Hello, who is on here

Notes on puzzles: https://nabeelqu.co/puzzles

The vibe on this website is very different to what it was two weeks ago. 🫠

I enjoy that there’s a soft norm of “don’t talk about AI” on here

Nepo/Ding is such an exciting chess WC match. Some truly beautiful games. Turns out Magnus being impossible to beat made for boring chess.

Need more Bluesky invites

Just published my What to Read This Weekend digest 📚 Olga Tokarczuk, Thomas Mann, Philip Roth, abortion, AGI, American IQ, socialist John Stuart Mill — and poetry, queerness, Easter, love, anti-stoicism, Substack... https://interintellect.substack.com/p/anna-gat-what-to-read-this-weekend-a84

Japanese people def seem a little tired of tourists this time around. Wasn't like this a few years ago. (Understandable, there are tons around this season...)

just setting up my bsky

Guy who explains Book 1 of the Iliad like Achilles is 10x engineer and Agamemnon took all his equity away so now he refuses to write a single line of code

I feel like conceptually we aren't even really scratching the surface of what "client" can mean for bluesky. it doesn't need to mean oh it has this or that feature that tweaks your same basic experience. you could have multiple totally different clients for radically different experiences

Japan is so nice for the ears. Supermarkets play little jingles that make me feel like an Animal Crossing character. Restaurants play soft jazz. Speech is murmur-level volume. Subway stations play classical music. It's lovely.

It’s hilarious how the “web3” people were mostly correct

2 weeks on sabbatical and my brain is almost too smooth. Not sure how I feel about it.

“Read a lot as a child” is probably the #1 predictor of whether I’ll get along very well with someone

Follow the dopamine

So what is everyone reading right now

One of the things that makes this place feel nice is the complete absence of grifters and threadors

Due to go to Taiwan in 10 days… is this a bad idea

This app has early Twitter energy in the best possible way. Anarchic and fun.

Decentralize social media

The skies are looking blue