Arbitrary Thoughts

1 Articles

• Not “right wing” but “unbiased”

Books

262 Articles

• Kindle’s getting scammier
• Kindle Books Written by AIs Vol.2024.1
• Kindle Books Written by AIs Vol.2023.1
• Books read in 2022
• Blood of Elves (The Witcher Book 3 / T...i (1994, pl; 2008, en) (read in 2022)
• Caged by New Jersey Prison Theater Cooperative (2020) (read in 2022)
• The Rieter Manual of Spinning by Werne...ein (2008--2009, 2014) (read in 2022)
• The Last Wish: Introducing the Witcher...i (pl: 1993; en: 2007) (read in 2022)
• War is the Greatest Evil by Chris Hedges (2022) (read in 2022)
• The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz (2021) (read in 2022)
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Design

74 Articles

• SunriseTV is a dumpster fire
• Jabra Headsets are a dumpster fire
• Garmin and TacX subscriptions
• Finding past concerts
• Niterói Contemporary Art Museum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Registering for Swica’s Benevita
• Fortinet restart message
• Helpful tip from Teams
• Search algorithms are breaking down everywhere
• Raiffeisen PhotoTAN Registration
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Documentation

earthli.com

91 Articles

• earthli.com moves to HostFactory
• Earthli now uses the UTF8 encoding 🍾
• Earthli gets OpenGraph and Twitter metadata
• Earthli is now 100% responsive
• Earthli is now 100% HTTPS
• WebCore 3.5: new form styles
• New Quake battles!
• New earthli home page
• earthli upgraded
• Uploading pictures in earthli Albums
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Finance & Economy

76 Articles

• Mark Blyth explains everything
• George Monbiot and Chris Hedges on neoliberalism
• Big business isn’t going anywhwere
• A few things wrong with the economy
• The temporarily fortuitous indigent
• Argentina’s brand-new ideas in economics
• Running economies
• Social-media ≠ News Organizations
• Why do you need an app to charge your electric car?
• For whom is “the economy doing well”?
• [More]

Fun

256 Articles

• Pornography search terms 2024
• Bizarre Adventures #34
• KRAZAM videos are gold
• ESC 2024: Semifinal #2
• ESC 2024: Semifinal #1
• The Cosmic Call
• Some good, American comedians
• Cruciverbalism and cruciverbalism-adjacent
• Passenger Tortoise
• SBB was having a bad day
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History

1 Articles

• Long Story Short: WWII

Jeet Kune Do

20 Articles

• Class − Wednesday August 14, 2002
• Class on Monday September 2nd, 2002
• Class − Thursday, October 3, 2002 − Swan Song :-(
• Class on Thursday, Dec 5th
• Class − Sunday, September 29, 2002
• Exercises
• Class Monday Sept 16
• Class on Wednesday, Sept 18th
• Class − Friday August 30, 2002
• Class − Monday August 26, 2002
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Miscellaneous

214 Articles

• 成語 Chéngyǔ: Chinese idioms
• Our system eats everything, not just its young
• Katt Williams is a weird, weird dude
• A shepherd named Shepard shepherds
• Your friendly neighborhood newsreader #1
• Checking in on James Howard Kunstler
• Greenfield’s final post of 2023
• Best of This is Hell! 2023
• English. Do you speak it?
• Conspiracy theorist accuses conspiracy...eorist of being a conspiracy theorist
• [More]

Movies

160 Articles

• Capsule Movie Reviews Vol.2024.14
• Capsule Movie Reviews Vol.2024.13
• Capsule Movie Reviews Vol.2024.12
• Capsule Movie Reviews Vol.2024.11
• Capsule Movie Reviews Vol.2024.10
• Capsule Movie Reviews Vol.2024.09
• Capsule Movie Reviews Vol.2024.08
• A hopefully better take on a bad take on Election
• Capsule Movie Reviews Vol.2024.07
• Capsule Movie Reviews Vol.2024.06
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Notes

215 Articles

• Links and Notes for December 13th, 2024
• Links and Notes for December 6th, 2024
• Links and Notes for November 29th, 2024
• Links and Notes for November 22nd, 2024
• Links and Notes for November 15th, 2024
• Links and Notes for November 8th, 2024
• Links and Notes for November 1st, 2024
• Links and Notes for October 25th, 2024
• Links and Notes for October 18th, 2024
• Links and Notes for October 11th, 2024
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Philosophy

