There must be a group of librarians somewhere exploring ChatGPT-like products as a completely new library experience.
I posted a new video on YouTube that shows how filters work in Micro.blog, including a brand new feature: Micro.blog can analyze your blog posts using AI magic to generate keywords and file posts into categories. This is for Micro.blog Premium subscribers. šŖ
I worked my way through all six seasons of Peaky Blinders. I had tried it a few times before and found it hard to get started, but this time I persevered, got to know the characters, and enjoyed the stories. I knew the series was about to end as we approached the end of the f...
Building ActivityPub
ā¢ Ghost
Blocking domains
Expanding controls for who can interact with you in the fediverse
The Daily
ā¢ The New York Times
A Vulnerable China Comes to the Table
Over the weekend, top negotiators from the U.S. and China met for the first time since President Trump rapidly escalated a trade war between the worldās two economic superpowers.
Keith Bradsher, the Beijing bureau chief for The New York Times, discusses the pressures facing ...
Open Channels FM Podcast Network
ā¢ Bob Dunn
WordPress 6.8 Moved to bcrypt: A Quiet Revolution in Password Security
WordPress 6.8 upgrades password security by transitioning to bcrypt, enhancing protection against attacks without disrupting users, while setting new industry security standards.
Trump Press Secās Fawning over Him to Media Takes Scary, Cultlike Turn
In her most recent media briefing, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt went full North Korea with a number of worshipful monologues about Trump. Yet at around the same time, another journalistās criticism of Trump caused him to exp...
THEY WOULDN'T JUST SUSPEND HABEAS CORPUS FOR IMMIGRANTS - 5.12.25
SEASON 3 EPISODE 125: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:45) SPECIAL COMMENT: What do you like least? Suspending Habeas Corpus? Breaking the law by threatening to arrest members of Congress for obeying the law? Or Trump accepting a half billion dollar impeachable ille...
Just caught up with Andor through episode 9. What a great show. šŗ
Westenberg.
ā¢ Joan Westenberg
Appleās Diet of Worms
On a crisp April morning in 1521, the twenty-one-year-old Emperor Charles V entered the Bishopās Palace in Worms. The weight of a continent rested on his adolescent shoulders, and he carried it with the stiff dignity of someone raised to believe history itself had chosen him. He wore
Nice update to the mnml theme for Micro.blog. Itās cool to see all those settings.
Time for some plants for the front yard. Motherās Day shopping at Home Depot.
Made several little design updates to Micro.blog this weekend, including a more consistent, cleaner header for pages that have some text and a ānewā button. Hereās a screenshot for posterity.
In another world he might have been that color.
So far Gemini has done the best job of emulating my coding style. Here's an example. I didn't have to instruct it in how to do it, it figured it out. Impressive. I've spent a lot of time trying and failing to get Claude and ChatGPT to work the way I work. It makes a big difference, because if I want to try out something they've offered, I have to spend time doing grunt work to get it so I can read it and understand what they're doing.
What do I really own?
I once owned a few acres of land that had some old trees on it. I sat under one of the trees on a lovely afternoon, and thought of the tree "I own you." The tree formed a thought that somehow I could tune into. "I was here long before you were born and I will be here long after you die." I didn't see it exactly as a response to my claim of ownership. But it sure did put things in perspective!
I thought of the tree, "I own you."PS: I wrote that paragraph in 2011.
The Daily
ā¢ The New York Times
The Sunday Read: āMy Miserable Week in the āHappiest Country on Earthāāā
For eight years running, Finland has been rated the happiest country in the world by a peculiar United Nations-backed project called the World Happiness Report, started in 2012. Soon after Finland shot to the top of the list, its government set up a āhappiness tourismā initi...
Manuel Moreale ā Everything Feed
ā¢ Manuel Moreale
Sharing, helping, connecting
One might think that knowing myself should come naturally to me. After all, I spent my entire life with myself, so I should, in theory, know a thing or two about who I am. And yet one thing I realised recently, since Iām spending more energy trying to understand how my brain...
Greetings from Croatia!
A Smart Bear
ā¢ Jason Cohen
Invention is Drudgery
Having skipped to the last page of other people's books, we forget the rest of the journey. And, that we have to take that journey, too.