Marty McGuire

Marty Likes Things (Sometimes)

2026
Mon Feb 2
ā˜… Liked https://heatherburns.tech/2026/02/02/the-other-turing-test/
heatherburns.tech
post the other Turing test
A few months ago I wrote a blog post which, as they do, went to the top of Hacker News. When this happens, I tend to ignore the commentary for my own sanity, but with that recent post, there was one observation a few people made which made me quite happy.
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ā˜… Liked https://www.eteogames.com/winter-and-death-in-harvest-moon/
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Sun Feb 1
ā˜… Liked https://virtualmoose.org/2026/02/01/indie-game-roundup-feb-1-2026/
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ā˜… Liked https://100r.ca/site/log.html#jan2026
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Sat Jan 31
ā˜… Liked https://catvalente.substack.com/p/the-good-the-pretty-and-fear-itself
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ā˜… Liked https://reimaginednews.beehiiv.com/p/remembering-as-an-act-of-resistance
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Fri Jan 30
ā˜… Liked https://heatherburns.tech/2026/01/30/at-last-a-wonderful-day-in-parliament/
heatherburns.tech
post At last, a wonderful day in Parliament.
What an absolute honour and privilege it was to spend Wednesday morning in the House of Commons, alongside dissidents from Russia, Afghanistan, and China, speaking to Parliamentarians about the importance of end-to-end encryption.
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ā˜… Liked https://brennan.day/omg-lol-is-the-internet-we-need-right-now/
Brennan Kenneth Brown
post from omg.lol is the Internet We Need Right Now
There's something genuinely delightful I discovered that I need to tell you about right now. Something that made me, a person who has spent countless hours wrestling with corporate platforms and their endless enshittification, actually excited about the web again.
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ā˜… Liked https://www.theinfophile.com/archive/eeda-newsletter-vol-7-issue-3-ways-to-help-mn/
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Thu Jan 29
ā˜… Liked https://www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-joining-the-general-strike
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ā˜… Liked https://theinteriorofmybrain.com/2026/01/29/birthday-cats-and-yarn-chicken/
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ā˜… Liked https://www.theverge.com/policy/868571/best-gas-masks
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Wed Jan 28
ā˜… Liked https://www.terrygodier.com/phantom-obligation
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ā˜… Liked https://mastodon.mauve.moe/@mauve/115974543593496089
Mauve šŸ‘šŸ’œ
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It's exhausting watching people constantly shoot themselves in the foot by putting all their energy into platforms that are doomed to screw them over with the exact same patterns of being cheap and easy at first and inevitably shit once you're stuck there.
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ā˜… Liked https://dbushell.com/2026/01/28/mozilla-slopaganda/
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ā˜… Liked https://tess.oconnor.cx/2026/01/library
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ā˜… Liked https://matrix.org/blog/2026/01/28/matrix-on-cloudflare-workers/
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ā˜… Liked https://reimaginednews.beehiiv.com/p/take-action-against-ice-a-comprehensive-guide
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ā˜… Liked https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/hate-has-to-scatter-when-minneapolis
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Tue Jan 27
ā˜… Liked https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/01/the-dildo-distribution-delegation/
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ā˜… Liked https://whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.com/2026/01/04/no-exit-at-greenmount-avenue-signs-at-barclay-venable/
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ā˜… Liked https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/27/i-want-to-do-it/
Cory Doctorow
post from Pluralistic: Carney isn't a hero (and that's OK) (27 Jan 2026)
Today's links
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ā˜… Liked https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/26/why-we-speak/
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ā˜… Liked https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/eff-statement-lawless-actions-ice-and-cbp
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ā˜… Liked https://gregorlove.com/2026/01/grow-a-spine/
gRegor Morrill
post from Grow a Spine
Iā€™m sharing this letter I just sent to the 7 House Democrats that voted to fund the Department of Homeland Security. Feel free to borrow any language from this letter and give them hell yourself. I also recommend contacting your senators to urge them not to pass this budget.
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ā˜… Liked https://blog.zarfhome.com/2026/01/the-visible-zorker-patreon
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Mon Jan 26
ā˜… Liked https://social.coop/@cwebber/115962505760158198
Christine Lemmer-Webber
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listen you can make fun of gastown all you want but giving up on everything you loved about your craft is the future of your craft so if you don't get on board right now you are missing out
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ā˜… Liked https://wandering.shop/@cstross/115962846642179692
Charlie Stross
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ONE DAY until "The Regicide Report" drops!
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ā˜… Liked https://mastodon.mauve.moe/@mauve/115962923232644664
Mauve šŸ‘šŸ’œ
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New Blog post: I go over decentralized social media protocols like #nostr #ATProtocol and #ActivityPub and compare the tradeoffs between them.
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ā˜… Liked https://livelaugh.blog/posts/weekly-retro-51/
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