Made a couple careless errors this morning. I probably need to step away from the computer. Sorry for the Micro.blog flakiness. Accidentally deployed some code before a huge db migration finished.
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They lost by one point, but last night's Spurs vs. Warriors game was still so good. Both loses this week took Steph Curry having a 45+ point game. Wemby is everywhere. Great basketball. 🏀
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Interesting blog post from Tim Bray comparing a recent Bluesky suspension with the Mastodon moderation UI. Mastodon has done a lot of good, but one blind spot is moderator political bias. If someone is in a bubble because of their server, they may overlook hateful posts from people they agree with.
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Finished reading Kingsnorth Against the Machine. I both want and don’t want to say a lot about it, so I’m opting for less over more. With one notable exception (which I won’t get into here because, unlike him, I don’t think it’s central to his argument), I agree with most of it. In fact, most of the arguments are familiar to the localist, agrarian, human scale, neo-Luddite crowd. And his recommendations are also good.
But I don’t trust him. Some of this is my inability to forgive him for a stupid thing he said in one of those holy well essays. Aside from that, I wonder how many years it will be before he says something truly ugly.
I can’t help but compare him to Wendell Berry, who has been a major influence on us both (if I understand correctly). Berry is deeply humane and patient and rooted. Kingsnorth wants to be—and, while that desire is very commendable, I don’t think he’s there yet. He feels too “of the moment” and tapped into certain trends that don’t help my worry about where he’s going. For being a student of Berry, Kingsnorth talks less about localism than I expected. I think if he moved that direction more fully, I would be a bit less suspicious about his motivation.
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My wife writes about Beatrix in her final high school play
My wife writes about Beatrix in her final high school play
The show is absolutely magical. Everyone was great, but especially to see these seniors, who I know so well, build these incredibly complex characters from vignettes, was mind-blowing. Beatrix’s friend has an amazing scene near the end that totally had me in tears, and the waterworks continued as Beatrix gave the final monologue of the show and she was So Damn Good.
The final performance is tonight at 7pm. Tickets are free. Come see it.
