N.N. Scott
@nnscott.com
Archives and Records. Chicagoland.
"Unfortunately, a chimera bombinating in a vacuum is, nowadays, only too capable of producing secondary causes." -- Rudyard Kipling, 1905
"Unfortunately, a chimera bombinating in a vacuum is, nowadays, only too capable of producing secondary causes." -- Rudyard Kipling, 1905
"We crossed the river as usual, and suddenly the seasons had changed."
-- Enokido Yoji
-- Enokido Yoji
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
"We crossed the river as usual, and suddenly the seasons had changed."
-- Enokido Yoji
-- Enokido Yoji
"i know all artists like criticism so heres mine"
-- YouTube comment (January, 2009)
-- YouTube comment (January, 2009)
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 AM
"i know all artists like criticism so heres mine"
-- YouTube comment (January, 2009)
-- YouTube comment (January, 2009)
USA Bluesky has become corrosive this evening. I'm getting out of here for a while.
"The drawbridge is drawn and it's going to stay drawn
Till the milkman delivers the milk about dawn.
I'm going to bed now, so nobody better
Come round with a special delivery letter."
-- Dr. Seuss
"The drawbridge is drawn and it's going to stay drawn
Till the milkman delivers the milk about dawn.
I'm going to bed now, so nobody better
Come round with a special delivery letter."
-- Dr. Seuss
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 AM
USA Bluesky has become corrosive this evening. I'm getting out of here for a while.
"The drawbridge is drawn and it's going to stay drawn
Till the milkman delivers the milk about dawn.
I'm going to bed now, so nobody better
Come round with a special delivery letter."
-- Dr. Seuss
"The drawbridge is drawn and it's going to stay drawn
Till the milkman delivers the milk about dawn.
I'm going to bed now, so nobody better
Come round with a special delivery letter."
-- Dr. Seuss
I never used it *directly*, just never felt I needed to and it didn't occur to me. But they gave me full-featured Copilot at work and I used that a few times to generate VBA macros and regex for data clean-up. It did well initially, then got worse & so annoying that now I just thug that out myself.
Hands up if you've never used Chat GPT ✋
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
Probably a good way to tell right now if the job you’re applying for is run by absolute dumbfucks is to ask if they’re using AI.
November 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I never used it *directly*, just never felt I needed to and it didn't occur to me. But they gave me full-featured Copilot at work and I used that a few times to generate VBA macros and regex for data clean-up. It did well initially, then got worse & so annoying that now I just thug that out myself.
Browsing my mutuals with painful imposter syndrome thinking: Dear Lord, these people follow me, they see everything, why have they not blocked me yet
November 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Browsing my mutuals with painful imposter syndrome thinking: Dear Lord, these people follow me, they see everything, why have they not blocked me yet
People just don't know how to properly prepare the armadillo and raccoon they could encounter for free on the highways of America
i am going to mute every person who makes some tired quip about how it’s good thanksgiving will be more expensive because then people will stop eating turkey and may just never unmute them again, this thanksgiving discourse is always insufferable
November 7, 2025 at 1:42 AM
People just don't know how to properly prepare the armadillo and raccoon they could encounter for free on the highways of America
At this point I'm convinced that their already-written Trump obituary contains the words "you've got to hand it to him"
November 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
At this point I'm convinced that their already-written Trump obituary contains the words "you've got to hand it to him"
The big question for me - which I see little discussion about - is how their knowledge of his mental / physical health affects their behavior. Because a lot of powerful people are surely apprised of that. Are they more comfortable kneeling & kissing his ring because they expect he'll be gone soon?
I'm looking forward to the smug 'everyone knew' articles about Trump's mental health
November 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
The big question for me - which I see little discussion about - is how their knowledge of his mental / physical health affects their behavior. Because a lot of powerful people are surely apprised of that. Are they more comfortable kneeling & kissing his ring because they expect he'll be gone soon?
New Yorkers really don't like to have to tell you "No" twice
The turnout so far for the New York City mayoral election is the highest since 1993. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
November 5, 2025 at 12:29 AM
New Yorkers really don't like to have to tell you "No" twice
It has always seemed to me that having the whole (*) country set clocks forward and back was an idea out of early 20C industrial-age railroad-timetable thinking. The sort of thing that, according to somebody in a green eyeshade, if imposed uniformly results in a "significant increase of efficiency."
My biannual reminder that the time on the clock is a human construct. The sun doesn’t actually rise and set an hour earlier tomorrow. We should stick to standard time year-round and adjust our seasonal schedules accordingly instead of vice-versa.
Daylight saving time continues to be controversial, and the latest major research — a Stanford study that revisited the perennial debate in September — reported the biannual shift creates a biological burden on the body’s circadian rhythm that can lead to poorer health.
November 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
It has always seemed to me that having the whole (*) country set clocks forward and back was an idea out of early 20C industrial-age railroad-timetable thinking. The sort of thing that, according to somebody in a green eyeshade, if imposed uniformly results in a "significant increase of efficiency."
I scrolled the replies looking for photos of the food served, but didn't see any. Sticking with my conviction that whatever it was, Gatsby would have served better, and had better booze.
Per Danny Kemp via press pool
Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL
“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL
“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
November 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I scrolled the replies looking for photos of the food served, but didn't see any. Sticking with my conviction that whatever it was, Gatsby would have served better, and had better booze.
The AWS outage seems to have just killed Copilot at my workplace. Free! I'm Free!
October 31, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The AWS outage seems to have just killed Copilot at my workplace. Free! I'm Free!
Did you ever check your feed on here and realize you have no idea what's going on?
