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I'm trying to get as good at writing as I am at hacking so that I can write about hacking. Blog: https://katabas.is Newsletter: https://substack.com/@aaronmbrown
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I hope the mysterious them who wrote this and has such beautiful spraypaint cursive is doing well

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Being from a small town is wild because half the news in my hometown paper is "The nuke plant is having issues again but at least it isn't leaking this time" and the other half is "Exclusive! Pictures of the empty building where the new Costco will be!"

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Remember Who The Enemy Is aaronmbrown.substack.com/p/remember-w...

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Every time a rich person tries a threat like "if you do [political thing I don't like] then I won't try to make money anymore" I don't believe them. Why would anyone? Yeah buddy, you'll forgo that extra million simply because it isn't the $1.1 million you originally thought you'd get. Sure Jan.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

I'm in an upscale restaurant in London and a woman at the next table just took rolling papers and a pouch of tobacco out of a Burberry purse and rolled a cigarette on the table. Impeccable chaotic energy.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Read the first letter in this month's Harper's, "Picking Up the Crumbs". Go in cold, as I did: harpers.org/archive/2025... Live the rest of your life safe in the knowledge that your freak will never approach that of 81 year old R. Crumb.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

It’s short for Space XPlode

submitted 29 days ago • 14 comments

'Meredith,' some guys ask, 'why won't you shove AI into Signal?' Because we love privacy, and we love you, and this shit is predictable and unacceptable. Use Signal ❤️

submitted 7 days ago • 72 comments

Just ate a curry so hot I think it burned minor sins off my soul. My eyes are watering, my nose is running, and I am totally absolved of guilt for stealing a handful of candy from Mr. Lee's Corner Mart when I was a kid.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

submitted 10 days ago • 82 comments

"defund the police" was so obviously correct. I really don't care if it doesn't poll well. it's like telling me that I should stop saying I like vaccines if they stopped polling well.

submitted 12 days ago • 82 comments

RIP big dog

submitted 15 days ago • 46 comments

RIP Brian Wilson. You created so much great music and brought joy to so many during your life of indeterminate length.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

In my (renamed) column this week, I talk about the phenomenon of "dangerous music" and try to understand the inflammatory cultural response to "Cop Killer", "God Save the Queen", "Louie Louie", and other "dangerous" songs: open.substack.com/pub/aaronmbr...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

the issue is not just ICE. we can live free and safe. or we can have police like we have right now. we cannot do both

submitted 17 days ago • 125 comments

I'm in an Uber and the driver is on the phone trying to get someone to go out with him next week. He's pitched drinks, coffee, and a walk on the lake. Seems like no interest yet.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

I wrote a brief, spoiler-free review of _Sinners_. In a turn that surprises precisely no one, my review is mostly about the music. katabas.is/posts/i-want... Also available on my Substack: aaronmbrown.substack.com/p/i-want-you...

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Seattle defined the police and now the park is lousy with these hooligans.

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

I had a lot to get done today but unfortunately I just discovered a spot in my apartment with a neat reverb effect, so that's my next few hours spoken for.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

LLMs are generating dozens of unbeatable "POSIWID" demonstrations every week. In this case, OpenAI thinks it created AI. What it actually created is an overly-agreeable improv sparring dummy.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

I think one taste of jet lag would have absolutely shattered Descartes' psyche. René would wake up from crash nap, see it's mid-afternoon when his body insisted the sun wasn't up yet, and think the Deus Deceptor got him.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

The burger at Damn the Weather in Seattle. It was the best burger in the city. Perfect proportions, quality beef and condiments. I learned I liked white wine when the bartender paired it with a crisp, high acid white wine. For some reason they replaced it with an entirely unremarkable smash burger.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Instagram just recommended me this anti-art slop bullshit. This account could only have been created by someone who hasn't given any thought to Ai Weiwei's work

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Tired emoji: :) Wired emoji: (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ Inspired emoji: X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

submitted 66 days ago • 3 comments