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New trailer out for Wildwood. This looks extraordinary. Hope it’s even half as good as it looks.

My blog categories page has, until today, been designed with a functional mindset: the purpose of the page was to list all of the categories I use on my website. But, this week, I started thinking about how I could improve the page, to make it more of a hub to explore differ...

kinda chic to order books from your local bookstore instead of Amazon who is now destroying books in their #VGT3 division, see the hashtag.also kinda chic to pay cash when buying local, to give local businesses an extra 2-3% instead of credit card companies, at no additional charge to you.#books #orderBooks #bookstore #localBookstore #Amazon #payCash #cash #localBusiness #localBusinesses #kindaChic#Blaugust #Blaugust2026

📚 picked up the Silo books trilogy @borderlands-books.com earlier today: “Wool”, “Shift”, “Dust”, and a small booklet of “Silo Stories” which came inside the boxset. Looking forward to cracking them open and seeing how far I get while waiting for the last three episodes of season three.Previously: https://tantek.com/229/t1/watched-silo-season-3-episode-7#Silo #books #trilogy #boxset#Blaugust #Blaugust2026

▶️ watched Silo season 3 episode 7 “Radio” last Friday night. I watched the first six season 3 episodes before that, and was inspired to order the Silo trilogy boxset (of books) @borderlands-books.com last Wednesday.Previously: https://tantek.com/2026/222/t1/watched-silo-season-1-2#Silo #SiloTV #AppleOriginal #AppleTV #2026_226 #2026_08_14#Blaugust #Blaugust2026

Micro.blog book pages are looking pretty good.

Seems like we might be settling in for a 5% Apple tax across the board, globally, based on the US court and EU compromise. I don’t love it. Linking to external payments should give Apple 0% and nothing more.

Related, I saw this scare sheet yesterday while managing my account in Disney+.

The story of Fray:

In the earliest days of the web, Derek Powazek set out to create a website meant for sharing.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; this was the website that made me want to make websites.

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I wonder how many scenarios they're playing out in DC wrt Iran. Just guessing, probably none. We learned on Monday that the real war has yet to begin, according to Iran. What could they to hurt the US. Or wake us up to the reality of war. We are not safe in the US, any more than Russians are safe in Moscow. The parallels are pretty amazing. Both Russia and the US started wars of choice, and clearly didn't consider that they might get bogged down. Russia has a source of drones so they can fight back. But I'd be surprised if Trump is stock up, but we he were, where would we use them? We've already attacked Iran with our probably obsolete trillion-dollar military. I'm old enough to remember Vietnam and what asymmetric war is like. The US always falls for this. Our military is very impressive, until we use it. Bluffing was a much better approach for Trump.

You might be wondering why I’m already back hiking since I walked more than 40 km just a few days ago. And the answer to that is that I’m not hiking. This was a short stroll to briefly visit a church that would normally be part of the tenth and final segment of this ten-part...

When I saw the Slack notification preview, “Matt, I’m literally crying right now,” I must admit my first reaction was “Oh no, what happened…” Matt, I’m literally crying right now. I just read the Baby & Caregiver Attendance policy that Automattic will fly your baby and whoever is caring for them to be with you … Continue reading Surprise DM →

I’ve never run out of Codex tokens before, so it’s always felt essentially unlimited. At 4% remaining now with a day left! Uh oh. I don’t think my usage has changed much except that I’m running with /fast and Ultra more often.

Catching up on news from D23. Cartoon Brew has a rundown of some of the theme park changes coming up. The first Lion King ride will be in Disneyland Paris… A little surprised they never built that in Animal Kingdom.

My post earlier about X didn’t resonate exactly as I had intended. Let me zoom out. Let’s think of proponents of the social web as a coalition. People actively choose to be on the fediverse, atmosphere, and (though it’s a dated term) blogosphere. There are people who: Disli...

Tuesday session for Liam’s birthday

I'm thinking about writing my blog over in RSS.chat. It has most of the features I like, titles are optional, no character limit, links are supported, because it's the web. It supports discourse the way I like it, where every comment is a post, no difference, and you can anchor threads in different places, not just the place it was born. It's got a simple structure, without being complex. Small parts loosely joined, every part replaceable. Much more than open source. And naturally distributed.

Why do people care if Claude puts watermarks on text it wrote. It's screwing with its writing, not yours. As a person who publishes their own writing, and carefully labels it when it's written by an AI bot (docs, change notes, podcast show notes, quotable things it said), I want people to be able to tell that I wrote it, this is what I thought, I'm not just shoveling random written sludge to people, sloshing around, devaluing every bit of real writing in its midst. I bet teachers love the idea. Why does everyone have to have an opinion about every damned thing? And of course I have even more to say on the subject.

Pretty significant design changes coming to Mastodon for version 5.0. I don’t use Mastodon often (my blog posts get to the fediverse from Micro.blog) but these seem like good changes.

Meanwhile Claude wrote test files in many of our S3 buckets last night, one of which knocked FeedLand off the air. It did a scan to see what other damage it had done, and there was a lot. It went through specific orders that said it can't do those things. So I have no idea how useful these things could be if it destroys stuff in deployed projects with real users. FeedLand was down for over an hour, and stressed me out no end. Really fucked up.