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Finished Reading 2026: Born on a blue day by Daniel Tammet 📚 I enjoyed this book. It was one I couldn’t put down, so I read it in a day. I really liked learning about his world and the idea of visualizing numbers is fascinating.
Astral Codex Ten (and its predecessor Slate Star Codex) is a wildly popular blog by psychiatrist Scott Alexander about “a sort of hidden node at the center of art and harmony and rationality and the rest”. Scott’s writing has been...
Komeda Coffee opened in our train station while I was in HawaiiWe tried to eat here at lunchtime but the line was kinda krazySo on a Sunday, we went when they opened at 7:00 It took some time for us to figure out how to order on the...
Summary from the back of the book:Welcome to the Grand Abeona Hotel: home of the finest food, the sweetest service, and the very best views the galaxy has to offer. All year round it moves from planet to planet, system to system,...
Set in a massive slower-than-light spaceship halfway between Earth and a planet called Hurriya, Mahmud El Sayed’s debut novel The Republic of Memory explores the relationship between language, politics, and culture in an Islamic society...
Cranes on the downtown skylineIs a sight to see for someIt ought to make a few reputationsIn the cult of number oneWhile these seconds turn these minutes Into hours of the day While these doubles drive the dollars And the light of day...
I don't think it's a coincidence that atproto is taking off at the same time AI is. Well, okay, it kind of is a coincidence. I don't think anybody planned these things to work out at the same time. But it's a lucky alignment that I think...
Desert Brat 2026-08-21 meow meow meow
Power Cat 2026-08-21 boo
lingthusiasm:Talk, talked. Walk, walked. Go…went?In this episode, your hosts Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne get enthusiastic about the many ways that languages are irregular in their patterns! We talk about sound and spelling...
00:18 - Binged season 1 of Ghosts (UK). I needed a pick-me-up. I first watched it in 2020 after Spyder died. I didn't know they had 5 seasons! I only got up to season 2 last time.
My father passed recently, and he was twice my age. I am approximately the same age that he was when I was born, and I am now "the old generation" - there's no one left in the generation above me.At the same time, I recently joined a...
I’m not going to continue to moan about my immense disappointment in Macstories or Federico. This is the last time I’ll post about it. I promise. After this I’m done. It is what it is and as a fan if I’m honest with myself I’ve had...
I had the time of my life in Chicago. Read about my journey in my lastest blog post!