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Finished reading: Heavier Than Heaven by Charles R. Cross đ
I came away respecting Cobain’s artistry more than ever, and understanding the true raw power of Nirvana at their peak in a way I had never appreciated before.
Cross retells the Cobain story in a fresh way, using his unprecedented access to nearly everyone in Cobain’s life and his own experience as a contemporaneous member of the Seattle music scene, to recontextualize the bits we’ve all heard with new sources, new angles, and new insights.
Highly, highly recommended.
Gotta love an establishment that hangs a reproduction of Guernica above the toilet.
I am also dependably engaged from 10am to 4pm, but more likely to have verbal miscues and become fatigued outside of that time range or while traveling abroad, so I really don’t see how this is an issue.
Squarespaceâs Events feature has to win the award for âMost Unhinged UI Element, Time Picker.â Behold:
All Under Heavenâs debut album is out today, and itâs a banger. Strongly, strongly recommended if you like Hum, my bloody valentine, Slowdive, Lush, etc.
The overall effect size for police force size on crime is negative, small, and not statistically significant.
Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the data | Reuters
At this point, the sensible, evidence-backed, research-based policy position is that the most efficient way to âfight crimeâ is to improve the material conditions of people by housing the homeless and guaranteeing a universal basic income.
Any position that suggests more investment in law enforcement is either unaware of the prevailing facts, or willfully ignoring them.
MLB is âessentially in the business of content creation for the gambling industry now."
Breaking down the Shohei Ohtani-Ippei Mizuhara story by Craig Calcaterra
This captures the dynamic of all major sports in 2024. Theyâve all mostly existed to create content for the television industry for decades, but this pivot that subjugates coverage of the actual sport to âhow does this affect the spreadâ has been particularly painful.
Git is the closest thing we have to software from the future. I wrote Minimalist Git because Iâve seen too many developers get lost in its advanced features and I wanted to show there is a simpler way to be productive and keep your codebase safe.
Minimalist git by Ben Garvey
A great reminder that while git is extremely powerful, you can do most of what you need with a handful of commands.
Bookmarked Why Wall Street Wonât Stop Trump by .
“Woke capitalâ is a myth, a shallow analysis that mistakes advertising and brand management for ideology. What do corporations really want? The answer is the same as itâs always been: tax cuts for the wealthy, deregulation, and a labor market more favorable to employers than to workers.
Bookmarked Jobs for Delaware Legislators by .
Delaware tolerates a General Assembly with an ethics crisis which rivals our national Supreme Court⊠Speaker of the House Valerie Longhurstâs PAL has benefited from a 1300% increase in public appropriations under her tenure.
Bookmarked Fluxblog 455: good night to the Pitchfork era by .
Media corporations are not our friends. They don’t care about writers, they don’t care about audiences, and they don’t care about subject matter. Working for them is like surfing â you can ride a wave for a while but it will eventually crash. Major media corporations like CondĂ© Nast and the New York Times are attractive to writers because they seem like firm institutions that are less likely to collapse, but that’s just an illusion.
Bookmarked Delaware lawmakers are headed back to Dover. Here’s what they’re focusing on in 2024 by .
Senate Republicans argue that Delawareâs bail reform bill passed in 2018 has âresulted in high recidivismâ â a criticism that Republicans across the country have used in recent years as states moved away from cash bail.
However, the data doesn’t back up that claim. In fact, the “return to prison” rate has declined 60% since 2019, according to data from the state Department of Justice.
Do you see how easy this is? You don’t simply have to parrot things that are inaccurate, just because an elected official says them. Thank you, Amanda.
This is what disability advocates have said all along, not that it usually sinks in: The able and the disabled arenât two different kinds of people but the same people at different times.
Unraveling My Medical Mystery by Tom Scocca
Happy Delaware Day!
Iâm celebrating by looking at the Delaware state flag and asking âis this the banner we want to represent our stateâs values?â
Read it in The Delaware Call.
The Mountain Goats last night at The Queen in Wilmington.
Great energy, great show, great setlist, including the first time Iâve ever seen an act come out for another encore after the house lights went up.
Delaware earns a C- on Common Cause’s Community Redistricting Report Card
Perhaps the perfect encapsulation of Delaware Way politics: Delaware Democrats, who held the Governorship and both houses of the General Assembly, ran an “inadequately transparent” process in which “incumbent protection appeared to trump protecting communities of interest or consideration of public testimony” and still managed to gift Republicans a district (the new RD 4, which moved from Wilmington to Sussex County).
How can we take pride in and venerate the supposedly good things Americans in history did but ignore and dismiss the bad things? How can we pick and choose our moral inheritance at will? How does the need for us to downplay slavery, colonization, and Jim Crow continue to be such a strong political force? And whose interests does this down-playing serve in 2023?