AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:Social Security Card Envelope.jpg|thumb|I have been renamed, but my daughter has a card now. Fair trade.]] Our daughter, [[Astra Meridian]], has a last name that's different from either mine or my wife. This introduces certain complexities to life,...

Roshan: Fix sentence fragment minimally I've been reading [https://unsongbook.com/ ''Unsong''] by Scott Alexander, and I happened to also encounter Peter Thiel and Sam Wolfe's essay [https://firstthings.com/voyages-to-the-end-of-the-world/ ''Voyages to the End of the World''] (VEW) around the same time. Unsong is a...

Roshan: [[File:Dallas Fed - AI Scenarios.png|thumb|upright=2|Go forth and multiply; and fill the Earth and subdue it; so that you may grow at a steady rate]] There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at its flood, leads on to sustainable 1.9% year on year GDP growth. The Dallas Fed has released a little...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:{{#setmainimage:Mysterious Letter to Roshan.jpeg}}|thumb|right]] A few months ago I received a mysterious letter addressed to me. I do get a lot of junk mail, but this one was to an old address which usually means I forgot something important. When...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:{{#setmainimage:Screenshot Montage - Palms Requests.png}}|thumb|right|As you can see there is no shortage of "borrow a lump of sugar" stuff here]] A common complaint online is that there is no longer a sense of community in America and that...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[wikipedia:Donald Trump|Donald Trump]] as President and presidential candidate has coined or popularized a whole bunch of phrases that are now in the common lexicon. == The Phrases == I'm leaving out the classic ones like [[wikipedia:Make America Great...

Roshan: The [https://www.justice.gov/pardon/clemency-grants-president-donald-j-trump-2025-present Presidential Pardon] is not nearly as controversial as it should be. The [[Factional Colony Ecology|colony ecology of factions]] inevitably leads to the frontiers being optimized to. For the Presidential Pardon that...

Roshan: [[File:Screenshot - Chrome iOS Algo Feed.jpg|thumb|left|Some random insufferable nonsense]] [[File:Screenshot - Brave iOS - News Feed Opt-In.jpg|thumb|right|Well, at least you asked]] At some point of time, Chrome started updating to include some kind of content feed into its new tab page. I'm one of those...

Roshan: Created page with "Everyone who has encountered an imperfection in MacOS in the last decade has declared Jobs Would Never Stand For This. It's a bit of retconning of Steve Jobs. After all, he did tell us we should stop "holding it that way" and so on. Still, it is useful to represent the loss of attention to...

Roshan: I read this tweet that talked about [[wikipedia:Dog whistle (politics)|the politics term "dog whistle"]] that made me rather curious. [[File:Product Listing - Amazon Dog Whistle.png|thumb|right]] {{Tweet | name = TracingWoodgrains | username = tracewoodgrains | text = If you’re hearing a whistle, consider...

Roshan: Fix bot summary [[File:AI Conception of Beadman.png|thumb|The expression is pretty spot-on though the Beadman's fashion sense had deteriorated by the time I met him]] A recent Reddit story that I read today reminded of a time when my friend Takashi and I encountered a colourful San Franciscan. The Reddit...