🔗 More Speech and Fewer Mistakes | Meta When your standard is post-Elon Twitter, you’re doing it wrong. Read more…
🔗 More Speech and Fewer Mistakes | Meta
“We’ve seen this approach work on X – where they empower their community to decide when posts are potentially misleading and need more context, and people across a diverse range of perspectives decide what sort of context is helpful for other users to see.”
Fewer mistakes? Maybe. More Nazis? Definitely. Read more…
Audibles
Monday, January 6, 2025
I had plans for this morning, plans I’ve managed to turn into something like a habit over the last few years. Part of those plans was to take a walk. Except that it’s in the low 20s with a windchill that puts it closer to 3 degrees. Not walking in that. So I called an audible: updated some things in the writing workflow, found somewhere to put the boxes Amazon keeps sending for some reason, and moved some furniture to accommodate my new life as a treadmill desk user.
🔗 ‘A Day of Love’: How Trump Inverted the Violent History of Jan. 6 Not super stoked that they co-opted one of the most memorable scenes from Top Gun for the headline but this is otherwise a solid read. Read more…
🔗 NYT hasn’t gotten the memo to bend the knee. Some days, journalism, you don’t suck.
The Jan. 6 tale that Mr. Trump tells is its own kind of replacement theory, one that covers over the marble-hard facts the way a blue carpet will cover those tainted Capitol steps on Inauguration Day.
Today’s 1000 words:
Four years ago today - Their Führer is going to pardon them all in a couple of weeks.
Not all heroes wear capes.
I thought "Good Thing," by the Fine Young Cannibals, was actually "Fruitcake." The song goes "Good Thing, where have you gone?" And I thought it was "Fruitcake! What have you done?" Okay. Just wanted to get that off my chest.
— Stephen King ([@stephenking.bsky.social](http://stephenking.bsky.social)) January 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Freepi walking pad just unpacked, ready for Monday morning, so I’m officially joining the ranks of semi-mobile hamsters.
Updating the blogging workflow for 2025: currently running the Projects plugin in Obsidian, and a couple plugins that let me post directly to Ghost/micro.blog. Curious if anyone has something similar set up? I’m on PC, and no interest in moving to other platforms at this point.
The Small Rooms
Wednesday, January 1, 2025
I live in a town of small rooms, where art is fragmented into these places carved out by those who had bigger dreams once but have found themselves if not content at least resigned to the idea that this. Is it. They’re the kind of rooms where people are often neither on the way up, or down, but moving along the strata, calcified in place by circumstance, commitment, and a lack of raw talent.
Meet the new year, same as the old year
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
It’s New Year’s Eve, and long past the point I should have written a retrospective on the year, but if my journal is any indication, I’m nearly exactly where I was a year ago, and nothing about that is worth celebrating. That’s not the most depressing opening paragraph I’ve ever written, but it certainly breaks the Top 10, and I hadn’t expected that when I sat down with this morning’s blog post.
Finished reading: Skin Tight by Carl Hiaasen 📚 No one has made me care so much about Florida as Hiaasen over the years and this was just as enjoyable as his other works.
Currently reading: The Devil’s Star by Jo Nesbo 📚Re-reading all the Hole novels, since I’m struggling to find anything new to keep me entertained. Still, I’d forgotten most of these books, so not exactly bored with this plan.
This would make an amazing SNL sketch and I give it a week before he’s selling club jackets.
Those of us who have been fortunate to have served as President understand this is a very exclusive club, and only we can relate to the enormous responsibility of leading the Greatest Nation in History.
Start Me Up
Monday, December 30, 2024
Happy New Year’s Eve Eve to those who celebrate. It’s day 1 of the week 1 of 2025 and once that mattered more to me than it does now. I’d gotten really good at tracking my goals weekly, quarterly, and beyond, and somewhere I lost sight of that and just existed. Going years being jobless or underemployed will do that to a person. I’m at my best when I don’t worry about where I was or where I’m going, but be present.
Finding A Voice
Saturday, December 28, 2024
Kicking the tires on a daily writing practice, and more specifically a daily blogging practice, since it’s going to be 2025 soon and my timing as always is impeccable. Sitting here as I’ve done for countless hours over the years looking at my Google Calendar and crafting the “perfect” writing schedule to make all that happen, ducking and dodging The Muse in and effort to Find My Voice, something “artists” talk about regularly.
Tell me you got picked last for kickball without telling me you got picked last for kickball.
Looks like the ride might be coming to an end sooner than we’d hoped over in Trumpland. When your brand is reactionary, once you get your way, the infighting will commence.
I’m agreeing with Ann Coulter about something and I don’t like how that feels.
The times we live in: critics of Elon Musk are getting de-verified on X and at the same time are just garbage people: Preston here opened with a shot at Musk’s neurodiversity and this is my disappointed-not-surprised face.
