Links 2025-01

31 Jan 2025

A list of links to things I liked & shared with friends this month:

• 2025: may I have an uneventful year

  • A colleague said to me, "May your year be full of very precedented situations."

• DR

  • I wonder how Kwame Anthony Appiah¹ would answer this question.

• Michael Julius

  • I wandered here and read Hospitals, then every other page.

• Don't call it a Substack + “Link In Bio” is a slow knife

  • On the importance of human links. Just remembering how way back when, Google was superior to its contemporaries because it considered how many people linked to a website. It appears these days, people are discouraged from linking; bots + algorithms link instead. (I revolt! I shall link and link and link.)

• Wikipedia is only a non-profit because of a labour strike

  • Oof. I cannot imagine (and despise the idea of) an ad-driven Wikipedia.

• "fuck them and their stupid red ties"

  • A little levity.

• The pressure to stay genteel

  • There's a community I once described as, "People can be awful and very civil about their awfulness." I knew my description was lacking, but I did not have the words. This article describes it well.

• Static cling

  • What a wonderful, illustrative photo of static cling.

• Human genome stored on ‘everlasting’ memory crystal

  • They had me at "5D memory crystal," but I was most intrigued with the Memory of Mankind time capsule.