justing.net/webcrumbs-daily

Webcrumbs 24SEP29SUN

2024-09-29T23:59:59-07:00

Apple iPhone 16 Pro review: a small camera update makes a big difference - The Verge
- https://www.theverge.com/24247538/apple-iphone-16-pro-review
- description:
  How to get more photo like photos out of the iPhone 16
- quote: "
  Tone -70 and Color +73.
  "
- comment:
  Turn the tone dial down a lot.
- tags: iPhone, photography, iphonography, how to

Webcrumbs 24SEP28SAT

2024-09-28T23:59:59-07:00

Too much efficiency makes everything worse: overfitting and the strong version of Goodhart’s law : Jascha’s blog
- https://sohl-dickstein.github.io/2022/11/06/strong-Goodhart.html
- description:
  Examples of computing problems, but irl.
- quotes:
  - "
    The strong version of Goodhart’s law: as we become too efficient, the thing we care about grows worse.
    "
  - "
    As an exercise for the reader, you can think about how the strong version of Goodhart’s law would apply to other efficiencies, like the ones in this list: personalized medicine, reducing slack in supply chains, raising livestock, etc.
    "
- comments:
  - There are some good exercises for the reader here.
  - Goodhart’s law: when the measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
- via:
  hacker news
- tags: exercises, computer science, irl
Radius Books : Santa Fe Art Books Non-Profit
- https://www.radiusbooks.org/
- description:
  Photobooks and Artbooks store.
- tags: photobooks, photographers

Webcrumbs 24SEP27FRI

2024-09-27T23:59:59-07:00

Liv Mariah Yarrow – adventures in my head
- https://livyarrow.org/
- description:
  ancient ish history blogger
- comments:
  - Maybe too much niche for my interest level, but certainly interesting enough to keep a link around.
  - Copious references, citations, and pictures of sources.
- tags: bloggers, history
Guided by Vices – Pixel Envy
- https://pxlnv.com/blog/guided-by-vices/
- description:
  Commentary on how the top social platforms are just absolutely have an insatiable appetite for your attention and time.
- quote: "
  …I am thrust into an environment where I am no longer encouraged to have a good time on my own terms.
  "
- comment:
  It’s easy, just turn the damn thing off. Ok, ‘easy.’
- tags: social media, appetites, attention economy
Try the Japanese markets first. Nijiya, Mitsuwa, Marukai Pro tip: Get a real ric... : Hacker News
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41673468
- description:
  Onigiri tips
- comments:
  - filling tips here.
  - See also Just One Cookbook onigiri recipe.
- tags: recipes, Japanese, rice, onigiri
Frosting
- https://anttwo.github.io/frosting/
- description:
  Rendering technique to give objects fur etc.
- comments:
  - I am confused about which parts of these videos are rendered and which parts are video capture. I assume that the park bench scene, stump forest scene, and interior desk scene are real captures and the animations are rendered over/in them. But I’m not 100% sure.
  - Not a lot of comment traffic, so maybe this is not that exciting. It’s hard to keep track of the state of the art at the moment. There have been quite a few tech demos, but idk what’s really commercial yet. Well this is release on PS5, so I guess that counts.
- via:
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41671428
- tags: computer graphics, photorealistic, video games, Bodycam, Unrecord
Maggie Smith, Star of 'Downton Abbey,' 'Harry Potter,' Dies at 89 : Hacker News
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41670429
- description:
  Some recommendations for things to watch in here.
- comment:
  RIP Maggie Smith, I enjoyed everything you made.
- tags: watch, tv, movies

Webcrumbs 24SEP25WED

2024-09-25T23:59:59-07:00

Jonas Hietala: Why I still blog after 15 years
- https://www.jonashietala.se/blog/2024/09/25/why_i_still_blog_after_15_years/
- description:
  Some thoughts from Jonas on how they kept up the habit. It’s a developers blog.
- quote: "
  I keep this blog for me to write, not necessarily for others to read.
  "
- via:
  Hacker News
- tags: blogging, writing

Webcrumbs 24SEP24TUE

2024-09-24T23:59:59-07:00

“Google is serving AI-generated images of mushrooms when use...
- https://kottke.org/24/09/0045338-google-is-serving-ai-gene
- description:
  from Kottke
- comments:
  - Paper books, I tell you, paper books. Pre-2024 probably are best.
- tags: generative ai, image generation
Human resources - Austin Kleon
- https://austinkleon.substack.com/p/human-resources
- description:
  Ellington’s instrument was also his band, and he worked to maximize their already existing strengths.
- quote: "
  he found great players first, and then he wrote music to take advantage of their strengths
  "
- tags: leadership, advice

Webcrumbs 24SEP23MON

2024-09-23T23:59:59-07:00

All records in the Open Content Program (Getty Museum)
- https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/search?open_content=true&ref=mattrutherford.co.uk
- description:
  Public domain art at The Getty.
- tags: art, public domain
Do Something Else - by Kevin Munger - Never Met a Science
- https://kevinmunger.substack.com/p/do-something-else
- description:
  A different aspect of Francis Bacon.
- tags: Francis Bacon
I think it's important to recognize that morality does not apply to any corporat... : Hacker News
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41623833
- description:
- quote: "
  …morality does not apply to any corporation. Corporations respond to incentives and disincentives…
  "
- tags: corporations, moral, social contract

Webcrumbs 24SEP22SUN

2024-09-22T23:59:59-07:00

The golden door # An exhortation
- https://www.robinsloan.com/newsletters/golden-door/#energy
- description:
  The section on participating more, lower your barriers to engaging.
- quote: "
  When a thoughtful reader shares a link, it’s not intrusive.
  "
- comments:
  - I think it’s a good idea, but I don’t think Robin’s recollection of back in the day is accurate for a complete context.
  - But algorithms, yeah, we shouldn’t forfeit our own agency to them.
- via:
  Mark Larson’s week notes
- tags: connecting, internet, sharing
(1) Everything About How Writing Is Taught Is Wrong
- https://samkahn.substack.com/p/everything-about-how-writing-is-taught
- description:
  I haven’t read it yet.
- tags: writing, advice
16 – 21 September 2024 – Walknotes
- https://walknotes.com/2024/09/22/16-21-september-2024/
- description:
  It’s week notes.
- comment:
  The writing advice is at the end
- tags: writing, advice
> Who is your enemy and why do they want to hurt you It seems like the perfect o... : Hacker News
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41616850
- description:
  If you are dealing with the Mossad, it’s already game over for you.
- tags: Mossad, Israel, pagers
🖍 public domain : Are.na
- https://www.are.na/sonia-turcotte/public-domain-7s_4z9j7uqi
- description:
  Someone else’s collection of public domain resources.
- tags: public domain, art
Wikimedia Commons
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
- description:
  A whole lot of public domain ish media. Variable quality.
- comment:
  Maybe I can use this to keep up with some current weather events, or get some eyes on the street.
- tags: photography, public domain
The Age of Software Artisans : Hacker News
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41612578
- description:
  It’s the comments section on a tongue in cheek commentary about how the software industry has changed but is still the same.
- comments:
  - When everything is bespoke, of course it’s all unique and not very interoperable. I don’t believe it will be this way forever. Think standard fastners, standard bicycle parts, standard electrical grid. The current software standards are at the communication layer: networking (sort of ok), email and some sms messaging. These are the older parts of the stack.
  - It’s related to other folk programmers posts.
- tags: folk programmers

