You may have heard that we had an election this week. That gets its own section in this week’s note. Check below if you’re interested, or skip it entirely if you’ve had enough. This is your content warning.
Did some personal project work this week: I thought it would be interesting to see how my blogroll has changed over time. The result of that is in the history section on the new Blogroll page. It needs a lot of work, but I think that’s the general idea. This work started at Observable. Their notebook format is a really nice way to work on visualizations, being able to capture thoughts as notes while working through things is wonderful.
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Thoughts on the Presidential Election
Some thoughts on this week’s election: Not shocked that the former president won, but I didn’t expect that it would be over so quickly nor did I expect the popular vote to swing in his favor. The people have spoken and now we have to deal with it. The question, for me anyway, is how to deal with it. I know for sure that the stress eating and drinking I’ve been partaking in needs to stop.
Another thing I’m going to stop doing is following and (re)posting all the antics. This really hit home when I saw the headline in The Times on Friday about Trump putting Musk on the phone with Zelenskyy. Seeing this, I realized that it’s already started, the non-stop bullshit, all the time. Historically, The Times spilled a lot of ink on Trump and Musk separately. The only thing the times seemed more concerned about was pickleball. Now that Trump and Musk (Tusk) are joined at the hip, it’s going to be so much worse.
This is not to say I want to bury my head in the sand. Well, I do, but I don’t think that’s a good long term solution. It’s just that I don’t have the energy to keep up with the tomfoolery, which can be paralyzing. I think keeping up with current events may be possible while avoiding the high jinks of this administration that are just a distraction much of the time. I’ll reserve any attention I want to give to national and international affairs to the more in-depth analysis others are providing.
Beyond that, I’m not entirely sure what to do at this point. I want to help, somehow. I want to resist, somehow. I want to put what I have to offer to use. It will be a work in progress and there may be some starting points in the links below. Good luck and godspeed everyone.
US Political Links
There’s no shortage of analysis on who and/or what is to blame. I’ve included a couple interesting links on that below, along with couple on the future.
