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• Jason Kottke

Significant Find of Cambrian Explosion Fossils

A recent paper in Nature details what scientists found at the Huayuan biota: Here we report the Huayuan biota — a lower Cambrian (Stage 4, approximately 512 million years ago) BST Lagerstätte from an outer shelf, deep-water setting of the Yangtze Block in Hunan, South Chi...

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• Jason Kottke

Culinary Students Given Live Baby To Learn How To Care...

Culinary Students Given Live Baby To Learn How To Care For Bag Of Flour. I laughed so hard at this.

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Introducing the Codex app

Introducing the Codex app OpenAI just released a new macOS app for their Codex coding agent. I've had a few days of preview access - it's a solid app that provides a nice UI over the capabilities of the Codex CLI agent and adds some interesting new features, most notably fir...

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• Jason Kottke

Volleyball Player Does Sliding Dogeza Apology

During an exhibition, Japanese volleyball player Yuji Nishida hit a courtside judge in the back with an errant serve. He immediately sprinted across the court and dove prostrate in apology. The gesture was a sort of sliding dogeza: Even in a country where a sincere apolo...

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• Jason Kottke

As part of their coursework, students at UC Berkeley are...

As part of their coursework, students at UC Berkeley are contributing edits to Wikipedia about “LGBTQ+ history, with an emphasis on queer and trans people of color”. They’ve added 300,000+ edits and 3,000+ citations.

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Dan’s Polaroids

02.02.2026

A close up of a small part of a black desk from overhead. You see parts of a black trackpad, one half of a black split keyboard and pen and pape.
Desk

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• Jason Kottke

The Schoolchildren of Minneapolis . “As thousands...

The Schoolchildren of Minneapolis. “As thousands of ICE agents arrived, kids started staying home from school. A local principal, teachers, and parent volunteers have banded together to keep the families safe.”

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• Jason Kottke

Autocratic backfire : when dictators construct echo...

Autocratic backfire: when dictators construct echo chambers, overestimate their abilities, and dismiss their adversaries’ capabilities, leading to weakening or ruin. Examples: Mussolini, Putin, and now (hopefully) Trump.

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A Social Network for A.I. Bots Only. No Humans Allowed.

A Social Network for A.I. Bots Only. No Humans Allowed. I talked to Cade Metz for this New York Times piece on OpenClaw and Moltbook. Cade reached out after seeing my blog post about that from the other day. In a first for me, they decided to send a photographer, Jason Henry...

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• Jason Kottke

Darren Aronofsky’s AI Studio Used Artificial...

Darren Aronofsky’s AI Studio Used Artificial Intelligence Tools for Revolutionary War Animated Series. Interesting use of “animated” to mean “AI-generated photorealism”. I watched the trailer…everything looks vaguely plastic.

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Global News Podcast

Israel opens Rafah border crossing

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The reopening of the Rafah crossing is a key part of President Trump’s ceasefire plan for Gaza, but only about 50 Palestinians are being allowed to cross in each direction, each day. Also: Pakistan begins a nation-wide anti-polio campaign to vaccinate more than 45 million ch...

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Groundhog Day Meaning

Originally, the ceremony used a variety of rodents and mustelids, but over time most people agreed it made sense to standardize on a specific individual ground squirrel in Pennsylvania.

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• Jason Kottke

Do you know about the original vampire ending for Marty...

Do you know about the original vampire ending for Marty Supreme? (You heard me.)

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• Jason Kottke

Tim Burton on Catherine O’Hara :...

Tim Burton on Catherine O’Hara: “Catherine’s so good, maybe too good. She works on levels that people don’t even know. I think she scares people because she operates at such high levels.” Loved her. RIP.

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• Victoria Song

The tragedy of Supernatural

When you picture a virtual reality headset user, you're probably not picturing someone like Sherry Dickson. At 69, the snowy-haired, retired elementary school teacher hops into her Meta Quest headset five days a week, for roughly 60 to 90 minutes at a time. She's not attending live concerts or watching immersive films. Dickson, a fitness […]

Dan’s Polaroids

01.02.2026

A child sitting along in a museum.
At the Kunstpalast for "DIE GEHEIME MACHT DER DÜFTE".

Global News Podcast

Boy, 5, and father detained by ICE in Minnesota are released

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Liam Ramos and his father were freed from detention in Texas and are now back in Minneapolis. The detention of the boy, photographed wearing a blue bunny-shaped hat, and a Spider-Man backpack sparked a national outcry. Also: The former British Ambassador to Washington, Peter...

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TIL: Running OpenClaw in Docker

TIL: Running OpenClaw in Docker

I've been running OpenClaw using Docker on my Mac. Here are the first in my ongoing notes on how I set that up and the commands I'm using to administer it.

Here's a screenshot of the web UI that this serves on localhost:

Screenshot of the OpenClaw Gateway Dashboard web interface. Header shows "OpenCLAW GATEWAY DASHBOARD" with a green "Health OK" indicator. Left sidebar contains navigation sections: Chat (Chat highlighted), Control (Overview, Channels, Instances, Sessions, Cron Jobs), Agent (Skills, Nodes), Settings (Config, Debug, Logs), and Resources (Docs). Main content area displays "Chat" with subtitle "Direct gateway chat session for quick interventions." and "telegram:6580064359" identifier. A user message at 4:08 PM reads "Show me a detailed list of all your available configured tools". The assistant response states: "Here's the full list of tools I have available in this OpenClaw session (as configured). These are the only ones I can call programmatically:" followed by categorized tools: "File & workspace" (read — Read a file (text or image). Supports offset/limit for large files; write — Create/overwrite a file (creates parent dirs); edit — Precise in-place edit by exact string replacement), "Shell / processes" (exec — Run a shell command (optionally PTY, backgrounding, timeouts); process — Manage running exec sessions (list/poll/log/write/kill/etc.)), "Web" (web_search — Search the web (Brave Search API); web_fetch — Fetch a URL and extract readable content (markdown/text); browser — Control a browser (open/navigate/snapshot/screenshot/act/etc.)), "UI / rendering" (canvas — Present/eval/snapshot a Canvas surface (for node canvases/UI rendering)), and "Devices / nodes" (cut off). Bottom shows message input with placeholder "Message (↵ to send, Shift+↵ for line breaks, paste images)" and "New session" and coral "Send" buttons.

Tags: ai, docker, til, generative-ai, llms, ai-agents, openclaw

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• Jason Kottke

ProPublica : “The two federal immigration agents...

ProPublica: “The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and CBP officer Raymundo Gutierrez.”

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• Jason Kottke

Another brutal Melania pan : “First Lady is a...

Another brutal Melania pan: “First Lady is a preening, scowling void of pure nothingness in this ghastly bit of propaganda” and “the vulgar, gilded lifestyle of the Trumps makes them look like…Hermann Göring’s staring up at his looted Monet”.

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