Tue Jun 16
(Dieser Text ist mein Beitrag zum Sammelband “KI und Demokratie” herausgegeben von Ramona Casasola-Greiner und Korbinian Rüger. Gerade in einer Zeit in der Ministerpräsidenten sich ihre Gastbeiträge und Reden vibe-schreiben lassen oder Bundesminister ihre Reden zum Bundestag oder in Ausschüssen aus irgendeinem...
June 2026. Sudbury. Suffolk. Mrs RM is, of course, correct in all matters (though she thought she saw Gareth Southgate playing for Australia v Turkey the other night), and is adamant that the only way you understand a place is with an overnight stay, whether the £227 Valley View, or my own more economical option...
Some time ago, I attended an event to discuss European digital autonomy and digital dependencies. I accepted the invitation without checking too carefully, and I belatedly found out that most of US big tech was invited as well, and would be presenting their thoughts. Now, even in our gloriously digitally autonomous...
Time for a new edition of Pook-Emu Bee links on this very pretty (in Brooklyn, at least) June 16. I took this phone on June 14, 2026, to send to Victor V. Gubo. 1. SCOTUS To Newman: Drop Dead (Josh Blackman at The Volokh Conspiracy. June 15, 2026.) Say what one will but if applied broadly, chief judges being able to...
“We need detachment… as much as we need engagement in our lives… transports that make our consciousness of time and mortality easier to bear.” “Our normal waking consciousness,” William James wrote in his pioneering work on transcendent experiences, “is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it,...
This is an entry from my journal. I comment on how I accept the world as-is. Over the past few weeks Atlas’ cancer has resurfaced. This time I will probably not be able to do anything about it, though I will still check with the medical experts. The cancer has already grown more than what it was a few months ago...
This time, my trip to Chennai was also a road trip. I got a ride with friends in the car, and it also gave us lots of time for conversation. As we were going to the convocation, the discussions turned to education and degrees. Though there are lots of folks dissing college education and degrees in the tech world. I...
We repainted the entire house. All of it. I spent two months boxing up books, paintings, toys, digital devices, more books, and candles and mugs and pen holders and desk photographs and dozens of miscellaneous knick-knacks, and glasses and goblets and bottles of wine and liquor, and documents, various speakers and...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:Smith_and_Farrow_in_the_Sunset.jpg|thumb|A view of the building where we stayed, from our cousin's place]] We stayed in [[wikipedia:Coquitlam]], [[wikipedia:British Columbia|BC]] for a while from May to Jun in 2026, and it was a pleasant...
AS THE READER MAY KNOW, I work for a law firm, as befits my deeply serious nature and inability to lie1. Today we felt the first cold fingertips of a sticky, clotted wind, a stupid portent of the truly dumb things that are surely to come: a client, unsatisfied with the already five-figure settlement we had managed...
El verano pasado compré el perfume de verano de Ffern, el del corto que os enseñé (y que me sigue encantando). Me sedujo la propuesta y ese anuncio, lo reconozco. Son 100€ al trimestre; no es barato pero es cierto que llevo tiempo con ganas de un perfume en condiciones para situaciones especiales, y como te ofrecen...
We have the incubator setup incubating a dozen eggs, including the last 2 our hen that was caught by the fox layed. Expect regular updates. 🐣 Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.
I don't subscribe to any streaming service partially because I don't want to get hooked to any TV series. I've heard great things about the Apple TV offering, so I recently watched two series: Pluribus and Murderbot. Out of nowhere, Apple became the new HBO, where the good stuff is. Those two series have very little...
In Hyde's recent Over/Under series of interview posts, David left the question "If you could be transported back in history to a period of time, when would it be and why?" for the next participant, who happened to be Elena Rossi. She gave a great answer, and then David and Hyde answered the same question too on...
Without me, there would be no observer that could experience or assign values to things. If I had not been born, there would be no one who would know that something like an "existence" is even an option. I am the prerequisite for my world to exist. If I died, my world would die with me. If ten minutes after my death...
