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My Next Property
Whether it's your first property or your tenth, this podcast will help you pick a winner...
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Steelers coaches compare Jalen Ramsey to Charles Woodson as DB prepares for versatile role https://www.nfl.com/news/steelers-coaches-compare-jalen-ramsey-to-charles-woodson-as-db-prepares-for-versatile-role

I Wrote the Book I Was Born to Write
Fifty years is a long time to prepare for a single sentence. I did not know I was preparing. I thought I was living, which I was, and writing, which I was, and teaching, which I was, and publishing, which I was. I thought the Fractional Fiction novels and the EleMenTs trilogy and the Prairie Voice reporting and the Human Meme episodes and the dramatic literature and the ASL linguistics and the cultural criticism were separate…

I Wrote the Book I Was Born to Write | David Boles, Blogs
Fifty years is a long time to prepare for a single sentence. I did not know I was preparing. I thought I was living, which I was, and writing, which I was, and teaching, which I was, and publishing…

COVID:
9th Circuit: Religious exemptions properly denied | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/9th-circuit-religious-exemptions-properly-denied/

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OLTP performance since PostgreSQL 8.3.
https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/oltp-performance-since-postgresql-8-3/
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Report: Group of Women Preparing to Accuse Rep. Swalwell of Harassment (John Sexton/HotAir)
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/04/06/report-group-of-women-preparing-to-accuse-rep-swalwell-of-harassment-n3813608
http://www.memeorandum.com/260406/p69#a260406p69

Former Cowboys QB Claps Back at Ridicule Over Forgettable Performance https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/former-dallas-dacowboys-qb-claps-back-ridicule-forgettable-performance

That's neat.
"An east side pedestrian plaza, converted from part of a Milwaukee street, is to get some big improvements.
Ivanhoe Plaza, located next to the Oriental Theatre building, will be redesigned to include a new performance stage and shade structure."
#Milwaukee #EastSide

I had an interesting chat with a friend who mentioned a book called "The Living Company." Apparently Shell was one of the few companies that saw the 1970's oil crisis coming and was able to adapt. They did it by talking to a bunch of people randomly about the future, identifying patterns, and coming up with possible future scenarios. They then formed clear plans for these future scenarios, where those plans would cover as many related scenarios as possible.
This was actually really familiar to me, though I hadn't read the book, because that's very close to what the Seattle GDC disaster prep committee did. We identified possible disaster scenarios, then identified preparedness steps that served multiple purposes. We got boxes of n95 masks in 2018 and 2019 for wildfire smoke and did a bit of work building box-fan air purifiers. Over the years we handed out these masks to houseless folks who were most exposed to the smoke. When the pandemic hit, we were able to take some of those boxes to first responders just as manufacturing in China dropped because of their lockdowns and as others started PPE hoarding. We focused on N95 because that was one of the overlap points between the unexpected but catastrophic "flu pandemic" that we knew was possible, and the regular "wildfire smoke" problem we were just getting used to.
The book sounds like it's at least partially influenced by cybernetics. There's this Dutch cybernetics connection that I haven't quite figured out. Anyway, this guy talked about how a company needs to be sustainable and all that. My dude, you worked for an oil company. That is categorically not sustainable. All this aside, I think there are a lot of things we can and should take from capitalists (or take back, in some cases). This practice is one of them.
So maybe get together with friends and talk about what you think might happen. We live in a world of crisis, so I'll always recommend disaster preparedness. But there's more than that.
What do you think will happen in the next 5 years?
Assuming that happens, what actions would you take to push that towards the most positive outcome?
I'm listening to Revolutions and reminded of how much effort monarchies put in to preventing revolutions. Corporations can be even more advanced in their planning and preemption. What would it look like if we planned like that?

What the Lemmings Could Not Do: On Suicide, Cognition, and the Mortal Imagination
Of all the acts a human being can perform, suicide is the strangest. It requires the actor to picture a world without itself, judge that world preferable, and execute a plan…...
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What the Lemmings Could Not Do: On Suicide, Cognition, and the Mortal Imagination | David Boles, Blogs
Of all the acts a human being can perform, suicide is the strangest. It requires the actor to picture a world without itself, judge that world preferable, and execute a plan whose author will not s…