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Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
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warner brothers trickster figures explained
November 8, 2025 at 3:23 AM
warner brothers trickster figures explained
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great day for the legal theory of "not guilty if it's funny enough"
November 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
great day for the legal theory of "not guilty if it's funny enough"
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Wonder why this scene looks so familiar...
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕
November 5, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Wonder why this scene looks so familiar...
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕
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A reminder that you don't need to understand everything you see
October 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
A reminder that you don't need to understand everything you see
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The Clown Paradox: the more negative the online review of a clown is, the funnier the clown sounds
February 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The Clown Paradox: the more negative the online review of a clown is, the funnier the clown sounds
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Ursula K. LeGuin on technology
January 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Ursula K. LeGuin on technology
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HTML: the Most Significant Computing Language Ever Developed. “HTML is somehow simultaneously paper and the printing press for the electronic age. It’s both how we write and what we read. It’s the most democratic computer language and the most global.” [kottke.org]
HTML: the Most Significant Computing Language Ever Developed
Tim Carmody has a great appreciation of HTML in Wired magazine: HTML Is Actually a Programming Language. Fight Me.
HTML is somehow simultaneously paper and the printing press for the electronic age. It’s both how we wri
kottke.org
January 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
HTML: the Most Significant Computing Language Ever Developed. “HTML is somehow simultaneously paper and the printing press for the electronic age. It’s both how we write and what we read. It’s the most democratic computer language and the most global.” [kottke.org]
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Yes it's a plagiarism machine meant to put us all out of work and enrich the worst people alive and yes one request expends more energy than it takes to power Buffalo for a week, but more than that anything to do with AI is just corny dork-made shit. It fucking sucks and so do you if you use it.
December 25, 2024 at 10:42 PM
Yes it's a plagiarism machine meant to put us all out of work and enrich the worst people alive and yes one request expends more energy than it takes to power Buffalo for a week, but more than that anything to do with AI is just corny dork-made shit. It fucking sucks and so do you if you use it.
the new ringer redesign is very obviously something that looked great on figma but is absolutely terrible in practice
December 24, 2024 at 10:36 PM
the new ringer redesign is very obviously something that looked great on figma but is absolutely terrible in practice
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I am choosing to contribute to the Yadier Molina/Russell Martin discourse: "If you were the inventor of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook."
December 18, 2024 at 9:50 PM
I am choosing to contribute to the Yadier Molina/Russell Martin discourse: "If you were the inventor of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook."
don't over think, use arial
December 19, 2024 at 10:11 PM
don't over think, use arial
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Once again, the reason AI is facing a backlash isn’t because people are anti-tech, it’s because this is what AI *actually does* in the world — make services worse and people’s livelihoods more precarious
This piece made me furious. Nurses are asked to *bid* on shifts, offering to work lower and lower wages, and then the app can fail and not pay them at all. We don't have a nursing shortage, we have a shortage of good jobs sane humans are willing to work. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
Uber for Nursing: How an AI-Powered Gig Model Is Threatening Health Care - Roosevelt Institute
Through original interviews with 29 “gig” nurses and nursing assistants, Katie J. Wells and Funda Ustek Spilda find that on-demand nursing companies encourage nurses to work for less pay, fail to prov...
rooseveltinstitute.org
December 18, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Once again, the reason AI is facing a backlash isn’t because people are anti-tech, it’s because this is what AI *actually does* in the world — make services worse and people’s livelihoods more precarious
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the sports reference series of websites are some of the last good ones on the internet. they’ve never once changed their design to ruin it, have never hid critical functions behind a paywall, the stathead stuff they do put behind a paywall is incredible/worth charging for. i hope we never lose them
December 17, 2024 at 9:25 PM
the sports reference series of websites are some of the last good ones on the internet. they’ve never once changed their design to ruin it, have never hid critical functions behind a paywall, the stathead stuff they do put behind a paywall is incredible/worth charging for. i hope we never lose them
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Put solar and batteries on all the Post Offices. Have it serve as a community resilience hub during and after extreme events. Have it broadcast free neighborhood wifi. Every month release a new stamp with a cool animal on it.
The Post Office is a lifeline and essential service for rural and Tribal communities, and small businesses everywhere. It should be strengthened, invested in, modernized, and expanded to provide banking, resilience, and community services.
December 17, 2024 at 4:44 AM
Put solar and batteries on all the Post Offices. Have it serve as a community resilience hub during and after extreme events. Have it broadcast free neighborhood wifi. Every month release a new stamp with a cool animal on it.
the privatization and professionalization of youth baseball is a driving cause of the sport holding prominence in American culture
The bit in the MLB arms report about the velo jump at youth showcases correlates with something I heard Mike Shildt say once. His argument was that private youth coaches drive it in part because pitching lessons are expensive. When the numbers go up, mom and dad feel ROI, so instructors push it.
December 17, 2024 at 9:43 PM
the privatization and professionalization of youth baseball is a driving cause of the sport holding prominence in American culture
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I love Mad Magazine
December 7, 2024 at 5:08 PM
I love Mad Magazine
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Working on the final newsletter and script of the year
December 6, 2024 at 9:52 PM
Working on the final newsletter and script of the year
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bring back the webmaster
December 4, 2024 at 9:11 PM
bring back the webmaster
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Getting kids hooked on Luddism
November 30, 2024 at 4:16 AM
Getting kids hooked on Luddism
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In case any of my fellow creatives also needed this reminder:
November 16, 2024 at 1:12 AM
In case any of my fellow creatives also needed this reminder: