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josh
@cyberb.space
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your last saved meme is your moral philosophy…
The Seinfeld episode where Kramer’s apartment is lit up all red by a streetlight. In the first frame Jerry asks, “Kramer, what’s going on in there?” The second frame is a screenshot of a stock portfolio graph where all tickers are negative and bright red. In the final frame Kramer says, “It’s a trade war, Jerry.”
November 17, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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wake up after a bad night of sleep: 🙁

add a little reading progress popover to my site: 🙂
A screenshot of a browser with the https://cyberb.space home page loaded. A popover is visible, and everything behind it is slightly blurred. The pop up contains the following text: 'The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk on p216 of 965 (22.6%)" below the text is stylized progress bar.
November 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Just encountered this incredible web form design in the wild. Top tier.
A picture of an online form with the filed “your area pin” and a selection menu of all possible area pins.
October 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Only Monday and I’ve already peaked.
A picture of a left hand holding up the nubbin of a fully used, wooden pencil.
October 6, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Pretty pleased with this WhatsApp group I started for going to the movies this weekend.
A screenshot of a WhatsApp group page with a photo of Leo DiCaprio and the group name “One Group Chat After Another”.
October 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Writing’s a bit rough today, so I groan and sigh in frustration.

My little gremlin sniffs and gives me this look. He’s trying to fit in his afternoon nap, if I could just keep it down please and thank you.
An impossibly cute small dog is spread out luxuriously on a floral patterned armchair. He looks directly at the camera in a calmly annoyed way.
September 8, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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I recently learned that some independent bookshops ship to any U.S. address — including diplomatic pouch addresses.

This is very dangerous knowledge.

Anyway much love to the people at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social for beautifully gift wrapping the order!
A picture of a stack of books wrapped in brown paper and wrapped with multicolored twine and a bookmark. Stamped onto the paper is the name of the bookstore “Pilsen Community Books” and the phrase “A better world is possible”. The text frames an illustration of a rose.
July 23, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Been down a mildly obsessive rabbit hole lately around faith-based apps that rely heavily on "GenAI" to "strengthen your relationship with God" and just gotta say... this stuff sucks.

Were I in a eschatological mood, I might think "Exhaiith the fuleaps" was a phrase meant to summon the end times.
A soulless cartoon of a family generated by a machine. Below the pseudo-idyllic scene the non-sensical phrase "EXHAIITH THE FULEAPS" is written as if it's supposed to mean something.
July 22, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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Continuing to tinker with the bookshelf & individual book pages on my personal site.

Here's an example for a recent book's dedicated page that includes all of the sections I'd like to standardize at some point.
A screenshot of a web page from https://cyberb.space. The page header reads "Booklog: The Search for the Perfect Language" and it includes a photograph of a hand holding a book with the spine facing the camera. To the right of the picture is information about when the book was read and a short review. Below the picture is a section labeled "details" that lists the publisher, page count, and isbn of the book in question.
April 15, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Grabbing a chai at the Mumbai Tim Horton’s like
Michael Scott standing in front of a Sbarro’s pizza in New York City.
April 4, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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I was a doubter at first, that’s almost too poetic to be true. But Merriam-Webster confirms it.
A screenshot of the Merriam-Webster webpage for the word “fiction” under the section “etymology” it reads: “Middle English ficcioun "invention of the mind," borrowed from Middle French fiction, borrowed from Latin fiction-, fictio "action of shaping or molding, feigning, pretense, legal fiction," from fig-, variant stem of fingere "to mold, fashion, make a likeness of, pretend to be" + -tion-, -tio, suffix of verbal action — more at FEIGN”
March 21, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Slapped a new coat of paint on my digital bookshelf this morning 📚💅
A screen shot of the web page https://cyberb.space/shelf/. It shows two black boxes overlaid with white text under the section heading "Currently Reading" and below that, in a section titled "Read" it shows seven black boxes overlaid with white text under the heading "2025".
March 20, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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By way of example, here I am reading a recent Biblioklept post. My aesthetics have transcended the modern web.
A screenshot of the obsidian app's new web viewer. It shows a blogpost with reader mode turned on, which renders it as simply a large white page with some monospaced text.
March 6, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Man, I really need more people to read this book.
A picture of Jacques Ellul’s book: “Propaganda: The formation of men’s attitudes”
January 23, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Wow, AGI is just around the corner! I asked ChatGPT to show me how it thinks I spent the holidays and it generated this image.
A screenshot of Nic Cage in the film Mandy. He is covered in the blood of his enemies and smiling maniacally at the camera as he drives his car.
December 30, 2024 at 3:05 AM
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Incredible! I asked ChatGPT "based on how well you know me, what do you think my workspace looks like?" and it generated this picture.
A still from the movie Office Space. Peter Gibbons has just unscrewed a wall of his cubicle so that he can see a window and he sits happily playing video games on his computer.
December 17, 2024 at 8:52 AM
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Here’s the thing. You shouldn’t anthropomorphize large language models. It’s uncouth.

Instead when interacting with one you should always picture Joseph Faber’s Euphonia machine from the 19th century. As God intended you to.
An old photograph of the 19th century artificial speaking device in question. It is a table with an oddly arranged wind instrument mounted on top. Facing the camera is the output of the wind instrument, a mannequin face made to look like a young woman. She appears to be quite blaze about the whole affair.
December 9, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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The text "# Thank you" written in IBM Plex Mono font.
October 28, 2024 at 8:37 AM