Authentic blocking frenzy antidote (Issue #186)
Workplace software, AI subprime, libertarian geopolitics, perfect accents, open source, podcasting origins, Wordpress chaos, cash freedom, Trump madness, BTC & stablecoins, ancient history and drugs
Hello and welcome to my newsletter!
Another season 2 instalment…
One would have thought that now that I’ve run out of build minutes, that this would be a good opportunity to focus on blogging and the newsletter. But in worldo’s infinite wisdom it’s actually the perfect time to have a blocking frenzy. With no ability to stand at the internet place, since the leaning wall is now being blocked, I don’t have any articles to read, so no links for the linkblog, and not much to write blog posts about.
There isn’t any point even trying to prepare anything of any value since literally anything I do will get counter acted. That’s how bad it is. What we are left with is the list of podcasts I listened to this week and thought were good. And there were some quite interesting items for sure, but everything feels completely disjointed. Like a traffic jam at the bumper cars. Stop start stop start stop start.
As if to prove a point, the universe who has been pretty chill for the past hour, literally the second I started writing this issue, started blocking.
It’s all so damn depressing. One really interesting data point though, last week’s issue titled “Simply Refreshing” which I renamed at the last minute from something dark and depressing, had more than double the number of views. To put that into perspective, every week there is a variance of plus or minus 10-20% consistently. It’s been like that for years at this point. So a doubling is really really rare. It’s not the biggest sample size ever, but I think it’s some indication.
We are all starved for good news at the minute.
I’ll leave you with that one thought because the week I’ve had, having been poisoned, constantly harassed, constantly shitting with a horrendous stomach bug, having now been made ill with another flem cough, and now no new news articles, nothing I write is going to quench that thirst. But maybe worldo will somehow get the message and start allowing something. Anything.
Try allowing single neutrino worldo!
You can do it!
:)
Peace 🕊✌️☮️
I know this issue is a bit on the light side as far as analysis goes, so I will leave you with the list of possible issue titles that didn’t make it this week:
Tummy problems
Dopplegangers
Vampires
Ruthlessness
Standing up to bullies
Reality inversions
Malicious help
Traps, traps and yet more traps
Psychopaths everywhere
Blocking frenzy
Blocking frenzy antidote
Maybe we’ll get another chance to have something refreshing next week. I sure hope so.
I nearly forgot… I wrote 3 blog posts! Here they are:
Grand slams https://markjgsmith.com/blog/2024/10/12/grand-slams
Funny old world https://markjgsmith.com/blog/2024/10/12/funny-old-world
Progressive enhancement underrated https://markjgsmith.com/blog/2024/10/17/progressive-enhancement-underrated
I was pretty happy with the Grand slams post. I think it’s a bit uplifting and perhaps even somewhat refreshing.
If you’re feeling like hitting a grand slam yourself, one excellent way to do just that would be to donate, that would certainly uplift me a bit spiritually, and once I make it to my target of buying a new laptop, it really will make a big difference to the newsletter :)
https://markjgsmith.com/donate
And now for this weeks selection of awesome podcasts:
Podcasts
The impossible dream of good workplace software (Decoder Podcast) https://podcastindex.org/podcast/2123?episode=29051599764
The Subprime AI Crisis (Better Offline Podcast) https://podcastindex.org/podcast/6793395?episode=29095574615
Tim Starr - Libertarian Perspective Part 2 (Crypto Voices Podcast) https://podcastindex.org/podcast/325414?episode=29112130997
James Adomian (Duncan Trussell Podcast) https://www.duncantrussell.com/episodes/2024/10/11/james-adomian
A great horse to bet on Ep#343 (JS Party Podcast) https://changelog.com/jsparty/342
They’re called “Podcasts” (Vergecast Podcast) https://podcastindex.org/podcast/415434?episode=29266571329
Why the Wordpress Chaos Matters (404 Media Podcast) https://podcastindex.org/podcast/6582713?episode=29285426895
Why Cash Keeps Us Free (Flying Frisby Podcast)
The Truth About Trump’s Economic Madness (Rest is Money Podcast) https://podcastindex.org/podcast/6582865?episode=29305334478
Stablecoins vs Bitcoin w/ Alan Farrington (We Study Billionaires - Bitcoin Fundamentals Podcast) https://www.theinvestorspodcast.com/bitcoin-fundamentals/
Graham Handcock: Lost Civilisation of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History (Lex Fridman Podcast) https://lexfridman.com/graham-hancock
That’s all from me…
Best regards,
Mark
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