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While investigating Nike’s claims about sustainability, I started collecting paystubs from its suppliers. It’s been almost 27 years since Phil Knight acknowledged that Nike products had become synonymous with “slave wages.” I wanted to know what people in Asia earned producing Nike apparel. (thread)

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Lord give me the strength to weather multiple Ls at once.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

At any given time, I have 1-10 sources of anxiety. Every so often, I'm able to remove one or a few. Those are good days. Not so good days are when several are urgent at once. The hope that all will some day be removed drives me on. What else could?

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

I started re-watching a 1983 David Macauley/PBS special on castles last night, and it turns out everything about this is buried very deeply in my subconscious.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Seeing this several ways ("inevitable"/without, "loud"/"resouding"). I prefer this translation because it doesn't trip over the three references to images outlasting death in the last sentence ("forever," "immortal," "time nor place can bury"). bsky.app/profile/sora...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Having a little recovery from a cold or flu, as a treat.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Discarded drafts feature working overtime, and this app doesn't even have that.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

“According to figures released by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) on February 16 at least 157 journalists and media workers have been killed in Gaza, and many more injured, since the beginning of the war.”

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Okay, fine, machine learning, but are people learning?

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I think it's time to try locking in.

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Caught up with one of the ghost who haunts my past, or perhaps they caught up with me. And now I wonder, how does anyone relate? Across the passage of time, across such deep chasms in the human soul.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Fascinating story about how we might be thinking about ADHD (and medical treatment for it) in the wrong way. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/m...

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

We'll have a lot to answer for when the AI tribunal reads all our posts.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Experimenting with getting nothing done the last few days of a week. Feels strange. What do I call this concept?

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

And the relief if they do that anyway is...? bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Long time coming. Congrats to my former colleagues.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Sorry to the Liverpool fans, but I got to give it to the underdogs kicking your ass today.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Whoever invented the elevator: "What if we made a little room that traveled between floors, you get in there with anyone else who wants to get between them and wait with them to transition out of an indeterminate vertical state."

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

It would, however, take less time than that for a bunch of companies to announce that they were doing this.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

* combining all my problems * Damn, now I have one big problem.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments