TOC * The World * My Week * Media Diet * Reading * Watching * Gaming * Walking and Health and the Weather * Site Updates * Looking Forward How is the month already halfway done?!? ### The World Last weekend's typhoon was thankfully not as bad as it could have been, and left the country late Monday. I think the previous typhoon that mostly hit the Visayas region was much more devastating. Marking a true "end of an era" in Philippine politics, Juan Ponce Enrile has passed away at the age of 101. US government shutdown has finally ended; moderate Democrats caved and basically gained nothing. Also, more Epstein information has been released, and the House is due to vote on releasing even more files now that the shutdown is ever. Not that I am convinced that will be enough to make ThatGuy's base abandon him. Fanaticism can make people justify anything. ### My Week * Some follow-up medical stuff for me, need to go back again this coming week. * Trivia team attended a quiz night last Thursday and did poorly. * At least I am starting to regain some productive time, managed to get some of my pending side project work done. * On the blog: No extra blog posts this week. ### Media Diet #### Reading * Same same, nothing new to report. #### Watching * Ongoing: **Superman The Animated Series** , **High Potential S2** (currently on midseason break), **Ranma 1/2 S2**. * Movies: Watched 4 movies this week! Blade (1998), Blade II (2002), Blade Trinity (2004), A House of Dynamite (2025). #### Gaming * Regular ongoing live-service games: * **Magic Arena** : Saving up and waiting for the next set. * **Eternal Card Game** : Kind of irregular on the grinding here. * Single-player games: * Ongoing: **Metaphor: ReFantazio** still eating up a lot of time! Am close to finishing the main story; not yet sure if I'm going for completion on this one. ### Walking and Health and the Weather Google Fit tells me I walked 60,716 steps over the past week (Sunday to Saturday). Pretty good. I'm just happy to have hit 60k this week. The first few days were very rainy and windy, while during the last couple of days I had to stay around at home for most of them, so it was good I was still able to find time to walk! ### Site Updates * 4 new entries on the link blog (Boo!) * 1 new entries under the albums collection * The new entry is a gallery of my desktop wallpapers on rotation. * 1 new entry under the quiz nights log (linked above) The feed reader backlog remains a challenge to keep down. ### Looking Forward * Trivia team hopes to attend yet another quiz night this week, and maybe do better. * New set should be dropping on Arena in the middle of the week! * Some medical follow-ups for me.

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TOC * The World * My Week * Media Diet * Reading * Watching * Gaming * Steam Deck Updates * Walking and Health and the Weather * Site Updates * Looking Forward ### The World The US had some off-year elections last week, mostly local/state positions, and Democrats won big, including New York City's first Muslim mayor, Zohran Mandami. He reminds me a lot of London Mayor Sadiq Khan who coincidentally is also a Muslim mayor who has beefs with ThatGuy. ThatGuy of course, was quite mad about the election outcomes and rumor has it some of his associates are plotting to derail Mandami's term somehow. Here on our side of the Pacific, we have been dealing with the a rainy season surge of typhoons. Visayas region was hit particularly bad by typhoon Tino earlier in the week, lots of flooding and pictures of cars piled up etc. All of this in stark contrast to no one being held accountable for the flood control corruption mess. And now today we are on day one of supertyphoon Uwan, an absolutely massive one showing up larger than the whole country on maps and satellite shots. Hopefully everyone gets through it okay. ### My Week * My own medical errands this week. Ever since the recent medical scare in our family, I've been a bit more anxious about any slight discomfort I feel or small deviation in lab results. Nothing seems too serious though. * Other than that, kind of a chill week. And very unproductive, mostly because of Metaphor. * On the blog: Wrote the Movies/TV review post for Sep and Oct, a short witty thing about outros, and a review of the comic Invincible. ### Media Diet #### Reading * Comics: Still trying to keep up with newer releases. * Books: No new books started yet. Lol, I've had a couple sitting on my desk waiting to be read for weeks. #### Watching * Binged: **The Diplomat S3** * Ongoing: **Superman The Animated Series** , **High Potential S2** (currently on midseason break), **Ranma 1/2 S2**. * Movies: _Blade (1998)_ was on HBO Max, but the audio is terrible for some reason and there are no subs! I am only halfway through so I have not written a review yet. #### Gaming * Regular ongoing live-service games: * **Magic