alexiomia: from the Greek for no words for appellation, a study of the social anxiety of name-avoidance—via the new Shelton wet/dry
white knight: Bytedance entertaining contingency plans to allow Elon Musk to purchase TikTok’s US operations ahead of the expected judgment against the platform
out-of-office reply: a business card whose information only appears in sunlight
screamboat willie: Disney begins to deal with its loss of IP—apparently a Popeye horror film is in the works too
tl;dr: AI input and output
open and shut case: the US Department of Justice election interference report suggest Trump would have been convicted if not re-elected
๐: the face of collective grief and the demands of acceptance that are far from passive
synchronoptica
one year ago: AI plagiarism and The Stepford Wives (with synchronoptica), a hands-free rosary plus Queen Margrethe II of Denmark abdicates
seven years ago: the Continental Congress (1784) plus Celtic burial mounds
eight years ago: authoritarians and the press, the former trolley line that ran between the US and Mexico, assorted links worth the revisit, Bart the Genius (1990) plus a secret WWII commando school
nine years ago: the dancing doctor plus genre blindness
ten years ago: more on the refugee situation in Germany plus an animated homage to Davie Bowie’s personae
