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Why is this an “app”? This summer, the kids’ performing arts school are singing and dancing in a show at Disneyland. We’re all very excited, but my excitement, at least, was muted a little when I was told to install the “Travelbound” app...
I have a radio show every Sunday from 5p-7p Eastern on Inhailer.com. I’ve decided to publish my playlists here, both to keep track of my shows for my own records and to give y’all a sense of what I’m spinning...
This week I finally got an opportunity to sit down and play around with the tsnet library from Tailscale. I used it to build a demo application called TSHelp. This is a short write up of what I built and learned.What is tsnet?Lets start...
Are U.S. armaments firms getting the orange chaos agent to simmer down a bit? –> “Trump has decided to align more closely with NATO than before. Analyst Badrak explains why” news.liga.net/en/politi…
I am going to an exhibition of Frida Kahlo’s work at the Tate Modern tomorrow with a friend. I was listening to a podcast about it. My husband started rolling his eyes at the mention of the term “intersectionality”. This poem is the...
There’s a lot of talk about “digital currency,” but as far as I can tell, my bank account and retirement account, along with my credit cards and mortgage payments, have already been maintained in digital form for many years now. I...
Is it Friday yet?
Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***What was occurring in this week of exactly fifty years ago?This was occurring.The UK's legendary heat wave peaked with a...
“As Russia continues bombing Ukraine, international sports organizations embrace Moscow” kyivindependent.com/as-russia… #RussiaIsATerroristState
There is an old Steve Jobs clip from a 1992 MIT Sloan talk that feels newly relevant in the age of AI. In the talk, available here as Steve Jobs MIT 1992 Lecture, Jobs is asked about consultants. His answer is not that consultants are...
I took my Dutch bike in for servicing today (to get my brake pads replaced) and calculated some usage statistics. Indeed, on the ride from home to the bike store, I crossed 7,000 km of total distance on the bike. One interesting element...
A Is For AmericaIt’s increasingly clear that nobody has a plan for if this AI thing turns out to be real. Some people have suggestions, but they’re all things like “regulate a little more” or “regulate a little less” or “react to things...
The numbers are simply mind-blowing: up to £264 billion for a climate “solution” that will increase emissions. Has the government lost its mind? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 8th July 2026 The new prime minister will be...
Lately, I have been addicted in scrolling through Reddit. There are no specific topics, I just let it show me all kinds of interesting videos or topics. I would scroll it while waiting for the elevator. There was once, I even scroll it...
Hello, loves! We’ll glance at Flooder, to see if it needs any improvement (it surely well), then improve it. (Brief oblique cut at LLMs, oligarchs, etc.) I am not ashamed to say that I’m pleased with how the change to Flooder went in. We...