If only “greedy” was his only problem!

This is brilliant: “automating yourself from complexity only means you add layers of somewhere else”. Need to tattoo this on my forearm!

Conveniently removed

Thanks for reminding me of this. I did see the original post but, how soon we forget.

I heard a different take yesterday from Corey Doctorow that the real concern is global economic collapse!

Not something I’d considered, but I would say a frightening possibility!

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/econopocalypse/

Sorry for your loss

Upright piano with the front panel taken off

Not a book, but Brian Eno’s “Oblique Strategies”

Seconded. And if you want to avoid the Ubuntu sh!t you can go for Mint DE (Debian edition)

Breakfast of champions

This … “Microsoft is a cancer sucking life out of everything it touches.”

Divorce her

There are all sorts of fabulous food/alcohol combinations

Cool. I’ll give you $50 for it 🤪

Rage-coloured glasses?

Maybe. But you won’t know until you actually try.

Ahhh

Just following up on many of the comments that ask, are you allowing enough rest/recovery? … I have a Garmin watch that gives a training status that I find a good indicator of whether my exercise is benefiting me or not. If my “load” is the same or going up and my “fitness” is going down it’s a good indicator that I’m not getting enough rest or that my current exercise has plateaued. I find it a good prompt to rethink what I’m doing.

Sorry, what does the UK have to do with this?

And while I’m not disagreeing with this, it is also ok to check in with yourself and notice “ok, I have uncomfortable feelings” but then ask the question “Am I in danger?”. We all get uncomfortable some times but we’d never do anything new if we always stop ourselves just because we’re uncomfortable. The trick is learning the difference between good/safe uncomfortable and bad/dangerous uncomfortable, and to learn that you need to practice being with your feelings. Read up about exposure therapy.