October 29, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Did you ever check your feed on here and realize you have no idea what's going on?
At some point it stopped being about the Mayoral Campaign, and started being about trying to secure a position of some kind in the Trump Admin after he loses.
So here's Andrew Cuomo reacting to Maria Bartiromo wondering if Mamdani will "change the look of New York" and have Muslim women "completely covered up," telling her that Mamdani "doesn't understand New York culture" because he has "dual citizenship" and "he's a citizen of Uganda."
October 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
At some point it stopped being about the Mayoral Campaign, and started being about trying to secure a position of some kind in the Trump Admin after he loses.
Mark Cuban has 1.4 million followers and anything he posts that I need to see will be pushed into my feed, so there is absolutely no need to follow him. Taking care of that now
Billionaires will exist as long as stock markets exist. Should we get rid of the stock market ?
I’ve followed your appearances on tv & podcasts. I have a question. Do you think billionaires should exist? And, thank you for creating COSTPLUSDRUGS.com. It really helped me when I lost my prescription coverage.
October 24, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Mark Cuban has 1.4 million followers and anything he posts that I need to see will be pushed into my feed, so there is absolutely no need to follow him. Taking care of that now
Strange. I needed to renew my US passport, expecting that because of -- you know -- it would take even longer than the recommended 6 weeks. Did the application online, requested no special expedited service. The new one arrived in a week. Maybe they've automated the process?
October 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Strange. I needed to renew my US passport, expecting that because of -- you know -- it would take even longer than the recommended 6 weeks. Did the application online, requested no special expedited service. The new one arrived in a week. Maybe they've automated the process?
"Nobody's Perfect" and "We Live in an Imperfect World" sound a lot alike, but the difference between them can be large and not understanding that seems to be a good tell for misplacing our trust and support.
October 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"Nobody's Perfect" and "We Live in an Imperfect World" sound a lot alike, but the difference between them can be large and not understanding that seems to be a good tell for misplacing our trust and support.
The "you can just do things" presidency
October 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The "you can just do things" presidency
There are good journalists at the New York Times. This sort of nonsense is entirely caused by editorial policy driven by a publisher who (1) is a wealthy financier and (2) fears Trump will take revenge by trashing his other business interests, if they print something bad about him in the newspaper.
Millions march against the fascism the #BrokenTimes is blind to. It now refuses to count their numbers and it muffles their voices in small, BTW headlines. This is not journalism.
October 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
There are good journalists at the New York Times. This sort of nonsense is entirely caused by editorial policy driven by a publisher who (1) is a wealthy financier and (2) fears Trump will take revenge by trashing his other business interests, if they print something bad about him in the newspaper.
I didn’t watch the Trump turd shitting video, not even the 25th time it was reposted into my feed by one of y’all
October 19, 2025 at 4:56 AM
I didn’t watch the Trump turd shitting video, not even the 25th time it was reposted into my feed by one of y’all
I went to the #nokings rally in my upscale white suburban Chicagoland town w a long history of racial exclusion (context). There were so many people the town square had no place left to stand, they were spilling across the roads. Families, grandmas, babies. It's 3 times the size of the one in June.
October 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I went to the #nokings rally in my upscale white suburban Chicagoland town w a long history of racial exclusion (context). There were so many people the town square had no place left to stand, they were spilling across the roads. Families, grandmas, babies. It's 3 times the size of the one in June.
Fortunately there is an alternative well-configured for exactly this: The Everything App. You would be welcome there to share your views that certain people are getting out of line, asserting themselves too much, pushing into spaces where they aren't wanted, or ought to go back where they came from.
I suspect you don't mean this, because this site already has an immense range of voices, all you have to do is follow them. I think you mean to say this site would be better if some voices you like had the power to drive mass engagement, to post misogynist or racist vibes & get thousands of replies.
This site would actually be better if it had more voices from across the political spectrum, and efforts to push out right wing accounts are only entrenching Twitter/X's dominant position in the political discourse.
October 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Fortunately there is an alternative well-configured for exactly this: The Everything App. You would be welcome there to share your views that certain people are getting out of line, asserting themselves too much, pushing into spaces where they aren't wanted, or ought to go back where they came from.
I suspect you don't mean this, because this site already has an immense range of voices, all you have to do is follow them. I think you mean to say this site would be better if some voices you like had the power to drive mass engagement, to post misogynist or racist vibes & get thousands of replies.
This site would actually be better if it had more voices from across the political spectrum, and efforts to push out right wing accounts are only entrenching Twitter/X's dominant position in the political discourse.
October 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I suspect you don't mean this, because this site already has an immense range of voices, all you have to do is follow them. I think you mean to say this site would be better if some voices you like had the power to drive mass engagement, to post misogynist or racist vibes & get thousands of replies.
I'm only going to block them as they intrude on and annoy me, and otherwise ignore them. Nuclear block is not some kind of strut. Unless I do it when I'm right in the middle of a fight with them, they never even know.
October 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I'm only going to block them as they intrude on and annoy me, and otherwise ignore them. Nuclear block is not some kind of strut. Unless I do it when I'm right in the middle of a fight with them, they never even know.
Is it worth giving money to Wikipedia? I've heard for years that WP is run by Simpsons-video-store-guy obsessive jerks who memorize & over-interpret its myriad draconian rules to prevent others from correcting errors, etc. but alternately it's now a last bastion of non-slop content online. 🤔
October 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Is it worth giving money to Wikipedia? I've heard for years that WP is run by Simpsons-video-store-guy obsessive jerks who memorize & over-interpret its myriad draconian rules to prevent others from correcting errors, etc. but alternately it's now a last bastion of non-slop content online. 🤔