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I’ve been looking for this as a feature - offline feed reading in @himmel.app (haven’t tried the app myself yet)
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There are two kinds of people in this world:
Scammers, and imagine friends.
https://beige.party/@maxleibman/115708337805043995

In which I build Unicode character tables and fail to serialize large automata, “Losing 1½ Million Lines of Go“:
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/01/14/Unicode-Properties
(And in which I find myself sliding into the

Got some stuff to keep myself busy. :3

The world has felt too suffocating to keep up with or comment on the last couple of weeks. Sorry.
I’ve been reading more though. Books are nice. I like books. Fiction calms me down more these days, but a lot of nonfiction feels relevant and urgent, so it spikes my curiosity.
I just like myself better when I read books every day and am disciplined enough to read most books start to finish within 1-2 weeks of starting them.

My uncle — in his late 60s — just explained to my parents that Deep Space 9 is an "old science fiction show"
And I am *myself* crumbling into dust

A silent scenery in four acts...
(Selenium-toned[1] 4x6 salt print (still in final wash) plus previous work-in-progress stages... see alt text for details)
The picture/motif itself is one of my personal favorites and was taken 4 years ago in the Alpstein massif, when clouds were spontaneously forming around us, creating a wonderful light/scene/drama and a dear memory... now also as print which likely will/can outlast myself
[1] The tones will become more neutral once dry...…

Watching a show on the Incas on NatGeo and I can’t help myself…
Every time they do the documentary thing of posing a question they are about answer at length, in the form “So, how did the Inca [do something remarkable]” I give the obvious 1-word answer.
COCAINE!!!

⚠️ AI can generate a feeling of intimacy that exceeds human connections
I discovered 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 for myself in my ill-fated research project of 2021!
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-ai-generate-intimacy-exceeds-human.html

AI can generate a feeling of intimacy that exceeds human connections
People can develop emotional closeness to artificial intelligence (AI)—under certain conditions, even more so than to other people. This is shown by a new study conducted by a research team led by Prof. Dr. Markus Heinrichs and Dr. Tobias Kleinert from the Department of Psychology at the University of Freiburg and Prof. Dr. Bastian Schiller from Heidelberg University's Institute of Psychology. Participants felt a sense of closeness especially when they did not know that they were communicatin…

Ex em ay yes! ... Sorry, I'll let myself out. #strictly