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I’m on a bus reading “Accelerando” on a cheap Chinese ereader hacked with open source firmware. Siri in my ears periodically interrupts with a spoken summary of a Slack message from the company lawyer and I shake my head to dismiss it;...
A frost at first but a lovely sunny day after. Cleaned B1 and B2 cars. Cut all the nettles in the field. Also did some hoeing up the drive. Did all the other chores.
This is the remand of the troubling Ninth Circuit Section 230 decision in Bride v. YOLO. As you may recall, the plaintiffs claims that YOLO made statements about its content moderation and the safety of its environment that the...
I realized today that switching my email service has been easier than usual not only because I’m taking an organic approach rather than a systematic one but because I have...
Facing the music in a different direction, that is! This is my twentieth weekly blog post documenting my fifth weekly jam. Nice. Now that I've done five versions of this music thing, I'm going to mess it all up a little. Specifically, I...
From In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette, by Hampton Sides (Knopf Doubleday, 2014), Kindle pp. 170-173: Collins was befuddled. It was true that he had never tested the lamps in San … Continue...
Seven years ago this month, I sent this list an essay about how I felt increasingly reluctant to be my real self online. I and many others, I wrote, were retreating from public view into the dark forest — a phrase borrowed from Cixin...
It's showcase season (but I only care about my indies)
I am reading through articles about announcements from Google I/O 2026, and I think this change Google is planning to make to Tiles in Wear OS 7 has to be one of the most idiotic design decisions I have seen. When you have a UI on a...
David Brooke / AIPT: DC has announced Batman & Robin: Year One – Dynamic Duos, a new 12-issue monthly series from Mark Waid and Chris Samnee, set to launch August 12, 2026. The series continues the story of Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson...
Immanent Domain is a tabletop RPG I’ve had on the backburner for a few years now. The premise (elaborated on in this prior post) is that someone figured out how to build machines that could cast spells, and instead of using this...
MEKANECK — HEROIC HUMAN PERISCOPE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE (MATTEL) Did you guys hear that the Masters of the Universe movie bombed at the box office? Isn’t that crazy, what with it not being out in theaters for another two weeks and all?...
by Kaye Dee Before the Traveller gives us his pearls of wisdom on the latest FSF issue, he’s offered me some space for an update on two of the current missions that I’ve covered in recent months. Still Moon Walking The USSR’s Lunokhod-1...