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authorHannah Isopod <me@bathynomus.xyz>2026-09-06 00:49:22 -0600
committerHannah Isopod <me@bathynomus.xyz>2026-09-06 00:49:22 -0600
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whoopsers! forgot to commit for some months!
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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ error_reporting(E_ALL);
$nostag = empty($stag);
?>
<?php include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/boilerplate.php'); ?>
- <title><?php if(!$nostag) { echo("#$stag | ");} ?> notes | isopod.cool v4</title>
+ <title><?php if(!$nostag) { echo("#$stag | ");} ?> notes | <?php echo($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);?></title>
<link href="/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all">
</head>
<body>
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ error_reporting(E_ALL);
<p class="h2caption">good writing + superfluous commentary</p>
<nav class="pagenav">
<ul>
- <li><a href="https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/notes-dot-jim-nielsen-dot-com/">what?</a></li>
<li><a href="notes.atom">atom feed</a></li>
<?php
$content = simplexml_load_file("notes.atom");
@@ -38,6 +37,9 @@ error_reporting(E_ALL);
</ul>
</nav>
+ <p>Rather than my own writing, this feed is articles that other people wrote that I shared here with commentary.</p>
+ <p>I'm not sure how I feel about the name, but given I'm pretty much stealing <a href="https://notes.jim-nielsen.com/">Jim Nielsen's idea</a> wholesale, I figured I may as well yoink his name for it too. It'll do, I suppose.</p>
+
<?php
if(!$nostag) {
echo "<p class='backlink'><a href='.'>All notes</a></p>";
diff --git a/notes/notes.atom b/notes/notes.atom
index 8927269..02211d2 100644
--- a/notes/notes.atom
+++ b/notes/notes.atom
@@ -1,26 +1,57 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
- <title>isopod.cool notes</title>
- <id>https://isopod.cool/notes/</id>
- <link rel="alternate" href="https://isopod.cool/notes/"></link>
- <updated>2026-02-19T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
+ <title>bugwo.men notes</title>
+ <id>https://bugwo.men/notes/</id>
+ <link rel="alternate" href="https://bugwo.men/notes/"></link>
+ <updated>2026-03-17T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
- <name>Hannah Isopod</name>
- <uri>https://isopod.cool/</uri>
+ <name>Ada Isopod</name>
+ <uri>https://bugwo.men/</uri>
</author>
<generator>ME</generator>
<category term="notes"/>
<category term="links"/>
<category term="tech"/>
<entry>
+ <title>FUTURE RUINS: detransition, baby, gregg araki, and nihilism</title>
+ <id>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFQOou-iegY</id>
+ <link rel="alternate" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFQOou-iegY" type="html" title="FUTURE RUINS: detransition, baby, gregg araki, and nihilism"></link>
+ <published>2026-05-10T00:00:00+00:00</published>
+ <updated>2026-05-10T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
+ <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
+ <category term="transgender"/>
+ <category term="society"/>
+ </entry>
+ <entry>
+ <title>THE RICH AND POWERFUL ARE DERANGED SURVIVALISTS</title>
+ <id>https://deerhoof.website/the-rich-and-powerful-are-deranged-survivalists/</id>
+ <link rel="alternate" href="https://deerhoof.website/the-rich-and-powerful-are-deranged-survivalists/" type="html" title="THE RICH AND POWERFUL ARE DERANGED SURVIVALISTS"></link>
+ <published>2026-04-27T00:00:00+00:00</published>
+ <updated>2026-04-27T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
+ <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;This analysis of the state of things makes a lot of sense to me. I desperately hope it's wrong.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
+ <category term="capitalism"/>
+ <category term="society"/>
+ </entry>
+ <entry>
+ <title>“This Is Not The Computer For You”</title>
+ <id>https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/</id>
+ <link rel="alternate" href="https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/" type="html" title="“This Is Not The Computer For You”"></link>
+ <published>2026-03-17T00:00:00+00:00</published>
+ <updated>2026-03-17T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
+ <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;It's easy to forget this relationship to computers once you escape it, even in spite of how formative it was for me.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I remember being this kid with my Haswell Celeron Chromebook, and being outraged that computers this underpowered were allowed to exist at all, what with how quickly I outgrew the capabilities of such machines.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It makes me feel like I'm betraying my past self and many other kids like her whenever I see some anemic little computing device and my reaction is "well, it's enough to check your email".&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm hopeful that with how high-end Apple's phone chips are and how tightly integrated their software is, they can make something at least usable here, but I guess we'll see.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
+ <category term="hardware"/>
+ <category term="news"/>
+ </entry>
+ <entry>
<title>Audiophiles Fail to Hear Difference in Signal Passed Through Copper Cable, Banana, and Tray of Mud</title>
<id>https://gizmodo.com/audiophiles-fail-to-hear-difference-in-signal-passed-through-copper-cable-banana-and-tray-of-mud-2000723435</id>
<link rel="alternate" href="https://gizmodo.com/audiophiles-fail-to-hear-difference-in-signal-passed-through-copper-cable-banana-and-tray-of-mud-2000723435" type="html" title="Audiophiles Fail to Hear Difference in Signal Passed Through Copper Cable, Banana, and Tray of Mud"></link>
<published>2026-02-19T00:00:00+00:00</published>
