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I just noticed that bsky.app puts a large amount of a postโ€™s text in the page title. Blast from the past! This makes me nostalgic for days past when page titles were useful.

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goog meet continues to be teh worst

Who called it ChatGPT when Grand Theft Autocorrect was right there?

The new Orbea Muga looks super cool โ€”ย itโ€™s a full-suspension mid-drive e-bike available with fenders and a belt drive. This is exactly the kind of configuration Iโ€™m considering for my next ebike. So far not many manufacturers have offered something like this, and theyโ€™ve been super pricey. So itโ€™s good to see this setup becoming more prevalent.

www.ebike24.com/blog/ebike-orb

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Caffeine & Carburetors, 22 June 2025, New Canaan, Connecticut, USA

Iโ€™m thoroughly enjoying this indie video series: Do We Eat Him?

Todayโ€™s episode (5) really cracked me up. Which I needed after a tough week. But start with episode 1!

youtube.com/@doweeathim

If you use a laptop regularly โ€”ย and especially if like me youโ€™re tall and have a long torso โ€” then I canโ€™t recommend the Nexstand K2 laptop stand enough.

Itโ€™s spared my back many times over. Iโ€™ve been using mine for years. Itโ€™s compact, durable, lightweight, and easy to use. I use it with a 16" laptop that weighs ~2 kg.

www.nexstand.com

(I stole the photos from their website because Iโ€™m lazy, but I really do have one that Iโ€™m using right now and have been for years.)

(I donโ€™t recommend the K7 model. Iโ€™ve tried it and itโ€™s inferior.)

(You can find the K2 brand new on eBay pretty easily.)

(In fact I just bought a couple via eBay, just to have a few of them โ€œin stockโ€ ร  la @siracusa )

Chester, New York (outside Valkyrie Coffee Roasters)

Iโ€™ve been pondering a replacement for my 2015 Nissan Leaf (and the Model 3 I sold a month ago) and lately Iโ€™ve started leaning towards a 2022 Polestar 2 with the performance pack. Iโ€™m gonna try to find one to test drive soon.

For example: carsandbids.com/auctions/KD1jg

(Context: weโ€™re trying out Claude Code at work)

I think itโ€™s extremely problematic that these products are designed to stimulate anthropomorphism. Iโ€™d greatly prefer them to be more authentic, i.e. more machine-like.