Watching the highlights of the recent GeoGuessr world championships is wild; competitors nailing the exact coordinates of Street View locations in a matter of 30-60 seconds is just bonkers.
I needed some new bouncy/chill music today and Tycho’s sunrise DJ set from this year’s Burning Man is doing the trick. I also ran across this playlist with 190 DJ sets from Burning Man this year containing 305 hours of music.
(via @mikeakers.bsky.social)
A new book from photographer Sally Mann: Art Work: On the Creative Life. I really enjoyed Mann’s previous book, Hold Still.
There have been a few things happening recently in FeedCity land:
While this might have a little bit of shitty digital quality, I think otherwise this really holds up well and is a great entertaining zombie film. The story is great, the characters and the acting is there, the infected are menacing, the action is good. And it just has a lot of great scenes. Was again looking forward to that blood-drops-in-the-eye shot.
Haven't seen a movie from this franchise in a long time. Do I like the CGI-to-the-max? No. But otherwise, it's actually pretty entertaining with great humour. Death has once again packed a fine assortment of Rube Goldberg death machines and bloody butterfly effects.
Wie auch sein erstes Buch, mochte ich dieses zweite auch sehr gerne. Ein, zwei Kapitel waren mir etwas zu ausschweifend, aber ansonsten ein kurzweiliges Buch, das interessante Einblicke in das Leben einen Independent-Musikers gibt im Speziellen zur Corona-Pandemie-Zeit und bei gleichzeitigem Familienzuwachs.
All the public feed profile pages have gotten a new look.
Finally put the next date up for the Homebrew Website Club meetup. Happening in two weeks on 23.09.2025.
In Python 3.14, I have implemented several changes to fix thread safety of
asyncioand enable it to scale effectively on the free-threaded build of CPython. It is now implemented using lock-free data structures and per-thread state, allowing for highly efficient task management and execution across multiple threads. In the general case of multiple event loops running in parallel, there is no lock contention and performance scales linearly with the number of threads. [...]For a deeper dive into the implementation, check out the internal docs for asyncio.
— Kumar Aditya, Scaling asyncio on Free-Threaded Python
Aubrey Hirsch is an eternal optimist. In her latest comic, she writes/draws about “freaking the hell out” about the current political situation and the limits of optimism.
Here’s a short video by Arthur Brooks (that you are probably watching on your phone) about why you should log off, put your phone down, and let yourself be bored.
You need to be bored. You will have less meaning and you will be more depressed if you never are bored. I mean, it couldn’t be clearer.
See also In Praise of Boredom, In Defense of Boredom, and “Boredom: the great engine of creativity”.
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Ben Thompson has a wonderful take on yesterday’s event and what it says about Apple overall:
Apple, to be fair, isn’t selling the same sugar water year-after-year in a zero sum war with other sugar water companies. Their sugar water is getting better, and I think this year’s seasonal concoction is particularly tasty. What is inescapable, however, is that while the company does still make new products — I definitely plan on getting new AirPod Pro 3s! — the company has, in the pursuit of easy profits, constrained the space in which it innovates.
Link: stratechery.com/2025/iphones-17-and-the-sugar-water-trap/
