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they made it harder and harder to get both upgrades and lounge access thru the years, and as travel waned for the band, I actually began to prefer walking around the airport, seeing people about, just not worrying about the upgrade/lounge game anymore /fin

another time, saw Huey Lewis blitzed out of his mind in the SLC Delta lounge

a fun thing about the Northwest/Delta lounge in Memphis was that it had a self-serve open bar: absolutely insane. We got stuck there for 4 hours once and I had to be very careful, you could just go make your own vodka tonic at whatever proof you wanted, over and over

one time, I was upgraded leaving LGA to fly to ATL-OKC, and I sat behind Tom Selleck, but it was after a super late night on the 2004 lower east side and I slept the whole time

I remember thinking "I just feel lucky to travel at all on a plane" which was very rare growing up, to suddenly being gone most weekends for a whole year. But it's funny how quickly we made a game of who got upgrades and how much fun it was to, yknow, feel your legs after a flight

I flew my whole dang family to both Cairo and Paris on Miles, I went to Moscow on miles, our honeymoon to Paris: miles. Unthinkable nowadays where you have to pay wild amounts every year to even break silver status - I don't roll that deep, can barely afford to choose my seat anymore

I missed the discourse yesterday, but for a good while in the early-mid-2010s I was gold or platinum with Delta thanks to lots of band travel; and they used to be super generous with everything from upgrades to lounge access to miles usage

The Devil doesn't use our names for the stars, from 'Folkish' by Kym Deyn rather he greets them by the first names they ever knew. I don't recognise constellations. I just keep a memory of my father, his broad, dry hands putting names up there. A present for me. We've never met, the Devil and I, but if we were to speak and he asked me what I wanted I could look across the upturned earth in the fields outside my window. How it returns to a furrowed and empty October. I'd tell the Devil that I want a home I don't have to say goodbye to. The Devil would chew the end of a grass stalk like country boys do in American movies and he'd say, well, that's every home you'll ever have. And I'd say watch me. Watch me try.

The Devil doesn't use our names for the stars,
by Kym Deyn

"[...] And I'd say
watch me. Watch me try."

so it leaves some pressure to say "we have to let it mature" and unfortunately by that point perhaps the fossil fuels analogy holds: it will be too late to undo its harm.

one might say fossil fuels are an analogy here (or the industrial revolution era use of them at scale) - but they're still in use, and have been for a long enough time to see the (correct) antagonism as "moving to a better tech" - in AI's case, the tech is very new & gains are few

I do think humanism is essential in a new kind of relationship to technology that modern humans have yet to consider: antagonism & prohibition towards a very new, industrial-scale tech that requires a "no" on the grounds of humanism, as well as economics, environment, etc.

I don't track with this point though: "We cannot base our pitch for all this to students, administrators, and policymakers simply on high-level humanistic values like creativity, originality, and integrity. Inevitably, some will say these are simply romantic ideals of a past we are leaving behind."

The Best Conversation I've Heard on AI and Pedagogy Recommended: the work of Anastasia Berg

via Tim Troutner, some interesting thoughts on AI & pedagogy from Anastasia Berg: awildlogos.substack.com/p/the-best-c...

We get closer to my dream of an OKC-ATL finals (so I could go to a game)*

*if plasma payouts increase 800%

Hawks!

iPod with a headphone jack - in do not disturb mode by default and you have to manually turn on WiFi to manage music and then it’s back to brick

Run it up Braves

A clip from The New York Times reads: "But only the entities that officially paid the tariffs are eligible to recover that money. That means that the fuller universe of people affected by Mr. Trump’s policies — including millions of Americans who paid higher prices for the products they bought — are not able to apply for direct relief. The extent to which consumers realize any gain hinges on whether businesses share the proceeds, something that few have publicly committed to do. Some have started to band together in class-action lawsuits in the hopes of receiving a payout."

The average American family paid $1,700 in tariffs last year, according to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Few will ever see any of that money back. The refunds will go to companies, if doled out at all. What a joke.

Calling my reps in Congress to pass a bill requiring that U.S. war crime data be shown on the jumbotrons at Coachella on a permanent and ongoing basis

Not abstract—

- Robert Creeley, “Thinking of Walter Benjamin”

a man in a camouflage shirt is walking through a forest Alt: a man in a camouflage shirt is walking through a forest and attacked by a huge mosquito

man it is no joke they are well-unionized and extroverted here

If you're not familiar with this: Every year, a college football podcast hosted by some of my friends runs a fundraiser for New American Pathways, a refugee resettlement org in Atlanta. The last two years, they've raised more than $1 million. This year, they wanna do $2 million. Starting today.

Engrams, by Reader 8 track album

make it thru monday with Reader: readerseattle.bandcamp.com/album/engrams

Exciting news, everyone: I'm starting a new tech company named Orc That Says "I'm Gonna Gut You Like A Stuck Pig," LLC
or OTSIGGYLASP, LLC

we make AI that keeps your avocados from turning brown and also chia seeds that spy on you and the US gov just gave us 2 billion dollars in angel investment

The only 3 music genres in 2026 are psyop, vhs mail fraud, and surrealist teletubby mathrock.

finally getting to a playable place with RNBO on Move - it’s like having a handmade instrument you can change all of the time and even have others interact with in realtime via the RNBO web interface - still have a lot to build out but a basic weird looper & FX are mostly working:

This broadcast has just gone to 11 it’s amazing

Michael Harris II taking a nap after he slides into each base is extremely new dad skills - gotta sleep when you can

I must say the Spurs’ fiesta court looks absolutely incredible in person and I have no idea why they ever went away from these colors.