The great affliction of our time is the value of information over wisdom and thinking that one is the other. We worship information over wisdom to our peril.
I really like the keyboard and touchpad on the Google Pixelbook.
I’ve figured out how to automatically add sites to the neighborhood of one of my wiki sites. You may find this beneficial to do this if you run public and private wikis and want to see all of the changes to all your wikis.
See Pew Research Center’s data of U.S. unauthorized immigrant populations estimates by state in 2016.
Jill Lepore, A New Americanism:
At the close of the Cold War, some commentators concluded that the American experiment had ended in triumph, that the United States had become all the world. But the American experiment had not in fact ended. A nation founded on revolution and universal rights will forever struggle against chaos and the forces of particularism. A nation born in contradiction will forever fight over the meaning of its history.
A columnist for the LA Times claims America is falling out of love with billionaires. I am not sure that is true. First off, we need to recalibrate the definition of the American Dream. Right now, it seems that for many the American Dream is to get wealthy.
It can’t be good for the NFL that their commercial was better than the Super Bowl game. I imagine some in New Orleans would say it was karma. (BTW, how is it that neither Brett Favre nor Aaron Rodgers was in the commercial?)
By the way, Patriot fan, your team isn’t as good as you might think. I think had you played the Saints there might have been a different outcome. A ten point victory in this matchup does not necessarily reflect well.
I think we learned from the Super Bowl last night that experience really does matter. If the Rams were playing the Chiefs, they might have had a chance, but against the very experienced Patriots, it was no contest.
The sad thing for Rams fans is that there are no guarantees that your team will get back to the Super Bowl next year or any time soon.
How better would this Super Bowl be if the Saints and Drew Brees was playing rather than the Rams? The NFL reaps what it sows. 🏈
Happy Super Bowl Sunday!
Early in our relationship and when my wife first moved to Michigan from Colorado she observed that the difference between winter in Michigan and Colorado is that in Michigan winter starts and stays the same for three months, but in Colorado you got snow and a few days later it warmed up and melted away. Now it’s not so different.
I think the fix Manton reports here took care of a problem I had with Omnibear, which is what I use to write most of my blog posts when using a deskop. Omnibear doesn’t have categories, but it does have tags. I wonder, would tags translate to categories?
What is a slug in Indieweb?
The temperature got over 40 degrees today so I went for a walk for the first time in a week.
A year ago I wrote that I had put the Peel super thin case on my Pixel 2 and I can report that after a year later the case is still on my phone and has held up very well. I will not hesitate to buy another Peel case if one is available.
I did some experimenting and documented my observations about how Crostini runs on my Pixelbook. For people concerned about the performance impact of Crostini running on a Chromebook, I note that the virtual machine and any containers within do not automatically start on boot and therefore the cleanest way to run is to not launch the Linux Terminal app, which you see when you enable the Linux apps beta on Chrome OS.
The first time you launch the Terminal app the virtual machine (termina) and default container (penguin) start, which accounts for the longer than perhaps expected time to launch.
The pizza run tonight was the first I had been outside since Sunday.
The United States is in a state of emergency: 28 national ones and many more local. This might come as a surprise, but it isn’t new—this month marks the start of our 39th year in a continuous emergency state. What is an emergency, and how did we get here? This post explains.
The 1976 National Emergencies Act requires Congress to meet every six months to end the state of emergency. If you want to know why Democracy is failing in the United States, read no further than the following…
Not once has Congress met to consider such a vote. It is not exactly clear why. But the provision would have lost much of its intended force even had Congress complied: It originally allowed Congress to end an emergency by concurrent resolution (that is, if majorities in both houses voted to end it). But in 1983, the Supreme Court declared this sort of legislative veto over presidential action unconstitutional. A 1985 amendment to the act now requires a joint resolution to end the emergency, meaning that any Congressional vote to end the emergency is subject to the president’s veto, which may be overridden only by two-thirds majorities of both houses.
CNN has a list of the current list of 28 national emergencies in the United States.