Same handle in Bluesky and Threads. I draw things. Hélène Grimaud and Saul Steinberg fan account. Recovering after 15 years as a Googler SWE.
Joined April 2007
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this too is theory -- but
4 Jan 2023
to add theory to your practice is to fall from grace
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"It's a little embarrassing that after forty-five years of research and study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to one another."
—Aldous Huxley
Yehan Wang art
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when driving around i often think about the paintings of charles sheeler (1883 - 1965). many of the things we presently see as visual noise, he found beautiful and dedicated his life to capturing:
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RT @mcmansionhell: I love how people increasingly write about this stuff as though it were some great Happening whose mysterious effects we…
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Feb 21
A city of natural-born chevaliers. Every man a true knight.
Feb 20
A Chicago man jumped into Lake Michigan to save a baby after a stroller blew into the water: "I guess I’m going in." blockclubchi.co/46jQHD5
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I gave up and took away my mom's telephone a couple years ago, after she was nearly victimized by a medicare scam. She now has a cell phone that only allows a short list of people to call her. All others are blocked.
Feb 10
Phone scammers who promised my mother she'd won a Mercedes, home health aides who padded their hours, people forging my mother’s signature, and a relative who had her sign over her car. It's been a trip - and still is. Read and share; hope it helps
realclearinvestigations.com/…
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Feb 10
In my opinion, more than 75% of every urban planning, architecture, and landscape architecture program today should focus on “SPRAWL REPAIR”.
The work is endless.
And virtually nobody is teaching it.
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Jan 4
"This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it — that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."
~ Hunter S. Thompson
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I know this has been posted a thousand times but I want you to really zoom in and look at the top photo. The ornate facades, the crowds on the sidewalks, the pleasant mid-rise density. If this street were still around today people would find Kansas City downright picturesque
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26 Dec 2025
don't need to imagine, sinatra had something to say about liberal multicultural societies
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26 Dec 2025
Just heard Duke Ellington use a magnificent phrase in a 1974 BBC interview with Stanley Dance. Asked whether he regrets never having received a grant to sit at a university somewhere and compose in peace, he says he has no interest in such a stretch of “ornamental stagnation.”
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24 Dec 2025
As you are breaking down Amazon boxes in your garage, think about the dignity and humanity of walking to a brick-and-mortar store, chatting with friends and neighbors you meet on the way, patronizing a local business and interacting with a well-compensated employee, and the wonderful convenience of gift wrapping service
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27 Nov 2025
Hahaha! I did this around the same age (long before Google, so I just kind of asked around) with Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. I ... did not finish. 😅
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When I decided to "get into philosophy" at 16 I googled the "best philosophy book" and ordered Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
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6 Nov 2025
A @WSJ oped today on this advance vs cancer wsj.com/opinion/operation-wa…
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"Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair"
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30 Sep 2025
Charles Rennie Mackintosh painted the village of Palalda in the Pyrénées in 1924. The work is a combination of views from several separate points; not entirely happy with the picture, he later cut out pieces of paper to change aspects of the composition.
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The busiest sections of I-5 in Los Angeles and I-75 in Atlanta, the two busiest highways in the country, move fewer people than the 4/5/6 subway lines do alone.
30 Sep 2025
The Lex Avenue Line has equivalent higher daily ridership to 2/3rds of the entire population of Paris
The best subway line in the world baby
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21 Sep 2025
The profound insights that this will generate will be complex and multifaceted.
19 Sep 2025
The University of Oxford will become the first university in the UK to provide free ChatGPT Edu access to all staff and students, starting this academic year. >>> I support this decision. I don’t get the weeping and gnashing of teeth. adapt to the world. ox.ac.uk/news/2025-09-19-oxf…
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15 Sep 2025
American Gestapo
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ICE detain 4 car wash employees—all legal residents of U.S.
"It's not legal to take him because he's a resident," manager told agent.
"We're going to take him and check—if he's good we'll bring him back," agent said.
Handcuffed and taken away in white vans to unknown location.
"In other words, you're guilty of 'looking' illegal until you prove yourself innocent."
The raid occurred at Bixby Knolls Car Wash in Long Beach, California. #DemsUnited
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12 Sep 2025
Black people are undefeated.
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