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New top of page image. The official Knicks team picture as champs.

BTW the Gift Articles feed works really nicely in the blogroll.

Today's song: I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City.

People keep saying the Spurs are the future of the NBA, but they didn't earn that this year. More probably it's the Knicks that are the future. The Knicks will keep growing. The Knicks beat the Spurs in the last two games by playing rope-a-dope, probably not intentionally, but it worked anyway. The Spurs, and Wemby especially, were completely zonked by the fourth quarter. The Knicks had a bench this year that let the starters get plenty of rest. The Spurs lost game four because they didn't have the good sense to rest Wemby while they were up by 20+ points. Anyway, the Knicks have a formula. Pick players with heart potential and talent, treat them like a team, keep trying out new ideas, approaches. It works. Won NY the championship this year. As anticipated I have no idea what to make of the Knicks as winner. I'll have to learn too. ;-)

One thing I want to know -- where do I tune in to get the most of Clyde talking about this series.

And thanks to the Knicks for being such a great team. Never ever in a million years did I imagine saying that.

JY Stervinou proposed Universal Mentions, an interesting new low-tech web-like protocol for mentioning people, places or things via link elements in the head section of any HTML file you want to use as your personal directory. It's an intriguing idea. ChatGPT review, after a short discussion between us. Both JY and ChatGPT use the term "open web" which to me has become a red flag. The web is open. No need to say it twice. There's no such thing as a web element that's not open. It's like saying wet water.

Jonathan Edwards reporting for The Washington Post:

President Donald Trump’s name is off the Kennedy Center.

Crews at the performing arts venue started removing it from the front of the building around 3 a.m., several hours after the center missed a federal judge’s two-week deadline to do so. The judge had ruled that the decision by the center’s board of trustees to rename it was illegal.

A perfect metaphor for the work ahead of us.

From Apple’s Developer site: To ensure getting started with a large cloud model is as accessible as possible, developers in the App Store Small Business Program with fewer than two million first time App Store downloads will be able to use Apple Foundation Models running...

Anthropic: The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. ...

Sarah Perez: This week, Apple announced a series of discovery features that will personalize app recommendations based on users’ interests and behavior, providing a new way for developers to have their app discovered. At Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), the iPhone maker introduced Personalized Collections in the App Store, which will showcase recommendations tailored to […]

Scott Perry: My team rewrote Apple's TrueType hinting interpreter in Swift, ask me anything. […] I feel like naming just one would be a disservices to all of the features that made this effort possible (C interop, generics, noncopyable/nonescapable types) but at the end of the day I think the star of the show was […]

Hartley Charlton: Apple this week confirmed that Notion is migrating its user interface to SwiftUI, citing the app’s desire for greater performance and UI consistency than its existing web-based stack can deliver. […] The callout was clearly deliberate; Notion is one of the most widely used productivity apps on the Mac, and has long been […]

Tim Hardwick: Apple’s new version of Safari browser in macOS 27 and iOS 27 can be tasked to monitor a webpage and notify you of any changes, thanks to a new built-in feature. […] In other upcoming feature additions, using the power of AI, Safari tabs that you have open can automatically be organized into […]

ChatGPT made us new Really Simple virtual swag to go with the moment. ;-) Really Simple basketball. Really Simple player 27. PS: Go New York Go New York Go!

Imagine if someone cracked the speed of light. Now we could visit far off galaxies on vacation. Do you think we'd build it or argue about whether we should? Heh I know the human species, we don't do that kind of thinking we just go.

Read: “Why "Book-Shaming" Won't Solve the Children's Literacy Crisis”. Jessica Winter in The New Yorker. Published June 12, 2026. Barnett’s concerns about literary merit and professional esteem may be timeless, but they are not terribly timely; they seem to float high above the current on-the-ground realities of what many educators and researchers agree to be a literacy crisis. In urging his audience to see children’s books as “real books,” Barnett skips over larger, more pressing questions about why so many children aren’t reading books at all, real or otherwise. Posted: June 13, 2026 at 3:22 PM UTC. Tagged: books, education, reading.

The Economist:

It might seem surprising, in a world of global stars, that the 6m Danes, many of whom are fluent in English, listen mainly to homegrown music. And until fairly recently they did not. In 2019 only five songs in Denmark’s top 20 were in Danish. By last year the figure was 18.

A similar trend is under way in other countries — and in other forms of entertainment. From Asia to the Americas, music charts are increasingly dominated by local sounds. Hollywood television-streaming companies are commissioning more local productions in foreign markets, causing consumption of American shows to fall. Social networks are connecting the whole world, but so far people are mainly using them to consume local content. And as video gaming expands, it too is becoming increasingly tailored to local cultures.

Marcin Wichary is right: Apple keeps talking about making things faster, but users just want things to work reliably.

The giftarticles feed is now a simple RSS 2.0 feed. It's not pretty, that would require some work with Masotdon, but it does work.