Notes and links from Wed 22 July

Status: Still feeling tired and a bit fuzzy, same as yesterday. Did a tiny bit of DIY in the house that Fi was struggling with, which was pleasing as it’s good to be useful, but otherwise rested. Cooler today, about what summer is ‘supposed’ to be like. Reading: The ghost in the spam folder: Remembering Mark Smith — Martin was given the archives from his old band when his estranged bandmate left them to him in his will and has written a lovely piece about those times that ended badly but were still foundational to who he is. A trans ban came to rugby. Baltimore’s Ferals played on. — This is how you deal with bigoted legislation targeting individuals. You come together and ignore it as a community. Do not make persecuted people stand alone. Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them — Nice to see the BBC highlighting this pattern of behaviour from the tech bros that the media seems unable to see through. They keep making these “unsubstantiated claims of power” as a distraction from…