@jules congrats on your Matrix post making HN. Also love the minimal simplicity of your blog. Keep up the great writing.
Pick up The Manual of Design Fiction before it's gone. Highly recommended. https://nearfuturelaboratory.myshopify.com/products/the-manual-of-design-fiction-paperback
Speaking of discoveries, I was going through drawers and cabinets in my childhood home and unearthed some real gems.
What an amazing discovery!
https://expandingdan.substack.com/p/second-arrangement-steely-dan-roger-nichols-tape
End of an era. Moog was bought by inMusic. https://ra.co/news/79174
Ongoing list of subreddits migrating to Lemmy. https://redditmigration.com/
Just before the pandemic, I was picked to be on a jury. The trial lasted a month. Met some cool jurors, one of whom works at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL_. I finally got to collect on the offer to bring the kids there for a tour today. Not sure who liked it more -- the kids or me!
Finally started watching Silo this weekend and it’s really fantastic.
Really wish I could get all of my friends and family using Signal. I am so fucking sick of the iOS - Android interoperability issues. I cannot believe this is still a thing.
I think it's cool that the Polestar 4 doesn't have a rear window. I never really look out of my rear window because my rearview mirror is a video feed (just like the Polestar 4) and when I'm backing up, I use the camera views on my dash. The future is cool.