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2026-06-02T16:43:07.000Z

Beat and Groove – The Homebound Symphony

We need to get the grove back, indeed!

Further evidence: Steely Dan on Bernard Purdie and the Purdie Shuffle

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2026-06-02T16:25:38.000Z

Daisy Edgar-Jones Starring in ‘Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow’

Shut up! Take my money and deliver this straight into my veins!

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2026-06-02T04:03:16.000Z

Been having a lot of random conversations about aging well lately. A reoccurring theme: Don’t stop.

Don’t stop moving.

Don’t stop thinking.

Don’t stop engaging with the world.

Don’t stop smiling and being happy and otherwise being positive.

The science backs this up.

M.E.D.S can help.

IndieWeb Book Club: June 2026 - Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Claire L. Evans - Benji Encalada Mora

2026-06-01T21:49:54.000Z

I am hosting this month's IndieWeb Book Club and I have chosen Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Claire L. Evans.

It's been a few years since I have read this book and I remember enjoying learning not only about the people involved but also some of their specific motivations behind their ideas, companies, and projects. I don't think this book is meant to be in any way a fully comprehensive on all the people involved which is why I'd also love to hear about any other people or stories that could work alongside this book as further reading material.

To participate in the IndieWeb Book Club, write about this book and post it on your site. You can then let me know about your post either through email, webmention, or any other way to contact me you prefer.

I will add all entries below as they come in.

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Generation Loss - Garrick van Buren

2026-06-01T21:27:11.000Z

Sometime around 1991, as a teenager living on a dirt road in rural Wisconsin with no ability to get to Minneapolis on a school night, I missed my all time favorite band, Too Much Joy, playing at First Ave¹. But thankfully the alt rock FM station broadcast it live. With relief and delight, I recorded onto cassette tape from my bedroom.

Despite the recording being awful – a live band, in a venue not set up for recording, broadcast on FM, then saved on a cassette tape and recorder I bought from K-Mart – I was cherished it and would blast the concert recording over the wind noise of a third-hand Ford Ranger. I’m sure to anyone in the passenger seat the entire thing was unintelligible distortions.

Last month, I found a case of a couple hundred CD-ROMs containing “backups” of my university work, early professional work, and so many other things. I put quotes around “backups” because after 20+ years the majority of the discs could not longer be read. Even the professionally produced ones.

I haven’t thought about deliberating making a backup of any kind in more than 15 years. I trust iCloud does what I pay it to do. So, I was surprised to find generation loss still exists, shifting to something more subtle and therefore more problematic.

I collected 50 odd topics on future For Starters posts from readers like you. I threw them into Claude and got back 8 overall categories with some paraphrasing of the questions I dismissed as normalization. So, I started reorganizing things, re-labeling them, and sending them back to Claude for a second opinion. I ended up with an uninspiring list of bland, corporate words without weight, categories without distinctions. At the moment, I just thought I was tired and moved on.

Looking through the original notes today, for the specific person asking a specific question, I was met with the richness, clarity, character, and nuance of all the original questions. All the earlier back and forth with an LLM just provided an increasingly worse response.

This blog post has been a review of The Backrooms. An anti-AI, sci-fi, thriller set in that stereotypical dream trope of finding another room in your apartment where you put everything you wanted to forget, as you’re chased by the darkest, worst remembered, version of yourself.

It may not have been First Ave. My memory is poor.

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2026-06-01T19:36:04.000Z

Rethinking famous college admissions | Seth’s Blog

Is it better to believe that you got into a famous college because of a mysterious, perhaps human, definitely flawed, and easily gamed system, or would we prefer a different sort of black box, one that puts data to work in a coordinated and prioritized way?

A proposal worth consideration. Not sure I agree with all of it but, having just been in the process, I know some changes are certainly needed.

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2026-06-01T19:33:04.000Z

Prioritise by pay-off | Hunter Gatherer 21C

As Merlin Mann once said, “Priorities are like arms; if you think you have more than a couple, you’re either lying or crazy.”

