Sports
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Leftunders
And it will probably be very bad A super El Niño is coming this year. Let’s get it in the OED I’ve been throwing away leftunders, a word I just made up and then found in the Urban Dictionary. Speaking of worse Axios says we’re scaling sin. They are correct, at least in the sense Continue reading
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Fromday
That number is way too low California AG Bob Bonta writes, “On Friday, we announced a historic $12.75 million settlement against General Motors for illegally retaining and selling hundreds of thousands of Californians’ location and driving data to data brokers.” It’s coming down There are three great teams left in the NBA playoffs. The Knicks Continue reading
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Graduation Day
Go refigure Trying to watch the Thunder-Lakers game, which ABC.com says is live now, with a button to watch. After logging in (using my credentials as a Dish Network customer), ABC gives me NBC News, not the game, which is on WRTV/6, which I can get on my TV over our outside antenna. But not Continue reading
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Tryday
MVP thoughts I nominate Tyrese Haliburton for MVP. He hasn't played at all this year, because he's out with a hamstring injury he suffered when the Pacers (our Indiana home team) were neck-and-neck with the OKC Thunder in the final championship game. This season, without Haliburton, the Pacers are among the league's worst. Why? No Continue reading
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Headnesday, the Longer
Haste makes Trash For reasons unknown, I had two posts called Headnesday (because I had to name it something), and I trashed the wrong one because I was in a hurry. Then I No app shows more, FAIK Windy is by far the best site and app for weather geeks. Right now we have a thunderstorm Continue reading
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Weekstart
Jeremiah Johnson is correct: We are ruled by underpants gnomes. Here’s the logic: Luke Kornet has a blog on Medium. And he’s strong with it. An on-point Marketoonist cartoon. Eve Maler has a book on identity coming out. It’ll be great. Eve is an IIW veteran who has earned many battle ribbons in the Identity Continue reading
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Sun Daisies
Some reading for today::: War is a dirty business, by Scott Bateman MBE, on X. HT to Tanya Weiman for her comment here. Catch the lunar eclipse on Tuesday. In case I don’t remind you. Or me. A thank you to Brian Linse for his kind words on Bluesky. Fact: one of the best parties I’ve ever Continue reading
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Some Day
This is new I watched the whole 2026 NBA All-Star games, and they didn’t suck. In fact, they were surprisingly enjoyable. Players cared. (Well, not Jokić and Luka, who seems to be losing his skinny off-season look.) There was real defense. The best team didn’t matter, but it did win. Now, let’s try that with Continue reading
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Blurs Day
If privacy is your issue, join us there. MyTerms is the only thing that will get us personal privacy in the digital world (seriously). We'll be working on ways to ubiquitze it at three consecutive events at the end of April: • VRM Day• IIW #42 • AIW #2 All at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Continue reading
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Sum Day
Super. Bowls a strike. Against ChatGPT. This is brilliant. Here's a bonus post from the reliably contrary Gary Marcus. Later… I didn't see this ad during the Super Bowl. But maybe it ran but I got sacked by the Seattle defense, which several times came right through my TV screen and threw me on the Continue reading
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Endweek
Make America Grate Again Yesterday's depressing news was Trump's latest attempted slaying of the Hudson Tunnel Project, which may be more expensive to shut own than to complete. But that's just my off-the-wall take. The real story is far more complicated. Today's depressing news is the end of the CIA World Factbook, one of the Continue reading
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Funday
I shall not see my shadow It’s too cold to go out today, so far, here in The Bahamas. So I am staying bundled and warm, getting work done. This was not my vacation plan, but it’s cool. For maximum freakage and fascination Moltbook is it. Zvi Mowshowitz runs it down. “Best start believing in Continue reading
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Numb Day
Clobbering tourism, sports, higher ed, and all tech conferences Privacy International says “The U.S. Government intends to force visitors to submit their digital history and DNA as the price of entry.” The proposed changes are here. Particulars from the piece: The changes include: All visitors must submit ‘their social media from the last 5 years’ Continue reading
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Discourse & Datcourse
The reverse centaur. That’s where Big AI is the human part, and you’re just the horse part. If you have a suspicion that the AI bubble will burst, or even if you don’t, it’s worthwhile to read Cory Doctorow’s AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage, in The Guardian. Some useful metaphors in Continue reading
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Who New?
Might be Winter Every day it snows a little here. Required reading. Seriously. Adrian Gropper: Taking Control of Your Healthcare is More Important Than Ever—Get help from a private AI that works for you – and only you. Announcing the North Atlantic Takeover Organization I avoid politics here, but it’s hard not to hear echoes Continue reading
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Keeping the Light On
2 B Bob Weir is gone. He and Jerry Garcia were (at least to me) the sonic and vocal backbone of the Grateful Dead. He was less than two months younger than me. Jerry was older, but dead at 53. Phil Lesh made it to 84, dying in October 2024. Bill Kreutzmann is still with us Continue reading
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Whoosiers!
The last thing David Hodskins emailed to me was “Don’t become a Hoosiers fan.” It was David who made me a Duke Blue Devils Basketball fan. David was an Iron Duke—an alumnus who contributed to the program and bought season tickets. He made me a fan by bringing me often to fill the other of his two Continue reading
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Saturday Quarterbacking
Team! Teams change. They have to. Players get injured, age out, or stop fitting. Other players come and go for various reasons. The big one lately is salary caps. Oddly, a “good salary” underpays a valuable player. And the draft brings in rookies every year. Some work out, some don’t. Some only work out when Continue reading
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Shitting Us Not
To the best editor I’ve ever had Paolo once told me that cats came to Earth to enslave the standing monkeys. While funny and in some ways true, cats can be more and other than that. They can be as loyal as dogs (and both species far more loyal than grown humans to each other), Continue reading