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This is a really interesting & powerful post. Problems from the tech giants, algorithms & AI, suggesting learning and anger as possible ways to fight back.
Schlepped my way across all of athens to catch Ditz – one of brighton's finest bands – and they did not disappoint.
A some point I stopped fighting it and accepted that a mechanical keyboard and a killer gaming mouse was the old me. Current me is happiest with an apple Magic Keyboard and a trackpad. What a wide ravine I have cross in the lat five...
From Hellhound On His Trail: The Electrifying Account of the Largest Manhunt In American History, by Hampton Sides (Knopf Doubleday, 2010), Kindle pp. 365-366: “Passport please,” a young immigration officer named Kenneth Human said when...
Image was taken with an iPhone 17 Pro
TIL: Satsuma, the province in Japan that gives its name to a species of citrus fruits, produces sweet potatoes to the point that they’re known in Japan as Satsuma-Imo or Satsuma potato (薩摩芋). In fact, satsumas weren’t even native to the...
[Chatbot “journalism” is] nothing but a race to the bottom. – The Washington State News Guild A Moral Cancer (#1535) The absurd belief that “ultraprocessed foods” are essentially magical is increasingly popular with crypto-moralists:...
9 May 2026 Happy World Migratory Bird Day! Here are just a few of the birds Charity Kheshgi and I saw this week in Ohio. More to come in the days ahead! It’s time to get outdoors. p.s. The black-capped chickadee is non-migratory but he...
TL;DR Link to heading A cleanup PR removed an accidental guard in our release workflow’s git push logic. Three weeks later the workflow had pushed 119 self-generated bump commits. Fix: gate the release job on github.actor so the...
That's probably the wrong question.
I’ve just experienced the power of Brandolini’s Law on myself. It is an anecdotal observation which states that the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it. What happened?...