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📗 Want to read All Fours by Miranda July ISBN: 9780593190265

📗 Want to read Death of the Author (Deluxe Limited Edition) by Nnedi Okorafor ISBN: 9780063391147

Has Harvard considered opening a satellite campus outside the United States? If the Trumps keep making demands, like demanding that they stop admitting students from outside the US, the students the US government rejects could still go to Harvard, be taught by the same teachers, collaborate and socialize with other Harvard-quality students, without interference from Trump. I imagine there are a few countries that would be willing to help. If you want to really make a point, open it in China.

This is the 91st edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Seth Werkheiser and his blog, sethw.xyz To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in your inbox ...

Reading Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor.

One persistent piece of slopaganda you’ll here is this: “It’s just a tool. What matters is how you use it.” This isn’t a new tack. The same justification has been applied to many technologies. Leaving aside Kranzberg’s first law, large language models are the very antithe...

When someone breezily tells me how they’re using a large language model, I can feel myself channeling Luthen Rael.

“How nice for you” I say, the words seething with contempt.

An unfortunate sea lion As I left OB today I spotted a sea lion lying down up the beach. I approached it. It eyed me, its hindflippers twitched. I could see its ribs retracting as it breathed. It was in trouble. Before the session. Starfish and mussels on the pier. Before that? It was a...

In the vein of Fight Club, what would the rules of Typewriter Club be? What are the commonly known rules that typewriter users and collectors know that the uninitiated should be aware of? I’ll kick things off with a frequent admonishment: The first rule of Typewriter Club: Don’t “lubricate” the segment with WD-40. The second … Continue reading What are the “Rules of Typewriter Club”?

With Pocket shutting down, I’ve updated Micro.blog’s bookmarks import for Pocket’s latest export format. Also supports Instapaper, Raindrop, and Pinboard. Happy bookmarking! 🔖

The Beatles

Personal computers

The web

Napster

AI

The first Homebrew Website Club Düsseldorf Schepp and I co-organised turned out well. We gathered at Düsseldorf’s central library inside its “Xafé” café. We had 7 participating adults and 2 children. ;) The meetup was more exchange and discussions than actual work on one’s websites. Discussed topics included: “I want to build my own website” Opinions on tooling RelMeAuth Podcast metric aggregation WebSub Personal publishing workflows and tools Image hosting ...

Stephen F. Austin State Park. Short hike on a trail near the Brazos River.

Write.as creator Matt Baer wants to focus more on writing for 2025. I can relate to a lot of this:

Our apps have always been built to help you get your words down with nothing in the way. That’s why Write.as always opens to our editor — so you can start writing immediately, and not get distracted by notifications, comments, and superfluous things like how many “likes” you received.

Oh no! Oh no. 😿

https://blog.glitch.com/post/changes-are-coming-to-glitch/

I have spent the last fifteen or so minutes exploring the newly-released Internet Phone Book. The book is a collection of hundreds of websites, as well as stories of the web. When I first saw the book online, I knew I would love it: it’s a mix of old and the new. Holding the ...

Reminder: standard ticket pricing for UX London ends at midnight tomorrow (Friday), so if you haven’t got your ticket yet, get in there now!

https://ti.to/clearleft/ux-london-2025

The Knicks got beat last night. And the game seemed so won. When Brunson sat down in the fourth period because he was in foul trouble, the Knicks and a huge run that put them up by 17 with less than 3 minutes remaining. My numbers might be slightly off. Then they brought Brun...

Stephen Hackett throwing some cold water on the io products hype:

To be clear, the failure of the Rabbit R1 and Humane AI Pin does not mean that there’s no room in the market for an AI-powered device with no screen. However, people really like their phones, and creating a product that will compete with the smartphone is a hill no one has successfully climbed to date.

I don’t agree that the Rabbit R1 was a failure. It fell short of expectations, but that team is still churning away. A new kind of AI-first device is still more likely to come from someone new, without the smartphone baggage.

Also sprach Wittgenstein: Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt. Or in English, thus spoke Wittgenstein: The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. Language and thinking are intertwined. I’m not saying there’s anything to the strong ...