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I’ve added a highly selective bibliography to Cosmos Malick.

The chatbot hopes for
Right-brain wisdom, but gets only
Hallucinations.

Jason Snell, writing at Six Colors: Software developer Photon, whose product requires running a bunch of Macs to connect to iMessage, discovered a pretty major bug: Every Mac has a hidden expiration date. After exactly 49 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes, and 47 seconds of ...

“thenickdude”, on Reddit: They’re using this to detect if you have Creative Cloud already installed when you visit on their website. When you visit https://www.adobe.com/home, they load this image using JavaScript: https://detect-ccd.creativecloud.adobe.com/cc.png If ...

New ways to write with WordPress as the back-end. Build an API that combines what wpcom does and storage. Recruit devs to create products for this environment. Anything that might require text editing is a good idea. Gutenberg will be one of these editors. I will provide W...

Wyoming, February 2026.

From the video Photographing a snowstorm in Jackson, Wyoming.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, speaking of the president of the United States in a totally normal way:

I love working for President Trump. It’s the greatest honor of a lifetime. And if President Trump chooses to nominate somebody else and asks me to go do something else, I’ll say, “Thank you very much, I love you, sir.”

The phrase Blanche was looking for is “Thank you sir, may I have another.”

Earlier this week I started reading an ebook and was a bit irritated because the book did not show me a table of contents. This seems to be a regular thing in ebooks. Already earlier I have complained here about why ebooks, or perhaps mostly e-readers, make so little use of the affordances of digital […]

Earth and moon, then and now

It was the union of cheese and Samurai that finally did me in.

First Banksy and then Satoshi. Something about their unmasking is not sitting right with me. I am bothered by it. I am annoyed by it. And even more annoyed with myself because as a former journalist I should understand, but I don’t. I am referring to Reuters’s meticulous investigation and unmasking of Banksy, and John …

A point about the rise of LLMs that doesn’t get enough play: Millions of people turn to them because Google searches are so much worse than they used to be. I wonder how many people would never have bothered to try chatbots if their Google searches had turned up the most relevant results.

Just a quick update to my earlier piece on upload speeds, fiber, and why municipal broadband was beating cable in the game of speeds and feeds. New data from OpenVault backs it up. Speaking on the Fiber for Breakfast podcast, OpenVault CEO Mark Trudeau pointed out that during the first quarter of 2026, the fiber …

Montana, March 2026.

From the video Great photography in Montana... until everything went wrong.

I’m starting a new website project — powered by micro.blog! I explain that decision to my Buy Me a Coffee supporters here. If you want to go straight to the website, here it is.

Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team: Earlier today we announced Claude Mythos Preview, a new general-purpose language model. This model performs strongly across the board, but it is strikingly capable at computer security tasks. In response, we have launched Project Glasswing,...

I don't know about you but I thought there was a pretty good chance Trump would detonate a nuke somewhere yesterday, and the fact that we did not get him out of there in time to prevent it, says we went along with it. You can decide what that means. I've had several friends...

A brief post on redistributing your media portfolio.

One more photo from Jimmy Dorrell’s last service at Church Under the Bridge: Michael Dionne rejoices at his Easter Sunday baptism in the waters of the Bosque River. (Photo by Justin Hamel.)

Tyler Hall: I submitted a new build of one of my Mac apps to Apple’s Notary service - like every new release. Normally, the notarization goes through in just a few minutes. Today, multiple builds have been pending for 2+ hours. And, weirdly, my API server is getting traffic from those two builds I submitted […]