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I've started to take on freelance software work again. Here's some context:
cyberb.space/notes/2025/k...
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Keyboard for Hire
A brief announcement and some thoughts about work
https://cyberb.space/notes/2025/keyboard-for-hire/
5 months ago
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Finally saw the Taj Mahal after a year and eight months of living in India. Here are some brief and ill-considered thoughts on the experience.
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Explaining Death to a Toddler at the Taj Mahal
A few thoughts after a weekend trip to Delhi and Agra
https://cyberb.space/notes/2026/explaining-death-to-a-toddler-at-the-taj-mahal/#fn1
6 days ago
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Finally got around to watching Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind. Very good subversion of genre expectations. Also maybe the best final scene of any movie I've seen in the past few years? Bugonia could take some notes.
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The Public Domain Review
8 days ago
āThe Dreamā by F. Brossler, from a 1912 issue of Der Guckkasten. One of 900+ prints in our online shop:
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Almost 650 years ago something very interesting happened throughout the kingdom of England. Unfortunately, most of the records that would help us know exactly who and what this was were burned in the process.
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Booklog: 1381: The Year of the Peasantsā Revolt
https://cyberb.space/shelf/juliet-barker/1381-the-year-of-the-peasants-revolt/
12 days ago
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Makenna Goodman's novel "Helen of Nowhere" is a sneaky trick pulled on unsuspecting readers ā and I loved it.
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Booklog: Helen of Nowhere
https://cyberb.space/shelf/makenna-goodman/helen-of-nowhere/
18 days ago
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Screaming Pectoriloquy
almost 2 years ago
This Melville guy knew Americans better than anyone else
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The Bookworm archive continues to be an incredible resource. This old interview with Chris Ware has so much packed into its short 30 minutes. The term āgeometries of perceptionā is perfect and this is the only place Iāve heard it used.
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Chris Ware: Rusty Brown
Podcast Episode Ā· Bookworm Ā· December 12, 2019 Ā· 30m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bookworm/id73330484?i=1000459358666
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The Associated Press
24 days ago
Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the worldās most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died. He was 96.
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Jürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96
Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the worldās most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died.
https://bit.ly/4ltUtzX
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Dan Waterfield
29 days ago
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Greg Wolanski
about 1 month ago
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Internet Phone Book ā Issue 2
Hi :) Nice to meet you. We need a tiny bit of information to include your website in the Internet Phone Book ā Issue 2
https://tally.so/r/3EEZzL
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Canāt believe this book is 16 years old already. But Eganās fragmented examination of angst, ambition, and redemption holds up surprisingly well, all things considered.
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Booklog: A Visit from the Goon Squad
https://cyberb.space/shelf/jennifer-egan/a-visit-from-the-goon-squad/
about 1 month ago
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Can confirm. Iāve done this a few times without any bylines or projects attached to my name (just my own curiosity) and still had 100% success.
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dan
about 1 month ago
feeling this one today
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We mourn our craft
I didnāt ask for this and neither did you. I didnāt ask for a robot to consume every blog post and piece of code I ever wrote and parrot it back so that some hack could make money off oā¦
https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
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Inside of me are two wolves. One of them whispers that I should spend my time collecting every experimental guitar album that Bill Orcutt has put out. The other immediately pre-orders every Mitski album.
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A project I've been involved with the past few years is almost done, but it needs funding to get over the hump. I'm physically incapable of fundraising, so instead I wrote up a brief post about what it is and why it would great if you threw the project a few dollars.
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A Request for Impetus
Good friends are looking for podcast funding
https://cyberb.space/notes/2026/a-request-for-impetus/
about 1 month ago
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Itās one of fateās rare gifts that, while spending a semi chaotic morning with my wife and son, I can look into my wifeās eyes and say āI missed my chance, Jerry!ā and she knows exactly what I mean.
about 2 months ago
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Chappell Ellison
about 2 months ago
Wuthering Heights this, Wuthering Heights that, I want to talk about Robert Tinney's January 1980 cover of Byte
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Tech Workers Coalition
about 2 months ago
Mass call for laid-off workers, students, and allies on Sunday, Feb 22nd at 11am PT/2pm ET ā¼ļø We hope you can join the call, register @
wwwrise.org
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amy brown
about 2 months ago
been watching the olympics and i think i found a solution to the male loneliness crisis
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Took some time to write about coming back to Midwestern suburbia after 1.5 years of living in Mumbai.
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Out of Pocket
Looking at the Chicago suburbs with fresh eyes
https://cyberb.space/notes/2026/out-of-pocket/
2 months ago
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A perfectly ouroboric piece of media. Canāt wait for the film adaptation.
2 months ago
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No one prepares you for your toddler forcing you to read random books so much they become spectral texts that stalk you through your dreams.
