Contemporary illustrations and stuff.
Nice looking source of curated art.
Probably Collosol.
A random online person takes a deep look at what it will take to get to the moon soon. They have doubts.
guys, this sounds like it’s going to be hard.
Every scene or frame in the movie is redone in watercolor.
I haven’t watched it yet.
All of the categories in the Dewey decimal system.
It’s a map for browsing the library better.
self
Blog post on how a Googler is using AI (the chat bots) recently.
I’ve read some of it, I guess I’m starting to grok it.
hacker news
It’s a list of places to buy really good, the best, milk. For making cheese.
I plan to use it for ice cream
It’s a quick tutorial for how to speedrun through making something anything.
Helpful reminder. Too bad about all the mid art tho.
September 14, 2024 weather forecast for the state.
Colder, then warmer.
A bit of background on the blaze star. From NASA.
Basic, but useful. Aimed at lay audiences.
The artists rendering makes it look rather larger than it will actually be.
Timelsapse view of a fire behind downtown LA, in the hills, from earlier this week.
Surreal view.
A ‘chef-y’ vegan mushroom barley soup that looks great.
This looks really tasty!
Pity about the sound, but it’s ok.
There are some things I would do differently next time. Roast at 400 F. Remember to toast the barley, since he doesn’t put that in the text version. He says to cook the mushrooms in the broth too but I didn’t do that; try it next time.
Comment about the book ‘Metaphors we live by’ by Lakoff and Johnson
Metaphors and language in general is one of my interests.
A long article about using Google Docs to publish things.
I haven’t read it all yet, but it is lining up very well already with what I am doing right here.
weekly walk notes
There are some links in the other things section about about writing well. Story Club in Syracuse. Boiling water, no vignettes. Whatever.
It’s a tutorial for using a generator to make a page or post in Jekyll.
Includes links to example code.
It’s brown rice that barely tastes like brown rice. Also it cooks faster.
Friend recomments.
J
It’s Japanese rice.
Friend recommends.
J
Part two of landscape photobooks.
I like this guy’s photos, so always interested to see those people’s inspirations.
His blog.
A 30 minute, one pot, meaty spaghetti. The webpage.
the recipe that goes with the video
A 30 minutes, one pot, meaty spaghetti. The video.
this is goooood
Some recommended bread making books from bread focused online shop.
Some books that I do not have here.
Weird english happens in this text. And it is always good for deep time thinking.
Damn Interesting
In this last chapter of the video, Nick discusses the headier bits.
One key point for me was his description of capturing the ephemeral aspects that are of this time.
The thesis is that organizing people into a managerial machine is more effective than maximizing individual potential. The average is easier to lift a small amount and sum over many people in order to achieve more than it is to have a single or a few outliers pull the average up by their efferts alone.
I haven’t read it all.
Bacon’s crowning idea was to do things through an organizational structure in which personal attainment as well as the search for higher truth were deemphasized.
"Database of geodetic markers.
If you need a random nearby-ish destination, this is one possible source of those.
Scroll down in the pop up.
Use the passive info page to get a text log about the marker.
On Looking notes, part 3
A geography consultant blogs about his epic roadtrip. And donuts.
Geography? Pictures? Random arbitrary destinations? What’s not to love?
It’s a recap of Giles’ vacation trip to Tuscany.
Sounds like a nice trip.
It’s got a good balance of description and highlights without drowning in details.
Unexpected focus on geothermal features.
Bing has a cache alternative to the now removed Google Cache.
Another place to look if the Wayback machine fails to have a copy.
By induction, there are several sources for caches. If one isn’t helping, then try another.
What it says on the tin.
There are only 5 suggestions. Not what it says on the tin. The other 5 will come later in part 2.
Finding the truth (‘truth’) can be kind of like a puzzle game. Don’t play it with people who aren’t fun? But do engage. It’s easier if it’s not a war.
A group of experts is more likely to be right than any individual. Be more skeptical of the individuals than the consensus.
Put percentages to what you believe. This forces you to examine it a little bit more. Maybe to start to articulate why you believe it at that level and seek supporting or better yet contrary evidence.
Our memories are weak. Remember that. Ha.
Prefer sources of information that admit, advertise even, there past errors.
Best of Home Shopping Network of the internet
Some random ass things in here.
Small bottle opener sharpish edged thingy. Keychain tool.
Gruber has one.
Big skyscraper in the distant background of close urban housing.
It’s like my Canaveral Seashore photo.
