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I’ve posted a transcript of a conversation between me and my TSPA and TSF cofounders Adelin Cai and Clara Tsao, guided by Amanda Menking of TSF. In the conversation, we discuss the origin stories of the Trust & Safety Professional... The...
According to John Carter, in his ABC for Book Collectors, it was quite common for printers, in the early days of book printing, to include adverts on the blank pages at the end of their books. Apparently it was also not uncommon for...
After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet and Phone Ban “How many more meetings is it going to take before we understand the community didn’t vote for this? They don’t want it. How many more times are the...
I enjoyed Kim Curran’s debut novel, The Morrigan, so when I saw a copy of her brand new book in the local library, I snapped it up. Like The Morrigan, Brigid is modern retelling of Irish mythology, but in a very different time period....
I turn 50 today. I feel incredibly lucky to have experienced these particular 50 years. I was born in 1976 — when Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple, the year after Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard to start Microsoft. But I grew...
Why an ephemeral model can't fund relationship-based work
Sahaj Garg, co-founder & CTO of Wispr, recently shared his thoughts on The Displacement of Cognitive Labor and What Comes After. They’re worth a read. The crisis of meaning he talks about is something that worries me, especially at...
Chris and I are once again headed to London to teach classes with the London International Woodworking Festival at the end of October. Chris is teaching a four-day (Oct. 26-29) Irish Chair Class, and a short class (Oct. 30) on Peasant...
Every great novel is strange. – Scott Sumner The post appeared first on Garrick van Buren.
A touring international exhibition examines the cultural manifestations and enduring influence of Pan-Africanism from the 1920s to the present
Yesterday we climbed down the ladder from the loft bed in our Rotterdam Home Exchange at 6:30 a.m.; almost 24 hours later, clumbed into bed at home in Charlottetown.In between we took a metro to Rotterdam central station, a train to...
If the recent headlines annoyed you, you gotta know there are better options out there.
I was looking at the blue and white hat that I knit when I first got the Vcx/965i, and thought that the pattern would work well on a sweater. So I got out my sweater shape in Designaknit and started to apply the pattern. At first I had...