Currently re-reading: Abaddon’s Gate by James S. A. Corey 📚
I got some extremely weird spam today to my business email. The email itself was pretty normal “answer our survey” but it was addressed to Mr. Xxxx where Xxxx is my original family name I changed 22 years ago. Pretty spooky as this email was established 10 years ago, way after changing my name.
Is moderation something that can be done at all in internet scale and without hurting people in the process? I’ve read so many horror stories but are there positive stories or stories of success of keeping systems safe?
Watched: Royal Ballet & Opera 2025/26: Woolf Works 🍿
Very impressive ballet, even on silver screen recording.
Started re-reading: Caliban’s War by James S. A. Corey 📚
NCAA Basketball has been pretty hard to catch in Europe before, but this year DAZN shows all the March Madness games for free. Pretty good line up of games this evening
I think the first day of spring already was a couple of days ago and it doesn’t feel particularly spring-y today, but I am still playing my favourite spring song “Vårens Första Dag (First day of Spring)” by Laleh:
Throwback to 1980’s Finland. A coach was fired for being visibly drunk during the Milano 2026 Olympics and his defence was “I was only slightly too drunk”. Matti Nykänen would have never
Never registered or clicked that ”epstein drive” in Expanse could be a reference to that other epstein. Is it just a coincidence?
Another weird name coincidence Allison Becker the chararcter from Silo vs. Allison Becker goalie of the Liverpool FC
Currently reading: Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey 📚
Re-reading this and ”The Mercy of Gods” before the next part of The Captive’s War trilogy comes out in April
Currently reading: Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories by Hugh Howey 📚
As one would expect from collection of short stories: there are some good ones and then those that are completely forgettable. Picked this up to read the Silo short stories. Those had their moments but somehow I didn’t find the timelines converging so neatly satisfying. At least give better explanation why some events that could have been decades off each other still managed to co-incide randomly.
This audiobook came with commentary from the author. The same uneveness is the problem here – some are pretty illuminating but some just should have baked better into the actual story
The ”local” newspaper now offers full New York Times subscription as part of their digital subscription. Suddenly the value proposition is much, much better. While I feel like the paper (and even NYT alone) offers me very little but the Athletic and NYT Games are very nice sweeteners. And without NYT cancellation hoops
Met my ex three months after we broke up. This was the first face-to-face after that. It was lovely as our discussions always were and i got bombarded with some high precision truth bombs. Been reflecting on those all the evening after that. She managed to shake me and not the bad way
Watching: Shrinking Season 1 🍿
I will return to my old rant: everything is too damn dark on TV nowadays and require almost pitch-black surroundings and a pretty good TV set up just right. How about we go back to night scenes lit up with flood lights and let us imagine it is dark out there? Suspense of disbelief and all that?
Currently reading: Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories by Hugh Howey 📚
Finished reading: What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher 📚
Finished reading: What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher 📚
This is not my genre (creepy horror with a nod to Edgar Allen Poe) but enjoyed it still. The novella kept its tension to the end and characters are likable. The thing is I perhaps have had an overdose of spoiler removed based stories lately. I think I will not continue this trilogy any time soon but maybe some day
Watched – Silo Season 2 🍿
Watched: Silo Season 2 🍿
Finally got back to finalize the TV series (so far) after reading the books. I think the differences are: plot is tighter and more interestingly carried through in the books but characters are more interesting and more fully realized in the adaptation. You guess you win some and then you lose some? But both are very entertaining and tense.
So, Earpods with lightining connection were out of stock in multiple stores as it is trendy to have wired headphones (these were needed for specific use case). I am starting to get to be a grumpy old man territory but WHY!? You get that wire once tangled up somewhere and that anger alone is worth wireless headphone price tag
Currently reading: What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher 📚
Randomly picked up from a local bookstore. I have no pre-existing ideas of this and hoping for the best. I’ve read their short stories and enjoyed them
Finished reading: Dust by Hugh Howey 📚
Oh, I miss this world already and while it was the least tense of the three, it still is very good.
I really hope the series on the Silo 40 is truely coming sometime soon