
2025-06-24 11:35:34
And on the happier news front:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/20/tennessee-trucker-abduction-rescue?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
It's tempting to do everything as fast as possible:
listen to podcasts on double speed,
work in email-free sprints,
or train at lung-bursting intensity in the gaps between your morning meditation and the school run.
But evidence is piling up that the last one might not be as beneficial as it seems
– and that, in fact, just introducing a lot more ultra-low-intensity movement into your schedule can improve your fitness as well as your quality of life,
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I’m not a fan of the magic link. I’d be happier with a passcode. But also, if you're going to make magic links the only login option, at least have a text box on your page where I can paste the code and make the code easily identifiable in the email.
(Safari plus Apple Mail does a great job of offering an autofill when the code arrives in email (or text) without leaving the browser)
"So, in one fell swoop, this bill will make your home hotter, your air-conditioning bill higher, your clean energy job scarcer, America’s auto industry weaker and China happier. How does that make sense?"
https://www.n…
Sonnet 006 - VI
Then let not winter's ragged hand deface,
In thee thy summer, ere thou be distilled:
Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place
With beauty's treasure ere it be self-killed.
That use is not forbidden usury,
Which happies those that pay the willing loan;
That's for thy self to breed another thee,
Or ten times happier, be it ten for one;
Ten times thy self were happier than thou art,
If ten of thine ten…