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Too many projects, not enough time or energy

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Link: Sony Pictures CEO Tony Vinciquerra on Madame Web & Kraven the Hunter: “They're not terrible films”

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        "html": "<blockquote>\n  <h2><a href=\"https://deadline.com/2024/12/sony-pictures-ceo-why-madame-web-flopped-box-office-spider-man-spinoffs-avoid-getting-destroyed-critics-1236242529/\"></a></h2>\n\n  <p>\u201cMadame Web underperformed in the theaters because the press just crucified it. It was not a bad film, and it did great on Netflix,\u201d Vinciquerra told the Los Angeles Times. He also acknowledged that Kraven the Hunter underperformed like Madame Web and suggested, \u201cfor some reason, the press decided that they didn\u2019t want us making these films \u2026 and the critics just destroyed them.\u201d</p>\n\n</blockquote>\n\n<p><em>Oookaayyy\u2026\u2026</em></p>\n\n<p>In the interests of full transparency, because why should you trust what I have to say if I\u2019m unwilling to admit when I have been spectacularly wrong\u2014<a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/20241213/kraven-the-hunter\">I wrote back on December 13</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>I have a feeling [Kraven the Hunter] is going to be a slow but steady burn at the box office, and we\u2019ll be surprised at the numbers when all is said and done.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Oh boy was I wrong! Kraven was a <em>miserable failure</em> at the box office, so much so that the previous duds look like decent examples by comparison. If there was any surprise, it\u2019s that the numbers weren\u2019t just dismal, <strong>they were pathetic</strong>.</p>\n\n<p>But as you can see by the quote up top, the CEO of Sony Pictures seems to be in complete denial about this fact, and prefers to gaslight us by saying it\u2019s not his fault his <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/movies\">#movies</a> did poorly, it\u2019s the fault of critics!</p>\n\n<p>I won\u2019t even dignify that with a response, but if you\u2019re in the mood for an <em>epic</em> rant on this score, check out <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgSKUS9_mXU\">John Campea\u2019s take on Vinciquerra\u2019s comments</a>. Lots of shouting and swearing involved, but it\u2019s very entertaining!</p>",
        "text": "\u201cMadame Web underperformed in the theaters because the press just crucified it. It was not a bad film, and it did great on Netflix,\u201d Vinciquerra told the Los Angeles Times. He also acknowledged that Kraven the Hunter underperformed like Madame Web and suggested, \u201cfor some reason, the press decided that they didn\u2019t want us making these films \u2026 and the critics just destroyed them.\u201d\n\n\n\nOookaayyy\u2026\u2026\n\nIn the interests of full transparency, because why should you trust what I have to say if I\u2019m unwilling to admit when I have been spectacularly wrong\u2014I wrote back on December 13:\n\n\n  I have a feeling [Kraven the Hunter] is going to be a slow but steady burn at the box office, and we\u2019ll be surprised at the numbers when all is said and done.\n\n\nOh boy was I wrong! Kraven was a miserable failure at the box office, so much so that the previous duds look like decent examples by comparison. If there was any surprise, it\u2019s that the numbers weren\u2019t just dismal, they were pathetic.\n\nBut as you can see by the quote up top, the CEO of Sony Pictures seems to be in complete denial about this fact, and prefers to gaslight us by saying it\u2019s not his fault his #movies did poorly, it\u2019s the fault of critics!\n\nI won\u2019t even dignify that with a response, but if you\u2019re in the mood for an epic rant on this score, check out John Campea\u2019s take on Vinciquerra\u2019s comments. Lots of shouting and swearing involved, but it\u2019s very entertaining!"
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fluffy beesbuzz.biz

Some thoughts on comments

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How to Be a Real (Good) Man…Epic Fail!

