Ange

I now think that Ange should stay at Spurs because the players are so solidly behind him. Canning him would gut the team and kill the very non-Spursy mentality that he’s cultivated. It’s an ethos that won them a trophy and can pay dividends for years to come.

Oh, Mickey, You’re So Fine

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COYS

I don’t usually win things, I always win things in my second year.

– Ange Postecoglou

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Not Too Much

Another thing I like about Micro.blog: by following a limited number of posters, I see all new posts in pretty short order. Which means I can put away my screen and get back to non-screen living in pretty short order. (If I do want more MB, I can always tap “Discover.”)

Very Cosmospolitan

Cosmos

“Chaste Tree?” Ha!

“Floozy Tree,” more like. I love her.

“Circus Dogs”

This painting hung in my mom and dad’s house for 60 years or more. Now it’s my sister’s. Artist unknown. I love it. 🐶

Tù Importas. Y el Desayuno es Importante, tambien

Joe’s Bakery, East Austin. Get the Migas con Todo.

Calling John McPhee

Not a Bug

Nicholas Carr:

Through their ever-flowing stream of messages, each offering a simulation of connection, social platforms promise to alleviate the sense of loneliness they provoke. Turning social interactions into symbolic transactions, they reconstruct society on a foundation of anomie. Bots fit seamlessly into such a society, upping the monetization potential substantially.

When Facebook’s News Feed introduced us to what Zuckerberg termed “frictionless sharing,” we learned, or should have learned, that friction is the essence of sharing. Freed of any investment of effort, time, or care, sharing loses all meaning. It becomes mere transmission. The frictionless friendship offered by chatbots, by removing the need to adapt one’s self to another self, to make room in one’s life for a different being, will be similarly empty.