The purpose of a system is what it does: funnel money away from poor people, towards liberals https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/finding-solutions/hackathon-encourages-use-of-artificial-intelligence-to-prevent-homelessness-in-cincinnati

For me it’s Next Chapter in St. Paul but whichever https://zirk.us/@grammargirl/115951007329393040

I needed some books this morning, so I bought them from Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis. You could too! Just pick them as your bookstore at https://bookshop.org or buy directly from their website: https://moonpalacebooks.com/

I grew up northwest of the twin cities, and migrated down there for college, and for anyone who’s wondering why the town is so full of decent human beings, well, I think partly it might have to do with Scandinavians being relatively down to earth people, but more importantly that the “I gotta […]

Trump’s anti-vaccine stance has nothing to do with health, eugenics, or grifting. The antivax movement 10-15 years ago was the original testbed for online disinfo. It identified a population that could be swayed to ignore powerful evidence by fear-based agitprop. Now they’re being thrown a bone.

Quite obviously a man bored of peace https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/115939609816807541

AVERAGE NET WORTH OF AMERICAN IN THEIR 50s 1.4 MILLION, headline reads. Have to scan down quite a bit to find the median figure, which is just under 200,000.00. in 2022 the average for this cohort was 1.1 million, while the median was 300,000. In other words, the K shaped recovery is advancing […]

News flash: prescribing amphetamines works for people with ADHD not by correcting inattentiveness, but for the same reasons it works for everyone else - by giving you enjoyable sensations and a feeling of alertness […]

It’s occasionally just barely possible to infer some general things about a writer’s toolkit from their finished work — I feel I can sometimes sense that a thing was written longhand and revised in a single pass — but this is counter to almost every other art form.

Ballard would be nonplussed to find that “JGB” refers to “Japanese government bonds” in the financial press

Yesterday I deleted a whole bunch of apps I don’t use from my phone, and turned on all available privacy settings on LinkedIn, which I have to stay on in order to have an easier time finding the next job, should it come to that. Today I’m expecting to receive a nice piece of minimal, physically […]

As I have done for other fundraisers, if you don’t want to or can’t join Grapevine, you can donate via my ko-fi. I will relay funds but can’t give you any sort of receipt for tax purposes. https://ko-fi.com/heidi36465 2/

The dip in attention span / overall cognition we saw in the cohort that was in junior high when the iphone was introduced will surely be replicated with those who are in junior high now, with ai infesting our lives.

Hey guys no worries about the AI bubble, I found the next thing with which to race to burn up computing power

Siri be like: I couldn’t find the album “play more music” by by this artist.

Free idea for a font: a monospaced full ascii character set that, in addition to rendering the characters legibly, provide a continuous gradation of positive space from let’s say 5% of the negative space to 100%. This would be the ultimate font for askii painting.

Virginia Wolfe quotes Henry James: observe greed. Observe my own despondency. By that means it becomes serviceable.

We live without a future — that’s what’s queer. With our noses pressed to a closed door. — Virginia Woolf, 1941.

In her diary, Virginia Woolf thinks of death and regrets that she won’t be able to describe it as it happens to her. She then goes on to describe what she thinks it will be like, perhaps as a workaround.

#germanamericansurname of the day is HOECKER, alteration of HÖCKER, occupational name for a small trader. (HECKER is an unrelated German name)

Excited for this release, Harriet Tubman is great at collaborations. Best hard jazz out there imo. (I just made that term up but to me it means, New York style like it used to be) https://harriettubman.bandcamp.com/album/electrical-field-of-love

The wordless are the happy — Virginia Woolf

#germanamericansurname of the day is LICKLITER /LICHLITER / LEICHLITER / LECKLITER /LECHLITER / LICKLIDER, all alterations of LECHLEITER, topographic name for a feudal tenant on a mountain slope.

