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"Hi family I was writing to say that since we live in clown world and it's getting even clownier, I thought maybe we should come up with a safe word. You know since Al is stealing peoples, voices and identities and with all the scammers around… Anyhow, I think our safe word should be Jesus.."

Town Hall #23: Clown World

Fun Stuff

Tech Stuff

Appearances

Catch Me Outside

2024.08.01-04 Idyllwild, US FWB
2024.08.24-25 Santa Cruz, US !!Con
2024.10.14-18 Porto, PT NDC Porto
2024.10.19-21 Las Vegas, US WWWY
2024.10.21-25 Los Angeles, US SPLASH
2024.10.25-28 Los Angeles, US RIPPLE
2024.11.06-08 Malmö, SE Øredev
2024.11.09-10 Ontario, US AX Chibi

Books

★★★★★ review The Sellout :: Paul Beatty
★★ review Slow Productivity :: Cal Newport
review Quantations :: Joseph A. Stirt, M.D.
★★★★ review The Sparrow :: Mary Doria Russell
★★ review Co-Intelligence :: Ethan Mollick
★★★ review The Politics of Design :: Ruben Pater
★★ review The Overstory :: Richard Powers
★★★ review User-Friendly :: Cliff Kuang & Robert Fabricant
★★★ review The Cold Start Problem :: Andrew Chen
★★ review Going Infinite :: Michael Lewis
★★ review Build :: Tony Fadell
★★★★★ review The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt :: Edmund Morris
★★ review The Art of Product Design :: Hardi Meybaum
★★★★ review Speaker for the Dead :: Orson Scott Card
★★★★ review Ender's Game :: Orson Scott Card
★★ review Effortless :: Greg McKeown
★★★★ review The Fifth Season :: N. K. Jemisin
★★★★ review Distrust that Particular Flavor :: William Gibson
★★★ review The Player of Games :: Iain M. Banks

Thoughts

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2024.07.25 why do they put "no trespassing" signs on all the places i want to go
2024.07.22 Isn’t it weird how books are broadly sorted into “fake” and “not fake”?
2024.07.22 IMHO Norah Jones was probably Ravi Shankar's greatest work
2024.07.12 "The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe; for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them."
2024.07.07 "This performance inspired me years ago. It made me want to play the guitar really badly. Now after years of study dedication and hard work, I'm proud to say I can play the guitar really badly."
2024.06.15 y'all'n't ready for this spreadsheet demo
2024.06.09 jet lag. 4:30 in norway. daytime? people call taxis, laughing with the cops. a girl in heels chases me, barking, while her friends giggle.
2024.05.31 i'm wearing three sticks of deodorant today; the people will see me long before they smell me
2024.05.28 my cicadian rhythm is wrecked -- i've been waking up every twelve years
2024.05.09 "that's called a shantytown, and it's where the city draws its surplus unskilled labour from." via The Player of Games

Finds

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2024.07.25 the final shebang
2024.07.24 ya like jazz?
2024.07.24 curated collection of free font faces
2024.07.24 a blog about an esoteric hypercard game
2024.07.22 monstera fruit
2024.07.22 cool HN story stats
2024.07.21 The Library of Unconventional Lives
2024.07.21 simplifier
2024.07.19 christina's desktop
2024.07.18 happy aitee
2024.07.17 steve irwin v. conan o'brien
2024.07.11 o jo esun e ni
2024.07.10 reminder
2024.07.09 mike tyson v. pinklon thomas (1987)
2024.07.08 bananas
2024.07.08 the artwork is surprisingly good too
2024.07.07 literally an anime/manga series about quality assurance
2024.07.07 wringing the neck of eleanor rigby
2024.07.03 5 ways to put up with a society you don't like
2024.07.03 pls tread on me
2024.07.03 when your network connection is delayed in the zoom meeting
2024.06.29 i submitted a 33-page rant on plant law. wish me luck!
2024.06.28 explain this to the aliens
2024.06.25 dank speedrun
2024.06.25 hide yo windows hide yo heat pumps
2024.06.25 fifteen years of growing plants
2024.06.24 how to use a cat inhaler to treat feline asthma
2024.06.19 looking for a bed bug subscription service? six months for $750 at cheapbedbugs.com
2024.06.19 president obama was constantly chewing gum
2024.06.19 ass
2024.06.19 you are not incompressible
2024.06.19 unfair robot fight
2024.06.16 LIVING IS URGENT
2024.06.14 How/Why to Sweep Async Tasks Under a Postgres Table
2024.05.24 circumcise me
2024.05.23 one electron
2024.05.22 ten years in eighty-five seconds
2024.05.20 "the wardrobe gets bad signal in that corner"
2024.05.20 worlds: 800% slower
2024.05.18 "Think of all the people around you and the people cheering you on!"
2024.05.18 derive two benefits from one singular action
2024.05.15 another unforgettable video from an underrated youtuber
2024.05.12 happy mothers' day to everybody's favorite nanny state
2024.05.09 dead or dormant?
2024.05.09 wooden pixel art by Timur Zagirov
2024.05.09 sewerslvt is back