A Facebook post from JKT showed up in my feed last night before bed– If he hadn’t had my vote before, he’d have it now. More about JKT here. Look up where to vote here.
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Republicans are from Mars, Democrats are from Venus
By 2024 Sarah Longwell had conducted four hundred focus groups over eight years and she’s learned some things about American voters of every political persuasion, many of them quoted in this book. As she says in her introduction Listening to what Americans actually think is the only way we can understand why they think and…
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Lagniappe Sunday
Walking Men Worldwide. Fun! (h/t Kottke, and he’s right about Warsaw.) Who do you love? I’ll tell you who I love: an sf geek who uses Dune to explain economics. Quote: “But the premise of the novel is that there’s this planet, Arrakis, which is the sole source of something called spice, which is essential…
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Random Saturday
This may be the most grounded, the most clear-eyed look at where we need to go that you will hear in the current moment. Sensible questions with informed, measured answers. She never weasels or rabbit holes, is always direct and gets to her point and answers the question. I feel like I learned more in…
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Let’s get this Friday started!
Still the greatest Buffy episode ever, with a different genre for every song. They’re channeling their inner Broadway babies here all right.
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#thiswritinglife
From the Authors Guild. (New York, September 21, 2026) Explosive new documents released last Thursday in Authors Guild v. OpenAI—the major book authors’ ongoing lawsuit alleging OpenAI and Microsoft illegally trained their products on copyrighted books—show that executives and employees at both companies intentionally broke the law and their disdain for human authorship. The brief…
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