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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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you can’t spell unicorns without unions

submitted 6 hours ago • 10 comments

If you rely on shit like this to try and defeat facial recognition algorithms, you are 100% going to jail.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

A small, secretive group of lizards that still exist today may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the vicinity of the Chicxulub asteroid collision that led to the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

I hope the mysterious them who wrote this and has such beautiful spraypaint cursive is doing well

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

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!"

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

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 6 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 6 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 8 days ago • 0 comments

It’s short for Space XPlode

submitted 30 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 8 days ago • 73 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 10 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 11 days ago • 83 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 13 days ago • 82 comments

RIP big dog

submitted 16 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 16 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 17 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 18 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 20 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 59 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment