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Weekly Notes: Big Comfort Upgrades and a Useful Little Script (Week 8, 2026)

CybersecKyle · 2mo

Sorry for another late post. It has been a busy week again plus I have just been taking a break from the internet. As a result, I haven’t been writing as much. The vibe A “touch...

Do the Next Right Thing: Carl Jung on How to Live and the Origin of His Famous Tenet for Navigating Uncertainty

“There is no pit you cannot climb out of provided you make the right effort at the right place… do the next thing with diligence and devotion.” In recent seasons of being, I...

Chapter XXV: The Visit to Lord Pococurante, a Noble Venetian

lettrss.com · 2mo

Candide and Martin went in a gondola on the Brenta, and arrived at the palace of the noble Signor Pococurante. The gardens, laid out with taste, were adorned with fine marble...

(47) tears for... an "ED summer camp"

(image courtesy of Homutan) as my first full day here draws to a close, i did not expect the medical curtains of my room to swing shut to hide a cascade of sudden tears. not...

Built for Distraction

We have a rental car right now, our neighbors backed into one of our cars a few weeks ago (need a new door, thankfully that's all). The rental is a Kia Telluride, not sure...

Now

vknabel · 2mo

Currently I mostly do some Homelab stuff, riding my bicyle and enjoying my life in general. By day I work as a Kubernetes and Go Engineer at x-cellent. You might even spot me on...

📰 Best Albums of 2025

foofaraw · 2mo

Welcome to a special edition of Review of Links, as we run through the Best of 2025—better late then never, as they say...A boring list of our straight top ten is freely...

Great RSS Feeds That Are Too Noisy to Read Manually

Evan Schwartz · 2mo

Some RSS feeds are fantastic but far too noisy to add to most RSS readers directly. Without serious filtering, you'd get swamped with more posts than you could possibly read,...

Finding the Right Meditation Without Getting Lost Along the Way

Finding the Right Meditation Without Getting Lost Along the Way mtift Wed, 02/25/2026 - 08:13 Someone told me recently that he had been going through a difficult period. He said...

Links of the day

I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here in daily posts. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive. Samsung unveils Galaxy S26 series. The...

resisting authoritarianism deep dive #5: learn to spot propaganda & psychological warfare

(A series in which I ramble some personal perspective on ICYDAK's "30 Proven Tactics to Resist Authoritarianism in Daily Life," because most of this stuff is just default daily...

Klimatmålssloparen

Klimatminister Romina Pourmokhtari (L) vill avskaffa ett av de mest omstridda klimatmålen—det så kallade transportmålet—och i stället införa ett annat mål. Hon dömer ut det...

Mini-Heap

Daily Nous · 2mo

What’s going on elsewhere… “Aristotle told us there were five senses. But he also told us the world was made up of five elements and we no longer believe that” — Barry Smith on...

Cognitive Warfare

noahie.xyz · 2mo

A thread I've been weaving lately: the consequences of cognitive warfare have completely changed the way we interact with the world. To throw out a phrase like "cognitive...

What Counts as Thinking: Knowledge Externalization Beyond Prose

Cafe Bedouin · 2mo

The Pattern That Demands Explanation For roughly three thousand years, each major technology of knowledge externalization — oral formulaic composition, writing, apprenticeship,...

AeMug Chat #1 / Aether Mug Evolves

Aether Mug · 2mo

In this post I'm trying something different. Instead of writing about my ideas, I'm asking you a question—a tough, Aether-Mug-style question!—for you to discuss with other...

AI's writing and semantic ablation

Sal's · 2mo

Thanks to Kottke for sharing this article from The Register: Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation. The article, which is not long and you...

Book Review — Black as Death by Lilja Sigurðardóttir

Thomas Rigby · 2mo

When the chief suspect in the disappearance of Áróra's sister is found dead, and Áróra's new financial investigation leads to the street where her sister was last seen, she is...

Where The Dark Stands Still by A. B. Poranek - A very biased book review

Where The Dark Stands Still by A. B. Poranek, in short, is a very lovely book for lovers of romantic fantasy genre. It's a single book that tells a single story, and it feels...

Book review: Tiny Moments of Joy

Book review: Tiny Moments of Joy I’ve read Tiny Moments of Joy by George Penney. This book is the culmination of the “tiny moments of joy” the author shares online everyday:...

Haiku for an Endless Winter

stupid snow falls still winter is a juicy fart dropped upon my head Send me an email Latest 3 posts 25 Feb, 2026 Haiku for an Endless Winter 25 Feb, 2026 Haiku for the Dog In My...

Forwarding a Vagrant-based Jekyll dev server to its host

Forwarding port 80 or 22 from Vagrant virtual machines to their host system is fairly simple. Piping non-privileged ports outside the VM–from, say, a development HTTP...

New faves: fonts, apps, software

This is just a quick list of my most recent faves, as I've realized I'm using a bunch of new things recently. Nothing new on my phone (iOS), but plenty of new discoveries for...

