in brief: if you get onto a dnc mailing list you will receive a shitton of fund raising email from the dnc, and dnc candidates. if you get on a conservative mailing list, you will be slowly pulled into grifter cinematic universe of anti-immigrant spam, dietary supplements, and charlie Kirk

for the old-timers, the NYT home page. thirty years ago. three. zero.

Date yourself with a snap of your first ever computer.

Thanks — agreed it’s pretty good. I didn’t think, from the answers I gave, that it would come out as negative as it seems to have. I suppose my definition of “neutral” is grimmer than some, heh

welp

A thing I take nerd pride in: the company I work for powers Taco Bell’s digital content. The old Onion article about “7 ingredients arranged differently” is why Taco Bell’s supply chain + food science work is *awesome*; it also illustrates how modern content operations work scales.

My takeaway is that your experiences prove the existence of Grover

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

No cheating, your last saved pic of a celebrity is your therapist.

The whole orphans, widows, foreigners theme does get harped on quite a bit.

If you’re exhausted and wrung out and have some tiny screwdrivers I highly recommend tearing apart an old dead hard drive. NOTE: may only apply to neurodivergent nerds

my signature style of business slide deck is … dangerously oblique.

i’ll take “signs you should stop hoarding old media” for $800, alex

But provocation, even gentle playful provocation, was an inescapable ingredient of what she was creating.

What comes through in her actual work is a breathtaking commitment to the idea that art is a connection between the artist and the viewer, that it’s fundamentally incomplete, practically dead, if the viewer is not a co-participant. Her body of work is absolutely relentless.

In the city this weekend to see the Yoko Ono exhibit at the MCA; it has me thinking a lot about the Yoko-hate I heard growing up, surrounded by people who’d lived through the 60s or worshipped the Beatles in the 80s and 90s.

We have a houseguest this weekend: Chumbles the cat, a longtime friend of the family, is here while his person recovers from surgery. Chumbles is, I must say, a *fine* fellow, quite polite and distinguished.

honestly, a bit more aggressive than i would’ve chosen if i’d realized, but we’ll see how it plays out

oh my god oh my world creating deity

When I was a lot younger, I got “Doogie Howser, MD” a lot…

only several thousand 80s nerds remember, etc etc

getting ready to move to the next hot social media platform

Just a few pages in and already loving Jillian Hess’s “How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information” — its relevance to content architecture and editorial affordances in web and content management tools is pinging around in the back of my mind.

The modern right loves retributive vigilante violence — stories of good, decent folks fucking up evildoers that “the law” couldn’t reach. That isn’t because they care about injustice: It’s because they love a story that lets them fantasize about morally justifiable violence.

never change, tracts from the 1950s

i think the clearest indication of my patch's eventual influence was that years later, the rest of the core development team added a ticket for "travel back in time to kill eaton before he can write drupal_execute' cruelly, this task was assigned to me