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7 months ago

New York

NYC lately: September 2024

Here are some photos of New York City from the past few weeks. Most of the high-rises in Long Island City and Greenpoint were certainly not there at all when I lived in that area 15 years ago.

7 months ago

Casual mistakes from the world of AI

I analyzed some of my Google Photos and did a bit of QA on their AI logic - some of the mismatches are pretty funny, but it's quite accurate considering how many thousands of photos it processes in just a single user's account.

7 months ago

Fanfic

Dancing with Kamala in Kwebec

This might be the first example of humorous Kamala Harris fanfic - it's a spirited reimagining of her time in Quebec and her unlikely path to the presidency. And it featrures a bunch of great music.

7 months ago

Family

My homophobic grandma & Phil Donahue made me gay, gurl!

Ever since I announced that I wanted to be Tina Turner for Halloween (at age 7 no less), my once and future sexual orientation was always up for casual speculation among family, classmates, or strangers on the street.

8 months ago

Music

I live for a musical surprise.

I live for surprises. I am the only white boy I know that has multiple Yarbrough and Peoples singles, can sing all the traditional Spanish folk songs thanks to Joan Baez, and who listens to ABBA in its original native Klingon.

8 months ago

Politics

From preschool prognoses to conventional Democratic wisdom

As soon as I was old enough to know what a President did or what the Congress is, I have loved the whole ecosystem of American retail politics - it's my fantasy football league.