<updated>2026-02-19T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
- <summary>&lt;p&gt;I maintain that the banana gives a warmer and more pleasant sound, much like that of a vinyl record.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
+ <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;I maintain that the banana gives a warmer and more pleasant sound, much like that of a vinyl record.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
<category term="silly"/>
<category term="audio"/>
+ <category term="news"/>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fuck windows: dreaming of an honest computer</title>
@@ -28,7 +59,7 @@
<link rel="alternate" href="https://www.joewintergreen.com/fuck-windows-dreaming-of-an-honest-computer/" type="html" title="fuck windows: dreaming of an honest computer"></link>
<published>2026-02-14T00:00:00+00:00</published>
<updated>2026-02-14T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
- <summary>&lt;p&gt;This is probably the most sober assessment I've seen of why Linux is so desirable of late. This right here is the main factor that motivated me to adopt Linux as my daily driver OS 5 years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is Linux good? Debatable. Is it better than Windows? Depends. Is it actively hostile to you? Does it exist to harvest your data and juice the usage stats for Microsoft's LLM chatbot? Fuck no.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
+ <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;This is probably the most sober assessment I've seen of why Linux is so desirable of late. This right here is the main factor that motivated me to adopt Linux as my daily driver OS 5 years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is Linux good? Debatable. Is it better than Windows? Depends. Is it actively hostile to you? Does it exist to harvest your data and juice the usage stats for Microsoft's LLM chatbot? Fuck no.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
<category term="capitalism"/>
<category term="windows"/>
</entry>
@@ -38,7 +69,7 @@
<link rel="alternate" href="https://www.sheeeeeeeep.art/the-worship-of-engineering.html" type="html" title="WORSHIP OF THE ENGINEER"></link>
<published>2026-02-14T00:00:00+00:00</published>
<updated>2026-02-14T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
- <summary>&lt;p&gt;BECAUSE SOFTWARE SENT PEOPLE TO THE MOON.&lt;br&gt;BECAUSE SOFTWARE SENT PEOPLE TO THE MOON.&lt;br&gt;BECAUSE SOFTWARE SENT PEOPLE TO THE MOON.&lt;br&gt;BECAUSE SOFTWARE SENT PEOPLE TO THE MOON.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
+ <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;BECAUSE SOFTWARE SENT PEOPLE TO THE MOON.&lt;br&gt;BECAUSE SOFTWARE SENT PEOPLE TO THE MOON.&lt;br&gt;BECAUSE SOFTWARE SENT PEOPLE TO THE MOON.&lt;br&gt;BECAUSE SOFTWARE SENT PEOPLE TO THE MOON.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
<category term="ai"/>
<category term="society"/>
</entry>
@@ -48,7 +79,7 @@
<link rel="alternate" href="https://lenowo.org/viewtopic.php?t=5" type="html" title="Playing 'Minecraft' without Minecraft"></link>
<published>2025-10-06T00:00:00+00:00</published>
<updated>2025-10-06T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
- <summary>&lt;p&gt;Mojang should just open source Minecraft at this point lmao&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
+ <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Mojang should just open source Minecraft at this point lmao&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
<category term="gaming"/>
<category term="hacking"/>
</entry>
@@ -58,7 +89,7 @@
<link rel="alternate" href="https://voidfox.com/blog/payment_processor_fun_2025_making_your_own_msp/" type="html" title="Payment Processor Fun 2025 -- Making Your Own MSP"></link>
<published>2025-08-21T00:00:00+00:00</published>
<updated>2025-08-21T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
- <summary>&lt;p&gt;Very informative read regarding the incredibly obtuse inner workings of digital financial infrastructure, and why every online storefront is so helplessly beholden to these censorious intermediaries.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
+ <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Very informative read regarding the incredibly obtuse inner workings of digital financial infrastructure, and why every online storefront is so helplessly beholden to these censorious intermediaries.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
<category term="capitalism"/>
</entry>
<entry>
@@ -67,9 +98,10 @@
<link rel="alternate" href="https://archive.ph/7J6Uw" type="html" title="GitHub's Neutrality Is Over"></link>
<published>2025-08-11T00:00:00+00:00</published>
<updated>2025-08-11T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
- <summary>&lt;p&gt;Thoroughly unsurprising.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now would be a great time to move to &lt;a href=&quot;https://codeberg.org/&quot;&gt;Codeberg&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://sr.ht/&quot;&gt;Sourcehut&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://git.gay/&quot;&gt;git.gay&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://gitlab.com/&quot;&gt;GitLab&lt;/a&gt;, or do what I did and spin up your own instance of something like Forgejo. Unless you can't because of your job, then maybe see if you can convince them to do the same.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Honestly at this point I feel like the common thread is just &quot;divest from American tech vendors as much as you can&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
