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We just went through the most amazing Ursula Le Guin exhibit. It was honestly magical.

Heard an interview with Kamala Harris. She said they had 109 days to tell them who she is. Right there she highlighted the huge mistake the Dems make and continue to make. Ever since the advent of Twitter, campaigns have been every day of every year. The Dems have been AWOL. We never should have gotten to the summer of 2024 where people have no idea of who the freaking vice president is. When are they going to see how swept under the old ways of relating to voters are. We are the government of the United States. Get behind us and let us work our magic.

The tech press did their part in giving control of the public internet to the people who are selling us out.

if i ran firefox, this is what i would say wrt AI in firefox in 2026.

• 1. ai is exciting!
• 2. it's also in its infancy.
• 3. we don't know yet how or if it connects to the web.
• 4. the web is 100% our #1 priority.
• 5. so we're going to wait.
• 6. for now firefox is a no-ai browser.
• 7. we won't include ai until we know why.
• 8. and then it will be opt-in.
• 9. and we will continue to make firefox the best web browser.

sincerely,

the developers of firefox

New York City, January 2026.

From the video The most intense day of my photography career ~ New York City snowstorm.

A huge winter storm dumped tons of snow across much of the US, so I knew I had to go somewhere to photograph an event like this. When I found out New York City was going to get around a foot of snow, I knew what I had to do. I got in my car and drove 700 miles from Indiana to be there for the big day... and it didn't disappoint.

Day 39: Hoops day 🏀

#eugenemarathon

Most of the attempts of humor in replies to twitter-like posts are of the "you had to be there" variety, as in it might have made sense when you typed it, but I don't get it. And it's even worse, I am irony-deprived, I often don't get jokes, something about how my mind works...

Highly recommend the HBO two-part interview with and profile of Mel Brooks who was 99 years old when the interviews were done. Includes quotes from lots of famous comedians. And the philosophy of comedy as art. So many things to say. Why is physical humor the funniest? And the funniest part of all the excerpts was the farting scene in Blazing Saddles. Humans are so damned simple.

This 2025 novel by German author Tim Staffel centers on the geopolitical and commercial exploitation of water, in times where fresh water is getting scarce as climate changes, glaciers melt, and aquifers get depleted. The protagonist, who has a fear of water, is a world wide activist on the human right to potable water, exposing […]

My favorite recent snarky slogan. "Just because you're offended doesn't mean you're right." I know so many people who should take that to heart. Acting on being offended is no longer a luxury you can afford. Find ways to work with others, everything depends on it.

BTW, this is what Scripting News in WordPress looks like. I really like it. Just writing. And a modern 2020s blogroll. Room to add more features without too much clutter. The beginning of an upgraded web?

I would love to see a standard model for community news orgs, starting with the city of Washington DC, with some of the reporters who were recently laid off. But the community would be very much a part of this. No more news without community involvement. Let's make it commun...

Day 38: Recovery day. 😴 I feel particularly sore today.

#eugenemarathon

Doc has a idea how to stop teams from tanking. Get rid of the lottery. He's right of course. Think of the futility of tanking in the NBA when last year the #1 pick went to the Dallas Mavericks, who were not a lottery team and (probably) wasn't tanking, though trading their star young player for bupkis (it turns out) -- maybe they were. But the numbers didn't really entitle them to an early pick. And they got a player who looks to be a great star (you can't always tell if a #1 pick will turn out to be a star).

An increasingly high percentage of the videos on FB are fake. Some are entertaining, some are boobs (an amazing number) and some are pretty freaking dangerous, to the extent people believe they're real.

Om Malik says the internet is the greatest invention of his life, and since we're roughly the same age, that would be my life's greatest invention too. I think it would be if it weren't such a tragic invention, one whose growth was cut off by the very thing he quotes John Do...

Observed programming behavior. After getting something complicated working, you figure it's all downhill from there, only to realize there's another big hill you have to climb -- you know -- the thing that looked so easy.

Day One is a great journaling service. And every so often it has a good prompt (via the JetPack app) to help you get started. I have no problem with journaling. But sometimes, the prompts are good enough for me to noodle on. Today was one of those very interesting prompts: The most important invention in …

Finished reading: Line to Kill by Anthony Horowitz 📚