We had a few days of spring, everything melted, it was in the 60s today but here comes winter again. Expecting a foot of snow tomorrow night and into Friday. Speaking for myself only, I'm ready for winter to be over. But I'm feeling good, so what do I have to complain about. #I've been playing Worldle, a geography game somewhat inspired by Wordle. Here's the (spoiler!) solution to today's puzzle. I got close on the first guess then putzed around but did finally get the answer. I loved maps as a kid, so I have the shape of countries pretty well memorized. #
I make great salads. One of my secrets is to add some of this stuff, chopped in big pieces and mixed in.#
I was just looking over the home blog at Harvard in 2003, a blog which I had the privilege of editing. I was looking for a snapshot of the "What is a weblog" page. A lot of work went into defining what it meant, because there was some confusion about this in the 2003 blogosphere. And then it turns out the page in question is still there on the Harvard site. Good thing it was preserved. And in case that page ever disappears, it's also on archive.org.#
It's weird when a black comedian uses the N-word to talk about a white person. It doesn't sound derogatory, but if a white person said it about anyone, any race, in any context, it could get them fired. It's also weird that watching shows where people use the word casually and often, your mind starts saying the word in your head, and it's not impossible that it could make it out of your mouth. In that case it doesn't mean you're a bad person, just that you watch HBO or Netflix. I think there's a good chance that's what happened when Bill Maher said the word. #Raised By Wolves has bits of Westworld, Game of Thrones, Lost, Alien, Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica and I'm sure a few other classics. My favorite character by far -- Mother as Necromancer. #
- We invaded Iraq with as little provocation as Putin has for invading Ukraine. Which led to this charming moment.#
- The NYT should have public editors. #
- They should only be copy edited. What they write is up to them. #
- Their work appears alongside the op-ed columnists, same prominence. #
- They must not be journalists, but must be good/great writers, and news users.#
- Why this has a chance of working? #
- The journalists will be more likely to read it, because it gets the same distribution they do, it's harder to ignore. #
- The writers have no reason to tiptoe around journalists because they don't care about access, and aren't trying to protect a career in journalism.#
- They come into the job with no fixed ideas on how journalism works. They view things only from the readers' perspective. #
- Even so they are vastly outnumbered by the people writing for the NYT who are trying to keep careers going and do care about access.#