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        "html": "<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/mariposta/image/upload/w_1200,c_limit,q_65/man-not-enough.jpg\" /><h2>Here\u2019s the honest truth: I have been failed by every single male role model in my life.</h2>\n\n<p>A few months ago, as I was searching for some new reading material on \u201ctonic masculinity\u201d as opposed to the toxic variety, I came across the book <em>Man Enough</em> by Justin Baldoni.</p>\n\n<p>Now I knew absolutely nothing about Baldoni. I\u2019d never listened to his podcast, watched his TED talk, or seen any of his movie or TV appearances. (I was so out of the loop, I hadn\u2019t even connected the dots between him and <em>It Ends with Us</em>\u2026a film I might add I still haven\u2019t seen.) But the description sounded interesting, and he seemed like the artsy hipster type. Right up my alley. So I bought the book from my local bookstore (<a href=\"https://www.powells.com/\">Powell\u2019s</a>, of course) and went into it with a completely open mind.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Oh I made a big mistake!</strong></p>\n\n<p>First off, pretty soon after getting started on the Preface and the Introduction and then Chapter 1, I found myself rather put off by the bland writing. More than bland\u2014I just don\u2019t think this book is well-written. Maybe it gets better later on? I must admit, I fizzled out before I could find out.</p>\n\n<p>I also didn\u2019t find myself relating much to stories which\u2014while I don\u2019t doubt happened\u2014sound utterly clich\u00e9. Like being taunted by bullies to jump off a bridge into freezing cold water when he was thirteen, and if he didn\u2019t he\u2019s a \u201cpussy\u201d. Isn\u2019t this every melodramatic coming-of-age boy story ever?</p>\n\n<p>It\u2019s a bummer he didn\u2019t tell them to go pound sand and skedaddle on out of there. But maybe I need to read the rest of the book to learn what that was all about. Also it\u2019s probably on me that, since I was homeschooled my entire childhood until graduating from high school (jazz hands on that last bit), I never dealt with idiot teenagers on cold bridges. I <em>did</em> deal with idiot teenagers online, because I was <em>very online</em> pretty much from the moment you could be. But that\u2019s a different tale.</p>\n\n<h3>And Then, The Controversy</h3>\n\n<p>With me feeling bored and disappointed that yet another attempt to \u201cgrapple with my manhood\u201d had landed with a thud, I moved onto to other more immediate matters.</p>\n\n<p><em>Wham!</em> December 20, 2024: <a href=\"https://www.today.com/popculture/movies/blake-lively-complaint-justin-baldoni-it-ends-with-us-rcna185107\">Blake Lively has filed a sexual harassment complaint against Justin Baldoni</a>.</p>\n\n<p><strong>What. The. Actual. Fuck.</strong></p>\n\n<p>Since that bombshell, there\u2019s been a frenzy of activity. Baldoni got dropped by his talent agency, awards have been rescinded (because I guess Baldoni isn\u2019t a feminist after all), and now he\u2019s being sued <em>by his own former publicist</em>.</p>\n\n<p>The author of the book <em>It Ends with Us</em>, Colleen Hoover, is publicly standing by Blake Lively, and other cast members are as well. And if you read Lively\u2019s complaint, part of the shocking allegations are that Justin Baldoni wasn\u2019t just acting like a creep on set, but he then attempted to get his PR folks to launch a smear campaign to discredit Lively and \u201cruin her reputation before the film was released\u201d.</p>\n\n<p>Gee, sounds like a swell guy.</p>\n\n<p>Now of course everyone is innocent until proven guilty, and until this gets adjudicated in a court of law, all we have are bits and pieces of evidence (such as text messages) and people\u2019s perspectives on what happened during those events. But that won\u2019t stop most people from \u201ctaking sides\u201d\u2014you could say this is the new \u201cJohnny Depp vs. Amber Heard\u201d. Hollywood is no stranger to salacious scandals!</p>\n\n<p>But now back to me.</p>\n\n<h3>This is Why We Can\u2019t Have Nice Things</h3>\n\n<p>I don\u2019t find it coincidental in the slightest that the <em>one</em> book I bought since I was in the throes of 2000s-era patriarchal evangelicalism that was <em>specifically</em> about \u201cmanhood\u201d just so happens to be authored by a dude who is now engulfed in controversy and being canceled.</p>\n\n<p>Because here\u2019s the honest truth:</p>\n\n<p><strong>I have been failed by every single male role model in my life.</strong>*</p>\n\n<p>* (I <em>am</em> on good terms with my father these days, but only after many years of hard work getting past painful differences and, at times, estrangement.)</p>\n\n<p>Pastors have let me down. Almost every single one I ever followed back in my religious days ended up falling from grace and was found guilty of all sorts of heinous sins.</p>\n\n<p>Local business leaders have let me down.</p>\n\n<p>Politicians have let me down.</p>\n\n<p>Programmers have let me down. (<a href=\"https://www.bridgetownrb.com/future/road-to-bridgetown-2.0-escaping-burnout/\">why? WHY??</a>)</p>\n\n<p>Virtually every CEO of every major tech company has let me down spectacularly. (And to think I once admired Satya Nadella. How na\u00efve I was!)</p>\n\n<p>It\u2019s not a question of who in particular has ended up on the <em>Epic Fail!</em> list. <strong>It\u2019s who hasn\u2019t.</strong> And I would have to think long and hard about that list because, wow, it\u2019s tiny.</p>\n\n<p>Now it\u2019s certainly true I\u2019ve had many friends over the years both online and offline of various gender expressions who I deeply respect and appreciate. But the trick is, none of these people are in <strong>positions of power</strong> as you and I would understand it. I still don\u2019t fully grasp the reasons why, but <strong>it really does seem that men (white men at least!) are almost universally unable to handle the slightest whiff of unaccountable authority</strong>. And the sad truth is, those scenarios are the norm, not the outlier.