Merge pull request #641 from jermspeaks/feature/2024-week-48-updates

Blog updates finally for week 48 - 2024

Author: jermspeaks

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+description: "Bitcoin attacks, post-political feelings, principled, and newsletter recommendations."
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+pubDate: "2024-12-21T04:00:00.000Z"
+tags: ["weeknote", "politics", "recommendations"]
+title: "2024 Week 48 - Weekly Notes"
+---
+
+Thanksgiving week, and for the past few weeks I haven't been keeping up with my notes. But I still continue to do it.
+
+We hosted a friendsgiving, so here's some of the things I used to get through cooking.
+
+- The Kitchn - [How To Make Vegetarian Thanksgiving Lasagna](https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-vegetarian-thanksgiving-lasagna-237532)
+
+### Attacked for Bitcoin?
+
+GitHub - jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks - [Physical Bitcoin Attacks: A list of known attacks against Bitcoin / crypto asset owning entities that occurred in meatspace.](https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks)
+
+The world is more dangerous than we know it. Thank you, crypto bros
+
+### Where's Your Ed At?
+
+Ed Zitron's newsletter, "[Where's Your Ed At?](https://www.wheresyoured.at/)" is absolutely worth the read. His latest newsletter, [Lost In The Future](https://www.wheresyoured.at/lost-in-the-future/), has an insightful reflection on the Trump win, and the sentiments we all feel.
+
+See also: Stratechery by Ben Thompson - [A Chance to Build](https://stratechery.com/2024/a-chance-to-build/)
+
+And this: Vitalik Buterin - [From prediction markets to info finance](https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/11/09/infofinance.html)
+
+### Codex Operandi
+
+[Nabeel S. Qureshi's Principles](https://nabeelqu.co/principles)
+
+### Open Sourced AI
+
+[The Open Source AI Definition — by The Open Source Initiative](https://opensource.org/ai)
+
+Now let's see how many closed models will follow along. See [Why Compound AI + Open Source will beat Closed AI](https://www.latent.space/p/fireworks?__readwiseLocation=).
+
+And I'll leave this essay by Aidan McLaughlin here: [The Problem with Reasoners](https://aidanmclaughlin.notion.site/reasoners-problem)
+
+### I just really like this title
+
+Hazel Weakly - [Home Baked Abstractions, Store Bought Implementations](https://hazelweakly.me/blog/home-baked-abstractions-store-bought-implementations/)
+
+And this: Henrik Karlsson - [A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox](https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/search-query)
+
+### Bear With Us
+
+When you stay at the [Fat Bear Lodge](https://fatbearlodge.com/)
+
+### Many Ways to Skin a
+
+[1 dataset. 100 visualizations.](https://100.datavizproject.com/)
+
+Reminds me a lot of Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec
+
+See also: Lila Shroff - [Datasets as Imagination](https://joinreboot.org/p/artist-datasets)
+
+### Empowering for future me
+
+<iframe
+  class="aspect-video w-full my-2"
+  src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/StMltAX0mp0"
+  title="DO HARD THINGS"
+  frameborder="0"
+  allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share"
+  allowfullscreen></iframe>
+
+### What does it mean to end a career?
+
+Bitfield Consulting contemplates this in [A career ending mistake](https://bitfieldconsulting.com/posts/career).
+
+### Local Happenings
+
+KTVU FOX 2 - [Beloved Puerto Rican restaurant La Perla moving out of Oakland](https://www.ktvu.com/news/beloved-puerto-rican-restaurant-la-perla-moving-out-oakland)
+
+KQED - [Omar Torres Resigns From San José City Council, Is Arrested](https://www.kqed.org/news/12014643/omar-torres-resigns-from-san-jose-city-council-is-arrested)
+
+### Newsletter Recs
+
+- for Big Culture Essays;
+  - [Sam Kriss](https://open.substack.com/users/14289667-sam-kriss?utm_source=mentions)
+  - [The Scholar's Stage](https://open.substack.com/pub/scholarstage)
+  - [rayne fisher-quann](https://open.substack.com/users/13310072-rayne-fisher-quann?utm_source=mentions)
+- for art/literary criticism;
+  - [Garth Greenwell](https://open.substack.com/users/7481343-garth-greenwell?utm_source=mentions)
+  - [Sam J](https://open.substack.com/users/50199067-sam-j?utm_source=mentions)
+  - [Brandon](https://open.substack.com/users/13679-brandon?utm_source=mentions)
+- for U.S. election news;
+- [Nate Silver](https://open.substack.com/users/2421724-nate-silver?utm_source=mentions)
+- [ettingermentum](https://open.substack.com/users/111960882-ettingermentum?utm_source=mentions)
+- for nuanced tech takes;
+  - [AI Snake Oil](https://open.substack.com/pub/aisnakeoil)
+  - [Reboot](https://open.substack.com/pub/reboothq) (self-plug)
+- for fun;
+  - [Good Hang](https://open.substack.com/pub/goodhang)
+  - [Max Read](https://open.substack.com/users/238208-max-read?utm_source=mentions)
+- for visual inspiration;
+  - [Lyndsey Kong](https://open.substack.com/users/8826095-lyndsey-kong?utm_source=mentions)
+  - [Stefania Culafic](https://open.substack.com/users/8224423-stefania-culafic?utm_source=mentions)
+
+### How to make it perform
+
+eieio.games - [The secret inside One Million Checkboxes](https://eieio.games/essays/the-secret-in-one-million-checkboxes/)