No more Spotify
Spotify has helped me discover so much new music, and I appreciate it as a service, but I’m no longer excited to give them money. Between reading Liz Pelley’s Mood Machine, discussions with friends, and buying an MP3 player, it felt like the right time to say goodbye.
The MP3 player itself is one of the best things I bought in 2025, and reuniting with the mp3 collection I’ve cobbled together piecemeal from various sources has been very satisfying.
Other cool links
Takeo Yamashita – Enchanted Whistling ~Farewell Today~ (1970)
I’ve never listened to so much whistling in my life, but I can see this whistling-based arrangement working its way into the regular rotation. (cw: mild nudity on album cover)
Pejac Transforms Basic Graph Paper into Detailed, Trompe-L’œil Tableaux
I love art that breaks out of its medium like this. It reminds me of those flash animations of stick figures breaking out the animation software.
Retr0id’s antisearch page
The first time I’ve heard a link page referred to as an “antisearch” page. I agree with the author’s point that if web search is going to get worse, we need to up our game in response. More librarians.
