I finally read Hiding in Plain Sight by Sarah Kendzior.
Unsurprisingly, it’s depressing as hell, because of all the perceived inevitability – and the long game of the industrial-mafioso complex.
I love her writing, though, and I am amazed by how she connects all the dots and still remains unfazed and determined in light of the threat from state-backed organized crime.
Use the AIPI?
Stop crawling my HTML you dickheads – use the API!
One of the (many) depressing things about the "AI" future in which we're living, is that it exposes just how many people are willing to outsource their critical thinking. Brute force is preferred to thinking about how to efficiently tackle a problem.
What Could Go Right? – 50 Great Things That Happened in 2025.
Renewable energy was the world’s leading source of electricity in the first half of 2025 for the first time ever, knocking coal off its longtime throne.
Relevant: Chilli Club – join thousands of climate supporters around the world.
More assorted notes on Liquid Glass (via lobste.rs).
👇 This is not a video, btw.
Made with spite and web audio API.
STFU.
i was at bombay airport. some dude was watching reels on full volume and laughing loudly. asking nicely doesn't work anymore. me being me, didn't have the courage to speak up.
so i built a tiny app that plays back the same audio it hears, delayed by ~2 seconds. asked claude, it spat out a working version in one prompt. surprisingly WORKS.
A photographer captured this Himalayan monal mid-flight over the mountains of Bhutan.
Relevant: Lophophorus impejanus.
Podcast »Don’t Read Theory«: Ideologiekritik zum Wegsnacken.
Dieser linke Podcast liefert Gossip, gemixt mit kluger Kritik an der eigenen Szene – auch zu Nahost. Jetzt feiert er zweijähriges Jubiläum.
Relevant: Don’t read theory.
Atuin – Shell History & Executable Runbooks.
Sync, search and backup shell history.
Warum viele Philosophinnen heute kaum noch bekannt sind.
Mein früherer Prof hat immer gesagt: Frau Hagengruber, wir leben im Mittelalter. Je mehr ich über die Vergangenheit lerne, sehe ich, was er damit meinte. Frauenhass ist immer noch ein Teil aller Gesellschaften. Aber ich bin trotzdem optimistisch. Man muss bedenken: Es wurde auch 900 Jahre kein Platon gelesen. Die Rückkehr der platonischen Philosophie in den Westen zeigt, es ist schon einmal gelungen, den Kanon zu verändern. Das hat zu einer erheblichen wissenschaftlichen Erneuerung in der Renaissance geführt. Wir brauchen eine solche zweite Renaissance.
Relevant: History of Women Philosophers.