Arena** : I think I am done with Omenpaths drafting now, as I am out of resources. Need to save up for the next set! * **Eternal Card Game** : Doing regular grinding, chapters and achievements. * Single-player games: * Ongoing: **Metaphor: ReFantazio**. This has really drawn me in and is eating up a lot of time! #### Steam Deck Updates So far, pretty sweet. Though I am still mostly playing the same old games, but now the Deck lets me play them in bed if I want lol. And I can occasionally dip into some smaller games that I wouldn't have bothered with before because I would need to go to the computer etc. I really like that unlike a Nintendo Switch 2 or whatever, it's pretty much an open platform and you can install what you like. To that end, I also installed Magic Arena! Magic Arena is actually available on Steam, but not here in Southeast Asia where Tencent has the distribution rights. _Shakes fist at Tencent_. So I had to install the "rest of world" installer from the website and set it up. This Reddit thread was helpful, though I had to make some adjustments. Took me a few tries to get it working, but now I am able to enjoy drafting in bed if I am too lazy to get up. Next up: At some point I wanna try installing and running emulators on the Deck! Also, will probably try to start a second longer game (to complement Metaphor) that I can just play cozily on the deck. ### Walking and Health and the Weather Google Fit tells me I walked 64,554 steps over the past week (Sunday to Saturday). Pretty good. The weather has been not too bad on our side, though that is set to change with the supertyphoon; hopefully it leaves the PAR soon. ### Site Updates * 2 new entries on the link blog (Boo!) * 2 new entries under the comics collection * Some typos corrected in last week's posts. Thanks to our astute readers for pointing them out! ### Looking Forward Trivia team might be attending a quiz night this week! Other than that, some more medical stuff and follow-ups for me.

_Invincible_ was an Image-published superhero comic created and written by Robert Kirkman. It ran from 2003 to 2018 with 144 issues. I was reading this as it came out back in the day but I think my interest waned a bit around halfway through the series and I stopped following it. After watching the third season of the animated Prime Video adaptation earlier this year, I recently binge-read the entire second half of the series (and then some), so I thought I'd write about it! If you've seen the recent show, it's a pretty faithful adaptation so you have an idea about the premise: In a world full of superheroes, Mark Grayson is the son of Omni-Man, the world's strongest superhero, and when he gains similar powers he becomes a superhero himself, taking on the mantle of Invincible. But then he finds out his father's dark secret: his father is actually from an alien race called the Viltrumite Empire bent on galactic domination and he was sent here to subjugate Earth! Thus begins Marks adventures dealing with teenager problems, superhero problems, and alien invasion problems! When I started reading the book, it felt kind of like the usual edhy alterate "Superman" story that was kind of in vogue at the time. Now having read the entire run, I am very impressed. Invincible feels like a distillation of superhero comics at their purest, unburdened by legacy or editorial constraints. You have the colorful costumes, the ridiculous names (my favorite: Dupli-Kate and her brother Multi-Paul), the criminal masterminds, the mad scientists, the giant kaiju, the alternate dimensions, time travel, alien invasions, humans being selfish idiots, betrayals, redemptions, and so on and so forth. All of it often punctuated by brutal, unforgiving action sequences that often result in character deaths and surprising status quo changes. Invincible takes big swings and is not afraid to hit the characters where they hurt, but in the end Mark still somehow manages to resolve everything and eke out a happy ending for most everyone. > from Collections > comics > Invincible #1 cover by Cory Walker > Written by Robert Kirkman, illustrated by Cory Walker/Ryan Ottley. > > Invincible #10 Invincible #97 Invincible (Unknown issue number) > > from Collections > comics > Invincible Poking Fun at the Comics Industry Later in the series, the issue covers started carrying the tagline "The Best Superhero Comic In The Universe" (and sometimes they even struck out the "Superhero") and it might be a bit of an exaggeration but honestly if this book makes it on some such lists I would not be surprised. I like it more than _The Walking Dead_ , Kirkman's other well-known ongoing series of around the same period, maybe because I'm just not that big a fan of the zombie apocalypse genre because they always seem to have little to no interest in actually resolving the apocalypse. Maybe someday I'll review that too!

