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.…
The Butchers
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 ...
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.…
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.…
A secret attic workspace
From r/CozyPlaces.…
The Neon Museum
Photo by Tomasz Filipek of the Neon Museum + more from 99% Invisible.…
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…
Good advice
Art by Eve De Haan. Photographer unknown. /via Future Now / are.na…
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…
Snowy night vibes
r/TheNightFeeling…
Go light
Light Phone 3…
January
By Stanley Roy Badmin.…
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…
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…
People are following their “personal taste curation” instead of “mass consensus.” /via Jorge Arango
From Eternity! Eternity! by Vincent Glielmi. /via booooooom.com
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.…
The art of Silvia Celiberti / Instagram / via booooooom.com
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.
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
Kinopio is such a neat tool.