Very sorry to hear about the death of Tom Lehrer at age 97. The cleverest, funniest singer/songwriter of all time, even if he lost interest in the whole business pretty quickly? www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIlJ...
Wrote up my takeaways from an AI-heavy Droidcon 2025!
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wrote up some thoughts on why hammerspoon is cool
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wrote up a spiraling appreciation of libraries:
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a sign-in page for the buttondown email newsletter service showing a client-side error
@buttondown.com it looks like the sign-in page is down (alas that I cannot sign in to spew my logorrhea upon the world)
yesterday I wrote a lil newsletter about how I personally feel about the ethics of using LLMs but then @robinsloan.com wrote the (imo definitive) account so you should read that instead: www.robinsloan.com/lab/is-it-ok...
come, take a 5-minute break from the news, bake some cookies with me
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today feels like a good day to read james c scott’s final published work
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I got 70 and most of my other friends were in the 90s 🫠
aaaaaand the best of everything else that isn’t movies
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wrote up some of my favorite movies I watched last year (yes megalopolis is on there)
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Russell Blickhan: "I also have an older essay on "analyzing" and "synthesizing" thinking styles that may be of interest:
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new essay up, on a distinction between farming and foraging thinking styles:
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almost forgot! this week's newsletter: how to take pills
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I list a few in the article! rwblickhan.org/technical/wh...
But to be honest, I don't really use that many extensions — 90% of the value I get out of Raycast is from the built-in commands 😅
wrote up some of the reasons I love (love love love) @raycast.com. genuinely not sure how I would use my mac without it 🙃
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wrote up a few of the reasons I like using fish shell
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newsletter day! a list of things I find mysterious
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cui jian was on tiny desk in 2023 and nobody ever talks about it???
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj05...
in my opinion we would do well to spend less time moaning about echo chambers — which aren't unique to online social networks — and more time being critical of context collapse.
newsletter day! in which I ramble for far too long about arcane and Brandon Sanderson and the history of fantasy
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in honor of open enrollment I wrote a brief guide to us employer-sponsored health insurance (as I understand it)
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also something something high-agency individuals — kinda sounds like the harding test was adopted in the uk / japan just because there was one (1) neurology professor really pushing for it epilepsysociety.org.uk/news/aston-u...
www.animefeminist.com/porygon-was-...
apparently *that* Pokemon episode was partly responsible for the development of modern photosensitive seizure guidelines (which are not applied in the us, eep)
have *you* listened to glass beams' ten ragas to a disco beat cover yet today? youtu.be/w_3hALBro5c
