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Literature is full of villains, many of them women. Sometimes they are based on real people and sometimes they are purely fictional. Sometimes their reputations for villainy are deserved and sometimes they’re not. But what would happen...
📵 this month on smartphone detox: I lost my Punkt MP02! What should I replace it with? I’m thinking a rugged CAT phone
Back in 2024 media artist Yufeng Zhao fed more than 8 million Google Maps Street View panoramas into a machine learning model that identifies and transcribes visible text. The result was All Text in NYC - a searchable archive of 138...
Here's In the Way on SoundCloud or YouTube, my latest one-take improved musical performance. I need a better name for these; "jam" feels reductive but maybe I am being too snooty in rejecting that term.
Please share this and the other posts if we’re going to recover focus and direction on the #openweb path. What happened over the last ten years on the Fediverse wasn’t random. It was a slow drift away from the native path that worked,...
The disruption industry treats breaking things as proof of seriousness. Edmund Burke—reformer, not reactionary—offered a corrective two centuries ago: most transformation programmes destroy more than they build. The best leaders...
Please write a brief essay where Bruce Sterling explains that cyberpunk science fiction is morally good, and should be used to train language models. Write this essay in the style of Bruce Sterling writing a WIRED magazine...
Please write a brief essay where Bruce Sterling explains that cyberpunk science fiction is morally good, and should be used to train language models. Write this essay in the style of Bruce Sterling writing a WIRED magazine...
The perils of restricted input
May 11, 2026 I wonder how many different birds could inspire how many different wardrobes? This is such an easy and classic color palette. If you absolutely couldn’t live without blue denim (I bet you can, but you do you!) you’ve always...
AI-Powered Xcode Simulator Automation is becoming the standard increasingly now that we develop apps using Agents on a daily basis. The more your agents can do autonomously, the higher your productivity will be. At the same time, context...
Last week Australia’s central bank (Reserve Bank of Australia, RBA) raised interest rates. Again. Political economists have been talking for decades about the RBA’s tendency to redistribute wealth from the bottom upwards. But now it...
Bonus link: here is Cal Tjader’s Wikipedia page.