You know how you might get news from the doctor, they call...
You know how you might get news from the doctor, they call at work, and you know your life is gonna be different, a lot of medicine, regular hospital visits, then you go to a meeting and everyone is talking animatedly about basketball? The heat wave story in the age of Elon Musk.
If you search “India heat” you learn about: human risk,...
If you search “India heat” you learn about: human risk, cooling methods, risk to livestock, failure of wheat crops, and how folks are doing—angry, coping, hot. It's different to see warming experienced on here, instead of in an article or data set. mobile.twitter.com/...
Maybe we skipped summer this year. Not happening. No...
Maybe we skipped summer this year. Not happening. No August. Eternal NYC fall. Bars quiet. Watching tugboats. Sitting on a bench in the park with friends. Never sweating, only sweaters.
Careful analysis of micro-stress fractures shows that it...
@kjhealy Careful analysis of micro-stress fractures shows that it spent the majority of its waking time crouched (seated?), shoulders down but eyes forward, and hands extended as well. Perhaps hunting prey? Or some sort of tool-making! The finger/wrists seem extended and overused.
Everyone you've ever loved. Everyone who has ever loved...
Everyone you've ever loved. Everyone who has ever loved you. Your grandmother. Your children. Your chosen family. Your crush. This is what they looked like inside. x.com/...
I also think a big part of it which is of course now...
@WilliamHogeland I also think a big part of it which is of course now impossible to communicate to 99% of society is "column-inches thinking" where every pica comes at a high cost. But...give us footnotes! Or a sourcing section!
Editors hate citing but as an extremely online writer one...
@WilliamHogeland Editors hate citing but as an extremely online writer one NEEDS to cite or one will be obliterated On Here. It's constant negotiation.
(There's also the one newspaper that is EGREGIOUS about sourcing other journos + scholars, and this fight usually comes back to its behavior.)
There was an account on here long ago, it was like...
There was an account on here long ago, it was like coolsitch or goodvibes, and it was like, The boat won't be fixed until Thursday but there's plenty of rum...cool sitch. What was it? Can't remember.
Most aspects of human experience are universal but Walter...
Most aspects of human experience are universal but Walter Ong textuality crosstalking with Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band in an increasingly post-codex reading environment is very...Venny.
One experience I can't imagine people not in my cohort...
One experience I can't imagine people not in my cohort having is when you're reading a book on paper and you turn the page and are suddenly aware it's not an ebook, at which point your brain goes, ...TURN THE PAGE... and you hear the sound of a lonesome saxophone.
In some ways that piece is a sequel to except I wrote that...
In some ways that piece is a sequel to contentsmagazine.com/... except I wrote that one 10 years ago with baby twins, feeling that the tech industry had its best years ahead of it.
Long long before that very challenging day, I was a little...
@arctictony Long long before that very challenging day, I was a little boy with a (Sinclair? Acorn?) home computer and a fondness for (British food product).
It doesn't work. I tried years ago and it's in so many news...
@_cynar It doesn't work. I tried years ago and it's in so many news stories and headlines and so forth that it just bleeds through. We're trapped and there is no escape.
it's phenomenal that the things I need to do (list and find...
@patbits it's phenomenal that the things I need to do (list and find files, move files) have been working fine for 30 years everywhere else and they just steadfastly refuse to let me have them
Everyone talking about train poop, do you think I did not...
Everyone talking about train poop, do you think I did not run up and down the train car 2-3x whooping and checking before I made the video? It was a W at Prince. Calm down and let someone live.
As an avoirdupoisian I find myself perceiving climate...
As an avoirdupoisian I find myself perceiving climate change sort of like when the doctor tells me I have to lose weight and I make a solemn vow only to find myself 36 hours later looking up cornbread [2 servings] in my calorie tracker.