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with words, wonder
17 Aug 20:45 • with words, wonder

Plainsong by The Cure

Thamara and I are doing a collaborative writing challenge where we gave each person three songs from which we were to choose one to write about. I chose “Plainsong” by The Cure from Thamara’s list. Thamara chose Gimme Sympathy from my list. You can read Thamara’s post for th...

with words, wonder
17 Aug 20:45 • with words, wonder

Miniatures, reference works, and writing

One of the works at the Stanley Cursiter exhibition I saw at the National Gallery of Scotland this week was a collection of miniatures he had painted. According to the gallery website, Cursiter, who served as keeper, and later director, of the gallery, painted “miniature wat...

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17 Aug 20:21 • Marty McGuire

I’ve got two improv shows coming up! Can you believe it? Is it to...

I’ve got two improv shows coming up! Can you believe it? Is it to be believed??

Saturday Aug 22nd @ 9pm at The Magnet Theater: The Level Up

Monday Aug 24th @ 9:30pm at The Rat NYC: Bizzo! & Friends

If you are in NYC or nearby, go ahead and come on out and do an lol or two!

Saturday Aug 22nd @ 9pm at The Magnet Theater: The Level Up Monday Aug 24th @ 9:30pm at The Rat NYC: Bizzo! & Friends

Adactio
17 Aug 20:00

Monday session

Manton Reece
17 Aug 19:03

404 Media put an AirTag in a used book to track it to an Amazon scanning facility. (Clever investigative reporting or legal gray area?) Not sure how much we can read into this because Amazon has been scanning books for over 20 years, ever since the “look inside” feature.

Manton Reece
17 Aug 18:03

Listening to the latest AppStories podcast about how to grade Siri AI. I like the way John and Federico approach this. Siri AI can be both way better than old Siri and also not nearly as capable as frontier models. Who after using GPT-5.6 Luna for free is going to use Siri instead?

Adactio
17 Aug 17:27

Reading Paddy on the Hardwood by Rus Bradburd

Manton Reece
17 Aug 15:54

He hadn’t posted in several years until today, so I didn’t realize that Greg Brockman had a blog. It’s powered by Svbtle. Some interesting posts in the archive, including one about OpenAI’s mission from 2019 co-written by Ilya Sutskever:

Just like a computer today, an AGI will be applicable to a wide variety of tasks — and just like computers in 1900 or the Internet in 1950, it’s hard to describe (or even predict) the kind of impact AGI will have.

Manton Reece
17 Aug 14:51

GitHub is struggling this morning. It’s slightly interfering with my work, so hopefully they get it under control soon. I’ve become quite dependent on it as a bridge to deploys and code review. Replacing GitHub is not currently worth all the integration hassle it would introduce.

Manton Reece
17 Aug 14:51

We’re bringing back the Micro Monday email newsletter! Meeting with @BonnieRue today about it.

I’ve built a custom workflow this time. It will only be sent to active users from the last couple of months who never unsubscribed from older emails. That way we don’t bug people who have lost interest.

Manton Reece
17 Aug 13:51

Wavelength 2.0 for iOS is now available! I’ll have more to blog about this later, but for now check it out on the App Store.

This is a major update with a new design. Great for recording and editing short podcasts. Included free with all paid Micro.blog plans.

Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
17 Aug 13:18 • Manuel Moreale

27 down, 17 more to go

The day is August 16th, the time is 6:42 am, and the temperature is a very enjoyable 16°C. The sun is about to rise over the mountains, and I can see it appearing behind the car I just parked at the same parking spot where we ended our walk back in June. It’s been a long su...

with words, wonder
17 Aug 11:54 • with words, wonder

I’m Old Fashioned by Ben Paterson

Ruben and I are doing a writing challenge where we each gave each other three songs and we picked one to write about. From Ruben’s list, I chose “I’m Old Fashioned” by Ben Paterson. You can read about the song that Ruben chose from my list on his website. The cover of the a...

Tantek Çelik
17 Aug 04:54

CSF_03: today’s Cybersecurity Friday post: the effective security of small business websites has likely gotten worse due to LLMs and “AI agents” (with or without safeguards) and what actions you may want to consider.This article documents an instance of this problem:* https:/...

Manton Reece
17 Aug 02:06

Just hearing about this upcoming 6-part series with Barack Obama discussing his favorite books! I’ll definitely listen. But sounds like the “podcast” will be exclusive to Audible, so not actually a podcast.

Paul Robert Lloyd
16 Aug 22:18

A week in modern Athens, a worn down yet beautifully vibrant city.

Paul Robert Lloyd
16 Aug 22:18

A week in ancient Athens, exploring the Acropolis and Agora.

Manton Reece
16 Aug 22:18

What to do about X

John Gruber blogged about X and using XCancel: I understand not wanting to visit Twitter/X. But if you feel that way, I do sympathize, but that’s your decision, and you should use tools to redirect Twitter/X links automatically. And if you’re wondering why I don’t just refu...

ArtLung
16 Aug 20:03 • Joe Crawford

Moving Water

Yesterday I went to the beach. Water is always in motion. I have many opinions and intuitions about the motion of water. I go to the beach when I am likely to be able to ride waves. I make myself aware of time and tide, wind and the size and shape of water. James mentioned...

with words, wonder
16 Aug 19:27 • with words, wonder

Inspiration from physical artefacts

This evening I was on a wonderful call about websites where, at two points, I reached for books that were around me as a visual reference. One of the books was “Mini Louvre”, a gift given to me that contains images and information about various artworks in the Louvre. We end...