TOC * My Week * Media Diet * Reading * Watching * Gaming * Walking and Health and the Weather * Site Updates * Looking Forward These weeknotes are coming in a bit late because I had a long and busy weekend, k? ### My Week * Not a lot to write about this past week. Kind of unproductive actually. I did have to house-sit a bunch though. * This past weekend was busy because we had a fam gathering a ways away from home. * On the blog: Reviews for Silksong and the boardgame Ethnos. ### Media Diet #### Reading * Comics: Still trying to keep up with newer releases. New post is still in progress! * Books: No new books started yet. #### Watching * Binged: **Marvel Zombies**. * Ongoing: **Superman The Animated Series** , **Only Murders In The Building S5** , **High Potential S2** , **Ranma 1/2 S2**. * Movies: I watched Black Bag (2025) on streaming. #### Gaming * Regular ongoing live-service games: * **Marvel Snap** : No longer playing. * **Magic Arena** : Mostly just playing regular Standard and waiting for Omenpaths quick drafts to come back. They announced Vintage/Powered Cube coing to Arena this week! I wanna try it out but that's gonna take resources away from my regular Standard set drafting! * **Eternal Card Game** : Doing regular grinding, but occasionally also trying to power through the game's still-updating single-player content and doing some of the many many achievements. * Single-player games: * Ongoing: * **BALLxPIT** : Once again, most of my gaming hours this week went to this. I am close to achievement completion on this one though, and my enthusiasm is starting to peter out. So either way I should be done with it soon! * **Metaphor: ReFantazio** : Progress has been slow because of the above, but I try to keep it going so that I don't lose too much momentum. * Boardgames / Other: * I have been kind of thinking about considering getting a Steam Deck maybe. ### Walking and Health and the Weather Google Fit tells me I walked 67,000 steps (a nice and suspiciously round number) over the past week (Sunday to Saturday), big step up from the last few months! In fact, this is my highest weekly total since early April! Good job me! It helps that the weather wasn't very rainy this past week. ### Site Updates * 4 new entries on the link blog ### Looking Forward Ugh, October is almost over. Which means the year is almost over. Aaaaugh!! That also means next weekend is _Undas_ over here. It looks like the trivia team is ending the month without attending any quiz nights. Hopefully we are back soon!

Recently I, like a lot of people who make their living by creating things, have been thinking a lot about so-called AI. I have been forced to do this because so many companies have been stealing the output of people like me in order to train their large language models, despite the fact that we own the copyright to them. I find myself, along with thousands upon thousands of others, in a ridiculous situation wherein I am constantly told that as a historian soon my services will no longer be necessary because software will just do all the thinking for us, and that my skills are worthless. Ironically, were the companies who have stolen all my work to train their models to pay me for them they would, however, go bankrupt. No one is willing to attempt to explain that contradiction. Read more: On AI and the golem Of course, it is laughable to think that AI, such as it currently exists, will ever be able to do the work of historians. All it knows how to do is guess the next word in a series of sentences based off of a slurry of everything ever created. It can’t analyse, or make new discoveries, and it certainly can’t read, for example, fourteenth century Bohemian batarde hand in manuscripts. That has not stopped tech CEOs, none of whom apparently understand what historians do or what history is, from dreaming of a world where humans don’t do any of the work that makes us human. All of this is incredibly depressing, and even worse, incredibly stupid. I hardly need to tell you that. It is also incredibly reminiscent, to me, of several early modern legends about people who try to get out of work by creating something approaching ‘life’. The legend that I think about most in this context is that of the golem, because I am unable to think about anything other than Prague for prolonged periods of time. For those not in the know, a golem is, more or less, a being made out of clay, much as Adam was by God (amiright) and then animated, usually through writing in the mud on its forehead, or by putting something around its neck or in its mouth with the same writing on it. As a general rule, said golems are created in order to do the bidding of the individual who created them. The golem has a long and interesting tradition within Jewish culture and in the Middle Ages it was generally just being reported that some people had managed to create them.[1] By the seventeenth century it was reported that a certain Rabbi Eliyahu in Chlem had gone so far as to create one.[2] An illustration by Hugo Steiner-Prag from Gustuv Meyrnik, _Der Golem_ , (Leipzig: Kurt Wolf, 1915). The Prague golem, which is probably the best-known version of the type was alleged to have been created in the seventeenth century, during the rule of the Emperor Rudolph II (1552-1612) (shout out to a real one), but to be honest, we don’t have any real written records of this specific tradition until the nineteenth century.