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A great podcast episode

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Published: March 20, 2025 17:39

I've been a fan of Alex Goldman for years, going all the way back to when he was interning at WYNC and started a podcast with his fellow intern PJ Vogt.A lot has happened since and he's out on his own with a podcast called

A marathon trip

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Published: March 17, 2025 22:06

Years ago, my brother started volunteering at running races as a support guy and eventually turned it into a part-time gig. About 10 years ago, he started working on what is probably "The Big Show" of LA events which is the Los Angeles Marathon. After his…

Links for February 27, 2025

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Published: February 27, 2025 19:33

Make yourself less valuable to tech companies is a great, step-by-step guide to removing personal details from all your accounts so tech companies can't profile, analyze, or sell your information to others. A recent John Oliver episode of Last Week Tonight…

A sign of things to come?

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Published: February 20, 2025 18:29

I heard there was a big announcement today from Trump's secretary of transportation about California's high speed rail, and I knew it was probably going to be train wreck but I had no idea until I jumped on a livestream a few minutes into this event.

Links for February 18, 2025

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Published: February 18, 2025 22:04

Gina Trapani uploaded a visualization of her entire life, broken down by weeks, with milestones called out throughout. It's kind of surprising how someone's existence fits into a single scrolling page like that and I'm tempted to do one myself someday. My…

Cory Doctorow's Picks & Shovels is out today (and it's great fun)

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Published: February 18, 2025 19:42

I seem to have acquired a new annual tradition. For the past couple years, every winter I go on a long road trip and I stack up audiobooks to listen to along the way. Since 2023, I've taken trips that happened to include Cory Doctorow's newest

The first broadway musical you saw as a teen is the greatest ever, even if the story is terrible (and that's ok)

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Published: February 12, 2025 04:32

I've always enjoyed plays and musicals and I have a couple friends in the business so I often get the inside scoop from that world when talking to them. Over the course of my life, I've probably gone to the theater 2-3 times a year, but

A guide to using Signal for government workers

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Published: February 3, 2025 14:01

🔒Editor's note: A friend of mine works in the federal government and wrote a guide for their fellow federal workers on how to use Signal. There are lots of good reasons for switching to Signal for messaging, and this does a great job of laying it all

Pixelfed should be designed like a lightly gated garden

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Published: February 1, 2025 23:40

Pixelfed is a mastodon instance geared towards displaying photographs and the main website and iOS app feels a lot like instagram. That's great timing, as Facebook continues to do questionable things that make you wonder why you're supporting a weird…

When everything becomes a profit center…

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Published: January 31, 2025 17:25

A few days ago, the smoke alarms in my house went off at 3am, so we got up and took it seriously when we smelled smoke everywhere. But after 20 minutes of searching high and low, we couldn't find a source, so as a precaution, we called 911