Anyone know how/if this differs from the 2020 one?

Edit: Nvm, they comment on it. https://missing.csail.mit.edu/2026/development-environment/

I get that the crypto world right now is a casino, but the unfulfilled need is still there:

I want to be able to buy over the internet as anonymously as when I use cash in the real world.

I use miniflux and like it. Still, this post got me thinking.

I’d like to try out a feature where by self-hosted instance learns what I like and highlights relevant posts in my feed. Then I can go through the other ones later.

Main things are that I would control what feeds go in and there is no monetization incentive since it’s self-hosted.

> Consider some statistics on the American childhood, drawn from children aged 8-12: 62% have not walked/biked somewhere (a store, park, school) without an adult

At least in the US, my guess for the cause of this is goes something like:

1. Housing is expensive.

2. People move to where housing is cheap (ie plenty of land, easy to build). In the last few decades that's more often than not been in the south.

3. Big population changes in those areas demand more schools.

4. Big school is built on the edge of town, because that's where the land is and one school has better economies of scale than multiple neighborhood schools

5. No one lives close to the school anymore, so everyone has to drive.

Throw in the sprawl that often accompanies new development in areas with wide open land and its easy to see how we end up here.

I live in Brookline, MA (in the North, next to Boston) and it's very much a walk-to-school town. The structural reason for that is our schools are in the neighborhoods, have been around for a long time, and there's nowhere "on the edge of town" to build a new one. Our town has financial pressures like everyone else and I few government's are able to resist the temptation of cost savings---we just don't have the option to build that way. Thank goodness.

I've been doing this with ublock origin step by step by zapping elements and defaulting to javascript off. At this point most of the breadcrumbs/headings/sidebars/recirculation/carousels/etc. are hidden by default on the sites I go to. If I gather I'm missing something I just flip the switch.

Granted that's not user-friendly, so I don't suggeset it for the typical person. I do think though the typical person would come to love the sort of web that I experience, so it's cool that there's a plugin now. Also the AI scraping (eg on LI) is interesting.

> Today, the only naked bodies that many Americans will likely ever see are their own, a partner’s, or those on a screen. Gone are our unvarnished points of physical comparison—the ordinary, unposed figures of other people. In their place, we’re left with the curated ideals of social-media posts, AI-generated advertising, and pornography. The loss may seem trivial, but it also may change how people see themselves.

I think the theme of "how we see ourselves" is the defining theme of our age. Never before have we been bombarded with so much imagery while at the same time being seeing so little of real life.