[3] Anyway said story goes a little something like this: In the sixteenth century, Prague’s Jewish community were the subject of periodic violent attacks. That’s … just a fact. However it was one that the famous Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel (c. 1524 -1609) was not happy about. In order to do something about it, he went down to the banks of the Vltava, just to the West of the ghetto and collected a bunch of clay. He then moulded a large man out of the clay, and through a series of rituals, brought it to life. To do that he placed a magical word – the _shem_ , which is the unutterable name of God – somewhere. I think I have heard of the _shem_ on the forehead most often in this context, but I have also heard the mouth version. The golem was named Yossele and could do all sorts of cool stuff like make himself invisible. It could certainly terrorise the goyim when they were acting a fool. Because the Rabbi was a conscientious employer, he would remove the _shem_ from the golem’s mouth every Friday evening so homeboy could have the day off with everyone else. In most versions of the story, one Friday the Rabbi was busy with something else and forgot to take the _shem_ from the Golem. Furious at still existing, and lacking the oversite of Rabbi Loew, the golem went on a rampage, killing several people, until the Rabbi managed to show up, and remove the _shem_. The golem fell into pieces and the bits of clay were then stored in the attic of the Old New Synagog. Varying legends say that it is still there today or that it was eventually removed and buried out in Žižkov. A statue of Rabbi Loew from in front of the New City Hall in Prague. You may be thinking ‘Very cool story Eleanor, but why do we care about this in the context of AI?’ I am glad you have asked me the question I put into your mouth, thanks. The answer lies in interpretations of what the fuck we are meant to make of this story. According to the historian Moshe Idel, the golem as a legend serves largely to reinforce the idea of a hierarchy within Jewish culture. Those who held deep knowledge of Hebrew language had the ability to work complex magic.[4] This is a very good way of convincing kids to study hard at Yeshiva, I think we can all agree. * * * _If you are enjoying this post, why not support the blog by subscribing to thePatreon, from as little as £ 1 per month? It keeps the blog going, and you also get extra content. If not, that is chill too._ * * * It is also rather like what we are currently experiencing in the breathless coverage of AI from our entirely captive and credulous press. I am thinking particularly of the ridiculous ass letter written and signed in 2023 by a few hundred AI bullshit artists, I mean, ‘experts’ about how AI poses an ‘existential threat to existence.’[5] I will save to the clicks – they do not mean as a result of it using up the last drinkable water on Earth, or the way it encourages young people to harm themselves. They are pretending that the predictive text machine is gonna start a nuclear war or something. A picture o0f the Old New Synagog near the turn of the century. This is essentially the same thing as the golem stories, because what they are attempting to do is position themselves as a sort of priestly class with access to forbidden, arcane knowledge that must be feared, respected, and obeyed. They believe themselves to be the Rabbi Loew of this story. This justifies the obscene valuations on their companies, and the ridiculous salaries they pull down for inventing Clippy 2.0. At least it does according to them, the people who are trying to sell this to you. Unlike the Prague golem story, however, AI doesn’t actually do anything good or useful. At least our good friend Yossele was doing something for his community until he very much wasn’t. All AI knows is say there’s four Rs in strawberry, be automatically added to your phone, eat up resources, and lie. There’s another golem story that I think is also pertinent here, however. A children’s version of the story exists, that has real ‘Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ vibes. In it, Rabbi Loew decides that a way the golem can help out around the ghetto is for him to get busy making porridge for the hungry. This was all very lovely, but one little boy was never satisfied with the one bowl of porridge that he received, and spent a long time watching the golem. On the Friday when Rabbi Loew forgot to take the _shem_ from the golem he swung into action, and ordered the golem to make porridge. The golem obliged and got to work, but the trouble was that the kid didn’t know how to get the golem to stop making porridge. It continued to make more and more porridge which flowed first out of the pot, then down the street, and eventually under the doors of the Synagog itself. Luckily Rabbi Loew noticed the porridge flow, and led his congregation into the high ground of the cemetery where they managed to survive. Eventually everyone had to eat their way through the porridge for several weeks after, and no one found the golem again.