Master teacher, advanced student. There’s just tremendous trust and respect. It made me realize that yelling at people is showing a lack of trust that they’re listening. (Cue up people explaining that’s not the only thing it means.) I’m not saying you …
COVID conditions in prisons– Democrats also neglectful
Prisoners die from lack of precautions, Democratic administrations almost entirely ignore the issue. “I kept calling the jail to no avail. Then on March 29, when Nick started exhibiting symptoms, I also started calling Cermak, the hospital on the jail …
Building a roll-top dining room table/jigsaw table
A woman who will stop at nothing to slightly improve her jigsaw puzzle experience Building the table. A 3D printed tiny bathtub for her sore thumbs. First use of new lathe. Everything is at the right height because the jigsaw puzzle level can be moved …
Zeynep Tufekci on the pandemic and underlying social problems.
Tufekci is a strikingly sensible sociologist who was early about the importance of masking. “Yes, this is a really difficult question because I ended up writing an op-ed essentially criticizing CDC and the WHO on masks in March 2020. At the time, peopl…
Carelessly misidentified homeless man in mental hospital for two years
All evidence that he was someone else was ignored, and his claims to not be the person the police was looking for were taken as evidence of insanity. The Hawaii Innocence Project got him out.