That minimalist simplified phone screen list look.
dumbify app 5$
small phone. matte screen protector
SocialFocus Safari plugin 12$/y after 3$.
UnTrap for YT, Safari plugin 12$/y after 3$.
SocialFocus and UnTrap have a 3rd partner app by the same developer: DumbPhone, 3$ one time.
Those three apps come in a bundle for 6$.
Type words to select emojis and press enter to get them on the clipboard.
https://mango.pdf.zone
How to write blog posts so it’s easier for people to be interested and read them.
See also this HN comment
The M1 is only 4 years old.
This is weird.
No. 8 is about the lamposts. They have a decoder ring.
I wish they had included a picture of the plaque.
This is one of those secret keys of knowledge that if you know to notice, you notice more. Related to On Looking.
Each one has a numbered plaque, the first two or three digits of which indicate the nearest cross-street, while the last digit lets you know whether you’re closer to the east (even number) or west (odd number) side of the city.
"The author’s thesis is that devs spend wasted effort adapting their apps to Apple’s annual hardware design changes instead of making the app that they really want.
It does seem like there is a lot of overfitting necessary to make the visual design of things look right on each pocket computer model.
I’m not saying that we should make a fixed standard for pocket computers, but maybe some standard tools for families of devices? Surely design can be made to flow for that and look good and not all samey.
See also the folk programmers post. We don’t know what we’re doing.
jumbo phone hell
"Warning, spoilers. It is a recognition and description of the AIs in Gibson’s Neuromancer.
In Neuromancer’s cyberspace he [Case, the protagonist] is faced with the very thing he was running from: the intolerable abyss of the human experience.
"Aphrodite presided over politics, business, war, human relationships, and nature.
I like the pointing out of additional complexity of this diety.
An update on the Voyager 1.
This is why I follow Ad Astra.
…2036 is the point Voyager 1 will travel beyond the range of the Deep Space Network and it will no longer be able to communicate with Earth, even if it still has power and the ability to keep itself pointed at the Earth.
"A list of sites to find blogs at.
Related to Manu’s lament about how hard it is to find good (non-dev) blogs.
Sonification of the (very old) data from very bad solar storm in the 1850s.
Field recording from an ice cave.
It’s a 4 panel comic of an interview with a fish.
Seems related to our information environment. Not sure that’s intended by the artist.
We swim in a sea of information at all times, we don’t even notice it.
JeffTK’s recipes
I don’t know Jeff, but I’m interested to know some of his recipes.
50 popular and successfull recipes from the last/first 10 years of NYT Cooking
I have made a few of these and bookmarked several more over the years.
The post offers a framing device, a theory, to make sense of American two-party democratic politics in general, and the one or two conceptual steps necessary to do beyond just voting.
I will test this theory.
…it is more accurate to divide most politicians into two broad categories: Enemies, and Cowards. The enemies are those politicians who are legitimately opposed to your policy goals. The cowards are those politicians who may agree with your policy goals, but will sell you out if they must in order to protect their own interests.
"The section on participating more, lower your barriers to engaging.
I think it’s a good idea, but I don’t think Robin’s recollection of back in the day is accurate for a complete context.
But algorithms, yeah, we shouldn’t forfeit our own agency to them.
When a thoughtful reader shares a link, it’s not intrusive.
"I haven’t read it yet.
It’s week notes.
The writing advice is at the end
If you are dealing with the Mossad, it’s already game over for you.
Someone else’s collection of public domain resources.
A whole lot of public domain ish media. Variable quality.
Maybe I can use this to keep up with some current weather events, or get some eyes on the street.
It’s the comments section on a tongue in cheek commentary about how the software industry has changed but is still the same.
When everything is bespoke, of course it’s all unique and not very interoperable. I don’t believe it will be this way forever. Think standard fastners, standard bicycle parts, standard electrical grid. The current software standards are at the communication layer: networking (sort of ok), email and some sms messaging. These are the older parts of the stack.
It’s related to other folk programmers posts.
Public domain art at The Getty.
A different aspect of Francis Bacon.
…morality does not apply to any corporation. Corporations respond to incentives and disincentives…
"from Kottke
Paper books, I tell you, paper books. Pre-2024 probably are best.
Ellington’s instrument was also his band, and he worked to maximize their already existing strengths.
he found great players first, and then he wrote music to take advantage of their strengths
"Some thoughts from Jonas on how they kept up the habit. It’s a developers blog.
I keep this blog for me to write, not necessarily for others to read.
