The Infinite Scroll has to be one of the most harmful inventions ever made, especially when included in a "free" product. www.insurancejournal.com/news/nationa...

What a great read on this Sunday morning. "Archival culture" is apparently a thing, and now that I think about it, might explain why my son asked me to find (and revive) his old point-and-shoot camera a few months ago. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

I love and hate this at the same time — Three teams in the AL Central (Tigers:26; Guardians:23; Royals:23) currently have more total wins than the first placed team in each of the AL East (Yankees:21) and AL West (Seattle:22). ⚾️💪🏟️ #mlb #baseball

“…Trump…offered his latest sharp criticism of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, complaining during an Oval Office press conference…that dealing with the central banker is like ‘talking to a wall.’” Good. That’s exactly how it’s supposed to work. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Da Pope

I'm loving the Laugh Lines game from @newyorker.com, even though I'm still getting the hang of it. Laugh Lines No. 18: Fashion 🥸🔴🥸🥸🥸🔴

A Rush to Sovereign Journalism, my Daystream journal for Sunday, May 4, 2025 A casual, Sunday morning review of some news, including a great Rush-related article, AI, copyright law, hypercapitalism, and, of course, the 22nd Amendment. daystream.com/matt/2025/05...

Crazy first period in Toronto. Fun to watch when I don't care who wins. #nhl

#MusicSky #MayTheFourth

Journalism facing Sovereignty and Publisher in the slop. I may be hallucinating.

I've been thinking quite a bit about AC/DC since the concert in Detroit last week. They're one of my favorite bands and have come to symbolize a few things for me. I finally had a chance to write about that this morning. Ride On.... #acdc daystream.com/matt/2025/04...

Tax-Exempt Ironic Generation Gap, my Daystream journal for yesterday, Friday, May 2nd, 2025 - Gen Z parents: reading is skill to learn, not fun (unlike Gen X 🙋🏼‍♂️) - Maine beats the bully - DC evening photo walk - Anti-weaponization Trump has weaponized tax-exempt status daystream.com/matt/2025/05...

I have no Daystream journal for yesterday to post here. Each morning, I look back on a somewhat random journal from the past. This morning, I looked back on this great day…. Fenway Park Under Fair Sun, my Daystream journal for November 1, 2024. daystream.com/matt/2024/11...

Hail, Hail to the Good Times, my Daystream journal for yesterday, April 30th, 2025 - AC⚡️DC at Ford Field in Detroit daystream.com/matt/2025/04... #concert #detroit #acdc

Uncertain Sycophant-y Strategery, my Daystream journal for yesterday, April 29th, 2025 - 🤷‍♂️ Bessent on Trump’s strategy of ‘strategic uncertainty’ - 🚫 Amazon yes/no on tariff costs - 💪 Long live RSS - 🚙📸 BGSU move out begins - 🔙 ChatGPT sucks up and rolls back daystream.com/matt/2025/04...

Pierre Poilievre’s failure once again proves that you can’t win an election if you have an alliterative name. No one wants their country being run by a Stan Lee character

I'd love to see RSS restored to its former glory all around the web, but, realizing that likely won't happen, adding it to Bluesky would be a very satisfying consolation prize. scripting.com/2025/04/29.h...

Harvard Family Chair, my Daystream journal for yesterday, April 28, 2025. - SCOTUSblog dispatched - Eames lounge chair memories…and envy - Harvard family pride, not shame - ChatGPT is like a bird eating an alligator #blogging daystream.com/matt/2025/04...

Sunday News Review — Photos Thrive, Briefs Die, and Hogwarts Resists, My Daystream journal for yesterday, Sunday, April 27th - Canon on the future of photography - My Pillow Guy has a clown lawyer - Geometry solves urinal splash-back - Hermione Grainger with the QOTD daystream.com/matt/2025/04...

Look at that, the clown hired a clown lawyer. gizmodo.com/lawyer-for-m...

We need the best educated workforce in the world. We need the best teachers in the world. We need to pay our teachers fairly for the important work they do. No teacher in America should begin at less than $60,000 a year.

