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My friend and I had dinner at a restaurant/bar that's been in its location in its neighbourhood since 2008. It's not a hundred years old and its bar isn't made of wood salvaged from [insert great Canadian shipwreck story here], but it's...
If you have read Byron Tau’s reporting, including his book “Means of Control”, you might be familiar with Mike Yeagley. He was the one who made the U.S. military and intelligence community aware of the surveillance they could conduct...
I have good news and bad news. First the good news. The good news is that we just started production on Thimbleweed Park 2, due out in early 2028. We will self-publish with the help of a private investor. Mark Ferrari, Gary Winnick,...
Deflock is a crowd-sourced mapping tool which shows the locations of Flock surveillance cameras, searchable by zip code or address. I’m kind of shocked that there are only a few in my general area. If you care about civil liberties, tell...
From the Lyceum to the StandupOr, how to flourish while the industry is transforming Two and a half thousand years ago, Aristotle wandered the shaded walkways of the Lyceum asking what it means to live well. He concluded it was...
Quiet Enjoyment – New York, New York As you saw from my previous posts, the raised vantage point of the High Line offers great views of the surrounding architecture. However, this linear park also offers wonderful street photography...
For weeks, I’ve been struggling with a personal decision. I’ve come up with scenarios, built a decision tree, and used AI to analyze my options. It’s made me so anxious, it’s often the first thing I think of when I wake up. Yesterday,...
BB28 episode 11 showed Kamu turning a tea party into another opportunity to target Jason, who responded with his own tea party. But it's what we've seen on the live feeds—and Kamu's social media—that make this uglier than just game play.
Among the many nice things about the internet is when your friends — IRL ones, and internet ones, not to mention people you don’t know in the slightest — send you things from afar: sounds, photographs, videos. I’ve received in recent...
My wife has recently gotten into watercolor painting, and the paper she uses comes in a thing called a block. There are times when she would like to have the block not flat on the table, but at an angle. So necessity being the mother of...
We're in a post-ai time. At least, it feels that way. There was a time when nobody was talking about it, and now it's everywhere - saturated feeds, ai music, ai photos, vibe coding. I'm completely sick of it. I know it's being pushed as...
So demonstrating that I am well and truly in my 40s, I report to you that Ninajirachi’s album, I Love My Computer, is very good.
I spent my first 30 years growing up in California, and the state abounded with great architecture, even though California isn't generally that old of a place. There is the Gamble House in Pasadena, the Case Study houses in Palm Springs,...
Radiation is the ultimate limiting factor in human space flight. It has been the elephant in the spacecraft since the 1960s, when it first became clear that tiny particles rather than micrometeoroids were the high-speed threat to worry...
The Boys are headed to Brooklyn! Well, we may already be there by the time you hear this, and my hype levels are peaking for what I hope to be a great time at Stationery Fest. Myke and I talk about what we will be up to this weekend, and...