Going to be pretty sparse about this. There were good parts to think about, and the workbook is useful, but I think this is ultimately a book that should be read in tandem chapter by chapter & discussed as such with a group you're organizing with. I am not organizing currently. I listened to the audiobook and then flipped through about half of the book in text form, but didn't really finish reviewing the text. If I did, there would probably be more to copy and paste here. Basic things I thought…
This post is for people on Bluesky, if you’re not on Bluesky, keep scrolling. I built an app that sends you a daily DM with final scores and today’s game schedule for teams you follow. Looks like this: MLB, NBA, WNBA, NFL, NHL, MLS, NWSL, Premier League, and tournaments. Silence on days your teams don’t play. No login, no app to install. Text only. DM @sportscrawl.app on Bluesky to start.
23:50 - Just got back from seeing The Odyssey. I enjoyed it, despite my raging headache and the loud volume. Everytime I see Matt Damon appear I hear my cousin's voice saying, "I'm Matt Damon," imitating the character from Team America. That was over 20 years ago. And yea I heard it in my head every time so that kind of took me out of the movie.
Phaedra Haywood, the Santa Fe New Mexican: A state district judge in Santa Fe on Thursday ordered social media giant Meta Platforms Inc. to pay $567 million into an abatement fund to address public harm to New Mexico children and teens. Judge Bryan Biedscheid’s ruling resolves the second of a two-part civil proceeding in a landmark case filed in 2023 by New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez, who argued Meta’s social media platforms have led to a youth mental health crisis in the state and…
I am a bit late today, but I decided to keep the Pook-Emu Bee links running with four in a row before our off-day tomorrow (Newsletter Saturday). I bought sugar and yeast at the grocery store last night. 1. Private email is fine, actually (Matthew Guay for Buttondown Blog. August 7, 2026.) I agree. But I my own solution (SimpleLogin) is not specifically listed (they note Proton Mail, which now owns Simple Login, but I have SL separate from Proton). 2. THE MORNING RANT: PepsiCo (Frito Lay) Snack…
Cada vez mais me incomoda a falta de espontaneidade do capitalismo moderno, que cria escassez em troca de previsibilidade. Deus me livre quem simplesmente entra num estabelecimento e simplesmente quer algum serviço. Outro dia, fui tentar cortar o cabelo. Um salão enorme num shopping de classe média em São Paulo. Vários atendentes lá, um monte de cadeiras vazias, o único horário era pra dali duas horas. No mesmo shopping, conseguiriam me encaixar dali a 40 minutos. Cortei no Moa, um sujeito que…
Two features landed in Jolt recently, both of which fell out from loosening the coupling between Jolt and the host runtime. The first is the ability to serialize program images in the style of Common Lisp and Smalltalk, and the second is to have a portable Scheme layer decoupled from the Chez runtime. Let's take a look at what these things buy Jolt in practical terms.Images: a black box for your programIf you've ever had to support a production system like a web application, then you know the…
There was a dude on top of A41 today.
Light posting this summer — a lot of time on the road, for both work and play. Last weekend I rode my bike from Worcester to Provincetown in the Pan-Mass Challenge, raising money for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and its research. (I also do a 50-mile gravel ride through the Berkshires each fall for the same cause, so if you support me, you’ll get your money’s worth.) One of the presentations I saw covered the tremendous progress being made against pancreatic cancer — work that’s bringing…
It’s another day, another new package day here. Say hello to django-msgspec, a package of drop-in replacements for Django and Django REST Framework (DRF) components backed by msgspec. msgspec is a C-based serialization library covering JSON, MessagePack, YAML, and TOML, with optional schema validation through typed Struct classes. Its JSON encoder and decoder are several times faster than the standard library’s, which makes django-msgspec a cheap performance win in the parts of Django that…
The space was filled with tributes to Ben, his favorite foods, memorabilia, flowers, photographs and steady streams of people — relatives, friends, sports buddies, coworkers, and some who fit into all those categories.Currently Listening: John Lennon “Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)”Reply via email
Sleepy day. The short visit from my son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter wore me out. We spent much of our time indoors so that my mother could enjoy the wee one’s company, but we also managed to spend a little time in Swift River at a small public beach.
