Lotus's Cube

Links!

*I don't agree with everyone (um impossible), but I like what these people do.

Retronaut Webring

• 32-bit Cafe! If you're having site problems, they're very helpful. I haven't been there a whole lot, but they do have cool events sometimes.

  PEOPLE

• Jason Fried: Head honcho for Basecamp and Hey email, mixes philosophy with design philosophy.
• The Angry Gm: His True Game Mastery series and onwards has simply been *chefs kiss* level good. He's even bordering on life advice for GMs at this point, something he said he'd never do.
• http://baccyflap.com/

  TOOLS

• Textfree: Get an online phone. Lifehack for international travelers... Did not have fun running around looking for sim cards and recharging them.
• Piskel: a downloadable .gif creating app. I use it for all my pixel art, it's got some nifty tools and it's free as can be.
• VLC Media Player: Need I explain? Clue's in the name.
• Ditherit: Free dithering tool. (FYI dithering is a way of reducing image file sizes, handy for small sites like this.)
• UPMA: United Precious Metals Association: A bank without banking; they're an association you can store Gold or Silver with, by investing in gold or silver.

  ARTICLES

• The Deagel Report: An article on the report filed by military intelligence expecting major depopulation in the U.S. in 2025. Potentially disinformation to guide malevolent manifestation. (Quantum stuff; what you think happens is more likely to happen, now do it with hundreds of people.)
• Why Niches Matter - A nice little love letter to niches. I would also add that internet niches DO connect people, but digitally instead of physically... I wonder if this has had consequences.
• Cameron Armstrong - Veteran's view of Harvard Business School "They told me that everyone admitted to HBS is already on track to do interesting things and has a pretty solid career trajectory ahead of them. As a result of this and other data points from their research, they didn’t think HBS explicitly makes students more successful, but the process of spending two years meeting other sharp and driven people does raise everyone’s collective ambition level."
• The Future of the Blogosphere: In summary, enshittification is more like the rust that corrodes technology over time, but also their demographic. The blogosphere is kind of dying, as well as platforms. Any message the tech had to explore has already been explored, and it's about time to move to new avenues. And any new phase of the internet will be driven by new tech, not by a "revitalization" of the same ideas with the same implementation and values.
• Musings on the Human Condition: Perfectly describes how I feel about... the human condition. Right when I wanted to write about it, but someone already did it better than me. Good on 'em!

STUPID YOUTUBE VIDEOS

• Faceless Neil: OOZES personality. Beetlegeusian vibes. Or maybe Burtonesque
• The Maker: Short film.
• Exit Through the Gift Shop: The film about street art and Banksy. Take it with a grain of salt, but enjoyable nonetheless.
• Mark Twain animated film