Walking around Gold Coast today

Snow at 9⁰ falls as little crystals and glistens like gems.

The only thing that gives me solace at this moment in history is that everyone eventually dies.

Saturday naps

Went for a walk last night

Bring back Technicolor.

Window washers appear to be stuck

Moonrise

That was an ok sunset

The federal government is attacking US citizens in my town.

It's long past time for state and federal authorities alike to put an end to Stephen Miller's jerkoff fantasy of masked thugs kidnapping people of color off the street with impunity. Yes, there are Americans who want this. But they are a woefully small minority. Why are we still letting it happen?

Trump is building a golden throne room with bribe money.

us-east-1 outage is like a national holiday

Massive #nokings protest in Chicago today. So proud of this city.

Sunrise

Alien (1979): Cat box, art by Ron Cobb Flexible and adapted to living conditions in space, the Weyland cat box will make your feline friends' travels more pleasant, festive and warm.

Night & day in Chicago IL

Any law that declares 11 million people living, working, raising families, and paying taxes "illegal" and deserving to be sent to concentration camps is genocidal and inherently a crime against humanity.

Every artist is underrated.

I once read how rainbows work but forgot the mechanics. This was a good one over Chicago today.

For years, execs and managers were able to get away with pretending to do some kind of job - and AI has greatly accelerated their ability to pretend. Unfortunately, that led to garbage strategy and garbage execution. The "find out" phase of this AI-driven FAFO era is promising to be brutal.

Writing code is such a small part of a software engineer's job if AI is a threat you're doing something wrong.

I don't want immortality but I think it would be pretty cool to live around 300 years.

Walking around in Rome

With @cyborglibrarian.bsky.social at St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia

Spring time in Chicago

It's easy to miss posts by your friends so I made a list of people I actually know. Expect me to like more of your unhinged opinions in the future.

My wife says the vampires in Sinners represent communists, who offer a post-racial society, but at a cost that the protagonist doesn't want to pay.

The perverse idea that computer science exists in some pure crystalline form outside human experience.

A calculator that costs 1 trillion dollars, but it’s also wrong

A bunch of tech CEOs are talking about being “AI-first”, the latest in a series of CEO fads like “return to office”, “founder mode” and “pivot to full fascism”. This one’s weird, though, because it only makes sense if… none of their workers are great at their jobs. anildash.com/2025/04/19/a...

These guys.

He has not yet risen.

There weren't enough police for them to escalate the situation, therefore it was peaceful.

No one ever started a trade war with penguins. Historic

“All I can say is that on this earth there are plagues and there are victims - and as far as possible one must refuse to be on the side of the plague” - Albert Camus

Sunset in Chicago, looking north.

48 hours apart

Based on music from the period, the 1970s was just a lot of driving around on desert highways.

Textile fragment with feline figure, Peru c. 900

Drop a performance that deserved an Oscar but didn't get one

Mochi gained a pound this winter.

Democrats: "We have a plan to stop Trump's dangerous and terrible policies" The Plan:

Our dystopian cyberpunk future is more banal than we were promised.

I know people say this as a figure of speech, but I actually did cancel my Washington Post subscription today.