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The Joy of Silly Useless Software Natalie Lawhead source This is a posted version of a talk that Natalie gave for the Gamez & ruleZ conference.

The Conscious Universe Joe Zadeh source Consciousness didn’t emerge or flicker into existence; it has always been there — the intrinsic nature of us and everything around us The Conscious Universe explores the inception and growth of Panpsychism, the theo…

That Which is Unique, Breaks Simon Sarris source That which is unique, breaks is a rumination on the commodification that has overtaken modern society.

Terminal Boredom Or how to Go on with Life when less is Indeed less Applied Language source This article attempts to outline the writer’s reservations with the “small tech” movement, and explains this through the study of a few cases, the primary being the

Socially Acceptable Anxiety is Still Anxiety Adam Mastroianni source Adam sits with the idea of anxiety as a socially acceptable negative thought pattern, why that might be the case, why that is a problem, and what to do about it.

Silence Is A Commons Computers Are Doing to Communication what Fences Did to Pastures and Cars Did to Streets Ivan Illich source Silence is a Commons attempts to connect the increasing noise needed to function in a world of constant communication to the e…

Scooping Plastic Out of the Ocean is a Losing Game Ryan Stuart source abstract The desire to be part of the solution unites all cleanup efforts.

Productivity Porn Caleb Schoepp source Caleb lays out an excellent breakdown of how social media hurts us all in a way that a lot of us know, but then goes into specifically things that are marketed to people with specific interests or a desire to be prod…

Play-to-earn And Bullshit Jobs Paul Butler source An exploration as to how play-to-earn games, through their use of crypto, and by centering income over actual gameplay, leads only to the creation of more “Bullshit Jobs”, as represented by David Gareber T…

Permacomputing Viznut source Thoughts on applying permacultural strategies to the increasingly complex and resource-heavy world of computing.

On Analog Metaverse Curation Pr0ph3t source On Analog Metaverse curation seeks to reframe our understanding of the personal library.

My Philosophy for Productive Instant Messaging Drew DeVault Source abstract Many people use instant message as more of a tool to catalog information than a place to have an active discussion.

Magic Numbers Alana Mohamed source This article talks about the rise of tarot readers, fortune tellers, and mediums that use tiktok, and purport the algorithm as a cosmic force that directs the message to those who need it.

Kids’ Stuff Richard Woodall source This article tries to answer the question that has grown from the explosion of PFP NFT projects like bored ape Why do modern technology products look like toys?

A Five-Minute Guide to Better Typography Pierrick Calvez source note this is taken entirely from the slides found at the source, I didn’t attend the talk, but still found some useful information worth keeping Type is a beautiful group of letters, not a gr…

Establishing a Research Agreement with an Indigenous Community Alain Cuerrier Source abstract In 2003 a research project began to study the antidiabetic activities of the Cree Nation of Eeyou Itschee.

Burnout Emily and Amelia Nagoski [source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?

Artifice and Intelligence Emily Tucker source The tech policy press wrote this post to explain why they are going to stop using the term artificial intelligence for linguistic reasons.

A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design Bret Victor source The article pretty much offers what it says on the tin.

Remove times from Kobo Highlights I like to use vscode for quick search and replace, the regex for time formatted as HH:MM:SS [AM/PM] is \b\d{1,2}:\d{2}:\d{2} [AP]M\b and replace it with \n so that highlights dont clash with the title

Tending the Garden 2023 will be the year I focus on positive development What This means to Me I have envisioned my life almost entirely as a series of goals, and every other component of my life is tertiary.

Restore a Btrfs System to a Previous Snapshot I’ve made changes to my system on one or more occasions that has messed everything up, if you are in the GRUB menu (at least on opensuse) you can boot into a read only snapshot and then run sudo snapper rollba…

Utopian Scholastic Examples Utopian Scholastic as an aesthetic appeared alongside the creation of the internet, and educational software, but has its roots in the advertising of the mid to late 1980s, and even movements like still lives.

Ukiyo-E japanese wood block printing Examples Ukiyo-E was a standardized style of wood block printing that utilized durable cherry wood blocks carved to create an image.

What You Can Do to Help OpenStreetMap If you aren’t familiar with Open Street Map, you’ve probably at least used something that relies on them.

What I Don’t Know - 2022 Continuing my personal recap series from last year (two’s a pattern), I am reflecting on what I learned this year, what I would like to learn next year, as well as my yearly theme¹ from last year and my What I don’t Know² 2021 pos…

What I Don’t Know - 2021 This is going to be my personal recap of the year, as well as me trying a new method of goal setting for the new year.

This Tweeting Stuff Will Bum You Out After around 4 years of hiatus, I set up a crossposter from my mastodon to @proto_drew on Twitter.

Seasonal Theme Creation - Spring 2020 I have utilized this year’s spring equinox as a sort of transition truly into 2020.

Reflections on Burnout I have not been able to work on projects recently.

Intergalactic Singles Night Devlog I’ve been thinking a lot about games recently.

I Don’t Care Who’s Watching That’s a lie, I need the numbers how many clicks and scrolls how far each person reads whether they like it, whether they like me I need the value of my thoughts of my skills of myself said back to me every day graphed out, ave…

COVID-19 as a Breeding Ground For Ecofascist Thought The COVID-19 pandemic has been a very scary time for everyone who has been affected, and the millions adjacent to it.

Authenticity, Imposter Syndrome, and Enjoying Things I think about other people a lot.

Animal Crossing Thoughts Overall I have really been enjoying ACNH so far and am extremely excited to sink as much time into it as I did New Leaf.

An Open Letter on Urban Ecology The time has come for a new way of thinking about green space.

A Small Update I just wanted to give a little update on the status of this blog, how I’m doing, and what’s coming up from me.

A Pirate’s Guide to Audio-books In the last year I think I’ve said to myself “I want to read this, but I don’t have time… Let me get it as an audio-book” 100 times.

Hacking My Kobo Clara HD Helpful Links Browsing Gemini Sites on Kobo Basic Hacks for Kobo E-Readers Hacking my Kobo Clara HD Kobo Hacks and Utilities Index Kelbot Gemini to Epub Guide gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/gemlog/geminitoepub.gmi

Gtk Themes w/ Libadwaita it can be kind of a pain in the ass changing themes on gnome and libadwaita apps not changing. globally you can fix this with this line echo 'GTK_THEME="THEME_NAME"' | sudo tee -a /etc/environment Then use ctrl-d to end the proces…

Extract Image from Site Favicon I have a collection of bookmarks I have displayed on my start page¹.

.Desktop Files .desktop files are files that point towards an executable and provide some metadata in order to allow the system launcher to use them.

Compose Key a unique, mappable key that allows the use of combining symbols to create a nonstandard character a table of all the default bindings can be found here If you copy the default binding file, which on Pop!

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Embracing the Magic I came up with this theme largely during a period of depression and relistening to haha yeah, specifically remembering sel’s deboard_buendia program, which I also archived on the are.na channel for this theme.

Flywheels Flywheels are a mechanical method of storing energy by converting it into kinetic energy.

Constructing the Foundation Last year I made do with what I had, this year I will build what I need.