What a delight to discover that Robert Glasper made a Christmas album.
🏈 It’s halftime and Florida State is losing to a UF Gators team with a worse record this year.
I somehow stumbled into the “space combat” genre of videos with my youtube recommendation algorithm. It’s an interesting stream. These folks take celestial navigation, and its speculative connection to naval interdiction seriously. An example.
When a Christian homeschooling family has to confront mass deportations in their community:
“But also I feel like Christians should be the first people to fight for this,” Ben interjected, as Sam nodded. “What have we been taught our entire life? Feeding the hungry, clothing the naked. This is basic, basic stuff. Christians have always been people who are supposed to be there for the marginalized, the people that are being hurt by systems, the people that don’t have a voice…
…The volunteer work has weighed heavily on the Luhmann family, Audrey said. She worries about the relationship between her teenage sons and law enforcement, especially after repeatedly bearing witness to dramatic arrests of immigrants and protesters.
There have been times where my sons have been in tears,” she said. “I’m having to process in real time with my teenage kids the fact that they are watching absolute lawlessness and brutality and violence and cruelty and no one’s coming to stop it.”
Introducing the (almost) 5-year-old to a classic: The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka 📚
Yo! You can watch pretty much the entire Reading Rainbow archive through the Internet Archive.
My family has maintained a relationship to Chicago’s Brown Line.
For the years that we lived in central Illinois my parents would periodically take my sister and I to the city for a day or weekend excursion. Ostensibly we were there to visit my grandmother in Bridgeport (a Red Line stop) or my cousins in the suburbs, but we would also find an excuse to take the bikes down to the lakefront for a ride from the Adler Planetarium to the Lincoln Park zoo, or a jaunt up and down lake shore drive. We’d also ride the El. We’d take the Brown Line to Sedgwick and eat at the Old Jerusalem Restaurant.
When I lived in Wheaton I’d keep up the pattern and find excuses to take the Brown Line to Old Town or Lincoln Park. My future spouse lived not far from the Diversey stop for a time.
The CTA maintains a playlist of ‘Ride the Rails’ videos. The production values have improved incrementally over time. I find it comforting to pull one up and ride along for a couple stops. The familiar “doors closing” cadence and the click-clack of the tracks acts a bit like a breathe prayer. The Brown Line remains my favorite.
I see the need has arisen once again dear read, to remind you that there is no link between autism and and vaccines:
Since 1998, independent researchers across seven countries have conducted more than 40 high-quality studies involving over 5.6 million people. The conclusion is clear and unambiguous: There’s no link between vaccines and autism. Anyone repeating this harmful myth is misinformed or intentionally trying to mislead parents.
🏳️⚧️No one should be subjected to violence because of their Trans identity:
Twenty-seven total cases of fatal violence against transgender and gender non-confirming people were recorded in the last year (from after Transgender Day of Remembrance 2024 through November 20, 2025). Since 2013, HRCF has recorded the deaths of 399 transgender and gender nonconforming victims of fatal violence – we say “at least,” as many deaths often go unreported or misreported, or misgendering of victims leads to delays in their identification. What is clear, however, is that the 399 people stolen since 2013 were overwhelmingly people of color, with Black trans women disproportionately impacted by fatal violence against the community, and guns were involved in the majority of cases.
Moving across a large campus can architecturally feel like digging through rock strata. Clearly in the mid century layer here.
Want to read: There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm 📚
What a privilege it is I get to work and study here.
Clare Coffey’s newsletter is a delightful read.
How wonderful, to be sent to bed and sent back, just for one necessary hour, into childhood, hearing the voices downstairs and clinking coffee mugs weaving into the half-dreams of your half-sleep.
Inspired by a post from Alan Jacobs Jason Heppler built a version of ChatGPT that only responds with excerpts from the Book of Common Prayer.
Buried in a lot of the election coverage I skimmed this morning is the news that Larry Krasner was reelected to a third term as Philly district attorney.
Larry was the subject of a fascinatingly textured docuseries on his first run for DA. It’s an engrossing watch worth the time. 📺
The artistic director of this film would go on to lead artistic direction for the first Ghost in the Shell film. I wouldn’t call it’s aesthetic vision cyberpunk though. I’d propose something else, like cassettepunk, or maybe CosmodromePunk. I think a lot of the videos this YT channel makes could fall into that aesthetic.
Shout out to the person I saw dressed as Ramiel from Neon Genesis Evangelion while trick-or-treating. Respect for finding paint with a reflective sheen.
Is EVE from WALL E a Disney princess?
You don’t have to be a computer programmer to take back some agency in controlling your data. @Mtt provides a useful list of some basic steps you can take to regain some control over who harvests data about you.
Following up on a previous post. Here’s the progression of fall through the viewpoint of the maple in my front yard from September 29 to October 29. 📷
Just an addendum to my previous post about Bruce Hornsby: while I get the sense that Bruce S probably occupies a larger cultural space as the bard of the working class - just the casual way Hornsby swings between love ballads and biting social commentary is rarely replicated.
Parents leave all sorts of small indelible marks on their children that last a lifetime, and from my mom I’ve held onto an affection for Bruce Hornsby & The Range.
Hey, as someone who parents a 4-year-old, and with Halloween upon us once again: if you invented fun dip you have a lot to answer for.
I have used Spotify for 🎵 and am considering toggling back to Apple Music. It’s got me thinking about app UX. I’m not sure why, but Music (iTunes) just feels more tactile in my brain when I scroll through it. I’m not sure if this relates to design choices or the fact that I used it for decades after getting a scroll wheel iPod in high school.
