A good trick is not being too high on being present, when one is lucky enough to experience that, to not capitalize on what you might notice.
I don’t think I’ve learned that trick yet.
Accountability, hope, gratitude https://dcdispat.ch/2024/06/07/accountability-hope-gratitude.html
Rock and roll and news radio https://dcdispat.ch/2024/05/29/rock-and-roll.html
I haven’t been to a punk show in a while, let alone one at 9:30 in the morning. It was of course, all ages—and my Childe’s school Spring Pre-K/Kindergarten concert.
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War Culture Hates the Ethical Passion of the Young https://dcdispat.ch/2024/05/09/war-culture-hates.html
The clock ran out on "if" a long time ago. https://dcdispat.ch/2024/05/08/the-clock-ran.html
The worst cynicism https://dcdispat.ch/2024/04/13/the-worst-cynicism.html
I do want more aggressive antitrust action from the Department of Justice, including in the industry’s Apple is in, and possibly against Apple itself with well-crafted, technical and market literate arguments, if applicable… but calling Apple a monopoly still seems like a stretch. This DoJ action seems lik... dcdispat.ch https://dcdispat.ch/2024/03/21/i-do-want.html
I’ve been knocked on my ass a bit this week, and it’d probably be better for my mental and physical health to not consume SOTU coverage, but, bless the anti-genocide demonstrators who seemed to force a motorcade detour on the way to the Capitol tonight. It barely counts as close, but this is the closest I... dcdispat.ch https://dcdispat.ch/2024/03/07/ive-been-knocked.html
[Before we put these questions to a sperm whale unit, we’d have to think hard about whether we’d act on the answers. Kristin Andrews told me a heartbreaking story about a chimpanzee named Bruno who was taught sign language at the University of Oklahoma. Bruno was encouraged to build his whole life around the practice of asking humans for things. But after a few years, the scientists’ grant ran out and he was transferred to a different facility. When one of the lab’s scientists visited him there, he was distressed to see that Bruno seemed upset. He kept signing Key and Out. The scientist had taught th... dcdispat.ch https://dcdispat.ch/2024/02/26/before-we-put.html
Dragging myself forward. https://dcdispat.ch/2024/02/26/dragging-myself-forward.html
New truths, fuel for future models https://dcdispat.ch/2024/02/21/new-truths-fuel.html
I pay for Apple News+ partly because the ad experience is better than the open web. If it weren’t for that, I’d prefer Apple just be a payments middleman negotiating micropayments on the open web. It could be a better walled garden—give me Books features like highlights and notes!
A sigh of relief. I think I have a backlog of something on the order of 15,000 suspended sighs of relief—that is, breaths held—but I let that one rip. And gulped in a new one for the Supreme Court appeal to come.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/us/politics/trump-immunity-appeals-court.html
To be fair, I am worried when I see hashtags on my tictacs.
…but I wish this hearing wasn’t so full of grandstanding to promote poor solutions to horrible problems. Not that I am particularly sympathetic to the witnesses.
But what’s new?
Remembering, and onward https://dcdispat.ch/2024/01/12/remembering-and-onward.html
State of the World 2024: Ritual and Solidarity https://dcdispat.ch/2024/01/02/state-of-the.html