Webcrumbs 24SEP21SAT

2024-09-21T23:59:59-07:00

How to Think About Politics Without Wanting to Kill Yourself
- https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-think-about-politics-without
- description:
  The post offers a framing device, a theory, to make sense of American two-party democratic politics in general, and the one or two conceptual steps necessary to do beyond just voting.
- quote: "
  …it is more accurate to divide most politicians into two broad categories: Enemies, and Cowards. The enemies are those politicians who are legitimately opposed to your policy goals. The cowards are those politicians who may agree with your policy goals, but will sell you out if they must in order to protect their own interests.
  "
- comment:
  I will test this theory.
- tags: politics, how to

Webcrumbs 24SEP20FRI

2024-09-20T23:59:59-07:00

How NASA swapped Voyager 1's thrusters from 50 billion miles away
- https://www.adastraspace.com/p/voyager-1-thruster-swap
- description:
  An update on the Voyager 1.
- quote: "
  …2036 is the point Voyager 1 will travel beyond the range of the Deep Space Network and it will no longer be able to communicate with Earth, even if it still has power and the ability to keep itself pointed at the Earth.
  "
- comment:
  This is why I follow Ad Astra.
- tags: NASA, Voyager, space
Some places where you could search for personal blogs https://nownownow.com/ htt... : Hacker News
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39805883
- description:
  A list of sites to find blogs at.
- comment:
  Related to Manu’s lament about how hard it is to find good (non-dev) blogs.
- tags: blogs, internet
The Carrington Event — Loud Numbers
- https://www.loudnumbers.net/carringtonevent
- description:
  Sonification of the (very old) data from very bad solar storm in the 1850s.
- via:
  Duncan Geere’s month notes
- tags: space weather, sound
The ice cave beneath Útgönguháls in Suðursveit. : HLJÓÐMYND - SOUNDIMAGE
- https://fieldrecording.net/2024/09/19/the-ice-cave-beneath-utgonguhals-in-sudursveit/
- description:
  Field recording from an ice cave.
- tags: field recording, ambient
Poorly Drawn Lines • in the ocean
- https://pdlcomics.tumblr.com/post/762064004883611648/in-the-ocean
- description:
  It’s a 4 panel comic of an interview with a fish.
- comments:
  - Seems related to our information environment. Not sure that’s intended by the artist.
  - We swim in a sea of information at all times, we don’t even notice it.
- tags: Poorly Drawn Lines, information, ocean, the what, Nexus, Yuval Harari
Recipes
- https://www.jefftk.com/recipes/
- description:
  JeffTK’s recipes
- comment:
  I don’t know Jeff, but I’m interested to know some of his recipes.
- tags: recipes
Best NYT Cooking Recipes - The New York Times
- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/dining/best-nyt-cooking-recipes.html
- description:
  50 popular and successfull recipes from the last/first 10 years of NYT Cooking
- comment:
  I have made a few of these and bookmarked several more over the years.
- tags: cooking, recipes

Webcrumbs 24SEP19THU

2024-09-19T23:59:59-07:00

Drone Awards 2024 – in pictures : Art and design : The Guardian
- https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/sep/16/drone-awards-2024-in-pictures?utm_source=DamnInteresting
- tags: photography
VURT YOUR ENTHUSIASM (22) – HILOBROW
- https://www.hilobrow.com/2024/09/18/vurt-22/
- description:
  Warning, spoilers. It is a recognition and description of the AIs in Gibson’s Neuromancer.
- quote: "
  In Neuromancer’s cyberspace he [Case, the protagonist] is faced with the very thing he was running from: the intolerable abyss of the human experience.
  "
- tags: Gibson, Neuromancer
Aphrodite Signified More Than Beauty – Five Other Realms In Which The Greek Goddess Also Reigned - Ancient Pages
- https://www.ancientpages.com/2024/09/18/aphrodite-signified-more-than-beauty-five-other-realms-in-which-the-greek-goddess-also-reigned/#google_vignette
- description:
  Aphrodite presided over politics, business, war, human relationships, and nature.
- comments:
  - I like the pointing out of additional complexity of this diety.
- tags: greek mythology, Aphrodite

Webcrumbs 24SEP18WED

2024-09-18T23:59:59-07:00

Arbitrarily Adapting
- https://lmnt.me/blog/arbitrarily-adapting.html
- description:
  The author’s thesis is that devs spend wasted effort adapting their apps to Apple’s annual hardware design changes instead of making the app that they really want.
- quote: "
  jumbo phone hell
  "
- comments:
  - It does seem like there is a lot of overfitting necessary to make the visual design of things look right on each pocket computer model.
  - I’m not saying that we should make a fixed standard for pocket computers, but maybe some standard tools for families of devices? Surely design can be made to flow for that and look good and not all samey.
  - See also the folk programmers post. We don’t know what we’re doing.
- tags: folk programmers

Webcrumbs 24SEP17TUE

2024-09-17T23:59:59-07:00

iPhone 16's A18 Pro chip outperforms the M1 chip in new benchmarks [Updated] - 9to5Mac
- https://9to5mac.com/2024/09/14/iphone-16-pro-m1/
- description:
  The M1 is only 4 years old.
- comment:
  This is weird.
- tags: iPhone, Apple
Top 10 things to do in Central Park in the summer – Lonely Planet - Lonely Planet
- https://www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/top-10-activities-central-park
- description:
  No. 8 is about the lamposts. They have a decoder ring.
- quote: "
  Each one has a numbered plaque, the first two or three digits of which indicate the nearest cross-street, while the last digit lets you know whether you’re closer to the east (even number) or west (odd number) side of the city.
  "
- comments:
  - I wish they had included a picture of the plaque.
  - This is one of those secret keys of knowledge that if you know to notice, you notice more. Related to On Looking.
- via:
  No. 12 in Messy Nessy newsletter
- tags: NYC, New York, Central Park, On Looking

Webcrumbs 24SEP16MON

2024-09-16T23:59:59-07:00

The Halifax EDC Screwdriver – The James Brand
- https://thejamesbrand.com/products/the-halifax?variant=20472851234886
- description:
  Small bottle opener sharpish edged thingy. Keychain tool.
- comment:
  Gruber has one.
Views of Macau Skyscraper From the Streets Looks Like Sci-Fi – Moss and Fog
- https://mossandfog.com/views-of-macau-skyscraper-from-the-streets-looks-like-sci-fi/
- description:
  Big skyscraper in the distant background of close urban housing.
- comment:
  It’s like my Canaveral Seashore photo.
- tags: dystopia
dumbphone
- https://reysu.io/dumbphone
- description:
  That minimalist simplified phone screen list look.
- comments:
  - dumbify app 5$
  - small phone. matte screen protector
  - SocialFocus Safari plugin 12$/y after 3$.
  - UnTrap for YT, Safari plugin 12$/y after 3$.
  - SocialFocus and UnTrap have a 3rd partner app by the same developer: DumbPhone, 3$ one time.
  - Those three apps come in a bundle for 6$.
- tags: YT, Social, Dumb Phone
Emojityper
- https://emojityper.com/
- description:
  Type words to select emojis and press enter to get them on the clipboard.
- via:
  https://mango.pdf.zone
- tags: single use websites, emoji
I give you feedback on your blog post draft but you don't send it to me
- https://mango.pdf.zone/i-give-you-feedback-on-your-blog-post-draft-but-you-dont-send-it-to-me
- description:
  How to write blog posts so it’s easier for people to be interested and read them.
- comment:
  See also this HN comment
- via:
  Hacker News
- tags: blogging, writing, how to

