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On the weight and responsibility of words in public discourse. Drawing from John Rawls's reasonable pluralism and Paulo Freire's philosophy that dialogue requires love, I argue for extending grace even to those we disagree with. A reflection on compassionate conversation, accountability versus punishment, and maintaining hope in a cruel world.

Pat painted the shirts and I fixed them with the iron. Maybe I didn't need to do that. We didn't expect them to see a second wear. But I couldn't stand not to do it right, and you should never give up before they

Deep Schema Markup as the Next-Gen SEO StrategyAs search transitions to AI engines (Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, ChatGPT), traditional SEO tactics like keyword stuffing are being replaced by Generative Engine Optimization (GEO). The article emphasizes that Deep Schema Ma...

Translating documents isn’t hard these days, but when it comes to long documents, it still gets tricky as most translation services are limited to a few paragraphs and charge for larger texts. If you use Microsoft Edge, you can use the immersive reader mode to translate huge documents for free though. You can trigger the […]

Site release 4bdbdc9: poap: state plainly that these pages are not affiliated with POAP (#95). Every build ships a signed manifest; see /mirrors/ for verification.

Vibe coding an app that's mostly someone else's code, Redditor turns a Steam Deck into a SteamBoy, Flock-proof car wrap, that one time Tom and Travis got too high, and where to watch the solar eclipse tomorrow

Recently, I was doing some work to make sure that the OPML files I created using Drummer and available via Drummer were available from my site instead of drummer.scripting.com. My initial effort was using code from the outlineBrowser2 and opmlPackage repos from Dave Winer. After reviewing the code, I felt that I could focus more on using the […]

Oh no! Future medical doctors might be dumber than chatbots! NOO!!!! #academicsky #edusky futurism.com/artificia…

I recently wrote about the ISA bridge and the idea of an “apex” - the point where an ISA has grown large enough to carry you from the day you stop work to the day a pension becomes accessible. That post worked through my own numbers: £147k in the ISA, £20k a year going in, a...

Site release 9b7b328: Document the BitTorrent copy, DNSLink, and how mirrors stay current (#94). Every build ships a signed manifest; see /mirrors/ for verification.

[prompt: create a viral hero image that shows what I mean. Or, don’t] Currently I am on a half diet of social media as I am still locked out of X and by now I really don’t mind any more. Social media is dead and has been weaponised into a distraction, propaganda and rage discourse […]

It's been a few months since I've started my new job. As I've mentioned on the /now page in the past, I've been working at a logistics warehouse, so I'm pretty much a cog in this country's supply chain. It's very physical, it's the direct opposite of easy, but it's essential and the pay isn't bad. However, I've hit a bit of a snag recently and could use a little help.

China isn’t simply a regime with a centrally planned technological machine.

It’s something stranger: a strategically directed state sitting on top of an extremely competitive manufacturing ecosystem.

China’s long-term strategy increasingly resembles ecosystem substitution:

Foreign technological ecosystem becomes a vulnerability → create an alternative ecosystem.

Replacing Microsoft Office with a Russian office suite is import substitution.

Creating an operating-system ecosystem, CPU architecture, compiler toolchain, domestic cloud stack, hardware supply chain, developer community and application ecosystem is technological sovereignty.

China is attempting the latter.

@srijan.ch@fed.brid.gy how’s your micropub endpoint?

last week was apparently dominated by gossiping about the departures from google. SemiAnalysis and plenty of others spilled a lot of metaphorical ink in the topic. the SA take, Gemini is Cooked but GCP is Cooking reeks of gossip and twitter tea leaf reading with their usua...

Apparently the nightly email didn't go out last night. The problem was an error when it tried to read the Linkblog entries for the day. I've seen reports that these errors happen when you try to read the Links tab on scripting.com. The error shouldn't kill the email sending, it should just omit the linkblog entries, and publish the rest. These kinds of problems always pop up at the worst time. Luckily yesterday wasn't a big news day, and you can read about it on the blog.

I was looking for a codename for a new scripting environment Claude and I are making attempting in every way to do exactly what Frontier does. But until it does that I need a nice name, memorable, maybe a bit magical and positive. Frontier has been gone, thought to be lost, but with the advent of Claude Code we were able to get it running again in current OSes on current hardware. I shouldn't call it Frontier because who knows if the end result will be compatible enough to claim that. But I want a codename that reflects hidden, forgotten and overlooked wealth. Like a civilzation that rose from the ashes," or as it turns out, the bottom of the ocean.

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Coding with AI gets stuff done faster. For some areas where I understand how things work but never applied it before, AI can help me realize it, which is great. The rate at which I crank out personal utilities has skyrocketed. What I've found is that I always have to manuall...

보행 시간은 신호등 앞에서 끝나지 않는다 출근길에 같은 횡단보도를 여러 번 건너다 보면, 지도에 표시된 거리가 실제 이동 거리와 다르게 느껴질 때가 있다. 집에서 버스 정류장까지 6분이라고 계산해도, 신호를 한 번 놓치면 체감 시간은 8분이나 9분이 된다. 비가 오거나 유모차를 밀고 있으면 숫자의 차이는 더 커진다. 교통 데이터를 볼 때는 보통 출발지와 도착지, 이동 시간, 이용자 수를 먼저 본다. 그런데 보행자의 이동은 도로 위의 선만으로 설명하기 어렵다. 기다리는 시간, 건너는 동안의...