mjb

Just this guy’s dad, you know? (@mjb on the former bird site, Former: indymedia, lefty radio, Nader, web dev, ngo IS director. Currently: SAHD/household majordomo.)

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2024-09-10 17:43:54

EVP https://dcdispat.ch/2024/09/10/evp.html

2024-09-08 12:00:40

It’s also Fuck Bell Textron Day, at least for me.
https://dcdispat.ch/2023/09/08/semper-fuck-you.html

2024-08-30 13:38:57

What good comes out of increasing the chasm of the void of help for the innocent? https://dcdispat.ch/2024/08/30/what-good-comes.html

2024-08-28 13:14:31

I slowly became good at a sort of GTD style of managing my email inbox. Not quite Inbox Zero, but a healthy total count can be managed on a hand or two. Not as good with browser tabs. Painfully declaring tab bankruptcy today. All those novel links, essays, news articles… ‘til we meet again.

2024-08-22 13:28:41

Assateague National Seashore
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2024-08-16 18:17:36

The Heritage Foundation’s Kevin Roberts can suck it. The vertical playground at Swampoodle is one of The Childe’s favorite places to play.
It is near several places we make regular errand runs to and, in addition to climbing fun, it provides him a vantage point to observe the train traffic coming in and o... dcdispat.ch https://dcdispat.ch/2024/08/16/the-heritage-foundations.html

2024-07-30 12:37:37

This’ll do.
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/9494/2024/daeea98fd9.jpg

2024-07-24 16:16:35

A lot of security in my neighborhood (or the adjacent one, anyway), including out of town police known for instigating violence with demonstrators, to protect a war criminal running out on a warrant for his arrest.

2024-07-24 14:34:33

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That we are. Just got shunted the long way around on my childcare run because of a massive security perimeter to protect, not arrest, a genocider with an ICC warrant. NYPD are in DC to support the US Capitol Police in managing the perimeter. Gave all the anti-occupation/apartheid/genocide demonstrators I saw out honks and raised fists of solidarity.

2024-07-21 21:24:15

Everyone else's ego running my world https://dcdispat.ch/2024/07/21/everyone-elses-ego.html

2024-07-21 21:16:23

Here we go… hold on tight!

2024-07-07 22:19:59

Caught up with the most recent episode of Maron’s podcast & enjoyed the bit in his usual rambling opening where he called out Trump on not citing his sources, being a coward for not giving credit to Hitler.
https://overcast.fm/+7lcxgAnuo

2024-06-14 13:23:53

Design to survive the sacrifice https://dcdispat.ch/2024/06/14/design-to-survive.html

2024-06-09 20:24:56

Gratified for @ben@werd.social’s essays on smart, low-cruft, standards-based web development of late. As a (former?) web developer I was both discouraged by the mountain of frameworks+related things that seemed to be the default starting point for projects I saw, and certain that while there are new things for me to learn, what I was seeing dominate was not the best. Ran into a former colleague who is a real pro still doing agency-based web development and he seemed to agree.

2024-05-29 13:45:25

Rock and roll and news radio https://dcdispat.ch/2024/05/29/rock-and-roll.html

2024-05-17 15:08:22

I haven’t been to a punk show in a while, let alone one at 9:30 in the morning. It was of course, all ages—and my Childe’s school Spring Pre-K/Kindergarten concert.

2024-05-08 23:31:32

The clock ran out on "if" a long time ago. https://dcdispat.ch/2024/05/08/the-clock-ran.html

2024-04-14 00:00:04

The worst cynicism https://dcdispat.ch/2024/04/13/the-worst-cynicism.html

2024-03-21 16:38:42

I do want more aggressive antitrust action from the Department of Justice, including in the industry’s Apple is in, and possibly against Apple itself with well-crafted, technical and market literate arguments, if applicable… but calling Apple a monopoly still seems like a stretch. This DoJ action seems lik... dcdispat.ch https://dcdispat.ch/2024/03/21/i-do-want.html

2024-03-13 13:40:48

Three anecdotes of The Childe, from yesterday https://dcdispat.ch/2024/03/13/three-anecdotes-of.html

2024-02-26 17:01:35

[Before we put these questions to a sperm whale unit, we’d have to think hard about whether we’d act on the answers. Kristin Andrews told me a heartbreaking story about a chimpanzee named Bruno who was taught sign language at the University of Oklahoma. Bruno was encouraged to build his whole life around the practice of asking humans for things. But after a few years, the scientists’ grant ran out and he was transferred to a different facility. When one of the lab’s scientists visited him there, he was distressed to see that Bruno seemed upset. He kept signing Key and Out. The scientist had taught th... dcdispat.ch https://dcdispat.ch/2024/02/26/before-we-put.html

2024-02-26 15:33:52

Dragging myself forward. https://dcdispat.ch/2024/02/26/dragging-myself-forward.html

2024-02-18 21:31:46

I pay for Apple News+ partly because the ad experience is better than the open web. If it weren’t for that, I’d prefer Apple just be a payments middleman negotiating micropayments on the open web. It could be a better walled garden—give me Books features like highlights and notes!

