Category: Core

It’s Friday.

Start at 5am. Read The Radical Crusade of Mike Pence – Rolling Stone and Bashar al-Assad’s War Crimes, Exposed – The New Yorker

Four shots espresso at 630. 9 Pokemon caught.

Add all new releases to Apple Music Library (new Menzingers!). Listen to a few seconds from the first track of each and begin the first round of deleting unwanted albums, especially Blues, R&B, Christian, etc. Begin second round with 334 songs remaining.

Hold Pokemon Go Plus button in palm, pressing the button every time it buzzes. Do this all day, unobserved.

Three podcasts down by 730, at double speed. Delete a bunch that came in overnight – I only need to listen to one or two on SCOTUS, not seven.

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830am – round two song cull complete – 175 songs remain.

episode one, Santa Clarita Diet (watched on iPad in shower)

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Code

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Start work

Photos made before lunch: 1,185

Photos made after lunch: 569

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Code

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End of day. 142 Pokemon caught.

It’s… this time this year is similar to this time last year. Looking forward to Jan 1, planning for Jan 1, thinking of how next year will be improved on.

Like, I’m going to write more.

Funny, though, writing more is not ne.. or should say posting more is not a great idea. Quantity is not the thing I want to bump up.

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Suicide Squad –

Why are all the superheroes in the movies spending so much time punching. If you’re truly an evil genius or god or mutant, you’re going to have such a great plan that your success/failure won’t come down to punching. These films were always tragically flawed, but at this point it’s unwatchable. I know, it has always been unwatchable. You’re right.

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I lost my Narrative Clip 2 camera a couple weeks back. So unless it turns up under the seat of my car, that project has come to an end. Much to the relief of Kyle Goon and others who were disturbed to find out that a device clipped to my shirt had been taking their photograph every ten seconds.

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Diane Rehm has broadcast her final radio show. It’s a serious loss to the world. There was no moderator of her calibre, who could keep things calm and reasoned and allow all voices to be heard with respect. This election and its special rancor was probably her biggest challenge, but I will definitely miss hearing her voice – I will subscribe to her new podcast, and hang on as long as she does.

Some of her final advice:

Rather than arguing your point, listen to the others’ perspective.

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My assignment last night was the Utah Democrats Election Night Party.

Not the happiest place.

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The coverage of the campaign has been atrocious – always falling back to the horse race rather than issues.

And how does the New York Times run the odds of Hilary winning (always over 85%) up until late last night when out of nowhere it reads Trump with 93% chance of victory?

How does the media, get it so wrong? So out of touch.

At our pre-election night photo dinner, a colleague couldn’t understand why anyone would vote for Trump, and why anyone didn’t like Hillary, that there was nothing to dislike.

But I’ve known people who have hated Hillary for twenty years. That’s beside the point. I was surprised that he gave no validity to anyone on the conservative side, that anyone opposed was simply a racist or misogynist.

They voted against Hillary because they don’t agree with a progressive agenda. I’ve kind of swerved here in my writing.

Back to the media – and more importantly the fake media, the partisan media – those outlets. The media world is so splintered into tiny outlets with little credibility.

But you know what? Readers don’t demand credibility any more. They just want to see what they agree with, or what outrages them.

It’s true in my own life – for a while this year I was looking at the Daily Mail everyday. I knew that the stories were all exaggerations and falsehoods and the most ridiculous stories. It didn’t matter, because that’s what I was looking for…

It was more fun to read the cartoon version of the news than the real news (which I read as well).

And I’ve stopped, so don’t judge.

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I’ve been saying this year that everyone always says Never Forget, and It Can Never Happen Again, and how we’ve learned so much from the Holocaust.

But really, in the future it will happen again, with much more precision and devastation. Humans have gotten better at everything – the next rise of fascism (whether or not it is Trump) will be exponentially worse.