Mon Aug 24
I was listening to Ezra Klein’s interview with Helen Toner about the recent OpenAI hack of Hugging Face and the subsequent discovery that there were swarms of agents inside OpenAI doing unsanctioned activities. One of the points Klein made was that at no point did any of these (thousands of?) agents ever try to...
A 1958 “Buy Canadian” promotion from the Canadian Advertising Association, found on Reddit.
I linked this article by JA Westenberg in my last linkdump, and in it she mentions that she has a "How I AI" section on the about page of her blog. A different post I read this week talks about the authenticity of digital art in an age where everybody can just slop generate everything with a few prompts. And then...
Dos años es muy poco para un blog, pero teniendo en cuenta que muchos son abandonados dentro de los 18 primeros meses, dejando la mayoría de publicar a los tres meses, dos años ya dejan de parecerlo. Otros blogs desaparecen por varios meses, para luego escribir una nueva entrada y desaparecer por años o...
Today I was on vacation and I have been watching YouTube videos all day long for some reason. I could have finished a videogame or a book in all this time. However, I was watching a long playthrough of Outer Wilds. Because I have finished that game and I am absolutely thrilled about it. What a videogame, please play...
This has been updated with better links, better commands, and some extra optional advanced configuration tutorials. Notes about writing manuscripts in Markdown are after the conversion tutorials. You can also find other Shun Manuscript templates on this website Introduction. I love Markdown. I love it so much that...
Când eram copii, adolescenți sau chiar adulți, și înainte să apară public inteligențele artificiale, când ne uitam la un film SF sau la un clip cu roboți și alte automatizări, sigur 90% din populația lumii ne întrebam sau ne gândeam cel puțin cât de fain ar fi să existe roboți și inteligență artificială care să facă...
Of course it’s okay to criticize people for their tech choices — for returning to X, for instance, as MacStories recently did. I’m not on X and there’s no way I would return. Fuck that place and fuck Elon Musk. (Yes, there’s a brentsimmons there, but it’s not me. I deleted my account.) But it’s not like my tech...
This is kinda silly to point out but here we are, I mean, yes a game will be best played using the controller it was designed around. This isn't a thing to dwell on, but I had some notes. This weekend I saw an ad for preorders of the new Fable game. Having played the first two eons ago I figured I should give the...
August 2026. Cardiff. I’d dragged Mrs RM down to South Wales for a few days to escape the monotony of that Yorkshire-Cambridge-Kent run, and treated her to a couple of nights in the Zip hotel on the corner of David Lloyds sprawling fitness centre that impressed me so much in 2023. £31 a night buys you a windowless...
I didn't use my Sony A7IV nearly as much as I was expecting during my trip. A big part of that was either having my hands full with kids, or being on the bike. Still, I managed to get a few shots of Baotou! A street lined with restaurants and shops The hammer of justice China's characteristic wide boulevards A place...
Montag, 24.08.2026 Montag. Es zieht sich. Aber wir müssen das nicht tun, richtig? Also fangen wir ganz niederschwellig an. Vermehrt Schönes sehen, aber als Tagesziel. Ganz allgemein bin ich ja für mehr Flamboyanz im Alltag. Aber was weiß schon ich? Heute nicht allzu viel vorgenommen, nur das Nötigste: 1) Dinge...
The last year I have been experimenting a lot with my computer setup. I used both Omakub and Omarchy for a while, and even tried Windows(!) and plain Ubuntu. All of the experimenting inevitably made me end up with the following setup: Macbook + Ubuntu Server, using Mosh, Herdr and Tailscale. Why back to MacOS? As...
The Paper Jam Comics Collective will be making comics at Jesmond Library this Saturday. Pop along and join in! Make a mini comic, join a drawing game! If you think you can’t draw you are doubly encouraged to join in.
Dass dieser Post nur 725 Wörter hat verrät vielleicht schon, worauf sich der Titel bezieht. Das Experiment findet sein vorzeitiges Ende, ich kehre zu ge- und bekannteren Formen zurück, jedenfalls ein bisschen. Habe in den letzten Tagen ein bisschen pausiert. Vor allem, weil ich mir Gedanken darüber gemacht habe,...
Compose 1000 x 1000 composite images in the Xerox style. https://chaoclypse.itch.io/xerox-hell
Language is the chalice we lift to our lips to taste our own experience — a vessel that constrains what it contains by giving it its own shape. The more complex our experience, the more muddled the emotions that comprise it, the more it spills outside what language can hold. And yet we live in language — narrative...
A (very) short history of trying things on for size and giving them upMore times than I'd care to count, I've tried to start a journaling habit. I've tried different methods to make it stick. It never did. I've bought various notebooks over the years and tried taking notes at work and in general in life. I would...
Earlier this month, the journal Philosophy & Public Affairs published an article largely written by an AI. [Rubén Núñez – “Kinetic Experiment”]The article was described as an experiment by the philosopher who submitted it, Simon Goldstein (Hong Kong), and its publication was similarly described by the journal’s...
