links 12/29/25: https://roamresearch.com/#/app/srcpublic/page/12-29-2025

• https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/26/slop-acts-of-kindness/ AI agents are sending unwelcome "thank you" emails
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike creator of the Go programming language and contributor to Unix. these days very anti-AI
• https://reactormag.com/for-he-can-creep-siobhan-carroll/  story inspired by "For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffrey"
• https://newaesthetics.art/ i agree, we need a new 21st century aesthetic paradigm to rival the Bauhaus's influence over the 20th century. "but we have..." no we don't. every magazine is still laid out according to Bauhaus principles. your "modern" typeface is 100 years old.
  • you need a new visual design vocabulary from the ground up; as Art Nouveau derived curvilinear elements from Ernst Haeckel's invertebrate illustrations, and the Bauhaus derived geometric elements from engineering diagrams, maybe today's design movement needs to derive its primitives from DeepDream/DALL-E artifacts or something.
• https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/eko05d/in_little_women_set_in_1860s_massachusetts_amy/ the "pickled limes" in Little Women were actually popular among schoolchildren at the time, and yes, they were salt-pickled limes. 
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_the_Bruce  seems like a pretty standard medieval military leader
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried_milk  yes, you can "fry milk" if you solidify it with cornstarch