I muted the word “Musk” on Twitter, and now my timeline only has like 3 tweets in it. Can’t tell if Twitter is busted or if he’s the only thing everyone is tweeting about. 🤷🏻… | Continue reading
Is anyone surprised with the outcome of Mr-Free-Speech-Absolutist-But-I’ll-Fire-You-If-You-Criticize-Me’s ultimatum? Anyone? Yeah, me neither. | Continue reading
From a colleague this morning via Slack: “I asked a friend who works at Twitter how they’re doing. They said they can’t complain.” (Too soon? But also, 😆😆😆) | Continue reading
Some more links; unsurprisingly, there have been a few articles about Mastodon open in my browser recently. I’ve been on Mastodon since August 2019, but haven’t really paid much attentio… | Continue reading
To borrow a phrase from Liz Lemon: “I want to go to there.” | Continue reading
I found myself nodding along with everything Kailash Nadh had to say about the “web3” thing. But let’s set aside for a moment the fact that “web3” is a completely meaningless umbrella term for a col… | Continue reading
Who wouldn’t want a 10,001-piece, (almost-) 5-foot-tall LEGO Eiffel Tower? | Continue reading
Colin asks “how do you balance creation vs consumption?”. It ebbs and flows, and I think in general I’d be happy to get somewhere close to 50/50, but right now I’d say I’m probably around 10/90 as&n… | Continue reading
Fig infused buffalo trace bourbon, silan walnut bitters, angostura ice, orange oil… | Continue reading
It’s great to see more people popping up on Mastodon (if you’re heading that way, I’m @campegg@mastodon.social), but I’ll admit to being a little apprehensive about what a huge influx of people will… | Continue reading
Ouch: “What’s the point of paying for a status symbol that announces your status as pathetic?” | Continue reading
The vast (VAST!) majority of Twitter threads piss me off—to the point that I’ve muted both “🧵” and “👇🏻”—but the concept of a “trust thermocline”… | Continue reading
I’m not much for novelty clothing, but would think about getting a pair of Homer-backs-into-the-bushes Stan Smiths (for a minute, at least… and then I probably wouldn’t). | Continue reading
Time to clear out and close some open browser tabs, so here’s another set of collected links, this time with a little bit of commentary thrown in.Attention Shoppers!Attention is d… | Continue reading
I’ve been a fan of McSweeney’s Internet Tendency for a long, long time now, but this particular piece cuts a little close to the bone. 🙃 | Continue reading
(Note: I’ve had a draft of this post sitting around for quite a while now and it’s still not exactly where want it to be, but I’m at the point that if I don’t get it out soon… | Continue reading
Some worthwhile ideas to consider in Optimizing For Feelings by the folks from The Browser Company:When Olmstead crafted Central Park, what do you think he was optimizing for? Which metric led to … | Continue reading
My first ever pumpkin carving experience 🎃… | Continue reading
As a relatively recent audiobook convert, this piece by Meghan O’Gieblyn struck a chord. It covers two of the conceptions that many people have about reading that I find pretty ridiculous: one… | Continue reading
I usually try to avoid indulging in schadenfreude, but in this instance, I’m going to roll with it. | Continue reading
This visualization of objects in LEO is simultaneously kinda cool (look at all the things!), a little sad (look at all the debris!) and vaguely terrifying (look at all the Starlink satellites!). | Continue reading
Ordered a pair of golf pants; they came with some tees and some good advice.… | Continue reading
Not a sign that one ever really sees in NYC.… | Continue reading
I realize that it’s a long way from the point of the article, but WTF is a “cozy cottage-core” RPG? 🤔 I’m imagining something like a table top version of Animal Crossing, but… | Continue reading
How is it that we can stream GPU-intensive video games, but are still stuck with shitty, laggy VNC for connecting to remote desktops? | Continue reading
If you’ve got a minute or two to spare, go fill out Ben’s survey. As someone who has recently started reading more fiction myself, I’ll be very interested to see what comes out of it. | Continue reading
“…the more I learned, the more ludicrous it became“—Jeremy captures almost exactly how I feel when I hear people bang on about various crypto projects. I did have hope for the unde… | Continue reading
This isn’t really a “proper” post, but I’ve had a bunch of tabs open for a while that I’ve been meaning to do something with and am now at the point where that just see… | Continue reading
Unscruffy Little Man: a photo by Cam Pegg | Continue reading
Clear Commute: a photo by Cam Pegg | Continue reading
This subway sandwich (note: it’s a collaboration between Katz’s and Alidoro, not a sub from capital-S Subway!) looks amazing, but the fact that it’s not available at Alidoro on Sul… | Continue reading
I know a few people (mostly looking at you James 😉) that might be interested in this press release from theEuropean Society of Cardiology (or, for the really eager reader, the study itself):Drinki… | Continue reading
Someone is (over)due for a haircut.… | Continue reading
If this article doesn’t convince you that our tech billionaire overlords have NFI what they’re doing, nothing will. | Continue reading
I’m very fortunate to have a spouse who works for a company that has a suite at Madison Square Garden.… | Continue reading
If you want to learn how to make your own version of a £3.94 toaster for only £1187.54 (😱), take a look at today’s issue of The Prepared. Definitely going to pick up a copy of The Toaster Pro… | Continue reading