Listening to some past favorites tonight.
Linkin Park was fantastic. I have hit 👍 on every single song on Hybrid Theory.
Indeed
Elizabeth Leser
The irony of hiding the dark side of our humanness is that our secret is not really a secret at all. How can it be when we’re all safeguarding the very same story? That’s why Rumi calls it an Open Secret. It’s almost a joke - a laughable admission that each one of us has a shadow self - a bumbling, bad-tempered twin. Big surprise! Just like you, I can be a jerk sometimes. I do unkind, cowardly things, harbor unmerciful thoughts, and mope around when I should be doing something constructive. Just like you, I wonder if life has meaning; I worry and fret over things I can’t control; and I often feel overcome with a longing for something that I cannot even name. For all of my strengths and gifts, I am also a vulnerable and insecure person, in need of connection and reassurance. This is the secret I try to keep from you, and you from me, and in doing so, we do each other a grave disservice.
It's the GOP, stupid
Paul Krugman writing at The New York Times
Right now America is a superpower without a fully functioning government. Specifically, the House of Representatives has no speaker, so it can’t pass legislation, including bills funding the government and providing aid to U.S. allies. The House is paralyzed because Republican extremists, who have refused to acknowledge Biden’s legitimacy and promoted chaos rather than participating in governance, have turned these tactics on their own party. At this point it’s hard to see how anyone can become speaker without Democratic votes — but even less extreme Republicans refuse to reach across the aisle.
Any decline in America’s perceived status on the world stage is at the hands of Republicans who have gleefully throw their support to full blown chaos in response to Obama’s presidency.
This whole time I was lied to. I was told babies were gestated for 9 months in a woman’s womb before birth.
Everything is a lie. We’re born from vegetables.
An excerpt from Echos by Louise Gluck
if your soul died, whose life
are you living and
when did you become that person?
I do not think my sould has died.
Yet.
The soundtracks to Christopher Nolan films are some of my favorite albums.
This year I have been especially drawn to the Tenet sound track. The opening song Rainy Night in Tallinn is an excellent opening song, simply stunning.
My geneuine question and fear about the Israel war against HAMAS:
Is Israel going to commit a genocide in retaliation?
Not my picture, but a very good picture.
I would actually like to walk across that suspension bridge.
I do not like being able to see through things that I walk over.
Content for content sake is just excessive.
I do not understand posting to your blog about how good your newsletter is. Just post the newsletter to your blog.
I miss Boxee.
That was a great streaming platform. Had my desktop PC hooked up to a 42 inch Plasma TV in my apartment running that for TV more than a decade ago.
I’m going to be using this one at work very often from now on.
Wikipedia page for Goodhart’s Law
The reality of Fox News
There was no separation from it’s opinion shows and it’s news shows.
I miss the window snap feature in Windows 11 when using my M1 MacBook Air. To automatically setup window pairs with 1 app owning 2/3rds and a second app owning 1/3 of the screen is a pretty neat feature.
1,000 Migrant Children Still Separated
How’s this for a headline
The Biden Administration Is Still Looking For Migrant Families Separated Under Trump
And the kicker of the story
A program that started in 2017 under extremely lax documentation. Just. I have no words.
It’s the cruelty. The cruelty is the point.