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If I have timed things right, this is just the right moment for you to be infuriated by an early mention of Christmas. If you are reading this on the website, the picture of Christmas presents should have you frothing and spitting. If you got this by email, you should

Site release d868904: marfa: the ten prints are Blue Tree (#182). Every build ships a signed manifest; see /mirrors/ for verification.

Two yards from the bus stop and twenty from the school, a man crouches, one hand bracing on the railing. Behind him is a girl almost as tall as he is, with a fluffy blue hairband and delight in her eyes. She climbs onto his back, and he stands, face

Finished watching: The Sheep Detectives 🎥

So good. So, so good.

Finished watching: 🎥 Wildcat - better than expected and fun. It lost the plot in the final 15 to 20 minutes - but don’t they all? Definitely take a watch if you are looking and into the ‘all action’ genre.

Want to read: 📚 Seven Rules of Trust by Jimmy Wales and Dan Gardner

    ▶ Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto – Conversation 1     ▶ Actress – Paris     ▶ FKA twigs : live at the Adidas Arena, Paris – ARTE Concert        

Had to do a sniper bid as the auction closed at 1.30am NZ time, but scored this mint 90mm macro lens for a measly NZ$300… Apart from being super well engineered metal 90mm macro lens with max aperture of F2.5…

    ▶ Moas x Cup Noodles!?     SLOP WARS 2026?   ▶ ‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft   ▶ Someone showed how easy it is to hijack an…

🔗 Futility Closet - An idler’s miscellany of compendious amusements

It was given to him deliberately to set the record

.. doesn’t seem to be in the spirit?

🖇️ Me - a couple of days ago Revisited this morning and Siri happily reduced the 30,000 into a more manageable set of docs that I was actually after. In the 30,000 we found some 2,367 Markdown files that had meaningful information that MIGHT be useful in my newly emerging 🖇️wiki. Analysis seemed out of Siri reach - so zipped it up and sent to ChatGPT. The accompanying analysis now sits in the Obsidian Notes vault. As highlighted: The objective was not to tidy the Vault. It is to make the thinking inside it visible. 💬 ChatGPT Claude will likely take over now.

🔗 Siri, not a companion, by design - Asymco

We’re building Siri not to be a companion. It was a very big deal. It’s an advisor, but not a companion. Siri is there as a concierge, a professional persona. It is not an amiable person, because they want to maintain an emotional distance. That was by design.

Have to say that’s what is particularly working for me. More on this later when I get round to it.

🔗 Everything is interesting | Self Distract

Lovely piece and with him all the way - even down to Football.

🔗 Air Theremin · Play With Motion Or Hand Tracking

Cool … via Stephen Downes

🔗 Daring Fireball: Will Oremus Is a Duo Doubter

I bet there are a lot more people out there who would rather have a $2500 iPhone and a $700 MacBook Neo than who would want a $2500 MacBook Pro and a $700 iPhone.

Mr @Gruber is definitely not wrong. I do wish more people would remember the world isn’t just about them and what they want.

Looks like my body's warranty ran out once I turned 55.

Why I am writing a new book on networking.

Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee

Applications for Flock’s voluntary severance program opened Friday, and employees have until October 2 to decide whether to leave the company.

Read that as “voluntary surveillance program” at first glance. That would be silly though. Flock’s dystopian surveillance program is strictly non-voluntary for the people of ‘Merica. Feels good to finally see them in the “finding out” phase of fucking around.

When the comics character Pogo said, “We have met the enemy and he is us,” he was referring to pollution. He might have said the same thing about the dreaded algorithm. In a recent post at Skuthus, Skyler points out that the Bear Discover “trending list is full of naysayers,...

细读张岱《陶庵梦忆·报恩塔》，从佛塔形制、琉璃工艺到补砖与点灯的细节，看南京大报恩寺琉璃塔背后的匠人手艺、帝王物力，以及张岱始终放不下的赏玩兴致。