Finished reading: Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell 📚wow. It all focuses to a single point and never utters the names William or Shakespeare.

Today’s sketch.

Night sketch

Thanksgiving prep.

In the river.

As much as it might be about the pandemic, Pluribus is a show about AI. A selfless network of all human knowledge ready to assist at any moment. Sam Altman’s dream. Super interesting show. Looking forward to seeing where it goes.

Lost and found.

One of the best things I’ve read in quite sometime. Every Tree Can Be a Buddha

Finished reading: White Poverty by William J. Barber II 📚this books speaks to this moment with clarity and power clearly articulating how the powerful divide the poor against each other. Essential read.

At the end of most news casts we hear how much the Dow Jones Industrial Average has climbed or declined. It would be powerful if in the same segment, a poverty index was read citing the number of Americans living in poverty had increased or decreased from the previous day.

In tearing down the East Wing, Trump asserts he’s outside of history; greater than it. The White House can’t contain him. And he will mold the White House and history to his own liking.

But we must make sure he is within history, that he is a president… one of many… this is why we protest.

Currently reading: The Jailhouse Lawyer by Calvin Duncan 📚

Via kottke.org Immigration Agents Have Held More Than 170 Americans Against Their Will, ProPublica Finds — ProPublica

I love our underground neighborhood printer.

What a constitutional republic looks like: youtu.be/c1tjhZO…

Finished reading: The First Witch of Boston by Andrea Catalano 📚 A brilliant, moving debut novel, excellent historic fiction about Margaret Jones, a woman hanged for witchcraft in 17th c. Massachusetts.

Currently reading: The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe 📚