Wanted: A combined RSS/Mastodon client. Yes, Masto generates RSS feeds but that doesn’t give you everything a Mastodon client does.
Cory Doctorow: How the kleptocrats and oligarchs hunt civil society groups to the ends of the Earth:
It’s a great time to be an oligarch! If you have accumulated a great fortune and wish to put whatever great crime lies behind it behind you, there is an army of fixers, lickspittles, thugs, reputation-launderers, procurers, henchmen, and other enablers who have turnkey solutions for laundering your reputation and keeping the unwashed from building a guillotine outside the gates of your compound.
One Weird Trick for Writing a First Draft. By Clive Thompson
Clive Thompson: How I Take Notes When I’m Doing Research
Excellent discussion of “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”
On the You Are Good podcast with hosts Sarah Marshall and Alex Steed and guest Rain DeGrey.
The only movie I’ve ever watched more than once in a single day. I watched it three times.
Though it is a great movie, I don’t know if I would call it one of my favorites. But something about it hit me hard on that particular day.
WSJ: Tech Leaders Emerge Behind Plan to Build New City Near California Air Base
Venture capitalists want to build a new city on currently rural land in California. This will go as well as crypto, Web3, and the metaverse.
An ode to “Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast.
I loved this podcast. “… one of the great love letters to twentieth-century Hollywood.”
Some of the best guests were D-list stars even in their prime, who might only be remembered by the narrow age demographic that Gottfried and I shared.
What’s the biology behind why we find some people attractive?. On Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman