Me this weekend
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Substrate
A living collection of notes, ideas, and reflections from Doug Belshaw.
Toward a spectrum of AI trust
What I like about this post is that it brings a bit of nuance to proceedings.
Not every audience group or individual user will care about the provenance of the content they’re consuming. It also depends on a case-by-case basis; sometimes AI-assistance changes everything versus other times, it barely registers.
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Garmin Music Manager (unofficial)
A modern macOS application for managing music on Garmin watches (specifically tested with the Venu 3). This app allows you to drag-and-drop MP3 and M4A files directly onto your watch and manage playlists without needing Garmin Express or Apple Music.
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Creative destruction
For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.
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What I like for someone else doesn't have to be the same as what I like for me!
Worth remembering. We're all different shapes, colours, and sizes on the outside, and also have different wiring on the inside.
Source: Are.na
Small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos
When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order.
– Ilya Prigogine
Actually, I think it's a great time to be alive
Sometimes, it's easy to forget that despite the world's problems, the chances are we would all much rather be alive now than in times past.
Why? Here's 5 reasons:
- Global life expectancy is approximately 73.66 years, compared to medieval England (c.30–35 years), or even the year 1900 (c.31 years globally). Even since the year 2000 there have been huge gains, with maternal deaths dropping over 40% between 2000 and 2023, and child deaths under the age of 5 more than halving. And that's despite COVID-19 and cuts to aid budgets. So a child born today has much better odds of reaching adulthood than at any prior point in history. We forget this in WEIRD societies sometimes. …
News Canary: 5 July 2026
Every Sunday, my Little Robot Friend sends me a report which I call 'News Canary'. It assembles a weekly set of roughly ten "global change signal" stories from the last seven days, with at least one item from each continent It mixes hard developments (laws, policies, conflicts, technical releases) with soft signals (cultural shifts, viral posts) that may influence how systems evolve.
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