Chris Lott @fncll@social.coop

Cancel culture doesn’t exist. It’s a lazy, reductivist phrase employed by those who want their ideas to be accepted ipso facto. Don’t blame “culture” because your ideas, and/or the way you choose to express them, are losing, as someone put it, in the marketplace of ideas.

📚 Read: Chocky by John Wyndham. An idea, and a book, that shows its age a bit, but finding new (to me) writing by Wyndham is always a pleasure. Also, did you know Wyndham’s full name was: John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris?

Yes and yes.

I wrote about my father, a classic car collector, and my mother. How many people did I write about? — I wrote about my father, a classic car collector and my mother. How many people did I write about?

It’s gratifying to see so many people experiencing more of Hamilton and understanding why some of us couldn’t stop talking about it. Don’t @ me haters (or those trying to drum up controversy for clicks). Rise up!

Worse than an average libertarian is a dumb one. Worse than that is the young and dumb specimen. You win the booby prize, @libertycliff → Rand Paul’s exchange with Fauci was exactly what America needed https://fncll.org/go/rand-v-fauci

Just a few more bad apples, right? → Colorado police officers fired for recreating chokehold in photos at Elijah McClain memorial https://abcnews.go.com/US/colorado-police-recreated-chokehold-photos-elijah-mcclain-memorial/story?id=71600727

I’m seriously impressed with @buttondownemail – both the tool, which feels eerily suited to how I work, but even more with the developer and how he approaches his business with transparency, support for open source projects, &c. BIG props!

Also reading the first Perry Mason novel, The Case of the Velvet Claws. Figure I better start now if I want to get all 85 in before watching the TV series! 📚

Reading The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists – scathing. A Joycean exploration of working class England in the early 1900s. 📚

@clintlalonde I hadn't thought about Canva, which students have used quite a bit in my classes. Thanks!

Are there any tools (web-based or on OS X) similar to Adobe Spark that aren't Adobe Spark?

I wish I’d learned long ago that it’s ok to “just” enjoy things as a member of the audience, a reader, a listener, to “just” be an amateur, to “just” be a fan. It’s possible to not be, or have no prospect of being, the best at something and still pursue and love it with passion.

This introduction to cryptic crosswords is excellent. I finally understand them and am intrigued. I really need another wordy obsession in my life. → https://www.newyorker.com/crossword/puzzles-dept/reintroducing-the-new-yorkers-cryptic-crossword

Interesting results in longer term (one month) coffee storage taste testing. Not what I expected! TL;D(wanna)R: freezing was best but opaque sealed glass jars were 2nd (and presumably better for daily storage and access). http://ktxc.to/coffee-storage

Watching the first episode of Greatest American Hero and the current scene is backed by “contemplative funk music.” My life is complete.

Commas are constantly confounding.

I have a strong password scheme already but I just realized strings of chess moves would make a reasonably good foundation. e4e5-Nf3Nc6-Bc5 anyone?

There are many things I miss and don’t miss from my previous job but one thing I’m actively happy, every day, not to have in my life at all anymore: Slack.