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What could an internet that didn't start out in libertarian culture look like?

Big tech social media, Mastodon, blogs.

I’ve seen this advice for creative pursuits multiple times that you should practice finishing your projects.

Another year, another slew of advertising campaigns masquerading as year-end summaries, and another blog post in protest from me.

So I don’t like “AI”, for various reasons.

My distaste for the company Spotify has steadily grown over the years.

Many who are into philosophy, myself included, like to make fun of famous scientists for not understanding it.

In How Jordan Peterson’s Suits Taught Me Fashion, CJ the X talks about libertarianism in a way I haven’t seen before.

In Sabine Hossenfelder is WRONG About Capitalism, Unlearning Economics (UE) criticizes Hossenfelder for getting the history completely wrong.

Usually when I write a review, I try to talk about specific things that make the thing I’m recommending unique or interesting.

❗ Warning: This contains spoilers for the first season of Haikyuu.

I listen to a lot of podcasts, maybe too many.

Idag var jag ute på en nattpromenad.

I think these thoughts are in some way a response to sentiments expressed in this Existential Comics: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/537.

I’m doing a Link Party!

English below.

Today I want to recommend the short story collection Changing Planes by Ursula Le Guin.

❗ Warning: This contains spoilers for the plot of the movie Shoplifters and what the later episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion looks like.

Today I’m recommending the movie Shoplifters by Kore-eda.

Productivity apps are scary.

A couple of years ago, zettelkastens and backlink-based note-taking applications that emphasize many interlinked notes became popular as the idea of zettelkastens became popular again.

Sousou no Frieren is a very trope heavy story.

Today I want to write a blog post about my recent experiences with journaling.

If there’s one music recommendation I would give it would be the band The Dear Hunter.

En dikt

I just read an article, The average AI criticism has gotten lazy, and that’s dangerous - Redeem Tomorrow, whose proposed solution to the AI situation is for everyone to have access to their own pattern synthesizer (their neologism for “AI”), instead of ju…

Today’s plan was to post an old rant of mine, maybe doing some light editing to brush it up.

Today’s link is from Low Tech Magazine.

Today’s link is a philosophy paper.

Today I want to write about writing, specifically writing practices with a common place book.

by Unlearning Economics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?

Note to people reading this from browsers with limited css-capabilities: This contains spoilers for Life Ceremony that are hidden using css, consider reading it in a web browser.

https://www.brandonsanderson.com/outside/ In this heart warming essay on about why he writes, Brandon Sanderson says that he does it in order to let more people inside, to somewhere they feel like they belong.

Phenomenology is the study of the phenomena we experience.

My thoughts after reading half of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series

A poem about abstraction

It was the second spring of the year, or perhaps third.

How much trash do we produce every day?

A poem about traffic lights

A poem about ice

Nassim Taleb often says crazy things (like saying that mathematics is bad because economists misuse it), but sometimes he says something useful.

Sometimes there are papers that are interesting, have a simple core argument, but are nevertheless hard to approach (perhaps because of added nuance or rigour requirements).

I think there is something special about The Malazan Book of the Fallen’s magic.

Hur har synen på teknik förändrats över tid?

A spoilerfree exploration of a hidden villain in the volleyball manga Haikyuu.

In order to improve my sleep schedule I’ve picked up the habit of reading a bit before going to bed.

This is a translation of my other post: En berättelse om berättande I don’t think I’ve had a reading experience like the one I had with Lev Tolstoy’s War and Peace before.

A translation of this post exists here: A story about story telling Jag tror inte jag har haft en läsupplevelse som liknat den jag haft med Leo Tolstojs Krig och Fred förrut.

Invisible Cities The first time I stumbled upon the book Invisible Cities, when it was used in the video essay “Searching for Disco Elysium”, I didn’t really take notice of it. [1] [1], [2] The book played a secondary role, it was used to highlight an asp…

In this tutorial I will go through the ideas that underpin constraint programming, a technique for solving hard algorithmic problems.