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text-based mediaJul 25, 2026

Notes for July 25, 2026

I need to read more books. And a few random links. Also, I could use a nap.

soulcruzer

soulcruzerJul 25, 2026

I’ve got the new Masters of the Universe …

I've got the new Masters of the Universe queued up on Prime for viewing tonight. I suspect I'll be viewing it through two lenses. The kid, waiting to hear "I have the power!" and the storyteller who's curious to know if they can make the mythology of Eternia something more than a marketing reboot. One...

Masters of the UniverseMythology

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text-based mediaJul 24, 2026

Notes for July 24, 2026

Bluesky adoption, Dave Portnoy is a tool, a couple retro gaming related things, and killer whales

soulcruzer

soulcruzerJul 24, 2026

This morning I picked up How to Practice …

This morning I picked up How to Practice Self-Inquiry by Ramana Maharshi. I expected a quick survey read, a reconnaissance mission into the territory of the question Who am I? Instead, before I had travelled very far into the book, another question appeared: Is this your game? Is this your true mission? I could almost...

mythogeographypsychogeography

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text-based mediaJul 24, 2026

Notes for July 23, 2026

Getting banned, a blog about enshittification, a win for cali octopuses and a couple other links

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text-based mediaJul 22, 2026

Notes for July 22, 2026

Old school websites, some Nintendo nostalgia, marketing ourselves, and feeling old

soulcruzer

soulcruzerJul 22, 2026

“Same shit, different day” is one of those …

“Same shit, different day” is one of those phrases I hate because it usually arrives wearing a smirk. It reduces a life to a conveyor belt: wake up, coffee, work, scroll, eat, sleep, repeat. A little verbal shrug before another day gets fed into the machine. And yet, some mornings, it’s mostly true. Routine isn’t...

diceLuke Rhinehart

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text-based mediaJul 20, 2026

A few small notes on the small web

Intro to the small web, why we stay in walled gardens, and a tiny bit of blogging drama

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text-based mediaJul 19, 2026

Notes for July 19, 2026

Andrew Tate gets arrested in his pantaloons, a blurb from Dave Winer, questionable mushrooms, and a thing on tipping culture

soulcruzer

soulcruzerJul 19, 2026

I’ve been carrying a small psychogeographic instruction around …

I’ve been carrying a small psychogeographic instruction around with me: unfold a map, put a glass down anywhere, draw round its rim, then go out and walk the circle as closely as the streets allow. This is a low tech version of the deríve app I made last week. It’s a lovely bit of mischief...

psychogeographyWalking

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text-based mediaJul 18, 2026

Notes for July 18, 2026

Friends from online, the things we let define us, Omarchy Linux is wack as hell, why Standard Reader rules, and a few more links from today.

soulcruzer

soulcruzerJul 18, 2026

Rebecca Solnit’s sentences are archipelagos of thought. You …

Rebecca Solnit’s sentences are archipelagos of thought. You step onto one clause and find another small island appearing just beyond it: a memory, a road, an old map, a story someone told her, a political fact that refuses to stay merely political. The sentence does not hurry you to its conclusion. It gives you somewhere...

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text-based mediaJul 17, 2026

Notes for July 17, 2026

The vampire problem, loving an aging pet, a mini rant on AI hardware, Blink-182 x Pac-Man, and a few other links.

soulcruzer

soulcruzerJul 17, 2026

It feels to me as though this is …

It feels to me as though this is the only true choice we have. You did not ask to be born. You did not choose your parents. You did not choose the circumstances into which you arrived. The only real choice, I think, lies in deciding how we will play the hand we have been...

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Adam DJ Brett's blogJul 17, 2026

What Is Critical Theory, and Why Do We Need It in the Age of AI?

Critical theory is a method for asking how a technology is made, whose interests it serves, and whose labor it depends on. AI makes those questions a basic literacy for democratic life.

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text-based mediaJul 15, 2026

Notes for July 15, 2026

New monkey, gold tongue mummies, more on explosive diarrhea, bug-killing drones and William Shatner hXc

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text-based mediaJul 14, 2026

Notes for July 14, 2026

The Beatles vs Hitler, Jesus the twunk, a couple apps, and a thing about blogging

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soulcruzerJul 14, 2026

I’ve been thinking about the difference between critical …

I’ve been thinking about the difference between critical thinking and the kind of intelligence that has to sit beside it. Critical thinking gets a lot of the limelight. Fair enough. It is the part of the mind that asks for evidence, spots the loose plank in an argument, and refuses to be charmed by every...

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text-based mediaJul 13, 2026

Notes for July 13, 2026

A couple stories about ATProto, hostility towards VPNs, space sugar and cover bands

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soulcruzerJul 13, 2026

Dusting off the old street photography and field …

Dusting off the old street photography and field note cameras this morning. The first one out of the drawer is my old Olympus Tough: compact, waterproof, shockproof, and made for being carried rather than protected. I’m about to head into Leamington Spa to give the Deríve app I made over the weekend its first proper...

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soulcruzerJul 13, 2026

The mistake is to build the gift shop …

The mistake is to build the gift shop first. A lot of independent people do this. We make the course, the membership, the coaching offer, the template pack, and the shop. Then we stand in the doorway wondering why nobody has come in. It's the wrong end of the building. The work itself is the...

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soulcruzerJul 13, 2026

I keep coming back to this: people are …

I keep coming back to this: people are looking for something genuine. They might call it good work, a useful tool, a decent conversation, a song that gets under the ribs, a place where they can take their guard down for five minutes. The label changes. The hunger doesn't You can feel the difference when...

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soulcruzerJul 12, 2026

Thinking with my feet I have started calling …

Thinking with my feet I have started calling them Wisdom Walks, which sounds a little grand for what usually begins with me putting on my shoes and trying to get out of the house before I disappear too far into the screen. But the name has earned its keep. I go walking when something in...

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text-based mediaJul 11, 2026

Notes for July 11, 2026

The enshittification of clothing, a post on doomscrolling, the Tiny Awards and the new Hypertexting RSS app