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The boys put Frankie's little keyboard on demo mode and danced in the grass. It sounded quieter outside, or maybe the batteries were going. It had been loud enough when they took it off him. It had been loud when it caught him on the side of his

I'm frustrated that Meta has singlehandedly ruined the public perception of smart glasses

Sticks tongue out at AI

Testing atproto Spaces

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To boost its 1 billion Gemini users, Google gives Gemini Pro to US students for FREE. This inflates the number considerably. LOL

Man Nicknamed “Bluntman” Arrested Ahead of Gathering of the Juggalos with 128 Pounds of Weed The Mid Missouri Drug Task Force had received information that 45-year-old Kevin Jones, appropriately nicknamed “Bluntman,” was planning to sell marijuana during the Gathering of the...

Free advice from the printer fixer

Site release cb3eca8: Correct the porcine credit to James Kramer (@hardtotelll) (#150). Every build ships a signed manifest; see /mirrors/ for verification.

Just listened to a podcast from the New Yorker, interviewing their TV critic Emily Nussbaum, about a show called Slings & Arrows. She says it's the best TV series she's ever watched. No reviews on Metacritic? I think we have to try to watch it. It's available on YouTube.

After Yellowface and The Poppy War Trilogy, Babel is the third book by R.F. Kuang that I’ve read. In Babel, a Chinese orphan is brought to 19th-century Oxford to study translation and magical silver-working. As he uncovers the university’s role in British imperialism, he mu...

Site release 1c405a7: Name the pendulum controls, respect reduced motion, drop the unbuilt tab widget (#148). Every build ships a signed manifest; see /mirrors/ for verification.

Back in 2006, when I first started Thriftmac, it was hard to find free Mac apps. In fact, it was hard to find any Mac apps at all. That meant snapping up links to pretty much any freeware I could find. On the plus side, it also meant that those few apps were likely maintaine...

Read: The End of Everything by M John Harrison ★★★★ 📚 'Summer. I stood in a long shallow chalk valley half a mile from the sea, listening to the sound of the waves – the sound waves! – amplified by acoustic lensing conditions in the absolutely still air, and came to the inescapable conclusion: the […]

Site release 04c6b05: Fix a dead profile link, a duplicate mirror card, and three overstated claims (#146). Every build ships a signed manifest; see /mirrors/ for verification.

Had a breakthrough with Claude this morning re how builtin verbs have no special powers in Frontier. It's why we were able to build glue first for the truly builtin stuff, then over Apple Events on the Mac, then HTTP, XML-RPC, the Metawebolog API and on and on, all of this we...

This is actually a cool idea !

In short: it’s a social, RSS-friendly radar for the open web, self-hosted, with magic-link auth, and connected to the fediverse (ActivityPub).

Site release 4f0cd24: Fix dark-mode contrast, cache the uncached, escape raw HTML in posts (#143). Every build ships a signed manifest; see /mirrors/ for verification.

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Down with a cold at the weekend, but still, it seems, in remission from the ME. I continue to have some autonomic dysfunction though and some other bits I’ll be talking to the GP about. But intend to make hay whilst the sun is shining. Hopefully I’ll be able to return to wo...

Designing the Dream House of an 87-Year-Old Tech Visionary

here’s a heartwarming write up and video short about a house/condo that stewart brand and his wife built on their land in petaluma.