Nice! Also, I love the conversational style of your subheadings; made me chuckle. 😃

At work I’m setting up some documents for micro-credentials, which I call “MC” for short. I entered “MC Debugging” as the title of one without much thought, then realized that would probably be my DJ name.

Ok, now I’m humming it with meows for the intro guitar hits: Meow! Meow Meow Meow! 🤣

Yeah, we both went to Bethesda for HS and remain good friends! I vaguely remember on Twitter learning that you went to RH and knew him. I think I initially found you as a random Indiana Twitter person though. :)

Another great essay by Julia in Gauntlet News:

Emphasis from original.

“We are currently in a ‘lull’, but ‘lull’ is a relative term, and ‘low’ in 2024 isn’t the same as ‘low’ in 2020-2021. In 2021, shortly after vaccination, our summer low hit 12k cases a day. This year it’s never gone below 160k new cases a day- over 12 times higher than the low of three years ago.

Let’s bear in mind that in November 2021, nearly a year after the debut of the vaccines, when Dr. Fauci was asked when things could fully ‘go back to normal’ and mitigations like masks could be dropped, he projected that when new daily COVID cases were under 10k, we could expect to fully resume normal life. During the surge this winter, we had over one million new cases a day. Not only have we never for one day had under 10k new cases since Fauci made this prediction, we have never had under 100k new cases on any day since then.”

— Gauntlet News, COVID lulls aren't being earned by policy; they're being bought with infections and deaths

nope Nope NOPE 😬

I’m going through some old posts, cleaning up and adding archive.org links. Man, some of this right-libertarian stuff is embarrassing now. I’m (mostly) glad I have it as an archive, though. Things change and hopefully we keep learning.

Re-upping this. I originally made it in 2013, but seems like it’s always relevant.

Some great words from Imani Barbarin on disability:

How many people wear glasses? I see some hands. So you got some accessibility in your life. Don’t think that because your disability is accommodated, that you no longer have one.

We need to do more to come to terms with the way that disability plays a role in our life and recognize we’ve been taking the lead from disabled people the entire time. And it’s okay. It’s okay to understand your own vulnerability and the ways that the system has been weaponized against you. It’s okay to say that you need rest and restoration.

Whatever you do, I encourage you: please look at the disability angle. Even if you think it doesn’t impact you. I always say — when I’m being mean and sarcastic [laugh] — that the only thing separating me from you is luck and time.

— Imani Barbarin from her talk “Who Belongs?” at the Othering & Belonging Conference

I recommend watching her whole talk.

🎵 Ooh, the Odesza live album is out! The Last Goodbye Tour Live

Just saw Five Iron Frenzy is playing in my backyard in August, and with Craig’s Brother! Didn’t know CB was still around. Looking forward to it.

Thanks so much, Tracy! These are all great points. I bought a CO2 sensor late last year though haven’t had many chances to use it yet. I should this week though, since I have jury duty, wee! I also resonate with the “complainypants” feeling, probably why I was nervous to post it, but yeah, I think it’s in line with the community goals of being more inclusive.

Happy May the 4th: https://swanh.net

A great quote from Joe:

“Go hard at whimsy. Be goofy. It’s the way to survive.”

— Joe Crawford, Notas del viernes

To the tune of Computer Love

Want to read: A Fish Has No Word For Water: A punk homeless San Francisco memoir by Violet Blue (ISBN 9780986226694)

🎵 It’s a Blade Runner: 2049 soundtrack afternoon

I was reminded of this gem: Featureman’s “How to Eat a Watermelon the Correct Way”