September 7, 2024
I usually eschew a 6000-word-plus essay but I found this one too compelling to navigate away from. John Lanchester of the London Review of Books spent that number diagnosing the ills of modern finance as he considered two books detailing the lives of a pair of financiers, assessing their effect on life from a 10,000-foot perspective.
This gut-punch comes early, but sets the stage for the milieu i... [
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A Monday? Huh. https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/113029184627569315
This kind of shit was designed in the lab to make me sit up and look: https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/112359406769920303
Definitely gonna find time (LOL) to watch my homie @designatednerd’s talk! You should too! https://mastodon.social/@designatednerd/113000835493577078
Picking up some Rust. Giving Linux another look. Thinking hard about what a new, modern OS would look like. https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/15/private-law/#thirty-percent-vig
OMG turns out PiHole has an LCARS theme and I am in love 😍 🖖
John’s blasé attitude towards Apple’s casual restructuring of all its value to taking every penny out of my pocket? Absolutely infuriating. https://daringfireball.net/2024/08/apple_services_profit
Just love how Weather.app is so incredibly slow to load. Like it’s gonna sit here for up to two minutes like this. Awesome work, Apple! 🙃
It should go without saying that this is bullshit, and you can look forward to never seeing PupperPost (or its successors) support AI writing blogs posts for you. This is gross af. https://mastodon.social/@verge/112881382288014469
It’s really astounding how little Intel is doing to mitigate the issues caused by what appears to be a huge number of faulty chips. https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/26/24206529/intel-13th-14th-gen-crashing-instability-cpu-voltage-q-a