I haven’t had to mute a word or phrase since the election, so I’ve fallen out of the habit, but I just realized I can mute “NFT” and I’m so thrilled I can hardly contain myself.

The last person to log out of the video conference was alt-tabbed to another window and everyone knows it.

It seems like not even a single person in the replies realizes either that Yglesias’s list is a troll, or that God Emperor of Dune is the best book in the series.

If you have a scarce resource under high demand and you choose not to allocate it by price, then you have chosen instead to allocate it to those people willing and able to write Selenium web browser automation tasks.

Is it common knowledge that you board an international flight to the US without presenting a very recent SARS-CoV-2 test, even if you’re a US citizen, even if you are vaccinated?

A hard thing about being a cyclist who gets into an altercation with a motorist is that you can not leave the scene first. If you do, they will invariably rev their engine and charge you from behind, and then (probably) swerve around you at the last second. Not worth the risk.

Just got the new issue of AGNI is on Bluesky (@agnimagazine.bsky.social) where I have a poem called “Nomad Palindrome” 🔙💫 Huge thanks to the editors for accepting a weird form 💜

Some of my favorite scenarios after reading Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit.

Anniversary recreation date (@ Barnes & Noble - @bnbuzz in Rochester, NY) swarmapp.com/c/5COSkO7iO74

I worked valet for a party at Brian Wilson’s house in Aspen in the winter of 2004. An Australian coworker drove a brand-new Range Rover into a new Jeep Grand Cherokee, was fired on the spot, and had to walk a mile back to town. Later, the chef brought us leftover foie gras.

Oh shit I totally didn't connect the dots that YC's Sam Altman is the double-popped-collar Loopt guy from WWDC!!