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+description: "News updates for the week, being anti-social this century, complexity in robotics, and messing around with Cursor AI."
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+pubDate: "2025-01-23T01:00:00.000Z"
+tags: ["weeknote", "AI", "pain"]
+title: "2025 Week 02 - Weekly Notes"
+---
+
+### Notes
+
+Some news articles from this past week
+
+- [US Norovirus cases: One chart shows why everyone is barfing right now | Vox](https://www.vox.com/even-better/393811/norovirus-surge-vomiting-diarrhea-stomach-bug)
+- [10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025 | MIT Technology Review](https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/03/1109178/10-breakthrough-technologies-2025/)
+- [“School of Rock ”sweethearts Caitlin Hale and Angelo Massagli are married — and the cast reunited to celebrate](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/school-rock-sweethearts-caitlin-hale-164704929.html)
+- [Meta rolls back DEI programs in latest bow to Trump](https://www.axios.com/2025/01/10/meta-dei-programs-employees-trump)
+- [DeSantis appointee to university board says women should become mothers, not pursue higher ed | WUSF](https://www.wusf.org/education/2025-01-09/desantis-appointee-to-university-board-says-women-should-become-mothers-not-pursue-higher-ed)
+- PDF: Jack Smith to the people of the US - [Final Report on the Special Counsel's Investigations and Prosecutions Volume One](https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/6f4df207-e97f-4cd7-9a21-9aed8804a530.pdf)
+- ['Stomach bug' cases surging in the Bay Area in biggest spike in years](https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/stomach-bug-cases-surging-bay-area-spike-20034685.php)
+- [FBI raids home of San Leandro councilman | KTVU FOX 2](https://www.ktvu.com/news/fbi-raids-home-san-leandro-councilman-report.amp)
+
+As it feels like the world turns inward, I'm going to try to take the opposite approach and meet people again.
+
+- [The Anti-Social Century - The Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/02/american-loneliness-personality-politics/681091/?gift=201cWZnM2XBz2eP81zy0pBCnyvn0biC9sB1NMzyZJsQ&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share)
+
+[Common misconceptions about the complexity in robotics vs AI | Harimus blog](https://harimus.github.io//2024/05/31/motortask.html)
+
+- sometimes what we as humans think is hard is not actual to robots. The inverse is similar
+
+I've been messing around with Cursor AI a bit this week, thanks to some Egghead videos.
+
+- [Search All of GitHub's Code and Pass the Results to AI Agents in Cursor | egghead.io](https://egghead.io/search-all-of-git-hubs-code-and-pass-the-results-to-ai-agents-in-cursor~moi1h)
+- The composer tool is really powerful
+- [Generate Custom .cursorrules for Your Project Based on Community Examples | egghead.io](https://egghead.io/generate-custom-cursorrules-for-your-project-based-on-community-examples~eimq2)
+
+Browse for me. Can you export the playwright code after running so you can?
+
+- [Agent Settings - Browser Use](https://docs.browser-use.com/customize/agent-settings)
+- [browser-use/browser-use: Make websites accessible for AI agents](https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use)
+
+What the author is noting is there are no climate refugees because we are all at some climate risk, which is made worse with climate change. He lived through the 1978 fires where his father would hose down the house in case the nearby fires spread. It’s also an ode to the Palisades. Also, there’s an action plan at the end on how to be more fire resistant.
+
+- [47 Years Later, The Palisades Disappeared Overnight » Mike Industries](https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2025/01/47-years-later-the-palisades-disappeared-overnight)
+
+Two articles about living with chronic pain. I wanted to see what these five things are and how we can shift public attitudes
+
+- [Chronic Pain: Five Things We Know About Causes, Treatments and Diagnoses - The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/magazine/chronic-pain-what-we-know.html)
+- [Chronic Pain Afflicts Billions of People. It’s Time for a Revolution. - The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/magazine/chronic-pain.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ok4.XvGv.xtMuH9_DZJah&smid=url-share)
+
+I read through this and am convinced Matt Mullenweg is on some trip no one else wants to be on. To rip apart the ideals of open source and make things more closed to the community tell me his own ideals have shifted.
+
+- [WordPress is in trouble | anderegg.ca](https://anderegg.ca/2025/01/11/wordpress-is-in-trouble?utm_source=tldrnewsletter)
+
+I’m curious about this video. Novati no longer works at Meta. He is credited for the most number of commits, which should always be taken with a grain of salt. I’m sure they will talk about develop productivity.
+
+- [“The Coding Machine” at Meta with Michael Novati](https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-coding-machine-at-meta)
+
+An excerpt of the new Tim Ferriss book is out
+
+- [The No Book](https://tim.blog/2025/01/13/the-no-book/)
+
+Huh the tea rooms directory eh?
+
+- [California Afternoon Tea Directory - Where to find afternoon tea in California](https://destinationtea.com/california/)
+
+### Recommended
+
+A sleeper podcast that should be looked at. Birbiia interviews Ira Glass 3 times
+
+- [Working It Out — MIKE BIRBIGLIA](https://www.birbigs.com/working-it-out-pod)
+
+New podcast from PJ from Reply All (even if that ended poorly). Ira Glass episode is worth listening to
+
+- [Search Engine | Search Engine Podcast](https://www.searchengine.show/)
+
+This short film: The Second
+
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+
+Podcast recommendation from Alex Steffen for the Snap Forward
+
+- [Welcome to WHEN WE ARE - by Alex Steffen - The Snap Forward](https://alexsteffen.substack.com/p/welcome-to-when-we-are)
+
+This new OK Go music Video
+
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+
+### Obits
+
+[Perry the Donkey, Model for ‘Shrek,’ Dies at 30 - The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/us/shrek-donkey-perry-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nk4.kRXI.-dqaNTYVZeFn&smid=bs-share)
+
+This one hits a cord. It's time to re-watch Mulholland Dr
+[David Lynch - It is with deep regret that we, his family, announce... | Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/davidlynchofficial/posts/it-is-with-deep-regret-that-we-his-family-announce-the-passing-of-the-man-and-th/1179118190251944/)