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Two boooks,Colored Television by Danzy Senna and Ghosts Photo in a graph a chronicle by Myrna Kostash, sitting on a stack of London Review of Books.

Amanda Shendruk writes about the work that’s done after Burning Man, where 150 people line up, side by side and arms apart, and slow walk the entire playa looking for Moop (Matter Out of Place).

This forensic-style sweep takes weeks; everything they find is removed and logged. At the end, they’re left with a remarkable accounting of what 70,000 people left behind: The MOOP Map. And I’m obsessed.

The Moop Map is a pretty remarkable view of what is left behind:

A wheat-pasted poster on a utility pole on a city street. The poster layers a photograph of someone in a green hoodie holding a bouquet of pink tulips over a white event flyer, which reads: "Dani + Nadom invite you to Sometimes Well, Sometimes Poorly. Book Launch + Photo Exhibit. May 1st 2026 @ 8PM. Memento Film Lab, 216 Ossington Ave." A 40km/h speed sign hangs above. Behind the pole: a red bike lane, passing cars, and a grey spring sky.

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My current jam is Sexy Lemon by Freak Slug.

Album cover for Freak Slug's album I Blow Out Big Candles.

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A Callery pear branch crowds the right of the frame, white blossoms with maroon centres and pink-tipped buds in sharp focus. Behind it, a rain-slick sidewalk and empty street recede past low-rise apartment buildings.

A white flyer pinned with a teal thumbtack to a weathered wooden utility pole at night. Bold black caps read "BLIND DATE WITH A TYPEWRITER" above smaller lowercase "may 3, 1–4pm". Fringed tear-off strips along the bottom carry the handles @bon.vivant.to and @poesy.ca, a few already pulled. The pole is scarred with staples and old paper scraps; behind it, a dark street recedes into blurred streetlights.

Pink cherry blossom trees lining a wet path in Trinity Bellwoods Park on an overcast day.

A grove of cherry blossom trees on a grey spring morning, grass still damp from rain.

Close-up of white cherry blossom buds covered in raindrops, hanging from a bare branch.

Rain-soaked cherry blossoms in bloom, petals translucent against a pale grey sky.

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1,253 new Slack messages is not the Monday I ordered.

Slack's empty unreads screen reading "All done. The future is yours." with a green "1,253 New Messages" badge stacked on top of it.

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My current jam is drop dead by Olivia Rodrigo.

Album cover for Olivia Rodrigo's single drop dead.

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I went to see Mother Mary last night at the Revue Cinema, I thought it had some really cool ideas and style, but kind of felt flat on the execution.

Mother Mary

A black circular sticker reading 'Visual Shoegaze' in bold white lettering, mounted on a weathered concrete pole on Ossington Ave, surrounded by other stickers.

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claude code removed my buddy 😢

A golden doodle trotting across a gravel driveway, gripping a large fallen branch in its mouth, bare early-spring farm grounds behind it.

A golden doodle mid-run across a gravel driveway toward camera, a UnionTools wheelbarrow in the foreground, overcast sky and bare trees behind.

A golden doodle resting its curly amber head on someone's denim-covered lap, a cluttered dark-wood coffee table visible in the background.

A golden doodle standing with its back to camera, nosing a fallen branch on the ground between two large tree trunks.

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Reid Wiseman, NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander, took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft’s window.

Photogrpah of Earth from the Orion sapcecraft's window

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My current jam is Awesome Party, Dude! by Sorry Mom.

Album cover Juno Goes to the Big House by Sorry Mom.

Paved path between a pixelated mural and a chain-link fence, with a concrete noise wall topped with glass panels on the right and a condo tower visible left. Bare trees, early spring.

Two husky-type dogs waiting behind the glass doors of an office building vestibule, one sitting and one standing, both looking directly at the camera.

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My current jam is Pesticides by Moselle.

Album cover Pesticides Single by Moselle.

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Instagram is a photo grid owned by a company that would prefer you never leave. It used to be kind of nice.

So I made my own version. It lives at myles.garden/trellis and it’s just photos, in a grid, on a website I own.

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Line drawing of 1RG’s street view.

Line drawing of the street view of 1RG. Brick upper floor, bay window, large grid windows, and a side door marked 2557.

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Mario Zechner writes about the current usage of LLM coding agents in software development and how we just need to slow down our release cycles.

You have zero fucking idea what’s going on because you delegated all your agency to your agents. You let them run free, and they are merchants of complexity. They have seen many bad architectural decisions in their training data and throughout their RL training. You have told them to architect your application. Guess what the result is?

An immense amount of complexity, an amalgam of terrible cargo cult “industry best practices”, that you didn’t rein in before it was too late. But it’s worse than that.

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This Is My Jam was a music sharing site that let you declare one song your jam at a time. It shut down in 2015 and I still think about it.

So I made my own version. It lives at myles.garden/this-is-my-jam and will be updated whenever the mood strikes.

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My current jam is ça pik un peu quand même by miki.

A bouquet of tulips in a glass vase on a windowsill, lit by soft natural light. The arrangement mixes deep purple, pale pink, and white fringed tulips with tall green stems and leaves. Other houseplants are visible on the windowsill behind them, and bare tree branches show through the window in the background. — Tulips

15 Mar, 2026 at 3:01 PM

Mother Mary

Tulips

15 Mar, 2026 at 3:01 PM