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📗 Want to read The Mechanic and the Luddite by Dr Jathan Sadowski PH D ISBN: 9780520398078

📗 Want to read Sunderworld, Vol. I: The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry by Ransom Riggs ISBN: 9780593530931

📗 Want to read The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer ISBN: 9781668072240

The Level Up is an indie improv showcase. Join us as we watch amazing New York indie improv talents gain XP on the Magnet stage, unlock new achievements, and reach new milestones. Or do comedy.

Come support Michael as he dons his hosting-duties cap for these exciting indie teams:

• Goat Party
• Improvised DnD
• ¡Abogado! ¡Abogado!

I’ll be playing in with Michael and the rest of the Level Up!

Looking forward to it! And to seeing you there!! (Yes, you. Come on out!!!)

Saturday April 6th, 2025 @ 9pm
Magnet Theater
254 West 29th St (btwn 7th and 8th Ave.)
New York City, NY 10001
Tickets $10: https://magnettheater.com/show/59475/

Magnet Theater

The Minecraft movie was a lot of fun. 🍿

[Ernie Smith at Tedium] Ernie Smith points out the creator-economy platform Gumroad open sourced its platform at a surprising time: "But if that’s all Gumroad was doing, I wouldn’t feel compelled to say anything. The reason I’m speaking up is because of thi...

I wonder when ChatGPT or Claude.ai will compete with Wikipedia. I think Wikipedia is great but it has always had a weakness in that it can be manipulated to tell a story from a very limited point of view. For example the RSS page has a long section explaining the benefits of Atom. What I like about the AI versions of the basic history of things is that it isn't so easily manipulated. I talked about this with Claude, and asked it to write up a proposal for ClaudeWiki, a Wikipedia workalike, not too expensive to run, make it part of a user's $20 per month subscription. I think it would be useful, if only as a demo how Wikipedia itself might improve its service.

A search for WordPress on this blog tells an interesting story.

If I were designing a social network, I would implement replies differently. When you reply to a post, only the person who wrote the post sees it. If they want they can RT it. The way it works now on all twitter-like systems means most of the replies are basically spam, people using your post as a way to reach people who follow you.

BTW, when you post something on Bluesky it's just a tweet. These things don't need different names on each platform.

It's time for new thinking. A reply to a tweet on Bluesky about the real purpose of MAGA -- it's to make rich white men richer. She said that to me. All I'm all three of those things. And that's really close to what people say about Jews, btw. In a few months that's what they'll be saying. All the pain and suffering is to make Jews wealthier. They're setting that up. Anyway, I looked at my retirement account the other day and it sure didn't look like I'm getting richer. Just sayin.

I like people who stand up and speak the truth. This is one of the silver linings of this crisis. There's no real advantage at this point in trying to play it safe, to not be noticed. So I like what Chris Murphy, Senator from Connecticut has been saying.

I used to tell friends you can't go wrong buying the S&P 500. The president is rated by now the stock market does, and so over the long haul you can expect steady growth from the S&P 500, and it keeps things really simple. Well, have to say -- that's no longer good advice. Maybe real estate? Outside the United States? I don't know. It depends on what the people of this country do, and if our representatives are listening.

MAGA's goal, it turns out, was the Great Depression.

Amazing story on CNN around veteran Joe Harris, who died at age 108, serving in World War II in an elite force of Black paratroopers:

As the US Army was training the Triple Nickles to disarm bombs, the men were also being taught by the US Forest Service to become the first military smokejumpers.

More history at the National Museum of the US Army.

Although incredibly annoying because it hits me directly in the face while I'm working at my desk, the sun produces amazing shadows late in the evening this time of the year.

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19 miles out from Lampasas.

And btw the it could be worse. 💥

The joy of looking up to the sky after sunset and seeing the moon. — Equipped with Stellarium, I could start to identify patterns in the stars. The patterns had names, like Orion and Taurus. I saw Sirius and Rigel and Betelgeuse. I saw Mars — a planet! I saw a planet! I gazed in the direction of Jupiter. The moon was my anchor as I learned the names of more stars and found patterns. — There is frost on the fields as the sun cuts through the fog on a spring morning. The chill of winter recedes by the day. — The joy of thinking through an idea over my first cup of coffee. — I walked past someone who was wearing a jumper that said “My cat is a rockstar.” I love this message! — Some places are so beautiful that you stop every time you are there. — Overheard: “Dan, you’re just an old soul” — one friend says endearingly to another.