@randomgeek thanks for the reply!

@randomgeek what is the better/preferred approach for this sort of thing? List comprehensions?

New blog post: Weeknotes 2025-05-04 https://roytang.net/2025/05/weeknotes-05-04/

#Weeknotes

Shared: This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOoT8AbkNE.

(Youtube)

> "We are already living inside the architecture of totalitarianism."

> "You are not gods. You are men, and you are careless."

#Tech #Journalism #Uspol

> "Art brings us back to ourselves, helps us root in our own agency and creative power, makes space for the joy of craft and play, and reminds us of our purpose in the world. On dark days, it’s easy to think that there’s no room for art, because the work of survival is so demanding. But art doesn’t merely take time—it gives time and energy back. It renews our spirits and the spirits of everyone who sees or hears or experiences the art, who receives the art as it’s intended: as a gift."

#Art

Shared: Keep moving | everything changes https://everythingchanges.us/blog/keep-moving/.

> "The most reliable antidote to despair is action. The always-on, always moving news cycle and shock doctrine scale of destruction is designed to make you feel hopeless and feeble, as if there’s nothing to do but numb yourself to the terror. This, like so much else we’re confronted with today, is a lie."

Shared: Jim Nielsen’s Notes - New Rule: Newer, Not Better https://notes.jim-nielsen.com/#2025-02-20T1327.

> "You [tech folks] keep improving things because A) let’s be honest, it justifies your job, and B) it’s fun — for you. I get it. It’s what you’re good at: tinkering with shit…you like over-engineering stuff, but don’t tell yourself you’re making anyone’s life better."

#Tech

Shared: This is How We Fall Out of Love with the World https://annehelen.substack.com/p/this-is-how-we-fall-out-of-love-with.

> "These cuts don’t just signal the end of public works as public good. They also signal the twilight of the passion job, better known as the jobs performed by millions of Americans, often at great personal expense and sacrifice, simply because they loved the work that they did."

#Uspol

> "Writing is a costly signal of caring about something. Good writing, in fact, might be a sign of pathological caring.

> "lots of people think they need to get better at writing, but nobody thinks they need to get better at thinking, and this is why they don’t get better at writing."

#Writing

> "All emotions are useful for writing except for bitterness."

> "Putting fingers to keys or pen to paper is secretly an act of hope, however faint—hope that someone will read your words, hope that someone will understand."

> "If you really want to get that sentence right, if you want that perfect brush stroke or that exquisite shot, then you have to squeeze your neurons until they scream.

Shared: 28 slightly rude notes on writing - by Adam Mastroianni https://www.experimental-history.com/p/28-slightly-rude-notes-on-writing.

> "The strangest part is, the AI pushers don't have to lie about what AI can do! If, as they say, AI tools are going to get better quickly, then let them do so and trust that smart people will pick them up and use them. "

#Genai

> "We don't actually have to follow along with the narratives that tech tycoons make up for each other. We choose the tools that we use, based on the utility that they have for us. ... It's telling that the creators of so many of the AI tools don't even have enough confidence in their offerings to simply let users choose to adopt them, and are instead forcing them into users' faces in every possible corner of their apps and websites."

Shared: "AI-first" is the new Return To Office - Anil Dash https://www.anildash.com/2025/04/19/ai-first-is-the-new-return-to-office/.

New blog post: Movies / TV - April* 2025 https://roytang.net/2025/05/movies-tv-april-2025/

#Movies #Tv

@cyborg_writer how is Goon doing now? I hope he is well

New blog post: I Just Want To See What Happens Next https://roytang.net/2025/04/what-happens-next/

#Philosophy

Shared: Honest and Elitist Thoughts on Why Computers Were More Fun Before https://www.datagubbe.se/aficion/.

> "The dominant group of users were now people who didn't care about - or even actively disliked - computers. They'd just been put in front of one in order to perform a small repertoire of simple tasks - and still ran into problems. The experiment with giving everyone geeky power tools failed, because everyone didn't want to become geeky power tool users."

New blog post: Weeknotes 2025-04-27 https://roytang.net/2025/04/weeknotes-04-27/

#weeknotes

Plates are capitalism; bowls are socialism. Plates are a backward longing for an imaginary twentieth century; bowls are the dream of a better world. Plates are small talk; bowls are the part of a party where everybody sits on the floor."

IDK why I enjoyed this so much.