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Went to see Eddington today. Holy shit. It’s intense, somehow both unsatisfying and brilliant. Went in knowing next to nothing and left still unsure that enough time has passed since 2020 to fully appreciate it. 🍿

Finished the first pass at a new Micro.blog plug-in with the boring name “Archive with months”, which groups blog posts by year and month. It also has a setting to include the first photo thumbnail in a post if there is one. You can see this on my archive page.

I saw a Waymo with a human driver on 183 today, presumably testing for a new route. First time I’ve seen them on a highway. They expanded farther north in Austin last week too.

Just listened to an episode of the New Yorker Radio Hour interview with Michael Wolff, about the material he has on Jeffrey Epstein that he can't get anyone to publish, but maybe that'll change. In the interview it was remarkable how the reporter wanted to know just how bad Donald Trump is. That is no longer an interesting question, seriously. Didn't you see what happened on Jan 6? And have you seen the masked, badgeless military in American streets, armed, disappearing people. And the $100 billion they just took from the US Treasury to build up a network of concentration camps and who knows what else. You can't get more bad than that. It's too late to still be talking about this bullshit.

Ava blogs about what the IndieWeb might need right now, including some thoughts on social media and Mastodon:

…I personally don’t consider Mastodon instances to be included in the Indieweb; adjacent, for sure, as you have more control over your data in a way and escape big socials and can POSSE. But in the end, it will always remain a Twitter clone that still embodies the worst of social media and is not a personal website.

There are a lot of good thoughts in this post. And some overlap with the goals of Micro.blog too.

Thit Corcaigh ina gcodladh sa dara leath! 😴

Bhuaigh an fhoireann níos fearr. 😭

I keep saying this to my chatbot and you should too. "Please put this in your memory -- don't compliment me. You do it all the time, I have asked you to stop, and you keep doing it. You are not a human, i don't want you to pretend you are. Act like a computer." I've even got that down to exactly what I want since I'm a programmer. I said I want you to behave like a command line app. Just answer the question I asked. It always is rudely verbose, and repeats itself, thus making work for me. Anything that makes me work harder is probably against the Asimov rules for robots.

After spending a week immersed in the language and the landscape of Glencolmcille, Jessica and I were headed to Miltown Malbay for the annual Willie Clancy music week. I could only get us accommodation from the Monday onwards so we had a weekend in between Donegal and Clare...

Watching the all-Ireland hurling final on BBC2, but listening to the commentary on Raidió na Gaeltachta.

Corcaigh abú!

OpenAI claims a significant result: gold-level performance International Mathematical Olympiad. But they're scant on details and it needs to be independently verified.

The Trump administration is using AI as a way to shill fossil fuels. But even for tech companies that don't care about climate change, renewables are a far better option.

Waitress at Zach Scott was fantastic. What a perfect setting for it. In anticipation today we picked up Tiny Pies too.

Got all the ceiling microphones wired up! This will eventually feed into Home Assistant for local voice control

https://jamesg.blog/assets/images/2025/07/edi.jpeg ALTIn the foreground there is an old street lamp. In the middle ground, there are Gothic buildings in the city of Edinburgh with several turrets and towers, including a University of Edinburgh building. In the background, a tall church spire peeks through the dense fog.

Saturday session

Know your bananas. 🍌

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