Mike Monteiro on how to deal with your suddenly grown-up kids. “When your kid leaves it is the happiest day of your life and also the saddest day of your life. And a lot of other feelings in between.” In the midst of this right now; it’s been a lot.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
‘AI, “Humanity”, and Dr. Manhattan Syndrome’
Jim Prosser, back in February:
Let me be clear about causation, because the AI parallel only
works if we’re honest about it. The communications failures didn’t
kill nuclear power. The disasters did. But two decades of talking
over the public meant the industry had built ...
Work Chronicles
• Work Chronicles
(comic) The Reward Trap
What’s Your Favorite Recipe?
I am not what you would call a dedicated home cook. But every once in a while, I get a bee in my bonnet and make something from my small cache of recipes or from something I saw online that looked good. Some of my go-tos include:
Rigatoni With White Bolognese (PDF)
Orecch...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
The Alaska Permanent Fund as Loose Precedent for AI Data Center ‘UBI’ Payments
Wikipedia:
The Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) is a constitutionally established
permanent fund and sovereign wealth fund managed by a state-owned
corporation, the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation (APFC). It was
established in Alaska in 1976 by Article 9, Section 15 of the
...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
AI Data Centers Are Deeply Unpopular, Across the Political Spectrum
news.gallup.com/poll/709772/americans-oppose-data-centers-area.aspx
Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup:
Seven in 10 Americans oppose constructing data centers for
artificial intelligence in their local area, including nearly
half, 48%, who are strongly opposed. Barely a quarter favor these
projects, with 7% strongly in favor. [...]
The data cente...
I have always liked Steve Kerr, but I did not expect to...
I have always liked Steve Kerr, but I did not expect to read this whole 15,000-word profile of him at ESPN. Really interesting throughout.
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
Glimpse the Fantastical Animated World of ‘Wildwood’
LAIKA Studios emphasizes both human-made elements and cutting-edge technology in the feature-length film, coming this October.
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Handy app: “Point your camera at anything (a dress,...
Handy app: “Point your camera at anything (a dress, a paint swatch, a flower, your kid’s drawing) and What Color Is This? names the color instantly.” I like the increasingly specific color labels (e.g. blue to light blue to Tiffany blue).
Where Did the Antimatter Go?
Pigeons can pinpoint their location hundreds of kilometers from their roosts and navigate home autonomously, only using smell, the sun, and even Earth’s magnetic field.
#kurzgesagt
#inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #science #astrophysics #antimatter
S...
“In 2014, the Dutch scholar Hans Corneel de Roos...
“In 2014, the Dutch scholar Hans Corneel de Roos first noticed that the Icelandic version of Dracula was in fact not a translation, but was rather a very different novel from Stoker’s version.” The “translation” was published in 1901.
Features | The Verge
• Ian Frisch
Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad Roommate
The wildfires that would come to engulf Los Angeles had just begun to burn when Frankee Grove finally admitted to herself that she needed a roommate. It was January 2025, and Grove, then 42, had recently broken up with her boyfriend of six years. They had lived together in a two-bedroom Spanish bungalow on a […]
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
Garbage Goat (Classic)
This sculpture in Spokane, WA was created by a"welding nun" decades ago.
READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/garbage-eating-goat-statue
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Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Drata
My thanks to Drata for sponsoring last week at DF. Their message is short and sweet: Leverage autonomous AI agents to automate compliance, manage internal and third-party risk, and continuously prove your security posture.
Link: drata.com/daring
GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source
GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source
Terence Eden continues his coverage of the NHS' poorly considered decision to close down access to their open source repositories in response to vulnerabilities reported to them as part of Project Glasswing.
Now...
Per Nilsson on playing over complex tunes #guitarist #guitar #shorts
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Reddit Is Blocking Some Users From Accessing Its Website From Mobile Devices
Nate Anderson, writing at Ars Technica:
But I was surprised this weekend to suddenly find myself cut off;
Reddit simply would not let me visit the site on my mobile phone.
Instead, a new overlay popped up, saying, “Get the app to keep
using Reddit.”
There was no way to ...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Santa Clara County Sues Meta Over Alleged Scam Ads
sanjosespotlight.com/santa-clara-county-sues-meta-over-alleged-scam-ads/
Brandon Pho, reporting for San Jose Spotlight:
The lawsuit filed Monday alleges that instead of cracking
down on deceptive ads designed to trick users out of their money,
Meta has hamstrung its own fraud prevention teams and helped fake
companies bypass its filters to en...
Warelay -> OpenClaw
In preparation for a lightning talk I'm giving at PyCon US this afternoon I decided to figure out how many names OpenClaw has actually had since that first commit back in November.
Thanks to this first_line_history.py tool (code here) the answer, according to the Git history...