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It is the Romancing the Vote auction, raising funds for voting rights here in the US and I have two items I am going to get a little long winded about, even though they already have descriptions. First, I love quotes. I used to have a...
Not much media consumption these last few months…. Recommended Nothing Maybe Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes — Fascinating book covering what the title says. A History of Japan by Kenneth Henshall — I think intro history...
We, or at least ‘more than 100 American institutions,’ got Mythos back this week. What we the people do not have is Fable or Sol. While we wait for both Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6-Sol, today we instead got Claude Sonnet 5. As usual it...
Related to my previous blog post, here are some of the interesting things I heard for the first time on the radio over the past couple of months.
Last month, retired U.S. soccer champion Abby Wambach visited Bristol Myers Squibb for our People Week keynote event. She told us that her speaking career began shortly after she retired, when she was asked to give a commencement speech...
The Lindy Effect is a theorized phenomenon by which the future life expectancy of some non-perishable thing, like a technology or an idea, is proportional to its current age. The project age is now the first thing I check when people...
by Cláudio Alves This year, I was lucky enough to attend the 50th edition of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival and Market. The festivities ended this past weekend, with Ervin Han and Raúl García’s The Violinist taking the...
Want to check out a somewhat obscure Masters of the Universe villain? Then let's take a look at Blast-Attak from Masters of the Universe Origins. Blast-Attak was part of the 1987 series of action figures and is a bit unusual as he was...
Welcome to my June 2026 Brutally Honest Earnings Report, where the long-term goal remains unchanged: trying to cover my gear and travel costs entirely through stock income. I’ve just come back from six weeks in Rio de Janeiro on what I’d...
Longtime readers of the blog are aware that I generally am not a fan of sauces. I didn't enjoy ketchup until I was in my 20s, and was astonished when I enjoyed Freddy's Fry Sauce. That said, I have always loved a good spice mix/dry...
In Part 1, we introduced the idea that coding agents like Claude Code may chose to scrape using a direct request from the host and a proxied request via Anthropic Infrastructure. In this post, we’ll start isolating traffic for an...
I wanna expand on something I wrote a few months ago: One of the features of “AI” is the diffusion of responsibility: “AI” systems are being put in all kinds of processes and when they fuck up (and they always fuck up) it was just the...
I got back from a wonderful vacation and immediately got swamped with emails and meetings. Can I go back? - Stonington ME
Read the full post at - Click by Ori Baufmann Click by Ori and Rom Brafman is a fun, fast little pop science book about why some relationships just…click. Why do some people go from strangers to fast friends in an afternoon while others...