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.
Ghimli Sans: A font with “a nice ol' boozer vibe.”
Marginalia Search: “Find lost old websites.”
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.
Yuval Noah Harari on the Hard Fork podcast.
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.
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”
Snowy night vibes
Go light
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.
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.
People are following their “personal taste curation” instead of “mass consensus.” /via Jorge Arango