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Mostly Bits Sep 5, 2024

Tony gets the blues. Kyle wants to hear you scream.

This week's Mostly Bits Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/mostlybits/archive/mostly-bits-newsletter-issue-118/

Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #118

Tony's Pick ismy.blue is a fun little single purpose website to test your color perception and categorization. I landed at a boring median 174. You? Probably...

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Mostly Bits Aug 15, 2024

Tony likes his pictures to stay still, while Kyle likes his to move.

This week's Mostly Bits Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/mostlybits/archive/mostly-bits-newsletter-issue-116/

Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #116

Tony's Pick I got excited about generative art right before it was entirely subsumed by the crypto world via the NFT craze (that excitement is why...

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Mostly Bits Jul 26, 2024

Tony calls attention to his dark money political contributions for plausible deniability. Kyle is sad that a tiny Nintendo Wii is not called a Wii Wii, but he plans to play with it anyway.

This week's Mostly Bits Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/mostlybits/archive/mostly-bits-newsletter-issue-113/

Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #113

Tony's Pick Molly White (creator of Web3 is Going Great) recently launched Follow The Crypto to keep track of crypto PAC spending on this year’s US...

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Mostly Bits Jul 18, 2024

EVs go brrrr. WALL·E has lotsa fonts.

This week's Mostly Bits Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/mostlybits/archive/mostly-bits-newsletter-issue-112/

Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #112

Tony's Pick Did you know that those sounds made by moving EVs and hybrids are entirely composed and come out speakers? None of it results from the activity...

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Mostly Bits Jul 11, 2024

Tony hits the liquid slopes. Kyle explores more deviant musical tastes.

This week's Mostly Bits Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/mostlybits/archive/mostly-bits-newsletter-issue-111/

Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #111

Tony's Pick Tony modeling peak male lake fashion Kyle's Pick This week I stumbled on the Lumatone keyboard, a microtonal keyboard with hexagonal keys....

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Mostly Bits Jun 19, 2024

Optimism about climate change and pessimism about ZIRP-era startups in this week's Mostly Bits Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/mostlybits/archive/mostly-bits-newsletter-issue-108/

Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #108

Tony's Pick I’ve been digging the Volts podcast for the last few weeks. It follows a technical-deep-dive-interview format, focused on “leaving fossil fuels...

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Mostly Bits Jun 12, 2024

Unreasonable amounts of things, from bouncing balls to Supreme Court gifts.

This week's Mostly Bits Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/mostlybits/archive/mostly-bits-newsletter-issue-107/

Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #107

Tony's Pick Many of you probably signed up for this newsletter because we here at Mostly Bits tend to make games. It turns out that most of my picks aren’t...

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Mostly Bits Jun 6, 2024

We exercise *our* freedom of the press by publishing some bullshit in this week's Mostly Bits Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/mostlybits/archive/mostly-bits-newsletter-issue-106/

Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #106

Tony's Pick A team at Ghost is building ActivityPub support, and they are doing incredible technical communication about the project. I don’t often quote...

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Mostly Bits May 30, 2024

Mostly Nerds talking about Generative AI and airline crashes in this week's Mostly Bits Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/mostlybits/archive/mostly-bits-newsletter-issue-105/

Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #105

Tony's Pick This Computerphile video interprets a new paper to make the case that modern generative AI has a ceiling and we might be close or already there....

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Mostly Bits May 17, 2024

We wanted flying cars, but all we got was 10-minute FoodTube videos — until this week's Mostly Bits Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/mostlybits/archive/mostly-bits-newsletter-issue-103/

Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #103

Tony's Pick This ATK video is, in some ways, peak foodtube for me. It’s a simple and easy thing that will improve some meals, provides a plausible and...

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