So a majority of the blogs in the world will soon be opted in to acting as training grounds for AI Tools. Not gonna happen at Pika. Pika Blogs Do Not Train AI Tools
I’m so glad that I got two of these Tim Robinson Zip Line guys before they sold out!
Pika Pages have arrived! It’s still a little rough around the edges, but I can now run my personal site on Pika. pika.pika.page/posts/pik…
Giving Omnivore a try over Matter. Looks like a solid option with a nice sync-highlights-to-Obsidian feature.
This week’s Pika status, along with some personal-site inspiration: Pika Gliding Along.
Wondering if anyone has this workflow (readflow?)?
Subscribe to site via RSS > Skim feed reader to decide what to/what not to read > Send “want to read” things to a read-later service (like Matter) > Only actually read via the read-later service
i.e. never read things in your feed reader.
For the rest of the month I’m going to try things like Play (https://marcosatanaka.com/#play) and Matter as a way to consume, adding things that I run into via blogs or conversations. That and the feed reader. Maybe I’ll get rid of some of these tabs as well…
Robin Rendle makes you think, with a perfect line: I am a poem I am not software. Of course Yay.Boo comes to mind as one of many ways to play with that idea. And of course this makes me think a little differently about Pika.
A fascinating review of the new Garth Brooks release.
Call him the James Harden of country music.
I’ve been collecting a linkroll of places I like to visit from time to time to discover new weird wide web sites. (Sorry in advance that this page will probably move to a different URL in the next couple of months.)
After months of work, my friend Rianna has launched her popcorn shop and it’s fantastic! If you love the best snack in the world like me, do yourself a favor and check out Dusted.
I adored Hasan Minhaj’s Homecoming King. That makes this story especially disappointing. Sure, make up stories. But when you include real people, identifiably, and keep “emotional truthing” the lies you told about them?! Come on.
Quite an interesting project: Postmarks single-user bookmarking website.
Japanese nail houses: lonelyrobottheme.substack.com/p/japanes…
Interesting in light of the saying “the nail that sticks out gets hammered down”: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/the_nail_that_sticks_out_gets_hammered_down
Looking forward to Manu’s People and Blogs
I’m trying the Arc browser again. I think I’m finally starting to get it now. (And I have some invites, natch.)
Did you know there is an MST3K text adventure game released in 1996? Though I don’t think it was “official,” it was based on a badly-done text adventure game written by a 12 year old. MST3K: Detective can be played at archive.org. More deets here.
[T]he pickle remained stuck to the ceiling, using only ketchup remnants and nondescript burger juices as adhesive, for an entire month. Amazing.
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None of the trailers for The Rings of Power have given me any hope…until this one. Maybe?
This response to “Quiet Quitting” is delicious.
Bosses want to be religious leaders rather than actual leaders. Managers want to be productivity cops, ever-vigilant of anyone failing to contribute to the company while avoiding every reflective surface.
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Heh. Ran into old school Book-A-Minute and Movie-A-Minute. Reminds me of a project I tried way back in the early 2000s. I called it Flicksticks, and it used the only drawing I could pull off: stick figures. Freaky Friday:
Did I ever share Rediscovering the Small Web here? If not, why not? Probably one of the micro.blog denizens had shared it with me prior. Anyway, it’s great! đź”—
I’ve spent a lot of time in my life learning about saving, finance, and investing. That doesn’t mean I taught my kids any of this. I’ve felt bad about it until I found this article by JL Collins. Now I have a plan for discussion when they go off to college and careers. đź”—
A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore ahahahaha đź”—
Oliver Burkeman’s latest newsletter includes this bit. I’m happy to read someone agreeing with my estimation of the actual amount of expertise out there in the world. This is my personal way to handle feeling like an imposter:
Imposter syndrome? Worse than you think – because you think the issue is that you don’t yet have the qualifications to hold your own among your colleagues, when in fact the truth is that everyone is winging it, all the time, and that if you’re ever going to make your unique contribution to the world, you’re going to have to do it in a state of unreadiness.