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So long as money keeps flowing in and out
December 8, 2024
Every year I am required by my job to complete an Anti-Money Laundering training course. Some details evolve each year, but the fundamentals stay the same....
Crowned heads heard it and shrieked
December 6, 2024
I felt this one in my lower back: Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no— Neil Renic (@ncrenic.bsky.social) December 4, 2024 at...
Something true enough (on accident)
December 5, 2024
I have experimented casually with a small variety of Machine Learning-"Generative AI” tools, and work with folks who have tried many of them. I have been...
Thousands of people in the streets
December 4, 2024
There is still too much news to process. Conditions are still evolving in South Korea, after President Yoon Suk Yeol declared—and then rescinded—martial law,...
What happened before
December 3, 2024
Declining to take the bait The legacy news media is spending a lot of minutes and column inches on President Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter. I’m...
Some things require the grappling hook
December 2, 2024
This morning we got ourselves out of the house in time to join Oakland’s Trash Falcons on their weekly mission: picking up trash in the Adams Point...
Things I wish I didn’t know
December 1, 2024
I wish that I knew nothing about Fox weekend morning show host Pete Hegseth, TFP’s current nominee for U.S. Secretary of Defense. I wish I didn’t know that...
The awful things won’t go away
November 30, 2024
On (not) keeping up with the news Through my Bluesky feeds I’ve been keeping up with events of the day, but I’ve been choosing topics here more deliberately....
An abundance of food
November 29, 2024
We didn’t feel like turkey so I made fried chicken. The recipe works well to make the night before and rewarm before serving. One @#$%ing thing The boy was...
Debilitating after-effects
November 28, 2024
For many of us days pass without mentioning how Covid-19 has killed more than 1.1 million people in the United States. That’s more than the 675,000 lives...
Ideas of myself
November 27, 2024
I’m following too many people on Bluesky. I know many people follow hundreds (even thousands) of accounts, but I can’t process the volume of information...
Despite the headwinds
November 26, 2024
Was feeling slightly lost working through lists of through local nonprofits, and took a break to listen to W. Kamau Bell talking to Cecillia Wang, the...
Turning to stories
November 25, 2024
There is a torrent of news developments coming out of TFP’s transition: Cabinet nominees who are unqualified, corrupt, sexual predators, and authors of...
Making good choices
November 24, 2024
I earn a good technology company salary, so I can give a good amount of money away. But I don’t consider myself especially gifted at sorting through all of...
The need for trust
November 23, 2024
I had little time for much “national” news today, but did watch a 34-minute video from Hank Green tying together historical strands of media revolutions and...
The eighth coin
November 22, 2024
We are reminded that TFP is not invincible. That his agenda is not inevitable. Just eight days ago TFP posted about his intended nominee for Attorney General...
Call things by their names
November 21, 2024
It is going to get bad. Congresswoman Nancy Mace and House Speaker Mike Johnson feel empowered to deploy dehumanizing language to attract attention and...
Improving people’s lives
November 20, 2024
On changing minds A prompt on Bluesky this week asked “Is there anything you’ve changed your mind about because of the election?” Journalist/author Adam...
Not all the news is bad
November 19, 2024
Anil Dash is back again with a blog post (“Don’t call it a Substack”) and a Bluesky thread suggesting that Substack—much like Fuchs’ purchase of Twitter—is a...
A lot of things
November 18, 2024
While I don’t have an ADHD diagnosis, my brain shares many traits with those who do. The design of this project is built to allow me the freedom not to...
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