2 months ago
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lauren
3 months ago
i remember when the computer still demanded blood. my dad's Tandy took a mere pinprick from your finger, which was a revolutionary advancement from the bulky machines of the 80's that required a thimbleful to access usenet for a day. that itself was an improvement on the pint needed to join ARPANET
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Going to start remaking hit songs with more direct language. Be on the lookout for my forthcoming Britney Spearās cover: āImpress upon me that you care once againā
3 months ago
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Bruce Leeās bruised knees bashed a bundle of bumbling bandits.
3 months ago
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Ā« But the times are ours and how can we disown them? If our history is our hell, still we cannot avert our faces. Ā» ā Albert Camus; The Rebel, p248
3 months ago
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Existential Comics
3 months ago
If you want to spread democracy, start with your workplace.
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henry ā·
3 months ago
youāre right! it feels mostly awful to Go Onlineā¢, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song. hereās how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.
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A Website To End All Websites | Henry From Online
How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.
https://henry.codes/writing/a-website-to-destroy-all-websites/
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I wrote something to mark the final day of the year.
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Retrograde Motion
or, the perceived movement of a backwards year
https://cyberb.space/notes/2025/retrograde-motion/
3 months ago
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Lev Mirov
3 months ago
Please, I am begging you, do not tell AI to translate for you. Do not just use a translate button on languages you can't read. Please ask a human being to help you. Machine translations are often close enough on a sentence level but that is NOT good enough for anything you take seriously.
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Merry Christmas to everyone, but especially to Mrs. Karl Slartman who submitted this never fail rice pudding recipe that keeps me company every year.
3 months ago
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Someone who keeps believing the local crockpotās prophesies? Thatās a seer sucker.
4 months ago
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Finished up what will likely be my last full read of the year today.
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Booklog: The Books of Jacob
https://cyberb.space/shelf/olga-tokarczuk/the-books-of-jacob/
4 months ago
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Evan Minsker
4 months ago
Each time a person asks you for an antidote to their big money algorithmic recommendation model, share the work of one blogger š«
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As the old saying goes, if you canāt beat them, join them⦠so as to better sabotage them from within.
4 months ago
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Nathan Grayson
4 months ago
as part of a demonstration organized by
@techworkerscoalition.org
, members of unions like cwa and uaw, as well as other assorted supporters of the 34 rockstar workers fired for organizing activity, have gathered outside rockstarās office in nyc to protest
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The Public Domain Review
4 months ago
Careful out there tonight for it's
#Krampusnacht
! Popular in German-speaking Alpine folklore, the figure of
#Krampus
is a devil-like horned creature who punishes badly-behaved children the night before St Nicholas' Day. More Krampus cards here:
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Quite clear that I am becoming a literary sicko as I grow older.
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McSweeney's
4 months ago
"I recently spoke with Santa Claus, who is currently coordinating his staff of immortal blue-collar elves, about the morality of children and his friendship with a creature whom many carolers consider a war criminal: Krampus."
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The New Yorkerās Isaac Chotiner Interviews Santa Claus
For several centuries, Santa Claus has been one of the most prolific mythical gift-givers in the world. Formerly known as Saint Nicholas of Myra, a...
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-new-yorkers-isaac-chotiner-interviews-santa-claus
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One of the nice things about the Nobel Prize for literature is that it generates a surge in interest an author's work across linguistic boundaries. One of the weird things is that the author's old books will appear in your native language marketed as "new" or "the latest from" the author.
4 months ago
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In many ways the legacy of a philosopherās work is formed by the actions of its most successful misreaders.
4 months ago
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Starbucks Workers United
4 months ago
Snow, rain, or shine - we're out here on the picket lines āļø It's DAY NINETEEN of our national ULP strike. Our striking baristas in Rockford, IL are braving the weather to make sure Starbucks hears our demands loud an clear: stop union busting and settle a fair contract!
#nocontractnocoffee
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The Public Domain Review
4 months ago
What will enter the
#publicdomain
in 2026? Each day through December weāll open a window in our advent-style calendar to reveal our highlights!
https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2025/
(+ for the impatient/curious we've links to lists of new entrants.)
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The Public Domain Review
4 months ago
A very happy birthday to the ever-beguiling and brilliant William Blake, born
#onthisday
in 1757. Pictured here, his depiction of the biblical story of Jacob's Dream. One of several Blake prints for sale in our online shop:
publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints/artist/w...
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Alyssa Harad
4 months ago
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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My least consequential English usage bugbear? āfrom whenceā is redundant and itās incredibly annoying more writers donāt realize this.
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The most pressing issue of our time is that horrible situations are developing faster than the creative class can provide new metaphors to understand them. As evidence, I present the fact that people are saying ācircular economyā and ābubbleā rather than āmalignant tumor on the market economy.ā
5 months ago
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mattie lubchansky
5 months ago
work on the creative project that pays me money and that i am under contract for and that people like????? no thanks, im busy thinking about my creative project that im kind of bad at and somehow costs me money and that nobody asked for
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I've started to take on freelance software work again. Here's some context:
cyberb.space/notes/2025/k...
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Keyboard for Hire
A brief announcement and some thoughts about work
https://cyberb.space/notes/2025/keyboard-for-hire/
5 months ago
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