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Minnesota Reformer posted a retelling of events during Operation Metro Surge (earlier this year) from the experience of Nazra Ahmed, a home care worker and member of SEIU Healthcare Minnesota and Iowa.

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The only way you can win, with the cowards, is by showing them strength

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In a thoroughly documented post on building the music app of his dream, Jon Hicks has a well-appointed vision in Jacket. He’s upfront about it being built with Claude, and adamant it’s “just for him”, but it looks like a viable product. I like the approach, especially the discovery and listen later features,...

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Still thinking about this… watched Resurrection a few months ago, and have been meaning to re-watch Holy Motors. As these churn over in my memory, they feel like cinematic siblings.

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Also, that last act of Resurrection is in my permanent memory. So beautiful.

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Love to see a turnout record for the Minnesota primaries yesterday (1.1 million), about a quarter of eligible voters in the state.

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There also seems to be a collective reckoning that primary polls are terrible.

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Neon lighting. We all love it. WSJ with a nice dive into maintaining the format, and reformulating an historically terminated (due to cost effectiveness) color of neon, cyan green. Nice cinematic call-outs to Casablanca and Eyes Wide Shut, too.

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[Photo mine, unrelated; gift link URL]

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Ben Thompson and John Gruber discuss immersive sports on the latest Dithering, and I couldn’t agree more: Apple should just try setting up spatial recording in a courtside and/or elite seats in a sports arena for Apple Vision to see if it’s a better experience than the current “broadcast version”.

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Keep it coming: the video store resurrection continues.

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Damn this is spot on.\nIt’s a long read and you’ll get the gist a fifth of the way through, but Aeon has a highly astute take down of the technocrats’ misinterpretation of our literary science fiction past, darkly reflecting on their actions and ambitions.

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@ericmwalk Thanks, it was a nice one. The mountains are spectacular, but nothing beats a midwest summer. Hope you’re having a good one.

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I didn’t realize regrinding old vinyl records was possible, but in the face of our climate crisis, it’s another trick the resuscitated industry has focused on.

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Good piece by Kyle Devine — Longreads link here, which is an excerpt from his book.

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I fully support local coffee shops deploying canned brews, giving us a choice against (usually) poorly executed, mass-produced offerings at most grocers.

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SK Coffee released theirs earlier in the summer, and it’s an excellent first offering; alas, just wish it was more widely available at retail.

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The Economist’s Big Mac index, a PPP analysis hitting its 40th year of kicking ass, demonstrates just how difficult it is to track the timely parity of global currencies.

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…for as long as currencies remain unmoored, and the Big Mac remains consistent, our index will serve a useful purpose—however distasteful its critics may find it.

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✱ A Pacific Northwest Jaunt \"A\"A : defiantsloth.com

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@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social This is a hell of a set of favorites from this century. I appreciate your selections.

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Thinking back a month and a half about my first attempted pizza in an outdoor oven. Kept it sliding on a mountain of semolina for the launch, it turned out well, and now I’m ripping a few of these every week for us. These pizzas can be elite, and with care, anyone can (probably) do them.

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While I should have known, I wasn’t prepared for how much of a summer banger Dumas’s The Count of Monte Cristo is. I may only be a fourth of the way through this opus, but it’s one of the breeziest 19th century reads I’ve wrangled, and so far, a pitch perfect swashbuckling adventure.

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Streaming fatigue continues. The Verge captures the slow, steady movement that is backlashing streaming consolidations and DRM lock-ins. Also, a minor point not often cited, is bandwidth issues:

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It’s not just the cost of streaming that I have to worry about, either. Last year, I nearly exceeded my ISP’s data cap after I downloaded Baldur’s Gate 3 and kept up my heavy streaming habits. That was all the more reason for me to invest in DVDs.

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I’ve actually noticed some of this with Comcast over the last couple years, where I’m exceeding my “unlimited plan,” and subsequently getting charged overages by...

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Under the lake surface.

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✱ AI Financial Market Concerns: defiantsloth.com

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A bleak, but likely prophetic take from Aftermath of the collapsing videogame industry — insofar as larger, AAA games are concerned. Independent development, however, has been particularly healthy, fun, and innovative, and I hope that corner continues to grow.

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A very nice MacOS app was released today — Aphera — for photo triaging and editing. Folks behind it: Ryan Carver, Naz Hamid, and Juan Pablo Zambrano, all bringing expertise to the project. Trying it out for a few weeks — and looking forward to using it after an upcoming vacation.

