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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks with ABC’s Jonathan Karl on August 9, 2026.Many Democratic Party candidates emerging on what one might call the populist left are finding success in primaries across the country. But most of...
San Francisco Oracle, Vol. 1 No. 7, February 1967. In his later years Kenneth Anger often seemed to spend more time giving interviews than making films, even though he was keeping busy when out of the public eye. Most of the discussions...
HappeningsI like how Sylvia writes her weeknotes: short and succinct, with simple headings. I'm stealing her headings but I still need to learn the "short and succinct" part. Last week my wife and I spent the week with her in-laws; her...
Well it's official -- The Perfect Host, book five in my queer urban fantasy series The Mia Graves Saga, is now out! I know I say this every time, but I'm super excited for this one to get into reader's hands. It's the conclusion to the...
If there's three things in this life that I'm a huge sucker for, it's JRPGs, video game music, and an engaging combat system. One of my favorite types of music to listen to while I'm working, cleaning my house, doing laundry, or...
It's getting easier but I'm still adjusting. The past couple of months have somehow been both the longest and shortest of my life. There is literally zero adjustment period going from life without a child to with. Thankfully, we've had...
A quick audio blurb from me on City Shift Finance discussing organizational complexity. Screenshot Organizational complexity rarely shows up as a bad org chart. It shows up as meetings called to spur action that an email could have...
I commission custom art for the IT Mastery books, but do the text layout myself. Most often, I use the Minion Pro for the body font and Myriad Pro for the display font. They’re staid, reliable, and unremarkable. On rare occasion, the...
I’m not scared of AI. I’m scared of the humans behind it. Very dangerous things are often very cool. “What we didn’t realize…” is the warning phrase that should cause one to notice the danger. Instead, these people seem to only notice...
I’m really trying hard to drop things! 00:00 Intro 00:50 Dropped BanG Dream! YUME∞MITA Chainsmoker Cat Dara-san of the Reiwa Era The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects Hanaori-san Still Wants to Fight in the Next Life Heroine?...
I went out!
Some Blaugust-related links and the usual mix. Going into Week 2 of Blaugust, a few relevant links that have popped up: owls has posted to make note a few sites who joined blaugust but don't have RSS feeds. Owl created the 'Blaugust...
A classic string board appears in A Building Full of Cats 2 (Devcats, 2025). ▲ A Building Full of Cats 2 (Devcats, 2025) From contributor Sam Wigard.
My tradition on this blog is to take a break (mostly!) from current events sometime in mid- August. Instead, I pre-schedule daily posts based on things I read during the previous year about three of my preoccupations: economics,...
From The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State, by Philip Bowring (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), Kindle pp. 25-26: Despite the best intentions of some Spanish officials and priests, the overall low standard of Spanish...