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"This is one of the extra fun perversions of the Protestant Ethic. For all that one might imagine that status is the deserving consequence of effort, it also works in reverse...One’s status – by race, class or gender – can also be the basis of ‘deserving’....Status means that one’s moral/intellectual/other superiority is just built-in."
crookedtimber.org/2025/06/23/the-symbol-of-earthly-good-and-the-immediate-object-of-toil/
Dropped BOTH at-home children (11 and 13) off at summer camp 2.5 hours away this afternoon. (It is the 13-yr-old's fourth year of camp but the 11-year-old's first.)
This is the first time in the history of our relationship that we have an empty-nest-like house (21-year-old was 6 at the start of our relationship) and there are some FEELS going on with both of us. Might be a long week! 😭
The Lost Merckx tells the story of how an important personal bicycle from the world's greatest ever cyclist, Eddy Merckx, ended up living in the attic of an old bicycle shop just outside Manchester
This is the most bizarre thing: wired.com/story/enhanced-games-freestyle-record-las-vegas-steroids/
in the middle of so many cringe descriptions of the shenanigans of terrified billionaires is the phrase, "a zip file called 'The Arsenal' which was full of memes bashing the International Olympic Committee, the details of which are actually too cringe to describe"
Word salad on a few weeks' worth of thinking about this stuff from a few different perspectives
daniel.industries/2025/06/20/overview-of-the-genai-landscape/
"In a world without meaning, everyone needs a dashboard"
youtube.com/clip/UgkxSjOEweWL3f0h8kwJ53l6ad-caS48MSw-?si=DwsplTiRS4aUmvme
I want to congratulate Google on announcing and demoing cool/scary AI functionality across their products that are impossible to access/use because their product/GTM function is terrible/nonexistent, their admin dashboard is completely unusable, and their documentation impossible and out of date
