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Current Second Brain Setup - Obsidian as the IDE
My current second-brain setup uses Obsidian plus Codex. I have been using Obsidian for years as my personal wiki, or “second brain,” as everybody seems to ca...
East India Company Trade or Seizure, and a Swarovski Nose
War elephants. Dragoons. A king with a rotten nose replaced by a diamond prosthetic. Another king blinded with needles by an opponent, then somehow outliving...
Italian Cyberpunk Albums, Somehow
Italian culture shock, in the positive sense. There are some really good Italian cyberpunk rap/hip-hop/alternative albums. A cyberpunk renaissance. Three of...
Nostalgia Town
There are probably hundreds of dead malls across the United States. At the same time, nostalgia has become a serious market force. So the obvious question ...
Snail Therapy Salons, When the Universe Speaks to You
A friend shared a new discovery she made on tiktok, pet snails. I’ve never heard of such a thing. Just about an hour later browsing twitter I came across a t...