Brandon Muramatsu
@bmuramatsu.bsky.social
⚙️Builds connections at the intersection of learning, tech, innovation & scale 🌎Plans & implements int'l strategic education initiatives 👍🏼Open Ed 🎲 Board games & TTRPG I block follow farming, bogus accounts & those w/o profiles.
The Best Sandwich Shop in America? “The devil's in the details, man. You got to take the extra minute to do it. Some people like it. Some people complain about it." [kottke.org]
The Best Sandwich Shop in America?
YouTuber Rob Martinez travelled to Columbus, Ohio to tell the story of what he calls the best sandwich shop in America, Wario’s Beef and Pork. Here’s part of the transcript of owner Stephan Madias talking about the
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Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket. “There’s no point beating yourself up for failing to clear a backlog (of unread books, undone tasks, unrealized dreams) that was always inherently unfeasible to clear in the first place.” [oliverburkeman.com]
Treat your to-read pile like a river | Oliver Burkeman
I'm going to take a wild guess here and say that you, like me, have a large pile (or digital equivalent) of books or articles you've been meaning to get around to reading, plus maybe a long queue of podcast episodes to which you'd love to listen, if only you had the time.
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If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.
i have seen many wonders on this trip to the big apple so far
Title text: "Many of the smaller dinosaurs seem to have largely preyed on housecats." Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3300#Transcript
![Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreih526pxolmi4pgqdcdu435uhkrrldhpwq6rrsnk4hfs6dskbe5r7e)
If everyone agrees too quickly, somebody forgot to think.
When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.
I'm going to make you all happy (if you use an iPhone and have upgraded to iOS 27). Go to Settings > Apps > Messages > Show in Text Field and set it to Off. This disables the record audio snippet button I know you (and I) accidentally tap all the time. I never send audio messages.
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iPhone 18 Pro Camera Review: Dunton, Colorado — Austin Mann
The iPhone 18 Pro camera tested for a week at Dunton River Camp in southwest Colorado — manual focus, manual shutter, the all-new variable aperture, Focus Tracking, Apple Reference Image, 4K time-laps...
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Just watched another clip of a 2026 baseball game. There are those pathetic advertising patches on the player sleeves. Really, they're hilariously bad.
If you cannot explain something in simple terms, you don't understand it.
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![Comic. [person drawing bow and arrow in front of a line of twelve axes, in front of a person seated on the ground with an apple on their head, in front of an archery target with an arrow in the bullseye that has been split by another arrow.] [caption] I want to prove that my new protagonist is a better shot than all those other protagonists.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreibxcocebcdh27nco4fmf4la6f7m2tofuc7ewxeppa5izslwdnjtye)
Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: A chief technology officer is worried about keeping his spreadsheets private.
the thing is like public health child literacy civil rights social justice rural poverty once you personally have become rich and successful, those things only matter if you still have the capacity to care deeply about people outside your immediate circle and that is harder than becoming rich
Algorithms killed the spectrum of emotional valences. Everything now is set to 10. Bring back the eyeroll, the exasperated sigh, the hand wave, the shoulder shrug. Some stuff is just mildly annoying or blandly dumb. You don’t need to blow every emotional outburst on the mundane.
Amazon is officially shutting down Mechanical Turk next month. It feels like the end of an era. I've written about the platform on and off for close to a decade. We wouldn't have the AI tools we do now if it weren't for the low-paid, largely invisible labor of MTurkers
The xkcd store has returned, with a variety of shirts, stickers, and posters! Check it out here: store.xkcd.com