2024-01-13 00:34:25

Remembering, and onward https://dcdispat.ch/2024/01/12/remembering-and-onward.html

2024-01-03 02:12:14

State of the World 2024: Ritual and Solidarity https://dcdispat.ch/2024/01/02/state-of-the.html

2023-12-13 19:50:31

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2023-12-08 15:38:59

Fairy Tale of Gaza https://dcdispat.ch/2023/12/08/fairy-tale-of.html

2023-11-30 01:26:32

Christmas is the only time my wife lets me pipe jazz over the household Sonos without objection. I make a playlist and sneak in some things that aren’t on swinging Xmas streams—sometimes tracks that aren’t at all seasonal.
Or I let SomaFM do it for me—they love to play.

2023-11-28 01:01:32

Adjourned to the porch.
I said “it’s gonna freeze tonight, going to take the hose off, back in a minute.” The hint to the contrary was the whiskey in hand.
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/9494/2023/fb3a3b46d6.jpg

2023-11-15 23:44:37

Shame on The Guardian. They took the coward’s way. They could have done the work of linking or adding the context they suddenly feared was missing. Meanwhile, these words, whatever each of us make of them, will only proliferate more—Barbra in full effect.
https://www.theguardian.com/info/2023/nov/15/removed-document

2023-11-14 16:58:26

So validating.
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/11/06/mastering-dom-manipulation-with-vanilla-javascript/

2023-11-02 01:11:59

My son meets his mortality in a storybook https://dcdispat.ch/2023/11/01/my-son-meets.html

2023-10-31 14:32:07

The spookiest thing about my son’s Halloween costume—a monster truck—is the carbon footprint of both the imagined thing, and the construction of the costume itself (so much plastic—but we are re-using a cousin’s costume, so there’s that).
It is, literally, an electric powered thing with a battery pack to ... dcdispat.ch https://dcdispat.ch/2023/10/31/the-spookiest-thing.html

2023-10-19 13:55:47

Maybe someday I will again travel solo (and not for work). As it stands, it’s before dawn in Seattle. I am “awake” with my very East Coast time-zoned toddler watching the nth episode of Super Kitties. This has been true for a while already this morning. And sure, I’m still grateful if bleary-eyed.

2023-09-25 20:19:04

Ugh.
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2023-09-23 14:37:12

The reporting on the indictment of Senator Menendez seems pretty damning. Regardless of what he is guilty of, or deemed guilty of by a jury, it is certainly darkly comedic and inept when contrasted against the systemic corruption that is legitimized.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/23/nyregion/bob-menendez-indictment-bribery-investigation.html

2023-09-16 16:48:58

Coffee rings and Google https://dcdispat.ch/2023/09/16/coffee-rings-and.html

2023-09-11 13:00:54

Far up the river, 22 years ago, daydreaming and looking out the window “that’s not how you land at Albany,” or a thought to that effect.
Well it wasn’t where it landed.
I will not forget that, and all the hell that ensued that day and for decades to come. It isn’t over.

2023-09-07 15:48:39

My own burn. https://image.nostr.build/49156226bb6ce8c936ff95f971e6a19b18a7667f1c7e506db0493c61047d29a5.jpg

2023-08-13 00:11:31

My own identity is federated (as well as idle or abandoned and isolated) across many networks and platforms. I feel like some sort of social web equivalent of a vector analysis diagram might reveal a true center, or destination I suppose. Some notional node between the nodes.

2023-08-05 00:11:32

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2023-08-03 22:10:48

For the first time in years (due to a combination of pandemic, job obligations, and new parenthood) there was a thing to go see/join, observe as a photographer - a news thing, a street thing - a thing I could actually go to: The brouhaha outside the federal courthouse about 20 blocks west of me as Trump got indicted for trying to overturn the election… and this would be the sort of thing where I’d throw my ol’ dSLR over my shoulder and make pictures and just see it for myself.
Felt a slight itch… cleaned the house instead. Fuck’im.

2023-07-29 18:24:31

Hello, world! Again.
One of these things is gonna stick.