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Thursday evening session in east Belfast

OpenAI announcing a new data center in Norway:

The facility will run entirely on renewable power and is expected to incorporate closed-loop, direct-to-chip liquid cooling to ensure maximum cooling efficiency. Additionally, excess heat from the GPU systems will be made available to support low-carbon enterprises in the region.

I’d still like to know how much of Abilene’s data center will run on solar and wind. I assume a percentage, but not “entirely” like in Norway or they would’ve said so.

Looks like the time I spent integrating with ID.me’s API was wasted. Micro.blog is too small to get approved for production access. The open web is so ingrained in me that I see an OAuth API and assume I’ll be able to use it in some form.

Thursday afternoon session in Belfast

Nick Heer: “The Cook era is now as long as the Jobs renaissance era.”

Podcast: AI should behave like a computer.

Now that my laptop is completely full of stickers, moving on to pins on my bag. Starting with just Mickey.

Just read my credit card number, expiration, and 3-digit code to someone over the telephone in a crowded coffee shop. YOLO! 🤪

This week we’re announcing an improvement to photo storage and photo scaling for Micro.blog Premium subscribers, our $10/month plan that also includes up to 5 blogs, email newsletters, bookmark archiving, and highlights. For years now, we’ve scaled photos down to about 1800x...

It would be interesting if Pocket Casts had an API. I would love to be able to one-click subscribe to a podcast in my feed reader. I mention Pocket Casts because it's the podcast client I use on my phone, but I would obviously like to see them all support an API, ideally a common API.

Google Zero is slightly misunderstood. The problem is not that Google is nefarious in no longer sending traffic to your website. (They probably don’t care very much one way or the other.) The real problem is you’ve depended on Google for your business. You’ve been obsessed w...

Good perspective from Om Malik on Mark Zuckerberg’s superintelligence post and similar past statements:

Most CEOs defend their existing moats. Zuckerberg systematically abandons them. He understands that Facebook’s real asset isn’t the blue app. Instead, it is the graph of human attention and relationships.

As I’ve written about before, Mark is pretty good at what he does, and it’s just a shame that he’s dedicated his company to ads, attention, and AI slop.

Feeling a little verklemt at Belfast Trad Fest …thank you to everyone from thesession.org who made this possible!

The Vision for W3C has been officially published as a ratified W3C Statement: https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/STMT-w3c-vision-20250729/As one of the editors, along with Chris Wilson (@cwilso.com @cdub@mastodon.social), I’m both proud of this multi-year W3C Advisory Board (AB) effo...

In Mark Zuckerberg’s post today about superintelligence, I assume we’re getting a glimpse of the pitch he used to hire AI researchers away from other companies:

We believe in putting this power in people’s hands to direct it towards what they value in their own lives.

This is distinct from others in the industry who believe superintelligence should be directed centrally towards automating all valuable work, and then humanity will live on a dole of its output.

Game Boy Advance, e-Reader, and a pack of cards. These photos don't really convey the excitement of the moment, haha. Had a blast with Retro Dot Cards Series One for the Nintendo e-Reader from retrodotcards.com, created by Matt Greer. That's right, new ...

Wednesday night session in Belfast