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  • 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.

    → 10:14 AM, Feb 7
    Also on Bluesky
  • 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.

    → 10:34 AM, Feb 4
    Also on Bluesky
  • 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.

    → 9:35 AM, Jan 31
    Also on Bluesky
  • 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!

    → 12:31 PM, Jan 28
    Also on Bluesky
  • 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.

    → 10:17 AM, Jan 15
    Also on Bluesky
  • 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.

    → 11:17 AM, Jan 14
    Also on Bluesky
  • A secret attic workspace

    A narrow attic workspace with a workbench, comfy chair, shelves, a very small window, and lots of wood.

    From r/CozyPlaces.

    → 1:21 PM, Jan 13
    Also on Bluesky
  • The Neon Museum

    Neon signs inside a hall including a mermaid with a sword and shield.

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

    → 1:02 PM, Jan 10
    Also on Bluesky
  • 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

    → 11:41 AM, Jan 10
    Also on Bluesky
  • Good advice

    A black and white photo of a neon sign that says “Do Not Trust Robots” with cans of Spam behind it.

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

    → 9:18 AM, Jan 10
  • 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

    → 12:22 PM, Jan 7
  • Snowy night vibes

    r/TheNightFeeling

    → 12:05 PM, Jan 7
  • Go light

    Light Phone 3

    → 11:58 AM, Jan 7
  • January

    A winter landscape seen through a house window. Inside, a house plant, some collected branches, pine cones. Outside, snow on a rural village, a person and a dog walking down a snow covered lane.

    By Stanley Roy Badmin.

    → 10:57 AM, Jan 7
  • Link blogs rock

    Sharing interesting links with commentary is a low effort, high value way to contribute to internet life at large.

    My approach to running a link blog

    → 4:43 PM, Jan 3
  • Doing good versus doing nothing

    In my humdrum life, the daily battle hasn’t been good versus evil. It’s hardly so epic. Most days, my real battle is doing good versus doing nothing.

    Always Go To The Funeral /via SwissMiss

    → 12:04 PM, Dec 24
  • The Death of Music Genres

    People are following their “personal taste curation” instead of “mass consensus.” /via Jorge Arango

    → 11:14 AM, Dec 24
  • wind

    From Eternity! Eternity! by Vincent Glielmi. /via booooooom.com

    → 4:51 PM, Dec 20
  • Haunted Words

    A collection of ghost words …

    🆕 Ghost Artists: “Spotify, the rumor had it, was filling its most popular playlists with stock music attributed to pseudonymous musicians—variously called ghost or fake artists—presumably in an effort to reduce its royalty payouts.” /via pixel envy

    Ghost Hotels: “The “ghost hotel” nomenclature refers to an entire apartment building which is functionally a hotel because most or all units are short-term rentals instead of tenant-occupied.”

    Ghost Network Healthcare: “…he, like millions of Americans, was trapped in a “ghost network.” As some of those people have discovered, the providers listed in an insurer’s network have either retired or died. Many other providers have stopped accepting insurance — often because the companies made it excessively difficult for them to do so. Some just aren’t taking new patients. Insurers are often slow to remove them from directories, if they do so at all. It adds up to a bait and switch by insurance companies that leads customers to believe there are more options for care than actually exist.”

    Ghost Network Television: “Now MTV is a ghost. Its average prime-time audience of 256,000 people in 2023 was down from 807,000 in 2014, the Nielsen company said. One recent evening MTV aired reruns of “Ridiculousness” from 5 p.m. to 1:30 a.m.”

    Ghost Kitchen: “A virtual restaurant, also known as a ghost kitchen, cloud kitchen or dark kitchen, is a food service business that serves customers exclusively by delivery and pick-up based on phone and online ordering.[1] Virtual restaurants are stand-alone businesses that either operate out of an existing restaurant’s kitchen or from a separate kitchen set-up away from a restaurant.”

    See also: American Suburbs Are a Horror Movie and We’re the Protagonists “That’s how I feel when I walk through the bare, people-less parking lots of my neighborhood to get to the grocery store. I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve seen other pedestrians while making this trip. If not for the moving cars nearby, it would be like walking through a post-apocalyptic wasteland. It’s an isolating experience, one that makes me feel very small and vulnerable.”

    → 9:28 AM, Dec 20
  • The art of Silvia Celiberti / Instagram / via booooooom.com

    → 6:10 PM, Dec 18
  • a recurrent theme is a fatigue with the style of self-narration that the platforms encourage — which, whether we realize it or not, has been heavily influenced by brand storytelling logics. We talk about ourselves like we’re products.

    Posting Less

    → 3:51 PM, Dec 18
  • the best defense, the most meaningful work, the best preparation you can do at the level of an individual life is to boost your local resilience. To become a person of place. To connect with the people and land where you live. This is what we’re built to do.

    How I became ‘collapse aware’. This is not a depressing read (or listen, the author read option was great)! /via Dense Discovery

    → 11:59 AM, Dec 18
  • Al Brydon

    → 11:11 AM, Dec 12
  • Kinopio is such a neat tool.

    → 6:20 PM, Dec 11
  • A “Christmas” album that resurrects each year. Example comment:

    The last time my grandfather and I hangout together 2 Christmas' ago, I had this on in the car and I’ll never forget when he told me how much he enjoyed The Grinch flip. It made me so happy. I miss him everyday now. What a good human. Rest in peace.

    → 6:11 PM, Dec 11
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