Past Letters
A lockstitch awl is the tool you use to sew leather; lunar lava tubes can be over a kilometer across and potentially hundreds long.
Most mosses reproduce via rain orgies, toothed cauldrons, and dry winds.
Wage and debt drivers in game design and real life; flamingos eat upside down and turn colors like aspen trees in the fall.
A terminal tool for when you fuck up; strange facts about the world's largest owl.
AI doomers are mostly members of a cult built around creating a machine god, and some of them are dangerous; this is also useful to tech elites both as moral laundering and because it slows down the rate at which the structural weaknesses in AI investment schemes will be revealed.
A new section on games, in which we talk about embodiment in game design; and the powerful witch hazel.
A TUI client for Signal, and medieval messengers as a means of power projection.
A music player for the terminal, and the largest revolution in human history.
Lazygit is the best client for git repos, in or out of the terminal; planets emerging from the chaos of stellar birth often learn how to dance.
While there are many kinds of money, "fiat money" is the kind that tokenizes the threat of state violence in order to force people to self-organize in the state's interest.
Pyroclear lets you clear your terminal in cleansing fire; European noble families died out after a few generations; perverse incentives backfire and cause the opposite of the effects the state intends.
Dispositio is a tool for project planning in the terminal; a quote from Mika Waltari's 1945 book *The Egyptian*; and how North American languages are constructed fundamentally differently from Eurasian ones, and what that means.
Glow is a beautiful tool for browsing markdown documentation in the terminal; eyeball planets are a peculiar kind of tidally-locked exoplanet that could sustain life; LLMs are rapidly accelerating corpo-slop while leading to a decline in actual programmatic innovation and human collaboration.
GoGo in the terminal, Blightmud for MUDs, the Zanclean Flood and the deepest hole in history, and the emergent complexity of the Game of Life.
arttime, Whale Sharks, and the Artistic Medium of Logical Systems
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