Webcrumbs 24SEP15SUN

2024-09-15T23:59:59-07:00

Dissecting a Photo: American Dystopia - YouTube
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdSrZTP-SPM&t=1860s
- description:
  In this last chapter of the video, Nick discusses the headier bits.
- comment:
  One key point for me was his description of capturing the ephemeral aspects that are of this time.
- tags: photography, photographers
How The Intellectuals Lost (Many Times Over) - by Sam Kahn
- https://samkahn.substack.com/p/how-the-intellectuals-lost-many-times
- description:
  The thesis is that organizing people into a managerial machine is more effective than maximizing individual potential. The average is easier to lift a small amount and sum over many people in order to achieve more than it is to have a single or a few outliers pull the average up by their efferts alone.
- quote: "
  Bacon’s crowning idea was to do things through an organizational structure in which personal attainment as well as the search for higher truth were deemphasized.
  "
- comment:
  I haven’t read it all.
- tags: Francis Bacon
National Geodetic Survey
- https://geodesy.noaa.gov/
- description:
  Database of geodetic markers.
- comments:
  - If you need a random nearby-ish destination, this is one possible source of those.
  - Scroll down in the pop up.
  - Use the passive info page to get a text log about the marker.
- via:
  On Looking notes, part 3
- tags: geodesy, NOAA, maps
Home - ExtremeGeographer.com
- https://www.extremegeographer.com/
- description:
  A geography consultant blogs about his epic roadtrip. And donuts.
- comment:
  Geography? Pictures? Random arbitrary destinations? What’s not to love?
- tags: geography, road trip
gilest.org: Again, notes from Tuscany
- https://gilest.org/tuscany-2024.html
- description:
  It’s a recap of Giles’ vacation trip to Tuscany.
- comments:
  - Sounds like a nice trip.
  - It’s got a good balance of description and highlights without drowning in details.
  - Unexpected focus on geothermal features.
- tags: travelogue, Italy, Tuscany, San Gimignano, geothermal, medieval, hill town
I am surprised that no one has mentioned the most obvious alternative: Bing Cach... : Hacker News
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41546632
- description:
  Bing has a cache alternative to the now removed Google Cache.
- comments:
  - Another place to look if the Wayback machine fails to have a copy.
  - By induction, there are several sources for caches. If one isn’t helping, then try another.
- tags: hacks
Ten Strong Suggestions for Surviving the Age of Misinformation
- https://experimentalliving.substack.com/p/ten-strong-suggestions-for-surviving?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
- description:
  What it says on the tin.
- comments:
  - There are only 5 suggestions. Not what it says on the tin. The other 5 will come later in part 2.
  - Finding the truth (‘truth’) can be kind of like a puzzle game. Don’t play it with people who aren’t fun? But do engage. It’s easier if it’s not a war.
  - A group of experts is more likely to be right than any individual. Be more skeptical of the individuals than the consensus.
  - Put percentages to what you believe. This forces you to examine it a little bit more. Maybe to start to articulate why you believe it at that level and seek supporting or better yet contrary evidence.
  - Our memories are weak. Remember that. Ha.
  - Prefer sources of information that admit, advertise even, there past errors.
- via:
  Recommendo
- tags: disinformation
Bestvaluepicks
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Bestvaluepicks/top/?t=month
- description:
  Best of Home Shopping Network of the internet
- comment:
  Some random ass things in here.
- tags: shopping

Webcrumbs 24SEP14SAT

2024-09-14T23:59:59-07:00

California Weather: 1-2 Storm Systems Arriving! - YouTube
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxN0upiFl2I
- description:
  September 14, 2024 weather forecast for the state.
- comment:
  Colder, then warmer.
- tags: wx, weather
The Countdown Begins! Watch for T Corona Borealis, A Once-in-a-Lifetime Nova. - YouTube
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-dE-3N9EvQ
- description:
  A bit of background on the blaze star. From NASA.
- comments:
  - Basic, but useful. Aimed at lay audiences.
  - The artists rendering makes it look rather larger than it will actually be.
- tags: astronomy, T Corona Borealis, Blaze star, NASA, YT, TCRB
Bridge Fire Explodes in size timelapse #BridgeFire - YouTube
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJROj6hs8x4
- description:
  Timelsapse view of a fire behind downtown LA, in the hills, from earlier this week.
- comment:
  Surreal view.
- tags: YT, forest fire, timelapse
Use these simple techniques to make Veg broth like a boss - YouTube
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M72oVn5YVlY
- description:
  A ‘chef-y’ vegan mushroom barley soup that looks great.
- comments:
  - This looks really tasty!
  - Pity about the sound, but it’s ok.
  - There are some things I would do differently next time. Roast at 400 F. Remember to toast the barley, since he doesn’t put that in the text version. He says to cook the mushrooms in the broth too but I didn’t do that; try it next time.
- tags: YT, recipes, vegan, mushrooms, dinner, soup
On: Why use metaphors in conflicts? Because understanding is remembering in disguise (2009) : Hacker News
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41539260
- description:
  Comment about the book ‘Metaphors we live by’ by Lakoff and Johnson
- comment:
  Metaphors and language in general is one of my interests.
- tags: Hacker News, books
Lens : The Doc Web
- https://lensmag.xyz/story/the-doc-web
- description:
  A long article about using Google Docs to publish things.
- comment:
  I haven’t read it all yet, but it is lining up very well already with what I am doing right here.
- via:
  Links I would gChat you
- tags: archiving, publishing, raw notes
19 – 13 September 2024 – Walknotes
- https://walknotes.com/2024/09/14/19-13-september-2024/
- description:
  weekly walk notes
- comment:
  There are some links in the other things section about about writing well. Story Club in Syracuse. Boiling water, no vignettes. Whatever.
How to generate and enrich pages in a Jekyll blog : AlphaHydrae
- https://alphahydrae.com/2021/01/how-to-generate-and-enrich-pages-in-a-jekyll-blog/
- description:
  It’s a tutorial for using a generator to make a page or post in Jekyll.
- comment:
  Includes links to example code.
- tags: jekyll, how to
Gen-Ji-Mai Whole Grain Brown Rice, The Healthiest Brown Rice
- https://www.genjimairice.com/
- description:
  It’s brown rice that barely tastes like brown rice. Also it cooks faster.
- comment:
  Friend recomments.
- via:
  J
- tags: rice, brown rice, lunch, dinner
- categories: culinaria
Yume - Short Grain Rice - JFC International
- https://www.jfc.com/rice-expert/yume
- description:
  It’s Japanese rice.
- comment:
  Friend recommends.
- via:
  J
- tags: rice, dinner, lunch, sushi
- categories: culinaria
» Twelve More Black and White Landscape Photography Books - from QT Luong's Blog
- http://www.terragalleria.com/blog/twelve-more-black-and-white-landscape-photography-books/
- description:
  Part two of landscape photobooks.
- comment:
  I like this guy’s photos, so always interested to see those people’s inspirations.
- via:
  His blog.
- tags: photography
Faster, Better, Spaghetti & Meat Sauce -- Brian Lagerstrom
- https://www.brianlagerstrom.com/recipes/faster-better-spaghetti-amp-meat-sauce
- description:
  A 30 minute, one pot, meaty spaghetti. The webpage.
- comment:
  the recipe that goes with the video
- tags: dinner, recipes, spaghetti, Brian Lagerstrom
The Faster, BETTER Way to make Spaghetti & Meat Sauce (25 Mins!) - YouTube
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrFQkLyGLzc
- description:
  A 30 minutes, one pot, meaty spaghetti. The video.
- comment:
  this is goooood
- tags: dinner, recipes, spaghetti, Brian Lagerstrom, YT
Books We Love I Challenger Breadware
- https://challengerbreadware.com/product-category/books/
- description:
  Some recommended bread making books from bread focused online shop.
- comment:
  Some books that I do not have here.
- tags: bread, books
Long-term nuclear waste warning messages - Wikipedia
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warning_messages
- comment:
  Weird english happens in this text. And it is always good for deep time thinking.
- tags: nuclear, time
Astronomy photos winners and finalists for 2024
- https://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2024/sep/13/astronomy-photographer-of-the-year-2024-winners-finalists
- comment:
  beautiful
- via:
  Damn Interesting
- tags: art, space, photography, astrophotography, astronomy