Tura Satana is best remembered as Varla, the merciless leader of a girl gang who kills a man with her bare hands in Russ Meyer's 1965 cult classic Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! It's one of the most iconic performances in exploitation film history. It's also, by a wide margin, the tamest thing about her actual life. Long before she ever stood in front of Meyer's camera, Satana had survived an internment camp, run with a street gang, danced burlesque under a false name to hide the fact she was...
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This case involves two competitors in the vehicle-battery charger industry. The plaintiff calls its offering “Battery Tender” (based on the analogy of a ship’s tender) and claims trademark rights in the term. Believing that the term is generic, NOCO began using the term in reference to its own products. The plaintiff sued for trademark infringement and more. A jury found for the plaintiff and awarded $1.3M in actual damages and $5.75M in punitive damages. The judge added another $12M of…
Wrexham Lager’s name and brewery have been revived, and the story is a rather fascinating one. The revival began in 2011, when the Roberts family brought the historic brand back to life after its original brewery closed in 2000 and production ceased entirely in 2002. The historic Wrexham Lager name was rescued, the brewery rebuilt, and production restarted using original recipes. But what about the history of the original Wrexham Lager Brewery, and its pioneering beer? Wrexham Lager isn’t just…
I feel ya Trio. I feel ya. 😒
Foto is a photo sharing platform I should really use more often. I originally signed up just over a year ago, but haven’t really used it much lately. Possibly because of my attitude at the moment to apps, and anything that is too much like social media. Nonetheless, I ought to post a little more. But Foto is the place to be if you want to escape the clutches of older photo sharing platforms, namely Instagram. More so if your interest is primarily in photography, rather than been held captive to…
doll legs dangling from the top shelf of the closet childhood favourite watching over heirlooms no one dared let go the fake fur coat grandma wore waiting for a real one the painting everyone deemed ugly while I learned every detail the memory of grandpa seeped in every brush stroke anchors for their ghosts to feel at home when they visit
We all have that friend or family member that believes in the most ludicrous things, convinced of a conspiracy that doesn't fit into the reality shared by the rest of us. I don't think an empirical mindset is the default for humans, but is something that's built over time, usually through education (though I wonder how much of our bullshit-detector calibration arrives with us at birth). I also don't believe that an empirical mindset is with us at all times. In fact, I'd estimate that we are…
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Brownie and Roach with Rollins. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize Completely nuts that I haven’t acquired this one earlier. And it’s even more nuts that it’s only my second Brownie title. I have a lovely original of Study in Brown, so looking for the other ones, like Incorporated for example. Very happy to have found this at a local shop a couple of days ago.…
Quite a large turnout today with the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust to scythe one of my favourite meadows. The quarter acre field at the end of the species rich grassland is kept closed to cattle during the season which allows the corky fruited water drop wort to flourish (among others). Now that the seed has turned, it was a good time to cut the hay while it’s so dry. And rather than just pile the arisings within the field, it was also an opportunity to spread green hay to other parts of the…
Here it is being largely ignored.
Welcome to the weekly Perfume Chat Room, perfumistas! I envision this chat room as a weekly drop-in spot online, where readers may ask questions, suggest fragrances, tell others their SOTD, comment on new releases or old favorites, and respond to each other. The perennial theme is fragrance, but we can interpret that broadly. This is meant […]
Luke Owen from Death Is Not The End has launched into a run of releases reissuing electronic music put out by CRI - Composers Recordings, Inc., originally co-founded by Otto Luening in 1954 and active right up until 2003. This is an obsession close to my heart, having picked up a lot of CRItronica as vinyl over the years, chased down others through the Cal Arts record library, and found still more on the internet. CRI put out an even larger amount of non-electronic music, 20th Century…
I’ve been talking about time-travel stories recently, so here’s another one, this time a book. Time Travel for Beginners, is the latest novel by Sydney based Australian author Jaclyn Moriarty. If you can find a shop called the Time Travel Agency, located somewhere in Sydney, then you too may be able to travel through what some people call the fourth dimension: The guidelines are simple: you can go whenever you wish into the past, and there’s no fear of altering the present. Have tea with Jane…
i'm sick again... for like the third time in the last month. i'm tired of not getting enough sleep and constantly battling illnesses. intern year is going tougher than i expected and pediatrics was supposed to be one of the easier rotations. maybe i will to get used to it, eventually.
