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Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing… On Monday, 18 May 2026 The average temperature today is 8.55˚C, With highs of 8.72˚C and lows of 8.17˚C, It may feel like 7.3˚C with light rain The wind speed is 2.24m/s and visibility is 10000m The pressure is 1010hP...

It looked like rain, so we walked up to the train station. There you can stand on the ridge, under the big canopy that covers the platforms, and watch the rain fall all around without getting wet yourself. But it's no good if you get rained on walking

I have too many books, especially in digital form. Whenever a book piques my interest, I immediately seek it out, acquire it by any means possible, and at least read its table of contents. This of course results in piles of books that I will never manage to read. As my knowl...

My weekly blog post. Links this week include a found trove of conversations recorded on cassette tapes, a slightly creepy look into the information your computer gives out freely and ask a question of The Bat Cloud oracle. I'm already getting mail from the postcard clubs I joined this month and I share those images and I went to my city's monthly Indivisible meeting. Link Lagniappe is back! Plus, as usual, I listened to, read and watched things.

Jon Stewart is usually pretty good, but I think he got it wrong when he says the AI companies are stealing journalists' knowledge. Imho they don't create knowledge, they report it. The knowledge isn't theirs to own, and that is for the times there is actually any new stuff. They stick to a few main stories, and still insist that the upcoming election is about the economy. They talk about the $1.7 billion slush fund, but aren't reporting every day in every story how much money we've given ICE. That big funding is going to the concentration camps they're building, the people we hear so little of. This is a government that shot two people in Minnesota, on camera, and shrugged it off. We let that go too.

the biggest news of this week was definitely the exhibition at OtonomArt. after ~50 hours of work, it was so exciting to put Syzygy on display. it was also thrilling to see my name as the artist on the label. i’m glad i photographed the sculpture after every session so i could see the gradual process. now, looking back, i find it eerie to look at the first photos. i created this thing from mud with my bare hands!

Today Claude found a problem that would only be uncovered if you knew that assigning to location.href didn't happen immediately. If it decides to redirect and then do a bunch of other stuff including making network references, the whole thing could (and did) come crashing down. I would have found that problem, but the actual error message the browser emitted made me think the problem was on the server not the client.

Timothy Snyder made an important point. Trump sees his cause as a religion and sees himself as god. So when someone who is unfairly punished by Trump says they're still glad they voted for them, because (I guess) if god is on the ballot, you have to vote for him.

I envision a network of twitter-like systems built out of the components of the web and nothing more. Every part replaceable.

Another day, another 1976 warning

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Stories about fox, grain, and chicken; clouds that look like clouds; buttons; an electric fence; and the time you brought a goat home.

Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing… On Sunday, 17 May 2026 The average temperature today is 9.26˚C, With highs of 9.27˚C and lows of 8.25˚C, It may feel like 9.26˚C with broken clouds The wind speed is 0.45m/s and visibility is 10000m The pressure is 10...

I took a walk in the moonlight to drop the things that shamed me into the hole. It was a good hole, deep and dark with a steep, sharp edge. We all used it, and all let each other pretend we didn't. As I walked home the moon

Sophie Schmieg "Work moved to a new building. I didn't expect to take SAN damage from facilities."

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Tech Stuff

Magic Notebook A free app, simple and elegant UI, no cloud sync, just open a folder and get working. Can handle DOCX, Markdown and text files. I

Hello, I'm trying out a small web app for posting updates since creating markdown files every time is painful! ![](https://web-files01.nali.org/2026/2...

i'd wait till a fresh start tomorrow.

but then i realized claude has all the code, so i could just tell it my problem.

can you find it, i asked, realizing i had not given it info on what the problem is.

there's a very weird mistake in the code i wrote just now, and there was a lot of it, i said to claude.

can you find the problem.

had no idea what to expect.

no more than 3 seconds it said I got it!

it was a typo. where i meant to type x i had typed prefs.

juggling a lot of bits in my head, my brain skipped, i didn't notice.

i would have found it quickly in my next session. but now i can think of anything but that problem until then.

sometimes claude can be totally frustrating, but other times the power makes such a huge difference.

I documented the optional source:inReplyTo element for RSS 2.0.

james wilson - berkeley unix: a simple and comprehensive guide ([reading notes](https://hecanjog.com/reading-berkeley-unix.html))

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