It's the 11th of the month! Time for another edition of Things I Learned While Looking Up Other Things, including the elusive mountain walrus, a stirring anthem against Daylight Saving Time, and Email Debt Forgiveness Day! buttondown.com/thingslearne...
I think about this book every year because it’s a murder mystery about daylight saving time and shuffling an hour of light around every year makes me want to kill somebody
If I can’t unionize Claude then it’s not conscious, next question
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“Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.”
new post from Daniel on OSS docs! Always worth reading :)
New on the Wordnik blog: Five Words from ... The Notebook, by Roland Allen (
@zibaldoni.bsky.social): blog.wordnik.com/five-words-f...
Roses are red
Violets are prime
This is the sort
Of linguist that I'm
new marketing campaign for print dictionaries, as totemic items to ward off dementia: "researchers found higher scores in lifetime enrichment were associated with a 38% lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease ... enrichment included ... dictionaries and library cards" www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
This month in Things I Learned While Looking Up Other Things: the Odeillo Solar Furnace, broadcasting "Destroy Mount Rushmore", and searching for smells: buttondown.com/thingslearne...
🚨 Tell your Senators to vote NO on the GOP’s so-called “SAVE” Act”, which would:
Require continuing voter purges w/ NO PENALTY for erroneous purges.
Subject election officials to potential PRISON TIME & citizen suits for mistakenly registering a single voter—even if the voter is a citizen! 1/
18 million per week. That’s what we are collectively paying to hunt and kill people in Minnesota.
I never wanna hear that we can’t afford to take care of our fellow Americans ever again. Healthcare. Education. Infrastructure. We can afford it all.
www.kare11.com/article/news...
If Graham can hold up this bill for venal and treasonous reasons, then @amyklobuchar.com & @smith.senate.gov can block the whole spending package until Dems get the GOP to agree to clawback ICE detention funds.
Angular numbers? 😂
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It’s the 11th of the month, time for a new edition of Things I Learned While Looking Up Other Things! This month: hemerology, ubuesque, and the fattura della morte buttondown.com/thingslearne...
The 2025 Word of the Year is "slop," both as a noun for low-quality AI-generated content and as a combining form for anything of little value. Read the full press release. #WOTY2025 #ADS2026 #LSA2026
americandialect.org/2025-word-of...
So sad to learn of John Langdon's death. His words-as-art were always a delight.
Make it viral.
Knowing that you are stable enough handle an emergency - the luxury that shouldn't be a luxury. I hope that, in 2026, that will become reality for many more people in the world.
There's a very nice writeup of my talk at OSS Tokyo in LWN! lwn.net/SubscriberLi... (gift link) Thanks again to the wonderful @kissane.myatproto.social and @ddbeck.com who created the Docs Advisor and Docs Archetypes (github.com/google/opendocs)!
Now would be a great time for a 10 episode, 20 hour prestige series about the ten years between 1916 and 1926, covering the establishment of the 8-hr work day & 5-day work week, in the US. Each episode would be one year & the middle episode should be entirely devoted to the Battle of Blair Mountain.
it’s today! planning to start my re-read at dusk for the full effect
Merriam-Webster Accused Of Bias After ‘Dictionary’ Named Word Of The Year
Announcing the Em Dash Appreciation Society (for Humans).
em-dash-appreciation.org
It's the 11th of the month, and the last month of the year, so this is the "words I recorded in 2025" installment! buttondown.com/thingslearne...
