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Kelsey Peterson, the Apple AI employee who introduced the never-launched Siri revamp in 2024, just started at OpenAI — so we’ll be getting someone new next month for Attempt 2 at WWDC.

Pretty sure we were going to get someone different for the second crack at a next-gen Siri introduction at WWDC no matter what. If they had made a Titanic II, they would have hired someone new to host the christening.

Currently listening: Mingus Ah Um 🎵

Claude always tries to understand what you're saying. I like that. We do a lot of communicating, and have a lot of misunderstandings, I see its flaws as a programmer, it makes mistakes. Today I asked it to help find an error in the subscribe code and it showed me a lot of th...

Masayuki Amagai, Vice President of Keio University: In this age of excess, truth and fiction are intermingled. Truth tends to be complex and challenging to grasp, while fiction is often simple and easy to understand. Moreover, truth can be painful, whereas fiction is comforting. Communicating truth requires significant effort and resources, while fiction can be …

Galicia, May 2026.

Seal pup, dropped off on the beach by its mother while she hunts. Video + photo.

Everyone stayed well away, including me. (I was using a telephoto lens.) This little one was determined to get back in the water. / May 30, 2026, 7 am. Low tide.

How bad was it with the Knicks. As something of a joke, but not really, Knicks fans would disguise themselves with paper bags with eye cutouts. Fans got accustomed to the feelings of betrayal and hopelessness. When was the actual lowest point? A good candidate was when they ...

There have been problems reported with subscribe.scripting.com. At least some of them are fixed. It's hard to test this kind of software because you can't really tell what went wrong. If people report problems they just say it didn't work. But real problems were fixed, so if you've had trouble subscribing or unsubscribing, now is a good time to try again. And thanks for your patience, and sorry for the screwy app. ;-)

Congrats to my friend Manton Reece, a San Antonio fan, for their victory in the Western Conference last night. The Knicks will be playing them starting on Wednesday for the NBA championship. Knicks representing the east, Spurs for the west.

Sarah Perez, reporting for TechCrunch: Meta is doubling down on its subscription offerings. On Wednesday, the social networking giant announced it’s now rolling out its consumer subscription plans globally for its flagship apps, Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, and beg...

Daniel Jalkut, on Mastodon (cross-posted to Bluesky and Threads):

My take on AI is, essentially, everybody who’s against it is too against it and everybody who’s for it is too for it.

I concur with this take completely.

(Sidenote: The different reply threads on the three networks speak loudly to the cultural and algorithmic differences between them. Good lord has Meta steered Threads into “make people argumentative” engagement.)

Fun show, good questions I thought.

If I ran Bluesky, instead of trying to fork the web, I'd be trying to become the competitor of Twitter's that is 100% web top to bottom.

I walked through standard.site with ChatGPT. You can do it too if you want to find out what it is. I was interested in knowing how it compares to RSS 2.0 and FeedLand. I want a quick overview of standard.site with a simple example. Seems like RSS mostly. We have a firehous...

If I were the Emperor of American Christianity, I would forbid any complaints about how persecuted American Christians are unless they include the following three points: 

1. The early church, and Christians in many parts of the world right now, have it infinitely worse than we do; 
2. Jesus promised us that if we are faithful to him we will be persecuted; 
3. And Jesus also commanded us to rejoice when we are thus persecuted. 

About a week ago I got a ping. Someone wanted to know if I knew someone who wanted $10 million of Anthropic common stock as a forward contract at $1 trillion. My first reaction was that we are so deep in a bubble that when we look up, all we see are sparkling, endless orbital …

This is what I really accomplished in the years of work I did on the early web. I created something that could be built into a large successful company with millions of customers, and the web got a writing system, and because the people running it took the responsibility seriously, it has lasting value. As the say, still to this day, the systems I designed so many years ago work exactly as they did then. That's what the web was supposed to do. If my mom was still with us, I'd ask her to put this on the fridge. It's as good a review as I've ever gotten. My guess is that Matt wrote it, btw. He's really the only one in WordPress-land who can say something like this, imho.

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Galicia, May 2026.

Jeff Johnson: My Safari extension StopTheMadness Pro has a feature to protect private windows. In other words, StopTheMadness Pro stops websites from detecting private windows in Safari. I won’t explain how my feature works, but in this blog post I’ll explain how websites detect private windows. Jeff Johnson: I’m sorry to say that at this […]