Bix Dot Blog

These 150 posts originally appeared at write.house/bix between May 2019 and August 2019. This set currently is in progress.

Fatigue, exhaustion, and (I guess?) depression continued into…

Jul 9, 2019
“Some scenes have a strobing effect,” warns each…

Jul 9, 2019
Things are still quite a ways away from…

Jul 9, 2019
“What we like contributes to the picture of…

Jul 8, 2019
Not all algorithms do me wrong. Following the…

Jul 8, 2019
A.R. Moxon, in “Watching the Epstein story unfold”:…

Jul 8, 2019
Speaking of management, I remain somewhat disappointed that…

Jul 8, 2019
My default mode is asking what the hell…

Jul 8, 2019
Ryan Grim: [Alexandria] Ocasio-Cortez told me that she…

Jul 8, 2019
Rebecca Traister, in “Politics Is Changing; Why Aren’t…

Jul 8, 2019
David Iscoe, in “Political science”: Even on their…

Jul 8, 2019
Preemptive surgery and catheter depression ever since Friday’s…

Jul 7, 2019
I’m going to go out on a limb…

Jul 6, 2019
Having recently watched Jinn and more recently watched…

Jul 6, 2019
Ziya Tong: What are we to make of…

Jul 5, 2019
A chimpanzee at the Oregon Zoo perches in…

Jul 5, 2019
Kaiser Pemanente waited until one week out from…

Jul 5, 2019
Until reading this Jonathan M. Katz piece yesterday,…

Jul 5, 2019
Upāsaka: One thing I’ve noticed about building and…

Jul 4, 2019
I wish that when I’d posted about mistaking…

Jul 4, 2019
John Stoehr, in “‘Christians’ against Poor Migrant Kids”:…

Jul 4, 2019
Multiple things can be true at the same…

Jul 4, 2019
So, it turns out that in its current…

Jul 3, 2019
Tonight I burned through the last three episodes…

Jul 3, 2019
Let’s be clear: this is a public admission…

Jul 3, 2019
Jeremy Raff, in “What a Pediatrician Saw Inside…

Jul 3, 2019
Until these remarks by Gerry Conway condemning the…

Jul 3, 2019
Judge George J. Hazel, in “Transcript Of Proceedings…

Jul 3, 2019
So in that episode of Better Off Ted…

Jul 3, 2019
Other than the free loaf of bread here…

Jul 3, 2019
There’s some stuff here already about “upzoning”, or…

Jul 3, 2019
Seattle is establishing what I saw referenced as…

Jul 3, 2019
Dalmeet Singh Chawla, in “Large study supports discarding…

Jul 3, 2019
Today a Kaiser Permanente nurse tried to make…

Jul 2, 2019
Jennifer Agiesta: There is disagreement across party lines…

Jul 2, 2019
Nick Starr-Street now is facing charges stemming from…

Jul 2, 2019
There’s a bunch of stuff I wanted to…

Jul 2, 2019
That last post, it turns out, does not…

Jul 1, 2019
It’s all well and good, and necessary, that…

Jul 1, 2019
I keep forgetting that the platform behind Write…

Jul 1, 2019
emsenn, in “I Cannot Trust Post-Modern Conservatives”: From…

Jul 1, 2019
If you listen to pundits, Democrats remain a…

Jul 1, 2019
Alex Zielinski of Portland Mercury last night posted…

Jul 1, 2019
Apparently some English towns are installing “chat benches”…

Jul 1, 2019
John Stoehr, in “What Anti-Trumpers Don’t Understand”: I’m…

Jul 1, 2019
Stuart Thompson, in “Why plants don’t die from…

Jul 1, 2019
Over the last several months, I’ve been getting…

Jun 30, 2019
Two good books are on sale at $2.99…

Jun 30, 2019
Katie Shepherd has been continuing to push today…

Jun 30, 2019
Signal Station Pizza operates out of the former…

Jun 30, 2019
I’ve been focused on the “cementshake” nonsense because…

Jun 30, 2019
There’s an even dumber possibility: all of the…

Jun 30, 2019
So here’s a thing we will have to…

Jun 29, 2019
And so as June comes to a close…

Jun 29, 2019
News outlets serving as little more than third-party…

Jun 29, 2019
“The discussion in this race today,” Joe Biden…

Jun 29, 2019
Rachel Maddow on Friday night had a weirdly…

Jun 29, 2019
Jonathan M. Katz, in “Immigrants aren’t deadly. Fox…

Jun 28, 2019
Twitter today was buzzing about automatic faucet sensors…

Jun 28, 2019
There’s little more important from tonight’s debate than…

Jun 27, 2019
We are all complicit now. There’s lots of…

Jun 27, 2019
Edition Hyattsville has announced on its Facebook page…

Jun 27, 2019
That feeling when you find yourself in a…

Jun 27, 2019
One of three ring-tailed lemurs at the Oregon…

Jun 27, 2019
Warren basically did what she had to, although…

Jun 26, 2019
Mostly unnoticed until today: the management of The…

Jun 26, 2019
Feargus O’Sullivan, in “Death to Livability!”: This brings…

Jun 26, 2019
Abraham Riesman, in “The Six-Year Struggle to Regain…

Jun 26, 2019
There’s a story I’ve told before mostly as…

Jun 26, 2019
Kent Johnson in “At Highlights, our core belief…

Jun 25, 2019
As one autistic white man to another: sorry,…

Jun 25, 2019
The maker of PixelFed, a fediverse-native alternative to…

Jun 25, 2019
If you’re reading this (and haven’t already responded…

Jun 25, 2019
Red panda Mei Mei has an evening snack…

Jun 24, 2019
For some reason today I randomly visited MetaFilter…

Jun 24, 2019
It looks like The Three-Body Problem might be…

Jun 24, 2019
Somewhere at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum they…

Jun 24, 2019
David Iscoe, in “Be Simple Oppose Trump”: When…

Jun 24, 2019
Origami cranes at Saturday’s “Never Again Is Now”…

Jun 23, 2019
The Salt Lake Tribune Editorial Board, in “Yes,…

Jun 23, 2019
Wikipedia: In quantum mechanics, wave function collapse is…

Jun 23, 2019
There was some discussion on Twitter last week…

Jun 23, 2019
Jonathan M. Katz, in “Chuck Todd sold out…

Jun 23, 2019
Today my wave function would not collapse and…

Jun 22, 2019
Three-thousand words on how real men don’t have…

Jun 22, 2019
It seems that the Jordanian-produced Netflix series Jinn…

Jun 21, 2019
No idea whether or not it’s true, as…

Jun 21, 2019
Since I’ve been on something of an intermittent…

Jun 21, 2019
Yes, I did indeed, as promised, finish Last…

Jun 21, 2019
Five months after a data breach at the…

Jun 21, 2019
John Metcalfe, in “The U.S. Mapped in Shadows…

Jun 21, 2019
David A. Banks, in “Outer Limits”: While cities…

Jun 20, 2019
Rabbi Brant Rosen, in “As a Rabbi, I…

Jun 20, 2019
As I’ve resumed much more regular blogging, and…

Jun 20, 2019
Yesterday my primary care health provider called to…

Jun 20, 2019
Reading this ode to Universal’s aborted “Dark Universe”,…

Jun 20, 2019
Ronald Purser, in “The mindfulness conspiracy”: But anything…

Jun 20, 2019
The worst genre of “spoilers aren’t bad” articles…

Jun 20, 2019
I’ve been thinking about the idea of “creeping…

Jun 19, 2019
In addition to the previously-mentioned About and Support…

Jun 19, 2019