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Sometimes, in conversation, someone will say a word or phrase and immediately follow it up with “Oh, I guess we’re not allowed to say that.” Usually it’s something racial, but it might also refer to sex or gender. I’m never sure how to respond. I mean, why would you want to,...

Karel Titeca "Richard Scarry already summarized everything there is to know about cyber security, about 50 years ago."

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Yes, I just asked DeepSeek V4 to run a security audit of my code, because why not? The code is not super valuable, the service doesn't hold any

I drew the cartoon above from a photograph that turned twenty years old last month. That’s Erika on the left, and next to Erika is Stephen’s bride Erin,…

Find what countries a point on a map belonged to throughout history. https://hanshack.com/point-in-history/#1.78/36.3/8.3

Site release f6245bf: Add the OpenTimestamps proof for build a059fb9 (#118). Every build ships a signed manifest; see /mirrors/ for verification.

The artist’s most emotionally direct album digs in the dirt to yield a richly organic collaboration featuring some of his most enduring songs.

Read: The Captains and the Kings by Jennifer Johnston ★★★★ 📚 Taking Clare by the hand, he had begun to run. Now he realized that, in all their years together, he had given her nothing, only a child that he had not allowed her to enjoy. She had slowly died of starvation. In her whole […]

Tech is very competitive, I learned, even when you give your work away, which I have been doing for a couple of decades. Maybe even especially when you give it away. I want to work with other people, and am always making invitations. When I see a product that fits in with wh...

Read: Vigil by George Saunders ★★★ 📚 Ghosts gather round a dying oil billionaire, trying both to make him understand the damage and ease his passage. The deceased are almost comic characters, a couple reminding me of the two old guys in the muppets.

Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing… On Saturday, 15 August 2026 The average temperature today is 16.01˚C, With highs of 17.14˚C and lows of 15.38˚C, It may feel like 15.7˚C with broken clouds The wind speed is 0.45m/s and visibility is 10000m The pressur...

Some people say they have found pennies from heaven - my mom sent me scarabs.

For the keen red moment my knee scraped over the tarmac, I felt like a child again, grazed and quick. Then I had to pick the dirt out, and put on my own plaster, and find my own way home – and all of it without a tear in my eye,

This month's Emacs Carnival theme is The Search For Knowledge, which is kinda something near and dear to my heart. I wrote an Obsidian to Emacs post from a little over a year ago and one of the things that I mentioned is that Obsidian has a Knowledge Graph that …

    ▶ wow what a trailer!! KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS Trailer | TIFF 2026     ▶ How to disable or avoid intrusive AI     ▶ ‘Bass on one shoulder, bow and arrows on the other’: life with…

This post continues my prediction of the 2026 Chargers roster. I had the good fortune to attend training camp this past Sunday. I was going to make an updated prediction then, but wisely decided to wait until last night's preseason game. Locks (43) I am not going to spend ti...

The other day I had a few hours free before dropping a friend to the airport, and since it was a sunny day & we were over that side of town we went for a walk to the old radar…

This is probably not the rant you were looking for… I see a lot of people express this opinion on social media and sometimes in person: they are frustrated with AI-generated event flyers and posters and resentful that people produce them to promote local events. The thought is typically something along the lines of “No, […]

For sixty years we have been building systems to manage what we know. History - specific rules, behind firewalls, command and control thinking, dashboards, sales playbooks … and do not get me started on the ‘sales methodology’ industry. The world changed. Slowly. Then all at...

THIS might just be perfect for me. Thanks for this. marco.org/2026/08/1…

Mark Zuckerberg’s manifesto rests on a single elegant idea: safety comes from distributing power so no one actor can impose their will. It’s a fine principle. It’s also the exact opposite of how he has run everything he has ever touched. Start with the structure of Meta itse...