This Is My Happy Place

I just wish I could be a little more involved. Maybe we can dip in before too long.

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The Kaiser trifecta

Elbow bursitis, a flu shot, and a blood test.

Just another flavor of 2020.

Co-signing on this choice of words

I mean, as long as I’m going to be a Daring Fireball re-link site (apparently)…here’s a relink from early September.

The shorthand largely stuck. But QAnon is much more complicated and convoluted — and dangerous — than other conspiracy theories. The QAnon belief system has inspired violence and crime across the United States, leading the FBI to label it a domestic terrorism threat in 2019.

The editors at BuzzFeed News have become uneasy about using conspiracy theory to describe QAnon, which has grown to encompass a whole alternative world of beliefs and signals. The copydesk has to stay on top of language and note when terms become stale and reductive; QAnon has shifted, and so should how we write about it.

QAnon is a collective delusion, and that’s what BuzzFeed News will be calling it from now on.
— https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/drumoorhouse/qanon-mass-collective-delusion-buzzfeed-news-copy-desk

Even as someone who has built a career on the Internet, I’m wary of what it has become.