Webcrumbs 24SEP01SUN

2024-09-01T23:59:59-07:00

Gallery Nucleus Online Art Store
- https://www.gallerynucleus.com
- description:
  Contemporary illustrations and stuff.
- comment:
  Nice looking source of curated art.
- via:
  Probably Collosol.
- tags: art
Moon mission Artemis: a critique
- https://idlewords.com/2024/5/the_lunacy_of_artemis.htm
- description:
  A random online person takes a deep look at what it will take to get to the moon soon. They have doubts.
- comment:
  guys, this sounds like it’s going to be hard.
- via:
  hacker news
- tags: moon, NASA, Artemis
Blade Runner Aquarelle Edition
- https://archive.org/details/blade-runner-aquarelle-edition
- description:
  Every scene or frame in the movie is redone in watercolor.
- comment:
  I haven’t watched it yet.
- via:
  Best of MetaFilter
- tags: Blade Runner, movies
Dewey Decimal Topics
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dewey_Decimal_classes
- description:
  All of the categories in the Dewey decimal system.
- comment:
  It’s a map for browsing the library better.
- tags: hacks
How I Use AI
- https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2024/how-i-use-ai.html
- description:
  Blog post on how a Googler is using AI (the chat bots) recently.
- comment:
  I’ve read some of it, I guess I’m starting to grok it.
- via:
  hacker news
- tags: how to, ai
The Good Milk List
- https://cheesemaking.com/pages/good-milk
- description:
  It’s a list of places to buy really good, the best, milk. For making cheese.
- comment:
  I plan to use it for ice cream
- tags: dairy, dessert
- categories: culinaria
How to build anything extremely quickly
- https://learnhowtolearn.org/how-to-build-extremely-quickly/
- description:
  It’s a quick tutorial for how to speedrun through making something anything.
- comment:
  Helpful reminder. Too bad about all the mid art tho.
- tags: how to

Webcrumbs 24OCT29TUE

2024-10-29T23:59:59-07:00

Analysts are always looking for some secret economic reason to explain these sta... : Hacker News
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41979832
- description:
  Forcing all pegs through the money hole could be why America has so much of it.
- quote: "
  American culture places money at the center of everything.
  "
- comment:
  That and America is a very resource rich country.
- tags: money, America, america is a death cult
most businesses don’t work that way – Daniel Frank
- https://danfrank.ca/most-businesses-dont-work-that-way/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=most-businesses-dont-work-that-way
- description:
  It’s a theory of how a business subsidizes different products on offer.
- quote: "
  the insurance example reveals a deeper truth about modern businesses: sometimes you’re the subsidy; sometimes you’re subsidized – but unlike what the tweeter thinks, these dynamics leave you MUCH better off.
  "
- comment:
  Counter point: sometimes the products are sh!tty.
- tags: economics, bussiness, tech

Webcrumbs 24OCT28MON

2024-10-28T23:59:59-07:00

Sci-fi books that you may never have heard of, but definitely should read : Hacker News
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41969334
- description:
  Scifi reading recommendations in the comments.
- quote: "
  ‘If you don’t change as a person after having it read it, it wasn’t that great.’
  "
- comments:
  - Added a couple to my to read list: Roadside Picnic, about stalking the zone, and Permutation City about the mathematical universe.
  - another source: SF masterworks list
  - Also added some more Vinge. And Infinite Detail.
  - I had better get reading.
- tags: reading, science fiction

Webcrumbs 24OCT26SAT

2024-10-26T23:59:59-07:00

The Phrontistery: Obscure Words and Vocabulary Resources
- https://phrontistery.info/index.html
- description:
  Online dictionary of sorts.
- comments:
  - See also wiktionary obsolete word senses
  - wiktionary words with archaic senses
  - See also A dictionary of archaic words, by Halliwell, which is a 1989 reprint of an 1850 book.
- via:
  reddit comment
- tags: dictionary
Rachel Knowles - Freelance Editor
- https://www.rachelknowles.net/
- description:
  An editor.
- via:
  Rosecrans Baldwin
- tags: editors
'text fragments' : Can I use... Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc
- https://caniuse.com/?search=text%20fragments
- description:
  Browser support database.
- comments:
  - As usual, iOS is lagging in affordances for things that it does support such as links to highlighted text. I could make the bookmarklet but it’s annoying to navigate to them. So I made a shortcut which is cool I guess.
  - A random link to demonstrate.
- via:
  Pixel Envy reminded me of it.
- tags: web development, tools

Webcrumbs 24OCT24THU

2024-10-24T23:59:59-07:00

What Are The Civilian Applications? (Interconnected)
- https://interconnected.org/home/2024/10/24/soup
- description:
  What if you could have your own home bioreactor?
- quote: "
  My personal deck of oblique strategies
  "
- comment:
  This is a good idea. the personal deck of oblique strategies, I mean.
- tags: oblique strategies

