This is Tina and Ray’s dog Walter. Tina had about a dozen people over to her house this morning, and Walter greeted every one of them at the front door with a rope-toy in his mouth. Walter excels at tug-of-war.

What’s Wrong With Las Vegas? Prices are rising, international tourism is falling, and visits are down 11% year-over-year.

L.A.’s Entertainment Economy Is Looking Like a Disaster Movie: mitchw.blog

Mitchellaneous CLX: Six things I saw on the Internet: mitchw.blog

> "Many Germans look back with bafflement at how the country that produced Bach and Goethe succumbed to rule by Hitler and his enabling thugs. Americans may someday look back with bafflement at how the country that produced Washington and Lincoln surrendered to Trump and his enabling thugs." — […]

Nine Things I Learned in Ninety Years. By Edward Packard, writer, whose work includes the prototype Choose Your Own Adventure book and many other books in that series, and native son of Huntington, NY, where I grew up.

Chicago apartment ICE raid: Tenants detained for hours and American kids separated from parents: mitchw.blog A large overnight raid by ICE in Chicago traumatized residents, with adults and children being detained amid a chaotic scene involving military-style vehicles and helicopters. If ICE […]

Here's something I saw while walking the dog. Note the wee small pickup truck with surfboards on the left.

One of my neighbor kids is doing trumpet practice. This is a sentence one hopes never to utter.

Mitchellaneous CLVIV: Six things I saw on the Internet: mitchw.blog

We had a great meeting of the La Mesa-Foothills Democratic Club yesterday. It was wonderful to get together with people doing the work of preserving democracy against fascism.

Microsoft is giving away Crocs decorated with a montage of the Windows XP wallpaper and logos: mitchw.blog

Here's something I saw while walking the dog. This message spelled out with nails pounded into the top of a post.

Mitchellaneous CLVIII: Six things I saw on the Internet: mitchw.blog

My top podcasts of the month

Great view walking the dog this morning

Mitchellaneous CLVII: Six things I saw on the Internet: mitchw.blog

“It’s a war from within.” Trump prepares the generals for what comes next. mitchw.blog

“I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.” — General William Tecumseh Sherman

Trump’s and Hegseth’s speeches today were disgraceful even by the standards of this administration. They have declared war on 1/3 to 1/2 of the American population: Three of our largest cities plus San Francisco, the residents of America’s inner cities in particular, LGBTQ people, women […]

Here are some things I saw while walking the dog. I guess we’re doing Halloween now.

Mitchellaneous CLVI: Six things I saw on the Internet: mitchw.blog

I'm not a superhero fan but I do love Superman: mitchw.blog

Looking at online reviews of this year’s “Superman” movie, I’m surprised that many people say they’d never seen a good Superman movie before, or that this was the first good Superman movie they’d seen. I guess the Christopher Reeve Superman is lost to the mists of prehistory.

A Perpetual Reichstag Fire For The 24-Hour News Cycle: mitchw.blog

I've been through four recessions in my adult lifetime, and did OK through all of them, but the coming bust looks like it will be bigger than anything we've seen since the Great Depression. mitchw.blog

Here’s something I saw walking the dog, giving a Lincoln Lawyer vibe. I have not seen this car or license plate before. It was parked about a half-dozen houses away from us on our street.

Mitchellaneous CLV: Seven things I saw on the Internet: mitchw.blog

Lately when I think of going to the movies I think of driving across town, parking and paying money to sit in a dark room and watch things on a screen. I have screens at home.

We Are All Domestic Terrorists Now. Here comes the iron fist. mitchw.blog

Workslop: mitchw.blog

The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh: mitchw.blog

One of the great mysteries of economics is why the digital revolution has resulted in little to now documentable gain in productivity. People today aren’t more productive than they were in 1975. I spent a couple of hours this weekend processing and closing browser tabs. I’m sure these two things […]

‘We’re insanely hubristic’: how The Rest Is History became the world’s biggest history podcast. “If you found history boring at school, this podcast will have you intently listening to 20 hours on the French Revolution – and that’s before even getting to the Terror.” Can confirm. I love this […]

Small Acts of Good, US as Third World Country, and How Culture Changes. By Chris Arnade. American decline is much on my mind lately. I take it very personally – I am not built to do well in a failed nation. Arnade, like me, is cautiously optimistic, seeing our current rapid decline as reversible.

What Happens When a Bad-Tempered, Distractible Doofus Runs an Empire?. “One of the few things that Kaiser Wilhelm II, who ruled Germany from 1888 to 1918, had a talent for was causing outrage.” (Via @[email protected]. Thanks!)

White Lotus is a show about acute cranial-rectal inversion: mitchw.blog

Krypto the superdog stole the movie: mitchw.blog

Mitchellaneous CLIV: Seven things I saw on the Internet: mitchw.blog

Mitchellaneous CLIII: Seven things I saw on the Internet mitchw.blog/2025/09/27/mitchellaneous-cliii-seven-things-i.html

I have only a half-dozen phone numbers in my iPhone tagged as favorites. I actually _looked_ at all of them for the first time in a long time this week. How long? One of the numbers was for voicemail for a job I left more than five years ago.

The next items on my to-do list are filling out expense reports and dropping stool samples at the vet. Gosh — hard to choose what to do next!

What Nvidia and OpenAI’s $100B agreement means for telcos. OpenAI just inked a $100B “memorandum of understanding” with NVIDIA, which could lead to a tectonic industry shift for telcos. Or it could all be vaporware — a “memorandum of understanding” is not a signed contract. By me on Fierce […]

My latest on Fierce Network: Telcos tackle AI’s impact at Fierce Network Research event. At the Dallas Cowboys headquarters, a bunch of telco execs got together to figure out what the heck to do about AI.

Here’s Minnie one evening this week, letting me know it’s time to quit fooling around and put out her food. Priorities, man!

Mitchellaneous CLII: Seven things I saw on the Internet: mitchw.blog

Meta appointed anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as an AI bias advisor.. “The man Meta has appointed to help address ‘ideological and political bias’ in artificial intelligence is a conservative influencer who believes that pesticide turns children LGBTQ+ and that the […]

The Week America Woke Up to Oligarchy. By Matt Stoller. “Americans, broadly speaking, hate both parties, because [Americans] subscribe to an entirely different vision of what it means to be free. That version means freedom from coercion and a basic equality before the law.”