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in this era of “affordability” what the public really wants is a $2,500 folding phone

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🔗 McSweeney’s: Why We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person

I was an Associate Slop Doula for Mondo Mayo, founded as a mayonnaise company, which now sells consumer packaged goods, software as a service, and surveillance technology, and is one of three large corporations remaining on Earth. At the time, I didn’t think a full, six-day-per-week, fourteen-hour-per-day, in-office schedule was necessary to discharge my duties clicking the GENERATE button, followed by the APPROVE button, thousands of times a day on SlurryHose. But experience has shown me that I was wrong. Here’s why RTO is essential.

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somehow Leica has managed to become even more redonkolous since I last dipped my toes in photo-gear-nerdom

🔗 DPReview: Leica’s new Summicron 66mm F2 is a tribute to a military lens M shooters have never been able to buy

There will only be 660 of them made, which still makes it far less rare than the original.

missed a trick not limiting to 666, now Peter Thiel will not buy one

Leica has announced the Summicron-M 66 F2, which it says is a “reinterpretation” of one of the rarest M-mount lenses ever made: the Elcan 66mm F2, which was specially designed for the US Navy’s use in “covert reconnaissance photography.”

just what we the world was missing: tacticool Leica

Leica says the aperture ring turns in the opposite direction from a typical M-lens – you twist it left to stop down, instead of right – and the distance scale is military-spec.

these alone are features that will spawn a thousand forum threads

anyway it’s a steal at $10,900 (I’d have put $10,660 but apparently that would be too “fun”)

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🔗 More Weight: A Salem Story by Ben Wickey

Long thoughtful review of a graphic novel about Salem in 1692 and the aftermath.

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Exploring the space of vintage lenses now available for adaption to the Nikon Z, and finding out that all the good ones are Nikkors anyway.

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here, have a cat pic

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🔗 Wikipedia: Wa State

Part of Burma close to China, used to be a hideout for KMT armies after the civil war.

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Dolly Parton, R.I.P. Her death penetrates even the nerd circles I travel in.

🔗 the Loomis obit

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Eric Loomis is so incredibly judgy about music, it’s always surprising to find out he appreciates something I like. In this case it’s Marshall Crenshaw (scroll down) https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/08/music-notes-247

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🔗 MJD: Seven books I keep close because I love them

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times heals all wounds, listening to Zevon’s Transverse City and it’s less a tortured vision of the near future and more a fun reminder of when Warren read too much cyberpunk

I went walking in the wasted city
Started thinking about entropy

as you do

some lines still pack a punch tho

And it’s worse when I try to remember
When I think about then and now
I’d rather see it on the news at eleven
Sit back, and watch it run straight down

(from “Run Straight Down”)

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Here’s a quick test of this particular implementation of Markdown.

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