Notes

就像个 bug

哈哈哈哈哈哈 https://chinamediaproject.org/2025/09/19/chinas-liberal-press-and-its-feminism-gap/

https://archive.ph/H4EMk

like comfort foods there are comfort songs that you keep returning to when you just need something to fill in

也是没想到翻开优衣库广告册能翻到 Craig Mod

reason to obey your mother’s order: was in the wild right before sunset when she texted today is 七月半 don’t go out after dark and be home before 9. i was like hahaha too late never mind. then i got semi-lost climbing up a stream and cut my thumb, which then failed the fingerprint match at the border check when i returned at 11

“look at the precipice with awe and rejoice in the proximity”

北风和太阳想知道自己做错了什么要在正文里被 Helvetica 两端对齐关闭 hyphen 排版成这鬼样

my recent litany against escalation: i might as well shut up

买东西两件五折四件四折 拿了三件营业员问要不要凑单但不想拿了 后面排队的 somehow 大发慈悲递过来一件说 拿了五件借你一件 我下辈子都想不出来这种玩法

三点五十醒了，刷完了 feed，写了会东西，把 gpt 聊到了 quota，游了泳骑了车，吃了两顿，高兴了一会也自闭了一会，现在开始想今天怎么还没过完，或者今天已经过完了

就是说 Geist Mono 这个斜体蛮可爱的

https://aeon.co/essays/the-sovereign-individual-and-the-paradox-of-the-digital-age

也不知道老中为什么这么执着于把谢谢合作翻译成 thank you for your cooperation 在谢谢合作的语境里谢谢的如果不是合作难道还能是不合作吗

Repost:

下了个轨迹没仔细看只扫到说最后会经过墓地我想经过就经过吧不忌讳这个结果最后发现是从占了一整面山坡的墓地中间穿过 我就像？一边默念对不起打扰了一边灰头土脸走下去最后发现到了八年前打工住的地方当时每天路过就是没有往上坡瞅一眼 我就像？？

gpt-5 may be a flop in terms of intelligence but it does have apparently fixed sycophancy; a dozen messages into the chat there were already a handful of responses that made me like okay that’s straightforward/inhospitable (which was a plus thou)

Batch Downloading and Transcribing Podcast Episodes hsu.cy/2025/08/poddl

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/my-heart-of-hearts

diff

as i’m counting the 4th (5th?) sleep pattern in 1.5 yr i’ve come to reconcile with that it’s the kind of thing that is more an emergence than a prescription; that it can neither fail me nor i it; and that as long as i wake up tmrw i will not thinking much about the swings, up or down (mutatis mutandis same for other issues)

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/08/your-face-tomorrow-michael-clune-ai-facial-recognition/

hi chatgpt help refill my bloody benefit-of-doubt dispenser with all-purpose flour

funny that since ~sophomore year there has always been a pair of swimming earbuds in my shopping cart that i’ve never checked out. at first i couldn’t afford one and the selection was narrow. now i can and there are plenty, but i’ve come to paying exactly for the mandatory void of input (and the resulting whim) in the pool and hesitate to trade it for 1h of podcasts (which i can’t easily skip forward underwater if one turns out to be boring) or music (which i can and do sing in my head anyway)

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1971/10/21/martin-heidegger-at-eighty/

Retrievals 出 S2 了 听一半脑壳疼系列+1 http://t.cn/A6kqsrJc

sometimes my unwillingness to chat works like, if i can identify the restaurant in a photo by cross-checking the color of the tablecloth against review sites why bother asking? ditto seeking social clues and schedules in read receipts and timestamps

https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/the-self-that-never-was

funny how our family quarrels have become increasingly polite and cautious and meta over the years as both sides have learned to de-escalate with qualifiers and hypotheses e.g. i was like, not to dismiss your point but statistically something something no i’m not talking nonsense see the pdf i’m sending you. and they were like uh sure to avoid making you defensive let’s imagine a scenario where an unrelated individual blah blah blah

timely https://harpers.org/archive/2025/07/shadow-of-a-doubt-ocd-andrew-kay/ https://yalereview.org/article/garth-greenwell-miranda-july

video et taceo

https://uk.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/11881_Chapter_5.pdf

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1540-6385.00129

https://psyche.co/stories-of-change/how-i-became-a-psychoanalyst-by-losing-my-keys

https://archive.is/JCJjY

试下来 kindle 和 play books 现在都不好拆 DRM 了，要自己留 epub 只能从 kobo 买了

my primary failure mode: spending hours piecing together 10 justifications for x, only to decide against x

见到过最说人话的一版 Symposium https://www.pauldrybooks.com/products/platos-symposium-and-phaedrus

中式效率有时候也是服

“Things in nature merely grow. There is no suicidal or angry rose, there is no depressed or rebellious lily. […] A garden is a placeholder. Flowers are placeholders.”

网上买了盒 aesop 到货看了一眼扔回去退了 什么都仿对了就是把 helvetica 用成了 arial 你们老中做假货真的总在字体上翻车

nothing went as planned even the unplanned didn’t go unplanned as planned

“material to the functioning of hk as an international financial centre”

눈_눈

https://archive.is/kKZLz

goat https://deadline.com/2025/05/read-severance-season-2-finale-script-dan-erickson-1236382894/