Author: robert.adlington

Stoicism offers excellent coping strategies in the face of adversity—useful in an industry where most start-ups fail—but taken to extremes, it can also be a pathway to disengagement from the world and people around you. Ketamine, similarly, can afford its users space between themselves and overwhelming despair, which might help explain how it can treat…

A new exhibition shows how artists from the Polish school of posters reimagined films such as Vertigo and Alien while navigating communist censors — Read on www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/mar/06/give-it-a-polish-classic-film-posters-with-a-twist-in-pictures

Neat CLI tool built in Rust that can create a single packaged HTML file of a web page plus all of its dependencies. — Read on simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/6/monolith/

It’s hard to reliably package and distribute python command line tools to end users. Users frequently encounter challenges: dependency version conflicts, virtual environment management, needing to install python or a specific version of python, etc. Aider employs uv in a couple of novel ways to streamline the installation process: — Read on aider.chat/2025/01/15/uv.html

An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust. – astral-sh/uv — Read on github.com/astral-sh/uv

AI changes what books are even worth writing. “Predictive books and books about the near future. They don’t make sense to write anymore.” — Read on x.com/david_perell/status/1897387371244478668

The ideology behind AI may be best thought of as careless anti-humanism. From the AI industry’s behavior — sucking up every work of writing and art on the internet to provide training data — it is possible to infer its attitude toward humanist work: it is trivial, unworthy of respect, and easily replaced by machine…

with data from the UK and the US showing that, compared with previous generations, young people are spending less time out in the world and experiencing more anxiety, the report also questions the impact on those who “shun the messy unpredictability of in-person interaction and try to meet all their human needs through a screen”.…

Fast food containers dominate ocean plastic, but aluminium drinks cans will also be part of our legacy. Pure metals are exceptionally rare in the geological record, as they readily react to form new minerals, but the cans will leave a distinct impression. Another fast food staple, chicken, is also destined for immortality. Bones are well…

the very stability and comfort of the post–World War II liberal order has permitted the seeds of its own destruction to flourish. A society with firm scientific and political guardrails that protect health and freedom, can sustain “an underbelly of madmen and extremists—medical sceptics, conspiracy types and anti-democratic fantasists.” “Our society has been peaceful and…