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Strategems, gambits and wiles

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Memories In Orbit

I've been playing a new video game called MIO: Memories in Orbit. I have a bit of a soft spot for what they call Metroidvanias (a portmanteau of Metroid and Castlevania), having grown up loving games in the genre. In this game, you "Play MIO, a nimble robot with extraordinary abilities, and unravel the mysteries...

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One of the downsides to switching blogging platforms is that you either import all your old posts (if you can), try to carefully reconstruct them, or lose them entirely. In going from Ghost to WordPress, I’m not sure which one it’s going to be.

I've noticed that the same tech journalism publications that routinely bring news of the damaging effects of social media are also the ones that publish absolutely apoplectic pieces anytime there is an attempt to limit children's access to it.

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. These bees avoid building their honeycombs over icons. Not just any images on the icons, though. In a depiction of Jesus on the cross, they will build over the thief who mocked Jesus as he was dying, but not Jesus or Saint Dismas, the "good thief" who...

I know what my weekend listening will be.

I look around and keep thinking that Rage Against the Machine was over three decades too early.

I was going through my social media feeds this morning and realized that it was just a bunch of disconnected thoughts with no coherence. I wondered why I even bothered. Then I remembered posting about seeing a movie last weekend and the ensuing conversation on Micro.blog and I had my answer. There is value in...

Waffle House Fever

The World Cup is now over. It was fun to have people around the globe wrapped up in sport instead of the dreary and terrible things going on now thanks to the malevolent actors in charge of our governments. My wife was particularly enamored with seeing football tourists experiencing America for the first time. Their...

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The Inner Cry of A.I.

Benjamin Wallace writes for the NYT (gift link) about A.I. companies such as Anthropic hiring philosophers. Beyond all the jokes about philosophy grads actually getting jobs, it's a worthwhile examination of the place of the discipline within the tech space. What struck me was the concern that some philosophers interviewed had about the well-being of...

My mom wants us all to read and discuss the Odyssey, book club style. Then she wants us to go see it as a family in IMAX. After that, she wants to book a trip to Greece. This whole plan has become really ambitious.

The new Pastebot 3 Mac app looks enticing. The interactions seem really fluid. The site for the app has some lovely illustrations. The conveyor belt is inspired and the arcade machine rocks. I just wish there was an iOS companion app. I use Paste now and occasionally the cross-platform functionality comes in handy.

Watched: The Testament of Ann Lee 🍿 with my wife. I found myself moved but my wife has little tolerance for musical pretensions, so her opinions were a bit mixed.