Merge pull request #718 from jermspeaks/feature/weeknote-2025-08

Add 2025 Weeknote week 8

Author: jermspeaks

src/content/writing/2025-02-26-w07-weekly-notes.md

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 - Book: [Superagency - What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future](https://www.superagency.ai/) by Reid Hoffman
 - Steven Levy has a newsletter. - [Plaintext Newsletter by Steven Levy | WIRED](https://www.wired.com/newsletter/plaintext?sourceCode=BottomStories)
 - Book: [Let's Talk About It Links](https://www.erikamoen.com/LetsTalk/)
-
-### Obits
-
-%% Anyone who has died %%

src/content/writing/2025-04-01-w08-weekly-notes.md

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+---
+description: "Catching up with week 8 and coming to terms with a presidency that hates us all."
+draft: false
+heroImage: https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1506485338023-6ce5f36692df?ixlib=rb-4.0.3&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D&auto=format&fit=crop&w=2370&q=80
+heroImageAlt: Unsplash image from Jazmin Quaynor showing a weekly calendar
+pubDate: "2025-04-02T07:00:00.000Z"
+tags: ["weeknote"]
+title: "2025 Week 08 - Weekly Notes"
+---
+
+### Summary
+
+This has been a catch-up week. We cancelled the dinner with Adriel, which I feel bad about. But in that, it's been trying to rest up. Morgan and I are more seriously talking about kids, so I need to start my research. The world feels more and more ablaze.
+
+### Notes
+
+It's sad the complete carelessness and wreckage this administration.
+
+> Given developments at the Kennedy Center, effective today
+>
+> I am resigning as artistic advisor to the NSO.
+>
+> Not for me.
+>
+> It's been a wonderful 8 years working with Kennedy Center President Deb Rutter, fellow artistic advisor Renee Fleming, and the entire NSO staff, encouraging thousands of fresh new audiences to appreciate symphonic music. Mostly, and above all, I will miss the musicians of our nation's symphony orchestra - just the best!
+>
+> -Ben
+> [A statement from Ben Folds on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/actualbenfolds/p/DF_GMQ9PN6_/)
+
+### Notes
+
+[Ben Folds Quits the Kennedy Center](https://www.instagram.com/actualbenfolds/p/DF_GMQ9PN6_/), as well as Issa Rae. Hamilton pulled out, Rhiannon Giddens did too.
+
+[Google Calendar Deletes Black History Month, Pride and Other Cultural Events - The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/technology/google-black-history-womens-history.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20250213&instance_id=147426&nl=the-morning&regi_id=197092347&segment_id=190897&user_id=53888c42b17ce2b613ad43a8e73d64ef)
+
+- I made an alternative calendar to remind ourselves what is still important
+- Also see: [Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM because its holiday list wasn’t ‘sustainable’ | The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/news/608858/google-calendar-missing-events-holidays)
+- And this: [History of black history month and how it has changed over the years](https://storm.genie.stanford.edu/article/history-of-black-history-month-and-how-it-has-changed-over-the-years-771498)
+
+The Tariff Wars have begun
+
+- [Who Pays for Tariffs - The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/12/business/economy/who-pays-for-tariffs.html)
+
+I love the idea of increasing my network surface area
+
+- [career agency: the unspoken weapon for unconventional careerists](https://ineslee.substack.com/p/career-agency?ck_subscriber_id=3012960585&utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=%F0%9F%90%B7%20My%20wife%27s%20guinea%20pig%20taught%20me%20a%20life-changing%20lesson%20-%2016608241)
+
+Lawsuit Tracker
+
+- [Trump Administration Lawsuits Tracker: DOGE, Transgender Rights and More - The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/us/trump-administration-lawsuits.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wk4._zNU.SA6N8qhgBXhx)
+
+I'm always confused by misleading posts like this. We want a human touch, but are okay with algorithmic complacency.
+
