Jesus Christ

Census.gov

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After a day spent fighting with R about fonts, preventing the rise of authoritarianism in the US seems like a reasonable and achievable goal.

This Thiel Op-Ed is really nuts. I mean, truly. His focus of attention is like a pinball careening around in a machine where every bumper and paddle is a noisy, flashing conspiracy topic. I get more measured and carefully-reasoned emails on these topics every other week from mentally-ill cranks.

Client Challenge

On Instagram, this “Black queer momma of 2 & truth-teller” who is “Your realest source for life’s ups and downs”—it’s a bot created and managed by Meta—posts amongst other things about making imaginary charitable donations, complete with picture of imaginary boxes of coats. Oh, Jean Baudrillard, how the rock-kickers sneered at you back in the day.

Casting Muppet Ulysses. Kermit as Bloom, Piggy as Molly, Gonzo as Stephen. Fozzie as Buck Mulligan. Link Hogthrob as Blazes Boylan. Wanda as Gerty MacDowell. Statler and Waldorf (both) as The Citizen. Sam as AE. Janice and Denise as Mina and Lydia. Rizzo and Pepe as Compton and Carr.

The Dead of Winter

The Dead of Winter

I got an email this morning with some photos of the crowd waiting for the Winter solstice sunrise at Newgrange. I think Newgrange is one of the won...

Really quite partial to these covers designed in the 1960s and early 1970s by Erwin Poell for n+m, Naturwissenschaft und Medizin, the in-house magazine of German pharma company Boehringer Sohn.

New Zealand scraps all research funding for the social sciences and humanities. https://www.science.org/content/article/amid-cuts-basic-research-new-zealand-scraps-all-support-social-sciences