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Kamala Harris picks Tim Walz. I’m a little surprised, Josh Shapiro seemed like a great choice. I noticed some social posts against Shapiro lately and think that negativity was overblown. But the choice was made, so here we go. 🇺🇸

I’ve enjoyed this season of House of the Dragon but the finale was mostly setup for next season. It all feels dragged out, and there is essentially only one character worth rooting for. Glad they are officially wrapping the show after season 4.

So, the Blaugust festival of blogging is a thing. Who knew? For anyone arriving here for the very first time Blaugust is a month-long event that takes place each August which focuses on blogging primarily and has started to include other forms of serialized content over the ...

[Lauren Feiner at The Verge] "A federal judge ruled that Google violated US antitrust law by maintaining a monopoly in the search and advertising markets. “After having carefully considered and weighed the witness testimony and evidence, the court reaches t...

When reporting massacres, imho we should cite the number of people who were shot. It measures of how much violence there was, and how excessive the gun tech used. Many who were injured but not killed have their lives ruined. Their suffering can go for decades.

If you want to keep up on political news, esp at a time when so much is happening so quickly, the best resource I have at this time is the politics tab on news.scripting.com. Here's a screen shot.

AI hallucinations just reinforce that humans should always be involved. Today, AI switched to Python syntax in the middle of JavaScript. Oops! A human would never make that mistake, right? Except that I have definitely typed the wrong language when my brain hadn’t completely switched contexts yet.

I hit a brick wall with some tricky JavaScript and contenteditable HTML. Decided to start over and lean on ChatGPT more. My new workflow: describe the overall problem to AI to get started, test the results, tweak the JS manually to fix problems, then tell AI about my tweaks and continue to iterate.

Did some boring but necessary sys admin work over the weekend. Plugging more holes so dumb problems don’t trip up the servers.

[Joel Gascoigne] "The larger social networks provide a level of distribution that's worth tapping into, but I strongly encourage investing a portion of your energy into networks where you will be able to maintain ownership long-term." Buffer CEO Joel Gascoig...

Using Micro.blog? Take 30 seconds to fill out this quick survey. I’ve been thinking about the future and this will help inform where we go. forms.gle/PrwkBbsQ1…

Benjamín Labatut draws a line from the Vedas to George Boole and Claude Shannon onward to Geoffrey Hinton and Frank Herbert’s Butlerian Jihad.

In the coming years, as people armed with AI continue making the world faster, stranger, and more chaotic, we should do all we can to prevent these systems from giving more and more power to the few who can build them.

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This is disgusting, if unsurprising: Google aren’t going to deprecate third-party cookies after all.

Make no mistake, Chrome is not a user agent. It is an agent for the behavioural advertising industry.

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After the last decade, where platforms have emerged as a core constituent of the web on which many rely, it may feel like things cannot change. That the giants are so big that there is no other way. Yet, to give into this feeling – that things can’t change – is not necessary. It is the way it is is not true on the web. We can make change. It’s your web.

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Puttshack. ⛳️

finished the Skyline 21k (half marathon) trail race in 3:39:48! (official bib time)Went out with the goal to have fun and try for sub-4, finished with smiles and a sub 3:40. Superbly run event as always by @ScenaPerformance.com (@instagram.com/scenaperformance), race director Adam Ray, and all the great volunteers.So many things went well. Race write-up to follow.Previously:* 2023: DNS Skyline 50k because of a bad fever from a blood bacteria infection caught in Wakefield MA (that’s whole other story, never going back there)* 2022: 50k race PR at Skyline: https://tantek.com/2022/289/t1/hot-skyline50k-ultra-finish#Skyline #21k #halfMarathon #trailRace #trailRun

I asked ChatGPT to illustrate this idea: "JD Vance is a punchline."

We're depending on big companies that are nuzzling up with Trump, at best hedging their bets, to let us use their networks to organize ourselves politically. That's never worked for us, in fact it's worked against us. Trump's election in 2016, for example, could he have done...

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