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For this episode I spoke to Simone Robutti. Simone works as an organization designer, adversarial researcher, and teacher. Formerly a software developer, he has been part of different chapters of Tech Workers Coalition since 2018. During the interview we discussed how to start a labor union at your tech company, innovative ways to go on strike, and how tech ideology as psyoped you to thinking labor struggle can’t work in …

After Liverpool, Conwy. Via Bangor, very briefly. (All I'll say is that if you tell people you're going on holiday to X and their response is 'X? Really?', that should probably be taken as an opportunity to rethink your travel plans.) Conwy is a pretty walled town in North Wales, built around a 13th-century castle built by Edward I. I've been here before and loved it, and even wrote three …

Introducing: clipscreen Using a ginormous 49" widescreen monitor is awesome. Except for when you wanna share your screen in Google Meet or other tools. Sharing a 5120×1440 screen simply makes no sense. Of course you can opt to share a tab or window instead. But for work, I often need to switch between a terminal, my IDE and a browser. If I want to share my workflow with a colleague, …

An end of week recap “Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.” – Herman Hesse I thank you for your cheerful forbearance while I gallivanted off to York to meet my half-sister and her wife for the first time ever. Our get-together went wonderfully (thank you so much to those who wished me well), and I return to you with these varied collectanea of literary …

A vigorous exchange of ideas about public issues characterized the panels I virtually attended at this year's Iowa Ideas conference organized by the Cedar Rapids Gazette. It's the ninth edition of the conference, but my first. Previously classes or professional travel kept me away; our obscenely summer-like weather almost kept me away this year, but after a day trip to Backbone State Park I eventually showed up to three panels. …

Opened an anchor bug a couple weeks ago. The most bizarre thing was happening with the auto flip feature of anchor positioning. See the Pen Hot text-emphasis by Adam Argyle (@argyleink) on CodePen. or so I thought… prob # When I had like > 1000px viewport, the anchored element would flip-block like I wanted. But… when I went to smaller viewports, it just stopped working. What in the world does …

Siri and Selma have been nagging us for months. They want to go to London. So we set off. Selma had diligently researched and planned that we would first go to the Millennium Bridge, which connects modern with old London and art with spirituality. This elegant pedestrian suspension bridge links the Tate Modern to St ...

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I wouldn’t have made the connection myself, but I was reminded that today is National Coming Out Day, which this year marks 20 years that I’ve been out.1 It feels like much longer. And I wish it were longer, since I highly recommend coming out in your teens or twenties if at all possible. Earlier this week, I was trying to find digital photos of an old project I’d worked …

My pal Saul sent me the weirdest and funnest treat I have *ever* received: A “Not Fried Chicken” Ice Cream Bucket by Life Raft Treats. It looks just like a fried chicken drumstick, but it’s actually an intricate ice cream creation, complete with waffle ice cream, a chocolate-covered cookie “bone” and a coating of white chocolate and crushed corn flakes! This made me LAUGH!

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Slowly going back through the post Wilder years. Ultra is pretty great.

I turned 44 today. It's been a great year all round. It's been a year of focus on trifold - family, work, and self. I am pretty happy about turning 44; it is just another number this time. Here is my graph for the current year. It's a bit different than last year. You can read this blog using RSS Feed. But if you are the person who loves getting …

Tomi Lahren should be fired for her outright fascism. But cohost Emily Compagno nodded in agreement as Lahren argued that democracy and the Jan. 6 coup attempt only matter to the privileged.

I was happy to see John Hopfield was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on neural networks. The award is based on this paper from 1982Neural networks and physical systems with emergent collective computational abilitiesOne thing I find beautiful about the paper is how Hopfield drew on ideas about spin glasses (many competing interactions lead to many ground states and a complex energy landscape).A central insight is …