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movies dumb money (2023) - watched this on the plane. if you remember this time, it was bonkers and kind of beautiful at the same time. (4/5) the gentlemen (2019) - watched this in the plane, guy ritchie definitely has a style. fun, solid cast, a couple of novel twists. (3.5/5) please don’t destroy: the treasure of foggy mountain (2023) - watched this on peacock. i fell asleep through a chunk of it....

goal 30 books this year. let’s get crackin' books liberty’s daughter (naomi kritzer) notes green earth (kim stanley robinson) notes the future of the responsible company: what we’ve learned from patagonia’s first 50 years (yvon chouinard, vincent stanley) notes the death and life of the great lakes (dan egan) notes a hacker’s mind (bruce schneier) notes shop class as soulcraft (matthew b. crawford) notes the lost cause (cory doctorow) notes a sand county almanac (aldo leopold) notes under a white sky: the nature of thefuture (elizabeth kolbert) notes number go up (zeke faux) rnotes blindsight (peter watts) notes the happiness curve: why life gets better after 50 (jonathon rauch) notes range: why generalists triumph in a specialized world (david eptstein) notes master of the revels (nicole galland) notes writing to learn (william zinnser) notes the resistance: digital dissent in the age of machines (joel achenbach) 2034: a novel of the next world war (ackerman, stavridis) notes numbers don’t lie (vaclav smil) notes the message (ta-nehisi coates) notes polostan (neal stephenson) notes the art of thinking (vincent ruggiero) notes amusing ourselves to death (neil postman) notes erasing history (jason stanley) notes looking at photographs (john szarkowski) the real internet architecture (zave, rexford) notes

notes bookshop link this was a dense and often redundant read with a lot of the classic, academic need to spend a lot of time on (re)naming things. to summarize … tunnels are the new internet. you might not necessarily realize/recognize what’s going on, but the focus of today’s internet is no longer end-to-end connectivity and addressing, etc. it’s what you can accomplish with tunnels. this is true, pretty much everything that you’re going to do in internet and enterprise engineering for the remainders of our life time is going to be in the service of some form of tunneling....

links, etc Not My Problem | NOEMA when you ask the AI, to riff on what the AI means for art, you’re going to get some interesting responses.

links, etc these links have been best coverage of the “local network access” permissions that arrived in macos 15 that i’ve seen to date. there’s excellent reading in here. Local Network Privacy FAQ | Apple Developer Forums TN3179: Understanding local network privacy | Apple Developer Documentation sheesh, amazon’s really getting their money’s worth out of this purchase. Amazon ready to use its own AI chips, reduce its dependence on Nvidia - Ars Technica