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• MastodonI’ll be at Axe-Con 2027 What? Axe-con '27: The world’s largest digital accessibility event. Where? At your computer. When? February 23-27, 2027…...

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• How to Tackle a Nagging Task: Power Hour!

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• @anildash has written a few pieces about “cancer” capital recently, and his most recent, “Cancer Capital: It Sucks For Founders, Too!” gets specific about malfeasance: https://www.anildash.com/2026/09/09/cancer-capital-founders/ Also: Hey Anil, could you relax the kerning on that big-outline title font? It’s so tight it looks like it’s going to explode and shred my face. #venturecapital

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• Footnotes to 2.5 years

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• Good piece on the downside of meditation. "The point of meditation was never merely to relax or just 'clear your mind' but to wholly rearrange one’s relationship to one’s thoughts. This might make sense for a Buddhist monk pursuing the great unbinding, but not for a random Brooklynite who just wants to be more productive at work."

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• ActivityBot is the recipient of an NLnet grant!

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• On European hypocrisy and warmongering

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• Utopia is a particular restaurant in Brooklyn

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• I feel scammed by @Namecheap. I bought a "handshake domain" (.pix TLD) in February for $50. I have been using Namecheap for several years now, and was not aware that this type of domain was even a thing. 1/

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• Delighted to see the Covid Inquiry used one of our Winton Centre graphics in their vaccine report (p 215). But they chose the 'medium' exposure (February), rather than the more relevant 'low' exposure (March). I think this is misleading.

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• 2026 has been the most pivotal year in my career… and it's only March

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• Greening Up

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• Hatchet Man

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• Since nobody else is talking about AI these days, check out my conversation w/ @azimshariff, sponsored by the International Telecommunications Society & the Munk School. It’ll be fun! (Azim and I disagree about a few things.) February 19, 9:30–10:30 AM EST

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• The Merdas Touch

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• The Harding Prize for Trustworthy Communication is now open for entries until 15th February. We are looking for examples that inform people engagingly, without trying to persuade them what to think or do. Each Harding Prize is worth £3,141.59...

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• The Trial: How I lost $1 million dollars and 7 years in a lawsuit over Brain Flakes

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• Twitter/X Restored

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• Not really surprised. I migrated my blog from Gatsby to Astro last February. No regrets, it just works like a charm ✨ If you're looking for something to build your blog or any other content-driven website, I highly recommend it!
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• nyc folks: until october 13, the luddite club (group of very cool kids with flip phones etc) is hosting a scavenger hunt in brooklyn. how do I know this? I just did an interview for a documentary about them 🫡 more info in my latest newsletter:

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