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Link Dump – Recently Read Articles
Here are some articles aI am reading and found interesting: Why publishers are preparing to federate their sites digiday.com The Verge and 404 Media are exploring the fediverse as a way to take more control over their referral traffic and onsite audience engagement. Tagged: internet People swear this adorable new app helped break their phone…
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Rare Sounds: Vangelis – Fais Que Ton Rêve Soit Plus Long Que La Nuit
Long before the composer Vangelis became famous for the sweeping scores of Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner, he recorded one of his strangest and most elusive works: a 1971 album titled Fais que ton rêve soit plus long que la nuit. Part protest document, part symphonic poem, it was born out of the turmoil…
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Yakuza: Like a Dragon Review – Heartfelt RPG Experience
Few RPGs have ever made me laugh and tear up in equal measure, but Yakuza: Like a Dragon pulled it off.I recently finished Yakuza: Like a Dragon and wasn’t surprised to see it land among my favorite games of all time. I had heard it get a lot of praise as being an interesting story…
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WitchSpring R Review: A Cozy RPG Adventure
I recently finished WitchSpring R, and it turned out to be a short, breezy RPG that I enjoyed from beginning to end. Originally a mobile game from 2015, WitchSpring has been reimagined here as a full remake. While developed by a South Korean studio, it shares plenty of DNA with classic JRPGs—turn-based combat, dungeon crawling,…
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Jailbreaking my Kindle Paperwhite
Early this year, I heard that it was possible to jailbreak most Amazon Kindle devices. I was interested, but ultimately decided against it. The deal-breaker for me was Libby. If jailbreaking meant losing access to library books, I was out. I couldn’t find a good answer to this initially, so I held off. Since the…
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Book Review: Review: Incredible Doom, Volumes 1 and 2
Before the Internet, there were BBSes — hidden communities you had to know how to find. Incredible Doom (by Matthew Bogart, illustrated by Jesse Holden) drops you into that world, where teenage misfits built entire universes one message at a time. I don’t remember how I came across the book, but it’s been on my…
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Blaugust 2025
I learned about a neat project today: Blaugust 2025. Basically, it’s a month-long blogging event encouraging community building and creativity. For me, I’m hoping it’s a nice way to find other blogs to follow and to give me a push to post more often. Here’s a summary from the intro post: What is Blaugust? For…
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Link Dump – Recently Read Articles
Here are some articles I have read recently and found interesting: A.I. Researchers Are Negotiating $250 Million Pay Packages. Just Like NBA Stars. nytimes.com This is just absurd. Tagged: ai Confessions of the Working Poor – Macleans.ca macleans.ca I work hard, buy quality clothes and fake my way through dinner-party conversations. I’m also part of…
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Media Diet #2
Books 📚 Careless People: A story of where I used to work– In this book, Sarah Wynn-Williams chronicles her time at Facebook where she worked from 2011-2017 as a director of global policy. The narrative mostly focuses on her experiences and Facebook’s decline (I’m less optimistic that it was ever good) as the company embraced…
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Link Dump – Recently Read Articles
Here are some articles I recently read and found interesting: Grok Is the Latest in a Long Line of Chatbots To Go Full Nazi theintercept.com Grok’s recent antisemitic turn is not an aberration, but part of a pattern of AI chatbots churning out hateful drivel. Tagged: ai Grok searches for Elon Musk’s opinion before answering…