Donnie
@clapp.me
Improbably, a public school math teacher and instructional coach. Formerly: ski bum ➡️ IT guy ➡️ PR guy ➡️ copywriter ➡️ CD ➡️ marketing director Aspirationally? Unironic furniture influencer. One too many bourbons (occasionally)
uncovered.ink is my new favorite way to kill a few minutes. Find your next book without seeing the cover or the author. Surprisingly fun. Added to my home screen.
Uncovered.ink · Judge a book by its writing
Read first pages blind. No cover, no name, no hype. Find out what you actually fall for.
uncovered.ink
The person who designed the Chick-fil-A fry box so that the crumbs don't fall out the corners into my car deserves the Nobel Peace Prize
"About 40% of global shipping is just moving fossil fuel around..." Excuse me? That's nuts. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The renewable energy revolution is a feat of technology | Rebecca Solnit
An energy revolution is underway in this century, though most people have not noticed it
theguardian.com
If you were in a hypothetical situation, what would you do?
"...and it was a lot more fun than making work we were proud of for people we didn’t particularly like..." A gem from @coudal.bsky.social www.fastcompany.com/91352848/fie...
How Field Notes went from side project to cult notebook
Two decades after Aaron Draplin and Jim Coudal launched Field Notes, the analog notebook company is crushing it in the digital age.
fastcompany.com
This is absolutely deranged behavior by the White House official Twitter account.
Could not agree more with @gruber.foo here. Switch to @kagi.com. The quality gap between it and Google is widening over time. The very last monthly subscription I would give up. daringfireball.net/2025/04/try_...
Another Periodic Suggestion to Try, Just Try, Switching to Kagi for Search
Paying for Kagi today feels a *lot* like paying for HBO back in the cable TV heyday.
daringfireball.net
I think I'm starting to understand why the Silo builders gave Judicial a bunch of armed enforcers.
I feel like there is a metaphor hiding in here somewhere.
Mike Drucker@mikedrucker.bsky.social · 2y agoI wrote this bit that is entirely unrelated to current things
not to get all lib about it but sometimes it really feels like having a black dude as president was a worse trauma than 9/11 for about half the country and they’re taking decades to process it and dragging us all down with them
Really enjoyed @dynomight.net's thoughts on the algorithms slowly ruining your life: "I suspect the main reason they haven’t been solved is that we haven’t tried very hard. We should do that." dynomight.net/ranking/
Algorithmic ranking is unfairly maligned
Only some kinds are bad
dynomight.net
I just asked deepseek r1 a logic question and its chain of thought was 7,065 words long. I started laughing out loud as I watched it second-guess itself over and over.
I just heard the kids from down the hall getting home from school and one of them said "last one to the door is a rotten egg" and for some reason I can't quite pin down, I'm so glad kids still say that
just realized that #aphantasia explains why I’m good at numbers but struggle with sudoku
Who is excited to learn Roman numerals together? I, for one
Remember when Jay-Z was like "H to the izzo, V to the izzay," and we were like "What does that mean?" and our high school friend was like "oh it's short for Jehovah, like as in he's so good at rap he's God," and we were just like "Neat."
Wow it is incredibly disorienting to hear the "gotta be fresh" sample from Workaholics in a Wendy's commercial. #cfb youtu.be/an5EIfGNT7I?...
Two people are begging you!
Jason Cordova@jasoncordova.bsky.social · 2y agoPlease read books. I’m begging you.
@jeffcannata.bsky.social When you recounted watching It's a Wonderful Life for the first time on today's podcast, I was reminded what an awesome segment that was, and how well it mirrored my experience watching it for the first time as an adult. So good. 📽️ 🎥 youtu.be/dEylBXrD9FU?...
The Totally Rad Show Episode 40: Shaningled (December 25, 2007)
YouTube video by Totally Rad Show Archive
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Surprising fact of the day: Sales of Nerds went from $40 million in 2018 to $800 million in 2023, a jump of 1,900%. Why? One word: clusters. www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/u... h/t @kottke.org
Inside the Colorful and Cultish World of Nerds Gummy Clusters
Sales of Nerds have greatly increased in recent years, the company says. The secret? A multicolored orb.
nytimes.com
It’s not that we are any better, it’s that the life of a non-reader is unquestionably worse.
Agreed with this. I was pretty active on the other site once upon a time. Excited about this whole #EduSky thing.
Henry J. Turner 👊🏾👊🏽👊🏼@henryturner.bsky.social · 2y agoSeeing more educators on BlueSky feels like the innocent days of the bird. Let’s make the community even stronger and welcoming! #edusky
What I want from a social app is to absolutely never post, but then once a year, have an interesting thought and have hundreds of people tell me I'm smart.
This is true, but also this is the definition of programming.
Jason Gorman@jasongorman.bsky.social · 2y agoIn the future, we won't need programmers; just people who can describe to a computer precisely what they want it to do.
"We want AI agents that can discover like we can, not which contain what we have discovered. Building in our discoveries only makes it harder to see how the discovering process can be done." I am one of today's 10,000 for this #ai gem 👇 www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/Bit...
The Bitter Lesson
incompleteideas.net
I've solved it: ten thirty-day long months, plus one sprawling 65/66-day epic called "the holidays".
