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How many Halloween cardigans does a goth librarian need?
Some more links today! Two new links here, but the others are from my shared Raindrop folder. I decided I'm going to empty that one out and forget about doing a "post roll-off". Why People Quit Blogging | Unattributed via Bubbles TIL:...
If a subscription-based app requires a login just to look at it, I delete it. If a website requires me to disable my ad blocker before I’ve even seen it, I move on. #LifeIsTooShort
More scenes from the Lower Salmon and Snake: tawny grass, jagged stone, sparse trees, hazy air and a blessed ribbon of water were very much the themes of this summer float. This section of river alternates between gentler, though still...
Molly Templeton writes Perhaps We Could Find Some New Book Topics to Argue About covering DNFing, reading the classics, are audiobooks books, 'performative' reading, gendering books, and genres. But the article doesn't actually propose...
Pushing the frontier of intelligence for less money is exciting, but improvements in the very cheapest models could prove more transformative.
I'm on a football Discord with a bunch of other football nerds. One of the passions of such people is discussing how football teams should be organized to maximize their odds of winning the Super Bowl. How good does your quarterback need...
I enjoyed this blog post by Michael Harley, titled My perfect laptop, which I discovered via Mike Rockwell. It was very interesting to discover what Harley and Rockwell consider to be a great laptop and why. My daily routine has changed...
Busta's back and he brings Dilla beats with him. The post Busta Rhymes & J Dilla – Spazzz appeared first on Sampleface.
Humans have long reported seeing many strange things. We put such sightings into categories, and over time many such categories have become normalized, by acquiring widely accepted explanations. These included eclipses, sea monsters,...
I write this review the day news reaches us of a horrific tragedy in Nepal. Hundreds if not thousands of people have been killed by a glacier collapse, flood and giant landslide. It seems likely that global warming played a role in these...
A week or so ago I was invited to an #AskTheExperts webinar on Raising Independent Thinkers in the Age of AI. It was organized by the Children and Screens: Institute of Digital Media and Child Development and is the first event of a new...
I just successfully repaired my Fairphone 4 for about 15 Euros. The USB-C connector was a bit wobbly since some time already, and recently I could not connect the phone to my Laptop anymore. After getting frustrated that none of my...
About 10 years ago, the big topics that had economists all atwitter included the “secular stagnation” hypothesis put forward by Lawrence Summers and the rising-inequality hypothesis put forward by Thomas Piketty. Put the two theories...
Some exciting news. :) Yesterday, before leaving for the record store, I got offered the restaurant job! We're still negotiating the salary, but it's such a huge relief to know that I passed the trial. All those tears shed, for nothing!...