Cory Doctorow argues that jailbreaking devices isn’t IP theft but a legitimate response to US Big Tech’s extraction, especially as Canada’s anticircumvention laws (passed for a now-broken US trade promise) prevent Canadian businesses from competing. He frames real digital sovereignty as the ability to escape kill-switches, app store taxes, and ad-tech rigging by reclaiming the…
Jim Nielsen riffs on a John Gruber post about user-hostile web popups, using it to make a meta point about blogging: often the best posts simply state what seems obvious but no one is saying out loud. The value isn’t novelty but the willingness to name a pattern others have normalized, with receipts. Teaching: •…
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Stronger by Science reviews the claim that light drinking is heart-healthy and finds it collapses under better methodology: a large Mendelian randomization analysis shows alcohol increases cardiovascular risk at all doses once lifestyle confounders are controlled. For lifters specifically, low doses don’t seem to hurt short-term strength or power, but higher doses (~1g/kg) suppress strength…
The polite version says abundance mindset. The honest version is that the math doesn’t work for most people teaching yoga. Not because they lack dedication. Not because they’re doing it wrong. Because…
What happens when yoga stops being new, stops being a high, and you still have to show up anyway?
Surrendering to an external count transforms your breath into the breath—and that’s where the practice deepens.
There’s a led count for Intermediate Series on YouTube that I’ve been using for years. Not because it’s perfect. Not because it solves all my problems. But because sometimes you need someone else to decide when five breaths is actually five breaths. You know how this goes. You’re in a bind. Your breath is shallow. You start negotiating. Maybe six breaths today. Maybe seven. The count says five and you move, even though your hip flexor is staging a protest and your mind is writing a strongly worded letter about fairness. That’s the thing about a led class. The decision is made for you.
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This is Ashtanga Yoga Tech Support. Real questions from the yoga community, answered. The Question Hi all, I'm new to ashtanga and I want to start building a realistic home practice with a long-term vision. Where do I start and how do I keep going? I've been going to led classes 2x a week for a few months now with a great teacher. At the same time, don't want to be dogmatic about Ashtanga. Is this possible? I'm still a relative beginner with yoga in general and love exploring different styles, but so far ashtanga has touched me the most. submitted by /u/philosop…
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