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v44 - Can't get it up

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Hey, look! Breaking Change now has chapter support for each segment! More on how I did that while still upholding my commitment to laziness later.

I didn't get a good job connecting this version's release to what I was referencing, so to be clear I was referring to my heart rate as opposed to any other bodily functions. The other ones are getting up just fine, thank you. Get your head out of the gutter.

Thanks for all the great e-mails the last couple weeks! Throw yours on the pile at podcast@searls.co. Hopefully Fastmail won't lose it.

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      <description><![CDATA[<p>Hey, look! Breaking Change now has <strong>chapter support</strong> for each segment! More on how I did that while still upholding my commitment to laziness later.</p>
<p>I didn't get a good job connecting this version's release to what I was referencing, so to be clear I was referring to my <em>heart rate</em> as opposed to any other bodily functions. The other ones are getting up just fine, thank you. Get your head out of the gutter.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the great e-mails the last couple weeks! Throw yours on the pile at <a href="mailto:podcast@searls.co">podcast@searls.co</a>. Hopefully <a href="https://join.fastmail.com/a29cc1ac">Fastmail</a> won't lose it.</p>
<p>For the folks who pronounce URLs like Earls:</p>
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<li><a href="https://echofeed.app/">Echofeed</a> is like POSSE Party, kind of</li>
<li>Only <a href="https://posseparty.com">POSSE Party</a> is POSSE Party. Working on it.</li>
<li>Aaron's <a href="https://justin.searls.co/puns/">puns, ranked</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://indiadispatch.com/p/hollow-at-the-base">India is fucked</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/relationships/marriage-wealthy-luxury-class-3f792e67">Why Marriage Is Increasingly for the Affluent</a> (<a href="https://apple.news/AJzz0L71SRn2uCTJIeNr3sA">News+</a>)</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.theverge.com/report/781673/meta-demo-fail-connect-2025-mark-zuckerberg-google-glass-steve-jobs-wi-fi">Meta's bad demos</a> and <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/19/meta-cto-explains-why-the-smart-glasses-demos-failed-at-meta-connect-and-it-wasnt-the-wi-fi/">explanations</a></li>
<li><a href="https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/18/steve-jobs/#atom-everything">Steve Jobs smoking the good shit</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.expedition33.com">Expedition 33</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Odyssey">Super Mario Odyssey</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_of_Us_season_2">The Last of Us Season 2</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invincible_%28video_game%29">The Invincible</a></li>
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