the old phone browser tabs are filling up. in roughly “most interesting” to “least interesting” order

• The Midwit Home, or “smart home” without apps or wifi or FANGMEN¹
• make your video calls better I have done none of these but I want to
• this series about anger seems good
• Vimm’s Vault - uh every nintendo/sega/ps/xbox game through 2008?
• Extreme Vocal Institute - how to scream without hurting your voice
• Bike Insights - compare 2 bikes' geometries, learn about bikes, etc
• Cuttle - a “combat card game” with just a regular deck of cards
• Quiet Mark - reviews of which appliances are quiet. (Most categories don’t have anything yet, but they’re starting.)
• C. Thi Nguyen’s board game recs
• Book review of The Educated Mind I usually don’t even read these but this one was fascinating.
• mp3 tag editor
• recording yourself all day
• TRE or Trauma Release Exercises sounds like craziness but it’s kinda neat how you spontaneously shake after doing these exercises
• Kingfisher Squishies - I don’t need a silicone d20, but of course I want a silicone d20.

meditation etc

• the QRI folks are (a few months ago) done with their psychedelic cryptography contest - I love this because I can actually understand and describe it, unlike most of what they or their friends post (e.g. vasocomputation or autism)
• still, of course I want to do their guided meditation series
• rob burbea and jhanas
• planetary scale vibe collapse - fascinating thoughts on duality
• upon the mirror sea - I’ve read one chapter of this book and I’m hooked
• more on sananga hmm if I’m having an interesting time meditating with hot peppers maybe I should look into this more. my experience so far is “burns a lot, kind of a rush, isn’t unmanageable, … helps? I dunno”
• rectangles bad - yeah! this hints at Attention Restoration Theory or even just “looking at trees is nice”
• MindPlace Light & Sound Meditation Systems - man I wish I could rent these; my main block from trying them is that I think there’s a 95+% chance I’ll end up with another piece of e-waste and a couple hundred dollars out of my bank account. That 5% is exciting, but not enough to make it +EV.
• psychedelics and antidepressants
• Psilohealth Peer Support education - I like the idea of more organized courses for everyone at all levels, not just “patients and doctors”, but like, trip-sitters or friends who can help a bit. Helps it scale out a little bit.

computers

• speed changes how people use tools - not much to say but I agree
• running Llama2 locally - I asked about “what’s a Small Language Model I can run on my computer” and this was it. or just a trigram model
• why git is hard I dunno, yeah, it is

music

• L.D. Nero - I’m Burning
• Gunesh Ensemble - To My Friends 2
• Bulgarian Voices Angelite feat. Huun Huur-Tu - Legend