+- [Matchmakers in India Now Have Competition: AI | The Walrus](https://thewalrus.ca/ai-arranged-marriage/)
+
+I want to be cool like Michael Shannon.
+
+- [Michael Shannon’s Latest Role: Touring in an R.E.M. Cover Band | Vanity Fair](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/michael-shannons-latest-role-touring-in-an-rem-cover-band)
+
+[You're Not Creating Enough Prototypes - Blog - zeroheight](https://zeroheight.com/blog/prototypes-with-design-systems/)
+
+[calculator-app - Chad Nauseam Home](https://chadnauseam.com/coding/random/calculator-app)
+
+[Comments on NASA's 10 rules](https://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/cosc345/resources/nasa-10-rules.htm?utm_source=tldrwebdev)
+
+[AI is Stifling Tech Adoption | Vale.Rocks](https://vale.rocks/posts/ai-is-stifling-tech-adoption)
+
+[Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction - Ars Technica](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/new-wikitok-web-app-allows-infinite-tiktok-style-scroll-of-wikipedia/)
+
+- [WikiTok](https://wikitok.vercel.app/)
+
+> I have this folder in my notes app called “hyperspecific media collections”, where I find a specific mood or topic I love and compile a media collection. They consist of book quotes, song lyrics, paintings, and scenes from movies or television shows. I love the idea that all forms of art and creativity are intricately connected, and seeing these parallels and similarities allows me to truly appreciate art.
+>
+> - [media collection: on love and yearning - postcards by elle](https://postcardsbyelle.substack.com/p/media-collection-on-love-and-yearning?__readwiseLocation=)
+
+Using AI to deconstruct the english language to its roots (e.g. latin, french, etc.)
+
+- [deconstructor.](https://deconstructor.ayush.digital/)
+
+A student educational tool
+
+- [Opennote](https://opennote.me/labs/introducing-feynman)
+
+[The Death of Government Expertise - The Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/career-civil-servant-end/681712/?gift=201cWZnM2XBz2eP81zy0pNpGHuDEUDm8pA20E1b4MvM)
+
+[The Right’s War on Wikipedia is Just a Repackaging of its War on Journalism](https://www.thewikipedian.net/p/right-wing-media-vs-wikipedia-reliability)
+
+- [Video: Become a Wikipedian in 30 minutes](https://blog.mollywhite.net/become-a-wikipedian-transcript/)
+- [Wikipedia: Why Project 2025’s creators want to dox Wikipedia’s volunteer editors.](https://slate.com/technology/2025/02/wikipedia-project-2025-heritage-foundation-doxing-editors-antisemitism.html)
+
+[Issue 77 – Whenever presidents get involved, if they become angry, you don't want to be there](https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-77/)
+
+- [Transcript of leaked call with Meteora’s Ben Chow](https://www.citationneeded.news/meteora-ben-chow-call-transcript/#footnote-anchor-14)
+- This is probably the best transcript I've read in a very long time. Holy shit
+
+[My Life in Weeks by Gina Trapani](https://weeks.ginatrapani.org/)
+
+![What You're Missing: A Notebook System for Your Life - YouTube](https://youtu.be/RVTplS-WwsA)
+
+- To be honest, the bullet journal doesn't appeal to me. Systems do. And personally made ones that take inspiration from these
+
+AOC on Facebook - [Know Your Rights Webinar | Join us for a Know Your Rights webinar with special guests from the Immigrant Defense Project. We will be discussing your rights when dealing with ICE](https://www.facebook.com/repAOC/videos/2608651289481502/)
+
+[Humanity's Last Exam](https://lastexam.ai/)
+
+[Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything](https://defragzone.substack.com/p/techs-dumbest-mistake-why-firing?utm_source=tldrwebdev)
+
+### Recommendations
+
+- Podcast: 99% Invisible - [Valley So Low](https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/613-valley-so-low/). I know about the inception of the TVA, but not about it's work since.
+  - Also, [Not Built For This - 99% Invisible](https://99percentinvisible.org/nbft/)
+- Book: [Non-things: Upheaval in the Lifeworld](https://www.amazon.com/Non-things-Upheaval-Lifeworld-Byung-Chul-Han-ebook/dp/B0B14PD1XQ) by Byung-Chul Han
+- Conference: [AI Engineer Summit Day 1](https://www.youtube.com/live/L89GzWEILkM)