Currently listening: The Campfire Headphase - Boards of Canada 🎵
Re: Kyrie Irving, Ye, and others, this remains permanently relevant. Antisemitism is a pathological bigotry that can’t be eradicated because it’s always socially acceptable, if not socially favored.
If I were at the Emirates I’d teach people a song for Tomiyasu: It would be “Tomi Gunner,” to the tune of the Clash’s “Tommy Gun.”
Derek Thompson’s take on baseball is similar to mine from a few years back, but he adds a compelling theory about “Cultural Moneyballism.”
OH COME ON
Dave Winer: “Why would I leave Twitter? It’s like living in NY and not taking the subway. Sure it’s dirty and smells bad, but it’s how you get places.” The problem with this analogy is that I would pay and pay heavily to avoid the places Twitter takes me.
Currently reading: The History of the Computer: People, Inventions, and Technology that Changed Our World by Rachel Ignotofsky 📚 (It’s delightful!)
Trying to do my part to show people A Better Way.
this blog's mission statement
Auden, from “The Garrison”:
Whoever rules, our duty to the City
is loyal opposition, never greening
for the big money, never neighing after
a public image.
Let us leave rebellions to the choleric
who enjoy them: to serve as a paradigm
now of what a plausible Future might be
is what we’re here for.
So close to greatness.
Looking forward to this new podcast from my friends at Comment Magazine, featuring Shadi Hamid and Matthew Kaemingk.
SO hard to decide whether to denounce the people who deserve denouncing or denounce the people who are denouncing the people who do not deserve denouncing.
Manton Reece - Dear Elon Musk:
I agree that we shouldn’t be stuck in our own bubbles of misinformation. But the part Elon gets wrong is the premise that there should even be a “common digital town square” controlled by a single company. I reject that idea.
The common digital “square” should be the entire web, with a diverse set of platforms. There should be common APIs but many communities with their own rules, goals, and business models. Concentrating too much power in only a couple social media companies is what created the mess we’re in.