One of the topics I am currently investing a bit more research in, given my recent move to cut my hair, is razors, shaving, skull shaving, shaving blades, electric shavers, and everything around that. I even created a subpage listing the razors I am using. One thing I wonder about, especially since I am not finding...
I had a best friend in middle school. Our birthdays are two days apart, except I’m a year older than her. For two days every year, we would joke that we were the same age. It was one of those silly little things that probably didn’t mean much to anyone else, but we made something of it between us. We stayed in touch...
Web3, the ‘era’ of the web supposedly ushering in blockchain technologies and other such fluff, has undoubtedly been a bust. Perhaps not for the bank accounts of manipulators, but a bust in general. Blockchain has very few legitimate applications. NFTs went down like the Hindenburg, and cryptocurrencies have...
This is a response to James' posts about inspiration from physical artifacts and how to organize them. My home bookshelf is almost full, but it still houses a bunch of reference books that can be used for my creative projects. Most of those artifacts come from immediate family members, though some of them have been...
I really like the IndieWeb Is Punk initiative by Jim Mitchell, because the eight points in his manifesto express exactly what I think about the IndieWeb too. “Own your domain. Own your data. Own your identity.“ … “Have fun, or what’s the point?“ … “We don’t need major platforms.“ Along with the website...
Context: Placemark is a tool that lets you view, create, and edit geospatial (map) data. I ran it as a company for a while and open sourced it when I shut down that company.Yesterday Placemark got a pretty big PR from Birk Skyum, replacing its dependency on Mapbox GL JS with MapLibre, along with some other...
A friend asked for help setting up a blog, so I went with #Pureblog (obviously). We went from nothing to fully working blog, with all the customisations she wanted in about 25 minutes. I know I'm bias, but I love how flexible and powerful Pure Blog is becoming. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and...
Yesterday, I made this Facebook post which sums up my Sunday morning:"We had a great morning at Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church, where I preached on Matthew 16 and ended my sermon by asking us to think about how our lives themselves are gospels that testify to the identity of Jesus and his role in our lives. We...
We’re back from the weekend with a new edition of the Pook-Emu Bee links. 1 | OpenAI builds dedicated ChatGPT experience for teens with parental controls and study features (Eric Revell for Fox Business. August 18, 2026.) This is heartwarming and all but what if the kids just went outside and tried reading once in a...
2026-08-24Hello!I got in early to secure front-row seats to an all-day practice session between multiple tennis players at the US Open. They were free.The first athlete I saw was Jessica Pegula from the US, who practiced for about an hour and a half before the next session started.I saw well-known tennis players...
Once upon a time, on a train in Spain, a man peered across the carriage and saw none-other than Pablo Picasso himself. Mustering his courage, he approached the debauched artist, “Pablo, why does everything you paint look so strange? Blue? Cubes? What’s that all about? Why don’t you paint things realistic?” “What’s...
I don’t tend to follow the work of an author, whilst I read my fair share of novels (25-30 a year), I switch up between various categories as I’m more interested in the wordsmithery, the imagery, and the storytelling of a novel than the genre. I’m as happy reading a ‘beach book’ —typically a police crime thriller—...
They're everywhere, we might as well photograph them As summer starts to trundle to a close (I know, I KNOW I'm mad too) I realized that I've accumulated several weeks worth of photos of random rabbits I've photographed while out on walks and like, the best time to have edited and shared them would have been...
There’s an idea the old discussion forums, once a fixture on the web, fell out of favour because after a decade or two, people wanted a change. Social media was that change, and we all flocked there. But from the late nineties (though they’d been around earlier), through to maybe the end of the first decade of the...
香港雞公嶺 🎵 你知道天空有多蓝 - 椅子乐团 The Chairs 上周二和女友去爬了香港 雞公嶺，之所以想去，是之前看到了一些別人拍的圖片，山頂大片的綠、天空大片的蓝，還有雪白得刺眼的 濃積雲，就像是宫崎駿動画裡的埸景，一直想去看看。要看到這樣的景色，得在夏天去才行，這時山上的草還是綠的，也更容易看到大片的好看的濃積雲。...
At the end of May I made a list of 12 games and decided that I should complete at least 5 of them. Here is what happened… 5/12 completed! The minimum requirements of the challenge were met. To be honest, I’m content with having completed the challenges, but I could have given myself something harder to do. 1CC for...
I've just made a small but important bug fix to Rogallo. Currently, I'm working on a more comprehensive approach to managing client-side certificates and, in doing so, I noted a bug with how such certificates are currently created by Rogallo. Simply put: by default, Rogallo should create certificates that...
Tune in to other writers My overarching theme for this month has been music: I’ve been listening to it, playing it, and also writing about it more often in August. As the well-known quote, writing about music is like dancing about architecture, already warns us, this hasn’t always been easy. Luckily, there are...
this has been an idea file in my blog folder for weeks, and today, it just wrote itself. The world is overwhelming, and it’s hard to find ways to deal with that. I know one way, a way that has been part of my life since my childhood: crafting. Instead of getting angry about whatever is in the news, pick up knitting...
