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@agilelisa I’m reading Ron Chernow’s biography of George Washington.

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Anthony Bourdain in 2005: Direct from cassette. “Two hours turned into a highly personal conversation, recorded on a cassette that sat untouched for twenty years. This week, that tape gets its first public airing, and we discuss Tony’s preferred sucker-punch etiquette, his loyalty to cigarettes and the...

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“You can’t predict fire. But you can trade on it.\" California senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff want financial regulators to restrict people from using prediction markets to bet on how wildfires will spread, citing concerns that bettors could resort to arson to secure outcomes.

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The Rest is History looks at the Irish Troubles. There are strong parallels to Israel and the Palestinians. The violence in Northern Ireland eventually ended, which is a cause for cautious hope in Israel/Palestine.

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I admired Anthony Bourdain. I consumed his interviews and read as many articles by him as I could find. I found “Kitchen Confidential” among the most inspiring books I’ve read.

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When he killed himself, I came to think of his public persona as a lie, and stopped watching, listening to or reading him.

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But now...

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Why Some People Thrive on Four Hours of Sleep: mitchwagner.com

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I don't hate X/Twitter, but I don't see anything pulling me to it either: mitchwagner.com

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@ffmike @manton When I heard about the camera AirPods this morning, my mind instantly flashed to this: Every morning, I take the dog out for a walk around the neighborhood, and stop and chat with other dog-walkers I encounter. I’m wearing AirPods the whole time. If my neighbors think I’m recording them for god-knows-what reason, that’s going to be awkward.

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Watched: Lanterns S1E1, Pilot 📺 I’ll stay with it, see where it goes. “Brand New Key” is stuck in my head.

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Heather Cox Richardson: A brief history of the Yukon Gold Rush, with parallels to the present day: mitchwagner.com

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@manton I’m glad to see it return.

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A Philosopher’s One-Word Theory to Explain Why the World Feels So Weird: mitchwagner.com

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G.P.S. has also led us to outsource existential skills: locating yourself in space, parsing out your surroundings, staying calm when you don’t know where you are. Do we lose something when we no longer get lost?

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— Shayla Love at The New Yorker

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I use GPS to get to places within ten miles of my house that I have been to dozens of times.

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Is Ocasio-Cortez Ready for the Glass Cliff? mitchwagner.com

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@herself I’m sorry to hear you had a tough year — but welcome back!

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I’m frustrated by the way the fediverse seems to be floundering because I prefer it to Bluesky as technology. And yet Bluesky is more and more where the interesting people are. Which is not to say there are no interesting people on Masto — but they are fewer.

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I like Reddit for reading, finding memes and historical photos and illustrations, and occasionally leaving comments. I rarely post anymore. Redditors suffer deeply from Stockholm syndrome.

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Posting on Reddit is too hard. Moderators are playing a massive homeowner association roleplaying game.

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@manton Valid.

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@manton No mention of Mastodon or the Fediverse in your X -> Bluesky progression. How do those platforms fit in your vision?

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🦍 Mitchellaneous 8.16.2026: mitchwagner.com

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The Moral Unseriousness of Centrist & Conservative Pundits: mitchwagner.com

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Ursula K. Le Guin: A rant about 'technology': mitchwagner.com

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Corporate Power Approaches Escape Velocity. Hamilton Nolan: A failed Tesla strike in Sweden is a flashing warning light.

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An example of this phenomenon, showing it’s not limited to young people: I recently re-read “Fer de Lance,” the first Nero Wolfe detective novel, published in 1934. Two of the characters are wealthy heirs, young men, who have become infatuated with flying. One has a private airfield, owns his own plane and employs a full-time mechanic, the other is studying flying with the first young man and plans to found an airline.

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The first time I read the novel, when I was in my 20s, I did not make the connection that the Wright Brothers had first flown 30 years earlier. This was new technology then. These two...

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🦍 Mitchellaneous 8.14.2026

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Zoomers don’t know what Usenet is.

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Allegra Rosenberg has a good explanation, and she continues with a meditation on misconceptions that Generation Z have about life in the 90s and 2000s.

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This misunderstanding is not unique to GenZ; I think it’s a phenomenon of being in one’s 20s. I remember reading Dickens...

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An 18-year-old San Diego man pledd guilty to kicking a sea lion on a viral video. Sea lions are generally unthreatening but they are wild animals and will attack if stressed or threatened. They can get up to 200-800 pounds and have sharp teeth. I watched the video of that kid; he was cruelly picking on an...

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@manton Good job on this. Removes confusion.

