The Chicago Cubs have clinched a Wild Card spot in the playoffs, what remains is to determine whether they have home field for the three game Wild Card series that will be in October. My buddy who is a fellow Cubs fan doubts the Cubs will have success in the playoffs. I see no reason why they can't win a three game series at Wrigley, however I think what is most important is that the young Cubs players gain playoff experience. How well the Cubs will do depends on how well they play during the next two weeks. In recent years the best MLB teams haven't won the World Series, it's been the hottest teams.
#Democracy is thought of as a weakness when
the prime directive changes from liberty to power. If the goal is to power over others, which by the way has been
a key means to the American way of life since World War II, the most efficient means to that goal is dictatorship.
#I am skeptical of
the attribution of violence in the United States as rooted in mental illness because it assumes each incident is one-off. The thinking is that if the people who did these things just got treatment, the incident would not have occurred. What if the incidents are a result of societal conditioning? It means entire populations of people are are risk of perpetuating an incident and entire populations can not be treated by a psychiatrist. The problem is systemic and
systematic thinking and not individualist thinking is the solution. We need to resist the simple, knee jerk causes and solutions.
#ESPN makes an interesting comparison between
MLB pitchers who are considered "aces" in 2025 to those in past decades going back to 1975. I think a key stat missing from the comparison is the average throwing speed of the pitchers because I think the key difference is that "aces" are now throwing more pitches above 95 mph than ever before and that increases risk of injury such that pitch counts rather than innings are the the key metric for how long a pitcher is in a game.
#Alan Jacob's article,
Wokeness and Myth on Campus, writes about technological core and mythical core world views that seems related to Carl Jung's persona and ego and Thomas Merton's true self and false self.
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I listened to Dave's podcast in which he starts to describe what he is doing with WordLand and FeedLand, and that sounds a lot like what I said that I want in practically my first post on micro.blog. Right now I am writing this using Drummer and it will be published to my Daynotes blog. If I want to also publish this on my micro.blog I need to copy and paste it in to another outline from which posts to micro.blog are published.
Copy and paste is a lot of work, what if for every post I could specify which publishing destination that post goes to simply by selecting the destination locations via a checkbox? What if I could later add a destination by simply going back to that post and checking another box, or clear a checkbox and it is removed. When I edit the item the changes are automatically re-published. BTW, the last item probably won't work to social network destinations because they generally don't allow editing.
The key is the per item control over the publishing destination and continual ability to edit the item. For now micro.blog's ability to cross post items I publish to it to Mastodon and Bluesky come closest to my vision, but that is not on a per post basis, it's all items published to my micro.blog that are published to those other destinations.