🥸Music & Communism🥸 Molly Nilsson has a new track from another album! I also looked up some old anti-communist propaganda which she used as lyrics for one of her recent songs: 100 things you should know about communism in the USA. There were terrible copies of this floating around, but someone found and uploaded a great copy of this old Sheep On Drugs track. Sometimes I can’t believe some of the crazy shit they played on tv on the 90s. I have what I call a ‘Spotify gap’. This is the period of time that I stopped collecting music and… Read more: 🪠Link Dump August 23rd 🪠

Tech 🤖 I have recently migrated a number of services and projects to a docker-based setup and while in some ways its kind of cool, its also kind of a drag. The origin of the Apple command symbol is related to Swedish campgrounds. Ideas 🤔 While I haven’t read it, I found out about a really weird book called The End Of History and The Last Man which theorizes that liberal democracy is the ‘final form’ of human government. I call this ‘weird’ because some philosophy or concepts get more focus not because they are any more true or likely,… Read more: 💩 Link Dump July 26th, 2025 💩

🦍Thick and Thin🦒 Nickels are too thin! You know what you need? Thicker nickels, or thnickels. This is a cool thin ‘pencil tower’ in New York. It has no load-bearing interior columns, relying on its ‘concrete exoskeleton’. 🧠Illusion of Thinking for Yourself🧠 I find Apple’s Illusion of Thinking paper refreshing and I enjoy the term ‘accuracy collapse’ and will try to shove it into cocktail party conversation whenever possible. Anthropomorphizing AI/LLMs is something that I’m hoping society will course correct over time, but I’m not holding my breath. Adam Conover has an insightful piece about AI making us dumber. Neal… Read more: 🎆Link Dump July 4th🎆

As part of my Fizz & Buster series, I made a bunch of sketches during the process. Some were created before and some after as I planned on continuing the project into potentially a larger adventure game. But it didn’t really get off the ground for various reasons. I wanted to flesh out Fizz’s world a bit and create a cast of fun characters that you could interact with. Fizz & Buster Our hero Fizz and his space dog Buster travel the Olympus Belt, finding adventure when they least want it! Usually right around suppertime unfortunately. Fizz uses his Flinger… Read more: Fizz & Buster: Sketches

In my travels I have been close to hypothermia, and I’ve also been close to heat stroke. The difference between the two is that people seem to know more about preparing for the cold than the heat. In both situations I try to be aware of the dangers and be prepared. I generally commute by bike here in sunny Tucson, Arizona, and so I wanted to throw down my thoughts about how I survive in our extreme temperatures. So do I bike year round? Yep. In the heat? Yep. Is that crazy? Not if you know what you’re doing and… Read more: Cycling in Arizona Heat