Just realized the only correct response to being messaged “ping” is “pong”.
Corey Doctorow on web scraping and corporate power.
Facial recognition companies say, "You can't use copyright to ban scraping without creating a lot of collateral damage." They're right too – but what they don't say is, "On the other hand, a privacy law would put us out of business and leave all the good scraping intact."
Bad actors don’t tell you their weakness. Thankfully, weakness exist. Exploiting them helps everyone else.
Every once in a while, the phrase “too much light makes the baby go blind” pops into my head. It was the subtitle to an old New York Neofuturists show, but I blame big light.
How many decades should you keep socks? Asking for a friend. Who will tell me. Because I’m the one who keeps their socks through six presidencies. 🧦 ♾️
An accurate accounting of Elon Musk. Looking forward to his final self defeat overbuy so we can talk about the next rent seeking creep.
I converted my self hosted blog to Micro.blog hosting. The URL structure here is different than my old blog, but the service was supposed to automatically create redirects.
For whatever reason, it didn't.
I can manually add them, but only one at a time. 1,208 to go. At 1 min per, that's ~20 hours 😩
You know what? Chicken butt.
Finished reading: The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy by Kliph Nesteroff 📚I ate this up. Compelling on a subcutaneous level.
Went on the Chicago architecture tour yesterday and had a blast. I now know that a key aspect of post modern architecture is that the building recognizes its context. For example, a lot of the buildings along the Chicago River have wavy details that evoke the water.
Colored pencil doodle looking off the page.
