If google insists on keeping the bard name, I insist on continuing to make bard on jokes

If you're wondering how my brain works, today I learned what a teratoma was (warning: potentially disturbing medical content), and my brain went to "that's a pokemon name for sure", so. I present you with the evolution chain: stoma -> hematoma -> teratoma

Picked up Malcolm Harris's new book, Palo Alto, and super excited to dig in. But it's also a great time to remember the bizarre fascism experiment that rocked Palo Alto high schools in the 60s paloaltoonline.com/news/2017/03/1…

Mount Hamilton road looking good today

The fact that the NYT thought we needed yet another “wokeism running amok on college campuses” piece, completely indistinguishable from all the other ones, is more interesting to me than the essay itself, which has absolutely nothing new or substantive to add. Some thoughts: 1/

Just talkin bout osha.gov/laws-regs/regu…

The best time to remember to clean out the french drains was last week. The second best time is now I guess.

Brian Merchant Didn't realize that 1 black person, 1 queer person and 2 veterans could cause a bank to implode like that.

My daughter, giving advice to somebody who was having jokes made about their name, suggested they "pull a Dick Trickle", and I am both amazed at the reference and intrigued at what other weird ass rural america cultural nuggets I've passed along to the kids

The trailer for Mrs. Davis on Peacock looks exciting, but after they fucked over Rutherford Falls... Not sure they have the stomach for subversive genius.

Always a good day when I get to drop this into conversation newsweek.com/fire-bull-seme…

sorry for the qqt, but people saying "this is interchangeable with your first year running a startup"... no. Having both an MBA, and one year running a startup, they are not the same. "which one is better" is one of those questions like "which is the best programming language"

Our little company is growing up

This AI letter feels like the technology version of abstinence-only sex ed.

I'll be posting less here and more over on the mammalian site. I'll really miss what was here, but it feels like we're squarely in the fade out arc of this story.

Finished a project recently

Seen a bit of “yeah California has this every year” discourse wrt nyc smoke and… we didn’t in the 80s. Or 90s. Or most of the 00s. It’s a new phenomenon.