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| Dispatch #38 (April 2026) | 2026-03-30T10:45:45-04:00 | false |
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- Warmer weather
- Biking
- Holi
- DC
- Snow
- Sold car
- Baltimore
- Pendry
- Ken show
- Solo weekend
- Double trailer
- Running going well
- Vegas
{{<dither IMG_0004.jpeg "782x600">}}Face-first into the color chaos.{{}} {{<dither IMG_0009.jpeg "782x600">}}Blue faces, red popsicles, and the kind of chaos that means the afternoon went well.{{}}
Look at us! We’re the luckiest kids in the world!
-- Nev
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That's not why brand age watches look strange. Brand age watches look strange because they have no practical function. Their function is to express brand, and while that is certainly a constraint, it's not the clean kind of constraint that generates good things. The constraints imposed by brand ultimately depend on some of the worst features of human psychology. So when you have a world defined only by brand, it's going to be a weird, bad world.
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The Kindness Of Familiar Faces | Defector
None of that happens if the internet exists. Instead of fleeing to Seattle in search of a purpose in life, Kurt Cobain would’ve joined a subreddit that made living in Aberdeen three percent more bearable, he would have expressed his jadedness with society on Thought Catalog, and he would have uploaded rough demos to his SoundCloud as his attempt at making it in the biz. He wouldn’t have met any of the people who either inspired his music or directly made it with him. More important, the Seattle scene itself never would have materialized. The internet disincentivizes people young and old from going out into the world, from making necessary human connections, and from forging a collective artistic voice together. That’s why there’s never gonna be another Cobain.
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Digital culture and entertainment insights daily: The feeling of the old world fading away (via)
To be clear, this sorrow is not about nostalgia or “getting older”, this is about living in a moment when the question, “Has the world changed or have I?” is irrelevant because the separation of the self and the world no longer makes any sense.
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Why I Got Out Of The Gambling Business | Defector
Though the damage I did while at the company cannot be undone, I can sleep a little easier now knowing I am no longer a part of that rotten business. I encourage everyone else working at these companies to do the same as I did, and quit. The job can be walked away from; the casino, on the other hand, follows you everywhere.
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Stop Sloppypasta: Don't paste raw LLM output at people
slop·py·pas·ta n. Verbatim LLM output copy-pasted at someone, unread, unrefined, and unrequested. From slop (low-quality AI-generated content) + copypasta (text copied and pasted, often as a meme, without critical thought). It is considered rude because it asks the recipient to do work the sender did not bother to do themselves.