Can’t have awkward silence if you don’t have silence 🧠

Yesss! Long live Web Lunch! 👏

Day One

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the first 13 seconds of Day One need to be studied as a masterpiece in modern musical composition: open.spotify.com/track/6QJVQS...

Jaron Lanier Quote When developers of digital technologies design a program that requires you to interact with a computer as if it were a person, they ask you to accept in some corner of your brain that you might also b...

Ah here’s the quote: libquotes.com/jaron-lanier...

Reminds me of when Jeron Lanier said something like “anyone who makes you interact with a computer like it’s a human wants you to imagine yourself as a computer”

An educational image showcasing many major geographic features in one contrived landscape. Labeled features include desert, mesa, rainforest, beach, lagoon, isthmus, strait, fjord, sound, canyon, mountain, volcano, archipelago, prairie, tundra, peninsula, etc.

Y’all this is just a map of Washington state

Headache, confusion, sensitivity to light and sound, memory loss, sleep changes, fatigue…

Hit my head on a cabinet pretty hard so I’m reading concussion symptoms and why are they just describing parenting?

lol hashtags don’t work like that - #wcus

A kids coloring page pictures Mario coming out of a pipe. The page has been watercolored to an unreasonable level of detail.

Coming home from a week away at a conference (#WCUS) and apparently I’ve decided “taking art time with the kiddo way too seriously” is the way to re-ground myself 😅

Fairly well known correction to the entire "delay of gratification" model you may think of as an individual trait is that it is moderated by things like our beliefs in environmental stability

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Any plans on where to go? Thinking I’ll wait out a bit more to see what their “long-term vision” for Arc is, but it’s probably time to start prepping for the move.

Google's AI summary of the events of Judgment Day.

I find this very funny.

Did you see their full-size pip boy though?

Hell, WordPress fixes this. 😬

Twitter asked me to review tire brands tonight 💀

atproto is like if you could post tweets to your own website and then twitter would be able to draw in all the tweets from across the web into a normal-looking social app

Lessons from Contributor Day at #WCUS so far:
1) Cloning the repo is a successful contributor day activity
2) Telling someone about the project is a successful contributor day activity
3) Learning about the project is a successful contributor day activity
#OpenSourceContribution

See you there!

A wooden sign with text (possibly engraved?) quoting: “Pete Hegseth: We are currently clean on OPSEC.”

Reminded me of this sign I spotted at @pdxhackerspace.org during Teardown this year.

I didn’t realize it at the time but it’s like a Live Laugh Love for the rest of us.

"We are currently clean on OPSEC": The Signalgate Saga (DEFCON 33) YouTube video by Micah Lee

So much to unpack here from @micahflee.com but for now I’m just taking it as a permanent cure to any imposter syndrome I ever feel ever. youtu.be/KFYyfrTIPQY?...

Currently running 'npm install' from a mobile hotspot 🤘

Curate your own newspaper with RSS Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read

Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.

Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...

Ooh I’ve had a project like this on my list since blueprints started taking off - good stuff here!

happy html day ❇️

Dammit Jacob, now when they do and everybody's yelling "WHO ASKED FOR THIS?!" I'm gonna have to tell them it was you 😅

Trump’s newest grift: Building a cryptocurrency empire while destroying its regulators Inside the Trump family’s sprawling crypto empire — from memecoins to mining — and how Trump is using presidential power to dismantle the regulators who could stop it

@molly.wiki has great coverage on this including some more recent pieces but this one’s still a good start: www.citationneeded.news/trump-crypto...