Personal blogs

I have a problematic relationship with keys. Well, that's not true. I have a problematic relationship with key rings. For some reason, my pockets are a violently hostile environment for things I put in them. …

Here’s the last installment of Midnight Radio for 2024, and thank you for tuning in throughout the past six months—and for the encouraging notes and special requests that have made this such a nice ritual …

This is the full text of a letter written on behalf of one of the defendants charged with narcotics violations in conjunction with the death of my friend and collaborator Michael K. Williams. It was …

Although more people are aware of autism, most people don’t know what autism means or even is. You might hear about autistic people in movies, on social media, or in casual conversations — but what …

This past year, I’ve been working with Marco Zero, an investigative news agency in Recife, in the northeast of Brazil, and Nest, an exhibition space in The Hague, to bring you a collection of 100 …

Saw a man talking on the phone while using a urinal today. Junk in one hand, phone in the other. I don’t want to judge (out loud) but, what the actual fuck

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down while on a business trip in Manhattan on Wednesday, December 4th. Almost immediately, security camera footage was released of what appears to be a targeted assassination. All over …

Quick minor note: I’ve redesigned the art page, grouping the pieces into collections. I’ve also added RSS feeds for all collections and tags (linked from the top of each collection or tag page), so if …

This is an adaptation of an internal doc I wrote for Anthropic. Recently I’ve been having a lot of conversations about how to structure and staff teams. One framework I’ve referenced repeatedly is to break …

Sometimes you get away with it. An account of the 1972 motor racing season, outside of F1. Le Mans, Sebring, the Nurburgring and the infamous Targa Florio. Narration comes from two drivers who raced that …

2024 has been a hectic year so far. Most recently, we very nearly moved to western New York, but a series of unfortunate events and observations made us reconsider at the last second and decide …

[A New Social]I'm psyched about this announcement:"We're A New Social, a new non-profit organization focused on building cross-protocol tools and services for the open social web.[...] The first project we'll take on to accomplish this …

In the early to mid-90s, I ran a BBS out of my bedroom. It wasn’t very popular, but I did have a lot of time on my hands and I spent a lot of that …

close up of the painting ‘untitled (united states marine hospital)’ by the artist Firelei Báez. blue, white, black, and yellow paint swirl like turgid water over a rendering of the marine hospital, distorted by the …

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Last month I made the courageous promise that I would eat an AirPod if a 9to5Mac writer's prediction that "[b]efore the end of the year, I have no doubt Apple’s AI features—especially what’s coming in …

Thurs. Sept. 19, 2024 – On Sunday, I pushed the Publish button to start my debut novel’s adventure out into the Big Wide World...

What a shitty month, two deaths, a parent and a most beloved cat on top of this fucking world's accelerating descent into assholocracy. Grids help, helped, below is two posts worth, Fleabus' death notice delaying …

TL;DR: A creative writing exercise inspired by getting up too many times last night.

I got a BW Blue train for my WitchDay. As you can see, it was very speedy. I have no...