[6] The Prague Jewish Cemetary, where the community waited for the porridge to abate. This, to me, is also rather like our current predicament. In theory, AI was created to do a bunch of stuff for people that we didn’t want to do. In theory it’s meant to be doing our meeting minutes or doing book indexes, or making spreadsheets for us. In reality it can’t do any of those things. What it can do is make a bunch of totally sub-par pseudo ‘art’ where uncanny valley looking underage girls with huge boobs are your girlfriend. The internet is awash with this garbage, all of which was built on the work of actual artists who have not been remunerated for it. We are drowning in a sea of pablum, because some people are children and unable to realise that limits are important. Further, the porridge story overlaps with the more common golem story in that it highlights the necessity of human oversite in order to make an automaton useful. There’s no way for a creation such as this to understand context. You tell it to make porridge – it makes porridge. If you don’t watch it 24/7 – it might go on a rampage and start harming people. Humans still need to be involved the entire time in order for such an invention to be useful. So you may as well get humans to do the thing because you aren’t actually getting out of any work here. You are simply creating a new form of labour. More to the point, doing the work oneself is often what makes the resultant product worth it. We appreciate beautiful paintings or drawings because of the dozens of hours that good examples require. Worthwhile writing is the result of deep intellectual work on the part of those who write it. If you are not thinking about the things you produce, then they inherently have no meaning. To believe that one can extract humans from this equation is inherently childish, and even dangerous. The Poster for the film The Golem: How He Came Into the Word, dir. Paul Wegener, 1920. Whatever the theoretical meaning of golem stories, the underlying message is the same. Just because one _can_ do something, doesn’t mean one _should_. This is something that we have been pretty clear on for two hundred years. A soul is required for work to be safe and meaningful. Any attempt to convince you otherwise is hubris at best, and just a straight up scam at worst. We are teetering on the edge of the collapse of this particular bubble, and there’s no doubt that ordinary people who didn’t waste precious resources generating sub-par horny images are going to pay the price. Unfortunately, there is very little I can do for us in that regard. What I can do is highlight the fact that the people of the past already answered the philosophical questions surrounding this particular bad idea for us. As we are constantly told that the arts and humanities have no value, and that we can have machines do that work for us, I think this is an important reminder. To be human is to do the work. For better or worse. * * * [1] A really good study on all the people discussing this can be found in Moshe Idel, ‘Golems and God: Mimesis and Confrontation’, in, O. Krueger, R. Sarioender, A. Deschner (eds.), _Mythen der kreativitaet_ (Lembeck: Lembeck O, 2003), 224–268. [2] Moshe Idel, _Golem: Jewish Magical and Mystical Traditions on the Artificial_ Anthropoid, (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990), p. 296. [3] The earliest reference we currently have comes to us from 1837 in Berthold Auerbach, _Spinoza: Ein historisher Roman_ , Vol. 2. (Sttugart: 1837), pp. 2-3. [4] Idel, _Golem_ , [5] Kevin Roose, ‘A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn‘, _The New York Times_. 20 May 2023. <Accessed 25 October 2025> [6] A delightful illustrated version of this story can be found in the gorgeous children’s book _The Three Golden Keys_ by Peter Sis. (New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2001). * * * For more on Prague and Czech history, see: A short history of Jan Hus – the protestant leader you never heard of On Prague, preaching, and brothels My fav saints: St Procopius of Sazava On martyrdom and nationalism * * * Support the blog by subscribing to the Patreon, from as little as £ 1 per month! It’s the cool thing to do! My book, The Once And Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women’s Roles in Society, is out now. © Eleanor Janega, 2025 ### Share this: * Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X * Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook * Like Loading... ### _Related_ ## Author: Dr Eleanor Janega Medieval historian, lush, George Michael evangelist. View all posts by Dr Eleanor Janega

TOC * The World * My Week * Media Diet * Reading * Watching * Gaming * Walking and Health and the Weather * Links to Share * Looking Forward ### The World It looks like Trump's Gaza Peace Plan might actually work! Sadly for him, this was not enough for him to win the Nobel Peace Prize, which was awarded to Maria Corina Mechado of the Venezuelan opposition to the Maduro dictatorship. Not all of Trump's diplomatic efforts are going well. This week, China announced export controls on rare earth minerals to the US, prompting Trump to threaten to increase China tariffs again to the previous level of 130% starting next month. The stock markets are shook. Here on our side, corruption scandal investigations are still ongoing. And we had like 3 earthquakes over the past couple of weeks for some reason, mostly in Visayas and Mindanao. ### My Week * Kind of busy, especially this weekend. I attended a party at a friend's house even. Socializing! * Fam get-together this weekend to celebrate the second-youngest niece's birthday. Was short and quick, because everybody is busy apparently. * We received some worrying health news about an extended family