Alex Witkowski

Ziaire and Noah are living, breathing embodiments of the “Points have to come from somewhere” law.

While poking around stats last week I learned the reasonable but startling fact that behind MPJ, Noah is our second leading scorer 🙃

Not inspired by a Ziaire 15-piece huh??

I used it as an opportunity to tell her how UPS was two days late delivering a package to me so it was scheduled to arrive the day I left for vacation and I had to pay for them to hold the package—a service USPS provides for free.

I was on the phone with my extremely conservative mother this weekend when she was complaining about how horrible the postal service has been. I said, “Well, sure. They refuse to fund it.” And her response (unsurprisingly) was, “Why don’t they just privatize it?”

Saw a thoughtful thread about AI, don't want to QT or argue. But. The biggest rage factor with LLMs is the people who, because genAI is transformative for coding, think it's transformative for everything else, because they devalue every other form of work and labor and knowledge.

We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell. Here's how. | Video Game History Foundation We've stopped a persistent copyright troll who was trying to impede our work. Here's everything we learned—and how we beat them.

Fascinating deep dive into the intricacies of copyright trolling, after some guy abused DMCA takedowns to try and obliterate all mentions of this random niche game you've never heard of from the internet.

An under discussed crisis is how many animal instagram accounts are now 90% ads

lol Ben Saraf has 4 turnovers in 9 minutes

A glimpse of Iran, through the eyes of its artists and journalists Understanding one of the world's oldest civilizations can't be achieved through a single film or book. But recent works of literature, journalism, music and film by Iranians are a powerful starting point.

Understanding one of the world's oldest civilizations can't be achieved through a single film or book. But recent works of literature, journalism, music and film by Iranians are a powerful starting point. n.pr/4upn1Px

I don't have any history podcasts on my radar and this sounds great!

Also strong emphasis on "educational" because if I'm going to listen to anything for entertainment it will always be music. I know myself well enough to know that I will never listen to a podcast for entertainment purposes.

Does anyone have any good educational podcast recs?

My only hard boundary is "two hours of friends talking about whatever they feel like" which is my personal nightmare format for like a hundred different reasons.

America’s teachers are working two jobs and barely getting by | CNN Business Ashley loves her day job teaching math, reading and science to fifth-graders in Washington. But like many other teachers, Ashley relies on a side hustle or two to get by.

The overwhelming majority of American public school teachers (71%) hold at least one side job, according to a new survey released today.

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I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Two things that I’ve really struggled with recently:

1. The internet now is social media. Social media used to be a thing on the internet. Now it’s home-base. We only experience things outside of it when it begins there.

2. So much of social media content now is responding to invented arguments.

One thing that I find actually nauseating is how much of the next presidential debate will involve talking about these countries without engaging them, as if they exist exclusively as pawns for our own ambitions that we choose to leverage or not. As if they don’t have their own innocent citizens.

Carries us to just 5 games out of the play in and we end up with the 11th pick

They caught one look at Grant Nelson and thought "There's no *way* they're finishing in the Bottom 4 now"

Okay if Nelson is indeed Him (i.e. a potential rotation player) I might survive the rest of this season

If you’re into/open to something that’s a little heavier lift, @roonlabs.bsky.social does this and it’s remarkable. I didn’t realize what I was missing until I had this feature.

Welcome to hell.

Charmed and fascinated by Chess Wars, a DOS game released in 1996 that features live-action cutscenes of medieval melee when playing pieces engage one another in battle.

[doing backing vocals for Sam Cooke] Science Book

A can of Progresso chicken soup that reads "Soup Drops" sits on a blue and white grid counter, filled with little tan hard candies. Next to the can is a white bowl of chicken soup, and a metal spoon

Progresso Soup Drops (2025-2025): Savory hard candy drops, made to taste like canned chicken noodle soup, complete with notes of salty broth, vegetables, chicken, egg noodles, and parsley. For $2.49, you'd get a soup can-shaped package with 20 drops, bundled along with a can of real soup

My artwork for vintage and The talented Mr Ripley made it onto the shortlist for the 2025 Booooooom Illustration Awards

My noir themed poster for Screenings Funchal made it onto the longlist of the 2025 Booooooom Illustration Awards.

I made the shortlist (1/20) and the longlist (1/200) of the 2025 Booooooom Illustration awards. I wasn't one of the 5 winners, but looking at how incredible the other entries are, I feel very honored still. Also the judges this year were unbelievable. Take a look: www.booooooom.com/2025-illustr...

Anyway, this will only ever be as true as we make it.

Keep going to shows. Keep seeing movies in theaters. Keep buying art. Keep hanging out with friends. Keep helping people. And don’t trust anyone who makes it harder to do any of those things.

It’s cold comfort to say the least whenever I hear any version of “the human touch is more important than ever in the age of AI.”

You’d think the same would have been true with the advent of social media and here we are, trying to escape from a hole by digging ourselves deeper into it.

Airports that don't spoil my trip

Just listened to a podcast positioned this way. Often when I encounter a resource addressed to "cynics" it assumes they're people who have no faith in humans.

I have lots of faith in average humans! It's the 5% of the population with outsized power that makes existence feel unsustainable!

Anyone have good resources on hope for cynics?