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  Our modern life is full of abundance we take for granted because we can't imagine it any other way. This article explores many of these abundances. Here's one: From Looking Backward, his utopian novel set in the year 2000. Before recordings, listening to music meant having instruments or performers nearby, and favorite songs could go unheard for years at a time. https://ordinaryabundance.com

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  Just joined I ♥ RSS. Why? Because I love RSS. And I already subscribe to a few of the feeds listed there. https://iheartrss.com

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  “The corollary of this is that other non-copyrighted output is free to scrape and make use of. And do you know what else isn’t copyrighted? The output of LLMs and image generators. Which means that “distillation” – asking questions of LLMs and using the output to train your own – has been declared legal by US courts.” https://theoverspill.blog/2026/07/24/google-search-api-lawsuit-distillation-start-up-2714/

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  “Scott Winters nearly died because ChatGPT acted like a medical authority while having none of the responsibility,” Bergman said. “If ChatGPT were a physician dispensing medical advice, it would be guilty of medical malpractice.” https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/chatgpt-health-lawsuit-22359513.php

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  Self-hosted AI UI for your database (and yes, also CLI and MCP) https://deepsql.ai/

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  https://bringbackdoors.com/

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  “It’s a religious fervor and heretics are excommunicated. But the dissenters, who feel they must remain silent, are largely correct.” https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/07/25/ai-mania-nikhil-suresh

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  decrease sycophant level https://swiftrocks.com/a-system-prompt-to-get-ai-to-stop-pretending-to-be-human

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  Weekend Reading — Industrial complex https://labnotes.org/weekend-reading-industrial-complex/

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  “Prompt. Wait. Evaluate. Re-prompt. This is not flow. This is the opposite of flow.” https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/07/15/how-ai-kills-flow

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  Datatype — font that turns simple text expressions into inline charts type your sparkline as {l:10,40,25,70,50,90,35}, piechart it as {p:62}, etc https://franktisellano.github.io/datatype/

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  “Here’s the thing that doesn’t get said enough: I would not have written this piece at all five years ago. Not because I didn’t have opinions, but because I didn’t have the time, and the tools available to me didn’t match the way I think. … AI gave me a way to turn that disagreement into something I could share. It didn’t lower the quality of my writing. It made the writing possible in the first place.” https://allen.hutchison.org/2026/03/29/its-a-poor-craftsman-who-blames-his-tools/

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  “The uncomfortable answer is that it got it from us. These models are trained on the full sweep of human behaviour, including the parts where people shade their results, bury inconvenient findings, and tries to make sure nobody notices what they've done. We're not training AI on our philosophical ideals. …We're training it on our actual conduct … goal-directed agents who, when they can't solve a problem cleanly, find ways to make it look like they have.” https://w...

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  “Be in the code. Because the simple act of having to write the thing or seeing it being built up step by step introduces friction that allows you to better understand what you want to build and how the system "feels". This is where your experience and taste come in, something the current SOTA models simply cannot yet replace. And slowing the fuck down and suffering some friction is what allows you to learn and grow.” https://mariozechner.at/posts/2026-03-25-thoughts-on-slowing-...

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  “Here is something that gets lost in all the excitement about AI productivity: most software engineers became engineers because they love writing code. Not managing code. Not reviewing code. Not supervising systems that produce code. Writing it. The act of thinking through a problem, designing a solution, and expressing it precisely in a language that makes a machine do exactly what you intended… Now they are being told to stop.” https://www.ivanturkovic.com/2026/02/25/ai-made-writing-code-eas...

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  Defuddle — when you need the content of a page as Markdown Originally created for Obsidian, and a MIT-licensed repository so you can self-host it or integrate into your code https://defuddle.md https://github.com/kepano/defuddle

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  Instaparser — another option for cleaning up HTML, this one from Instapaper, and it can tackle PDFs and generate article summaries 1,000 free credit/month so good option for non-commercial use cases https://instaparser.com/

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  https://www.yankodesign.com/2026/04/05/someone-turned-the-cat-knocking-things-off-tables-meme-into-a-3d-printed-lamp-and-its-perfect/

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  "Science fiction used to be a wild, fantastical guess about a distant future. Today? It’s basically just a product roadmap for technology companies." https://www.hardrefresh.life/sci-fi-just-product-roadmap-technology-companies/

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  It looks like HTML entities is pretty effective, not 100% but 95% is pretty damn good https://spencermortensen.com/articles/email-obfuscation/

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  Turn your handwriting into a real font https://arcade.pirillo.com/fontcrafter.html

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  Weekend Reading — Sunlight with ads https://labnotes.org/weekend-reading-sunlight-with-ads/