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I hope other cities are seeing a similar trend to that of Minneapolis — we’re seeing a revival of independent physical video rental shops (the latest being a cafe/rental experiment called Saturn Video). So far three have entered the space.

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Here’s to hoping they stick around and this takes off.

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The Hyland Lake Ski Jump has such an ominous presence.

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✱ Netflix's Confused State of Being: defiantsloth.com

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@amesville.bsky.social It’s the best! The deep customization of the UI makes it worth using over anything else.

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Own your own content:

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POSSE it, they say. Own your content.\nPublish once, fork it five times. RSS, Mastodon, Bluesky, webmention, pick your parasite.\nFix the typo in two minutes. Already too late.\nFossils wearing your name.

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The author’s footnote is also sage advice: “Length is not depth.”

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@gameism.bsky.social Agreed. Subscribing is the answer. Long time enthusiast and subscriber to journalism publications, but I feel the pain of digital paywalls for accessing information. There hasn’t been a better solution, and the advertising “ecosystem” these publications tried hasn’t fully solved for funding either.

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@gameism.bsky.social Oh man, sorry about that. I should have gift linked this. The paywall UI is so depressing on these sites, and the hostility towards simply reading articles is beyond irony.

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For anyone else: www.wsj.com/business/whi…

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The white line on the right side of US roads. Someone fought the good fight to get these accepted and implemented… who doesn’t love an origin story like this.

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@yesplz.coffee 😆 can we just stick to the standards

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For anyone interested… been tinkering with a fast way to insert the current date (YEAR-MM-DD) on MacOS (alas, Tahoe). After struggling to get an Automator Applescript to work, Shortcuts (I guess?) was the most elegant way to do it.

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Sharing the shortcut here (it has a hotkey, but you can edit).

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@defiantsloth.bsky.social Kudos on the great work, honestly! Cheers.

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@SimonPeng this is a nice piece! Also love the Wipeout franchise shout out. One of a few great games that do incredible logo work and graphic design in-game.

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@braindump This was a good one. I love a thoughtful re-exploration of a classic novel from a new author/perspective, but hammering home some modernity to the work (not that we necessarily need it for 1984…). James (Percival Everett) was another good one.

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@scripting.com It’s epic. Thank you for calling attention to this admittedly important matter.

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@patrickrhone Appreciate your words and trying to contextualize what’s happening here for others to see. It’s been (until just recently) difficult to see how much is being seen and recognized of the extraordinary resilience and support Minnesotans have been shepherding with our communities.

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@bnmnetp kudos to your daughter. It was an incredible day — so many people made a stand by. We lit the torch for the rest of the country.

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@miljko yes please! I was so disappointed season 2 didn’t get greenlit. Maybe they need to resort to crowdfunding? Adjacently, have you seen Common Side Effects? On HBO Max, from the same showrunners, also tremendous.

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@ericmwalk Thanks for getting back to me. Just took a nice deep dive into YakTrax — seems like a solid contingency plan to have these when in doubt. Happy winter running!

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@ericmwalk Any advice on running these types of trails? Just moved out to the western burbs this summer, and have been running for a few years but not outside during winter. So many good parks around here, I’d love to try but dread the ice…

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@miljko Love the retrospective reading you’re doing. Good recommendation on re-reading Breakfast of Champions, too! Vonnegut is hilarious.

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I’ve started rewatching old favorite films from my early exploration of cinema in a similar way, but your post is a great reminder to revisit books that resonated well at a younger age and evaluate how a reading now hits differently.

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@crossingthethreshold I’ve started to approach calendars and mail in the same way. Used to love trying third party apps, admiring design decisions, etc. Now it just seems like I’ve added excessive complexity to completing tasks that could be handled with simpler but similarly effective tools.

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@lmika 💯

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@quinntchrest Nice ride around Minneapolis! Also, good move stopping into Arbeiter Brewing — one of my favs.

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@pgkr Agreed! The movement of objects is top notch, and so, so chill.

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@cliophate how are you liking the Fiio? I’m also looking into dedicated music players… I miss the early 2000s.

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@lmika have you tried building them on iCloud.com? Not as extensive or elegant as Mail.app, but I’ve found it to be more reliable and a canonical version vs in-app.

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@cliophate oh man, I am about halfway through and enjoying it tremendously. This genre of gameplay works so well.

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@cliophate It was such a fun read. I read it as a vacation book a few years ago and same thing, finished before vacation was up, and needed to grab another book.

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@stpaultim.bsky.social As a new fan myself, I’ve found Locked on Wolves fairly good. Records daily for that dopamine hit when you need it. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l…

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