Lent and Lisp

After writing last week’s post about the start of Ramadan and Chinese New Year, I expected to hear from people asking why I didn’t include the further coincidence of Ash...

Short Note

My mind is currently stuck on if I should pre-order a Pebble Round 2 smart watch. I love a good smart watch but most I’ve tried haven’t lasted more than a year and a half so I’m...

El Chivo Expiatorio del Arte: Lo que no se contó en el episodio .

#podcast #ArteDegenerado #ElSueñodelArtistaBlog #HistoriadelArte #inoclastas #destrucciondeArte Han pasado unos días desde que publicamos el nuevo episodio «El Chivo Expiatorio...

Smol phone

My iPhone 5s is still working since 2017. It really screams a smol phone1 since it can be held easily with my small hands. Intended as a free phone for Broreleice 1's...

Passing Mt. Fuji・富士山のそばを通る

Seeing Mt. Fuji when I pass by on the Shinkansen never fails to excite. And this location crossing the Fuji River is my favorite place to shoot....

some things i am grateful for at the end of february

The weather in the northeast was hard to pass up this week. Felt spoiled. Here are some things I was grateful for this past week: The smell of old shops and blooming flowers in...

THE LONE TREE ON STONNALL HILL, A DISCARDED BLOSSOM HILL BOTTLE

retiredmartin · 2mo

February 2026. Stonnall. A rare new GBG pub double, and just a 20 minute stroll from Lazy Hill in the West Midlands down to Stonnall over the Staffs border. I am delighted to...

My AI Manifesto

Good grief, I'm thinking and talking about AI too much. Sorry about that. I, too, am exhausted by it and after this, I will try my very best to stfu about it in public channels....

If You Can Keep It (One Citizen's Response to the State of the Union)

BEEW · 2mo

Let me start with the thing nobody on the left wants to admit, because admitting it means owning part of the catastrophe we're currently living through. The Democrats did this....

Intersecting Interests

An Antibubble appearing in soapy water An Antibubble appearing in soapy water (Credit Science News). This is a sphere of liquid, inside a skin of air, inside a liquid again....

Early Flaw With Tuta Calendar-Thunderbird Integration

Replied to Tuta Calendar Thunderbird Integration by Nicholas A. Ferrell AlternativeTo reported that email provider Tuta has released mail and calendar add-ons for Thunderbird......

Legends of Dragaea

cyanbane.com · 2mo

So a few weeks ago I started running Desktop Heroes on a secondary PC I had (a three-generation-old gaming PC) because I snagged it for a pittance and wanted to see what all the...

0008-Open source package and kids story

Sigmarootpi · 2mo

Today was a peaceful day. The reason was the finalisation of the scientific package, which I need to use to work on a short research project. The confusion was between two...

Daily Dex - Salazzle, Wigglytuff and Polteageist

quailblog · 2mo

In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop It's been a few days since I posted the fruits of this manic project's labor, so please enjoy! Mon...

How To Stop Waiting For Life To Start

The most popular link last time was the Amazon van on the Broomway, with this Ask Polly column second. One of the best things I've read about AI in a long while: A.I. Isn't...

sun shower

Dear Ciara · 2mo

Dear Ciara, There is a sun shower. Through the window at work, I watch the individual droplets catch and refract the light. I love the colours, the little sparkles of blue and...

It's Time for American Christians to Stand and Be Counted

Dallineation · 2mo

Yesterday I learned about a letter that hundreds of Christian leaders and scholars had signed which calls for resistance to a cruel and oppressive government and urges all to...

Meretrici de’ luoghi publici — Prostitutes of public places — Habiti Antichi e Moderni — 146.a

"Meretrici de' luoghi publici" (Prostitutes of public places) from the "Habiti Antichi e Moderni", published by Cesare Vecellio, 1590.

Monthly Link Dump: February 2026

This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore,...

Zotero 8 Early Review

FOSS Academic · 2mo

Zotero 8 is out. It includes a new Add Citation system and tab-based notes that might -- might -- make me stop using Zettlr.

Implementing some Online Hygiene

James' Corner · 2mo

Nothing on the internet is private. We all know that. But to what extent is it not private? And are we powerless to do anything about it? I personally don't know. But I'm sure...

Design Considerations for Moderation Tooling

Vale.Rocks · 2mo

I have dedicated substantial amounts of time moderating communities on the internet. One of the duties I fulfil at Stoat has been to moderate content, and in doing so I’ve seen...

A fabulous afternoon at Alms Park

Chris Glass · 2mo

Today the thermometer read 70 degrees Fahrenheit (21°C) and I took the long way home to hit the park. ⊕Currently Listening: MEEK “Fabulous”Reply via email

How long is it?

This is, first of all and primarily, the announcement of a dissertation oral presentation in Stanford’s Department of Linguistics: The role of syntactic structure, contextual...

Carrot Weather has added The Weather Channel as a data source

February 25, 2026 Last October, I wrote about Carrot Weather's limited data sources. In that post, I mentioned my love for Carrot Weather, but noted that the available weather...
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