May 11, 2025

Weekly Distractions for May 11, 2025

🧠 Links

• AI, Mac

  • Perplexity on iPhones is making Siri look lame on iPhones.

  Computing

  • The New Control Society

  Internet

  • Blocking internet surveilance traffic with Raspberry Pi.

  AI

  • Copyright chickens coming home to roost (maybe).

  Science

  • Sea Snail Teeth

  Science

  • How neurons rewire themselves as learning takes place

  Blockchain

  • Privacy Labs does NOT LIKE World Coin

  Quakers

  • Marching in solidarity with immigrants.

  Space

  • DARPA studying new techniques for construction in outer space.

  Meditation

  • When Then Zen is meditation “simplified” YMMV

📖 Currently Reading

• The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

• A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold

• Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

• Sentimental Education by Gustav Flaubert

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

📚 Recent Book Commentary

• Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman