Very good read. So much is so familiar. findhigherground.substack.com/p/what-i-lea...

Working from The Center for Fiction today. The sound of footsteps echoing against tall book stacks is so reassuring. Will be doing this more often. centerforfiction.org

Unexpectedly saw a very bad ex at an event I love and frequent. Feeling so grateful to the theoretical physics who chatted my ear off. I was genuinely interested and the intellectual distraction was so welcome. More reasons to love/hate quantum computers?

Someone I know who's in a fragile mental state post-breakup shared how they're using ChatGPT to work through it. Their approach sounded dubious. I suggested at least trying mental health specific AI bots, none of which I have tried, so not sure how good they are. What would you do?

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"I thought it was like a calculator. It's never going to say '2+2 = 5.' It would never lie to you. Why would it?" Agreed, worth watching.

I really held out trying to keep LinkedIn as a rolodex, but it's overcome me as really just a social network. Bummer.

Happy Indigenous People's Day Support fr Columbus Day as a national holiday kicked off in response to the lynching of 11 Italian immigrants in 1891, the largest group lynching in US history Italian-Americans and their descendants (me!) are good now. Time to turn the day over for others who need it

The Stanford d.school Celebrations felt like the non-fiction @meowwolf.com of design, a high compliment coming from me. So much polish, participation, and whimsey! I had a great time. #dschool2025 #creativeessentials dschool.stanford.edu/2025-celebra...

Me: Convince me of that. Because it sounds ass backwards to me. Claude: I can't convince you of that because you're right - it is ass backwards. -- 🙄 At least it said "ass backwards"? 🤷‍♀️

@planetmoney.bsky.social made a board game! First episode about it is out now. A version of it was tested at my board game day. I love hearing about the industry wide aspiration to create a Monopoly killer. Monopoly is not a great game.🤘 www.npr.org/series/g-s1-...

@cloudflare.social continues w/ principled contrarian approaches to AI. As @emollick.bsky.social said in a new post, "unimaginative organizations" can be misguided by a "focus on cost-cutting, rather than using these new capabilities to expand or transform work." blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-1...

Weird time in history seen by the obsession of a son who lost his father and a documentarian versed in interrogating the US government. I most appreciated the son's reflections on exhuming his father and the closing interview between Seymour Hersh and Errol Morris. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormwoo...

Finally actually watched Mr. Caramom's rap vidoes. I feel good about them. Do you feel good about them? I think you should feel good about them. Bow down for ya Nani. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQVs... @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Finished a sampler today. 🪡

Been re-engaging my astrology fixation lately. After reading a strangers chart at an event after a few drinks, she convinced me to set up shop. We'll see if that actually goes anywhere... but I did vibe code a website in a day and a half. So satisfying! fierceandtender.com

Is there a term for our tendency to be spooked by our own creations and mistakenly attribute powerful properties to them that they most certainly do not have? Seems like AI might just be the most recent instance of this. @melaniemitchell.bsky.social aiguide.substack.com/p/magical-th...

What's happening that the OSS, CIA precursor, has emerged in the collective cognitive soup? It's featured heavily in two history books I just read, and in this podcast every.to/podcast/how-..., a guy happens to be republishing their 1944 sabotage manual to distribute at his conference.

This situation with OpenAI lawyers pursuing non-profits on the assumption that there's a vast conspiracy is intense... Really appreciate the reporting on it. sfstandard.com/2025/09/02/o...

Posted a reflection on b my consulting practices on LinkedIn, of all places. www.linkedin.com/pulse/lets-g... Gotta develop a better internet home for my writing....

Think @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social will show? www.nytransitmuseum.org/busfestival/

My lower back still hurts two weeks later after trying out a personal training session at Lifetime. So miserable. Gotta just trust my own proprioception and not think the professionals actually know any better.

Gonna check it out. I always end up regretting it when I don't dive immediately into Casey's software suggestions. (Obsidian!!)

😭 why? @are.na (On my Android eink tablet)

For the record, this event was fantastic. @cindygallop.bsky.social really knows how to critique a system and build her way to the much better thing. What a pleasure to sit across from her as she delivered her message

I will be shopping for my Queerdo Prom outfit at the Grandma's Closet closing sale. www.instagram.com/p/DN80djpEqUy/ www.instagram.com/gccr_ny/

@jerthorp.bsky.social where are you???

Omg... I'm loosing it over this website of 1940s tax assessment photos of all NYC buildings. The map, zooming function, and colorization are so fun! 1940s.nyc

I knew Columbia University benefited greatly from owning the land under Rockefeller Center. It's news to me that Cooper Union also has a similarly lux Manhattan real estate situation...

Really looking forward to this lu.ma/61saip1a

Knowing how male-dominated the Odd Lots audience is makes me want to show up to a live show. I logged into the Discord server once. It was a bunch of guys wondering how to get more women on there. I left.. @weisenthal.bsky.social @tracyalloway.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/b...

Inspired by @chaninicholas.bsky.social calling Mercury is Retrograde "Mercury is Gatorade," my girlfriend now calls cazimi "cashmoney." I got a key message at perfect cashmoney. 💸🤣

Ugly crying to all of these. www.instagram.com/reel/DMI0Ra2...

I'm doing a WXO - World Experience Organization campfire this Wednesday based on my well-received session at the conference. More info and how to join: worldxo.org/mechanics-th...

I came up with a fantastic cultural institution that would be so wildly fun to run something like this... Unrealized Observatory (UO) Full brief (for a branding class i'm auditing...): docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This has been my browser homepage for a few weeks. Feeling really good about the choice. Not only do I get to see puffins putz, faff, parade around with fish, dig holes, and poop, but I also get to watch weather roll and out in on the Farne Islands. www.youtube.com/watch?v=03P6...

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is exactly as old as the @nycdykemarch.bsky.social. happy pride! 🏳️‍🌈

I'm thinking of unsubscribing from all the AI email lists I'm on for a few months to focus on playing games and watching math videos.

Mucking around in tide pools is a lot more fun with the Seek app by @inaturalist.bsky.social. Found these that I might not have noticed otherwise: Common Coraline, Eastern Oyster Driller, unidentified crab.

I couldn't stop chuckling when @karpathy.bsky.social says "There are people spirits on the internet, and they need to interact with our software infrastructure." Somehow that makes it all make sense! Let's hope "people spirits" doesn't take off like "vibe coding" did. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCEm...

Well look at that. Orien got a times obit. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/a...

Really happy about this website owlsintowels.org

More great New York City content

On this official form to register interest in acquiring a NYC metro card vending machine, I will be answering "Yes, but realistically cannot." So glad that's an option. The machines will be phased out by end of the year. 🥺 forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Ouch... And this is one history professor listening to another. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Yup, this is my experience of @kagi.com too. When I accidentally end up on google these days, I'm like "What the hell is this ugly trash heap?!?!" daringfireball.net/2025/04/try_...

Happy Mother's Day? Page 13 of Careless People. The author is 13... 🫣