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Site I like: lynnandtonic.com

Music: Rock the Cowbells by The Beastie Boys / Irn Mnky

Book (to read): State of Paradise by Laura Van Den Berg

Look: Ghost Tree

Watch: Inside Walton Goggins’s Enchanting 1920s New York Lodge. /via Studio Notes

Some Things, Week 6, 2025

something falling from the sky

Photo by Yama Bato.

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism: “Trusted information networks have existed since long before the internet and mass media. These networks are in every town and city, and at their core are real relationships between neighbors—not their online, parasocial simulacra.”

Simulacrum: “a representation or imitation of a person or thing.”

90’s Hip-Hop: A 45 plus minutes mix of Golden Era Classics + Rarities.

Makara Peak Mountain Bike Park Wayfinding: Cool signs.

Ghimli Sans: A font with “a nice ol’ boozer vibe.”

Marginalia Search: “Find lost old websites.”

Existential Kool-aid Man.

The Butchers

A bicyclist races through a city. A line of butchers cheer the cyclist on as they pass their shop.

Photo by Gaetan Flamme from worldsportsphotographyawards.com.

Found via the always great Curious About Everything.

You arrive at the harbour of a sleepy seaside town ...

An illustration of a sea side town showing people swimming in the water and walking along the boardwalk. The water is clear and you can see to the bottom.

Art by Owen Pomery via his newsletter.

The return of the Pebble watch

The new watch we’re building basically has the same specs and features as Pebble, though with some fun new stuff as well 😉 It runs open source PebbleOS, and it’s compatible with all Pebble apps and watchfaces. If you had a Pebble and loved it…this is the smartwatch for you.

Why We’re Bringing Pebble Back

I’m so in!

AI Bureaucrats

You know, the world is being filled with AI bureaucrats that in the armies, in the banks, in the universities, in the governments, more and more decisions, which house to bomb, who is a terrorist, whether to give you a loan, whether to give you a job, whether to give you a place in a university. These decisions are increasingly made by AI. And these decisions are becoming opaque to us.

Yuval Noah Harari on the Hard Fork podcast.