NEW: A brush fire in Upper Manhattan’s Inwood Hill Park began at around 3 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon, hours after the FDNY reported it had responded to a record 229 brush fires citywide in the last two weeks.

Update: Brushfire still burning over significant part of Inwood Hill Park. Large FDNY operation underway, include marine vessels drawing water from river. Thankfully winds are not strong.

Public is advised to avoid the area, and nearby residents should keep windows closed.

How to know you work in tech: I just realized I put up an OOO notice on Slack last week, but forgot to set up an OOO auto-reply for email because it’s such an afterthought for me. I also removed work email from my phone for the holidays so if you’re trying to email me, too bad!

Big one from me: I wrote about the phrase "not too sweet" in Asian American communities, and the fine line between a loving in-community meme and an exclusive stereotype www.eater.com/23991259/not...

It’s the day after Thanksgiving, which means that besides pie for breakfast, we start listening to Christmas music in my house, starting with this youtu.be/sWEfszb9h8Q

I know we all know this but just a reminder, get ALL the free tests your household is owed, every time, even if you still have a stockpile because it’s one of the few direct tools we have to communicate to the government that WE STILL NEED FREE TESTS and there’s still high demand for COVID resources

I know I’m old because my teen and tween children are unable to explain the use of the word “zesty” to me in a way that my adult brain can comprehend. (I think I should get partial credit for understanding “riz,” though I’d never dare try to use it in a sentence)

Me: Chastises child for picking out the $2.39 Mead folders instead of the $0.59 Target brand ones

Also me: Spends $20 on Starbucks for us all to recover from school supply shopping

We are doing a speed run on "why censorship is a bad idea," but who cares.

"The United States has always been a terrible place to be sick and disabled. Ableism is baked into our myths of bootstrapping and self-reliance, in which health is virtue and illness is degeneracy."

Devastating article: https://wapo.st/3s1vP2i

The paperwork is telling me that my youngest child will graduate high school in 2030, but that’s obviously a made-up Star Trek year, here in the real world it was 1997 just the other day

I think the rule for AI is this: would you let a child with excellent diction, grammar, and access to google but a five year old understanding of logic and the world we live in write this?

No?

Then lol okay

You can pretty much condense the last decade of tech into these two posts

If you are a person of a certain age who wants to experience some ’80s feels, may I recommend the Wham! documentary on Netflix?

A reminder that Bookshop offers free shipping today and tomorrow.

Wait are they really called skeets