Some are calling it the trillion dollar Markov chain™

Recently watched Robocop for the warm fuzzies over here.

In fact what Frasier Crane demonstrates by the folly of his quotidian existence is that no matter the strict adherence to rationality, no matter the psychological acuity or intellectual rigor we might bring to bear on our own human experience, it remains, inevitably, a realm of total chaos.

man literature in translation is such an easy way to read good books. no one translates the bad ones

They’re calling him the most vindicated person in history

“not to point fingers but-“

Finally found a minute to write up a little something after my recent trip to Bhutan. Lots of stuff left on the cutting room floor: a visit to a traditional paper factory, my personal discover of takins, and learning to play khuru after a traditional stone-heated bath. cyberb.space/notes/2026/b...

This has been bugging me so I need to clarify. I know that "referent" and "thing-in-itself" are synonyms. My original draft used "referent" and "reference," but it sounded too dissertation-y. In a fit of pre-post mania, I swapped out the wrong term. I will live the rest of my life with regret.

a long time ago i followed @sgillies blog and the moment he announced he had left a job we hired him to work at mapbox, a major coup. now is the time for you to do the same thing for your company, i guarantee you will not regret it: https://sgillies.net/2026/04/24/laid-off.html

Were the game dev engine “Godot” true to its namesake every invocation would hang indefinitely yet still imbue us with an uncanny feeling that maybe this time its functions will resolve. Its true purpose would be to cultivate breathless anticipation of a meaning that never materializes.

[reading a book in first person] i dont remember doing any of this

In awe of these shots from a TV program where Leonard Berstein introduced his audience to a Bach-playing MOOG synthesizer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8sS...

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

Now that I’m as old as Dante was when he wrote the Inferno, I can pretty confidently say that one of my circles of hell would be for the able bodied people who live on the 2nd floor of a high rise with +20 floors and still use the elevator.

Love a good piece that connects recent trends in the horror genre to modern cultural anxiety. "As we reconcile our lost spaces and our offices give way to new "lifeforms," [...] liminality will continue to define this threshold moment between physicality and digitality." — @shirachess.bsky.social

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. cyberb.space/notes/2026/e...

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.

“The Dream” by F. Brossler, from a 1912 issue of Der Guckkasten. One of 900+ prints in our online shop: publicdomainreview.org/product/the-...

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. cyberb.space/shelf/juliet...

Makenna Goodman's novel "Helen of Nowhere" is a sneaky trick pulled on unsuspecting readers — and I loved it. cyberb.space/shelf/makenn...

This Melville guy knew Americans better than anyone else

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 “geometries of perception” is perfect and this is the only place I’ve heard it used. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died. He was 96.

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Can’t believe this book is 16 years old already. But Egan’s fragmented examination of angst, ambition, and redemption holds up surprisingly well, all things considered. cyberb.space/shelf/jennif...

Can confirm. I’ve done this a few times without any bylines or projects attached to my name (just my own curiosity) and still had 100% success.

feeling this one today

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.

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. cyberb.space/notes/2026/a...

It’s one of fate’s rare gifts that, while spending a semi chaotic morning with my wife and son, I can look into my wife’s eyes and say “I missed my chance, Jerry!” and she knows exactly what I mean.

Wuthering Heights this, Wuthering Heights that, I want to talk about Robert Tinney's January 1980 cover of Byte

Mass call for laid-off workers, students, and allies on Sunday, Feb 22nd at 11am PT/2pm ET ‼️ We hope you can join the call, register @ wwwrise.org 🎟️

been watching the olympics and i think i found a solution to the male loneliness crisis

Took some time to write about coming back to Midwestern suburbia after 1.5 years of living in Mumbai. cyberb.space/notes/2026/o...

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.

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

Going to start remaking hit songs with more direct language. Be on the lookout for my forthcoming Britney Spear’s cover: “Impress upon me that you care once again”

Bruce Lee’s bruised knees bashed a bundle of bumbling bandits.

« But the times are ours and how can we disown them? If our history is our hell, still we cannot avert our faces. » — Albert Camus; The Rebel, p248

If you want to spread democracy, start with your workplace.

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, 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. here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

I wrote something to mark the final day of the year. cyberb.space/notes/2025/r...

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.

Merry Christmas to everyone, but especially to Mrs. Karl Slartman who submitted this never fail rice pudding recipe that keeps me company every year.