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Tech

• MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia (jan.miksovsky.com)

  Jan Mikdosky built a device to improve the everyday life of their mom, who’s living with amnesia.

• The TTY demystified (linusakesson.net)

  Linus Åkesson explains the origins of the TTY and does a deep-dive into how it works today.

• Maybe Bluesky has “won” (anderegg.ca)

  Gavin Anderegg shares their perspective on the problems of Bluesky and what it gets right.

• What I Wish Someone Told Me About Postgres (challahscript.com)

  Hazel Bachrach lists common foot guns with Postgres.

Cutting Room Floor

• Work doesn't love us (sarahesterman.com)

  Sarah Esterman explains why your job doesn’t and will never love you back.

• Everyone is numbing out (catherineshannon.substack.com)

  Catherine Shannon argues everything has lost its meaning and we need to get it back.

• Broken Bones: America’s Violent Indifference toward Women (katemanne.substack.com)

  Kate Manner about what the US election means for women.

• The Lost Art of Memory (thebasecamp.substack.com)

  Adam Robbert explains how the modern focus on novelty conflicts with memory.

• Progress and cosy nostalgia (tante.cc)

  tante about a common narrative of progress, like colonizing Mars, and how it doesn’t survive the contact with reality.

• This scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab (nature.com)

  Zoe Corbyn about virologist Besta Halassy, who successfully treated her own breast cancer with the help of lab-grown viruses.