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Yesterday I was at my favorite library and was about to buy Keith Jarrett’s The Köln Concert vinyl. I resisted the temptation and put it down. Here’s the problem: I don’t have a turntable. Part of me is convinced that certain fundamental...
Blackside Hawkfishes, like others of its kin, are predators that hang out waiting for prey to pass by. I have often seen the waiting part, but never seen one go after anything. Also, according to my fish book, ‘Hawkfishes live in haremic...
Everyone knows the Ponzi scheme. Almost nobody knows the rest: the skin he donated to save a stranger, the wife who stayed 20 years, the charisma that made Boston love a fraudster, and the long ruin that followed.
Discover how I spent all my money and why I'll never do it again.
Brett Terpstra has released Marked 3, and this is not just a routine update. It’s one of those releases that makes you stop and think about where a tool actually fits in your workflow. If you write in Markdown on a Mac, there’s a very...
Brett Terpstra has released Marked 3, and this is not just a routine update. It’s one of those releases that makes you stop and think about where a tool actually fits in your workflow. If you write in Markdown on a Mac, there’s a very...
In late 2021, my partner and I moved to Hong Kong. Several months in, I chatted with a friend I went to high school with in Canada. He couldn’t believe I had moved there. The music I listened to in high school, the language I spoke, my...
Part of the TheranasAI arc within Big Tech's War on Users Thought I was done talking about OpenAI and Sam Altman for a while, right? They didn't get the memo. The trial ended Monday. The jury took less than two hours. While everyone was...
Plex sends a message to the self-hosting community with a massive upcharge targeted at the very people who hate monthly fees.
Today's links Shopping isn't politics: The personal isn't political. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Neither arphid nor RFID; Gor novel sex slave cult; Violent economist sex criminals; Vade et caca in pilleum...
In 2024, I announced that I was quitting my high paying tech job to become a high school computer science teacher. This Big Scary Thing™, as I called it, was a huge leap of faith; I had no formal experience in education, but I had spent...
Steve Roud’s Folk Song in England is monumental, in that if I hit someone with it they’d definitely be knocked out. Joking aside, though, it’s quite the survey of the history of […]