+ <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Thoroughly unsurprising.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now would be a great time to move to &lt;a href=&quot;https://codeberg.org/&quot;&gt;Codeberg&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://sr.ht/&quot;&gt;Sourcehut&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://git.gay/&quot;&gt;git.gay&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://gitlab.com/&quot;&gt;GitLab&lt;/a&gt;, or do what I did and spin up your own instance of something like Forgejo. Unless you can't because of your job, then maybe see if you can convince them to do the same.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Honestly at this point I feel like the common thread is just &quot;divest from American tech vendors as much as you can&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
<category term="capitalism"/>
<category term="ai"/>
+ <category term="news"/>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The rise of Whatever</title>
@@ -77,7 +109,7 @@
<link rel="alternate" href="https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/" type="html" title="The rise of Whatever"></link>
<published>2025-07-05T00:00:00+00:00</published>
<updated>2025-07-05T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
- <summary>&lt;p&gt;An excellent expression of everything insufferable about the pervasive push for "AI", as well as the rot at the core of large swathes of the modern internet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The irony of the term "Content" is that the actual &lt;em&gt;content&lt;/em&gt; of the Content is broadly irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
+ <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;An excellent expression of everything insufferable about the pervasive push for "AI", as well as the rot at the core of large swathes of the modern internet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The irony of the term "Content" is that the actual &lt;em&gt;content&lt;/em&gt; of the Content is broadly irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
<category term="capitalism"/>
<category term="ai"/>
</entry>
@@ -87,7 +119,7 @@
<link rel="alternate" href="https://wololo.net/2023/05/08/crazy-hacks-2-drill-a-hole-in-your-chip-and-find-out/" type="html" title="Crazy hacks #2 – Drill a hole in your chip and find out"></link>
<published>2025-06-25T02:00:00+00:00</published>
<updated>2025-06-25T02:00:00+00:00</updated>
- <summary>&lt;p&gt;Why don't iPhone repair technicians just do this?&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
+ <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Why don't iPhone repair technicians just do this?&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
<category term="diy"/>
<category term="hacking"/>
</entry>
@@ -97,7 +129,7 @@
<link rel="alternate" href="https://theluddite.org/post/google-ads.html" type="html" title="Google Made Me Ruin A Perfectly Good Website: A Case Study On The AI-Generated Internet"></link>
<published>2025-06-23T02:00:00+00:00</published>
<updated>2025-06-23T02:00:00+00:00</updated>
- <summary>&lt;p&gt;That explains... a lot.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
+ <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;That explains... a lot.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
<category term="capitalism"/>
<category term="ai"/>
<category term="chatgpt"/>
@@ -108,7 +140,7 @@
<link rel="alternate" href="https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys" type="html" title="Tiktok's enshittification"></link>
<published>2025-06-22T02:00:00+00:00</published>
<updated>2025-06-22T02:00:00+00:00</updated>
- <summary>&lt;p&gt;inb4 Bluesky's little ~decentralized protocol~ becomes "deprecated" in a few years after they run out of money.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
+ <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;inb4 Bluesky's little ~decentralized protocol~ becomes "deprecated" in a few years after they run out of money.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
<category term="capitalism"/>
</entry>
<entry>
@@ -117,7 +149,7 @@
<link rel="alternate" href="https://axbom.com/the-creepy-sound-of-online-trackers/" type="html" title="The creepy sound of online trackers"></link>
<published>2025-06-22T01:00:00+00:00</published>
<updated>2025-06-22T01:00:00+00:00</updated>
- <summary>&lt;p&gt;The second half of the first video is what's really interesting to me. Try as I might, I can't come up with what (even superfluous) purpose some of those pings to Google could possibly be serving, and that's almost the creepiest part.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oh wait, it's Chrome. I guess that explains it.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
+ <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;The second half of the first video is what's really interesting to me. Try as I might, I can't come up with what (even superfluous) purpose some of those pings to Google could possibly be serving, and that's almost the creepiest part.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oh wait, it's Chrome. I guess that explains it.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
<category term="capitalism"/>
</entry>
<entry>
@@ -126,7 +158,7 @@
<link rel="alternate" href="https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/notes-dot-jim-nielsen-dot-com/" type="html" title="Introducing: notes.jim-nielsen.com"></link>
<published>2025-06-22T00:00:00+00:00</published>
<updated>2025-06-22T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
- <summary>&lt;p&gt;I've wanted to do something like this for almost as long as I've had a blog, but it took seeing this for the idea to properly crystallize in my head. So I'm doing it now. You're looking at it!&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
+ <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;I've wanted to do something like this for almost as long as I've had a blog, but it took seeing this for the idea to properly crystallize in my head. So I'm doing it now. You're looking at it!&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
<category term="meta"/>
</entry>
</feed>