Someday, when I have time to burn, I’m going to write a Twitter bot that takes all of Trump’s vacuous tweets and translate them into Russian. It’ll look like this:
There’s something ludicrous about the idea of the Trump, who is distractible, impatient, and incurious being able to learn Russian, an incredibly difficult language.
marking time,
eyes glazed, pupils constricted
to the head of a pin
from facing the blue white sterile light
for too long
a zombie tribe
numbering in the millions
if not more
waits.
this throng, agitated
in a subdued anesthetized
way,
crowns one of its own
a clown of sorts
knowing little of the past
less of the present
and practically nothing
of the future.
"why not? it could be worse."
in a strange unreality
a vaudeville show becomes
its own rehearsal,
a dreamish state from which
only an atomic flash
can awaken a person.
Observations on everyday life, culture, healthcare, and politics after moving from Minnesota to Canada.
Automatically improving pronunciation recordings for Anki with Hazel, ffmpeg, and SoX for audio conversion and dynamic-range processing.
An argument for stronger foreign-language education in the United States as a way to broaden cultural understanding and counter xenophobia.
A response to Trump’s proposed elimination of federal arts and humanities endowments, drawing on Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poetry.
A macOS application that generates spoken Russian numbers for Anki using NSSpeechSynthesizer and converts the recordings with ffmpeg.
What I learned from a month without routine news consumption and with strict limits on social media.
Using Python and rrdtool to store and graph temperature and humidity measurements from Indigo home automation sensors.
Lessons from opposition to Silvio Berlusconi suggest resisting Trump through issues and principles rather than personality.
