If You Haven’t Recently Used Claude Code, You Might Not Understand Where AI Is At. “There’s a huge gulf between a chatbot that’s just putting text into your brain and an agent that uses code to interact with an external environment.”
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Berkeleyside
• Nathan Dalton
Pickleball in the sky: A new Berkeley club plays 6 stories above downtown

"There are, of course, differences between Micro.blog and rss.chat, but the intention behind both is very similar, isn't it?"
This app is holding the place for a protocol I want to be widely supported. It's also documented and there's even a validator for it. I want it to be easy to hook up other apps to the network this defines. And all the source code is released under the MIT license.
It's not my place to say what micro.blog is -- but the other day I called it: "the swiss army knife of interop in the web of the 2020's." And in that it is unique and imho irreplaceable.
I'm trying to create a new kind of network for discourse on the web, again the blog posts will tell you more about that.
daveverse
• Dave Winer
I have Claude update me on all posts on both RSS.chat sites when we start for a day. I read them all when they’re posted, but one was in German, which Claude automatically translated for me, and it’s an interesting question. Which I have answered.
Electrek
• Fred Lambert
Musk’s Terafab chip plant will run on gas, not Tesla solar

SpaceX confirmed it will power Terafab, its $16.8 billion chip megafactory in Texas, with its own natural gas power plants and “very large battery arrays.” Tesla solar isn’t in the plan.
That’s despite Tesla being a partner on the project, and despite Tesla selling solar panels, Powerwalls, and grid-scale batteries built for exactly this kind of load.
Latest articles from Crooks and Liars
• Tengrain
Oops! Meta Lets Australian Nazis Post On Facebook For Hate And Profit
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Quote of the Day
“Woke one was crazy.” — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), on ABC News, explaining some controversial past statements from progressive candidates.
"There are, of course, differences between Micro.blog and rss.chat, but the intention behind both is very similar, isn't it?" This app is holding the place for a protocol I want to be widely supported. It's also documented a... https://dave.micro.blog/2026/08/10/there-are-of-course-differences.html
Open Culture
• Colin Marshall
How the Bird Sound Effects in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds Were Created with a Pioneering Electronic Instrument, the Trautonium
Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Special Effects, though viewers raised on more recent Hollywood spectacles would hardly find its mechanized and optically printed avian attackers convincing. Still, the picture as a whole has retained its eerie, ominous power over the last six decades, and a decent amount of the […]
NEW: The EPA hasn’t reevaluated its cleanup guidelines for homes in a residential Superfund site in Omaha, Nebraska, in 17 years, despite research showing that even small amounts of lead can cause IQ loss in children and heart attacks in adults.
https://www.propublica.org/article/lead-remediation-epa-standards-omaha-nebraska?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #EPA #Environment #Government #Omaha #Children #Health #Family
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Hunter Biden Says Pardon ‘Not Good’ for Father’s Legacy
Hunter Biden admits “he was ‘the most privileged person there is’ after receiving a presidential pardon from his father, former President Joe Biden, acknowledging that it was not a good choice for America or his father’s legacy,” the BBC reports. Said Biden: “It’s not fair… All I know is that I’m grateful that he did […]
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Marsha Blackburn Intends to Fill Her Own Senate Seat
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said that she does intend to stay in office until she’s sworn in as governor, if elected, and would make the appointment to fill her seat, rather than stepping down after the general election and allowing current Gov. Bill Lee (R) to make the appointment, the Nashville Banner reports.
Books and Bread: Free Grocery Stores in Libraries Tackle Food Insecurity (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)
After 10 hours and 43 minutes of Phillies baseball, this is what I think (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)
Why won’t the Cowboys ever retire No. 88? It’s more than just a number (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)
David Ellison’s 30-Movie Pledge Sounds Like Make-Believe (bloomberg.com)
When Mike Trout brought the Angels to his private golf club, they got a trade deadline unlike any other (nytimes.com)
Iran Insists Strait of Hormuz Will Stay Closed Until Trump Agrees to Demands (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
• Steve Schmidt
Home of the afraid
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