Links for July 2026
At some point I’m going to need to make a call on whether my monthly link letters becomes all AI news, or no AI news.
Gold Takes
Panning the internet waters for good links and good takes.
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Lightning Jazz
Playing All Night 'Til the Ideas Run Out
Links for June 2026
Time-traveling AI Influencer: A YouTuber uses AI to recreate accurate historical backdrops for a travel vlog.
Links for May 2026
risk reports and third wave philanthropy this month
Paraxanthine: a trip report
I like coffee.
Links for April 2026
The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life. A profile of my new favorite drug, paraxanthine, a metabolite of caffeine that has a shorter half life.
Canonical Hours
Time feels like an immutable fact of nature, but most of how we experience it is as a shared cultural hallucination.
Don't Pause AI Into a Black Site
“Secrecy is for losers.
Links for March 2026
1: I know that I’m at the right level of feeling the AGI when my first thought after the US attacked Iran was “maybe this is just a distraction from the Department of War’s actions against Anthropic”.
The Sleep of the Righteous
“The eyes of the LORD are everywhere, keeping watch on the wicked and the good.” Proverbs 15:3
Links for February 2026
The Century of the Maxxer: Bubbling up from background internet zeitgeist, the phenomenon of ‘looksmaxxing’ - a community of very online people focused on maximizing physical aesthetics - has broken into mainstream discourse.
The Importance of Physical Touch
for proving you're human and not machine
Corporate Character
[Transcript: Acme Industrial — Online Support & Procurement Portal | 2030-03-15]
Links for January 2026
The Masculine Mystique: In one of those moments where an iceberg of internet drama from another community floats past, I recently learned about the monster f***** subculture, and the controversy over what counts as being a real monster lover.
2025 Year in Review
For many years, every December, during the lost week between Christmas and New Years, I would organize a holiday ritual of my own creation called the scapegoat festival.
Backchaining from Big Goals is Aversive
content warning: confronting the fact that it’s hard to have it all because time only moves one way.
A Knowledge Commons for the 21st Century
Truth-seeking infrastructure at scale
No Real Nattys
There was some moment that passed by, largely unnoticed, where widespread use of drugs for cosmetic and performance reasons became mainstream in the US.
Links for December 2025
searching for the soul and monitoring the situation this month
Thirty Reflections from Thirty Days of Writing
This is the longest period of time that I’ve been in “deep work”.