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Good manic pervert movie, like a euro-arthouse John Waters, with rapid banter and exclusively eccentric characters. I’ve seen Kurt Raab in four other Fassbinder movies, always in minor roles. Here he’s the lead, a broke poet, having...
Chuck Marohn, founder of Strong Towns, just released a new podcast interview of me, where we talk about how to have clearer conversations about public transit. The invitation was triggered by our recent work in Des Moines but the...
Lindsey Graham has died. Whatever else you might say about him, he's the author of this quote: “When I was first elected to the House,” he recalled, “I looked for the they. They who run things. They who know how things really work. They...
I Protest A lone demonstrator outside the old Chinese Embassy in London in the winter of 2014. Quote of the Day The first step in AI enterprise deployment was giving everyone Copilot, which mostly failed and is continuing to fail. The...
What’s going on, Internet? Last year we discovered the dinosaurs at Auckland Zoo, and this year we went back for round two. They’ve added some new dinosaurs to the track this year, so it was well worth the revisit. We made the trip with...
Polish changes perception. Evidence changes the decision.A product lead wants a natural-language setup flow for a developer tool. One engineer thinks it could remove most of the friction from the first integration. Another worries that...
# Back in November 2023, Dave Winer wrote: "I have an itch to make a simple chat program for a workgroup whose only output is a simple RSS 2.0 feed." If that sounds familiar, I mentioned it in the context of the MyStatusTool (MST)...
People often ask which messaging platform they should use. Matrix? XMPP? Signal? Something else? The honest answer is there is no perfect option. At the #OMN we’ve tried running #XMPP servers for years. From a #4opens prospective it’s...
Click here to book It is my pleasure to publish these evocative pictures of the East End (with some occasionally facetious original captions) selected from the popular magazine Wonderful London edited by St John Adcock and produced by...
But we will, someday, if we ignore him now Photo by Beth Stevenson on Unsplash We were each born with a connection with heaven. Our choices and our focus strengthen or weaken it. A strong connection is a spiritual lifeline, while an...
I just finished reading Absolute Martian Manhunter #1-#6, covering the first story arc of the comic. To those who aren’t aware of the “Absolute” series - DC Comics decided they’re doing another reboot to their classic heroes, this time...
so Iʻve been flying with JAL for many years nowNowadays to book they require that your name be exactly as it is on your passportI was trying to book my flights for my summer vacationAnd it wouldn’t let me enter my middle nameSo after...
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana...
Just a quick note to let you know I am experimenting with using new email service to send you a daily digest of my posts. Apologies if there are any weird occurances (incl. getting emails from old service also) until I iron out all the...
i ironically read this article by antonio on my rss readerand im pretty conflicted on this one!on one hand, i agree that blog customization is fun and i like doing it(i hope my blog has a semi unique style lol)and obv having the recipt...