Philip Borenstein

Happy Moon Landing Day to all who observe

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_11_Landing_-_first_steps_on_the_moon.ogv

@lzg@mastodon.social Well actually --- more like Monday Thursday :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maundy_Thursday

A lack of testosterone isn't the problem. What you lack is panache. And without panache, there is no duende.

It's April 1970 and I'm watching the Apollo 13 splash down on the black-and-white TV in my elementary school cafeteria.

Its April 2026 and I'm watching a crystal clear LIVE video feed on a handheld device of a spacecraft descending through the atmosphere, its chutes deploying before my eyes.

when I'm speaking, it's not unusual for me to stop midsentence and realize I've lost my place

I imagined that that didn't happen when I'm thinking, but it does

the difference is in the quality of the silence afterwards

when I'm speaking, and I lose the thread, the silence is a pit that appears suddenly on the path

when I'm thinking, and I lost the thread, the silence is a panic that I've literally let go of a rope

indica, if you're keeping score at home

if you yourself didn't raise from hatchlings the geese you use to fashion your quills, can you really call yourself a writer?

@schwa@mastodon.social It feels like anyone who knew how to do UI retired, and the new team said, let's rewrite the whole thing and shoot for maximum backwards compatibility "as speced" so we can clear that 25 year UI backlog at the same time.

I'm not a dev manager, but I've been managed, and this is what it feels like

Today's episode: Cricket's Revenge

I hate this show, but it's on every channel

I've spent the last week reading that Walter Benjamin paper with my trusty 🦙to make sense of the structure, the style, and oh my god the argot. I was rhyming 1935 with 2026, the convulsing world, the threat of a culture-shattering technology.

Predicting the future of a new medium is impossible

I got a pair of Allbirds in 2016 because shoes made of wool were disruptive.

I still own that pair. They're my indoor shoes. I really like them. It's the only pair of Allbirds I ever bought.

You were expecting repeat sales, and I let you down. I'm so sorry.

Good luck on your AI venture.

I like the way Bay Area folk announce when it's raining.

When I think about the impact of new technologies on art: Without photography, there is no Rothko

Bourne looser = spy spawner

Where there's a will, there's someone who's died

Even the people who use LLMs to write are getting fed up and going back to the old ways.