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Krugman doesn’t understand what’s coming for NYC. And doesn’t understand the leadership Cuomo uniquely provided at the height of Covid. It’s pretty likely what’s starting in NYC will be worse than Covid or 9-11. Funny thing is Krugman did get it, a few weeks ago when the crisis in Los Angeles was peaking. He wrote a piece that was terrified, and realistic. The National Guard had been nationalized. Marines were invading California. But now that Calif hasn't been in the news, it's easy to swing back. I bet if the election had happened during the worst of it, Cuomo would've won.

I, like a lot of other people, assumed that Americans would be terrible at authoritarianism. Shows we have a lot to learn. Americans are pretty good at it it turns out.

A fluffy dalgona coffee before some afternoon meetings.

Scott Alexander, of Slate Star Codex / Astral Codex Ten fame, ran an Everything-Except-Book Review Contest 2025 in February. The prompt: “Submit an ACX-length post reviewing something, anything, except a book.” The submissions were collected anonymously in a giant 450-page Google Doc. I don’t think the winners have been chosen yet, but there is one essay that … Continue reading Alpha School Insider →

Masked secret police is pure terrorism. We should ask NYPD what we have to do to protect ourselves from them, and then do it.

Very sad to hear that Anne Sturdivant has passed away. If you were active on Micro.blog over the last couple of years, you may have read her blog or been part of conversations with her. Her username around the web was @anniegreens. I spent some time this morning browsing her...

WordLand v0.5.15 is out.

Bernie Sanders asks what the Democrats should learn from Mr. Z's victory in the NYC primary this week. Here's what I say. Forget about ever rising from the ashes of what remains of the party. Right now, the issue is how to defend the city from the coming war with the US government. They're already holding the current mayor hostage. This will be worse than 9-11 and Covid. We have no leadership. We're totally fucked, what the Democratic Party does or doesn't do, at this point, simply doesn't matter.

I’m giving an afternoon talk during Belfast Tradfest—come along if you’re around!

Join Jeremy Keith for an insightful talk about his pioneering work with TheSession.org—the world’s leading online hub for traditional Irish music. Discover how Jeremy helped build this vibrant digital community that connects musicians, shares tunes, and preserves Ireland’s rich musical heritage. Learn about the challenges and triumphs of creating an online space where thousands of players worldwide can collaborate, learn, and celebrate traditional music together.

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Swung through the thrift store today and found this fantastic beast. $3.82 was absolutely too little for such a lovely vintage piece. Not sure of the age, but definitely manufactured to last. Twenty minutes of cleaning and a light oiling and it’s almost as new as the day it came off the factory floor. Handles … Continue reading

I mostly got off lucky with the macOS Tahoe beta 1 install, so much so that I’m nervous about upgrading to beta 2. I’m going to wait a while. Don’t want to risk breaking anything else this week.

Wednesday session

A NYT article from last year about 34th Ave in Jackson Heights where "a stretch of 26 blocks, running east to west, has been closed to cars from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. every day since 2020." Before we moved to Flushing when I was in 5th grade, we lived on 92nd St and 34th Ave. What a difference that must make. I love it when cities take chances like this, and the people in the neighborhood seem to love it.

Creative Commons has proposed a new set of declarations called CC signals to help AI crawlers understand how a creator wants their content to be used in AI training. It has taken me a little while to wrap my head around this, in part because there is a lot of writing to intr...

Bernie Sanders says if AI is making companies more productive with less, people should get a 4-day workweek. Makes sense to me.

We were just rewatching Gilded Age season 2, and there’s a whole section of the plot about unions and working “only” 8-hour days. It’s about time for another advance.

The Internet Archive is a treasure! It cares about the longevity of the web. It cares about history. It cares about GIFs. “GIFs, seriously?” asks a person I just made up who underestimates the value of a GIF. Yes, “GIFs, seriously.” I reply to that made-up-person. They released a search engine for animated GIFs a...

📕 Finished reading The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djélí Clark ISBN: 9781250767042

I tried an experiment, go back as far as I can in archive.org on scripting.com and see where it gets me.

There are lots of paths to try out.

The one I went for is the December 3, 1996 scripting.com home page.

This was where my blog home page was then.

Then to DaveNet, and in the left margin Nerd's guide to this website.

I love the screen shots that show what a good match the Frontier object database was to the way a website is organized.

A long time ago, back when I was a young developer, happily using Google Chrome as my daily driver, I spent a few hours messing around with Chrome extensions and coded myself an extremely simple extension that replaced the new tab with a minimal clock. That extension has bee...