</p>\n\n<p>\ud83d\udea8 <strong>Mediocre white men.</strong> \ud83d\udea8</p>\n\n<p>Spare us, please.</p>\n\n<p>I realize, as a white man, I have to put in significant work to recognize when I\u2019m being insensitive, when I\u2019m taking up all the \u201cspace\u201d in a dialogue without realizing it, when I\u2019m expecting people to simply believe my expertise without proving it first. It\u2019s been a process over the years to \u201ccheck my privilege\u201d and I know I\u2019ll keep screwing up from time to time.</p>\n\n<p>What truly, utterly enrages me is when the \u201cmanosphere\u201d just comes right out and says <em>Naw, we like our privilege. Fuck you all!</em> It\u2019s the coward\u2019s way out, and the way they think they\u2019re being \u201cmanly\u201d when they act like total assholes makes my stomach churn.</p>\n\n<p>But equally upsetting is when the performative \u201cgood guys\u201d\u2014the Justin Baldoni\u2019s of the world\u2014get exposed. Alas, this isn\u2019t my first rodeo on that front. I was a <em>huge</em> fan of very Jewish shock comedian Jamie Kilstein a number of years back\u2014he\u2019d already been through a cancellation during a stint as a loud-and-proud liberal, but he\u2019d bounced back to some degree and was trying to portray himself as an open-minded political moderate. (Nowadays I would instantly see that as a red flag, but back then I admired it.) But surprise, surprise\u2014all of a sudden he ended up cozying up to Tim Pool (!!), started hanging out with other alt-right types, and now he\u2019s married and openly a \u201cChristian\u201d (sorry, I don\u2019t buy it for a minute). And <a href=\"https://drdrew.com/\">this is who he recently interviewed</a>\u2014definitely moderate huh. \ud83d\ude44</p>\n\n<p>So yeah. Guys getting red-pilled, \u201cfeminists\u201d getting exposed, religious manly men going off the deep end, CEOs becoming drunk with absolute power\u2026it is <em>bleak</em> out there. And <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/20241211/post-toxic-masculinity\">as I already wrote about</a>, while I appreciated the \u201ctonic masculinity\u201d of Tim Walz which made a big national splash for a hot minute there, I also didn\u2019t find a whole lot to relate to personally. (I\u2019m not going to restore my prized jalopy any time soon. I guess I must be a communist because I hate cars!)</p>\n\n<h3>Where to Go from Here\u2026</h3>\n\n<p>I\u2019m afraid I don\u2019t have many answers right now. I feel like the \u201cbrand\u201d of \u201cbeing a man\u201d has never been more in the toilet\u2014at least here in America. And with the incoming Trump 2.0 administration which is absolutely bone-chilling in too many ways to count, the future of manhood at the national level is dark indeed.</p>\n\n<p>All I can say is this: <strong>I\u2019ll keep speaking out on this topic</strong>. I\u2019ll keep writing about masculinity on my blog. I\u2019ll keep thinking about my own gender expression and how that\u2019s evolving. I can tell you right now, 2025 will be a year of experimentation for me. I\u2019m going to slingshot <em>gender conformance</em> right into the heart of the sun. Because if \u201cbeing a man\u201d means being like all of these people who have shown themselves to be truly awful humans, then <strong>fuck being a man</strong>.</p>\n\n<p>I\u2019ll be something else.</p>\n\n\n\n  <br /><p>\n    \n      <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/gender\">#gender</a>\n    \n  </p>",
        "text": "Here\u2019s the honest truth: I have been failed by every single male role model in my life.\n\nA few months ago, as I was searching for some new reading material on \u201ctonic masculinity\u201d as opposed to the toxic variety, I came across the book Man Enough by Justin Baldoni.\n\nNow I knew absolutely nothing about Baldoni. I\u2019d never listened to his podcast, watched his TED talk, or seen any of his movie or TV appearances. (I was so out of the loop, I hadn\u2019t even connected the dots between him and It Ends with Us\u2026a film I might add I still haven\u2019t seen.) But the description sounded interesting, and he seemed like the artsy hipster type. Right up my alley. So I bought the book from my local bookstore (Powell\u2019s, of course) and went into it with a completely open mind.\n\nOh I made a big mistake!\n\nFirst off, pretty soon after getting started on the Preface and the Introduction and then Chapter 1, I found myself rather put off by the bland writing. More than bland\u2014I just don\u2019t think this book is well-written. Maybe it gets better later on? I must admit, I fizzled out before I could find out.\n\nI also didn\u2019t find myself relating much to stories which\u2014while I don\u2019t doubt happened\u2014sound utterly clich\u00e9. Like being taunted by bullies to jump off a bridge into freezing cold water when he was thirteen, and if he didn\u2019t he\u2019s a \u201cpussy\u201d. Isn\u2019t this every melodramatic coming-of-age boy story ever?\n\nIt\u2019s a bummer he didn\u2019t tell them to go pound sand and skedaddle on out of there. But maybe I need to read the rest of the book to learn what that was all about. Also it\u2019s probably on me that, since I was homeschooled my entire childhood until graduating from high school (jazz hands on that last bit), I never dealt with idiot teenagers on cold bridges. I did deal with idiot teenagers online, because I was very online pretty much from the moment you could be. But that\u2019s a different tale.\n\nAnd Then, The Controversy\n\nWith me feeling bored and disappointed that yet another attempt to \u201cgrapple with my manhood\u201d had landed with a thud, I moved onto to other more immediate matters.\n\nWham! December 20, 2024: Blake Lively has filed a sexual harassment complaint against Justin Baldoni.\n\nWhat. The. Actual. Fuck.