Democrats 2028 platform leaked

I just called the original and still independent Dunn Bros Coffee location across from Macalester College and set up a recurring coffee subscription by mail. If you follow me you’d probably feel right at home there, and it’s a little thing you can do to keep good people in the Twin Cities going. […]

#germanamericansurname of the day is BUTTORFF / BUTTURF / BOTTORFF / BOTTORF / BUTDORF / BATDORF / BOTDORF / POTTORFF / POTTORF, all alterations of BADORF.

The ICE employee data leak shows that Proud Boys have been hired by ICE It's why they're covering their face Enrique Tarrio is also on the employee roster People who were convicted of being traitors to our country are now federal agents ruling with an iron fist in our country Let that sink in

#germanamericansurname of the day is RODEHEAVER, alteration of ROTHÖFER, topographic name for someone on a farm built in a clearing

Honestly it’s impressive how totally the dem managed to squander their final years in power, but it really seems like they did not realize that was their last shot. Which, lol

Surprisingly in depth interview with the MAGAesque guy trying to challenge Ramaswamy for the GOP gubernatorial nomination in Ohio. Worth reading to bathe in the vibe, have to agree with him that the billionaires are selling us out, but then he goes to abortion is murder and finally, hitler […]

TIL that AirGas is an AirLiquide company.

Feeling pretty jealous of my friend who quit his job last summer and solo sailed his sailboat out the Hudson river, up to Newfoundland, and across to Europe. He made it to the Canary Islands for New Years Eve and according to his tracker is still there...

#germanamericansurname of the day is WINEBRENNER, alteration of WEINBRENNER, occupational name for a brandy distiller.

#germanamericansurname of the day is PLAUGHER, alteration of PLOCHER, a metonymic occupational name for a jailer.

The sign read COME TO OUR SOFT OPENING

Renee Nicole Good was a poet https://lithub.com/renee-nicole-good-murdered-by-ice-was-a-prize-winning-poet-heres-that-poem/

Jesse Ventura emerging from South Minneapolis like some old testament prophet to curse a mad tyrant is why you just can't give up on America www.youtube.com/watch?v=udSU...

Trade deficit narrowed in October … because a shit ton of gold was exported out of the country. https://stocks.apple.com/AiSHFPki9QqOdnmDtPp1wNQ

#germanamericansurname of the day is TALLMAN, alteration of THALMANN.

on the many unforeseen consequences of the change to the USPS rules about when postmarking occurs (which is obviously an attempt to fuck around with elections) https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1q0y6mo/comment/nx21gtj/

It's just too perfect that the Answers in Genesis guy who built the Ark amusement park is named "Ham," aka the son of Noah who did something naughty to him when they were alone in a tent together.

Came across a post on Linkedin from a consumer strategist that leads off with "Power has moved to whoever reduces cognitive load," which she means in a branding sense, but which makes me think of the phrase "everything is political" in a new light. "...Distribution is cheap in comparison to […]

The function of (the H1B) system is what it does. https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1pkwswa/i_never_fully_realized_just_how_much_the_h1b_is/ #POASIWID

What we need is for Liz Cheney to get on the news and say that her dad would never have let this invasion happen without a much more thoroughly developed excuse.

The Adorno for today: “...there is no longer beauty or consolation except in the gaze falling on horror, withstanding it, and in unalleviated consciousness of negativity holding fast to the possibility of what is better.”

Talking about the state of the world with old Dad on the phone, I dropped some Adorno on him, which he found bleak. And he said you know Mom and I were always worried about your temperament as a child. I wish you joy, etc. Well Dad I said, there are other pleasures. Which is really true.

In her diary, Woolf wrote that she considered “elegy” a more appropriate noun for her works than “novel“

Nothing to see here, folks

I don't know anything about these people, but maybe with "otrovert" they are trying to create a less stigmatizing term than "schizoid," in which case more power to them https://www.othernessinstitute.com/traits-of-otherness/

Like 5–10 years ago I was sure Patagonia was going to solve the problem of synthetic fleece, but they have not. A real contradiction for them, but after all the birth of the company was Chouinard fashioning mountaineering clothing out of fuzzy polyester toilet seat covers…