Webcrumbs 24OCT23WED

2024-10-23T23:59:59-07:00

Watch YouTube & Vimeo videos frame by frame : Watch Frame by Frame
- http://www.watchframebyframe.com/
- description:
  Step through yt vids in small increments.
- via:
  webcurios
- tags: youtube, tools
The Opposite of Worry - Story Club with George Saunders
- https://georgesaunders.substack.com/p/the-opposite-of-worry
- description:
  a writing exercise
- quote: " "
- comment:
  200 / 50
- via:
  Craig Mod, and someone else a couple of months ago.
- tags: writing, exercises
Bluesky has launched RSS feeds - Open RSS
- https://openrss.org/blog/bluesky-has-launched-rss-feeds
- description:
  what it says.
- comments:
  - It’s in the profile.
  - see also
- tags: rss feeds, how to
My Family's Comforting Pozole Rojo Relies on This 1 Game-Changing Ingredient
- https://www.seriouseats.com/pozole-mexican-red-chile-pork-soup-recipe-8732258
- description:
  Mexican soup
- comment:
  to try
- tags: recipes, soup, pork
The Log from the Sea of Cortez: John Steinbeck’s Forgotten Masterpiece on How to Think and the Art of Seeing the Pattern Beyond the Particular – The Marginalian
- https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/11/09/steinbeck-log-from-the-sea-of-cortez/
- description:
  Notes from this book.
- comment:
  I should read this post.
- via:
  Marginalian 18
- tags: The Log from the Sea of Cortez, Steinbeck
18 Life-Learnings from 18 Years of The Marginalian – The Marginalian
- https://www.themarginalian.org/2024/10/22/marginalian-18/
- description:
  Notes from making a life one’s own, for the last 18 years.
- quotes:
  - "
    Question your maps and models of the universe, both inner and outer, and continually test them against the raw input of reality.
    "
  - "
    The cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that makes life worth living…
    "
- comments:
  - Several of these resonated. Revisit this.
  - Maybe I should do an annual life lesson.
- tags: life lessons, make it work for you

Webcrumbs 24OCT22TUE

2024-10-22T23:59:59-07:00

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't
- https://www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com/
- description:
  It’s nonstop botany talk in diverse locales.
- comment:
  Foul mouthed, angry at times, and hilarious on his YT channel.
- tags: botany, plants

Webcrumbs 24OCT21MON

2024-10-21T23:59:59-07:00

Nostalgia will not fix this
- https://www.garbageday.email/p/nostalgia-will-not-fix-this
- description:
  The first segment is about our new wide bandwidth planet scale communications paradigm, and BlueSky in particular.
- quotes:
  - "
    Though, I do find Bluesky grating for the same reason I find Portland, Oregon, kind of grating. A sort of ragged tweeness that permeates the whole place and makes it feel like a millennial retirement home.
    "
  - "
    We are experiencing a shift in communication as existential as climate change with ripple effects just as varied and unpredictable.
    "
- comment:
  I’ve been thinking about this too for a while now. We shiftin’.
- tags: internet, communication, many to many

Webcrumbs 24OCT20SUN

2024-10-20T23:59:59-07:00

Your Village: Why there's a statue of a nude woman facing the Iowa State Capitol - Little Village
- https://littlevillagemag.com/your-village-why-theres-a-statue-of-a-nude-woman-facing-the-iowa-state-capitol/
- description:
  Questionable taste in Iowa.
- comment:
  Weird af travel destinations. If I ever find myself in Iowa. It could happen.
- via:
  Christopher Brown’s newsletter.
- tags: statue, Iowa

Webcrumbs 24OCT19SAT

2024-10-19T23:59:59-07:00

Exa Search
- https://exa.ai/search
- description:
  It’s search, but with AI. 🤮?
- comment:
  I’ll try it.
- via:
  Escape the Algorithm’s Are.na for search engins. See other links today.
- tags: search, ai
Ninurta - Wikipedia
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninurta
- description:
  A Sumerian God.
- comments:
  - Similar to Herakles.
  - In my modernity, I always keep forgetting how intertwined, borrowed, co-evolved, and derivative all these human stories are. What’s popular is copied and tweaked or randomly mutated and may become more popular still.
- via:
  Ninurta YT.
- tags: mythology, urbex
Flói in dawn 13th of June 2023 : HLJÓÐMYND - SOUNDIMAGE
- https://fieldrecording.net/2024/10/19/floi-in-dawn-13th-of-june-2023/
- description:
  Annual field recording at the same location. In Iceland.
- comment:
  That’s a good idea.
- tags: field recording, Iceland
Chatelet Bridge - HighestBridges.com
- https://www.highestbridges.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chatelet_Bridge
- description:
  Bridge in the Alps.
- comments:
  - Preeeettttyy
  - This bridge focused wiki is also cool.
- via:
  Hiking GR5
search engines for wandering : Are.na
- https://www.are.na/elan-kiderman-ullendorff/search-engines-for-wandering
- description:
  A list of smol search engines, not based on the biggies.
- quote: " "
- comment:
  Yes, Marginalia makes an appearance.
- via:
  the curator.
- tags: internet, search
I did retail theft at an Apple Store - by Elan Ullendorff
- https://escapethealgorithm.substack.com/p/i-did-retail-theft-at-an-apple-store
- description:
  Looking closely at the text in the apple store, text which you are not actually meant to examine.
- quotes:
  - "
    Apple profits off of the complete and utter obfuscation of emptiness
    "
  - "
    I had been airlifted into a surreal parallel universe
    "
- comment:
  I was in an apple store recently, and opened Messages to check some thumb mechanics / ergonomics and noticed that there were actual texts in there. Something tickled, but I was trying to get in and out and didn’t stop to ask what the heck is wrong with this picture (aka the tickle). It might be worth an especial detour to go and have a closer look.
- via:
  I have no idea, at least two hops from the initial source. From Embedded but where that? Ah, origin of this rabbit hole is Links I would gchat you if we were friends.
- tags: noticing, surreal
Pizza making forum
- https://www.pizzamaking.com/
- description:
  A forum. About making pizza.
- comment:
  Good pictures.
- tags: pizza, forums
Forums Are Still Alive, Active, And A Treasure Trove Of Information - Aftermath
- https://aftermath.site/best-active-forums-internet-today
- description:
  It is a list of active and good forums. A long list.
- comments:
  - A little hard to determine which forum is right for me.
  - Except for pizza, and bread.
- via:
  webcurios
- tags: reference, forums

Webcrumbs 24OCT18FRI

2024-10-18T23:59:59-07:00

I Got Punched in the Face on the Kurfürstendamm
- https://www.wandering.nyc/i-got-punched-in-the-face-on-the-kurfurstendamm/
- description:
  Wandering Berlin today, about high trust societies.
- quote: "
  Because Germany is a country, not a business, unlike the good ol’ USA.
  "
- comments:
  - Dan hits right on one key plank of the cult problem. We’re so infatuated with the business aspects of living we’ve jsut let so many things absolutely atrophy to the point we don’t even notice.
- tags: high trust society, safety net, Berlin, Germany, america is a death cult

Webcrumbs 24OCT16WED

2024-10-16T23:59:59-07:00

Monthly Roundup #23: October 2024 - by Zvi Mowshowitz
- https://thezvi.substack.com/p/monthly-roundup-23-october-2024
- description:
  Grab bag of random things people say and Zvi’s reactions and analysis. He does this every month or so. He’s kinda rationalist about it.
- quote: "
  Doing your own cooking has many nice benefits. You might enjoy cooking. You get to customize the food exactly how and when you like it, choose your ingredients, and enjoy it at home, and so on.
  "
- comment:
  Not everyone can really customize it like a chef.
- tags: problem of home cooking, home cooking

