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title: "Dispatch #29 (July 2025)"
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date: 2025-06-24T14:00:35-04:00
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draft: false
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tags:
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- dispatch
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references:
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- title: "Opinion | Sarah McBride on Why the Left Lost on Trans Rights - The New York Times"
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url: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-sarah-mcbride.html
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date: 2025-07-01T15:45:49Z
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file: www-nytimes-com-ne64py.txt
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- title: "Generative AI as a magic system – Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden"
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url: https://tracydurnell.com/2025/06/24/generative-ai-as-a-magic-system/
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date: 2025-07-01T15:45:54Z
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file: tracydurnell-com-e7ykbg.txt
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- title: "Toward A Theory Of Kevin Roose | Defector"
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url: https://defector.com/toward-a-theory-of-kevin-roose?giftLink=0131f06f11f5f3dfe5152b52f0d2f2dc
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date: 2025-07-01T15:46:14Z
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file: defector-com-dykuft.txt
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- title: "Helix"
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url: https://lmno.lol/puddingtime/helix
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date: 2025-07-01T15:46:19Z
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file: lmno-lol-iivfpk.txt
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- title: "fastcompany.com"
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url: https://www.fastcompany.com/91352848/field-notes-cult-notebook-started-out-as-a-side-project
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date: 2025-07-01T15:46:22Z
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file: www-fastcompany-com-qigvi6.txt
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- title: "My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts · The Fly Blog"
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url: https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/
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date: 2025-07-01T15:46:25Z
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file: fly-io-g1y72q.txt
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---
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Some thoughts here...
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<!--more-->
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- Nico birthday
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- Beach
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- Beach banger
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- [Poolsuite][1]
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<audio controls src="/journal/dispatch-29-july-2025/Holden Beach House.mp3"></audio>
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[1]: https://poolsuite.net
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- Dads birthday
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- Richmond
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- [Children’s Museum][2]
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- Buz and Neds
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[2]: https://www.childrensmuseumofrichmond.org/
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- [Angel Island][3]
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- Ball pit photos
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[3]: https://www.angelislandusa.com/
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- Ken trip
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- Car rental
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- Music
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<audio controls src="/journal/dispatch-29-july-2025/Heat Lightning.mp3"></audio>
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[13]: https://turo.com/
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[14]: /journal/dispatch-7-september-2023/
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- Firsts
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- Nico walking
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- Nev swimming
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- Nev piano
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Next month:
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* Lake for the fourth
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* Wide open after that
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* Running, weight loss, more music (Melodics, Ableton)
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### This Month
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* Adventure:
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* Project:
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* Skill:
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### Reading & Listening
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* Fiction: [_Title_][4], Author
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* Non-fiction: [_Title_][5], Author
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* Music: [_Iteration_][6], Com Truse
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[4]: https://bookshop.org/
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[5]: https://bookshop.org/
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[6]: https://ghostly.com/products/iteration
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### Links
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* [Opinion | Sarah McBride on Why the Left Lost on Trans Rights - The New York Times][7]
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> Maybe it is hurtful, but you can’t foster social change if you don’t have a conversation. You can’t change people if you exclude them. And I will just say, you can’t have absolutism on the left or the right without authoritarianism.
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* [Generative AI as a magic system – Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden][8]
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> We treat generative AI like magic… and magic systems have rules. When creating fantasy worlds, writers think about who can use magic, how magic is performed, what it’s able to do, what its constraints are, what the source of magic is, and what it costs. I’m applying a bit of reverse worldbuilding to the real world to extrapolate the rules of the AI magic system.
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* [Toward A Theory Of Kevin Roose][9]
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> My suspicion, my awful awful newfound theory, is that there are people with a sincere and even kind of innocent belief that we are all just picking winners, in everything: that ideology, advocacy, analysis, criticism, affinity, even taste and style and association are essentially predictions. That what a person tries to do, the essential task of a person, is to identify who and what is going to come out on top, and align with it.
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* [Helix][10]
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> It's pretty nice! It launches quickly. No plugin system so the futzmonkey sort of has to stay in its cage, but it's very batteries-included. I found a tutorial for setting it up for Markdown that wasn't overwhelming and helped me get a sense of how its config works.
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* [How Field Notes went from side project to cult notebook][11]
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> Two decades after Aaron Draplin and Jim Coudal launched Field Notes, the analog notebook company is crushing it in the digital age.
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* [My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts · The Fly Blog][12]
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> And here I rejoin your company. I read Simon Willison, and that’s all I really need. But all day, every day, a sizable chunk of the front page of HN is allocated to LLMs: incremental model updates, startups doing things with LLMs, LLM tutorials, screeds against LLMs. It’s annoying! But AI is also incredibly — a word I use advisedly — important. It’s getting the same kind of attention that smart phones got in 2008, and not as much as the Internet got. That seems about right.
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[7]: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-sarah-mcbride.html
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[8]: https://tracydurnell.com/2025/06/24/generative-ai-as-a-magic-system/
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[9]: https://defector.com/toward-a-theory-of-kevin-roose?giftLink=0131f06f11f5f3dfe5152b52f0d2f2dc
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[10]: https://lmno.lol/puddingtime/helix
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[11]: https://www.fastcompany.com/91352848/field-notes-cult-notebook-started-out-as-a-side-project
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[12]: https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/
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