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What is the work of remembering? littlefutures.substack.com/p/rememberin...

Hoo boy this is good: tim.blog/2025/03/06/t...

Little Futures - delightful provocations about the future from @itsbdell.bsky.social and me - is back for season 3! The latest: Family Futures littlefutures.substack.com/p/lf13-famil...

One thing wrong with Google's AI overviews: they've shipped the UX from an academic paper! Excerpt from my conversation with @tomcritchlow.com

Little Futures (a series of provocations and inquiries into futures) is coming back for season 3! Written by me and @itsbdell.bsky.social look out for the first issue next week: littlefutures.substack.com/p/little-fut...

i don’t want to ‘provide a detailed status update of Q4’s infrastructure security audit’. i want to float through the bazaars of old tangiers at dusk; the air heavy with ginger, cardamom and date syrup, my body and mind consumed by an ancient arabian dream, of mystery, myth and rite; i shan’t Log On

Great writing www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-colors...

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So commento has finally given up the ghost. Anyone built bluesky comments in a box yet? Ideally something like this I can just drop into my site: graysky.app/blog/2024-02...

Is Google slurping up all the pirated content for llm training too or did they Gemini 2.5 "legit"? Do we know or are we just assuming they're all doing the same sketchy things?

What's the best designed buttondown newsletter? Looking for inspiration to relaunch my personal newsletter....

A proposal and a prototype for (a better) future of search: tomcritchlow.com/2025/03/21/b...

Beautiful youtu.be/aTDOFaAcEyc?...

This squareinchanthro.com/2025/03/18/b...

"Our innovations become trampolines for our desires" Lovely piece from Tina fakepixels.substack.com/p/jevons-par...

Amen maya.land/responses/20...

Very much into this vibe from @laurel.bsky.social pbsoftheinternet.org

Quoteback PSA 🚨 Yesterday Chrome disabled Quotebacks for a lot of people. I need to rewrite the extension to be V3 compatible but in the meantime... (embeds still work fine) So long as your Quoteback extension is disabled, not removed you should be able to recover your saved items. Instructions:

Probably shouldn't. But....... Maybe?

still grateful for rss — even in 2025, a great way to read a bunch of crap by cranky old bloggers!

A staggering work of blogging genius... Begins with reps, reps, reps. I was curious how John Cutler got started writing online and went back in the archives. Only to discover that he wrote 423 blog posts before he even started his substack A Beautiful Mess... Always be writing...

Love this talk from Aaron. Makes me think more deeply about the promise of the web and the challenges it has in helping you revisit things... www.aaronland.info/weblog/2025/...

Look, @robinsloan.com is my friend, and I know I weight his thoughts heavily. But you have to read this essay about the conundrum LLMs present to the writers and humanists among us. So much to learn in here. www.robinsloan.com/lab/is-it-ok...

Love love love to see indie consultants yearnotes. Here's Gautam's one year on the road: www.snowbird.global/a-year-of-em...

"Know the wolves that hunt you. In time, they will be the dogs that bring your slippers." This is a balm.

Hold your own youtu.be/hOdFwiWpRoU?...

"The program exists for the goals, not the members" Quietly radical stuff from the inspiring @craigmod.com Here's to the next 6 years and 5+ books ❤️ craigmod.com/essays/membe...

Idly imagining that @genmon.fyi does a Kickstarter to sell off custom cursors for his loyal fans. Instead of a flag emoji you'd get a favicon for your website visible to others as you browse the site...

I have two things to share with you today. First, we're starting a publishing company. Second, I wrote a book about computing, which you can preorder starting today!

Robin Sloan on bluesky 😍 @robinsloan.com And what a banger of a link just shared in his newsletter. Of goblins and Christmas and AI and librarians (and the Internet of course) davidallengreen.com/2024/12/twel...

Love this formulation of artist publishing: www.newsletter.anemone.studio/p/artist-pub...

Anyone know how to solve this error trying to push to Github? Googling it seems the most common cause is files being too large. This push has ~100 files in it but they're all text .md files, the total size is still v small? Any ideas?

🔵 — a website with raw hems, with patched seams, with gentle scars. a website that bares its history and tarnish with kind, crinkle-eyed wisdom — the sort of site that’s done time on jack stands in DIY garages, or beneath the needle of a tabletop sewing mach.... strange.website/2024-12-03