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In the last month or so, as I've mentioned a few times before, I've been trying to tidy up some of my older personal Emacs Lisp packages. I thought I'd updated all the ones I commonly use, but it turns out I hadn't. Somehow I'd missed become.el. This is another one of those packages whose content started out as...
Private Cloud Compute is one of the most interesting parts of Apple’s AI strategy.It is also one of the parts that needs the most scrutiny.That might sound contradictory, but it is not. Good security architecture should invite scrutiny. If Apple is going to make Private Cloud Compute a trust anchor for Apple...
I’ve recently been looking around for some place that isn’t Instagram, isn’t Flickr, but is a quiet place to share some of (what I consider) my better photos. I am not a photographer but I like capturing moments… So I was delighted when Peter Gombos post I wanted Bear Blog, but for my photos bubbled up into my view....
Tres años después de empezar con la saga de Herederos del Tiempo de Adrian Tchaikovsky vuelvo a ella para hablaros de la tercera entrega titulada «Herederos del recuerdo». La saga que se compone de dos libros anteriores (de los que os hablé en el artículo enlazado) no termina con este tercero sino que continúa, al...
Hey hey! Good news, this was my birthday week! And it has been pretty awesome. The World Cup started, and as much as I hate everything behind the politics and the greediness of FIFA. Us Mexicans and many other people choose to focus on the beautiful game that brings the world together, no matter what. Alas, these...
As is required by middle-age, I’ve become opinionated about seltzer. So, I shall share my thoughts here. I’ve never really had a bad seltzer. The worst seltzers are really only bad because they’re too bland, not because their flavor is off-putting. Even the “meh” seltzers here work in a pinch, particularly if...
Thanks to David Meissner for proposing this! His contribution has some lovely entries and you should go read it! My old harddrive had years of collected samples and photography on it. It died was killed by an incompetent computer repair worker. I remember being stood at the bus stop holding my computer with my eyes...
In response to In the Battle for Attention I want to start with that I generally agree with this post, however I want to espouse some positivity aswell. Currently there is a strong growth in the indie web. More blogs are being created than are currently dying, and not only that; there is genuine enthusiasm for this...
What is OKF Google Cloud's Open Knowledge Format (OKF v0.1) was released on 12 June 2026 by Google Cloud and is essentially a formalisation of something developers and SEOs have been doing informally for a while — maintaining markdown knowledge bases. If you've used llms.txt, agents.md, or Obsidian-style vaults,...
Muchas veces nos preocupamos casi con obsesión por la permanencia del contenido que generamos en Internet. ¿Cuanto servicios desaparecieron en los últimos años. Las plataformas pioneras de blog son WordPress, Blogger, Open Diary, Live Journal y Typead: las últimas tres cerraron su operaciones luego de 20 años estar...
Marks on the sand at low tide, like a sumi-e ink painting. 砂の中の山 干潮時の砂に刻まれた跡は、まるで墨絵のようだ。
AI "assisted" Code is still generative AI and it's weird how people try to justify that it's not Last week I wrote at length about how much I was enjoying the Spirit Crossing playtest, a life sim MMO being built by the team that made Cozy Grove. One of the first things I did before loading up the game was check to...
RFC 10008 was published on June 15, 2026 and defines a new HTTP method: QUERY. It fills a gap that has existed for as long as I have been building APIs. You have data to send to the server in order to describe what you want back, but GET does not have a body and POST is neither safe nor idempotent. QUERY gives you a...
2026-06-16Hello!Thank you very much to those who have passed me some funds yesterday and early this morning. I appreciate the support. For those who don't know what I'm talking about: I'm putting together a budget to repair my photography kit after some unexpected failures.Tip JarI'm not going to go through the full...
In June of 2026, Arch Linux experienced a real hurdle: a large number of packages were taken over and turned evil. Orphaned packages (as of writing, 1,935 known packages; roughly 1.8% of the AUR) were hijacked by bad actors and loaded with malware. If you use the AUR and have done a system update in the last week,...
So I currently have three clankers working for me, currently, all built using Claude Code. However, only one of them works in the traditional "here is a prompt, now go and build the software" kind of way. We use Linear for issue tracking. It's not the greatest software in the world - but then I don't think there's...
