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Blaugust 2025
I learned about a neat project today: Blaugust 2025. Basically, it’s a month-long blogging event encouraging community building and creativity. For me, I’m hoping it’s a nice way to find other blogs to follow and to give me a push to post more often. Here’s a summary from the intro post: What is Blaugust? For…
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Link Dump – Recently Read Articles
Here are some articles I have read recently and found interesting: A.I. Researchers Are Negotiating $250 Million Pay Packages. Just Like NBA Stars. nytimes.com This is just absurd. Tagged: ai Confessions of the Working Poor – Macleans.ca macleans.ca I work hard, buy quality clothes and fake my way through dinner-party conversations. I’m also part of…
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Media Diet #2
Books 📚 Careless People: A story of where I used to work– In this book, Sarah Wynn-Williams chronicles her time at Facebook where she worked from 2011-2017 as a director of global policy. The narrative mostly focuses on her experiences and Facebook’s decline (I’m less optimistic that it was ever good) as the company embraced…
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Link Dump – Recently Read Articles
Here are some articles I recently read and found interesting: Grok Is the Latest in a Long Line of Chatbots To Go Full Nazi theintercept.com Grok’s recent antisemitic turn is not an aberration, but part of a pattern of AI chatbots churning out hateful drivel. Tagged: ai Grok searches for Elon Musk’s opinion before answering…
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Link Dump – Recent Bookmarks
Here are 2 bookmarks I’ve collected recently: HTML for People htmlforpeople.com This is a neat resource for folks making their personal website. Tagged: indieweb Introducing Pay per crawl- enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access blog.cloudflare.com This is an interesting proposal to deal with the AI scraping issue. Tagged: ai Synced from Raindrop.io…
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Link Dump – Recent Bookmarks
12 interesting articles I’ve bookmarked over the past week covering privacy, health, AI, and more.
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Media Diet – #1
Some media (books and television) that I’ve read and watched over the past few weeks. Books 📚 Lo-Fi: A Novel (Liz Riggs)– This novel was set in the Nashville indie rock scene circa the early 2000s. While I have no familiarity with the Nashville music scene, the story — focused on a woman who works…
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Game Journal #3
Yakuza: Like A Dragon Over the past few weeks, I made it the last chapter (15) in Yakuza: Like a Dragon. I am still enjoying the story, but I hit a bit of a wall with where I realized I hadn’t engaged enough with some of the systems and characters enough to make it through…
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Game Journal #2 🎮
My gaming time over the past week was largely spent playing Yakuza: Like a Dragon. It remained an enjoyable experience, but the story did stall out when I hit a wall in Chapter 12. I found myself having to grind for levels to avoid being trounced by a pair of powerful bosses. This seems to…
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Game Journal #1 🎮
I have been playing through Yakuza: Like a Dragon over the past week. I’m in the last third of the game (maybe even the last quarter) and I still feel like I have barely scratched the surface of what the game offers. There are a _ton_ of mini games (examples include various gambling games, baseball,…