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Please forgive me for quoting this New York Times editorial board piece in its entirety: You already know Donald Trump. He is unfit to lead. Watch him. Listen to those who know him best. He tried to subvert an election and remains a threat to democracy. He helped overturn Roe, with terrible consequences. Mr. Trump’s […]

Federico Viticci in his iPad Mini review where he talks about it being a ‘third place’: I’ve been thinking about the idea of a third place lately as it relates to the tech products we use and the different roles they aim to serve… The iPad Mini is the ideal third place device for things I would rather not do on my iPhone or iPad Pro. Having completely missed all the iPad Mini reviews, I saw one in-store at the weekend and remembered it existed.

Writing, blogging, life, tech and mental health with a philosophical/psychological slant

On weekday mornings, early enough that the sun is still creeping up past the horizon, we bundle up in our jackets, grab the backpack, and walk to the bus stop.

Roy Tang's blog. Programmer, engineer, scientist, critic, gamer, dreamer, and kid-at-heart. Randomly amazed.

And how they might move forward

The main thing I realized recently is how lost my mind has become. I stopped meditating, I stopped reading books, and I'm consuming an unhealthy …

The Democrats tried to figure out the complex process of how to use (or not use) the power of the government to make people’s lives better while trying to address a waning pandemic and the economic catastrophe it caused. The Republicans said if things are not how you want them to be, it’s someone else’s fault, and here’s how we’re going to hurt them. Americans didn’t understand the Democrats, and the Republicans made them feel good.

So, here (again) is the reminder that we need to keep fighting for the truth of what America stands for and was originally created to be: A Secular America. Most folks do not remember (or perhaps n…

You might want to skip this one. From the perspective of this outsider, the results of this year’s U.S. presidential election are stunning. I feel terrible for those within the U.S. who will endure another four years of having longtime institutions ripped apart by a criminal administration and its enablers in the legislative and judicial […]

This morning, I woke up to what I’d expected: Trump has won and will be taking office in January. As I scrolled through my social media feeds and watched a...

Life’s packaging

My boss took the day off today. "I won't be able to focus," she'd said. It sounded like a good idea when I heard it, though now that I'm in the office, I...

The last few months have been quite intense, both workwise (where things continue to go rather well) and on a personal level (where the cultural difference we …

The long run: democracy and the work that remains

Sometime midway through the pandemic I felt like if I had any hope or optimism for humanity prior, I had lost it all witnessing how we responded towards a disabling virus. If we couldn't rally our...

The world may change overnight, but our values and how we choose to act on them are within our control.

What a morning. I know this quote has been shared and reshared ad infinitum, but it gives me hope today, and I hope it will do

I sit here, 12:10 A.M going into November 6th. At the exact moment I am writing this, Harris is trailing Trump 210 to 247. Its still too early to call...

It’s a bit past 2 pm. A warm and sunny afternoon in early November. The noise of a chainsaw in the distance, the wind blowing through the yellow …

This is all I am capable of writing tonight. I've spent all day trying not to feel anything with little success.

Woke up to terrible news. I need a new process to process. I've spent the last year looking back in time. It was a lovely ritual. I knew when the project was over I wanted to hold on to that slice...

That's all I could post on Mastodon this morning. But obviously the Fedi is not any sort of accurate insight into what the US is really like on the ground...

Evan Boehs - We showed up. We fought. We lost. “I’m scared. I won’t lie. The worst scenarios keep flashing through my mind.” You and me both. It is 2016 all over...

A conversation about the day's playground shenanigans with my one of my kids had me asking him: "do you know what social skills are?".

Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.

There is, of course, a chance that you may be happier at eighty than you were at twenty or forty, but you’re going to feel much worse. Many older men have to pee right after they pee, and many olde…

For the first day of NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month), I want to start with something difficult, and the reason why I’m participating in this monthly challenge. I’ve lost all affection for my writing voice, and I don’t entirely know why. These days, it’s challenging for me to get excited about writing anything personal. Everything I post, aside from ink swatches, makes me cringe, even simple replies to others' posts. When I started writing online, it was so easy to share any little moss-bulb of detail, despite lacking confidence in my voice or purpose.

Continuing with the WeblogPoMo AMA (Ask Me Anything) challenge, the next question came from, a friend of the blog (he probably doesn’t know that, though), Hiro. You know Hiro, creator...

I broke my one rule. I wasn’t supposed to upgrade any of my three main gadgets this year. But I got a new glass rectangle from Apple. I went from...