Proofing Baskets for my artisan baking obsession from Flourside
Date Archives → December 2019
100 Memes that Defined the Decade
Buzzfeed has a list of The 100 Memes that Defined the 2010s. The list provides insight into the sometimes inscrutable language of internet culture while doubling as a walk down memory lane.
The Slow Knife
“We’ve almost forgotten that links are powerful, and that restraining links through artificial scarcity is an absurdly coercive behavior.”
Continue readingYou should start a blog
Jay Springett talks about blogging, and why you should leave the algorithmic-platform shit show and move to the Isles of Blogging. This glorious sermon resonates strongly with my current thinking about how the digital world has devolved over the last decade. Here’s a New York Times take on the topic. Its a fucked up timeline. The early part of the decade points toward a bright future full of promise where all our problems are solved by scrappy young entrepreneurs and glittering new technologies. By the end, well, I don’t have to tell you how it ends.
You should start a blog. Seriously. I promise I’ll read it.
Monday morning bread
Blue cheese, walnuts, golden raisin, and currant bread for the holidays. These loaves are 85% new King Arthur Organic bread flour, 5% organic whole spelt, and 10% home milled, hard white winter wheat berries. They smell like we all live in a better world.
A Dog Named Beau
Jimmy Stewart reads “I’ll Always Love a Dog Named Beau on the Tonight Show in 1981. I watched it live, and I still can’t even describe this segment without welling up. It’s beautiful.
These Savage Shores
These Savage Shores is a fantastic graphic novel. Its a beautifully written, gorgeously drawn, masterfully told, gothic tale of the British East India Company and the Mysorean invasion of the Malabar coast.
Stay strong, tumblr
Posts like this are why I still love tumblr so much. It’s got everything: A joke that poses a legitimate question about pop culture, a meme that would be cringe-inducing on a Facebook timeline but totally works here, and a thoughtful, useful answer by someone with a vaguely pornographic sounding user name. This is a lot of bang for the buck.
AI Dungeon 2
I am totally going to try this AI text adventure.
Imagine an infinitely generated world that you could explore endlessly, continually finding entirely new content and adventures. What if you could also choose any action you can think of instead of being limited by the imagination of the developers who created the game?
Welcome to AI Dungeon 2
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NYT’s Best Baking Cookbooks of 2019! I am a serious baking nerd so this is basicallly catnip for me.