\n\nSince that bombshell, there\u2019s been a frenzy of activity. Baldoni got dropped by his talent agency, awards have been rescinded (because I guess Baldoni isn\u2019t a feminist after all), and now he\u2019s being sued by his own former publicist.\n\nThe author of the book It Ends with Us, Colleen Hoover, is publicly standing by Blake Lively, and other cast members are as well. And if you read Lively\u2019s complaint, part of the shocking allegations are that Justin Baldoni wasn\u2019t just acting like a creep on set, but he then attempted to get his PR folks to launch a smear campaign to discredit Lively and \u201cruin her reputation before the film was released\u201d.\n\nGee, sounds like a swell guy.\n\nNow of course everyone is innocent until proven guilty, and until this gets adjudicated in a court of law, all we have are bits and pieces of evidence (such as text messages) and people\u2019s perspectives on what happened during those events. But that won\u2019t stop most people from \u201ctaking sides\u201d\u2014you could say this is the new \u201cJohnny Depp vs. Amber Heard\u201d. Hollywood is no stranger to salacious scandals!\n\nBut now back to me.\n\nThis is Why We Can\u2019t Have Nice Things\n\nI don\u2019t find it coincidental in the slightest that the one book I bought since I was in the throes of 2000s-era patriarchal evangelicalism that was specifically about \u201cmanhood\u201d just so happens to be authored by a dude who is now engulfed in controversy and being canceled.\n\nBecause here\u2019s the honest truth:\n\nI have been failed by every single male role model in my life.*\n\n* (I am on good terms with my father these days, but only after many years of hard work getting past painful differences and, at times, estrangement.)\n\nPastors have let me down. Almost every single one I ever followed back in my religious days ended up falling from grace and was found guilty of all sorts of heinous sins.\n\nLocal business leaders have let me down.\n\nPoliticians have let me down.\n\nProgrammers have let me down. (why? WHY??)\n\nVirtually every CEO of every major tech company has let me down spectacularly. (And to think I once admired Satya Nadella. How na\u00efve I was!)\n\nIt\u2019s not a question of who in particular has ended up on the Epic Fail! list. It\u2019s who hasn\u2019t. And I would have to think long and hard about that list because, wow, it\u2019s tiny.\n\nNow it\u2019s certainly true I\u2019ve had many friends over the years both online and offline of various gender expressions who I deeply respect and appreciate. But the trick is, none of these people are in positions of power as you and I would understand it. I still don\u2019t fully grasp the reasons why, but it really does seem that men (white men at least!) are almost universally unable to handle the slightest whiff of unaccountable authority. And the sad truth is, those scenarios are the norm, not the outlier.\n\n\ud83d\udea8 Mediocre white men. \ud83d\udea8\n\nSpare us, please.\n\nI realize, as a white man, I have to put in significant work to recognize when I\u2019m being insensitive, when I\u2019m taking up all the \u201cspace\u201d in a dialogue without realizing it, when I\u2019m expecting people to simply believe my expertise without proving it first. It\u2019s been a process over the years to \u201ccheck my privilege\u201d and I know I\u2019ll keep screwing up from time to time.\n\nWhat truly, utterly enrages me is when the \u201cmanosphere\u201d just comes right out and says Naw, we like our privilege. Fuck you all! It\u2019s the coward\u2019s way out, and the way they think they\u2019re being \u201cmanly\u201d when they act like total assholes makes my stomach churn.\n\nBut equally upsetting is when the performative \u201cgood guys\u201d\u2014the Justin Baldoni\u2019s of the world\u2014get exposed. Alas, this isn\u2019t my first rodeo on that front. I was a huge fan of very Jewish shock comedian Jamie Kilstein a number of years back\u2014he\u2019d already been through a cancellation during a stint as a loud-and-proud liberal, but he\u2019d bounced back to some degree and was trying to portray himself as an open-minded political moderate. (Nowadays I would instantly see that as a red flag, but back then I admired it.) But surprise, surprise\u2014all of a sudden he ended up cozying up to Tim Pool (!!), started hanging out with other alt-right types, and now he\u2019s married and openly a \u201cChristian\u201d (sorry, I don\u2019t buy it for a minute). And this is who he recently interviewed\u2014definitely moderate huh. \ud83d\ude44\n\nSo yeah. Guys getting red-pilled, \u201cfeminists\u201d getting exposed, religious manly men going off the deep end, CEOs becoming drunk with absolute power\u2026it is bleak out there. And as I already wrote about, while I appreciated the \u201ctonic masculinity\u201d of Tim Walz which made a big national splash for a hot minute there, I also didn\u2019t find a whole lot to relate to personally. (I\u2019m not going to restore my prized jalopy any time soon. I guess I must be a communist because I hate cars!)\n\nWhere to Go from Here\u2026\n\nI\u2019m afraid I don\u2019t have many answers right now. I feel like the \u201cbrand\u201d of \u201cbeing a man\u201d has never been more in the toilet\u2014at least here in America. And with the incoming Trump 2.0 administration which is absolutely bone-chilling in too many ways to count, the future of manhood at the national level is dark indeed.\n\nAll I can say is this: I\u2019ll keep speaking out on this topic. I\u2019ll keep writing about masculinity on my blog. I\u2019ll keep thinking about my own gender expression and how that\u2019s evolving. I can tell you right now, 2025 will be a year of experimentation for me. I\u2019m going to slingshot gender conformance right into the heart of the sun. Because if \u201cbeing a man\u201d means being like all of these people who have shown themselves to be truly awful humans, then fuck being a man.\n\nI\u2019ll be something else.\n\n\n\n  \n\n    \n      #gender"
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fluffy beesbuzz.biz

