In Romania for a bit 👀

Pretty much every worthwhile endeavor not only involves tedium, but is in fact *mostly* made of tedium. To get anywhere, have to be comfortable with that, and stay excited about your goal while working through the tedium.

🔥 “Generative A.I. appeals to people who think they can express themselves in a medium without actually working in that medium.” visitlink.me/-UQFZr

Who needs books when you have social media drip?

I try to look information up for myself before asking others.

Starting the week thanking the lucky stars that the house didn’t get flooded. Many other parts of Europe not so lucky, with conditions far worse than the 97 floods that put several cities under water

Me, thinking I can just call the clinic and schedule myself in for a Tdap vaccine. Romania: haha, you have to buy the vaccine yourself and bring it to us to administer it, we don’t keep it in stock Good thing at least they didn’t send YouTube tutorials for self-administration

I don’t know what *schools* people go to, but it was in mine…pre 2007…in Romania. So was word processing. Now it’s just considered part of core tech competences or whatever fancy new name they gave it.

Fascinating work deserving more views

When the technology is almost too good: Lidar has now surveyed more surface area in a decade than archaeologists managed in a century and has created a nice problem to have: they discovered more Maya cities than they can ever hope to study bbc.com/news/articles/…

My daily dose of awe ♥️

The fact that you can community note adverts is objectively very very funny

Stop asking Eastern Europeans how we are. You don't want to know and we don't want to say.

Ah yes, the “if the metrics went up, then let’s just keep replacing more and more, because if the user doesn’t notice, then it’s fine” school of product management. A classic of the genre harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

POV it’s December 25th, 1999 and you’re about to have the best Christmas morning of your entire life

What the baby did not know when it started sleeping 1h stretches at a time is that I, too, can fall asleep anywhere, in any way, for as long as needed. Thought you could defeat me? Not so fast, little one.

Bitter dissatisfaction with governments and functioning of democracy across the West - but belief in the principles of democracy are still strong ipsos.com/sites/default/…

But did they actually read it

Never thought I'd be so moved by a tribute to David Lynch from Poland's biggest train manufacturer, accompanied with images that show him sincerely loving the experience of learning about Polish trains.

Coming from baby’s mandatory vaccines visit, including the one against diphtheria, this is a timely reminder