I love this series – by Julien Mauve.

Bless you, Loretta Lynch.

Photo via Facebook, unfortunately unattributed

Hat tip to my brother for sharing the academic paper “Misperceiving Bullshit as Profound Is Associated with Favorable Views of Cruz, Rubio, Trump and Conservatism“. As he said, “Thank god for open access publishing.”

The abstract is particularly delightful, especially if you have a strong sense of irony.

In this contribution, bullshit is used as a technical term which is defined as communicative expression that lacks content, logic, or truth from the perspective of natural science. We used the Bullshit Receptivity scale (BSR) to measure seeing profoundness in bullshit statements. The BSR scale contains statements that have a correct syntactic structure and seem to be sound and meaningful on first reading but are actually vacuous.

Bless.

Y’all, these succulent treehouses by the artist Jedediah Corwyn Voltz are too cute to be believed. Check out more over at Colossal, or in person in LA. I just, I want them. In my life. Bad.

The Golden State Warriors had a bhangra dance group perform at halftime. HELL YES. I would go to a game just to see this.

So, I am here, in New York, where I live now. WEIRD.

Just needed to get that out of the way. The last few weeks feel a little dreamlike already, largely because we just moved into our new apartment and it. is. awesome. I’ve got some good pictures to share soon, but in the meantime, here’s a brunch board, inspired by Cup of Jo, that I put together last Sunday at our friends’ apartment.

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For most of our 3 weeks on the road, I skipped the news entirely; I checked in on social media now and again, but on the whole I let the news of the day pass me by. It was a good break, but now that I’m back at work (all news industry all the time) and on the intertubes all day (you people share some good stuff!) I once again have 20+ browser tabs open at any given time. I may not get to all the good content out there, but I’m giving it the ol’ college try. (Which means what, exactly? Let Google Books be your guide.)

Here are some articles that have been making me say “Right on!” this week.

• How feminists took on the mainstream media and won. Quartz.com, by Kate Groetzinger. Lays out the details of a phenomenon I knew was happening, but didn’t realize was so widespread (or recent).
• Things my male tech colleagues have actually said to me, annotated. The Toast, by Cate Burlington. “‘Haha, that guy thought you were the receptionist!’ Did he? My, what a hilarious turn of events.” MMMMHM.
• The hidden economies of porn. The Atlantic, Joe Pinsker. Totally fascinating look at the effects of a major economic driver that is still largely underground.
• Finding, and connecting with, our son’s sperm donor siblings. Washington Post, by (my friend!) Jordan Namerow. Jordan’s lyrical voice came through in this story – and her son is hella cute.

After 3 weeks, 4000+ miles, and countless hours in the car, we’ve arrived in New York. Lots of Big Feelings along the way, along with Big Views and Big Visits. While I’m still, you know, processing all the changes, here are some pics from the trip.

California…

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I’m of the opinion that batter and dough are often better than the baked goods they produce – maybe it’s because eating them is a bit illicit (breaking the ruuuuuules!), or because the little nibble you can sneak is the perfect amount, or maybe it’s because they represent potential, the buttery sugary possibilities of a recipe before you add too much of one thing or another, or one side collapses, or it comes out of the oven a bit dry. But guess what, kids – that won’t happen with Food52’s Ooey and Gooey Double-Baked chocolate cake.

Let me tell you why this sucker is almost fullproof: you’re intentionally baking some of it twice, while underbaking the rest, and even in the best of circumstances it’s a bit humble looking. So it’s not surprising I’ve fallen in love with this here piece of warm chocolatey goodness, which I’ve made lately made on three occasions: (more…)