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I'll have to try this. I've been thinking about how strong the infrastructure to extract value from "makers" is. this is such a low-tech solution to a problem, when I had been thinking about vinyl cutters and expensive printing and a whole bunch of other Ways To Give Someone Else My Money.

clearly I am not immune to the jedi mind trick on which the corporatization of Everything thrives.

th&ks marginalia search

article,author_alaina_sermersheim,crafts,diy,publication_rookiemag,stickers

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There's really no easy way to say `I was stabbed.'

humanparts.medium.com/baby-well-be-fine-e0303aa5d2f9

article,author_emma_berquist,life_event,recovery,stabbing

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True Crime is Rotting Our Brains

medium.com/@emma.berquist/true-crime-is-rotting-our-brains-8c7dea979309

article,author_emma_berquist,fear,social_climate,true_crime

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Hidden Agendas, Lost Cities - System Stack

systemstack.dev/2025/08/lotus-agenda

should look at this more whenever i have some form of tiny machine i can run dos on

article,author_kevin_lipe,design_software,retrocomputing,software_pim,todo

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The Last Nomads

www.thedial.world/articles/news/issue-28/georgia-adjara-highlands-nomads

adjara_georgia,article,author_natela_grigalashvili,culture_traditional,death_culture,photo_essay,publication_the_dial

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Go read Peter Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" and then come back and tell me that LLMs can replace human programmers

ratfactor.com/cards/naur-vs-llms

analysis_literary,article,author_dave_gauer,llms,programming

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the hairshirt doldrums

www.late-review.com/p/the-hairshirt-doldrums

on having a brain injury

How much could one concussion cost, Michael, $3000?

A detailed point-of-view of the experience of a brain injury, both on a subjective level and in navigating the medical system.

article,author_kate_wagner,brain_injury,healthcare,personal_health

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The Curse of Xanadu

www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu

The article I subscribed to WIRED for.

"It wouldn't take millions of dollars. I estimate something like a three- to six-man, monthlong effort." I instinctively factored this prediction in my head, because I recognized the code in which the Xanadu programmers speak of the future: six months.

My thoughts (posted elsewhere):

i am of course fundamentally opposed to a lot of the core of xanadu because I am very anti-copyright and anti-capitalism. also we have a damn good citation system on the web and bullshit citation chains still manage to spread. i think the idea that people en masse would comply with a system that tries to enforce perfect citation is hopelessly naive. like any Great Libertarian Project, the idea doesn't seem to be aware of its own weight or ramifications, but instead simply standing before itself in somnambulant awe

article,author_gary_wolf,criticism,history_computer,hypertext,ted_nelson,xanadu

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Free Software is an Abject Failure

www.paritybit.ca/blog/free-software-is-an-abject-failure

Found browsing the XXIIVV Webring.

article,author_paritybit,criticism,foss,fsf,gnu

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A 2025 Survey of Rust GUI Libraries

www.boringcactus.com/2025/04/13/2025-survey-of-rust-gui-libraries.html

Saving for the quote, cause it sums it up pretty well:

Tcl, a fascinating late-80s programming language that I would describe as weird in a Lua way, weird in a LISP way, and weird in its own way all at once.

accessibility,article,author_boringcactus,programming_language_rust

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