I can’t believe I never used my axidraw for blueprints before.
It’s crunch time for my latest project. I always feel a mixture of love and hate for this phase of every project. It’s been gestating for many months and now there will be some pain in the delivery.
We are about to share the creative space with non-human entities. Will people genuinely find the creative product of a non-human interesting?
Keynotes by Brian Moriarty (Loom) are such treasure troves. The secret of Psalm 46 was a fabulous read. Totally worth the 1h musical reading, but even if you’re in a rush do yourself a favor and read the transcript.
ZOOZVE is just begging to be pen-plotted.
Of Magic Mushrooms and their connection to the Chicxulub impactor
https://buttondown.email/carlzimmer/archive/fridays-elk-january-12-2024/
The maquech beetle, which some people wear as a living brooch, remains one of the weirdest things I’ve seen in Yucatan. Here’s a description of the tradition.
I remember a full dozen years ago the feeling of independence, tinged with some slight digital survivalism, of running a local version of Wikipedia from my Nexus One smartphone. It was cool, but I used that feature on maybe a couple of flights. I know better now that I feel a similar impulse about running powerful LLMs from my smartphone.
To mitigate the double-user compromise described here, I’m testing a simple script to automatically boost posts by the #WordPress instance: https://gist.github.com/zkg/30d0c02eabb36b976f706f9c36e22f59
I’ve just finished integrating ActivityPub into my WP blog. Trying out a plugin by @pfefferle