Tech upgrades

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Merry Christmas (in an Irish Castle)!

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        "html": "<p>I wish you and yours all the best this holiday season. \ud83d\ude0a\ud83c\udf84\ud83c\udf81</p>\n\n<p>And for a little treat: a <strong>blast from the past</strong>! In another life (2001), I performed Celtic music playing the recorder, Irish whistle, and other wind instruments, and our band <strong>Distant Oaks</strong> was privileged to join a host of other musicians and singers to record <em>Christmas in an Irish Castle</em>, produced by <a href=\"https://revels.org/\">Revels</a>.</p>\n\n<p>Here is our rendition of <em>I Saw Three Ships</em>:</p>\n\n<p>Alas, it doesn\u2019t seem like the album is available for online streaming anymore, but you may be able to find a CD used on eBay, Amazon, etc.</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://jaredwhite.com/20241225/christmas-in-an-irish-castle.jpg\" alt=\"cover art of Christmas in an Irish Castle\" /></p>\n\n<p>As an alternative play, I can highly recommend my friend and extraordinarily-talented Irish harper Patrick Ball\u2019s album <a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/celtic-harp-the-christmas-rose/201155377\">The Christmas Rose</a>. It\u2019ll get you right in the spirit of Christmas for sure.</p>",
        "text": "I wish you and yours all the best this holiday season. \ud83d\ude0a\ud83c\udf84\ud83c\udf81\n\nAnd for a little treat: a blast from the past! In another life (2001), I performed Celtic music playing the recorder, Irish whistle, and other wind instruments, and our band Distant Oaks was privileged to join a host of other musicians and singers to record Christmas in an Irish Castle, produced by Revels.\n\nHere is our rendition of I Saw Three Ships:\n\nAlas, it doesn\u2019t seem like the album is available for online streaming anymore, but you may be able to find a CD used on eBay, Amazon, etc.\n\n\n\nAs an alternative play, I can highly recommend my friend and extraordinarily-talented Irish harper Patrick Ball\u2019s album The Christmas Rose. It\u2019ll get you right in the spirit of Christmas for sure."
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Jonathan LaCour cleverdevil.io/profile/cleverdevil

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        "text": "\u00a0\n\n\u00a0",
        "html": "<a href=\"https://cleverdevil.io/2024/-now-i-have-a-whiskey-ho-ho-ho\"></a>\n            \n                <p>\u00a0</p><p>\u00a0</p>"
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fluffy beesbuzz.biz

The original Publ design doc

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fluffy beesbuzz.biz

Brilliant Minds and mirror-touch synaesthesia

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gRegor Morrill gregorlove.com

