I’ve been enjoying tereré in place of coffee for the last few days. Very nice summer drink. This is essentially how I make it, except that I’m using a coffee mug instead of a proper gourd.
Posts in: Links and ephemera
My greatest professional achievement is never having created a LinkedIn account.
From a year ago today: “The men who live in my memory”
We’ve reached that part of southern Indiana’s summer where literally every day’s forecast is humid with a chance of thunderstorms.
Women get a lot of crap about being basic in the fall, with the pumpkin spice lattes and sweaters and such. But, listen, I have a long beard and use beard oil and love brewpubs with craft beer and dabble in woodworking. It doesn’t get much more basic than that. 😂
I’ve revised my “Memory is an Otherworld” post and added audio narration. I may start doing this now and then. Nothing improves a piece of writing like a rural accent with authentically dropped g’s. 😂
“Age verification” means that everyone who does anything online will have to submit to fine-grained tracking and recording of all their online activities. This nightmare is the surveillance advertising industry’s fondest dream, a world where it’s literally illegal to avoid their tracking, all in the name of saving kids…from them!
“The work by which a man becomes trustworthy”
Greg Cello: Marriage has a way of exposing the parts of us that solitude allows us to hide, and fatherhood intensifies the exposure. The home becomes the place where a man discovers whether he is capable of giving himself without first calculating what will be returned to him; it becomes, at its best, the place where God steadily removes the illusion that a meaningful life can be built upon self-protection.
CNBC:
Chiefs of the world’s leading AI companies are descending on the G7 conference in France Wednesday, in a sign of their growing geopolitical influence as artificial intelligence rises to the top of the global agenda.
Gordon White’s comment about the tech bros presence at the last inauguration applies here as well: the new archons are making themselves known. May their rule be brief.
Fascinating visualization of the change in how 25-35 year olds use their time over the past century