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2026-06-01T02:21:29.000Z

We watched Lucky Logan tonight. Moved at a different pace than your typical heist movie. A lot of fun twists towards the end. <img src="https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/890/2026/fb3dde3229.jpg" width="400" height="600" alt="">

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2026-05-31T17:44:44.000Z

Bethany writes thank you notes to Beatrix’s teachers at the end of each year. Here’s part of one of the replies she received…

Beatrix also gave me a gift. She told me a lot about her love and care of houseplants. One day, my husband sent me a plant arrangement as a gift, and I was watering it. Beatrix showed me how she puts water right where the plant grows. I remember that every time I water my houseplants: make sure the water goes to the source. I’m sure there’s a metaphor in there.

Make sure the water goes to the source.

Indeed.

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2026-05-31T17:27:15.000Z

Enjoying a little day trip starting with a coffee stop at <a href="https://www.getawaymotorcafe.com">Getaway Motor Cafe</a> in Carver. <img src="https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/890/2026/ae65f6bef7.jpg" width="600" height="600" alt=""><img src="https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/890/2026/eb8b6c5b8d.jpg" width="600" height="450" alt="">

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2026-05-31T13:57:21.000Z

Live your lesson.

Weekly Thing 350 — (pending) - Weekly Thing

2026-05-30T12:00:00.000Z

Note that this is issue 350, a milestone issue.

Calm water on Cannon Lake as the sun is rising for the day.

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Cannon Lake, MN

Journal #

Saturday, May 23 #

8:50 AM — A pattern I’ve adopted when I’m heavily engaged with Claude Code or Codex is to have an open text file where I’m keeping the “next prompts” that I’m considering. While the agent is working I’m continuing to refine these so we are ready to move to the next feature or task.

10:22 AM — First time at Marc Hue Patisserie. Won’t be my last.

Sunday, May 24 #

7:50 AM — Morning sauna time. 🔥

6:43 PM — These plants are invasive but their flowers sure are pretty.

6:44 PM — Memorial Day weekend Dairy Queen with the Lundeen’s. Mazie on her summer job in Boundary Waters.

6:45 PM — Sakatah Singing Hills State Trail with our niece and nephew.

6:46 PM — Look up.

Monday, May 25 #

6:18 PM — Tyler and I opened our first batch of Chaos Rising Pokémon packs and I pulled the chase card — Mega Greninja Gold!

Would you like to discuss the topics in the Weekly Thing further? Check out the Weekly Thing on Reddit. 👋

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2026-05-29T21:56:18.000Z

It’s officially pool party time when I crack open the first of these…

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2026-05-28T12:31:35.000Z

Unpaid labor | Seth’s Blog

The simple test: when you do it more, do things get better?

This is a simple test for almost everything, not just social media.

Happy Anniversary - Barry Hess

2026-05-27T18:10:43.000Z

It’s our 26th anniversary today. We had a nice lunch at Jesse's favorite restaurant. Very nice meal.

I've never had a banana split and have been trying to get Jesse to share one with me for a couple of years. So we walked to the ice cream shop and they had it on the menu.

We were too deep into it when we discovered that no one working had ever made a banana split before, so we got what you see in the picture complete with bruised banana, no whipped cream, and no cherry.

We went outside to eat at the sidewalk seating. Then construction workers started jack hammering the decorative rock the city installed just a couple years ago. We have no idea why.

Thankfully the wasps in the wasp nest that was at eye level about 18 inches from our faces didn't sting us. And the ice cream part of the banana split was good! 🤣

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2026-05-25T23:18:54.000Z

Tyler and I opened our first batch of Chaos Rising Pokémon packs and I pulled the chase card — Mega Greninja Gold! <img src="https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/890/2026/a0b63c1aef.jpg" width="600" height="450" alt=""><img src="https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/890/2026/48bd92c6c7.jpg" width="449" height="600" alt="">

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2026-05-25T03:27:15.000Z

Old tools are the best tools…

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2026-05-25T02:20:36.000Z

The old protect the young, then the young protect the old. This is the way.

— The Mandalorian and Grogu

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2026-05-24T23:46:23.000Z

Look up. <img src="https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/890/2026/a746b007f9.jpg" width="600" height="600" alt="">

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2026-05-24T23:45:33.000Z

Sakatah Singing Hills State Trail with our niece and nephew. <img src="https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/890/2026/1ed537ac2d.jpg" width="600" height="450" alt="">