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    "type": "entry",
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    "url": "https://gregorlove.com/2024/12/soon/",
    "content": {
        "text": "Soon. isitchristmas.com",
        "html": "<p>Soon. <a href=\"https://isitchristmas.com/\">isitchristmas.com</a></p>"
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    "author": {
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "Jared White",
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    "url": "https://jaredwhite.com/20241223/shrinking-is-just-so-good",
    "published": "2024-12-23T21:06:51-08:00",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><em>Shrinking</em> is simply one of the best <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/tvshows\">#TVShows</a> on air.</p>\n\n<p>Honestly better than it has any right to be (even though yes, that\u2019s one stacked cast!). Now I realize my emotions are a bit raw at the moment, having come down with a bug (gee, thanks kids!) for the <em>third</em> time in a row before ever getting completely well again. It\u2019s been a fun 6 weeks, that\u2019s for sure! \ud83d\ude44</p>\n\n<p>But even so, watching the penultimate episode of <em>Shrinking</em> Season 2 on Apple TV+ tonight, <strong>I was bawling</strong>. \ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d Bawling I tell you! I think if someone else had been in the room with me, they would have thought something had gone terribly terribly wrong.</p>\n\n<p>I will admit, I did originally think Season 2 was starting off a bit on the slow side. I was wondering if they\u2019d reach the heights of the <strong>stellar</strong> first season. Well at this point there\u2019s no doubt in my mind. Every episode over the recent stretch has been \u201cOh, you think <em>that</em> was <em>all</em> the feelz? <strong>You ain\u2019t felt nuttin\u2019 yet!</strong>\u201d</p>\n\n<p>Make sure you have ample tissues handy when you watch this show. <strong>Bawling</strong>, I tell you.</p>",
        "text": "Shrinking is simply one of the best #TVShows on air.\n\nHonestly better than it has any right to be (even though yes, that\u2019s one stacked cast!). Now I realize my emotions are a bit raw at the moment, having come down with a bug (gee, thanks kids!) for the third time in a row before ever getting completely well again. It\u2019s been a fun 6 weeks, that\u2019s for sure! \ud83d\ude44\n\nBut even so, watching the penultimate episode of Shrinking Season 2 on Apple TV+ tonight, I was bawling. \ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d Bawling I tell you! I think if someone else had been in the room with me, they would have thought something had gone terribly terribly wrong.\n\nI will admit, I did originally think Season 2 was starting off a bit on the slow side. I was wondering if they\u2019d reach the heights of the stellar first season. Well at this point there\u2019s no doubt in my mind. Every episode over the recent stretch has been \u201cOh, you think that was all the feelz? You ain\u2019t felt nuttin\u2019 yet!\u201d\n\nMake sure you have ample tissues handy when you watch this show. Bawling, I tell you."
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gRegor Morrill gregorlove.com

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        "text": "Haven\u2019t listened to much holiday music yet, so fixing that with the new Ben Folds, Sleigher. Next up: Scala & Kolacny Brothers, December; and Rosie Thomas, A Very Rosie Christmas. What\u2019s on your list?",
        "html": "<p>Haven\u2019t listened to much holiday music yet, so fixing that with the new Ben Folds, <a href=\"https://album.link/us/i/1766317522\">Sleigher</a>. Next up: Scala &amp; Kolacny Brothers, <a href=\"https://album.link/i/574674425\">December</a>; and Rosie Thomas, <a href=\"https://album.link/i/582745308\">A Very Rosie Christmas</a>. What\u2019s on your list?</p>"
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Aaron Parecki aaronparecki.com

Fred Meyer

at Fred Meyer

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Aaron Parecki aaronparecki.com

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    "content": {
        "text": "It just occurred to me that YouTube is named after a completely obsolete technology"
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Tantek Çelik tantek.com

