The one thing I still don’t understand about Maine’s fascinating politics (and its flag)

The one thing I still don’t understand about Maine’s fascinating politics (and its flag)

I’ve lived in Portland, Maine since 2021. I moved here from Massachusetts, where I’d lived for 42 years. In Massachusetts, it seemed like nearly everybody I knew came from somewhere else originally. Lots of people come to Massachusetts for college and then never leave (which was my story, too). If you’re from California, it’s probably…

Ownership is impossible; mine shaft audiobook; surviving the ice storm: Newsletter 27 March 2024
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Ownership is impossible; mine shaft audiobook; surviving the ice storm: Newsletter 27 March 2024

Newsletter 37: Why sharing and not hoarding is the only path to happiness, translators vs. AI, 500-billion word training set, plus three people to follow and three books to read. Why nobody owns anything We spend much of our lives striving to own things. We want to own a house, a car, a smartphone, a…

The New York Post’s Cindy Adams burbles incoherently — and cluelessly — about Maine

The New York Post’s Cindy Adams burbles incoherently — and cluelessly — about Maine

Cindy Adams “writes” for the New York Post. The scare quotes are because I “read” her Page Six columns about Maine and a few others, apparently dictated by text message, featuring incoherent and wandering collections of sentence fragments. Think of the ejecta of the average conspiracy theorist in a comment section and you’ve got the…