2025 Week 06 - Weekly Notes

Summary

The third week of a presidency hell-bent on ruining our society. I think I’m starting to see the picture now. This week, we took a mid-week break to celebrate Morgan’s birthday. Well worth it, especially to spend an entire day together. The Italian food ruined our stomachs though.

Notes

Plane Crash News

• Small Plane Crashes Near Highway 101 in Goleta, Two Seriously Injured | News Channel 3-12
• Parked Delta plane apparently clipped by Japan Airlines plane that was taxiing at Seattle airport | AP News
• How the DC plane crash unfolded | AP News
• I suppose you can keep track here: The latest aviation major incident flight tracking data | Flightradar24 Blog

Remember the old educational posters from Carson Dellosa Education | Classroom Decorations and Teaching Supplies?

Other News

• Eggs Are Quickly Selling Out At Costco Despite Price Hikes
• CDC Researchers Ordered to Retract Papers Submitted to All Journals | MedPage Today

There’s an open source version of Grammarly for Obsidian

• Harper for Obsidian - Harper

Something to read a few times and understand the point. Adding to my notes.

• Selfish Software

What will it take for me to get off Spotify?

• I don’t have spotify

Help me understand BookTok

• Rebecca Yarros’s ‘Onyx Storm’ Is the Fastest-Selling Adult Novel in 20 Years - The New York Times

Room Dynamics be damned

• The Art of Calling Out Room Dynamics

There are A-Holes that are trying to deface the DEI initiatives from our governments.

• Removing more DEI stuff by eugeneiiim · Pull Request #4132 · 18F/handbook

I love these notes:

• Maps — Selena Juneau-Vogel

If you have a heart, read this emotional piece about losing a child

• Technology and Grieving

Given the Deepseek news, OpenAI released o3-mini

I may want to check this out from the Vercel AI SDK

• Foundations: Agents

Joel Hooks mentioned Durable Objects as a cloud machine w/ sqlite and a single server session for a single user sounds like a different paradigm. I want to test this out.

• Cloudflare Durable Objects · Cloudflare Durable Objects docs
• Full-Stack Signals in Solid, AI Development, and the Future of Web Frameworks | egghead.io
• JoelFit

Welcome to AI Slop

• Quartz has been quietly publishing AI-generated news articles | TechCrunch

What we can learn about Homelessness

• What I Learned From 32 Years of Writing About Homelessness | TIME

Idiot Actions

• The water unexpectedly released from dams on Trump’s order didn’t help farms or L.A.

Tim talks Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads

An excellent post on BlueSky

• borderless: “Y’all pick a lane. Then make a little progress in your lane each day. Every serious, experienced organizer I know is Doing Their Thing. Instead of freaking out about each bit of bad news, we’re in our lanes rapidly building dual power infrastructure and networks that don’t rely on the goverment.” — Bluesky
• Note: What’s a good way for us to embed these?

Erza Klein - Don’t Believe Him

• Of course it’s a coup - by Timothy Snyder
• West Point disbands 12 cadet organizations in response to DEI directives | Stars and Stripes
• Protesters in cities across the US rally against Trump’s policies, Project 2025 and Elon Musk | AP News

VoxGPT Study Technique Explained + Best Practices

Fediverse basics

• Fedi.Directory – Interesting accounts on Mastodon & the Fediverse
• Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

Immigration - Know Your Rights | Representative Ocasio-Cortez

• Also: Venture Capital Extremism — Venture Capital Status

This is the vision underlying the technofeudalism thesis, which holds that 21st-century capitalism has been superseded by a new economic system overseen by Big Tech.

• What Is Technofeudalism?
  • Yeah, this is crap

Curiosity Snacks - What I call “curiosity snacks” are small, intentional nudges that guide our impulsive curiosity toward learning, creativity, and meaningful discovery rather than mindless scrolling.

• Curiosity Snacks: How to Redirect Your Impulse to Know - Ness Labs

Empathy is a sin

• ‘Empathy is considered a sin’: MAGAS viciously attack the church after Trump is asked to show compassion
• Empathy for immigrants sounds like Christianity 101. Here’s why some say it’s a sin.

Martijn Aslander is a stand-up philosopher, boardroom sparring partner and co- author of the bestsellers Easycracy and The Permanent Beta Principle.

• Personal Ontologies: The Future of Information Management | LinkedIn
• Life hacker and productivity ninja Martijn Aslander to dazzle HR Indaba attendees · CHRO South Africa

I could setup films to follow this type of order. Maybe in the future?

• Cards - Minimal Documentation

Recommendations

• Book: Decisions That Matter by Adrienne Adhami
• Book: The Chinese Computer by Liu Xiaobo
• How Long ‘til Black Future Month? by NK Jemisin
• Podcast: #236: How To Make Adult Friendships Easier with Kat Vellos - Mary’s Cup of Tea: the Self-Love Podcast for Women | Podcast on Spotify
• Newsletter: Making Sense of It All by Liz Neely
• Book: Masters at Work Books by Jacqueline Detwiler-George, Tom Chiarella, and John Colapinto