^B back a screen
^U back half screen
^Y up one line
^E down one line
^D forward half screen
^F forward a screen
ciw replace current word
diw delete current word
O open line above
o open line below
J join below w...xocoyotl
What does embedding a tweet look like?
when someone asks "how was work today?" pic.twitter.com/T1JyYweDTv
— Alexis Gay (@yayalexisgay) December 7, 2021
In the early 1980s, the Hillel Foundation invited me to speak on a panel at Oberlin College. While on campus, I came across a Haggadah that had been written by some Oberlin students to express feminist concerns. One ritual they devised was placing a crust …
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Communication is its own form of hacking. You find out what the recipient responds to, makes time for, and then is convinced to act on.
Sailors on leave, 2012
principles
- don’t operate on URLs without consent
- make it as simple as just typing the URL
- 😆
oembed
- good for tweets, anything quotable
- use the html they give you
- we assume good intentions from trusted providers
- they don…
test
I want to make the prepositions dance
What I hate about the time change is that for about a month I become that guy at the bar who says, “Well, actually, the fundamental problem is that we’re in the wrong time zone to begin with.”
breakfast looks
like
coffee smells:
better than it tastes
A collection of interesting words for naming domains.
The story we have been telling ourselves about our origins is wrong, and perpetuates the idea of inevitable social inequality. David Graeber and David Wengrow ask why the myth of ‘agricultural revolution’ remains so persistent, and argue that there is a whole lot more we can learn from our ancestors.
So he twirled in irregular circles, his arms twining and unfurling about his neck, vaguely as if he were trying to strangle himself. And the Faces at the bar, without even seeming to look, began to snigger.
sitting in rooms
waiting for things
Poor chap, he always loved larking
And now he’s dead
It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way,
They said.
It’s normal to try to put new information in a frame that you already know
Unless we know why someone made a decision, we can’t safely change it or conclude that they were wrong.
nothing happens
then
all at once
everything does
Bridge
Lowell
Concord
Amherst
Hanover
Manchester
Merrimack
(Street of Shadows)
old lady in chair
it’s aa pinballl parlor
also saloon
—Huye luna, luna, luna.
Si vinieran los gitanos,
harían con tu corazón
collares y anillos blancos.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
