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

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.

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The Butchers

Photo by Gaetan Flamme from worldsportsphotographyawards.com. Found via the always great Curious About Everything.

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

Art by Owen Pomery via his newsletter.

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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!

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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.

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Solitude changes us

The individual preference for solitude, scaled up across society and exercised repeatedly over time, is rewiring America’s civic and psychic identity. And the consequences are far-reaching—for our happiness, our communities, our politics, and even our understanding of reality. From The Anti-Social Century. Emphasis mine.

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