Nic Lindh
@niclindh.com
Heavy-duty general purpose nerd and pixel pusher. I read a lot.
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The amount of horseshit and fraud in the supplements industry is truly reprehensible and infuriating.
The amount of horseshit and fraud in the supplements industry is truly reprehensible and infuriating.
Collagen sits on a throne of lies
Or, how the supplement industry took meat garbage and turned it into a 9-billion-dollar business.
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December 3, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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The amount of horseshit and fraud in the supplements industry is truly reprehensible and infuriating.
The amount of horseshit and fraud in the supplements industry is truly reprehensible and infuriating.
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WHOA. The FBI was/is spying on a Signal chat for a New York immigration court watch group, claiming they were “anarchist violent extremist actors.”
Your reminder that the government is watching and don’t say anything in a big group chat you wouldn’t say on TV.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Your reminder that the government is watching and don’t say anything in a big group chat you wouldn’t say on TV.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
WHOA. The FBI was/is spying on a Signal chat for a New York immigration court watch group, claiming they were “anarchist violent extremist actors.”
Your reminder that the government is watching and don’t say anything in a big group chat you wouldn’t say on TV.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Your reminder that the government is watching and don’t say anything in a big group chat you wouldn’t say on TV.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Episode 1 of Plur1bus has me shook. Damn, haven't seen pure '70s style paranoia and creepiness like that for a long time. If you have Apple TV or are handy with the Internet, check it out.
November 11, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Episode 1 of Plur1bus has me shook. Damn, haven't seen pure '70s style paranoia and creepiness like that for a long time. If you have Apple TV or are handy with the Internet, check it out.
Listening to Electric Nebraska, and it's amazing what a phenomenal editor of his own work Springsteen is. Just great call after great call on what to release and what not.
He was so right that the E-Street sessions were weaker than the solo ones.
He was so right that the E-Street sessions were weaker than the solo ones.
November 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Listening to Electric Nebraska, and it's amazing what a phenomenal editor of his own work Springsteen is. Just great call after great call on what to release and what not.
He was so right that the E-Street sessions were weaker than the solo ones.
He was so right that the E-Street sessions were weaker than the solo ones.
A new book roundup has dropped! Includes Empire of AI, Crossroads of Ravens, The Tainted Cup, and A Drop of Corruption.
thecoredump.org/2025/10/book...
thecoredump.org/2025/10/book...
Book roundup, part 39
The Core Dump is the personal blog of Nic Lindh, a Swedish-American pixel-pusher living in Phoenix, Arizona.
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October 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
A new book roundup has dropped! Includes Empire of AI, Crossroads of Ravens, The Tainted Cup, and A Drop of Corruption.
thecoredump.org/2025/10/book...
thecoredump.org/2025/10/book...
Empire of AI tells the deeply researched story of OpenAI's beginnings almost through to current day. There are so many geniuses, cranks, and grifters! The book does a great job synthesizing how Silicon Valley culture has permeated AI research and practice.
bookshop.org/a/93475/9780...
bookshop.org/a/93475/9780...
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
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October 12, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Empire of AI tells the deeply researched story of OpenAI's beginnings almost through to current day. There are so many geniuses, cranks, and grifters! The book does a great job synthesizing how Silicon Valley culture has permeated AI research and practice.
bookshop.org/a/93475/9780...
bookshop.org/a/93475/9780...
So how come the Threads teasers I get in Instagram are often interesting and make me want to click, but the For you list is both different and also packed full of gas leak posts? Wouldn't it be better to actually show me the interesting things when I'm, you know, on Threads?
October 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
So how come the Threads teasers I get in Instagram are often interesting and make me want to click, but the For you list is both different and also packed full of gas leak posts? Wouldn't it be better to actually show me the interesting things when I'm, you know, on Threads?
Apart from all the other concerns with AI, I just can't wrap my head around how many people VCs think are perfectly fine walking around talking to their devices in public.
Who does that? I'm embarrassed about asking Siri to skip one minute forward in public.
Who does that? I'm embarrassed about asking Siri to skip one minute forward in public.
October 4, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Apart from all the other concerns with AI, I just can't wrap my head around how many people VCs think are perfectly fine walking around talking to their devices in public.
Who does that? I'm embarrassed about asking Siri to skip one minute forward in public.
Who does that? I'm embarrassed about asking Siri to skip one minute forward in public.
Oh, you know, just trying to agree to the iCloud terms and conditions in Tahoe.
It's going great.
It's going great.
September 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Oh, you know, just trying to agree to the iCloud terms and conditions in Tahoe.
It's going great.
It's going great.
The Tainted Cup is a whirlwind whodunnit set in a bonkers fantasy world that I can't wait to read more about. If you like fantasy or crime procedurals or both, this one is great.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tai...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tai...
The Tainted Cup - Wikipedia
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August 27, 2025 at 1:08 AM
The Tainted Cup is a whirlwind whodunnit set in a bonkers fantasy world that I can't wait to read more about. If you like fantasy or crime procedurals or both, this one is great.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tai...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tai...
Wrote a post about my experiences having total knee replacement surgery: thecoredump.org/2025/08/knee...
Hope it might be useful for somebody!
Hope it might be useful for somebody!
Four months of a new knee
The Core Dump is the personal blog of Nic Lindh, a Swedish-American pixel-pusher living in Phoenix, Arizona.
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August 20, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Wrote a post about my experiences having total knee replacement surgery: thecoredump.org/2025/08/knee...
Hope it might be useful for somebody!
Hope it might be useful for somebody!
