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Mary Turner Austin, 1880 #americanart #johnsingersargent

Of yesterday's post and reading, I prompted: Lloyd · prompt conversation opening Brilliant, Number 1 and ☉! But: you missed ALL the intentional and serendipitous pentads! ::chuckle:: …which were all by design (including the ‘serendipitous’ ones. Let m...

On August 21, 1831, Nat Turner, an enslaved American, led about 70 of his enslaved and free Black neighbors in a rebellion to awaken his white neighbors to the inherent brutality of slaveholding and the dangers it presented to their own safety.

“Oh Schmidt! It’s Friday” with Jim Acosta, plus David Pakman

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Thin Kitchen, 1563 #metmuseum #drawingsandprints

An angel, 1960 #marcchagall #naïveart

Imagine a pet that looks like a lovable cartoon character but needs careful attention to thrive. Continue reading…

Friday, August 21, 2026 Claude is still learning that there's unprecedented depth to Frontier. A bunch of real developers worked full time for a decade or more creating new layers on the web, a foundation that became the social web of today. In doing that we invented a bunc...

Portrait of Gala with Rhinocerotic Symptoms, 1954 #dali #salvadordali

Interior at Arcachon, 1871 #manet #impressionism

I’ve noticed there are basically two modes a company can operate in. Customer-centric mode. And engineering-centric mode. Most great businesses start in the first one. Someone sees a problem. A real person has something annoying, expensive, slow, painful or downright ridiculous happening in their life, and the company decides to fix it. The early conversations […]

More improvements to the Logs page, so that it reloads with new log entries without reloading the whole page, and a new row color to note when blog publishing is done.

SFUSD says the work is safe, but parents say they didn’t learn it would continue into the school year until they showed up on the first day of instruction.

“The Postal Service on Friday published regulations that would restrict mail voting, its latest effort to comply with President Trump’s call to restrict the popular practice just months before the midterm elections,” the New York Times reports. “In a 95-page final rule, the Postal Service clarified how it would carry out an executive order Mr. […]

Portrait of Gala with Rhinocerotic Symptoms, 1954 #dali #salvadordali

As you’ll recall, RFK Jr., who is totally not checked out of his job at HHS, has managed to sneak in hosting a government sponsored cooking show in between not doing anything about the country’s problems with measles, cyclosporiasis, whooping cough, and so on. Well, two episodes are now out, and the reviews are not […]

The taxi driver managed to escape and reach hotel staff after being stabbed in the face, neck, and arms. That decision likely saved his life. Continue reading…

About halfway through Ride or Die season 1 and enjoying it. Hannah Waddingham and Octavia Spencer are great together. 📺

“Donald Trump called the strait of Hormuz ‘an American territory’ on Friday, as the U.S. continues its military blockade of Iran’s shipping and ports while Trump’s administration struggles to end its war with the country,” The Guardian reports. Said Trump: “We don’t even know if we won, because I view the strait of Hormuz as […]

“Karoline Leavitt will work for President Donald Trump’s super PAC MAGA Inc. after she leaves her post at the White House,” NBC News reports.