Pylimitics

"Simplicity" rearranged

  • 19 and 20 and 25 Annotated

    The unlinked version is here. The world is ending in death and cactus. Walking to the local hofgarten in broad daylight I can see ghosts clinging to the other people on the sidewalks; third members of each couple. T to the seashore to see tides diminished by blood and hear a screaming soaring across the… Continue reading

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  • Unintended consequences…but predicted

    The Guardian ‘s Damian Carrington on how major capitalist institutions (insurance industry) are seeing the likely outcomes of capitalist-driven climate change. “The economic value of entire regions – coastal, arid, wildfire-prone – will begin to vanish from financial ledgers. Markets will reprice, rapidly and brutally. This is what a climate-driven market failure looks like.” Continue reading

  • Beware the outsiders

    Let’s talk about “proper English.” English is not a centrally-managed language; it’s a dynamic set of conventions, and for the most part as long as you can make yourself understood, it works. But there are also social assumptions about how you use English. One that’s drummed into many of us in elementary school is that… Continue reading

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  • It’s not just the cursed repubs

    From Cory Doctorow:“Trump couldn’t have pulled this trick off without the Dem establishment’s total unwillingness to confront the hollowness of their economic policies. From Pelosi’s “We’re capitalists and that’s the way it is” to Hillary Clinton’s catastrophic campaign slogan, “America is already great,” the Dems’ answer to workers’ fear and anger was, “You are wrong,… Continue reading

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  • At least “annoying” isn’t too hard to spell

    One of the more annoying aspects of English is that you can’t depend on a letter — or a letter combination — having the same pronunciation every time. Take, for example, “ch.” It might be pronounced “k,” as in “school.” Or it might have an “sh” sound, as in “brochure.” Then again, it might sound… Continue reading

  • 19 and 20 and 25

    The linked version is here. The world is ending in death and cactus. Walking to the local hofgarten in broad daylight I can see ghosts clinging to the other people on the sidewalks; third members of each couple. T to the seashore to see tides diminished by blood and hear a screaming soaring across the… Continue reading

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  • Annexing the whole assemblage

    If you “glom” something, or “glom onto” it, you’re taking it or occupying it. Although it sounds like a slang term, you can find it published in newspapers, magazines, and even Science Daily: “The nanoparticles ‘glom onto the flies,’ Rand noted while watching a video of flies in the test tubes.” Not only is “glom”… Continue reading

  • The century wheel spins and returns to position

    “Turning and turning in the widening gyre   The falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere   The ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worst   Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand;Surely the Second Coming… Continue reading

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  • Eneph already

    A prefix-root, many of which come from Greek and Latin roots, can be found in front of loads of different words. Take “neo-,” for example. “Neo-” comes from the Greek “néos,” and means “new.” There are dozens of English words beginning with “neo,” from the very specialized “neoblastic” (associated with new growth) to the common… Continue reading

  • Not an April Fool Joke

    The EU and France are more rational and intelligent than the orange baby’s régime; there’s no question about that. Nevertheless, French regulators just did something ridiculous: France fines Apple €150M for “excessive” pop-ups that let users reject tracking. John Gruber at Daring Fireball explains. In short: “App Tracking Transparency actually accomplished, in practice, via user-focused… Continue reading

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I’m Pete Harbeson, a writer located near Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to writing my own content, I’ve learned to translate for my loquacious and opinionated pup Chocolate. I shouldn’t be surprised, but she mostly speaks in doggerel. You can find her contributions tagged with Chocolatiana.

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