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Posts by Russell Blickhan

Tom Lehrer - National Brotherhood Week
Tom Lehrer - National Brotherhood Week

Very sorry to hear about the death of Tom Lehrer at age 97. The cleverest, funniest singer/songwriter of all time, even if he lost interest in the whole business pretty quickly? www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIlJ...

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Droidcon NYC 2025 Takeaways and Reflections Droidcon 2025 reflections, featuring AI.

Wrote up my takeaways from an AI-heavy Droidcon 2025!
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Good Old Fashioned Linkblog It’s been a while since I’ve done a good-old-fashioned link blog! So here’s some things I’ve been reading recently: “A cheat sheet for why using ChatGPT is...

wrote a linkblog: buttondown.com/rwblickhan/a...

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Automating the Personal Is there really value in personal automation? I wrote a whole essay on Raycast and I’m still not really sure. Even though xkcd has a helpful chart for how...

wrote up some thoughts on why hammerspoon is cool
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My Other Brain is a Library Choose your own adventure

wrote up a spiraling appreciation of libraries:
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a sign-in page for the buttondown email newsletter service showing a client-side error

a sign-in page for the buttondown email newsletter service showing a client-side error

@buttondown.com it looks like the sign-in page is down (alas that I cannot sign in to spew my logorrhea upon the world)

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Is it okay? Squaring up to the foundational question for language models.

yesterday I wrote a lil newsletter about how I personally feel about the ethics of using LLMs but then @robinsloan.com wrote the (imo definitive) account so you should read that instead: www.robinsloan.com/lab/is-it-ok...

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Cocktail Cookies No alcohol required

come, take a 5-minute break from the news, bake some cookies with me
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Intellectual Diary of an Iconoclast | Annual Reviews Trying to address a series of large questions—e.g., when peasants rebel, clandestine forms of resistance, state “imagination,” and the origin of the very first agrarian states—led me to abandon much o...

today feels like a good day to read james c scott’s final published work

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Matcha Lattes Caffeine and theanine for great profit

my matcha latte recipe:

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I got 70 and most of my other friends were in the 90s 🫠

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Best of the Rest The personal site of R. W. Blickhan

aaaaaand the best of everything else that isn’t movies

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That Was The Year That Was in Movies The personal site of R. W. Blickhan

wrote up some of my favorite movies I watched last year (yes megalopolis is on there)

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Analyzing and Synthesizing Thinking Styles A novel thinking style distinction

Russell Blickhan: "I also have an older essay on "analyzing" and "synthesizing" thinking styles that may be of interest:

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Farmers & Foragers A literary distinction, not an occupational one

new essay up, on a distinction between farming and foraging thinking styles:

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How to Take Pills Hello from the second week of a pretty awful chest cold.1 I cannot particularly recommend getting sick. 2 I’ve been relying on Mucinex the last two days....

almost forgot! this week's newsletter: how to take pills

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Why I Use Raycast Keyboard shortcuts for days

I list a few in the article! rwblickhan.org/technical/wh...

But to be honest, I don't really use that many extensions — 90% of the value I get out of Raycast is from the built-in commands 😅

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Why I Use Raycast Keyboard shortcuts for days

wrote up some of the reasons I love (love love love) @raycast.com. genuinely not sure how I would use my mac without it 🙃

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Why I Use Fish Shell Finally, a command line shell for the 90s

wrote up a few of the reasons I like using fish shell

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List of Mysteries Here’s a few things that I personally still find mysterious. If you have recommendations to read up on any of these, let me know! What is the origin of...

newsletter day! a list of things I find mysterious

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Cui Jian: Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST 2023
Cui Jian: Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST 2023 YouTube video by NPR Music

cui jian was on tiny desk in 2023 and nobody ever talks about it???

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in my opinion we would do well to spend less time moaning about echo chambers — which aren't unique to online social networks — and more time being critical of context collapse.

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Generic High Fantasy I was watching the second season of Arcane recently and realized it’s canonizing new “defaults” for the (high) fantasy genre. If you think of the most...

newsletter day! in which I ramble for far too long about arcane and Brandon Sanderson and the history of fantasy

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1 year ago 1 0 0 0
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Russell’s Brief, Opinionated Guide to US Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Wading through a swamp of acronyms for neither fun nor profit

in honor of open enrollment I wrote a brief guide to us employer-sponsored health insurance (as I understand it)
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Aston University professor named among nation's lifesavers for work around photosensitive epilepsy | Epilepsy Society A professor who spent his life championing people with photosensitive epilepsy has been named as...

also something something high-agency individuals — kinda sounds like the harding test was adopted in the uk / japan just because there was one (1) neurology professor really pushing for it epilepsysociety.org.uk/news/aston-u...

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Porygon Was Innocent: An epileptic perspective on Pokémon's “Electric Soldier Porygon” - Anime Feminist As an Epileptic, I’ve been very outspoken about my opinions on the increased use of strobe lighting effects in American cartoons. Yet people have accused me of being a hypocrite: why do I continue to ...

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apparently *that* Pokemon episode was partly responsible for the development of modern photosensitive seizure guidelines (which are not applied in the us, eep)

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Glass Beams - One Raga to a Disco Beat (A cover of 'Raga Bhairav' by Charanjit Singh)
Glass Beams - One Raga to a Disco Beat (A cover of 'Raga Bhairav' by Charanjit Singh) YouTube video by Glass Beams

have *you* listened to glass beams' ten ragas to a disco beat cover yet today? youtu.be/w_3hALBro5c

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