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I think about flags. I don’t know that I want to put the energy out there around this, but I wrote this. And I don’t want to begrudge people having a good time on Independence Day. But also my nationalism is on hiatus. But I love the idea of the United States. A Trump flag...

Monday session in Clare

All the President’s Men is a great movie. Sometimes I think about one particular line from it. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein are feeling so much pressure to get the story right, attacked by the Nixon administration and questioned inside the Washington Post, because of all ...

I wrote this early this morning as a test post for my WordLand site. Happy to report that my linkblog routine is back to normal. I really shook things up there, and it probably wasn't a great time investment. I had been using a custom front-end to FeedLand, which has a buil...

A longish thread that probably isn't going anywhere. My final thoughts, cc'd here to get on the record. anyway it's feeling like a lost cause. to be really blunt, i don't think AP or ATP are the answer. and i also don't care so much about this style of conversation. and i ...

I haven’t looked into the full context behind the quote in this post from @jasraj, but I do love this phrase:

when hatred presents itself as virtue, it becomes seductive

Sadly there are variations of this across ideologies. When fighting for what’s right steps over the line to extreme characterization of others, vilifying them. As regex fans know, now we’ve got two problems: the hatred in others and the hatred in ourselves.

Ben Thompson’s back from the summer break with an excellent rundown on AI and fair use. In a nutshell, LLMs are transformative and it’s so difficult to prove they affect an existing work or even a market, fair use for training will likely stand. If we don’t want that, there will have to be new laws.

This blog post from Robert Birming perfectly captures what Micro.blog is trying to do by leaving some features out.

Congrats to Stephen Hackett on 10 years indie! He’s written a great post with some of the history and priorities he brings to his work. Also love this part on the downsides:

Publishing endlessly can lead to burnout. Social media can poison your opinions. The Internet can be unforgiving when it comes to mistakes. Working virtually can become lonely. Relevance can fade.

That “poison” line is so true. When all you read is everyone else’s hot takes and a community’s growing consensus, it’s harder to have original, possibly more nuanced thoughts on popular topics.

As more people look to AI to learn about the world, the people who control how it's trained and how it responds will control our prevailing narratives. That's wildly dangerous.

“I know how to use a semicolon, ChatGPT. Don’t come for me.” 🤣 — from the Book Riot podcast

I used to really love the em dash. Now that ChatGPT also loves it, I’m using it a little less often. The bar is higher for when I feel like it really belongs.

I decided to write the updates for July's experiment on a Monday this way I always have the full previous week's worth of data to discuss. The goal for this month is to fix the muscle memory my brain has built over time that makes me reach for my phone even if I don’t have a...

Checked in at Ard Bia at Nimmos. Breakfast at the Spanish Arch — with Jessica

I've been playing a little game, trying to answer the question -- if I had a modern implementation of Frontier that ran on Linux and new Macs, just as it was in 1992 when we released it for the pre-OS/X Mac, what apps would I want to hook up to it right away? What would the ...

During my evacuation from the Eaton Fires, I picked up this 1957 Royal FPP on March 5, 2025, for $31.00. Apparently it had been previously owned by Luke Legg. While it was in somewhat workable shape, it needed a massive clean out. It may be one of the dirtiest machines I’ve cleaned up so far. … Continue reading 1957 Royal FPP Standard Typewriter Restoration

Finished watching Long Way Home. I love these travel series with Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman. The older ones are great too.

One last Galway session in The Crane Bar