If you're looking for something to read, here’s book roundup 38 on ye olde blog:
thecoredump.org/2025/03/book...
Includes Dark Wire, Crusaders, Dominion, The Mercy of Gods, Livesuit, and Weaponized as well as my love for Neal Asher's Polity universe.
thecoredump.org/2025/03/book...
Includes Dark Wire, Crusaders, Dominion, The Mercy of Gods, Livesuit, and Weaponized as well as my love for Neal Asher's Polity universe.
Book roundup, part 38
The Core Dump is the personal blog of Nic Lindh, a Swedish-American pixel-pusher living in Phoenix, Arizona.
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March 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
If you're looking for something to read, here’s book roundup 38 on ye olde blog:
thecoredump.org/2025/03/book...
Includes Dark Wire, Crusaders, Dominion, The Mercy of Gods, Livesuit, and Weaponized as well as my love for Neal Asher's Polity universe.
thecoredump.org/2025/03/book...
Includes Dark Wire, Crusaders, Dominion, The Mercy of Gods, Livesuit, and Weaponized as well as my love for Neal Asher's Polity universe.
Things are just fine when T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land feels completely current, right?
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47311/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47311/...
The Waste Land
The Burial of the Dead April is the cruellest month April is the cruellest month The Waste Land begins with a subversion of the first lines of the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales , by Geoffre...
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March 15, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Things are just fine when T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land feels completely current, right?
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47311/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47311/...
Whenever I feel confused about how so many people seem to not mind AI slop, I remind myself that Kenny G is a best selling artist. And then I am sad.
March 14, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Whenever I feel confused about how so many people seem to not mind AI slop, I remind myself that Kenny G is a best selling artist. And then I am sad.
Really happy Severance is bringing back Philip K Dick-style paranoid sci-fi with Dick’s two questions:
"What is human?”
"What is real?”
Incredible existential horror in this show.
"What is human?”
"What is real?”
Incredible existential horror in this show.
March 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Really happy Severance is bringing back Philip K Dick-style paranoid sci-fi with Dick’s two questions:
"What is human?”
"What is real?”
Incredible existential horror in this show.
"What is human?”
"What is real?”
Incredible existential horror in this show.
I have a nickname for my daughter in my contacts and for years have been able to text her from the car via Siri by saying “send message to $nickname”.
Today it said it can't send to groups.
Years it's been working. Years. How is Siri getting worse like this?
#appleai
Today it said it can't send to groups.
Years it's been working. Years. How is Siri getting worse like this?
#appleai
February 21, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I have a nickname for my daughter in my contacts and for years have been able to text her from the car via Siri by saying “send message to $nickname”.
Today it said it can't send to groups.
Years it's been working. Years. How is Siri getting worse like this?
#appleai
Today it said it can't send to groups.
Years it's been working. Years. How is Siri getting worse like this?
#appleai
Can't even imagine the hell of being on shift right now for a legacy media to crank out some kind of The Big Game reaction/think piece on whatever pre-planned PR agency crap is happening.
At least Sisyphus can be happy.
At least Sisyphus can be happy.
February 10, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Can't even imagine the hell of being on shift right now for a legacy media to crank out some kind of The Big Game reaction/think piece on whatever pre-planned PR agency crap is happening.
At least Sisyphus can be happy.
At least Sisyphus can be happy.
Used a NUC as a Plex server since 2016. Wiped it and installed Debian this fall. Took careful notes.
Now replaced with an N100. Used the exact same fstab to mount my Synology share through SMB.
Auth error.
So now I guess I'm on the NFS bandwagon after all these years.
#plex #synology #smb
Now replaced with an N100. Used the exact same fstab to mount my Synology share through SMB.
Auth error.
So now I guess I'm on the NFS bandwagon after all these years.
#plex #synology #smb
February 4, 2025 at 1:16 AM
My vinyl collection has been sitting in my parents' garage for almost 30 years. So I gave it to a friend. Goodbye keepers of my sanity in high school!
January 26, 2025 at 10:37 PM
My vinyl collection has been sitting in my parents' garage for almost 30 years. So I gave it to a friend. Goodbye keepers of my sanity in high school!
Been re-reading Neal Asher's brilliant Polity series. If you're into harder sci-fi with a heaping side of body horror and true monsters, it's highly recommended. Start with Gridlinked.
bookshop.org/p/books/grid...
#booksky
bookshop.org/p/books/grid...
#booksky
Gridlinked: The First Agent Cormac Novel
The First Agent Cormac Novel
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January 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Been re-reading Neal Asher's brilliant Polity series. If you're into harder sci-fi with a heaping side of body horror and true monsters, it's highly recommended. Start with Gridlinked.
bookshop.org/p/books/grid...
#booksky
bookshop.org/p/books/grid...
#booksky
Gothenburg airport bringing the January vibes.
January 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Gothenburg airport bringing the January vibes.
Took this walking my parents' dog around 4 p.m. Brings back a lot of childhood nostalgia.
January 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Took this walking my parents' dog around 4 p.m. Brings back a lot of childhood nostalgia.
So, um, what happened to the Drones Over New Jersey? Did people get cold and go back inside or what?
January 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
So, um, what happened to the Drones Over New Jersey? Did people get cold and go back inside or what?
Instagram is now blocking my images, because "The photo may take actions at high volume that might bother others." Which apparently is spam? AI rollout is going great I see.
January 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Instagram is now blocking my images, because "The photo may take actions at high volume that might bother others." Which apparently is spam? AI rollout is going great I see.