links, etc Heat Death of the Internet - takahē if this wasn’t so spot on, it would be even more hilarious. #enshittification

notes bookshop link recommended: meh i always have to take the cory doctorow with a grain of salt. this was a DSA fever dream, and i say this as someone who leans heavily in that direction. the main character is a pretty flat charicature of a liberal kid that grew up in a MAGA household. gramps was a MAGA who died; leaving him the owner of a house that he opts to turn into a four-story walkup to house climate refugees....

robbed 1.45 miles by block party.

links, etc The Radiant Future! (Of 1995) - Charlie’s Diary this is probably the best thing that i’ve read all week. granted, the week is young. NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth – Voyager perhaps i should should be a little more grateful when i get a decent collection of logs and show tech to dig into an issue.

links, etc 50 Years Later, This Apollo-Era Antenna Still Talks to Voyager 2 - IEEE Spectrum there’s something about the engineering of these massive hunks of metal with their smoothed dishes talking to something millions of miles away that’s pretty mind blowing. fold into the mix here that these were engineered and built 50 years ago…