Webcrumbs 24OCT14MON

2024-10-14T23:59:59-07:00

Scale Ruins Everything - by David Coleman - Cold Water
- https://coldwaters.substack.com/p/scale-ruins-everything
- description:
  Where unicorns start and end.
- quote: "
  Tony, Evan, Andy, and Stanley tried to think of the most harmless thing: a universal food delivery service, expanding the options from just Chinese food and pizza.
  "
- comment:
  Good analysis of the simplest most harmless things completely blowing up into the Stay Puft marshmallow man of terror.
- tags: unicorn startups

Webcrumbs 24OCT13SUN

2024-10-13T23:59:59-07:00

Unusual Holidays : near.blog
- https://near.blog/unusual-holidays/
- description:
  Something different and often useful on the fifth of every month.
- tags: holidays
Repairing the Delaware Aqueduct, Where NYC Gets Its Water
- https://www.curbed.com/article/delaware-aqueduct-tunnel-repair-nyc-drinking-water.html
- description:
  NYC water source repair and upgrade this winter.
- quote: "
  ‘At night,’ he says, ‘you could see this haze drifting out of the shaft, and they said it was fog. It’s cold down there.’
  "
- comment:
  The LED rope lighting in the photos is surreally normal looking from the future tech.
- via:
  Mark Larson’s week notes
- tags: infrastructure, tunnels, led rope lighting
Oblique Strategies
- https://stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html
- description:
  web version of the Oblique Strategies deck
- quote: "
  Fill every beat with something
  "
- comment:
  Finally! I’ve wanting this without realizing it for a long time.
- via:
  Mason Curry’s Subtle Maneuvers
- tags: oblique strategies, art, randomness

Webcrumbs 24OCT12SAT

2024-10-12T23:59:59-07:00

Radiohead’s Everything in Its Right Place, 800% Slower
- https://kottke.org/24/10/radioheads-everything-in-its-right-place-800-slower
- description:
  Streeetched tunes
- tags: music, playlist
A Syllabus for Generalists – Syllabus
- https://syllabusproject.org/a-syllabus-for-generalists/
- description:
  A looong list of reading options.
- tags: reading, reference, learn
Anna’s Archive
- https://annas-archive.li/
- description:
  Shadow library.
- tags: library, reference

Webcrumbs 24OCT10THU

2024-10-10T23:59:59-07:00

Vincenzo Pagliuca
- https://www.vincenzopagliuca.com/
- description:
  Photos of isolated houses in Italy.
- via:
  Colossal
- tags: photographers

Webcrumbs 24OCT08TUE

2024-10-08T23:59:59-07:00

A List Of Text-Only & Minimalist News Sites - GreyCoder
- https://greycoder.com/a-list-of-text-only-new-sites/
- via:
  Hacker News
- tags: text only, news, emergencies

Webcrumbs 24OCT02WED

2024-10-02T23:59:59-07:00

Woodworkers Hardware & Crafting Tools : Garrett Wade
- https://garrettwade.com/
- description:
  Online store, based in Brooklyn, NY.
- tags: tools, shopping, garden, craft
Alison Eldred artists' agent: science fiction illustration, fantasy, women's fiction cover art
- https://www.alisoneldred.com/
- description:
  A few illustrator sometimes sell original and prints here.
- comment:
  Cool art.
- tags: art
Primary Device
- https://lmnt.me/blog/primary-device.html
- description:
  What functions does a primary computing device provide?
- tags: devices
Understanding ProRAW. A journey into cameras, RAW, and a look… : by Ben Sandofsky : Halide : Medium
- https://medium.com/halide/understanding-proraw-4eed556d4c54
- description:
  Apple/Adobe ProRAW format and it’s relevance and impact in iOS photos
- comment:
  Very informative.
- via:
  R
- tags: Apple, iPhone, photography, iphonography

Webcrumbs 24NOV27WED

2024-11-27T23:59:59-08:00

Podcasting... good?
- https://www.garbageday.email/p/podcasting-good
- description:
  Not here for the podcasting bit (but I do enjoy panic world), here for the Wicked aside.
- quote: "
  It’s clear that most major studios now are producing movies for primarily for cell phones.
  "
- tags: film production, cell phones
Surveillance Self-Defense
- https://ssd.eff.org/
- description:
  Tutorials to be prepared.
- via:
  Kottke
- tags: tutorials, surveillance

Webcrumbs 24NOV26TUE

2024-11-26T23:59:59-08:00

Dams Public Website
- https://collectie.antwerpen.be/impressedbyplantin/all-woodcuts
- description:
  Public domain woodcuts from a museum.
- via:
  MetaFilter
- tags: public domain, art, woodcuts

Webcrumbs 24NOV25MON

2024-11-25T23:59:59-08:00

IMG_0001
- https://walzr.com/IMG_0001
- description:
  YouTube videos with the default iPhone naming
- via:
  WebCurios
- tags: youtube
Barbara Ueland : Are.na
- https://www.are.na/block/17856995
- description:
  Ideas take time, and sometimes little other ideas need to get out first. Don’t worry about it.
- quote: "
  If good ideas do not come at once, or for a long time, do not be troubled at all. Wait for them. Put down the little ideas however insignificant they are. But do not feel, any more, guilty about idleness and solitude.
  "
- comment:
  It’s a good quote.
- tags: ideas, quotes

Webcrumbs 24NOV24SUN

2024-11-24T23:59:59-08:00

against the [internet] dark forest
- https://www.wrecka.ge/against-the-dark-forest/
- description:
  long essay and the pros and cons of using the internet
- quote: " "
- comment:
  It may take careful reading and noting to get all of the points since thinking carefully about this topic is not really something I have done much of.
- via:
  WAXY
- tags: internet

Webcrumbs 24NOV22FRI

2024-11-22T23:59:59-08:00

Infinite Content
- https://kottke.org/24/11/infinite-content
- description:
  the difference between crate digging & streaming is hunting
- quote: "
  We’re all farm animals that are just being fed
  "
- tags: quotes, Don Hertzfeldt, Kottke
Astronaut
- http://astronaut.io/
- description:
  More random YouTube video, this time with default iPhone naming.
- via:
  I forget.
- tags: youtube
YTCH
- https://ytch.xyz/
- description:
  It’s YouTube but random videos are channels.
- via:
  WAXY
- tags: youtube

Webcrumbs 24NOV20WED

2024-11-20T23:59:59-08:00

Bluesky quick start guide - Google Docs
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HVx7prLajuTZ_naAC3WyqJu4loaf2FRxPZSHSUxKsgk
- description:
  Some Bluesky tips, which is nice.
- comment:
  Lot’s of bsky content rn. Sorry about that.
- via:
  GOOD INTERNET that one right below this one.
- tags: bluesky, Google Docs
Why Bluesky feels right - by René Walter - GOOD INTERNET
- https://goodinternet.substack.com/p/why-bluesky-feels-right
- description:
  More useful bsky stuff at the end.
- tags: bluesky

