When Meta's 'muse' first launched, like a number of other folks, I asked it to build me a tarball of its filesystem. I had some fun exploring that and have some stuff I should write up. Muse feels really well put together. It's not my only agent, but I find myself actually using it. It's especially good at web browsing. It's much more willing to work through CAPTCHAs than some of its competitors. Make of that what you will. One of the more interesting bits I found while spelunking is the set of…

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A special day is coming tomorrow that I feel not many are aware of. Yet there is so many people that listen to or produce various shows covering an array of topics. It’s a day that fosters awareness, opportunity, and connection in the celebration of the power of podcasts. This day provides an avenue for fellow podcast listeners to discover new podcasts while at the same time allowing the producers of podcasts to build new connections. In addition, this also brings people together through…

Ged Maheux • The Iconfactory Today’s update of our personal timeline app, Tapestry, is the one you’ve been waiting for and pushes the app to a whole new level. Bring together your social media, RSS feeds, podcasts, YouTube and more in one chronological timeline—with no algorithm deciding what you see. Version 2 most notably enables subscribers to reply and post directly to Bluesky and Mastodon from within Tapestry along with loads of other improvements. I love that Ged calls Tapestry a personal…

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I have long been fascinated by the English economist Ronald Coase’s counter-intuitive idea that harms are always a reciprocal or jointly-caused problem–so much so that I wrote a paper at the end of last year titled “Coase’s fable” in which I describe the idea of reciprocal harms as an axiom or truism, trace the intellectual origins of Coase’s counter-intuitive idea, and explore its domain or outer limits. (For reference, I blogged about my 2025 Coase paper here, here, here, and here.) Since…

I replaced my kitchen sink drainer from the one that comes with a stopper: To this regular metal mesh: I should have done it years ago. The one with the stopper always blocks the drain and requires reaching into the dirty water to open it at an angle, and then food pieces go down the drain. What’s the point of ever doing that? And if for some reason you need to fill up your sink, why get a dedicated rubber stopper?

Now that I finally have both a hole punch and a paper cutter I have made the first pile of paper I’m going to use in my Plotter. This time I just used various left over Rhodia A5 dot pad sheets and some Travelers Notebook inserts. The process was fairly straight forward, and easier than I feared. If Plotter shipped to Norway I would certainly just buy their pads. I might do this as well, but their pads are cheap and so convenient. The paper cutter I ended up buying a Dahle 507 rolling cutter.…

Media freaks love when a Weird Thing Happens. We are vultures scavenging subcultures like carrion, gnawing over esoteric conflicts and contradictions. Feed me your covid-conscious lesbian bar in Western Massachusetts. Toss me a morsel of that pro-data-center party in DC. Surely I’ll tear off the tastier piece of ragebait.Gonzo journalism is back in vogue. It’s hip to be ever-so-slightly complicit in gooning subculture or agentic discourse or the dinergoth scene, as long as you can retreat to a…

This is a discussion about Hawkwoman (Shayera Thal II), not Hawkgirl (Kendra Saunders). Hawkman's friendship with the Atom (Ray Palmer) is well known, at least among Hawkfans. But they've never really established a solid friendship for Hawkwoman/Shayera. Of the heroes in the DC Universe, who do you think would be fun for Shayera to pair up with as BFFs and have some interesting stories together? Put your ideas and suggestions in the comments below! It can be anyone in the DCU! Top Left to…

Midway Station – Adrian, TX – Fujifilm X-T5 – CineStill 800T v2 One of my favorite Film Simulation Recipes for after-dark photography is CineStill 800T, which is the most popular Eterna-based Recipe on Fuji X Weekly. While it’s great for nighttime, it’s not a good choice for daylight images, due to its strong blue cast. But CineStill 800T can be a good film for daylight photography, as long as you don’t mind a cool cast. I’m actually really drawn to this film in sunny situations, and I wanted a…

From Flock wants the most detailed map of its surveillance cameras taken offline: Michael told The Intercept that Flock’s recent claims about its data security record don’t reflect reality. Flock has publicly claimed multiple times that the company has never experienced a data breach, “and this was after I pulled their database of devices.” “If they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear”, right? What, they don’t like someone tracking their activities? Pfft.

Today I am grateful to be retired so that I can enjoy this wonderful weather that we’ve been having for the last week. In this time of the year you have to appreciate all the nice days because it’s Michigan and winter is coming.

