Some of the best reads I’ve come across recently, organized by theme. Enjoy!

Coping, Culture & Community

• How to Weather the Storm – Jason Kottke collects practical wisdom on surviving authoritarian times, mutual aid, critical ignoring, and building community.
• Cooking to Survive – A personal take on food, resilience, and how eating connects us during turbulent times.
• The Kindly Brontosaurus – On quiet persistence, awkward waiting, and making your presence felt in the gentlest way.
• Midlife Rage – Reflections on hitting a boiling point in middle age, and channeling it toward something purposeful.
• The World Is Improvised – A hopeful essay about navigating uncertainty by embracing improvisation.
• The Same Damned Thing Over and Over – Parisians, rituals, patterns, and the strange comfort of repetition.

AI, Tech & Digital Life

• Checking In on AI and the Big Five – Ben Thompson’s deep dive on where Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon stand in the AI arms race.
• Snapshots of an Evolving AI Landscape – Follow-up thoughts on AI trends and strategic shifts.
• Inside AI Addiction Support Groups – Support circles for those who can’t stop chatting with bots.
• AI Turbocharging Global Inequality – How this new wave of automation could widen divides.
• Software Is Changing Again – Michael Tsai on another turning point for software dev.
• AI vs Humans: A Question of Humanity – A philosophical examination of what remains uniquely human.
• Artificial Intelligence Illiteracy – Why daily life increasingly demands AI literacy.

Tools, Code & Open Source

• Docker Desktop 4.43 – New updates for container developers.
• Docker MCP Catalog – A secure way to explore MCP servers.
• AWS in Terraform – Practical breakdowns for infrastructure coders.
• GitHub Copilot + MCP – New AI-assisted dev workflows.
• pgactive – Active-active database setup for Postgres from AWS.
• FastAPI Typer – Build intuitive Python CLIs.
• AdGuard Home comparisons – Block ads, trackers, and take back your network.
• wttr.in – Minimalist weather forecasts in your terminal.

Indie Web & Digital Minimalism

• I Deleted My Second Brain – On letting go of obsessive notetaking systems.
• Curate Your Own Website – A call for more personal web gardens.
• The Internet You Make – Why the web we have is the one we cultivate.
• Stop the Scroll – Strategies to avoid infinite feeds.
• You Don’t Always Have to Publish – On rest, restraint, and resisting output pressure.

Politics, Labor & Media

• The Budget Bill Opens the Floodgates – Worker struggles in the wake of new policy.
• Hundreds of Workers Mobilize to Stop – Collective resistance comes into focus.
• The Luddite Renaissance – On modern echoes of machine-breaking resistance.
• Peter Thiel, Antichrist? Provocative op-ed exploring ideology.
• Let Democracy Go – Hard questions about system fragility.
• Itching for Just Violence – A grim reflection on reactionary force.

Odds & Ends

• Servers and Thin Clients in Every Home – A retro-futurist computing dream that never arrived.
• What Gear Does DPReview Staff Use for Travel? – Behind-the-scenes kit picks.
• Emulate Wes Anderson – A photo book on capturing symmetry and color.
• Historical Tech Tree – A playful chart mapping humanity’s inventions like a strategy game.
• WeatherStar Emulator – Bring back retro Weather Channel vibes.
• BeeLink Mini N150 – A budget tiny PC with surprising power.

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