Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026mfw when they released Mac OS X Public Beta in september 2000 030
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 22/06/2026you know wednesday was last week right? you can just look up complete early voting numbers. you don’t have to do this. 130
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 20/03/2026i quit astrophysics 12 years ago, but one thing that will get me to read an astro-ph posting to the arxiv is "Author: @hogg.bsky.social" and "white paper". "Why do we do astrophysics?" does not disappoint arxiv.org/abs/2602.10181. surely the first arXiv posting with "ACAB" in it. 120
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 05/01/2026non-fiction: annie jacobsen - nuclear war: a scenario (nuclear wonks have quibbles with this iiuc, i don't care) bridget read - little bosses everywhere: how the pyramid scheme shaped america (good antidote to the idea that the current grifts are new) 000
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 05/01/2026old fiction: stephen peck - a short stay in hell (reread, chiang/borges vibes) marlen haushofer - the wall (1963, but has smarter things to say about our relationship with nature and tech than a lot of rescent stuff) william peter blatty - the exorcist (audiobook, read by the author, insane) 210
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 05/01/2026my top books of 2025. new fiction: helen philips - "hum" (ai job replacement literary dystopia, goes well with "the wall", see below) vincenzo latronico - "perfection" (kyle chayka's airspace in a novella form) 130
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 06/12/2025apparently so. per BLS data the household income share spent on housing and essential services (health, college, childcare) are up about 5% since 1990. piece about this in today's FT (www.ft.com/content/3fa9..., gift link). 011
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 29/11/2025the Saturday Financial Times, the only good newspaper that you can get delivered in New York City 020
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 05/11/2025i get reminded of it every time i am tempted to engage with obvious bait. the thing that reminded me of it this time was: 030
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 06/09/2025saw this on the subway today. the woman wearing it seemed like she had it all figured out. 010
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 29/04/2025the 30 year fixed mortgage enjoyed by homeowners in the US is almost unique! a wonder of financial engineering made possible by your friend and mine, a federal government with a mandate and reserve currency status. when I tell my friends in the uk about mine they are quite simply staggered! 071
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 16/02/2025I don’t usually like to brag but …check out my new socks 030
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 15/01/2025incredible image taken by don petit from the dragon crew 9 vehicle port window over the weekend (via arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...) 020
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 08/01/2025bit of fire and a lot of smoke/ash/embers at the main entrance archway 100
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 03/01/2025and the non-fiction Ian Kershaw - To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949 Adam Higginbotham- Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space Robert Caro - The Passage of Power (LBJ #4) Henry Grabar - Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World 111
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 03/01/2025more fiction Paul murray - the bee sting tony tulathimutte - rejection 100
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 03/01/2025my top books of 2024 (a thread in n parts). starting with fiction, and in no particular order: miranda july - all fours danzy senna - colored television molly aitken - bright i burn 161
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 09/12/2024"with the lead pipe in the fourth bedroom walk-in" looking floor plan 010
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 25/11/2024went for a walk today, marble hill to battery park. highly recommend it if you have the chance! 131
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 01/10/2024under-appreciated dog whistles in this JD that is doing the rounds are “barbell gym” and (especially) “EV”. i would bet my 401k match and that over half the c-suite of this company is addicted to sports betting and/or creatine. 18445
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 03/09/2024yup. I finally got around to that “I will fucking piledrive you if mention AI” piece that did rounds a couple of months back. your observation reminds me of this bit. 110
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 08/08/2024if I got this in a coding interview I would immediately withdraw my application but I guess this stuff does actually come up sometimes (i.e. if you work for 538?) 010