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    "url": "https://tantek.com/2024/356/t1/finished-woodside-ramble-35k",
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        "text": "finished the #InsideTrail Woodside Ramble 35k #trailRace in 7:42:58!\n\n21+ miles for the 21st. Happy Winter Solstice!\n\nOne last dance for 2024. Drove down 101 and saw the orange sunrise between the East Bay mountains and stormy cloud cover. Made it to Huddart Park, parked, got my bib, pinned it to to my shorts, left my drop bag on a picnic table, and lined up to start just in time.\n\nIt was overcast and as we made our way up the hill, the drizzle then rain and wind began. The deep forest protected us from most of it.\n\nThe recent storms had downed a large tree which blocked part of the original course. The organizers had to re-route the 35k course (and the 55k) into a series of loops. This was my first 3 loops race!\n\nIt was harder than expected (the course changes added lots more vert) but I finished healthy, no pain, no soreness, so I'll take it, along with my second DLF trophy. I\u2019m starting a collection.\n\nStarted the year with a rainy 30k race (Redtail Ridge\u00b9), finished the year with a rainy 35k (with ~60% more vert! nearly 4400'). Seven races in 2024 \u2705 Good notes to end on for this year\u2019s trail racing season.\n\n#35k #WoodsideRamble #Ramble24 #trailRun #trailRunner #runner #trailRunning #running\n\n\u00b9 https://tantek.com/2024/051/t1/finished-redtail-ridge-30k",
        "html": "finished the #<span class=\"p-category\">InsideTrail</span> Woodside Ramble 35k #<span class=\"p-category\">trailRace</span> in 7:42:58!<br /><br />21+ miles for the 21st. Happy Winter Solstice!<br /><br />One last dance for 2024. Drove down 101 and saw the orange sunrise between the East Bay mountains and stormy cloud cover. Made it to Huddart Park, parked, got my bib, pinned it to to my shorts, left my drop bag on a picnic table, and lined up to start just in time.<br /><br />It was overcast and as we made our way up the hill, the drizzle then rain and wind began. The deep forest protected us from most of it.<br /><br />The recent storms had downed a large tree which blocked part of the original course. The organizers had to re-route the 35k course (and the 55k) into a series of loops. This was my first 3 loops race!<br /><br />It was harder than expected (the course changes added lots more vert) but I finished healthy, no pain, no soreness, so I'll take it, along with my second DLF trophy. I\u2019m starting a collection.<br /><br />Started the year with a rainy 30k race (Redtail Ridge<a href=\"https://tantek.com/#t5_d1_note-1\">\u00b9</a>), finished the year with a rainy 35k (with ~60% more vert! nearly 4400'). Seven races in 2024 \u2705 Good notes to end on for this year\u2019s trail racing season.<br /><br />#<span class=\"p-category\">35k</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">WoodsideRamble</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">Ramble24</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">trailRun</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">trailRunner</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">runner</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">trailRunning</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">running</span><br /><br /><a href=\"https://tantek.com/#t5_d1_ref-1\">\u00b9</a> <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2024/051/t1/finished-redtail-ridge-30k\">https://tantek.com/2024/051/t1/finished-redtail-ridge-30k</a>"
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fluffy beesbuzz.biz

Yet another open letter to the Governor of Washington State

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        "text": "Hi, I am once again writing to request a reconsideration of the state-wide Electric Vehicle Transportation Fee, the additional $75 line-item added to electric vehicles' car registrations in the state of Washington.\n\nThe purpose of this fee is supposed to be to encourage the adoption of electric vehicles, but it does exactly the opposite. This $75/year fee represents more than I pay for energy on my electric vehicle in any given year, and I, like most EV owners, charge my vehicle at home on equipment I paid hundreds of dollars for.\n\nThis is on top of the already ridiculously-high $150/year fee that is meant to offset the missing fuel tax, which already is for more than the total amount of fuel I would have bought in any given year.\n\nI only drive around 1000 miles per year. I am disabled and on a limited income. I bought an older, used electric vehicle somewhat to reduce my already-low transportation costs but mostly to be better to the environment based on how little I drive to begin with, as the environmental impact of the oil changes that I no longer need was pretty significant, especially compared to how little I was driving.\n\nThis $225 total in fees means I am paying vastly more than my fair share compared to drivers of internal-combustion vehicles, and am being actively punished for making the right choice in terms of harm reduction on the environment.\n\nI am also already paying more for the infrastructure offsets actually taken by my (again, seldom-driven) electric vehicle in the form of the two \u201cadditional vehicle weight\u201d fees, which total $35 (split up into $10 and $25 for some reason).\n\nA much more equitable approach would be to assess a much smaller fee across drivers of all vehicles, regardless of fuel type, which would actually encourage EV adoption, and would also generate more revenue for the state.\n\nI urge you to please re-evaluate these regressive fees and to consider a more equitable means of offsetting infrastructure costs.",
        "html": "<p>Hi, I am once again writing to request a reconsideration of the state-wide Electric Vehicle Transportation Fee, the additional $75 line-item added to electric vehicles' car registrations in the state of Washington.</p><p>The purpose of this fee is supposed to be to encourage the adoption of electric vehicles, but it does exactly the opposite. This $75/year fee represents more than I pay for energy on my electric vehicle in any given year, and I, like most EV owners, charge my vehicle at home on equipment I paid hundreds of dollars for.</p><p>This is on top of the already ridiculously-high $150/year fee that is meant to offset the missing fuel tax, which already is for more than the total amount of fuel I would have bought in any given year.</p><p>I only drive around 1000 miles per year. I am disabled and on a limited income. I bought an older, used electric vehicle somewhat to reduce my already-low transportation costs but mostly to be better to the environment based on how little I drive to begin with, as the environmental impact of the oil changes that I no longer need was pretty significant, especially compared to how little I was driving.</p><p>This $225 total in fees means I am paying vastly more than my fair share compared to drivers of internal-combustion vehicles, and am being actively punished for making the right choice in terms of harm reduction on the environment.</p><p>I am also already paying more for the infrastructure offsets actually taken by my (again, seldom-driven) electric vehicle in the form of the two \u201cadditional vehicle weight\u201d fees, which total $35 (split up into $10 and $25 for some reason).</p><p>A much more equitable approach would be to assess a much smaller fee across drivers of all vehicles, regardless of fuel type, which would actually encourage EV adoption, and would also generate more revenue for the state.</p><p>I urge you to please re-evaluate these regressive fees and to consider a more equitable means of offsetting infrastructure costs.</p>"
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fluffy beesbuzz.biz

