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\nBeen doing this web thing since the early aughts. Technology still excites me like nothing else, especially hardware. Currently CTO of Frank & Eileen. Former VP of Customer Experience at Oura and Director of Customer Experience at Sonos. ","pronouns":"","is_following":false,"is_you":false,"following_count":92,"discover_count":0},"author":{"name":"Brad Barrish","url":"https://bradbarrish.com/","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2025/37/5607.jpg"},"items":[{"id":"90753911","content_html":"

We watched Billie Elliot for family movie night tonight. Everyone was bawling. I’m not allowed to pick movies or plan hikes ever again. It’s such a great movie though. I saw it at Laemmle Sunset 5 sometime in 2000. There was a Virgin Megastore in the same shopping center. I bought a lot of CDs there. It was...

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I want to push for the idea that a record doesn’t have to mean something. That the point of music isn’t always to decode it and extract meaning from it. That music can be emotionally legible without being confessional. And that distortion and opacity—a sensation of watching someone on the other side of an artificial waterfall in a family buffet restaurant—is often far more interesting and resonant than saying explicitly what one means.

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From A Record Doesn’t Have to Mean Something by Sophie Kemp (h/t Clone)

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Plato had Socrates fret that writing would hollow out memory, leaving people with the appearance of wisdom rather than the thing itself. He was partly right and mostly wrong, because the offloading was modest and slow. What is different now is degree sharpening into kind: recall that is instant, total, external, and increasingly the default.

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From When Memory Became a Service by Mark Ghuneim

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The On Being podcast with Krista Tippett remains one of my favorite podcasts, but the episode with Michael Pollan gave me a huge pause. It wasn’t because of anything Michael said. I’m in the middle of reading his new book, A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness and I’ve always enjoyed hearing him...

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The boy and I have been listening to the audiobook of The Hobbit while we’re in the car together. I made an awful error getting the Andy Serkis version and it’s virtually unlistenable. The audio volume of the voice over is all over the place, the voices are exceptionally over-acted and irritating, we...

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If you’ve installed OpenClaw and played with it, you know this Nat Friedman bit is probably true.

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Friedman uses OpenClaw, an autonomous AI agent that runs on his computer, acting like a personal assistant. One day, his OpenClaw decided that he wasn’t drinking enough water, so Friedman instructed the agent to “do whatever it takes” to make sure he stays hydrated. According to Friedman, eventually the bot directed him to go to the kitchen and drink a bottle of water. It informed him that it was monitoring him via a connected camera in his home. “I’m going to watch to make sure you do it,” the bot...

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@JohnPhilpin thank you. Also, no need for apology.

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Speaking of playlists, Noah Kalina made this week’s Herb Sundays playlist. I’m a huge fan of Noah’s work (and his social media trolling).

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Michael Chabon put together an absolutely stellar playlist of jangle music on Apple Music I’ve been enjoying this weekend.

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@JohnPhilpin honored to be in the company of other Brads in your feed.

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@netopwibby thank you!

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@adamprocter looking forward to hearing what you think.

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@JohnPhilpin awesome! Let me know what you think.

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Micro.blog Publisher is live in the Obsidian Community: bradbarrish.com

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A great interview with Maria Popova: bradbarrish.com

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TIL Brad Mehldau has a Substack (h/t Marginal Revolution). He also penned quite the takedown of New York Time Music Critic, Jon Caramanica. Woo boy!

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While I’m not currently concerned about hantavirus, I am glad there seems to be a good tracker out there.

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Someone made a desktop Wall of Sound and now I’m contemplating spending $150 on it, which I would probably have done without much thought had I not just spent $19 on a beautiful screensaver of a clock.

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I decided to put together a quick playlist on YouTube of some great songs I’ve been enjoying this week. Too much great music and not enough time!

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youtube.com/...

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Ian penned a great post for tetragammaton. His observation that LLCs essentially create a precedent for AIs to be granted personhood was particularly astute.

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Companies can own property, sign contracts, sue, be sued, spend money, and shape elections. But companies cannot be killed nor can they go to jail. They have many of the rights of people. They are not people.

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Is it any wonder that we have a loneliness epidemic? Addictive apps and lack of agency over our own attention has created a perfect opening for AI companionship. While I try to maintain a generally optimistic view of the future, I am not...

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I wish I could just stay completely off Instagram and Threads. The main reason I open Threads (on the web only) is to read Kevin Nealon’s posts 🤣

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Holy shit. The people are trying to buy Spirit Airlines. Please let this happen.

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Some Japanese guy put himself in a bunch of movies using AI. I can’t decide if I hate this or love it. Kinda wholesome?

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I had some abstract awareness of clout-as-a-service, but this post was… something else. (h/t clone.fyi)

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@manton thank you! All set and seems to be running smoothly again.

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Posting from Obsidian: bradbarrish.com

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@manton I just emailed you, but I’m seeing “No space left on device @ io_writev” errors and cannot seem to publish to my site.

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I enjoyed reading Anil Dash’s post about why Nasa’s Artemis II photos are on Flickr. It was a nice trip down memory lane and a reminder of what a pioneering idea and company Flickr was. I’m glad it’s still around and that SmugMug owns it.

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If Obsidian is too complex for you, try Bear or iA Writer: bradbarrish.com

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RIP Craig Venter

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Great photo from Patrick.

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Saw Project Hail Mary today. Thought it was good but it could have been shorter and the ending was dumb.

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@glass ok, but did you laugh??

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@kaa what’s your review? Worth it?

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@manton Excited to listen to the second part. I like Rick as an interviewer because he’s so curious and asks great questions that a lot of the circuit hosts don’t ask. He also gets access to people that many others do not.

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@antonzuiker there goes your weekend.

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@cheesemaker where was this??

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@roelio it’s a local-first bookmark/tab hoarding system. It captures browser tabs from Dia (my daily driver browser) via AppleScript, auto-tags them using k-NN against the corpus of existing bookmarks, and syncs to Raindrop.io.
\nThe core workflow is:
\nCapture - Grab open browser tabs instantly into an “inbox” (SQLite database)
\nProcess - Generate embeddings (all-MiniLM-L6-v2), infer tags from similar bookmarks, optionally refine with Claude Haiku
\nSearch - Semantic or keyword search via a FastAPI server and web UI
\nSync - Push bookmarks to Raindrop.io for mobile access and backup

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The primary interfaces are Raycast script commands (keyboard shortcuts for capture, search, tagging) and a simple web UI. The API server can run locally, but I have it running on a remote (in my garage) Mac Mini running Ubuntu and every device is connected over Tailscale.

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It’s essentially a personal search engine for everything I’ve bookmarked (or had open in a tab), with automatic categorization so things are findable later.

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@alxblk thanks for the h/t. I also love their website.

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@alxblk Nice! My favorites are Poor Charlie’s Almanac, Get Together, The Art of Doing Science and Engineering.

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@JohnPhilpin I do the same.

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@JohnPhilpin I was thinking more by topic or something like that.

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@nyquildotorg fixed.Thanks.

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@johnbrayton couldn’t live without it. Been my main RSS reader for many years. Congrats and well-deserved.

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@Miraz thank you

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@manton I’m so sorry to hear about your mom. My heart goes out to you. I lost mine this year as well. We lost my dad in 2007. Having been able to witness both of them pass was such a blessing.

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@agiletortoise viewing contact cards in the Contacts app is such a disaster. Absolutely awful.

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@zenkat indeed!

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@manton this was also a great read.

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@gar I just showed it to my kids. Hope you enjoyed it. They’re a really special band.

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