Tedium is an excellent blog/email newsletter. Every few weeks there's a banger article that tickles my nerd bone. Some highlights I've bookmarked over the years: Steve Ballmer running TV ads in the USA explaining basic facts about political issues, a thinkpiece about how AI seems to be designed for the needs and wants of the managerial class, a review of the half-decent Blackberry biopic, how 3M got in the business of making floppy disks and why they stopped, and some thoughts on why Meta's Threads is the most soulless social network yet.
Check out this cool as hell "real-world physical representation of the classic Winamp software". It's a Raspberry Pi in a custom case that has a screen on the front that shows the Winamp UI and a frame like the Winamp window UI - and it plays music! I love it and want one. Thank you Vertikar for sharing this on The Sizzle forums!
Want your Raspberry Pi to look like a mini gaming rig, blinged out with LEDs and transparent side panel? Pironman has you covered. I kinda wish there was version of the Raspberry Pi but with like, desktop class performance. A Rasperry Pi form factor board, but with a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite SoC that you could shove into a standard form factor case. Pico or Femto ITX or something like that.
Ev Williams, the other guy that co-founded Twitter (RIP) got a puff piece in the New York Times to coincide with a new social network he's the boss of that raised a lazy US$6m. According to EV, Mozi is "an attempt to return to social media's original intention, which was about interacting with people you already knew" and aimed at "helping people foster in-person connections with their social circle". The app "lets people tell their friends about upcoming plans that may overlap" and provides "notifications if a contact plans to visit their city or attend the same event". Not so stupid of an idea to be honest.