Haven't been feeling my best this week, but I wrote a little newsletter about needing a hobby, repairing my old iPod, and how the work I used to do helped build comfort in the present.
www.anxietyshark.ca/hobbies-in-b...
washington post ios paywall any%: 0:00:03.59
A perfect head turn
Fetterman had one good idea in his whole career and the psychiatrists talked him out of it
Anthropic is not your friend, but OpenAI is your enemy
claude is objectively smarter than pete hegseth
devils advocate: charlie kirk
It must be nice to be a sociopath, because all the new products are for you. The smart glasses will give you that womanโs address, the betting apps will finally let you make bank on war crimes.
I'm not good at this game
i have a medical condition where i have the entirety of weezer's "the blue album" stuck in my head please pray for me
A brand new microscope with a cool, also quite fragile and expensive, 3D lens attachment
That button pusher strategy is primo
I recently discovered you can search for a "Film on glass" version of those 128x64 LCDs (as opposed to "chip on glass") and it'll ship without a backlight or the rest of that thing you end up peeling off and throwing away
Concentration camps:
โFor 280 days we havenโt eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We canโt see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
decapped Threadripper 3995WX in a display case. $78.
ouch oof owie
chinese JLC supports cardboard packaging design and implements an internal CAD tool for creating it. i ordered 20 boxes for about 50c each
if anyone wants to see a full catalog of all the cool electronics you could have if you weren't living in a declining imperialist state i would highly recommend visiting taobao.com and going to any lengths necessary to browse its catalog. there are guides on taobao dropshipping on reddit
ST7305 / 7306 1.54" high-refresh sharp-memory-equivalent display. $2ish, 10x cheaper than cheapest US vendor. These haven't quite made it into western maker toolkits but they are going to be all over consumer products in 2026.
Decapped M1 cpu in a display case. $30
A tiny laptop with an 8" screen
Tiny laptop w/ Intel N150, 12GB DDR5, and USB4. $350, no brand, not available in US.
going to offer limited opinion, publicly, on the present domestic horrors since i am currently on a long term trip overseas and would like to be allowed to return home
interesting chips / components i found in china thread.
1 RMB / $0.14 BLE module
I keep thinking โmy god the people theyโve killed seem like exceptionally good folksโ and I think the lesson there is that theyโre not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength
Ive been in china since new years. Has it happened yet? I would know if it happened right
from someone who was in school for the beginning of the "war on terror," please. please please please. talk to teenagers in your life about not joining the us military. about not letting themselves be groomed by recruiters in schools. they're going to want soldiers, and they always start young.
Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.
It is your solemn duty as an American and as a person to do everything you can to oppose this war
Tyrannical fascist gang of pedophiles murdering innocents by the thousands and millions. You do not hate them enough. We all know what they deserve even if we can't say it without it being a crime
oh yeah im in china
