Tonight I noticed for the first time that the “Seven Dwarves” have Anabaptist beards.
🗳️ reminder: long voting lines are a symptom of voter suppression and anti-democratic sentiment.
As you’re in line, remember that Republicans didn’t want people (especially in certain areas) to be able to easily vote (including early or mail-in).
🗳️ Anybody with an NYT subscription know if they updated this graphic?
Yesterday I got to watch “the algorithm” work.
I replied to a Thread with a pretty simple comment.
For a few hours it was somehow highlighted and getting lots of replies and likes (>1400). I could watch the counter go up every few seconds. Then it stopped on a dime.
Result: 0 new followers.
🪵 Team Warbler did a little bit of light lumberjacking this morning.
Always more trees down. Just hope more are going up faster than the deer etc. can wreck them.
🗳️ Economist, the newspaper of free markets and individual rights:
endorses Kamala Harris
They see too many “unacceptable risks” in Trump.
Distinction is between a likely “mediocre president” (Harris) and a clearly “malignant president” (Trump).
🎶 Heard this new track and thought it sounded familiar.
Oh, that’s because it’s a Jason Köhnen cover of one of his other songs! This one is a doom metal project (The Answer Lies in the Black Void), the original was one of his dark jazz projects (The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble). Breakcore next?
🎶 it’s almost Halloween:
Time to break out Daveed Diggs’s industrial rap horrorcore albums:
There Existed an Addiction to Blood
And
Visions of Bodies Being Burned
Or:
watch their NPR tiny desk concert
Yes, Diggs of Hamilton, Snowpiercer, Central Park.
🗳️ WFYI made a voter guide for Indiana.
🛠️ had to get my Lightning port cleaned out today. They used (basically) dental tools.
Note to self: it’s safer to scrape towards the screen, not the back. The pins for the connector are on the back side.
Kiddo: “look, a Dalmatian!”
Us: “Yep!”
Kiddo: “what’s a Dalmatian?”
🕊️ “Christian Nationalism is bad for the nation and it is bad for the church.”
Amen, pastor Richard
Sometimes I think about “what are the Dude Wipes of other categories”? (As in: making extra money on fragile masculinity.)
Today:
- Liquid Death vs. water
- “Really getting into Stoicism” vs. meditation Buddhism
Obeying in advance doesn’t protect you. It just lets them know who will go down without a fight.
📰 reminder that The Economist and The Guardian make for an excellent news combo.
Not generally cowardly nor sensational. World perspectives, USA perspectives, and (if you choose such) a weekly “slow news” approach.
I think my least-favorite British pronunciation is :
ennefin
I wonder about the reverse?
🎙️ How do you normally prep to be a guest on a podcast?
🔒🥃 Hey, you know how security teams are the worst and nobody wants to work with them?
Anyway, this is a signed going away present from the engineering platform and architecture leaders.
Definitely a keeper, even after it’s empty.
