Editor, writer, generalist, logophile, paronomasiac, ludophile. Bi, poly. He/him. Most of my posts here are abbreviated copies of things I’ve posted elsewhere.https://bsky.app/profile/elysdir.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/elysdir.bsky.social/post/3mzlztyuk5k2aSome thoughts after playing with an iPhone Duo in an Apple Store the other day. https://www.kith.org/jed/2026/11/03/iphone-duo/05 Nov 2026 23:35 +0000at://did:plc:nyoe6cq4vv4vslodfvd2fher/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzlztyuk5k2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/elysdir.bsky.social/post/3mzlzsfwh2s2aI just read Iona Datt Sharma’s superb 2019 short-speculative-fiction collection _Not for Use in Navigation_: “thirteen stories of love and queerness, hope and decolonisation, and the inevitability of change.” Highly recommended. More notes here: https://www.kith.org/jed/2026/11/03/not-for-use-in-navigation/05 Nov 2026 23:34 +0000at://did:plc:nyoe6cq4vv4vslodfvd2fher/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzlzsfwh2s2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/elysdir.bsky.social/post/3mzlzr3oxyk2aHow to represent date metadata for my ebook collection? (A blog post from a couple days ago.) https://www.kith.org/jed/2026/11/03/how-to-represent-date-metadata-for-my-ebook-collection/05 Nov 2026 23:33 +0000at://did:plc:nyoe6cq4vv4vslodfvd2fher/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzlzr3oxyk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/elysdir.bsky.social/post/3mzlzonc5rc2aAn interaction I had last week on the way home. (Unrelated to US election stuff; just catching up on posting links here to my recent blog posts.) https://www.kith.org/jed/2026/11/03/juice-money-and-tomatoes/05 Nov 2026 23:32 +0000at://did:plc:nyoe6cq4vv4vslodfvd2fher/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzlzonc5rc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/elysdir.bsky.social/post/3mzls6ho4pk2r“Normalization of deviance, according to American sociologist Diane Vaughan, is the process in which deviance from correct or proper behavior or rule becomes culturally normalized.” 1/305 Nov 2026 21:18 +0000at://did:plc:nyoe6cq4vv4vslodfvd2fher/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzls6ho4pk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/elysdir.bsky.social/post/3mzlrdpqhxk2rThere are now two state governors who I overlapped at Swarthmore with. (I don’t know either of them, but friends of mine do.)05 Nov 2026 21:03 +0000at://did:plc:nyoe6cq4vv4vslodfvd2fher/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzlrdpqhxk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/elysdir.bsky.social/post/3mzlmxcnxu22rCame across a web page about computer hard drives, from a major online retailer, that was labeled “Potable Drives.”05 Nov 2026 19:44 +0000at://did:plc:nyoe6cq4vv4vslodfvd2fher/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzlmxcnxu22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/elysdir.bsky.social/post/3mzlkrfzlh22r“A Stunning Rebuke Of Anti-Trans Politics: Republicans Spent $200 Million Attacking Trans People And Lost Everything” https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/a-stunning-rebuke-of-anti-trans-politics05 Nov 2026 19:05 +0000at://did:plc:nyoe6cq4vv4vslodfvd2fher/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzlkrfzlh22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/elysdir.bsky.social/post/3mzljpwtzmc2rGaza Verified: A website listing some people from Gaza and how to donate to them. “We verify, to the best of our abilities, that people who say they’re Palestinians from Gaza are who they say they are by holding video conversations with them.” gaza-verified.org https://gaza-verified.org05 Nov 2026 18:47 +0000at://did:plc:nyoe6cq4vv4vslodfvd2fher/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzljpwtzmc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/elysdir.bsky.social/post/3mzlc55j3x22r“The Democrats have taken control of the Senate and the House of Representatives. These charts and maps reveal the key trends and races behind this result” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/nov/04/midterm-election-results-maps-guide05 Nov 2026 16:31 +0000at://did:plc:nyoe6cq4vv4vslodfvd2fher/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzlc55j3x22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/elysdir.bsky.social/post/3mzlbzrozm22rThree links about the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact: * “Democrats Finally [potentially] Have the Votes to Make the Electoral College Obsolete”: (https://truthout.org/articles/democrats-finally-have-the-votes-to-make-the-electoral-college-obsolete/) * Some discussion of the constitutionality of the NPVIC: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact#Constitutionality) 1/205 Nov 2026 16:29 +0000at://did:plc:nyoe6cq4vv4vslodfvd2fher/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzlbzrozm22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/elysdir.bsky.social/post/3mzlbgmfouc2r“Data centers proved to be a powerful midterm issue.” “Asked about the importance of ‘AI and data centers’ to their vote, […] 56 percent of Americans responded that the issues [were] a ‘crucial or major factor’ in their ballot.” https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/americans-reject-data-centers05 Nov 2026 16:18 +0000at://did:plc:nyoe6cq4vv4vslodfvd2fher/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzlbgmfouc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/elysdir.bsky.social/post/3mzlaztiq4c2r“_Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism_ is a [1983] book by Benedict Anderson about the development of national feeling in different eras and throughout different geographies across the world.” 1/205 Nov 2026 16:11 +0000at://did:plc:nyoe6cq4vv4vslodfvd2fher/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzlaztiq4c2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/elysdir.bsky.social/post/3mzlal5uqm22rArticle (from February) about the economics of putting data centers in space. https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/11/why-the-economics-of-orbital-ai-are-so-brutal/05 Nov 2026 16:03 +0000at://did:plc:nyoe6cq4vv4vslodfvd2fher/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzlal5uqm22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/elysdir.bsky.social/post/3mzkahf4dtc2rThat thing where your task list says “Do dishes” and you think _Well, I ran the dishwasher recently, so of course there isn’t enough for a full load, but I might as well put what there is in the dishwasher_ and then it turns out there are enough dirty dishes for at least 1.5 loads, maybe 2.05 Nov 2026 06:28 +0000at://did:plc:nyoe6cq4vv4vslodfvd2fher/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzkahf4dtc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/elysdir.bsky.social/post/3mzjejo3mg22b(Adding alt text.) 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