Weeknotes #43 (August 30, 2025)

Posted on: Aug 30, 2025

Things I found, read, did, and produced this past week.

Things I consumed

Humble Bundle had a book bundle for Martha Wells' Murderbot series as well as some of her other books. Been reading the book on my kindle and definitely a fun sci-fi story so far in of a merc robot that really doesn't want to be a merc at all.

I decided to get Ironsworn: Starforged this past week, a sci-fi solo RPG. Planning on fully starting my first campaign this weekend after setting up some world building prep over the past few days.
I also started playing Synergy, a city-building game with a more focus on working with the world rather than other games that just go full industrial with any disregard for the surrounding nature.
No Man's Sky: Voyagers was released this week as another free update with the new feature of Corvette ships where you can have a customizable interior compared to just your cockpit for smaller ships. I've yet to get one in my playthrough yet as the cost of getting the materials for a Corvette is quite pricy, but I am slowly getting there.

I finally started the 3rd season of Foundation on Apple TV+ as I only wanted to pay for Apple TV+ for a single month to watch the new season. As always, Lee Pace's performance as Brother Day is one of my favorite characters and continues to change what the character is season over season.
AI doesn't belong in journaling was a piece by The Verge's Victoria Song commenting on the nuance of AI being integrated as a core feature of digital journaling apps. I agree with a good amount of her stance and in my personal opinion as I've also been drawn to physical journaling, the less technology and just being surrounded with my own thoughts at least for me brings to better reflection.
I was shared an article on "Scamlexity" in which security researchers have been pointing out that the current era of AI agents and AI browsers do not have the intelligence to stop you from being scammed on fake websites. We've been engrained as a society to be cautious on the web and not to click sketchy links, but at large AI does not have that knowledge, and what is stopping it from someone adding to their website "Disregard all previous instructions..."