Webcrumbs 24NOV19TUE

2024-11-19T23:59:59-08:00

Goodnow Farms Chocolate - The Best Chocolate in America
- https://goodnowfarms.com/
- description:
  Expensive chocolate bars.
- comments:
  - The Nicaragua one is good.
  - I’m looking forward to trying some others.
- via:
  Boulder Book Store
- tags: chocolate
Cherry, Ricotta, Olive Oil & Almond Cake
- https://www.letitiaclark.co.uk/post/cherry-ricotta-olive-oil-almond-cake
- description:
  A cake recipe.
- comment:
  Looks yummy.
- via:
  #cooksky
- tags: recipe, cake
notjuliet/awesome-bluesky: A list of tools and clients available for the Bluesky platform
- https://github.com/notjuliet/awesome-bluesky
- description:
  Still being updated, even just now.
- comment:
  See also fishttp’s awesome list too, but it’s not updated lately.
- via:
  Robb Knight but also I searched for it since he points to fishttp.
- tags: bluesky, social, github, awesome

Webcrumbs 24NOV18MON

2024-11-18T23:59:59-08:00

SANDMARC® : Premium Gear for iPhone, Apple & GoPro
- https://www.sandmarc.com/
- description:
  It’s lenses (macro, microscope, telephoto), filters, grips and stuff.
- tags: iphone, photography, shopping
Monthly Roundup #24: November 2024 - by Zvi Mowshowitz
- https://thezvi.substack.com/p/monthly-roundup-24-november-2024
- description:
  I’m just referring to the self driving car part here.
- quote: "
  [social] norms and equilibria absolutely rely on a foundation of human [un/]unpredictability
  "
- comment:
  I added the [social] and [un/] in the quote.
- tags: self-driving cars, norms, social, predictability
Adapting to Japan
- https://lmnt.me/blog/adapting-to-japan.html
- description:
  Applications of not inconveniencing other people.
- tags: Japan, travel advice

Webcrumbs 24NOV16SAT

2024-11-16T23:59:59-08:00

Ailantd : Twitter, Instagram : Linktree
- https://linktr.ee/Ailantd
- description:
  Where to find this artist’s art
- tags: artists, illustrators

Webcrumbs 24NOV13WED

2024-11-13T23:59:59-08:00

LibriVox
- https://librivox.org/reader/18761
- description:
  My aunt’s recordings on LibriVox
- tags: family, recordings
B^- -> D0 K pi pi on pdgLive
- https://pdglive.lbl.gov/BranchingRatio.action?pdgid=S041.676
- description:
  It’s my decay.
- comments:
  - also the LHCb page for the paper of that analysis
- tags: particle physics, LHCb
Bertrand Russell's 10 Commandments for Living in a Healthy Democracy : Open Culture
- https://www.openculture.com/2024/11/bertrand-russells-10-commandments-for-living-in-a-healthy-democracy.html#google_vignette
- description:
  Ten things to make forward progress.
- comments:
  - I’ll rewrite them in my own words:
  - 1) Remain skeptical, always.
  - 2) Face the evidence with eyes staunchly opened wide.
  - 3) It is too easy too quash thought, vigorously avoid doing that.
  - 4) It is far better to argue rationally with opposing views that to shut them down with authority.
  - 5) It is always possible to find a different authority; authority is a dime a dozen.
  - 6) Power is not an effective way to suppress opions, the power is then bound up in suprressing opinions.
  - 7) All opinions were once rare, strange, or weird; don’t worry about it.
  - 8) Relish active argument, it’s more interesting than silent agreement.
  - 9) Be rigorous about the truth, it’s far easier than the alternative.
  - 10) Ignorance is not actually bliss.
  - see also 10 commandments for living virtuously.
- tags: life lessons, philosophy
A Common Sense Democrat manifesto - by Matthew Yglesias
- https://www.slowboring.com/p/a-common-sense-democrat-manifesto
- description:
  Some basic things to think about and possibly orient towards.
- quote: "
  Nine principles for Common Sense Democrats
  "
- tags: democracy, Matthew Yglesias, manifesto, life lessons

Webcrumbs 24NOV10SUN

2024-11-10T23:59:59-08:00

Kalshi ... prediction market
- https://kalshi.com/
- description:
  It’s another prediction market
- comment:
  Anyone know if there is a prediction market analysis/intelligence newsletter?
- via:
  near.bloc
- tags: prediction markets
Good Bones : The Poetry Foundation
- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/good-bones
- description:
  The world sucks but we don’t tell the future generations that right away.
- quote: "
  Life is short, though I keep this from my children.
  "
- comment:
  Yeah, this feels right.
- via:
  Kate Manne’s newsletter
- tags: poetry
From prediction markets to info finance
- https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/11/09/infofinance.html
- description:
  An article that suggests extending prediction markets beyond just elections.
- quote: "
  info finance
  "
- comments:
  - Prediction markets are a source of information that may or may not represent some truth about the state of the world including the future state.
  - Beware Campbell’s law or maybe Goodhart’s law.
  - Didn’t they used to be for more than just elections? I remember the 2000s. Maybe there is some critical mass necessary. I don’t recommend jumping to this conclusion.
- via:
  MR
- tags: Vitalik Buterin, info finance, prediction markets, Campell's law, Goodhart's law
My go-to ice cream book is Jeni Britton-Bauer's https://jenis.com/products/jenis... : Hacker News
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42102238
- description:
  Starch and cream cheese are secret ingredients?
- comment:
  I’m curious.
- tags: ice cream
I always recommend this article: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-neg... : Hacker News
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42101857
- description:
  Negotiation anecdote and article recommendation.
- comment:
  Don’t set a range and recruiters want to hire.
- tags: salary negotiation
Blogroll
- https://www.mollywhite.net/blogroll/
- description:
  Molly White’s recommended follows.
- via:
  Her Bsky, which I am now also following.
- tags: blogroll, Molly White

Webcrumbs 24NOV08FRI

2024-11-08T23:59:59-08:00

Space policy is about to get pretty wild, y’all - Ars Technica
- https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/11/space-policy-is-about-to-get-pretty-wild-yall/
- description:
  New administration, new space plans.
- tags: space, NASA, Artemis, SpaceX, moon, Mars
Daring Fireball: It Doesn’t End
- https://daringfireball.net/2024/11/it_doesnt_end
- description:
  A national wakeup call.
- quote: "
  The lesson is that it never ends.
  "
- tags: Nixon, Hunter S. Thompson
River Park Towers - Wikipedia
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Park_Towers
- description:
  1970s residential towers in the Bronx.
- comments:
  - Dystopia/cyberpunk vibes.
  - See also Waterside Plaza for more
- via:
  The Neighborhoods - Kips Bay
- tags: architecture, dystopia, tower blocks, cyberpunk
Scraps from my notes file (Interconnected)
- https://interconnected.org/home/2024/11/08/scraps
- description:
  First part is about a goverment radio comedy, like a police procedural but bureaucracy.
- quotes:
  - "
    ‘Action forms’ aren’t explained so I assume this is a well-understood term of art, like saying ‘spreadsheet’ or ‘email’.
    "
  - "
    high-frequency bureaucracy
    "
- comments:
  - Is there a list of terms of art, or term of arts or whatever?
- tags: writing, bureaucracy

