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@Miraz Thanks! I like any photo of me with a sword, but especially artistic ones!

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Probably my longest, fastest run šŸƒ so far this summer: philipbrewer.micro.blog

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Things are still amazingly bad: philipbrewer.micro.blog

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Longsword workshop, with an artistic photo of me! philipbrewer.micro.blog

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The notion that ā€œSpaceXā€™s ambition to put data centers in spaceā€ makes more sense than putting them in North Dakota, Alaska, Siberia, and maybe Tierra del Fuego or the Falkland Islands suggests that a bunch of people have no sense at all.

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Good thoughts and bad thoughts about AI \"A : philipbrewer.micro.blog

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@hollyhoneychurch Yep. Wildfire smoke. Itā€™s just annoying here. A few hours north, where I lived as a boy, the AQI is truly terrible.

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@hollyhoneychurch The air is not lovely here (east-central Illinois, where the AQI is presently 165 = unhealthy). BUT! Today I the two air cleaner devices I orderedā€”one for upstairs and one for downstairsā€”arrived! So the air is lovely inside, even if itā€™s not so lovely outside.

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@philipbrewer.net Thank you!

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Who best immanentizies the eschaton? philipbrewer.micro.blog

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@Miraz Another of the relatively rare instances when Iā€™d happy to just have a ā€œlikeā€ button. :-)

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@philipbrewer But you donā€™t need to do that. Any reasonable variation in intensity is going to produce better health and fitness outcomes than cranking out miles at a fixed pace.

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And it doesnā€™t have to be just cardio. You can alternate between walking and lifting and see similar benefits.

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@skoobz Interval training has been around forever. (Because it works.) Recent research has focused excessively on making the intervals really, really short. (I think I saw a 10-minute workout where you spent six seconds at an all-out effort, and then 54 seconds recovering.)

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@JohnPhilpin Tempting.

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Personally, Iā€™d like an S&P 500 index ā€œminus the 15% of the companies spending the most on AI CapEx or tokens.ā€

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@philipbrewer Perhaps more important, getting in all that walking takes time that could be spent on other health-promoting activities that would be of greater benefit. (Lifting, if you donā€™t already lift. Running, if you donā€™t otherwise run. Swimming, meditating, etc.)

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@Miraz Iā€™ve followed the studies on that. Very few people get that many steps, so you need very large studies to be able to tell if that much walking provides a benefit, but the studies Iā€™ve seen seem to suggest that the benefits never vanish, they just get smaller and smaller.

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@manton Same. I donā€™t do it every year, but thisā€™ll be the third sleeper-car trip in maybe 15 years. Always very nice.

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@Miraz Always a good plan.

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Five ways to be really foolish with an activity tracker \"My : philipbrewer.micro.blog

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See more? Or not see more? philipbrewer.micro.blog

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Non-obvious spam comments: philipbrewer.micro.blog

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Welcome to the recession phase of the current stagflation: philipbrewer.micro.blog

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An artistā€™s date for Jackieā€™s birthday \"A\"Steven\"Slugs\" : philipbrewer.micro.blog

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Wet things \"A\"A : philipbrewer.micro.blog

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As someone who uses at least two wearables that gather all manner of biometric data about me, I have considerable concern about just how that data is used. I was pretty pleased with Ouraā€™s old privacy policies; Iā€™m not sure how much their most recent changes have compromised them. Iā€™m not so sure about Googleā€™s policies, but since Google knows everything else about me, Iā€™m not inclined to worry a lot extra about the Fitbit data.

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Anyway, this post by Bruce Schneier is interesting:

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I have often said that surveillance tech is generally deployed first against people with diminished rights: children,...

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A painting that needs a monster \"A : philipbrewer.micro.blog

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Ashley: Mighty vole hunter \"Ashley : philipbrewer.micro.blog

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A whole book on the actinic rays of the sun! philipbrewer.micro.blog

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Conference hotel living, with a workout \"View : philipbrewer.micro.blog

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Crowne Plaza Oā€™Hare Garden Patio \"Panorama : philipbrewer.micro.blog

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At Aspen Tap House with @stevendbrewer. Iā€™m drinking a Destihl ILL-IPA. He has an Emancipation Plowhorse.

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Sticking to daily writing: philipbrewer.micro.blog

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ā€œPeople with substantial cryptocurrency holdings face grave personal danger, and the physical attacks on their person grow bolder, more violent, and more sadistic by the day.ā€

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Source: Pluralistic: Hold on for dear life (28 May 2026) ā€“ Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Apropos nothing in particular, I just wanted to mention that I own no cryptocurrency assets at all, and (except for a few bitcoin cents that I briefly owned and then lost in 2011 in the hack of mybitcoin.com) I never have.

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And, just for the record, Iā€™ll also mention that I donā€™t think any cryptocurrency asset will ever be a...

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@tchambers Iā€™m always a bit doubtful about stuff like this, because I think they often get cause and effect backwards.

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If youā€™re sick, or stressed, you will sleep more, because you need more sleep. And then you might go on to have poorer health because you were sick or stressed.

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If you set a regular bedtime, and then get up when you wake up feeling rested, I wouldnā€™t worry about getting less or more than some arbitrary number of hours of sleep.

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@ArnoldHoogerwerf My dad had a big poster of that picture framed and hanging on the wall.

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Found a great post? philipbrewer.micro.blog

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My brother is retiring \"My : philipbrewer.micro.blog

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Some rapier drills \"Me\"A : philipbrewer.micro.blog

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Two changes to get back to writing \"A : philipbrewer.micro.blog

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@Miraz Itā€™s so hard to tweeze apart whatā€™s aging, whatā€™s exercising too much, whatā€™s exercising too hard, whatā€™s doing the wrong exercisesā€¦. And, as you say, there are step changes, so you canā€™t just assume that you can do (nearly) as much as five years ago.

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@philipbrewer.net Short answer: Avoid debt, raise cash (even though the ā€œ-flationā€ part will bite), limit investments in the stock market or your own business (crushed by the ā€œstagā€ part), and wait for things to get better.

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@philipbrewer.net Here is my most recent (but pre-war) post on stagflation: www.philipbrewer.net/2025/01/24/oā€¦

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And hereā€™s my old, old (pre-pandemic) post on stagflation: www.wisebread.com/all-about-stā€¦

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@ciaranmaccen3ie.bsky.social Most of the people in my HEMA group have painted their masks. It took me a while because I needed to find a set of acrylic paint markers with at least three shades of brown. (Which did not turn out to be as hard as Iā€™d expected.)

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@philipbrewer.net The only thing more terrifying would be a raccoon, which would be too scary to carry.

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@cstross.bsky.social This is why Iā€™ve always preferred punched paper tape.

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@philipbrewer.net First thing I thought of. :-)

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@JohnBrady Same. Got hives once after having gotten penicillin. Havenā€™t had penicillin since. I did have hives once since then. :-/

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@philipbrewer.net Sadly, thereā€™s just three WPA images on the wall at the moment. I think maybe they have a lot more and rotate them through? Iā€™m not sure, though.

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@numericcitizen I, on the other hand, am very pleased to get this early heads-up, so I can make a point of getting my next (possibly last) pair of ear bugs before they all have AI embedded in them.

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@interfluidity.com Of course itā€™s more complicated than this from both directions. There are plenty of people who choose to, for example, live in a commune, grow their own food, share everything, and take great joy in enjoying their (objectively very low) standard of living.

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