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During World War II, pilots flying over Seattle might have spotted a quiet neighborhood near the Duwamish River with tree-lined streets winding past modest houses, tidy lawns, parked cars, and backyard fences. But no one lived there. The entire community was a stage set conc...

There were about 87 Roman emperors, some more (in)famous than others. One whose life and death is unlikely to inspire any epic films is Antoninus Pius, whose peaceful reign ended when he died after eating too much cheese. Two days before his passing, the 74-year-old was 12 m...

Everyone is introducing themselves on the Berkman community mail list, at the beginning of the fall semester, and here's the story I am telling. Good morning. My name is Dave Winer. I was at Berkman in 2003-04, worked on blogging, podcasting, RSS, political blogging and the ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Wednesday appeared to defend his team’s use of Signal to communicate with hundreds of online influencers after a report that his head of “new media and cultural communications” sends them talking points, daily updates and interview opportunities through the encrypted messaging app. The Columbia Journalism Review this week published an article […]

The post Mamdani Appears to Defend City Hall’s Reported Use of Encrypted Influencer Group Chat appeared first on The City Reporter.

Everyone is introducing themselves on the Berkman community mail list, at the beginning of the fall semester, and here’s the story I am telling. Good morning. My name is Dave Winer. I was at Berkman in 2003-04, worked on blogging, podcasting, RSS, political blogging and the connection to journalism. We had a couple of Bloggercons […]

After saying I was putting my tech work aside, yesterday, I had a bolt of determination, and realized I don’t like collaborating with Claude Code, but maybe it’s just when we get to this stage of a project where it’s all details, and they’re hard to communicate, and the bot has a bad habit of […]

A bunch of tech billionaires have chipped in a million each to fund a new Linux distribution. I can’t imagine how this is supposed to work, all those huge human egos, how much will they pay their developers to contribute what. I have to find out what the goal of the project is. It would […]

Congress pauses the OMB's attempt to rewrite how research is funded.

“President Donald Trump on Wednesday told reporters that he planned extensive travel to states ​with high stakes races in the final month ‌before the midterm elections in November,” Reuters reports. Said Trump: “I will be going to Alaska. I’m going to be going the last 30 days before ​the election. I’ll be making a lot […]

A new Alaska Survey Research poll in Alaska finds Mary Peltola (D) leading Dan Sullivan (R) in the U.S. Senate race, 51% to 49%. Alaska Senate Race Mary Peltola (D) 51%   Dan Sullivan (R) 49%   Alaska Survey Research poll · ±3%

Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: “iPhone Handoff” can be set up from the Settings app, under the Cellular menu. During the setup process, you can choose which iPhone you want to be the main device that you use most often and which one you want to be the companion device. Apple...

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A bunch of tech billionaires have chipped in a million each to fund a new Linux distribution. I can't imagine how this is supposed to work, all those huge human egos, how much will they pay their developers to contribute what. I have to find out what the goal of the project is. It would be nice to have a Linux that was extensively tested for use by regular people.

After saying I was putting my tech work aside, yesterday, I had a bolt of determination, and realized I don't like collaborating with Claude Code, but maybe it's just when we get to this stage of a project where it's all details, and they're hard to communicate, and the bot has a bad habit of ignoring things I tell it to do. It also returns code to me to test that no human developer would pass on to a user. It would be too embarrassing. But the bot isn't aware in the same way a human is, not even close. Now that is something I'm sure they can be taught to simulate well enough to be as good as a human collaborator.

Omarchy is a good idea. Everyone should have their own OS to customize via AI.

The EV4 is the all-electric sedan (and hatch) we want in the US, but can’t have.

On July 23, former NFL quarterback and CBS football analyst Tony Romo got pinched for drunken driving under the influence after he refused to do a blood test. After the incident, Romo went on Instagram and claimed ownership of the incident. He said that he had suffered bac...

America put it all on the line for maga. This is it.

Halloween season is creeping up on the Hudson Valley, and some of the region's haunted attractions are already ranked among the best in the country. Continue reading…