A little bummed we’re stuck on “billionaires are owning everything” and “online personalities are spreading antisemitism” and “senior dem house rep is undermining progressive candidate”

Green falafel

Where’s that bicycles in Europe cartoon

One thing to keep in mind about drivers licenses and similar object-based forms of identification is the long game is to usher everybody into biometrics

Gramsci: “If the ruling class has lost its consensus, i.e. is no longer ‘leading’ but only ‘dominant,’ exercising coercive force alone, this means precisely that the great masses have become detached from their traditional ideologies, and no longer believe what they used to believe previously, etc.

Wondered

Got myself some sunlight and a pizza. Not a bad day

Been scribbling notes for an essay suggesting that, aside from disciplining labor, the Big Idea behind this LLM wave is “trust me bro”

Trying a morning coffee instead of morning tea, thinking it might pair better with the breakfast. I was wrong

Highlighting a small piece of the story to note that municipal holiday light displays in the U.S. are routinely funded by the local chamber of commerce for the same purpose

I started to wonder at the time if Harris had internal polling that said something different than this and that’s why she was so dogmatic- but it seems like she didn’t and still decided to enthusiastically back Biden’s Israel policy which to me means she was willing to lose over it 🤷🏻‍♀️

I actually did a painting about Oregon and the weather. “Farest,” oil on canvas, 24x36, finished Dec 2024 after ten agonizing years being depressed about it

Alright I think the weather’s getting to me

It's simple really. The second earliest Macintosh printer driver was for the PostScript Apple LaserWriter, which converted documents to the Adobe PostScript language. Early Adobe PDF documents were essentially PDF wrappers.. 1/

Everybody who’s ever gone to high school knew a handful of dudes who made a part time job of inventing complicated rationales for why you need to loan them your car or homework. Some of em find a sales jobs and grow out of it a little

Never put Gillis in my timeline

Sort of wild to think about how the economy and life in general are probably not getting better for another two to three years, barring unexpected developments that all things considered could easily make things even worse

I don’t have sympathy for large corporations and life plus seventy years is absurd but until we establish UBI for artists or for everybody the question is: should artists receive compensation for their work? Simple y or n

Silently mourning my lost youth to the tune of a nearby kid’s “million billion million million billion” story

Walking NE Pacific today, first street south of the interstate, it occurred to me that most of the apartment blocks preexisted the highway, in fact were there when the only traffic through the gulch came along the railway and by food and paw, no constant whooshing tires. Must have been dang pleasant

February spooled out two new short stories that you and the editors of several literary magazines are going to find annoying for a few reasons

Someone added my account to a “Techno-Pessimists” list of “Users who hate people who use AI, Bitcoin, VR, Robots, Digital Watches, etc” and I have tallied at least three leaps between the title and description that the user might find value in unpacking with someone calm and patient

Do not ask me to read about Will Stancil

City council can’t do anything with a petition that’s any different from what they’re already doing

The RtP/FRSO group, as a group, is basically demanding soft serve from the fire plugs. Psychedelic moonshot politics

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Missing all my favorite tiktok personalities and health tips

Just floating an idea

Loretta Smith & Wesson

I say this seriously I would have gotten everything I want in life by 30 years of age if folks had shown a quarter of the skepticism towards bullshit artist dudes that they showed to me when I tried to circumvent them or failed to praise them

Can we please figure the fuck out how to ensure Bad Actors cannot keep being bad actors in this goddamn city? And hold them accountable? Because a safe space is an accountable space.

In my opinion as a student of rhetoric: nope

Wild that a city as walkable and crunchy as Portland hasn’t spun up a cooperative grocery or dry goods store every half mile

Another dream last night: I helped two young boys pretend to put out a real fire in the building next door by repeatedly throwing a bowl, made of half a basketball, full of pretend water at the fire and they thought it was the coolest thing. Fire went out on its own and everyone walked away content

What does it mean if you dream about having to go to the semi-abandoned mall to replace your stolen phone and explain the situation to the phone shop clerk and the clerk hands you a power brick for your phone

Pizza stirrings

Sure am gonna miss seeing Mr. Juneteenth outside the co-op. Rest in power, Woody Broadnax www.gofundme.com/f/support-wo...

Got an ad for this site on duolingo. Not clear who they intend to “borrow” $600 million or how the math works although I suspect they’re keeping a wizard in the tunnels for this exact purpose 🪄

I made really good pasta

Well if anybody ELSE has not attained the Kierkegaardian teleological suspension of the ethical or remains tightly tethered to the aesthetic stage yet feels impelled as though from within, by a teasing of the spirit, towards a catalyzing moment of crisis, take it to a goddamn shrink. I’m spent

I ate ten dates

Going to use AI to summarize these stories and read me the summaries

Unfortunately my writing has improved with daily practice

Whatever the problem it’s gotta be in the genes or else we have to accept the changing nature of ideas and life

Opening negotiations with your best compromise is the Democratic way

General rule for interacting with Justin fwiw

The day’s objectives are falafel and a cinnamon roll

Sort of an unfair advantage, coming of age in the triumphal pre-merger ELCA, where the moral-intellectual grounding for progressive social policy was there for the taking. Unproblematized whiteness, back then at least, but a good running start

Driving home from the ’07 synod assembly in Rosemont my pastor (passions: People Magazine and taunting homophobic colleagues) said she was sure the ELCA would pass full LGBTQ+ inclusion soon, then leaned closer and said “the Unitarians are going through this right now with polyamory” and tittered