83 Articles

• Sympathy vs. Empathy
• When science demands faith
• Mike Wallace interviews Erich Fromm in 1958
• Henry Rollins: Ember of Rage
• Almost all politicians are without moral fiber
• Liberal capitalism is not the ultimate form
• On being sick of being sick
• Deepfakes are fake, though
• We’ll have to wait for history to judge us
• A counterproductive protesting tactic
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Programming

299 Articles

• Angular 19 sounds … complicated?
• Using calc-size in CSS
• How to apply EF migrations
• Are you doing the Advent of Code?
• Real quick on MVVM
• Writing elegant code
• You’re probably doing code reviews incorrectly
• C# vs. TypeScript type-narrowing and coercion
• CSS Typography is really good now!
• Delimiting multiple CSS classes
• [More]

Public Policy & Politics

736 Articles

• ABC News buys a wing of the Trump presidential library
• A look at American Empire through the standard lens
• A discussion of U.S. schools on This is Hell!
• Chris Hedges on the 2024 U.S. Elections
• Julian Assange speaks as a free man
• Henwood and Scheindlin on Israelis’ concerns
• Finkelstein: Gaza is gone, but don’t give up
• New York lawyer celebrates death
• Scott Ritter talks Russian military hardware
• Two painful minutes of Kamala Harris
• [More]

Quotes

363 Articles

• Predatory capitalism is inevitable, until it isn’t – pass it on
• It was true forty years ago; it’s true today
• Take off everything that’s not the damned fiddle.
• Seek the less-convenient truth
• Clear as an azure sky of deepest summer
• They’re fighting for control of the Thunderdome
• The purpose of books
• Bad people, unworthy of love
• Freedom as a means of control
• A society without oppression is an illusion…
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Science & Nature

67 Articles

• The Enlightened Treatment of Ignaz Semmelweis
• Clever corvids
• Contrasting reactions to COP28
• Sometimes being realistic == being pessimistic
• Carbon offsets are, and have always been, bullshit
• Humanity has the memory of a goldfish
• Biggest Source of CO₂
• How long did you even wanna live anyway?
• Switzerland’s infection rate
• Clarifying efficacy percentage (vs. effectiveness)
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Sports

71 Articles

• Spam videos are eating up Caitlin Clark
• Ultramarathons are kind of crazy
• Hypocrisy of Olympic propoportions
• Are wall angels supposed to be difficult?
• Managing maps on a Garmin device
• Garmin Edge 500 => Edge 530
• Garmin VO₂ Max, Fitness age, and Intensity minutes
• Super Bowl LVII
• World Cup 2022
• Crybabies in Qatar
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Technology

271 Articles

• No time to solve an impossible problem
• LLMs are still wholly unreliable: a case study with CSS
• Project Turntable: Adobe built a good feature
• Microsoft serves the U.S.
• Apple is a monopoly. Where’s the alternative?
• Generating trash pandas with Copilot
• Turn off autocorrect in Notes app
• LLM “AIs” are for stuff nobody wants
• Simon Willison on LLMs
• The JetBrains Toolbox self-updater ate my Windows system disk
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Tips & Tricks

30 Articles

• Source Link Flakiness in Visual Studio 2017 and 2019
• Docker for Windows and Hyper-V
• Repairing Windows Updates that refuse to install
• Syncing Contacts with the Apple iCloud
• SQL Server Express Windows Authentication error
• Set Up Spell-checking Languages in MacOS
• Avoiding Planned Obsolescence with a MacBook Pro
• Showing Pictures on a Map in OS X Photos (2016)
• Windows 10 Windows Update Malfunction
• Git: Managing local commits and branches
• [More]

Video Games

40 Articles

• Grinding GTA IV Missions
• Awesome Weaponry
• The Dark Side of GTA IV
• Driving Drunk – Fakin’ It Edition
• Battlefield: BC, GTA IV, Metal Gear Solid IV and Valkyria
• Zero Punctuation Crysis Review
• Fake Rock Hero
• Approaching Crysis
• Halo 3
• Alan Wake
• [More]