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20260122: A slick idea to trun an apple watch into a mini phone-like thing. Good idea for a minimalist phone with friction to stop you from using it too often.

20260122: This is a very depressing look at the reality of AI today; "The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy" is an essay from a man in Nairobi who essentially had to impersonate multiple personas and lie constantly to users help train AI bots. Incredibly deftly written and powerful.

20251216: Celine!!!

20251216: This poem hits me over and over every few months.

20251125: The poverty line as we know is *grossly* misconfigured. If we calculated it correctly according to the previous standards, our poverty line would be well over 100k per year in the US.

20251125: I have always hated smart vacuums, but this really solidified my hatred for them and for modern appliances in general.

20251108: Zapatismo is not an ideology, it is not a bought and paid for doctrine. It is ... an intuition. Something so open and flexible that it really occurs in all places. Zapatismo poses the question: 'What is it that has excluded me?' 'What is it that has isolated me?'

20251030: A great explainer on "linguistic fantasy" and how subtly annoying it is.

20251030: A prettier-style autoformatter for Python, finally!

20250726: Getting "komooted" is the sad verb of getting bought out by a large uninterested entity to gut and milk your business.

20250724: Never learned this one. Double dragon knot, good alternative to the bowline that has a few more uses.

20250724: A good page on handling the inefficiency of breaking news coverage.

20250513: Another video from the same guy as the Finale video, but about the absurdity of reality TV soundtracks. It's my favorite kind of comedy.

20250513: A fantastic little fever dream about the horrible UI/UX of Finale music notation software and the history of the company. Amazing.

20250506: A cool way to see electrical usage, using this electrical meter.

20250505: A bunch of great tips for woodworking. Real gem of a web 1 style site. No fluff, just good stuff.

20250503: Found these shoes recommended by this cool musician Wizardmaster. Vegan and apparently wildly durable (8 years for them!).

20250419: Excellent deep dive into optimizing SM64's RNG

20250418: Great video essay on curry, love it

20250415: Saw a friend make one of these origami flexagons, looks like a great lo-fi fidget toy.

20250402: Interesting video from Katherout about moving 5 minutes away from their friends and the life benefits it had for her.

20250330: Someone making shitposts about if Kitchen Nightmares was made about tech companies. I would watch the crap out of this.

20250319: Roujin Z is a wild slapstick sci-fi anime. Can't explain much more, just watch it.

20250317: XTC's Scissor Man, forgot about this classic.

20250310: Cool website for alternative non-big-corp software of all kinds.

20250310: Didn't know that change.org is for profit. For profit essentially means "We will sell your data", so there you go.

20250308: Really high quality puerh from China. Heard that their house brand is great.

20250308: Mullvad is a sick #VPN, seems like a good model and works better than my previous one.

20250306: "Howard Payne & Deviant Ollam - This Key is Your Key, This Key is My Key" - Key #reuse is way more common than I thought, #security