5K Gala, my Daystream journal for Saturday, April 26, 2025 - Started the day with the Glass City 5K and ended it with the annual gala for our kid’s school daystream.com/matt/2025/04...

A Blurry Venture, my Daystream journal for Thursday, April 24, 2025. daystream.com/matt/2025/04...

When the moment came, Harvard didn’t hedge or flinch—it stood up. A reminder that integrity isn’t complicated, it’s just rare.

The Browns "trade down and stock up" strategy makes some sense. I get it. The problem is, I have zero faith in their ability to execute a strategy. Any strategy, really. I don't think I've ever seen a situation for which this gif is more applicable. #nfl #nfldraft #browns

Conclave Wedding Ring - my Daystream journal for yesterday, April 23, 2025. The news yesterday was pretty interesting, but I also found my wedding ring after years of what I had thought to be diligent searching. That's the story of the day for me! daystream.com/matt/2025/04...

Bluesky is collegial and interesting, the way Twitter used to be. Bonus: most people can spell.

Rediscovering the PowerShot, my Daystream journal for yesterday, April 22, 2025. daystream.com/matt/2025/04...

BREAKING: we won! A federal judge has enjoined the administration's shut down of Voice of America Another success for the Constitution and for us @sddaction.bsky.social & our many wonderful partners & clients More details to follow--stay tuned!

This book has been sitting in my den for almost 20 years, along with five others from the Covert One series. My wife bought them for me after I read The Bourne Identity. Not sure why, but I just never read them. I grabbed The Hades Factor as a quick beach read for the week. #reading #fiction

Five years after removing it from my old office, I finally installed the crown jewel of my patent marking collection...in my garage. Now on to hanging dozens of other, smaller markings around it. Might take me another five years. #patent #collection

Ohio January on full display over the next four days — 50° today, snow tomorrow, and 50 again on Sunday. 🌧️☀️⛅️🌧️🌨️🌞 ~> 🤪

Roasted yesterday, delivered today. #coffee

“It is becoming increasingly clear that fever is not simply a symptom… it actually plays an important role in the protection against infection...We might take Tylenol...to make us feel better when we have an infection [but]...what are we giving up?”

Still counting weeks, but days are just around the corner.

"Apple is preparing to launch...iPhone 17 Air...the thinnest iPhone ever" I usually buy the biggest, chunkiest model in the lineup to accommodate my aging eyes and fat fingers. In this AI era, though, I'm thinking I'll want the 17 Pro Max for the inevitable performance gap over the "thinnest ever."

...but can it master the awkward handshake?

App spending up 13% in 2024...AI app spending up 200%.

In a world of Kid Rocks and Carrie Underwoods, be a Woody Guthrie.

This is my latest flea market patent marking find. I've got some great photo ideas for this once I clean it up a bit. #patents

The two best teams in the NBA will collide with a combined record of 61-9 in Cleveland tomorrow night. Two small market teams playing total team basketball and yet the media thinks LA, Boston, and the Knicks is the priority. America deserves to see more of these two teams. One of them is mine.

We spent time in Fargo each December for a few years, a few years ago, for high school robotics competitions. We stayed near NDSU and managed to catch a tailgate one year. Really opened my eyes to FCS football, and I've enjoyed following the team ever since. Go Bison! #ndsu #fcs

Well crap. There goes my 49 followers.

[less than] two out of three ain't bad.

It looks like we’re in for a series of boat races, and I don’t care what that looks like either. Just win. “Really don’t care what it looks like,” coach Dan Campbell said. “We’ve just got to win.” #detroitlions #nfl

Maybe someday the market for old patent markings will take off like this. Maybe not. I’m buying either way. “More than $26M in rare medical books are forecast to sell at auction in the 2020s, based on sales through 2024,…a dramatic increase in demand.”

Birth rates are down and boomers are retiring. Increased productivity is not optional.

This golf patent has Reach! All the way to the Philadelphia Phillies...and Caddyshack (sort of).

The original Crazy Pillow Guy?