First: hi, this is the official Kaijuville entree into RSS Club. Email subscribers to this site got a second ping last week, because somehow while proofing my previous entry I managed to delete the last image and had to send a postscript. So not a very big bonus, but if you’re reading this via syndication, it seems...
My journey to using and programming computers started around 1983 with a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K, the very first I owned. At the time I was clueless. For example, I wondered whether, once I loaded a program from tape, I needed to write it back at the end of the session so that it didn't vanish when turning off the...
It's hard to look away, even when Tori plays some deep cut you don't know, as the music is entrancing and everyone's locked in like a spell has been cast.Currently Listening: Tori Amos “Past the Mission”Reply via email
Ilya Birman on his blog talks about interfaces that unnecessarily slow people down, in a series of two posts. In the first one, titled “Let me click,” Birman shows a few places that force the user to go through a roundabout series of clicks, instead of taking a direct route: In Aegea’s comment settings, there is a...
I really enjoyed this fable of the product that’s built too quickly. I’m sure it’s extremely familiar to many of you. It’s the story of a startup that aims to build a next-generation oven. They get funding on the back of a pitch deck, then build the prototype. It’s a long way short of perfect, but is good enough to...
At least three literary birthdays today – Max Beerbohm (born 1872, a birthday I've marked more than once on this blog), Jean Rhys (born 1890, on the Caribbean island of Dominica) and Jorge Luis Borges, mentioned here the other day as a literary librarian. His library career took an interesting turn in 1946, when the...
Since I’ve got an exhibition of my life-drawings coming up in September I’ve been thinking about the importance of observational drawing, and life-drawing in particular, within my artistic practice. The act of drawing plays an important, if sometimes behind-the-scenes, role in nearly every artists’ practice,...
This storm was way out in the North sea and whilst quite active with lightning, it was really difficult to see through the haze and capture anything decent. This was probably the best shot from about an hours worth of watching. And a couple of nights later, this storm was much closer to our South, but we spotted it...
Modern IDEs let you jump from project to project with ease. Neovim doesn’t have this feature, so folks usually keep a few terminal windows or tabs open or jump between Zellij or tmux multiplexer panes. As you can imagine, there are also a gazillion plugins to fill this gap. None of these fits my bill, so I spent a...
Hey! Paper jam on the scanner. OK, I’ll remove the jammed paper and then press the stop button. So what do you think happens when I press the stop button? I’ll give you a chance to guess… Yes, exactly! It starts passing all the remaining sheets in the feeder through the machinery, but without scanning. I’m sure...
Baseline The plugin for building agents based on the A2A protocol is here. I start with the simple bookshop project and add the plugin: gh repo clone capire/bookshop \ && cd bookshop \ && npm add @cap-js/agents Agentification I apply the @agent annotation to the CatalogService in srv/cat-agent.cds: using {...
Like the falcon I shall live in cliffs and wild mountains there I will build my nest on the land that rejects the opportunists Through my everyday life I will demonstrate to people that honour cannot be sold integrity cannot be bought and the values of the ancestors are above profit Όπως το γεράκι θα ζήσω σε...
Apesar desse mês eu ter escrito mais sobre alguns CDs do que eu jamais imaginei, eu ainda salvei mais música pra compartilhar do que eu imaginei também. Eu achei que esse mês seria bem menos cheio de músicas do que os anteriores, mas pra minha surpresa não foi. E esse é um dos meses que tem mais diversidade na...
They’ve been dubbed the Maryland 400: a regiment of volunteers considered the state’s most disciplined and well-equipped military force. In July 1776, with thousands of British soldiers already in New York readying themselves for war against a woefully unprepared Continental Army, the men in the First Maryland...
Spent my down time at work today elbows deep in the files for my book in eternal progress. There are things in my notes that I’ve both completely forgotten about and that I’ve completely forgotten what I was going to do with. Happily I don’t feel upset about any of that, and I can work with all of it going forward....
This is a first. I have NEVER shared a recipe with anyone, let alone online. Not because I am selfish, but because I am NOT a cook. Keeping that in mind, here is my recipe for "elevated" mushroom toast (made for my wife). Elevated Mushroom Toast Ingredients (nothing has to be exact): Baguette Butter Shaved parmesan,...
Some thoughts about Please let me interact with your blog post! You can probably tell from my blog that I am quite asthetically spartan. I am a huge believer in function over form, and while that doesn't mean that I complete disregard form, I find pages that refuse to stay still very anoying. I don't want text to...
I think about this all the time. I'm in my 50s, so Gen X. I grew up with great fucking music, y'all. And now all these Gen Z assholes get to discover all my favorite music, plus all the new shit coming out. God, imagine discovering Tool, Nine Inch Nails, and Metallica for the first time. Imagine discovering The...
♠ Problem statement: I often type commit (only) what you changed in coding agent harnesses. Can I make an abbreviation out of it? Pi turns a Markdown file in ~/.pi/agent/prompts/ into a /slash command. This one gives me /commit: --- description: Commit files changed in this turn without pushing --- Commit what you...
A collection of old computer games that run directly from the browser. (Get ready for some big downloads.) Saw this link in the Codecon newsletter [pt_BR].