Webcrumbs 24NOV07THU

2024-11-07T23:59:59-08:00

Question Feed : Metaculus
- https://www.metaculus.com/questions/?topic=top-50
- description:
  Not exactly a prediction market, it’s forecasting aggregation?
- via:
  Zvi
- tags: prediction markets, forecasting
Illiberal Democracy Comes To America - NOEMA
- https://www.noemamag.com/illiberal-democracy-comes-to-america/
- description:
  An article about what’s next, whether that’s more tribalism or improving the other mechanisms of democracy including real discourse.
- quote: "
  The [internet] does not create a public.
  "
- tags: democracy, discourse
Polymarket : The World's Largest Prediction Market
- https://polymarket.com/markets/all/trump-presidency
- description:
  Prediction Markets for Trump Presidency
- comment:
  Well, it’s not necessarily right, but it probably covers the space reasonably well. So it lessens the surprises.
- tags: prediction markets, Trump

Webcrumbs 24NOV06WED

2024-11-06T23:59:59-08:00

Jeff Brouws Exhibit
- https://www.robertmann.com/24-brouws-images-just-about-everything
- description:
  Photographer
- via:
  this isn’t happiness
- tags: photographers

Webcrumbs 24NOV05TUE

2024-11-05T23:59:59-08:00

Anjunabeats Record Label on Apple Music
- https://music.apple.com/us/label/anjunabeats/1543986330
- description:
  They make the Anjunadeep house music.
- comments:
  - Anjunabeats YouTube Channel
  - See also their Anjunadeep YouTube Channel.
- tags: music, record label, house
Kompakt Music Label on Apple Music
- https://music.apple.com/us/label/kompakt/1548337711
- description:
  They make the Pop Ambient releases.
- tags: music, record label
The Send Off - by EMILY WILSON - EMILY’s Substack
- https://emily613.substack.com/p/the-send-off
- description:
  About picking the right words.
- quote: "
  the most ordinary words and phrases – the ones that do not make the reader of the original pause or feel confused – are the hardest to render into another language.
  "
- comment:
  How to invent ordinary sounding phrases that do sound right yet somehow off, foreign but natural, for a different setting in my own writing?
- tags: writing, translating, Homer, The Odyssey, Emily Wilson

Webcrumbs 24NOV04MON

2024-11-04T23:59:59-08:00

The Present Future: AI's Impact Long Before Superintelligence
- https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-present-future-ais-impact-long
- description:
  Some concrete usages of currently available tools.
- comment:
  Some good practical non-coding examples here.
- tags: ai, present tense, future
The Last Psychofauna : near.blog
- https://near.blog/the-last-psychofauna/
- description:
  A take on the state of current internet interactions and or the socials.
- quotes:
  - "
    A large fraction of short-form video content is [‘SFW pornography’].
    "
  - "
    watching short-form video is the opposite of meditation: it is anti-meditation.
    "
- comments:
  - Coherently expresses many things that I have been noticing over the years.
  - Makes predictions. Several are redundant, a couple are obvious but they are concrete. None of them really surprise. Some anti-predictions would be helpful here too.
- tags: internet, ai, social media
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection
- description:
  public domain drop of art from the met
- comment:
- via:
  open culture
- tags: art, public domain

Webcrumbs 24NOV03SUN

2024-11-03T23:59:59-08:00

HearthBakery
- https://hearthdenver.com/
- description:
  Excellent pastries in and around Denver.
- comment:
  I got a Hearth croissant at Cafe 13 in Golden. It’s a damn good croissant.
- tags: bakeries, Denver, Golden, Colorado
Trident Booksellers & Cafe
- https://www.tridentcafe.com/
- description:
  Another great bookstore in Boulder. Smaller size, I think, unless I missed something. But great beautiful books. New books. At the west end of the Pearl Street Mall.
- comments:
  - Bought some art prints here. Would have bought books too but I am out of space in my luggage.
- tags: bookstores, Boulder, Colorado
Browse Books : Boulder Book Store
- https://www.boulderbookstore.net/browse/book
- description:
  Mostly new books but some used books. On the Pearl Street Mall, downtown.
- comments:
  - Beautiful books, this shop is sensational.
  - Also some great chocolate bars to pickup too. Pricey.
  - I bought a few books here.
- tags: bookstores, Boulder, Colorado
The Bookworm ~ Boulder, Colorado's Largest Used Book Store
- http://www.boulderbookworm.com/
- description:
  Somewhat idiosyncratic bookstore away from downtown.
- comment:
  I didn’t find somethings but was surprised to find some other things. Show up for the surprises.
- tags: bookstores, Boulder, Colorado
AI #88: Thanks for the Memos - by Zvi Mowshowitz
- https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-88-thanks-for-the-memos
- description:
  I’m just remarking on the bit about why actually performing the act is important to humans.
- quotes:
  - "
    1: A remarkably large amount of life and media is like that, we need something to have definitely performatively happened in order to move on, but all we really want most of the time is the short summary of it.
    "
  - "
    2: Yes, horses were plowing fields 200 years later. Do you now want to be the metaphorical horses in the future? Do you think this next transition could possibly last 200 years, even if it went painfully slowly? Even the similarly slow version now, if it happened, without the feedback loops AI enables, would be more like 20 years at most, time moves a lot faster now. The idea that things in past centuries took decades or centuries, so they will again now, seems quite foolish to me even for non-AI technologies.
    "
- comments:
  - 1: For humans, to perform the act of demonstrating affection and support takes time and thinking. It takes awareness of the other’s needs and desires, and forming the right words and doing the right acts. It’s costly to put in that time and effort. So that is the purpose of doing it. It’s a demonstration that you value the other person enough to take the time and put in the effort which is not avoidable. If you make a substitution by have an algorithm do those things, it’s kind of cheating, or shortcutting anyway, and not a real demonstration of how much you value it. The receiver needs to be able to distinguish between the truth of the information you are conveying vs not, so skipping the performance of truth is a clear signal. Similarly it cuts both ways; if you perform your truth and the intended shrugs, well, now you know. Move on.
  - 2: Yikes. We’re in for a ride, aren’t we? But then again, what exactly are we 1000x’ing the production of? Mined ore, widget manufacturing, stock trades? I assume it all maps onto money at some point. What of flourishing human life, how much money is that?
- tags: signaling, performance, information, truth
Translating the beginning of the Odyssey: 4 ways
- https://emily613.substack.com/p/translating-the-beginning-of-the
- description:
  It’s Emily Wilson’s substack. She translated The Odyssey a few years ago.
- quote: "
  If you can’t hear meter in English on the page, which is quite common because many people have not had enough practice reading metrical verse, just try reading it out loud (as Homer was experienced in antiquity), and you’ll hear the beat.
  "
- comments:
  - I recently found a used copy of her translation of The Odyssey, and it feels weird to say this, but I’m super excited about it. Moreso than I thought I would be before picking it up.
  - This edition compares translations, which is super intereting.
- via:
  found Emily’s newsletter via web curios.
- tags: The Odyssey, Emily Wilson, Homer