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Americans aren’t showing the loyalty we used to be known for these days. It’s embarrassing to see the big games we talk from politics to Wall Street. If it’s all big talk then of course the world laughs when we fail to be steadfast. Maybe that’s why we have such a glorious oeuvre of “ride […]
Last night I received a push alert and then a flurry of excited text messages and phone calls. California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed the controversial SB-1047 artificial intelligence bill. Twitter lit up with joyful streams of relief and praise for this decision. Everyone from politicians, economists, researchers, academic luminaries, open source collectives, founders and venture […]
Building good software is a topic on which many of my friends and colleagues have extremely strong opinions. Anything built by humans can become a craft with skilled artisans and building software doesn’t escape this. While there are 27 million software developers in the world and 4.4 million of them are in American, if you […]
The right to repair movement is a worthy effort fighting the banal evil of planned obsolescence. If you aren’t familiar with the term, it’s an economic and industrial design strategy to deliberately make products with shorter functional lives to “shorten the replacement cycle” aka make you buy a new one. If you are a user […]
I dislike how illness messes with your sense of time. One of the themes of the pandemic was how it affected people’s perception of time. We measure time but our experience of it is harder to pin down. The COVID-19 pandemic significantly distorted people’s perception of time. Many experienced a disconnection between objective time and […]
It would appear I have pneumonia. Healthcare being what it is, doctors say there little point in doing clinical testing to find out if it’s bacterial, viral or fungal (unlikely given climate) as the treatment is basically the same. I did a round of antibiotics because why not. Nuke it from orbit. I’m stuck in […]
There is a beloved meme in communities like YIMBYism (a movement advocating for building more housing with the slogan “yes in my neighborhood”) in which the protagonist agonizes over subsidizing demand as the cyclical pattern of rising demand giving rise to rising cost carries on. America is a strange place where we espouse a lot […]
Current ways of knowing are (maybe rightly) under scrutiny. Some of us attempt to source truth by look backwards citing Chesterton’s Fence. I’ve been skeptical of romanticizing the past as traditional ways of knowing can be bad cultures too. Sick societies are a constant companion of human nature no matter how we long for that […]
Being under the weather over the weekend, I’m watching comfort content. I like science fiction and big splashy science disaster porn. I finally watched the 2019 Chinese “Wandering Earth” based on a short story by Liu Cixin It was nice to see a big budget Chinese film with some modest Warrior Wolf diplomacy but it […]
“They want you dumb and angry” Riling up the people (the proletariat if you are nasty) is a time honored method of keeping us under control. Socrates did it. The Roman emperors did it. The New York Times and the Walk Street Journal do it. Not getting all caught up in being stupid and reactive […]