when i went to new college of florida in the late 80s / early 90s, on warm evenings you could smell the perfume of orange blossoms in the breeze, on the short promenade between hamilton center and palm court. all of that is gone now.

i wonder what location the iphone put in the metadata. what timezone was the timestamp in?

i declare farce majeure.

a “friedman unit” used to be six months, but now it’s always the next 48 to 72 hours that are critical. welcome to the future.

suddenly i’ve gone from “no talent” to “artisanal”!

hangin’ in South America the aspirational cars are a whole menagerie of electrics, many of which under brands i’ve never heard of. all the famous auto manufacturers that used to signify quality and luxury seem legacy.

AMOC Time.

it’s self-promotion in the guise of a lifehack, a way of saying my time is very valuable, shaving a bit of lead time to the airport is worth the occasional hundreds of dollars in change fees.

the good lord invented hunger to get us up and out and hanging with one another, so the devil invented doordash.

the author here should have been @dogsinautumn.bsky.social. sorry!

“we should establish judicial review by sortition. A Supreme Court empaneled with a random draw from the entire federal judiciary. A jury of judges.” @justinbriley.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/break-up-the...

i tell my younger self, careful what you wish for.

one thing i've learned from my interactions with claude.ai is that i ask great questions.

generative AI is just applied Jung.

this has been another really whack BTFD moment.

it is the job of a government to shape a society its citizens recognize as good, not one politicians or “experts” profess citizens should recognize as good.

“the difference between your legs and your judgement is that when your legs stop working, you’re immediately aware of the fact.” @dsquareddigest.bsky.social backofmind.substack.com/p/the-most-i...

Is The Pope Catholic?

tax dollars are not fungible.

maybe there's some relationship between vibecession and the ubiquity of dystopian fiction.