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Day three of responding to the Sunshine Blogger Award from So Many Dishes. Guidelines What’s a random fact about you? Ah, the dreaded ice breaker question. This is the one I usually go with “Hi, I’m Mike. I’ve been at the company for...
The European Union spent four years drafting the AI Act, with OpenAI shipping GPT-4 to a hundred million users in two months. By the time Brussels finalised its definitions of "high-risk" systems, the systems in question had moved twice...
I can’t get enough of Midnight Radio from James Reeves. His twice-monthly mixtape drops might just be musical prisms of my brain. His anti-bullshit music app, Spite, is worth trying in tandem with Midnight Radio (and all the owned music...
The current state of the new back deck: In progress! The astute among you, who also remember anything about the previous deck, will notice two differences so far. Most obviously, those tall posts, which will serve for framing a roof, and...
A modular camera experiment
Myles Badger: Every egregore works like this: when enough people invest enough effort in a shared symbolic system, that system will start to take on a life of its own and develop an internal logic that no single contributor can fully...
Thanks to Chris Coyler for spotlighting the Internet Archive’s new book Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record (available in print and as a free e-book). Going right to the top of my to-read list. Chris reflects on...