Jan 21, 2026 from Improve Something Today Podcast episode No. 0034: On speeding things up 0034: On speeding things up0:00/497.0241×Episode details: a reading and discussion of this, from 2023 ↓On speeding things upLearning from the hourglass & the snake.Improve Something TodayBrian Kerr...
Jan 21, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Cybernetic Attention: All Watched over by Machines We Learned to Watch Before the attention economy consumed our lives, “pursuit tests” devised by the US military coupled man to machine with the aim of assessing focus under pressure. D. Graham Burnett explores these d...
Jan 21, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Flights of Fancy: The Nine Birds of Jacques de Fornazeris (1594) Etchings of birds in a somewhat theatrical style.
Jan 20, 2026 from Improve Something Today With paper, glue & scissors: how little zines can make a big difference Two ways to make an 8-page mini-zine using stuff you already have—and three reasons why you might do this.
Jan 20, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal PixelFade Studio VN Review Project Canadian OELVN developer PixelFade Studio announced its "retirement" from visual novel development on January 19, 2026. I announce my plan to cover the three PFS novels I have not yet covered and i...
Jan 20, 2026 from BEEW Like＞Love We've been chasing the wrong thing for a long time. For centuries we've built our entire civilization around love — the songs, the movies, the holidays, the grand gestures, the heartbreak, the dram...
Jan 20, 2026 from The Public Domain Review A Prophet of the Weather: Lantern Slides by Clement Lindley Wragge (ca. 1900–22) Slides from twenty years of lecturing about the workings of the universe and the fate of the soul.
Jan 19, 2026 from Ploum.net Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots What I like most about teaching "Open Source Strategies" at École Polytechnique de Louvain is how much I learn from my students, especially during the...
Jan 18, 2026 from riz#000000me on swift horses What a heartbreaking movie. Generally set in the 50s and maybe early 60s, there is nothing particularly heartbreaking about the movement of the queer characters and the way they talk around identit...
Jan 17, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXIII 〜 Wooden snowman Welcome to the 263rd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal and its short-form writing sister publica...
Jan 16, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Cheap Winter Cherries A report about cheap winter cherries in China inspired me to share my story about purchasing cheap cherries in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, in February 2024.
Jan 16, 2026 from riz#000000me january 15 I keep thinking that I need something to write about to write a little blog, which is fully the content poisoning of social media that I had been exposed to for so long. Write about what? Who cares...
Jan 14, 2026 from BEEW Notes On Discernment & Character (something I've been thinking about) Lately I've been thinking about people—their motivations, how we read them, what they do and don't do, what they say and leave unsaid. I don't have a finished theory, but I'm noticing patterns wort...
Jan 14, 2026 from Improve Something Today Podcast episode No. 0033: Vanishing fish, boiling frogs & the dry bed of the sea 0033: Vanishing fish, boiling frogs & the dry bed of the sea0:00/596.8321×Episode details: A reading of this, from 2025 ↓Vanishing fish, boiling frogs & the dry bed of the seaMaking sense of ‘shift...
Jan 14, 2026 from riz#000000me here i am I’ve felt pretty disconnected from the blog this week and somewhat last week. I didn’t have my computer with me during the holidays and then I immediately returned to work once the new year started...
Jan 13, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Peter Kropotkin’s Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899) The memoirs of an aristocratic man revolutionised into an anarchist communist.
Jan 13, 2026 from Ploum.net La ligne de commande communiste, le code Baudot et le comte ChatGPT La ligne de commande communiste, le code Baudot et le comte ChatGPT Il y a quelques mois, un lecteur m’a fait découvrir un incroyable jeu historico-politique entièrement réalisé en AsciiArt: « Le c...
Jan 12, 2026 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria January 2026 So Farrr... I don’t know how to write. I don’t know where to write, what to write about, or where to start. So I’ll start from that ignorance.The year began with sickness. Fever, cold, cough, delirium, nausea,...
Jan 11, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Bonus Gifts With Usaburo Snowman Doll I ordered an Usaburo snowman kokeshi doll on Ebay. The doll came as expected, but it was unexpectedly accompanied by a Christmas card and ornament from the seller.
Jan 11, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Miya Snowman Cups From Ten Ichi Mart The story of how a snowman's facial expression unexpectedly caused me to spend an additional $20.