"ancient ish history blogger
Maybe too much niche for my interest level, but certainly interesting enough to keep a link around.
Copious references, citations, and pictures of sources.
Commentary on how the top social platforms are just absolutely have an insatiable appetite for your attention and time.
It’s easy, just turn the damn thing off. Ok, ‘easy.’
…I am thrust into an environment where I am no longer encouraged to have a good time on my own terms.
"Onigiri tips
See also Just One Cookbook onigiri recipe.
Rendering technique to give objects fur etc.
I am confused about which parts of these videos are rendered and which parts are video capture. I assume that the park bench scene, stump forest scene, and interior desk scene are real captures and the animations are rendered over/in them. But I’m not 100% sure.
Not a lot of comment traffic, so maybe this is not that exciting. It’s hard to keep track of the state of the art at the moment. There have been quite a few tech demos, but idk what’s really commercial yet. Well this is release on PS5, so I guess that counts.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41671428
Some recommendations for things to watch in here.
RIP Maggie Smith, I enjoyed everything you made.
Examples of computing problems, but irl.
There are some good exercises for the reader here.
Goodhart’s law: when the measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
The strong version of Goodhart’s law: as we become too efficient, the thing we care about grows worse.
"As an exercise for the reader, you can think about how the strong version of Goodhart’s law would apply to other efficiencies, like the ones in this list: personalized medicine, reducing slack in supply chains, raising livestock, etc.
"Photobooks and Artbooks store.
How to get more photo like photos out of the iPhone 16
Turn the tone dial down a lot.
Tone -70 and Color +73.
"Online store, based in Brooklyn, NY.
A few illustrator sometimes sell original and prints here.
Cool art.
What functions does a primary computing device provide?
Apple/Adobe ProRAW format and it’s relevance and impact in iOS photos
Very informative.
R
Photos of isolated houses in Italy.
Streeetched tunes
A looong list of reading options.
Shadow library.
Something different and often useful on the fifth of every month.
NYC water source repair and upgrade this winter.
The LED rope lighting in the photos is surreally normal looking from the future tech.
‘At night,’ he says, ‘you could see this haze drifting out of the shaft, and they said it was fog. It’s cold down there.’
"web version of the Oblique Strategies deck
Finally! I’ve wanting this without realizing it for a long time.
Fill every beat with something
"Where unicorns start and end.
Good analysis of the simplest most harmless things completely blowing up into the Stay Puft marshmallow man of terror.
Tony, Evan, Andy, and Stanley tried to think of the most harmless thing: a universal food delivery service, expanding the options from just Chinese food and pizza.
"Grab bag of random things people say and Zvi’s reactions and analysis. He does this every month or so. He’s kinda rationalist about it.
Not everyone can really customize it like a chef.
Doing your own cooking has many nice benefits. You might enjoy cooking. You get to customize the food exactly how and when you like it, choose your ingredients, and enjoy it at home, and so on.
"Wandering Berlin today, about high trust societies.
Dan hits right on one key plank of the cult problem. We’re so infatuated with the business aspects of living we’ve jsut let so many things absolutely atrophy to the point we don’t even notice.
Because Germany is a country, not a business, unlike the good ol’ USA.
"It’s search, but with AI. 🤮?
I’ll try it.
Escape the Algorithm’s Are.na for search engins. See other links today.
A Sumerian God.
Similar to Herakles.
In my modernity, I always keep forgetting how intertwined, borrowed, co-evolved, and derivative all these human stories are. What’s popular is copied and tweaked or randomly mutated and may become more popular still.
Annual field recording at the same location. In Iceland.
That’s a good idea.
Bridge in the Alps.
Preeeettttyy
This bridge focused wiki is also cool.
A list of smol search engines, not based on the biggies.
Yes, Marginalia makes an appearance.
the curator.
Looking closely at the text in the apple store, text which you are not actually meant to examine.
I was in an apple store recently, and opened Messages to check some thumb mechanics / ergonomics and noticed that there were actual texts in there. Something tickled, but I was trying to get in and out and didn’t stop to ask what the heck is wrong with this picture (aka the tickle). It might be worth an especial detour to go and have a closer look.
I have no idea, at least two hops from the initial source. From Embedded but where that? Ah, origin of this rabbit hole is Links I would gchat you if we were friends.
Apple profits off of the complete and utter obfuscation of emptiness
"I had been airlifted into a surreal parallel universe
"A forum. About making pizza.
Good pictures.
It is a list of active and good forums. A long list.
A little hard to determine which forum is right for me.
