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• 15-Jul-2025
  Return to Mashups I emailed James about his post Brainstorming a tool to follow new album releases with Wikipedia. He mentions my mirrored IndieWeb Profile page. I mentioned in the email that the more interesting page from the IndieWeb wiki I mirror is the Front End Study Hall page. That page pulls in the content of the page,...

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• 07-Jul-2025
  Unposted 4th of July I think about flags. I don’t know that I want to put the energy out there around this, but I wrote this. And I don’t want to begrudge people having a good time on Independence Day. But also my nationalism is on hiatus. But I love the idea of the United States. A Trump flag...

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• 09-Jun-2025
  On Los Angeles …the moderates are always, either consciously or unconsciously, working with the authoritarians and enabling their agenda. We are, according to those who want nothing more than to maintain control, supposed to protest enough, but not too much. Because we should rely on them. Because we need to maintain our subservient position under the party as...

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• 21-Feb-2025

  
  Quote of the Day From the Illinois State of the State address today. I’ve added a transcript to the ol’ Smorgasborg. I swore the following oath on Abraham Lincoln’s bible: “I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the State of Illinois, and that I will faithfully discharge the...

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• 20-Jan-2025
  Painful reminder Erin Kissane, writing in her blog and newsletter: Bad Shape: Barlow’s Declaration—which is excruciating and which I’ve been making myself reread annually for years as penance for participating in tech culture—ends like this: We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments...

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• 20-Jan-2025
  Today and tomorrow and tomorrow First do no harm. Figure out what weapons you can wield. Be a healer. All the time.

  behaviormoralitypoliticssociology
• 18-Jan-2025
  Get your own website. on Tik Tok I’ve been studying film in one way or another since I was a kid. My first career was respiratory therapy. My second career was to be “something in film.” I have taken classes in tv production, broadcasting, film, screenwriting, visual effects. On my way out from medicine to film, I went to The Web. But...

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• 14-Jan-2025
  Marc Sageman I listened to this talk by Marc Sageman a long time ago. I’ve been thinking about the radicalization of young men and techbros as parallel to the way Salafi Jihadism grew from unhappy people. When I was in my early teens my father encouraged me to read The True Believer by Eric Hoffer. That book...

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• 17-Nov-2024
  QOTD: Popehat From Ken White, Popehat: Refuge in Kakistocracy: Trump’s laziness, poor attention span, tendency to be distracted by petty grievances and threats to his ego, and total lack of loyalty to anyone will be impediments to his agenda. The people he picks tend to be a grab bag of personality disorders who squabble and fight for...

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• 06-Nov-2024
  Revisiting neveragain.tech 8 years later. If history is going to rhyme, then I’m going to remember the prior verses. One of them was http://neveragain.tech which I signed as a matter of conscience 8 years ago. I am still in strong agreement with the aims of that pledge I signed. And it is my duty to spread the word to my...

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