Wordle in a Winter Storm Watch 1/26/2026, Con/Jur/d We sit in the assigned seat in the living room, facing the TV And see the world of literary criticism, comment as a series of stairs Sleator's ‘ House of Stairs’ we read in grammar school, I can't believe kids read Dostoevsky now We didn't have that in 1974, most books were youngest age appropriate We donated our copy of The Hardy Boys Meet Bigfoot, because it was fantastique Saw someone writing a book on DH Lawrence and TS Eliot and knew it as a room upstairs Last night's Melville devotees reminded us of the D&D gang we played with on holiday *or Burners Downstairs, where we dreamt of marching and we screamed and screamed The basement, unless you live there is filled with unwashed memories We move to the bathroom, do Wordle signal where we are on the map If we want access to more than these floors we need to get reading or shovelling. *THE WORD OF THE DAY WAS: FREAK AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
For nearly a century, the Iroquois Theatre fire was the deadliest single-building disaster in American history.[3] Only the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, has claimed more lives among United States disasters impacting a single building or complex.[4]
WE said this about Wikipedia recently:
Personally, I think we would be better off without Wikipedia. A closer reading of the article I sent out from the ex Palantir employee, describes how the aim is to change consensus reality, that this hybrid war is to change the stories we tell — their very nature. Wikipedia because of its dominance, it’s hyper materialist bend and it’s editors, themselves acting as empire cops, is the easiest vector for rewriting reality. As a newer friend said about her nephew who’s been living in her house while he goes to college, “He and his friends have no curiosity. They say things like, ‘why bother knowing that or figuring it out when we can just look it up” Wikipedia has contributed a great deal to the current Idiocracy.
I miss the obsessive geeks of Usenet, the amateur experts who would dig deep. Instead, I couldn’t look up anything without the milk toast blather of Wikipedia. Not that I didn’t use it all the time, it’s the only choice anymore, reality was weighted in its favour. Now the AIs are doing similar things, poorly, but I’m already getting used these plutocrat oracle’s summarizing reality, turning it all into a bland mush.
Wikipedia was chill when it was optional. now even hi way signs don’t bother giving directions, we all rely on Google Maps. Sigh
MUCH, MUCH LOVE,
con/jur/D, 1/28/2025 (2026 according da freekng Gregorians — we usetanah give em ta time o day — now look @ em all high and mitee wid dem hats and shi)t
“Everybody wants to save the world,”...
“they just disagree on how.”