Except for pizza, and bread.
Questionable taste in Iowa.
Weird af travel destinations. If I ever find myself in Iowa. It could happen.
The first segment is about our new wide bandwidth planet scale communications paradigm, and BlueSky in particular.
I’ve been thinking about this too for a while now. We shiftin’.
Though, I do find Bluesky grating for the same reason I find Portland, Oregon, kind of grating. A sort of ragged tweeness that permeates the whole place and makes it feel like a millennial retirement home.
"We are experiencing a shift in communication as existential as climate change with ripple effects just as varied and unpredictable.
"It’s nonstop botany talk in diverse locales.
Foul mouthed, angry at times, and hilarious on his YT channel.
Step through yt vids in small increments.
a writing exercise
200 / 50
Craig Mod, and someone else a couple of months ago.
what it says.
It’s in the profile.
Mexican soup
to try
Notes from this book.
I should read this post.
Notes from making a life one’s own, for the last 18 years.
Several of these resonated. Revisit this.
Maybe I should do an annual life lesson.
Question your maps and models of the universe, both inner and outer, and continually test them against the raw input of reality.
"The cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that makes life worth living…
"What if you could have your own home bioreactor?
This is a good idea. the personal deck of oblique strategies, I mean.
My personal deck of oblique strategies
"Online dictionary of sorts.
See also wiktionary obsolete word senses
See also A dictionary of archaic words, by Halliwell, which is a 1989 reprint of an 1850 book.
An editor.
Browser support database.
As usual, iOS is lagging in affordances for things that it does support such as links to highlighted text. I could make the bookmarklet but it’s annoying to navigate to them. So I made a shortcut which is cool I guess.
A random link to demonstrate.
Pixel Envy reminded me of it.
Scifi reading recommendations in the comments.
Added a couple to my to read list: Roadside Picnic, about stalking the zone, and Permutation City about the mathematical universe.
another source: SF masterworks list
Also added some more Vinge. And Infinite Detail.
I had better get reading.
‘If you don’t change as a person after having it read it, it wasn’t that great.’
"Forcing all pegs through the money hole could be why America has so much of it.
That and America is a very resource rich country.
American culture places money at the center of everything.
"It’s a theory of how a business subsidizes different products on offer.
Counter point: sometimes the products are sh!tty.
the insurance example reveals a deeper truth about modern businesses: sometimes you’re the subsidy; sometimes you’re subsidized – but unlike what the tweeter thinks, these dynamics leave you MUCH better off.
"Talking about some of the features of windows.
Interesting
it is responsive - when you move, the view moves! When you are still… it is still.
"Excellent pastries in and around Denver.
I got a Hearth croissant at Cafe 13 in Golden. It’s a damn good croissant.
Another great bookstore in Boulder. Smaller size, I think, unless I missed something. But great beautiful books. New books. At the west end of the Pearl Street Mall.
Bought some art prints here. Would have bought books too but I am out of space in my luggage.
Mostly new books but some used books. On the Pearl Street Mall, downtown.
Beautiful books, this shop is sensational.
Also some great chocolate bars to pickup too. Pricey.
I bought a few books here.
Somewhat idiosyncratic bookstore away from downtown.
I didn’t find somethings but was surprised to find some other things. Show up for the surprises.
I’m just remarking on the bit about why actually performing the act is important to humans.
1: For humans, to perform the act of demonstrating affection and support takes time and thinking. It takes awareness of the other’s needs and desires, and forming the right words and doing the right acts. It’s costly to put in that time and effort. So that is the purpose of doing it. It’s a demonstration that you value the other person enough to take the time and put in the effort which is not avoidable. If you make a substitution by have an algorithm do those things, it’s kind of cheating, or shortcutting anyway, and not a real demonstration of how much you value it. The receiver needs to be able to distinguish between the truth of the information you are conveying vs not, so skipping the performance of truth is a clear signal. Similarly it cuts both ways; if you perform your truth and the intended shrugs, well, now you know. Move on.
2: Yikes. We’re in for a ride, aren’t we? But then again, what exactly are we 1000x’ing the production of? Mined ore, widget manufacturing, stock trades? I assume it all maps onto money at some point. What of flourishing human life, how much money is that?
1: A remarkably large amount of life and media is like that, we need something to have definitely performatively happened in order to move on, but all we really want most of the time is the short summary of it.
