One of my favorite mindasplode facts for under 30s: "podcast" came from iPod + broadcast. Others include anything about pre-Unicode.

Recent mindasplode for me: I lived at sea level for 25 years where millibars plusminus around 1000 meant something about the weather. 950 was significant. The normal pressure in CDMX is *750* mb. Run-for-cover air pressure down by the dock of the bay is normal here.

Nothing, neither the chicken or eggs nor the statistics are to scale.

It feels like everything in Mexico is named after somewhere else. The most extreme example recurses *five* levels deep: Parque Mexico, which is on Avenida Mexico, in Ciudad Mexico, in the state of Mexico, in... Mexico.

My art history teacher had an interesting theory about the craze for carved legs. Automatic lathes came around, so what was once a luxury became cheap. Just like how print design went through its ugly baroque period when desktop publishing was new.

For an additional $2 per month, Twitter will stop switching you back to the For You tab.

The way this FL/Disney thing will play out: now that the Santis board only controls roads and infrastructure, they will tear up the roads and shut off the water, then zero out the budget.

The easy part is being your own boss. The hard part is being your own employee.

The one time Senator Sinema (D - Wall Street) feigns concern for the little people just also happens to be part of an argument for lower interest rates. shockedpikachu dot jpeg

Whether it's tourists in the Capitol on January 6, or children screaming at politicians in Nashville, both sides have a civility problem. NYTPitchbot

Burying the lede: he now favors packing SCOTUS. In the pages of HLR.

What's a phrase that sounds normal at first but on second thought is very creepy? I'll start: "gut fauna".

You can do nearly anything in a spreadsheet... except put your logic under source control.