July 2017

All the “wellness” products Americans love to buy are sold on both Infowars and Goop

Interesting look at how the same snake oil is marketed to very different audiences.

Trump and Putin’s Rashomon Summit

[T]he establishment of a cybersecurity working group with the two countries is somewhere between a head-scratcher and a punchline.

The Logic of Trump’s Sexist Attacks

The more a woman conforms to traditional gender norms, the more likely she is to experience… See more →

“This is a D train, running on the A line. At Jay St MetroTech, it will become an F train.”

🙄

7 years in NYC. Every second feels temporary. Every day I add another memory to my inevitable, wistful “leaving NYC” essay. I ❤️ this city.

Looks like I own just 6 of @NPR’s 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women, and, um, 8 of @Jezebel’s 150 Worst Albums Made By Men. So there’s that.

How long is too long to wait for your food in most sit-down restaurants?

Interesting that this makeshift healthcare bill died despite the GOP’s best effort to browbeat the guy with brain cancer into voting for it.

“‘I’m not Steve Bannon, I’m not trying to suck my own cock,’ he said […] (Bannon declined to comment.)” newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizz…

The wheels are officially off the Senate GOP clown car.

“[A] rhetorical world where whoever cares, loses.” avclub.com/article/south-…

Cleaned my shower drain this morning and discovered the metaphorical basis for Stranger Things’ Upside Down.

Reminder: this is tonight. Be kind to yourself for once and come on out to @johnnybrendas. twitter.com/robweychert/st…

Tonight I’m finally seeing @IronMaiden for the first time. All it took was for them to play two blocks from my apartment.

A haiku tribute to @frank_chimero tweets:

pithy, delightful
I should show this to my friends
hey, where did it go twitter.com/frank_chimero/…

I need to remember more often that, at almost any given moment, @therealelp’s first solo record is exactly what I want to hear.

A belated RIP to George Romero, who taught me and countless others to embrace our fear. I’m not sure who I’d be now if I never had George.

Hey Philly, I’m performing at the @usairguitar semifinal at @johnnybrendas on Saturday. Come. You need this. johnnybrendas.com/event/1482208-…

So this is the NYC commute now. Wishing colleagues good luck as they attempt to go home.

“A nation now fundamentally unprepared to change, whether in terms of transport, climate change, or healthcare.” thetransportpolitic.com/2017/07/01/a-g…

New work: Putting names, faces, and stories to the US’s outsize problem of pregnancy-related deaths. Heartbreaking reporting @ByNinaMartin. twitter.com/ProPublica/sta…

Today is the eighth anniversary of the epic Free Slurpee Day blitz undertaken by @iamrumz, @jyllish, and myself. twitter.com/search?f=tweet…

Tonight I saw @justvanrossum reverse-engineer waveforms out of letterforms to render and manipulate those letterforms on an oscilloscope. 😶💥

Web builders: Know of a tool to generate a static site from a single CSV? A page for each row, a navigation taxonomy for each column header.

Audio and video have never worked for me as primary vehicles of journalism. Reading is the cornerstone. Let me absorb info at my own pace.

Confession: I ride hundreds of miles every year and I still don’t really understand how geared bicycles work.

“We’re using CSS to do CSS. No polyfills, or hacks. This is all as defined in the specifications.” rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2017/…

“There is much to emulate at Apple — but not that almost 1:1 ratio of office to parking.” nytimes.com/2017/07/08/opi…

The worst dreams are the ones that attempt to subsume and dishonor treasured memories of people who are gone.

brb going to the movies for the rest of the day

Looking forward to this. Taking @justvanrossum’s @drawbotapp workshop last month was the best decision I’ve made this year. twitter.com/CooperType/sta…

“[T]he establishment of a cybersecurity working group with the two countries is somewhere between a head-scratcher and a punchline.” twitter.com/TheAtlantic/st…

Interesting look at how the same snake oil is marketed to very different audiences. qz.com/1010684/all-th…

Reminder: this is tonight. Come on down to @KnitFactoryBK or risk a life of regret. twitter.com/robweychert/st…

Big sigh today.

Hey NYC, I’m judging the @usairguitar semifinal at @KnittingFactory on Friday. You probably don’t want to miss it. ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEv…