No comet seen tonight, just a fuzzy Venus. Too much light + high clouds, I think.
Wow @tuckercarlson show written by racists? In other news the sky is blue. (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/s/1R0ScC)
"Everyone is talking about sending kids back to school so they do not "fall behind." What does it mean to fall behind? What are students falling behind on? #edu522 #dailychallenge (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/s/11t34x)
It's only been a few days, but I'm already getting impatient for my new #LittleFreeLibrary to arrive. boffosocko.com/2020/07/08/two…
Man, this seems almost quaint now. alternet.org/2012/04/10_way…
argh why does the CBS All Access app on my Apple TV keep on automatically turning on the alternate dialog narration track?
The 5yo, pressing imaginary buttons on her forehead: “I’m logging in to my brain.” Me: … 5yo: “Sometimes I stay logged in, but sometimes I find it’s better to log back out.”
I like how I am barely off twitter for 12 hours and now it’s just cake.

Developing Habits of Mind

Meal prep beet art.
Excited to have my very own physical copy of @PartyOfOnePod's Mission: Accomplished! Now an historic RPG setting, when office politics were between people physically sharing offices.

Want to read: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (ISBN 9780061120077)

Oh hey a self-deprecating hashtag, heck yes I'm in the #NobodyArtistClub. My stuff's at beesbuzz.biz and I mostly try to draw comics, chronic pain permitting.
Posting an event and RSVPing to it at the same time #IndieWeb boffosocko.com/2020/07/12/pos…

Posting an event and RSVPing to it at the same time

#indieweb #event-posts #rsvp-posts
List of resources (and what we learned from them) at the Superorganism site + going out to the newsletter. Friendly reminder that if your work puts anything out into the world (product, service, idea, diagnosis, software, art, etc.), then you, too, are a designer of our futures.
We’ve compiled a list of writings and resources that have been helping us center justice within our design practice. If you have more to share with us, we would love to...
Great thread
On a now regular family Zoom gathering stories from the family tree: “Yeah, he was a tailor for the white men in town so when the Klan would go marching, he’d know ...
"The most radical gesture, then, may not be to emerge from quarantine but to figure out how to persist within it, always. To appreciate complexity, to acknowledge hardship, to wonder why things are what they are and whether they must always be so. (They mustn’t.)" Beautiful.
I wrote a piece for @_reallifemag answering the question "what was quarantine?" My response: reallifemag.com/liminal-space/
"Don’t ask if artificial intelligence is good or fair, ask how it shifts power [..] Through the lens of power, it’s possible to see why accurate, generalizable and efficient AI systems are not good for everyone" nature.com/articles/d4158…
As a cancer survivor, this irks me. This begs for regulation.
Very impt op-ed from someone who was diagnosed with cancer & then was flooded with pseudoscience ads on Facebook. “The evidence is clear: Death rates are much higher f...