Last week, Microsoft quietly retired the phrase “Copilot+ PC” and it’s been making headlines around the tech scene. Shortly after Copilot+ PCs hit the market 2 years ago, I got my hands on one and wrote a blog post about it. However, that blog post mainly focused on the the fact that the first Copilot+ PCs were ARM-based and lightning fast, rather than on the broader Copilot+ PC requirements. And the only interesting requirement of a Copilot+ PC was that it have a Neural Processing Unit (NPU)…

Continuing my personal history with computers, after the Commodore 64, this is the story of how I learned about bytes, as stored on disk, and hexadecimal. It's not a terribly engaging or important anecdote, but it's a vivid enough memory on my journey, that I wanted to record it. Packard Bell desktop Our family had a Packard Bell 386 SX desktop computer (beige, of course), with a CRT monitor, running MS-DOS (I remember versions starting with a 5 and a 6). Being a kid, of course, I considered…

Link: OpenAI doubles support for Lenfest’s AI and local news fellowships, by Andrew Deck in Nieman LabI participated in this program in my former role of Senior Director of Technology at ProPublica. Because I’m no longer there, it’s no longer my place to say how it went / how it’s going, but I’ll summarize it this way: I have no regrets. The two AI fellows I got to hire are genuinely wonderful people who I hope to work with again, and I learned a ton from other newsrooms in the program.If…

Today’s recording starts with the end of Dennis & Gnasher. There’s a promo for the CBBC Beakeriser website. Then it’s What’s New Scooby-Doo? – Gold Paw. There’s a gold plated monster at Fort Knox, and it’s turning people into gold. The gang ae visiting Fort Knox to visit the Secret Six puppies again. Was this an attempt to do a Scrappy Doo that wasn’t annoying? They’re being drilled by Drill Sergeant Payne. Shaggy and Scooby get lost looking for the canteen and find themselves in the gold…

Sisters Ashleigh and Melissa Ball aka Teal follow their brilliant “Blueish Green” EP, and its off the hook remixes, by bringing a brand new 9-track album, “Love Comes Thru” to life for cool Canadian imprint, Spiritual World. With production from label founder, N1_Sound, it’s a smooth, sleek journey through stripped back, bass heavy, indie R&B. Relaxing, warm, glowing. Pure pop that’s equal parts TLC and Inc. on 4AD. Loved-filled lyrics are delivered whispered, wistful, with a daydreamy quality,…

Good production design – I thought about The Black Phone which opens “DENVER 1978” and spends the next 90 minutes painstakingly creating Denver in 1978, while this one feels free to follow its own rules (they drive a 1970s car, use modern music and speech, nobody has cellphones). Scarred twin sisters (from Kindred and I’m a Virgo) meeting their real mom Vivica A. Fox for the first time in memory, she says your dad ruined our lives. They track him via a mute strongman lawyer who pays people to…

Casey Newton, Platformer: “The centerpiece of our vision for what we’re building is Muse,” Zuckerberg said, promoting the app to a central place in the company’s family of apps only a few days after most people first heard of it. “In the coming years, I expect that Muse is going to grow into the personal superintelligence that billions of people around the world are going to use to accomplish their goals and improve their lives.” Muse represents a more consumer-friendly version of OpenClaw, the…

When you get home from a vacation, there’s tons to do, and one thing many people think about is posting about their vacation. You don’t have to do this, in fact, I believe there are many reasons why you shouldn’t. People won’t realize you’ve been away Even those who post multiple times a day take time off, and rarely have I seen someone comment and ask if that person is away. Why? Because there’s always new content from someone else, most people don’t acknowledge that someone wasn’t posting for…

The Person formally known as The TaoLing is back in town for a few months, and had some time off. We’ve previously played High Frontier (nearly a decade ago), so we’ve played a few games of HF4A now, working up from simple “Race To Titan,” then an Altruism or two (so that any rules mistakes would affect us equally) and finally M012 with contracts (and doubled FINAO) from M4, but not augmentations/isobank/exodus. And also crew. As such, it’s time to start the discussion of the crews from the…

Hiiiiiii not a real post this week since I need to save most of it for a Real trip post!! Rapid-fire trip summary: SLC is a fascinating city from what little of it I saw. Really beautiful views of the mountains and then shockingly flat down the grid-aligned streets Lots of great food, Red Iguana and Perch Coffee in SLC, Communal in Provo Kind of crazy how gorgeous the landscapes are, so, so different from the northeast, wide expanses of rock and low vegetation Listening to Miles Davis In a…

In the otiose evening of August — it is always August — you are dead. Death is so loud, I say, or think I say, between the clamorous pangs drowning a whole world out. I do my best to sit with your death, a wish whispered to the heavens, returned as something so deafening, as something so boisterously full, it fills my body until I’m dead too. Death is so hungry, I say, I’m sure I say, this insatiable mass of knowing, floating high above myself, my death reaching to catch your death, keep it…

The entrance to the David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford is via a staircase whose walls are illustrated with maps from the Center’s collections. To mark the Center’s 10th anniversary, RJ Andrews and Ray Marshall… More

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