Month: October 2025| tracydurnell.com
Blissful ignorance by Andrey Mir Electronic media has extended our nervous system to the entire planet… To protect the mind from informational and empathic overload, our news “receptors” become numb, which in turn results in the desire to avoid news. If the early Internet oversupplied the amount of news, social media aggravated this overload by […]| Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
When we talk about “taste”, we’re talking about a few things:| Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
Win of the week: got my Covid and flu shots — pretty minimal side effects, mostly a little muscle soreness in my arms Looking forward to: planning a tourist day in Seattle next week — somehow I have never been to the Seattle Art Museum? Stuff I did: 9 hours consulting 3.25 hours writing — […]| Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
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Slop as a way of life by Drew Austin The subtext is that slop is being dumped on us against our will—that it’s something that happens to us—but that lets us off the hook far too easily. Most of the slop we see is still made and distributed by real people, often with no AI […]| Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
Highlight of the week: bobcats!!! Looking forward to: I remembered that Seattle Restaurant Week is a thing, so I’m going to pick out a nice place to go for a belated birthday dinner at the end of the month (we rarely venture into Seattle proper) Stuff I did: 4 hours consulting 3.75 hours writing — painful […]| Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
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Musing here… still thinking this all through!| Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
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Highlight of the week: took the day off Wednesday to lounge around and read Looking forward to: reading a lot of fun, light books this weekend Stuff I did: 0.5 hours consulting 5.75 hours writing 0.75 hours business admin baked blueberry crumb pie (blackberries went moldy 😿) — decided at 8pm that I wanted dessert so […]| Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
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We traded privacy for belonging| Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
Liked Newsletters by Robin Rendle (robinrendle.com)| Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
This is part three of a series on tackling wants, managing my media diet, and finding enough. Read the introduction on “the mindset of more.”| Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
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As we in the IndieWeb promote personal websites and encourage more people to write and publish online, and nostalgia for blogs and RSS is high, it’s useful to hone in on what exactly we’re talking about when we say blog.* Because, despite being a form of writing for more than 20 years, blogging is surprisingly hard to pin down.**| Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
Last week, I updated my blogroll to include everyone in my RSS feed reader. While I read a lot of topical blogs and newsletters, I also follow a goodly number of interesting people I don’t know as well as acquaintances. I didn’t include these personal blogs on my blogroll before, but decided it was time to add them.| Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
Twenty years ago today, I wrote my first blog post! (I stopped blogging from about 2009-2011, so I haven’t technically been blogging for twenty years yet — guess I get to celebrate twenty years twice 😂)| Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
Replied to The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models Forget (arXiv.org)| Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