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“The Social Ritual That Made Me a Better Man: Long live guys' night.\" “… the couple of evenings a month that I shared with Steve and the others became for me a safe and premeditated truancy from domestic commitments. The ceremony amounted to a pressure valve. Once released, it sent us home tired and...

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Sailors in the USS Lincoln and their families are suffering low morale and mental illness due to long deployment. Multiple sailors have tried to go overboard.

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Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand how to live. “An AI future of sleek, streamlined, and totally empty relationships.” Elizabeth Lopatto shreds Zuck’s AI manifesto. “Look, I am coming to believe we need a better quality of AI booster…. Is the point of life merely to stockpile accomplishments? If that is what...

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Why you can’t find a primary care doctor. Prevention isn’t a priority in US healthcare. The profit is in damage control. Why should healthcare providers invest in primary care physicians to help you lose weight, eat healthy and get fit when there is so much money to be made in prescription meds and heart...

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@KimberlyHirsh I did listen to the podcast and it was excellent. Nuanced discussion and gave me more to think about.

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@KimberlyHirsh I haven’t read the article but the headline jibes with something I’ve been thinking about lately. In online discourse, I see people quick to diagnose themselves, or others, as ADHD or “on the spectrum.” Maybe those people don’t have conditions at all — maybe they just have personalities.

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One example: A woman invited a male business associate to dinner as repayment for a professional favor he had done. As the dinner began, the man said, “I’m on the spectrum, so I need to ask — is this a date or a business dinner?” I thought to myself: Saying he’s “on the spectrum” to me implies he has low emotional intelligence. But his behavior seems quite the opposite to me. He perceived a potentially awkward situation and took a simple, easy and direct action to remove the awkwardness. That is very emotionally intelligent indeed!

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@ffmike Thanks!

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@ffmike What adblocker(s) do you like?

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@JohnPhilpin Mama mia!

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@elithebearded Yes, those ice cube trays were painful to operate

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@manton I’m hoping to ride in a Waymo this week on a trip to San Jose/San Francisco.

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@JohnPhilpin I am humbled by your reply.

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@manton I have wondered about that. I activated link previews. We’ll see how it looks on my next long post.

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@manton I’m fine with your cross-posting to X, even though I personally don’t see myself taking advantage of it.

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I’m up to my neck in Facebook. I’d love if my connections there would move to more open platforms. I don’t see that happening. But I’m loath to get myself enmeshed in yet another silo, which is what X is.

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For the same reason, I don’t cross-post from Micro.blog to Threads, even though I enjoy reading Threads and occasionally reply to a post there. I don’t want to get sucked into a place where it’s hard to get out of.

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Like @ffmike said: I think you do a great job as a steward of Micro.blog.

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@manton I also think FAM could have benefitted from shorter breaks between seasons. The first few episodes of this season referenced events of the previous season that I have since forgotten, and the show seemed to assume I was already familiar with them.

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We may try Star City; I’ve heard only good things about it, including that it resembles “The Americans,” which we loved.

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Lately we’re watching and rewatching a lot of old TV. Stargate SG-1, Justified and the occasional Inspector Morse are the top three in our rotation.

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@manton I bailed out of FAMS5. It seemed to have become oddly claustrophobic, focused on the Mars colony of only a few thousand people. Also, I didn’t care about the characters anymore. I didn’t even know who they were, it had been so long between seasons.

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@lukemperez Both the slavery, which is terrible, and the greatness exist side-by-side.

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@lukemperez But he still held slaves.

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I’ve been struggling with this as I’m reading the biography. His attitudes and actions on slavery were similar to Jefferson, who outright denounced slavery and tried to include a denunciation in the Declaration. And yet they both owned slaves. And yes, Washington freed his slaves on his death. And he treated them relatively well. But he still owned them up until then.

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I don’t think there’s an explanation for this. It’s just how people are.

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And yet Washington was also a great man, perhaps the greatest man of his century. Perhaps the greatest American President who ever was, and he has stiff competition for that title.

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@lukemperez Washington was indeed a remarkable character. Unique. He’s one of the few people in history who lives up to the propaganda about him. And yet, also, he owned slaves.

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@manton Some books just work better in print than as audiobooks. I suppose the opposite may be true too.

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@lukemperez It got bad reviews but I’ll consider watching it. I’m currently reading Ron Chernow’s Washington bio.

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@manton I don’t see any difference in a post as cross-posted to my Mastodon account, or in the ActivityPub view of the same post on Micro.blog. Nonetheless: Good work and I’m looking forward to seeing what you do with it.

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