Paul Haahr

A Battle with My Blood When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.

Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, had just given birth when she was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. She writes about her fear of adding another tragedy to her family’s life. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/LKMkhZ

I'm expansive: anything that can be used as input to a program. Doesn't imply it's useful, it's meaningful, or it's trustworthy – that all depends on the source, construction, how it's used, etc.

Again, I can't provide support, via Bluesky or any other channel. If the approaches I suggested don't work, I'm sorry, but there's nothing I can do.

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.

I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

YouTube video by Mike Caulfield Critical Thinking with AI Mode #41: First gay kiss in film history?

Was the first gay kiss in film history in the 1927 film Wings? It depends on what you mean by that question. We use AI Mode explore both the evidence and definitional concerns, and come to better understandings of the issues involved with such assertions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vxM...

It was an awesome show!

An Evening With David Byrne, Bill Graham Auditorium, San Francisco

The fact that Summers remained so popular after questioning the intellectual abilities of women is really a pretty harsh indictment of US society as a whole and particularly the elite circles Summers travels in, and Democrats should have kicked him to the curb for that shit.

Sorry, I can't act as a support channel. It sounds like you've tried a reconsideration request and the Search Central forums. Those would have been my recommendations.

The gate agent at El Paso when we were rebooking recognized my name: "I rebooked you earlier today." Said she's been at work since 3am.

One more delayed flight story: we were supposed to fly from El Paso to Phoenix to San Francisco on Southwest today. Flights delayed and cancelled, so the airline rebooked us via LAX. Delays pushed our arrival past midnight, but we were able to rebook on a direct flight to San Jose. 🤞🏻

NoKings 2 - San Francisco
100 to 150 thousand people in the street for democracy.

Photo: thank you to Dan Dunn for 50501

#NoKIngs #NoKings2

Waiting to start marching in San Francisco #nokings

Protesters formed a human banner Saturday morning at S.F.'s Ocean Beach, spelling out “NO KINGS” and “YES ON 50,” encouraging the passage of a measure on the November ballot to redraw California’s congressional districts in response to Texas’ GOP-focused remapping.

📸: Laure Andrillon / AFP

Ocean Beach, San Francisco #nokings

Hand holding a black and white illustrated zine of two people holding signs that say “we marched! Now what?”

No Kings logo: a drawing of a crown with a red x over it

I was commissioned to make a zine for the No Kings 2 protest on Saturday Oct 18th!

If you wonder “what can I do?” this zine is for you. It’s packed with things that you can do from wearing a “no ICE” pin to organizing a visibility brigade with your friends.

drive.google.com/file/d/1TJnH...

We Are Not Fascists, and If You Call Us Fascists, We Will Arrest You President Trump had another successful week of what is already the greatest presidency of all time, and yet, the woke leftist mob continues to deli...

"Unlike Trump and Hegseth, fascist leaders are fanatically militaristic. And there is nothing fanatical about throwing a military parade, renaming the Department of Defense the 'Department of War,' or purging non-MAGA generals."

Paul McCartney in Palm Desert

I just (re)read Deborah Tannen's /New York Jewish Conversational Style/ and it's amazing how well it describes me in conversation. And captures exactly the annoyance people have expressed with me. (Originally shared with me by a friend who shares my style.) static1.squarespace.com/static/5523f...

No excuse for that very bad AI Overview, but the search you're doing is a little strange: it's looking for a three word sequence of "Rick," followed immediately by either "Perlstein" or "Julia," followed by "Orringer." (That is, for better or worse, how Google syntax has been for 20+ years.)

Six spam texts from different phone numbers, with three of them starting with "G'day!"

I've been getting a couple of spam texts most days for the past couple of weeks, probably from some pig butchering scheme, but many of the recent ones, coming from different phone numbers, seem to have been created with LLM instructions to sound Australian. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

William F. Buckley's Bill Never Came Due | Defector Perhaps the highest praise I can offer a book that took 27 years to complete and runs over 1,000 pages is that I can see why, and that it doesn’t feel like it. Sam Tanenhaus’s extremely long and anxio...

for Bills Week I decided to read the new 1000 page Buckley biography

It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:

I didn’t believe this, but looked for myself. Two headlines about the parade … and zero about two percent of all Americans taking to the streets yesterday to protest Trump.

Civic Center, San Francisco

From Ocean Beach, San Francisco
📸: Santiago Mejia
#nokings

Ocean Beach in San Francisco

Some days, I need to read @rexparker.bsky.social to reassure myself that it isn't just me

Our experiences over the past 3 years suggest it may be valuable to understand these attacks on science as extensions of the Big Lie (of election fraud), Covid denialism, & Jim Crow 2.0 — part of a collective effort to bend reality, science & values to align with the central fantasies of Trumpism.

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.