Excited to encounter my first print copy of ColoradoBoulevard.net in the wild in Pasadena. Congratulations to Wafic and the entire enterprise for making this happen!

I’ve seen lots of publications go from print to online, but rarely seen one go from being online to in print!

👓 The price of relevance is fluency | Anil Dash

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“You can’t say anything anymore! You can’t even make jokes!” There’s a constant complaint from people in positions of power, mostly men, who keep making the ridiculous assertion that they’re not able to speak in public. What they actually mean is they no longer understand the
An awesome little essay. I highly recommend this for a useful lens into our current culture and particular with reference to fame, politics, and social media.

👓 We’re (still) not being alarmist enough about climate change | Anil Dash

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What if we had another 9/11, and nothing happened? Living in New York City, the one fantasy sport that everybody plays is real estate; we all like to imagine what it would be like to be able to afford to buy a place. And sometime over the last year

👓 Have the Hip Hop BBQ | Anil Dash

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I keep having to explain a principle I arrived at a few years ago when I realized the modern conservative movement is grounded almost entirely in a contrived sense of grievance, predicated on a false victimhood of its supporters. (That’s not to say some haven’t genuinely suffered some

👓 Apple is about to do something their programmers definitely don’t want. | Anil Dash

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Apple spent $5 billion on a beautiful new office, Apple Park. So it’s amazing they’re about to make an extremely costly, avoidable mistake: putting their coders in an open-plan layout. I work at Fog Creek Software, where our cofounder and former CEO Joel Spolsky has been blogging for

📺 O’Leary Car Ride: Showtunes 2018 | YouTube

Watched O'Leary Car Ride: Showtunes 2018 from YouTube

Singing some show tunes in a car during our daily outing's during the summer

List of songs
1. Phantom of the Opera
2. Mary Poppins
3. Sunset Boulevard
4. Phantom of the Opera
5. Dreamgirls
6. Les Miserables
7. Frozen
8. The Wiz
9. Phantom of the Opera
10. Miss Saigon
11. The Little Mermaid
12. Phantom of the Opera
13. Mary Poppins
14. Carousel
15. Evita
16. Phantom of the Opera
17. The Lion King
18. Hamilton
19. Cats
20. Phantom of the Opera
21. The Wizard of Oz
22. Carrie
23. Funny Girl
24. Rocky Horror
25. Phantom of the Opera
26. Frozen
27. Wicked
28. Mary Poppins
29. Phantom of the Opera
30. Frozen

👓 Cindy R. Lobel, Who Studied New York’s History Through Food, Dies at 48 | New York Times

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Professor Lobel was among the first historians to explore the economic and social elements of city life in the 19th century through the lens of eating.
I’m glad the NYT caught this and gave her an obituary. I suspect it’s in part because she’s more local to NYC in addition to her husband and his outlet’s influence as well as their recent push to cover the work of women better–a year ago, even more sadly, there likely would have been no mention of her passing.

I’ll have to bookmark her book to check out. With any luck, friends and colleagues will finish the book she’s currently working on.

👓 Tech suffers from lack of humanities, says Mozilla head | The Guardian

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Mitchell Baker says firms should hire philosophy and psychology graduates to tackle misinformation
Is it just me or am I seeing a major uptick in articles defending the humanities over the past several years? I find it interesting given the political climate (at least in the United States) where it seems the sciences are under attack–at least culturally. Perhaps both are under attack, but from very different perspectives and levels.

👓 Free Speech in the Age of Algorithmic Megaphones | Wired

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Researchers have long known that local actors—as well as Russia—use manipulative tactics to spread information online. With Facebook suspending a slew of domestic accounts, a difficult reckoning is upon us.
We need something in the digtial world that helps to put the brakes on gossip and falsehoods much the same way real life social networks tend to slow these things down. Online social networks that gamify and monopolize based on clicks using black box algorithms are destroying some of the fabric of our society.

Lies were able to go across the world before the truth had a chance to put on it’s breeches in the past, but it’s ability to do so now is even worse. We need to be able to figure out a way to flip the script.

📺 “The West Wing” A Good Day | Netflix

Watched "The West Wing" A Good Day from Netflix
Directed by Richard Schiff. With Stockard Channing, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney, Joshua Malina. The Speaker of the House deliberately calls a vote on stem cell research when he knows that Democrats will be away from Washington; Donna, Cliff, Matt, and Josh must put aside their differences to foil the plan. Kate is shocked when a minor hunting mishap on the Canadian border threatens to become a major international incident. A Japanese economist who has been President Bartlet's arch-rival ...

📺 “The West Wing” La Palabra | Netflix

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Directed by Jason Ensler. With Stockard Channing, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney, Joshua Malina. Hoynes and Russell are campaigning in New York, confident of their prospects in the California primary. Santos needs to do unexpectedly well in California in order to stay financially afloat; another third place finish will see his donors shift their money elsewhere, finishing his campaign. Santos's message of education and health care is overshadowed when California passes a law prohibiting ...

📺 “The West Wing” In God We Trust | Netflix

Watched "The West Wing" In God We Trust from Netflix
Directed by Christopher Misiano. With Alan Alda, Stockard Channing, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney. Senator Arnold Vinick easily wins the Republican nomination on the night of the New Jersey primary, but has difficulty picking a running mate. Choosing Reverend Don Butler would virtually guarantee him the presidency, but their differing views on abortion and religion would make it a political union rather than one based on shared ideology. The Democratic nomination is a toss-up between Santos ...