Links 20250803

August 4, 2025

Writing (almost) every day for the past month has been exhausting. It slowed down me reading significantly to say the least. But it proved a point to myself, that I can.

I’ll be trying to write slightly longer posts maybe once or twice a week. I still don’t feel that I’m in the proper writing mode yet that I can stick to it if I take a month to write a long high-quality essay. I’m aiming for mediocre, but done.

Here’s some links

Back to the Future:
Seems RSS and taking responsibility for your corner of the internet is becoming a thing, again.
https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-era-for-wired-that-starts-with-you/
https://www.theverge.com/bulletin/710925/the-verge-is-getting-way-more-personal-with-following-feeds

https://www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-rss/

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/08/03/how-to-leave-substack

https://www.wired.com/story/rss-readers-feedly-inoreader-old-reader/

https://gilest.org/notes/rss-feels.html

Podcast: Staying Decent in an Indecent Society with Ian Buruma:
https://hac.podbean.com/e/staying-decent-in-an-indecent-society-with-ian-buruma-bonus-episode/

Be Cheerful and Live your life
https://www.openculture.com/2025/07/archaeologists-discover-a-2400-year-old-skeleton-mosaic.html

The Always Wonderful Bluey Teaches Resilience:
https://theconversation.com/researchers-watched-150-episodes-of-bluey-they-found-it-can-teach-kids-about-resilience-for-real-life-262202

Look, we really really can’t go back in time:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/epic-effort-to-ground-physics-in-math-opens-up-the-secrets-of-time-20250611/