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Agents need delegated access, not inherited human access. Put policy between the agent and the tool before agents touch real systems.
Hands are made to interact with the world. They lift a glass and feel its weight shift. They hold a hammer, adjust their grip, and sense resistance, pressure, texture, temperature, shape, and force. Most of that intelligence happens...
AR/VR products like Apple Vision Pro and Meta’s smart glasses are stepping stones at best toward a fully dynamic medium. One example of that direction is Bret Victor’s Dynamicland, where computation belongs in the room or environment, in...
Modern ad-driven technology companies like Meta, Google, YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram cannot invent genuinely novel user interfaces or interaction models. Their incentives are too misaligned with the needs of people who use computers...
Max Read: But times change, and so too does a man’s fashion. Zuck still shows up in photos in his boxy heavyweight tees, but he’s begun to rotate in—and even favor—soft, textured, lifelessly tasteful polos like the heather gray number...
Nau maiYesterday we played a show at the Detroit Fillmore. The first photograph of my new series From the Bus. Mortar oozes from century old brickwork in the alleyway behind the Fillmore. My breakfast was sliced strawberries, plums, and...
It’s Sunday, and it’s time for another “picdump!” Here are the memes, pictures, and cartoons floating around the internet that I found interesting or relevant this week. Share and enjoy! Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot...
Only a CRPG adventurer would pay 1,000 gold pieces for a ride on this ship. Guest entry by AlphabeticalAnonymous: Our party of six adventurers heads out in search of the Pitbeast, armed only with hand weapons such as knives, spears,...
Chris Santa Maria’s photo from the Met’s Raphael show of two small devotional paintings by Raphael on the backs of two amazing paintings I will not have seen the Raphael show before it closes tomorrow. But it wasn’t until twelve days...
Robert A. Heinlein invented the Armored Suit for his 1959 military adventure, Starship Troopers. Modern readers will see the Mobile Infantry’s armored suits through the lens of their own experience with microelectronics, and 60 years of...
Ghost Cartridge / Mantrakid – looking into people’s windows First up tonight, on a night when I’m seeking a semblance of harmony amidst the roar of preparation for a long vacation with two toddlers, are three songs from Mantrakid (Nate...
Links Posted to Thoughts The Week of 06-21-2026 There were 7 links posted this week. 06/27/2026 @21:07 Jeff Moss: [...], I spoke with two different people with experience in the VPN game. [...] The second person put the final nail in the...
The creation of the Mandalorian’s N-1 Starfighter was a clever attempt at some Star Wars™ fandom faction fusion. It blends what was beloved about the original trilogy’s lived-in, rugged, utilitarian, guts-on-the-outside design and...
Honey Deuce, US Open – Flushing, New York The US Open has an official cocktail called the Honey Deuce. It started in 2006 and is made with vodka, lemonade, raspberry liqueur, and honeydew melon balls that resemble tennis balls. It can be...
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