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  • “What are we doing with all these links, anyway? We’re weaving the web tighter. Making introductions. Maintaining provenance. It’s meaningful, especially now, as AI systems work in the opposite direction: denaturing the links, melting down the chains of connection.” Robin Sloan

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  • A Gmail Alternative

    A Gmail Alternative

    I’ve been using Gmail for 20 years, but with their recent launch of AI and recent political leanings I am disentangling from Google products and creating a new digital ecosystem. This will take time, but every shift I make gives them less data to mine and less power. Fastmail This January I switched from Google […]

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  • The Wheel of Time

    The Wheel of Time

    Growing up I was a hardcore fan freak of The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. It’s recently been reimagined as a television series and I’ve reconnected with the fandom and found so much joy in this vibrant and creative community. I wrote about my creative pilgrimage to Charleston, South Carolina where I saw Robert […]

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  • The Secret Garden keychain that started my fascination with keys. As a young child I used to carry this to pine trees in our yard and imagine opening portals to other worlds.

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  • “I feel really lucky that I had some good role models of people who seemed to be devoted parents and artists at the same time. I don’t think I needed so much to know how they did it — it seems impossible to generalize how one does it, because everyone’s context/family/situation is so wildly different […]

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  • I’ve had a tab open for kening zhu’s post about rituals vs. sprints for nearly a month. It reminds me about something Katherine May once said on a podcast* about the cycle of neurodivergent hyperfocus and recovery. Versus a neurotypical ideal of consistency. It’s something I am still figuring out. Having experienced burn out I […]

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  • “a conscious choice to be happy is a form of resistance…” “You’re allowed to cultivate joy. In fact, you need to, because our job is to build the world that we want.” — AOC via Amelia Greenhall

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  • “I believe in the core of my being is that art can help reach people where political rhetoric and facts can’t. There’s something magical about identifying with a fictional character, or getting swept up in a story, or just being shocked by a piece of weird art into seeing things in a different way.” Charlie […]

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  • “How can queer art help us to survive, and maybe even fight back, during this bloody awful moment in history? I’ve been asking myself some version of this question non-stop for ages, but I still don’t have any clear answers. What I do have is a bone-deep sense that we need to be twice as […]

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