on vacation a week before vacation

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I decided not to do a vlog this week since we’re out of town. I recorded some footage yesterday with a new camera, but I didn’t really like how any of it turned out. So instead you get a community note with a dog picture!

Spending time with my partner’s family for the weekend, and working on random side projects. I did a little more work on FetchFox before leaving, the content curation clipper browser extension that I’m making for myself and open sourcing.

I have started cleaning up and better defining my ongoing project list, since it’s getting to be the end of the year and now I’m thinking about what I’m gonna do to make next year better. I’ll definitely make one of my newsletters in December about that because I have a lot of thoughts 😅

Next week I’ll be going to MFF, the largest furry con in the world. I’m going to try to take video there to make a vlog for it, so I may or may not have the video or newsletter beforehand. But if I wait I can show pretty pictures!


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Bumble, Grindr, and Hinge Moderators Struggle to Keep Users—and Themselves—Safe – Niamh McIntyre, Wired

Moderation is the hardest job on the internet. Trying to have good moderation, at least.

Lyft’s Secret Plan To Take Control of Its Maps — And Its Future

Ah, so the secret plan is to continue to build on the backs of free labor, gotcha.

It’s Time to Log Off – Thor Benson, Wired

This may be discussing current events, but is an evergreen idea.


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NEOPETS IS BACK!!! …right? – tamago2474

oh my goodness, what a set of twists and turns. No, I don’t mean when it was owned by Scientologists or anything, I mean just in the past year

Sympathy for the Monster – Curious Archive

Some of us are afraid. Some of us sympathize. The best of us fall in love 😻🐲

How Reddit Crushed the Internet’s Largest Protest – Coding with Lewis

Not really a fan of the framing of Reddit “winning” this, but I guess it’s like every other platform: the network effect for the average user is just too strong to make mass migration improbable.

The Shockingly WEIRD Way Regular Show Ended – Jordan Fringe

Regular Show doesn’t just have one of the best cartoon finales of all time, but one of the best television finales period.

The Story of the First Video Game Cartridge – Gaming Historian

A good overview and reminder that the project was headed up by one of the very few black electrical engineers in Silicon Valley


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Journey to EPCOT Center: A Symphonic History – Defunctland

kind of a documentary, kind of a Fantasia

Lend Me Your Voice – IRL: Online Life is Real Life

I shared this article about indigenous AI developers using tools to help save dying languages a few weeks ago. Similar story hear, translating spoken language, but also ensuring data sovereignty from big tech companies.

Chillhop x Liquicity – Transformation remixes 🌊 [instrumental lofi beats]

Been a while since I’ve shared a Chillhop mix, but this was a nice one to listen to while assembling this newsletter


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