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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A secret attic workspace

From r/CozyPlaces.

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The Neon Museum

Photo by Tomasz Filipek of the Neon Museum + more from 99% Invisible.

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Fiction resists summary

It is an interesting feature of stories and fiction that they resist summary. You cannot read a summary of Anna Karenina and somehow stockpile its pleasures and charms. Narrative resists compression. Resist Summary

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Good advice

Art by Eve De Haan. Photographer unknown. /via Future Now / are.na

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Dashboards

“every dashboard is a sunk cost / every dashboard is an answer to some long-forgotten question / every dashboard is an invitation to pattern-match the past instead of interrogate the present / every dashboard gives the illusion of correlation / every dashboard dampens your thinking” Charity Majors

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Snowy night vibes

r/TheNightFeeling

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