I just realized: if I switch to wearing a single brand and style of socks, there's no need to sort out and pair them. This is a game changer!

"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone."

Stop being a good victim. Never apologize for advocating for yourself and those in your care.

Content Note: There is a lot going on right now and I am posting daily to force myself to think about anything else for at least a few minutes a day.

I've never played Fallout but I'm watching the Amazon series. I haven't yet read all of the Silo trilogy but I'm watching the Apple+ series. The further I get into both the more I feel compelled to ask: is Silo actually Fallout fanfiction?

As cute as little kids in snow outfits are, I do not miss having to pull it all out of storage and then repeatedly dressing and undressing small children on snow days. I appreciated it in its time and now that era is over.

In the first months of Twitter there was a global feed of every tweet. One day I randomly spotted my first online crush circa early 90s Prodigy in there. What a time to be online. Too bad Twitter inexplicably vanished from the internet in October 2022.

Agentic coding is impressive in the right hands but telling AI what to build doesn't make you a developer, it makes you a middle manager -- at best an architect. I love that it's eliminating barriers to entry and democratizing code but please don't stop there.

Gemini, my urine just came out like a slushie, should I be worried about my core body temp?

Facebook seems very determined to keep me informed of the latest Glambot tea against my will, like it's taking me blocking all such slop as a challenge. I'll take an interest in this circus, Facebook, no matter how many ways spammers dress it up.

I am a little worried that He-Man is a Surf Dracula and won't hold the sword aloft and intone the phrase of power until the third act is nearly over.

I repent every research paper I wrote in college about how computer-mediated communication would free us from ethnic and gender bias and allow each person to be judged on how well they express themselves. Eternal September, then human slop, now AI slop.

Most of my kids entered college with a career in mind, attending a specialized program targeted at it with a known success rate at placing graduates in that field. The high cost of education these days now precludes finding yourself through initial general studies, I fear.

My college kids have returned to school. The eldest has returned to his house. Only the high schooler remains home. It’s very quiet.

Retraction of the Day: I have no plans to try not to breathe. While these eyes are, increasingly, the eyes of the old, in my youth I did try to both burden and worry you; contrary to previous claims, I did not hold those things inside. I repent the foolish drama. #REMember

Probably a lesson in there somewhere on how much energy went into scolding people online for playing the Nazi card in arguments even as more and more people were actually being drawn to that identity.

Note to self: Do not update multiple pieces of the toolchain before testing that the project still builds.

In simple machines, sound is wasted energy. You’d think bros in lifted trucks or tricked out Hondas would be embarrassed to broadcast the inefficiency of their ill-tuned engines. (OTOH, their vehicle choices already announce that they’re compensating…

Does anyone remember when one of the third rails of internet discourse was Godwin’s Law? It may be hard for the youth of today to imagine a time when Nazis were so stigmatized that comparing someone online to one was usually unjust hyperbole.

I have so many more adventures ahead of me.

Q: What do Grok and ICE have in common? A: Racism, sexual assault, and leadership claims that more training will fix the issues.

On Jan 7, 2026 six Minneapolis moms subdued an ICE agent, took his gun, dragged him down the stairs, tased and beat him till unconscious. He suffered a heart attack and traumatic head injury. Oops, my mistake, that’s what pardoned peaceful protesters did to me Officer Mike Fanone on Jan 6, 2021.

Instead of ending the constitution and murdering people, we could have high speed trains and universal health care.

Thanks in large part to my wife’s photography skills my two eldest children, at 4 and 6, had Orkut fanclubs full of Brazilian youths posting as them, including one in which they were not siblings and were shipped. The fan art was amazing.

The animating principle of representational democracy is to protect the rest of us from the whims of deranged rich people, be they kings or oligarchs. Everything else is wainscoting.

My retired teacher grandma swore that one summer she caught a German spy. “That’s Summer of My German Soldier”, I said, “I read it in 4th grade.” Later she told me of a failing student she had reached by teaching him to play basketball: Michael Jordan.…

This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.

one of the most effective weapons we have against fascism is mockery, especially when its really funny

Retraction of the Day: Despite sweetly urging the original trespass, I didn’t actually want you to give me my sin back; I just wanted to kiss you again.

I know it’s a cliche to claim, but each of my children really is special and gifted in their own way. How boring it would be otherwise! Imagine having five first chair violinists on track to be valedictorian. How tedious that life would be.

The best way to assess AI is to give it a task to do something that you are an expert in, then review the output. Don't try to judge it based on how well it seems to do things you are not comfortable doing yourself.

I dated a Diane Court: intelligent, motivated, attractive, intimidating; I was a project. I’d use the word “indubitably” sometimes. One day she stopped me and said, “Did you know that’s a real word?” I was shocked. She thought I was using a made-up…

It would be really cool if someone would adapt the Foundation series rather than using the name for their big budget fanfic AU.

In Funny Games, well-spoken young men get away with murder because the victims don’t want to be rude. They’ve weaponized social niceties while acting shamelessly and their sheer audacity stuns the victims into inaction until it’s too late. We all know…

When I had my own space, I posted all the time. Once I was posting in someone else’s walled garden the allure faded, especially as each enshittified: LJ, FB, X, blech. But I miss it. So I created a microblog on my own server that reposts to X, FB,…

I’m old enough to remember when AltaVista was the new hotness because now you could probably find something related to your query in the first fifteen pages of results.

Will we ever again see the like of Cloudmakers/The Beast? If Conformity Gate doesn’t pay off tomorrow, I hope some auteur with a flair for marketing is taking notes and one day harnesses TikTok and Tumblr to give us a fitting successor.

sometimes someone just finds the absolute perfect combination of words can we put this on everything????

The latest linguistic crime that I will not be forgiving: “on accident” rather than “by accident” or “accidentally”.

My wife has started carrying a screwdriver in her purse to adjust the mix of McDonald’s soda fountains.

It’s always so disappointing when the fan theories were so much better (and, dare I say, more fitting) than the finale that the showrunners delivered.

I got permabanned from r/dune for saying that the non-Frank books are abominations. No regrets.

If I worked at Meta I would be mortified that, for YEARS now, Facebook has been asking if you would prefer “less notifications” rather than _fewer_.

I have a magazine from the early ’90s that purports to list every website on the World Wide Web.

I had a reoccurring dream throughout my teens. One sleepless night in college I was watching old VHS tapes of movies taped off of TV and discovered that it was a Levis ad.

Maybe in the new year I’ll post more.

I had each of these, and I've been trying to go back ever since. The last good phone was the HTC Desire Z.

So you’re saying we could solve all the financial problems of 379 million of us and impact just 19 households. What an interesting fact. Fun little bit of trivia.

I put on episode 1 of You season 5 last night and it started with a recap; there was stuff and characters that I'd never seen before and I thought, "Oh wow, they're not just doing a time skip, they are giving us a Scenes From Last Season for a season that they've skipped. This is brilliant"

Movie you've watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)