member last Saturday. More tests are to be done and we are hoping for the best. We are planning to go to the hospital this week to visit. This has led to more health-related discussions among our get-togethers and group chats. * On the blog: A review for Pandemic Legacy. * Our _balikbayan_ friend is flying back to the US and I am looking forward to much less in-person meetups again. I enjoy hanging out with my gaming group, but I still very much have an introvert limit apparently. ### Media Diet #### Reading * Comics: Still trying to keep up with newer releases, and a new post is still pending. * Books: No new books started yet. #### Watching * Finished: **Peacemaker S2** * Ongoing: **Superman The Animated Series** , **Only Murders In The Building S5** , **High Potential S2**. * Movies: Finally watched a new movie again! It was Sinners (2025). #### Gaming * Regular ongoing live-service games: * **Marvel Snap** : The new season is kind of boring. Still chugging along. * **Magic Arena** : * Doing terribly with Omenpaths drafting. Honestly I am looking forward to the next set already. * TMNT set scheduled for next year (after Lorwyn Eclipsed) was announced at NYCC. I am not enthused. * Single-player games: * Ongoing: **Hollow Knight: Silksong**. I am close to finishing a 100% completion run; I think all side quests are already done and I just have a couple of missing things to find. * Boardgames / Other: My regular gaming group played _Pandemic Legacy_! I wrote a review and it is linked above. We also finished _Sunderfolk_ , but I have yet to write a review. ### Walking and Health and the Weather Google Fit tells me I walked 52,686 steps over the past week (Sunday to Saturday). This is a bit less than last week. Thankfully my coughs and colds have vanished again. ### Links to Share Starting to work my way through my backlog of saved links: * Reality has a surprising amount of detail > "This means it’s really easy to get stuck. Stuck in your current way of seeing and thinking about things. Frames are made out of the details that seem important to you. The important details you haven’t noticed are invisible to you, and the details you have noticed seem completely obvious and you see right through them. This all makes makes it difficult to imagine how you could be missing something important." > > "If you’re trying to do impossible things, this effect should chill you to your bones. It means you could be intellectually stuck right at this very moment, with the evidence right in front of your face and you just can’t see it." > > "If you wish to not get stuck, seek to perceive what you have not yet perceived." * Frank Chimero · Selling Lemons Frank Chimero considers the "market of lemons" concept as applied to the internet: > "Akerlof asks us to imagine ourselves buying a used car. Some cars on the lot are reliable, well-maintained gems. Others cars are lemons, the kinds of cars that can make it off the lot but are disasters waiting to happen. The sellers know which cars are which, but you, as a buyer, can’t tell the difference. That information asymmetry affects the average price in the market and eventually impacts the overall market dynamics." * /u/NowGoodbyeForever on Empathy (from Reddit thread on conservatives and empathy) > "Empathy is a slippery slope towards understanding situations and working to change them. " > > "Empathy is the antidote to this shit, because it's an emotional response that's based in reality and truth. Because the truth of the matter is that all of these scary Other Groups are just people. People who have more in common with the average worker than the impossibly wealthy ghouls running the government." > > "Children are the same everywhere, from Pittsburgh to Palestine. Young people are struggling to find stability and work, whether they're straight or gay, cis or trans. Immigrants don't want to steal your jobs; they want to work for a better life, same as you." * Have I Earned It? Kottke quoting Craig Mod: > "He wonders, always wonders, if he has earned it. The time alone, the steps, the little interactions, the looking closely at the world. He takes it, he’ll take whatever he can get whenever, and try to be as grateful as possible. What else is there? Tiny men with big sticks upend sanity the world ‘round and all you can do is try to find your footing and push back." Trent Siegfried in the comments: > "My personal philosophy is that none of us have earned it, and that a moment of peace when you're on a beautiful walk, or looking at a flower, or playing with a child is a genuine gift from the universe, with no need to repay it. I haven't earned that gift, it is given to me freely." * Links make the web great > "I am actually kinda terrible at talking about things, I’m decent in some scenarios or with previous preparation, like presentations where I can write down my thoughts beforehand, but I still struggle otherwise. > > In the web, I don’t worry much about it, just express what I want, and link to other pages explaining missing context, if I deem it necessary. > > And to me, that’s great, because it lets me discover the web the way it was intended to be." Check the linkblog for past links! My feed reader backlog remains huge, but I am slowly starting to whittle away at it. ### Looking Forward Hopefully a more chill week, as I've fallen behind in things I want to get done.

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