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A new version of Subset is now available on iOS via TestFlight. + Summary stats and streaks + Compound search queries + URL clean-up + Import and export Head to the site to see it in action and/or get access right now. https://subset.network/
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Ahh I see! Fair comp. Climbing def had a real need for us in animal terms—maybe less so in human civs, except in relation to warfare, rebellion or recreation (or spirituality).
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Running is a good shout. 100m - 400/800m might be a better comp. Physical, psychological or technical skills from the former are more complementary to the latter.
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Hoping I can be as buttery smooth across the ground in 20 years. https://youtube.com/watch?v=eKVcygzipiE
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Bouldering is to climbing as _____ is to _______? Spinning-cycling?
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For some reason, sync engines feel like a Whiteheadean advance in tech. They sweep away a whole bunch of distributed systems problems in a way that feels more substantial than elegant abstractions. https://electric-sql.com/blog/2025/04/09/building-ai-apps-on-sync
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Seems like the left brain / right brain split of our time.
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“On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.” But when everything is a meme, the timeline ain’t that long. At all.
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AI-as-labour-elimination is a whole different game than AI-as-labour-amplification. https://aftermath.site/ai-video-game-development-art-vibe-coding-midjourney
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Today’s reading is Kafka on the Shore. Just one book across fiction and non-fiction for a few days, and it’s actually quite pleasant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafka_on_the_Shore
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Starter packs of minimum viable CRUD apps for orgs in different domains.
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A bunch of SQLite tables (or even GSheets) hooked up to Ultorg can equal minimum viable CRUD apps in many cases. https://www.ultorg.com/
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The Simple and Sinister training protocol is GOATed—100 swings and 10 TGUs. Straightforward, quick, flexible. For optimal experience, do under a bright blue sky. https://www.strongfirst.com/tag/simple-sinister/
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Came back to this a few times over the last week. https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet
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You can just do stuff becomes you can just think stuff.
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Went for some fiction for this AM’s reading—Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore. Murakami’s prose always gets me with its blend of directness and aching beauty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafka_on_the_Shore
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No idea tbh. Sports gambling seems like a weaponised version of social speculation and not sure how to displace it. Perhaps consumer-ising prediction markets with a a social layer, normalising analyst/media prediction as a practice and mapping the two together somehow?
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Additional key factor I missed (and orig. heard when player salary growth was being discussed): individual players (esp superstars) are focal points. They’re 20% of the people on the court and contribute to both offense and defence every time while on the court.
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The NBA is the perfect sport for edutainment media wave. Massive pool of content to chop up (30 teams, 82 game season plus playoffs, cup etc.); big analytics landscape to spin narratives and wage battles over; league institutions are for player media empowerment; legacy media is pure hot take filth for the most part and people are pushed to look elsewhere for “in depth analysis”; sports gambling capital flowing in and enabling distributed analysis and commentary. Doesn’t seem like any other sport has this potent a mix.
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