a lot of evidence backing this one up, and it is quite insightful.

In my never-ending quest to replace big tech tech with #opensource tech, my attention turned to my to do lists. I've been using Google services. Fine, but do I want to give this company this kind of information? Found a wonderful app that stays on your phone and is free. Giving a shout out.

I am becoming something of a Jeffersonian. The amount of surveillance and control by government is too much. I mean either you have the ability to walk around in the city you live in or not. Either the parents are the final arbiter of their child's behavior or not. Surveilled enough already.

Please don’t let them rebrand curation and preferences as “taste” the way they have rebranded media and art as “content”

The idiot in sitcoms is always lovable. The smart sarcastic one generally is not. I think this is replicated in real life.

CEOs Who Think AI Replaces Their Employees Are Just Bad CEOs In the last three months I've had people forward me four separate examples of a CEO losing his or her mind over AI.... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/09/ceos-who-think-ai-replaces-their-employees-are-just-bad-ceos/

I think I am YIMBY but it's possible that I am that way because I do not own any expensive property.

I hate the way that even though you know you're wrong, you say you're right. I hate the books you read and all your friends. Your music's shite it keeps me up all night.

In all of the thousands of hours of cooking shows I've watched, I've not seen one chef make or even talk about head cheese, that South Carolina delicacy.

I do not have the ability anymore to understand commercials. There is a Haagen-Dazs commercial where a beautiful woman is walking down a busy street, side by side with a tortoise, eating ice cream. What is that trying to convey? This happens to me all the time.

Three out of four people never recommend things anymore.

I've accepted that even though I did not grow up this way, it really does help if you can marinate your chicken for an hour or so. So I'm trying this sweet-spicy East African blend before dropping my chicken in the pan.