Henri Matisse dans une volière au Régina à Nice, 1938 by Roger Schall

What about non-people, like the LLCs that moved to my city and bought 30MM condos?

Pilgrim’s Progress - a new edition for modern readers

I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

Reminds me of that one time I survived the Titanic

A thousand times yes! By the time you graduated my crappy midwestern high school in the 1970s, you’d read at least a dozen things that qualified as literature - mockingbird, babbitt, jekyll, catcher, etc. - a canon you can argue about maybe, but not the stupid crap my kids got.

you can tell Claude writes great code because every website in 2026 has an ever-increasing frequency of timeouts, blank pages, weird errors, and downtime. imagine a carpenter telling you "use this or get left behind" and they hand you a hammer that hits your hand instead of the nail 20% of the time

From Canada, via US VPN but keeping French localization, you get the bizarre “Lac Amérique”.

Intrigued by “mostly.”

And yeah, I did write an awesome GA that beat Peter Norvig on president names but sucked at everything else. Nothing new under the sun.

I ticked the wrong box on an Obama donation 18 years ago and am now on every list from DNC to DSA to Joe Blow from Arkansas who thinks we’re on a first name basis. Roughly 40 texts and emails since this morning. So far.

Unfortunately not so abundant yesterday morning at or anywhere near rue de la Commune. About a dozen of us wobbled sadly between the handful of empty but dysfunctional bornes, until the remorque guy finally showed up.

Casting cats and dogs to play the original lynxes and harehounds is a betrayal of western values.

Just release to my kobo account. Delightfully academic and self-serious. I will never, ever again confound DOCTOR and ELIZA.

He "jumped." Later, we find out about his links to Russian dissident groups.