My actual EV costs in 2024

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    "url": "https://jaredwhite.com/20241220/textastic-and-working-copy",
    "published": "2024-12-20T07:38:59-08:00",
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        "html": "<p>I\u2019m testing out a new blogging setup on my iPhone using <a href=\"https://workingcopy.app/\">Working Copy</a> and <a href=\"https://www.textasticapp.com/\">Textastic</a>. And I\u2019m dictating this post using Siri, so in a sense nothing I\u2019m doing right now has anything to do with my <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/writing\">#writing</a> workflow on my iPad or Mac.</p>\n\n<p>I contemplate how the type of post I would dictate, rather than type out, would be different. Perhaps this is me at my most raw, most unfiltered\u2026<strong>from my brain to your eyes</strong>.</p>\n\n<p><em>Actually, I\u2019m not sure who wants that\u2026</em> \ud83d\ude02</p>\n\n<p>Here\u2019s a cool thing. In Textastic <strong>I can create my own file templates</strong>. I\u2019ve created one for the <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/browse/thoughts\">Thoughts</a> category, which this post is in, and I can create other templates for categories like <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/browse/links\">Links</a> or <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/browse/articles\">Essays</a>. Because Markdown is plain text, working with it even on a small screen is quite straightforward.</p>\n\n<p>Finish the post, push it up to my repo using Working Copy, wait for <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/bridgetown\">#Bridgetown</a> to rebuild my site\u2026and we\u2019re done.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Oh I\u2019m digging this.</strong> \u263a\ufe0f</p>",
        "text": "I\u2019m testing out a new blogging setup on my iPhone using Working Copy and Textastic. And I\u2019m dictating this post using Siri, so in a sense nothing I\u2019m doing right now has anything to do with my #writing workflow on my iPad or Mac.\n\nI contemplate how the type of post I would dictate, rather than type out, would be different. Perhaps this is me at my most raw, most unfiltered\u2026from my brain to your eyes.\n\nActually, I\u2019m not sure who wants that\u2026 \ud83d\ude02\n\nHere\u2019s a cool thing. In Textastic I can create my own file templates. I\u2019ve created one for the Thoughts category, which this post is in, and I can create other templates for categories like Links or Essays. Because Markdown is plain text, working with it even on a small screen is quite straightforward.\n\nFinish the post, push it up to my repo using Working Copy, wait for #Bridgetown to rebuild my site\u2026and we\u2019re done.\n\nOh I\u2019m digging this. \u263a\ufe0f"
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No Water is Death

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        "html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.democracynow.org/2024/12/19/hrw_gaza_genocide_water_deprivation\">\u201cExtermination &amp; Acts of Genocide\u201d: Human Rights Watch on Israel Deliberately Depriving Gaza of Water</a></p>\n\n<p><strong>AMY GOODMAN</strong>: So, can I ask you, Bill Van Esveld, is this the first time that Human Rights Watch is accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza?</p>\n\n<p><strong>BILL VAN ESVELD</strong>: This is the first time that we\u2019ve made a finding of genocidal acts in Gaza. It is not an accusation that we level lightly. We have not done this very often in our history. We accused the Myanmar military of genocidal acts against the Rohingya in 2017, and we found full-blown genocide against the Kurds in Saddam Hussein\u2019s Anfal campaign in Iraq in the \u201980s \u2014 sorry, in the \u201990s, and we found genocide against \u2014 also in Rwanda in the \u201980s. It is, you know, an extremely difficult crime to prove. It is, you know, mass killing deliberately to destroy people because they\u2019re part of the group, not something we level lightly, but, yes, we found it here.</p>",
        "text": "\u201cExtermination & Acts of Genocide\u201d: Human Rights Watch on Israel Deliberately Depriving Gaza of Water\n\nAMY GOODMAN: So, can I ask you, Bill Van Esveld, is this the first time that Human Rights Watch is accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza?\n\nBILL VAN ESVELD: This is the first time that we\u2019ve made a finding of genocidal acts in Gaza. It is not an accusation that we level lightly. We have not done this very often in our history. We accused the Myanmar military of genocidal acts against the Rohingya in 2017, and we found full-blown genocide against the Kurds in Saddam Hussein\u2019s Anfal campaign in Iraq in the \u201980s \u2014 sorry, in the \u201990s, and we found genocide against \u2014 also in Rwanda in the \u201980s. It is, you know, an extremely difficult crime to prove. It is, you know, mass killing deliberately to destroy people because they\u2019re part of the group, not something we level lightly, but, yes, we found it here."
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