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A person is going to get hit in the nuts from time to time. This is a normal hazard of living in the world, which is filled with stray blows in contact sports, waist-high furniture in dark rooms, out-of-order turnstiles, rowdy pets, and small children with timeless senses of...

We used to have great multi-cross-blog debates. That's the kind of distance that makes discourse civilized. I post in my space, you post in yours, and link the two when appropriate.

Turns out we can influence the RSS feed we emit from a WordPress site by editing its theme, so it appears we should be able to get WordLand to work for linkblogs without resorting to a special feed.

We've forgotten how important links are. Let's find some linguists to write about the role linking plays in language. It's a language element that didn't exist before the web. And thanks to social media apps it's been mostly removed from our language. I aim to get it growing again.

I'm not an inventor, I'm a gardener, of media types. I had to learn to be a developer for this to work, but soon it won't be necessary. We've been stuck in a rut of online sameness for a couple of decades now. One benefit of AI is the exclusivity that programmers have had, for all of history, is being broken. Thank goodness. It's way past time. (I hope.) It's also possible we're in the process of inventing The Matrix. Ooops. That's what makes life so interesting, you don't know if the future is boring or exciting. But in my experience it's always largely unforeseen.

Good morning and welcome to December. The November archive has been safely stored on GitHub along with the rest of 2025. And now we will resume our normal schedule of winter weather in the Catskills, so please dress warmly and have a good song to sing.

An accidental leak revealed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of US communities, is using workers in the Philippines to review and classify footage.

Flock accidentally exposed training materials and a panel which tracked what its AI annotators were working on. It showed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of U.S. communities, is using workers in the Philippines to review and classify footage.

Joseph talks to a former FBI official about how the FBI secretly ran an encrypted phone for organized criminals, sweeping up tens of millions of messages.

Think about it, most ideas behind any tech never really went away, they have transformed.

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Happy first day of #JingleJam to all who celebrate.

Ruby survives on affection, not utility. Let's move on.

Razer’s latest DeathAdder shows just how far mouse technology has come over the past two decades.

Need a living room upgrade? We rustled up Cyber Monday couch deals on sofas we've hand-tested from Albany Park, Benchmade Modern, and more.

With 21 million users, Facebook Dating is a secret hit, including among Gen Zers who use it for clout and content as much as for finding love.

What began as a horrific shooting of two National Guard members in downtown Washington last week has now led to a set of far-reaching changes to the U.S. immigration system. The suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was among the Afghans who came to the United States after the Tali...

President Trump dreads being seen as weak. He exploded in a long, crazed rant about a harsh new piece in The New York Times about his ongoing decline. Though the piece documented his deterioration in careful detail, Trump insisted in a...

HP Sprocket's Photo Booth was the biggest hit of my recent parties, and it's on sale for Cyber Monday.

Flamethrowers roasting voodoo dolls. A 3D projection on a cloud of mist. The annual Signal Festival, an expo for experimental digital art, tested boundaries and warped minds in the Czech capital.