I was a Typst skeptic until I sat down and used it for a mere half an hour. It's everything I want LaTeX to be and more. The incremental updates are incredible and instant. It feels modern and shiny. I can comprehend the error messages. Beautiful.

I'm very happy that so much of Reddit's front page is filled with streamer drama: it gives me more impetus to stop using Reddit.

I like to think that the after all of the "titans of industry" bugger off to go live in the gulch at the end of Atlas Shrugged, the rest of the world suddenly becomes a utopia.

How is it that in the West, speech gets a harsher condemning than death, forced starvation and genocide?

Throughout my life, it has always felt wrong to write, underline or highlight in books that I'm reading. I always wanted to preserve the feeling of a book being nice, new and untouched. I thought that maybe someone else would read from a book I had owned and they would like it to feel untouched.

I've noticed various fairly new channels (all made in the past couple of months) on YouTube that are pumping out AI generated self help videos, all circling around the work of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, but mostly on Carl Jung. They all use a very similar well spoken, British voice.

I enjoy a good podcast episode, but when people start basing their beliefs off an inaccurate reading of Gödel's work, I know it's time to stop listening.

Yes, hello Mr Bezos - I will take three low priced consciousnesses please. Next day delivery?

Pretty sure everyone on my flight from London City to Florence was either running in the marathon tomorrow, or supporting someone in it. It was a nice atmosphere.
#firenzemarathon