"2: Yes, horses were plowing fields 200 years later. Do you now want to be the metaphorical horses in the future? Do you think this next transition could possibly last 200 years, even if it went painfully slowly? Even the similarly slow version now, if it happened, without the feedback loops AI enables, would be more like 20 years at most, time moves a lot faster now. The idea that things in past centuries took decades or centuries, so they will again now, seems quite foolish to me even for non-AI technologies.
"It’s Emily Wilson’s substack. She translated The Odyssey a few years ago.
I recently found a used copy of her translation of The Odyssey, and it feels weird to say this, but I’m super excited about it. Moreso than I thought I would be before picking it up.
This edition compares translations, which is super intereting.
found Emily’s newsletter via web curios.
If you can’t hear meter in English on the page, which is quite common because many people have not had enough practice reading metrical verse, just try reading it out loud (as Homer was experienced in antiquity), and you’ll hear the beat.
"Some concrete usages of currently available tools.
Some good practical non-coding examples here.
A take on the state of current internet interactions and or the socials.
Coherently expresses many things that I have been noticing over the years.
Makes predictions. Several are redundant, a couple are obvious but they are concrete. None of them really surprise. Some anti-predictions would be helpful here too.
public domain drop of art from the met
They make the Anjunadeep house music.
See also their Anjunadeep YouTube Channel.
They make the Pop Ambient releases.
About picking the right words.
How to invent ordinary sounding phrases that do sound right yet somehow off, foreign but natural, for a different setting in my own writing?
Photographer
Not exactly a prediction market, it’s forecasting aggregation?
An article about what’s next, whether that’s more tribalism or improving the other mechanisms of democracy including real discourse.
The [internet] does not create a public.
"Prediction Markets for Trump Presidency
Well, it’s not necessarily right, but it probably covers the space reasonably well. So it lessens the surprises.
New administration, new space plans.
A national wakeup call.
The lesson is that it never ends.
"1970s residential towers in the Bronx.
Dystopia/cyberpunk vibes.
See also Waterside Plaza for more
First part is about a goverment radio comedy, like a police procedural but bureaucracy.
Is there a list of terms of art, or term of arts or whatever?
‘Action forms’ aren’t explained so I assume this is a well-understood term of art, like saying ‘spreadsheet’ or ‘email’.
"high-frequency bureaucracy
"It’s another prediction market
Anyone know if there is a prediction market analysis/intelligence newsletter?
The world sucks but we don’t tell the future generations that right away.
Yeah, this feels right.
Kate Manne’s newsletter
Life is short, though I keep this from my children.
"An article that suggests extending prediction markets beyond just elections.
Prediction markets are a source of information that may or may not represent some truth about the state of the world including the future state.
Beware Campbell’s law or maybe Goodhart’s law.
Didn’t they used to be for more than just elections? I remember the 2000s. Maybe there is some critical mass necessary. I don’t recommend jumping to this conclusion.
info finance
"Starch and cream cheese are secret ingredients?
I’m curious.
Negotiation anecdote and article recommendation.
Don’t set a range and recruiters want to hire.
Molly White’s recommended follows.
Her Bsky, which I am now also following.
My aunt’s recordings on LibriVox
It’s my decay.
Ten things to make forward progress.
I’ll rewrite them in my own words:
1) Remain skeptical, always.
2) Face the evidence with eyes staunchly opened wide.
3) It is too easy too quash thought, vigorously avoid doing that.
4) It is far better to argue rationally with opposing views that to shut them down with authority.
5) It is always possible to find a different authority; authority is a dime a dozen.
6) Power is not an effective way to suppress opions, the power is then bound up in suprressing opinions.
7) All opinions were once rare, strange, or weird; don’t worry about it.
8) Relish active argument, it’s more interesting than silent agreement.
9) Be rigorous about the truth, it’s far easier than the alternative.
10) Ignorance is not actually bliss.
see also 10 commandments for living virtuously.
Some basic things to think about and possibly orient towards.
Nine principles for Common Sense Democrats
"Where to find this artist’s art
It’s lenses (macro, microscope, telephoto), filters, grips and stuff.
I’m just referring to the self driving car part here.
I added the [social] and [un/] in the quote.
[social] norms and equilibria absolutely rely on a foundation of human [un/]unpredictability
"Applications of not inconveniencing other people.
Expensive chocolate bars.
The Nicaragua one is good.
I’m looking forward to trying some others.
A cake recipe.
Looks yummy.
Still being updated, even just now.
See also fishttp’s awesome list too, but it’s not updated lately.
Robb Knight but also I searched for it since he points to fishttp.