I’ve spent a fair bit of time on the receiving end of webmentions, from adding support for them in the first place through to fetching them at build time and rendering them server-side so the discussion section doesn’t flicker in over JS. What I’d never actually done was send the other half. Every link I’ve ever...
Me surgió la curiosidad (¿siempre digo eso no?) de como es que surgió esta palabra, porque me parece una palabra muy única pero que además es muy usada. Para quien no la conozca, ya que el español es muy diverso y las palabras cambian dependiendo del país en el que se esté, agüitado significa (al menos en México)...
Governments and firms are turning to philosophers and other scholars more and more in regard to the ethics of developing and regulating technology. Yet this engagement with ethics may be superficial, careless, or even manipulative—and the ethicists involved may not even be in a position to realize this....
fivepoints.mattglassman.net via publicannouncement.org This is also why youth and amateur soccer, as a game, can be more fun to watch than pro soccer. The comparative lack of skill and relative inability to control the ball create a situation where it’s strategically less rewarding to be passive, and the continual...
The U.S.–China relationship is usually described as a rivalry. Its core mechanism is a recycling machine — and the people who pay for it don’t get a vote on either side. In 2025, as tariffs climbed and “decoupling” became the organizing word of American China policy, China’s external surplus did not shrink. It hit a...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] At the end of yesterday’s post about the combinatorics of the World Cup group stage, I said “this is good enough for me.” Turns out that was a lie. Today I rewrote some of the...
Welp, I'm doing it. I'm canceling my Pinboard subscription. I've actually been a Pinboard customer for a very long time. I found Pinboard way back in 2010 when Yahoo said they were sunsetting Delicious. It's my second longest used service with first going to Last.fm. My first scrobble was all the way back in 2005: 🎸...
Mi-am cumpărat de pe Vinted un Palm M100. Acum trebuie să învăț să îl folosesc. Palm M100 Mulțumesc că urmărești ThinkRoot prin RSS. Poți folosi și Atom sau JSON Feed.
I recently gave a talk at a doctoral school in Belgium about alternatives to Big Tech software: do they exist, where are they, and how to find them? I figured it might be useful to other people as well, so I'm sharing the presentation here. There are a myriad reasons to opt out of Big Tech: ethics, privacy,...
The Wonderful and Amazing Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge mtift Tue, 06/16/2026 - 07:58 Over the weekend Marnie and I drove up to Duluth to celebrate her birthday at our favorite bed and breakfast on Park Point. We’ve spent a lot of time in Duluth and have done all the touristy things with our kids, but she planned a...
Buy tickets at the box office and save good money AND get a real ticket. Also? Comedy podcast tours are not for me.Currently Listening: Taylor Swift “I Knew It, I Knew You Taylor Swift”Reply via email
In the past few months I have unwittingly become an expert on all things W Social: the microblogging platform that is a fork of Bluesky and bills itself as Europe’s alternative to X, with identity verification “to fight bots and misinformation” and data hosted in Europe “to promote European digital sovereignty”. Why...
June 16, 2026 I’ve been using Drafts for years. It’s the starting point for almost everything I write. Over time, I’ve settled on two specific features that keep me moving fast and out of the menus. My Command Palette setup The Command Palette is a game-changer for my workflow. I hit Cmd+Shift+P (or tap the icon),...
In iPhone’s accessibility settings you can choose the allowed speed of double- and triple-clicks on its side button (why is it important? we talked about it once), and the interface does something nice – after you make your choice, it shows the expected speed in the same place a sort of a preview: To be honest with...
Google will remove the last traces of Manifest v2, the feature that enabled robust ad-blocking extensions like uBlock Origin, in Chrome versions 150 and 151. Chromium forks — Edge and Opera — have signaled they will follow Google’s lead, though no firm deadlines have been set. Manifest v3-compliant ad blockers work,...
Web Dev UpdatesStale Files on BunnyI was checking my Bunny.net (affiliate link) dashboard a few days ago and noticed some stale files in the root directory for this site. I thought every time I build and deploy the Hugo /public to Bunny, it’ll clear the old files—but I was wrong. Originally, I wanted to just delete...