Notes and links

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The scourge of Arial

https://www.marksimonson.com/notebook/view/the-scourge-of-arial

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Meathead reverie

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Living near humans, Italian bears evolved to be less aggressive

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/italian-bears-aggression-evolution

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In New York City, congestion pricing leads to marked drop in pollution

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/new-york-congestion-pricing-pollution

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2025 gift guide

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Raymond Biesinger isn’t too worried about slop machines taking his job

https://web.archive.org/web/20251201204707/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-artificial-intelligence-creatives-livelihoods-economy/

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How IT managers fail software projects

https://spectrum.ieee.org/it-management-software-failures

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Airlines will shut down program that sold your flight records to government

https://www.404media.co/airlines-will-shut-down-program-that-sold-your-flights-records-to-government/

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Top EU court mandates same-sex marriage recognition across borders

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-court-same-sex-marriage-within-eu-must-be-recognized-other-member-states/

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9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off, by Raymond Biesinger

https://bookshop.org/p/books/9-times-my-work-has-been-ripped-off-raymond-biesinger/54d231c8abb705c5

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How to disable Google’s slop machine on all the things

https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-disable-gemini-on-android

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How to build URLs with text fragments

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/URI/Reference/Fragment/Text_fragments

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How to turn Liquid Glass into a solid interface

https://tidbits.com/2025/10/09/how-to-turn-liquid-glass-into-a-solid-interface/

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iOS 26.1 is around the corner, and I have notes

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/27/ios-26-1-release-date/

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Sausalito has streets that were never built and exist theoretically only underwater

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sausalito%2C_California&oldid=1317067516

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San Francisco’s billboards aren’t for you

https://bayareacurrent.com/the-billboards-arent-for-you/

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San Francisco wants to destroy a 96-year-old’s defining artwork

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/arts/design/vaillancourt-fountain-san-francisco.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tE8.5av2.VBsHTtIrnl9-&smid=url-share

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Mike Monteiro on how to make coffee

https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-make-coffee/

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Types of synesthesia in alphabetical order

https://www.thesynesthesiatree.com/2021/02/types-of-synaesthesia-in-alphabetical.html

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How every business morphs into a bank

https://www.levernews.com/bankification-nation/

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Liquid Glass is cracked

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/liquid-glass/

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Italians and the “smart working” trap

https://franzvitulli.com/smart-working/

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The New York Times reviews Manhattan Murder Mystery

https://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/18/movies/review-film-manhattan-murder-mystery-allen-keaton-together-again-dizzy-ever.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tE8.JHyc.awnSIg4ZCkGv&smid=url-share

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In the long shadow of Helvetica

https://klim.co.nz/blog/die-grotesk-design-information/

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