2020-08-20

Felipe Pepe has written a detailed look at MUDs through history and it’s awesome. These games have had quite a run.

Dave McKenna wrote this excellent Twitter thread about how much of crime isn’t punished in the same way we punish lower-impact crime. Wage theft happens frequently, with little recourse for a lot of people. Small-scale theft, meanwhile, is punished with jail time. The solution isn’t necessarily to jail for wage theft, but rather to stop jailing so much and focus on restitution.

There’s a well-known local rock at Hill St. and Washtenaw that’s been there for as long as I’ve been in Ann Arbor, and here’s a video of them placing it.