Link Roundup

Regarding this present moment, Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg offers a prayer. In part:

“Notice all the layers of emotion you might be having about this–

the terror, rage, despair, helplessness, anguish, hope, heartbreak, and/or something else.

Just notice?

The great lie that we're separate from each other – that hate is logical, that stealing human beings or hurling bullets makes sense – is related to the lie that we're separate from the Earth and all things.

However you do it, find a way to lift something up from your heart today.”

— “how to face the horrors of now” by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

Fun

• Need some encouragement to blog? Ava’s got some GIFs for you.
• Eric Mill posted 10 games he loved in 2025. This massive Sudoku Metroidvania jumped out at me. I’ve started on it and expect it to be a loooong one.
• Ekul.me is a newer member of the IndieWeb community and has a lot of fun things on his site: a retro computer terminal aesthetic, icons showing other visitors’ mouse movements on the page, tracking Monster Energy intake, and a map that IndieWeb people can add themselves to.

Music

• New earworm: “Divorce Horse Court” by Queen Frog

Tech

• Cory Doctorow wrote this great bit. No notes:

  I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows.

  — Sorry, eh by Cory Doctorow

Health

• duringcovid.com: I was feeling some frustration with people’s use of “during covid” and thought about setting up a single-serving website. I was pleased to find someone else already did.
• Loved Ava’s post “yes, i still wear a mask.” Don’t be mean to people who are wearing masks!