Just switched the DNS for my main blog over to micro.blog. Previously it was on a subdomain. Feels good to be all in on micro.blog. I’m sure I screwed something up in the move, so I’m doing some testing over the coming days. Still have to figure out what to do with the 20+ years of WordPress posts.
I’ve noticed more frequent posts from Bijan Sabet in my RSS feed. It’s nice to see him blogging (and posting photos) so frequently again. No surprise to see him posting intelligently about the shit show unfolding in our country.
McSweeney’s, probably best known for its indisputably good humor, is cataloging Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes. No joke.
The safer you are in an environment of rising authoritarianism, the more obligation you have to make some noise on behalf of the people who are more vulnerable than you. Indeed, this is the only way you might avoid having the leopards eat your face. – Eva Galperin
23andMe has filed for bankruptcy. Bottom line: You have no idea who will buy 23andMe and what they will do with the data (your genetic info). Delete your genetic data as well as your test sample from 23andMe NOW. Please repost. The California AG even issued a consumer alert.
“Rome wasn’t built in a day, but it burned in one” - John Heywood
That was quite the finale.
Seriously though, how come no one has been able to do better than Plaxo for contacts. The paradigm is so old and broken and dumb.
The videos in this research on discrete-time hybrid automata learning are hilarious.
Nicholas’s newsletter link saving workflow is interesting. I’m not currently publishing a newsletter, but it gave me some things to think about as it relates to my own workflow for posting links to my microblog (or main blog).
Related: I hate managing a separate microblog and probably should just consolidate everything here, especially because unlike most other platforms, micro.blog supports titleless posts, which is huge.
One of my biggest pet peeves when I come across a thing on the web that references another thing, often with a screenshot, with no link to the thing and zero attribution. It’s such a colossal dick move. And it’s lazy AF. Hanlon’s razor, I guess.
I had to drive east at an unreasonable hour, which meant I had some time to listen to a podcast. I’m so glad I listened to the Dissect episode, featuring Rob Markman, celebrating the 10-year(!!) anniversary of one of the greatest albums ever, Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly. Incredible episode!
TIL there is a 6-hour time-stretched version of Brian Eno’s Ambient 1: Music for Airports
VERY cool post on building a personal digital music library. Wowzers.
Can you imagine if your car started serving you ads at stoplights?!
My daughter came to me super stressed about a couple of tests she has tomorrow – science and Latin. I asked why she was so stressed and she explained that it was a lot of information and she was having trouble studying. I had her send me the study guide, which I exported as a PDF, uploaded to ChatGPT, engaged the voice interface and asked it to go over the concepts in the study guide with her and then quiz her on the information. Thirty minutes later, her stress was gone, she understood the concepts and was able to talk about them in conversation. Pretty cool.
Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal was interviewed by Guy Kawasaki at SXSW. I thought it was great.
Spending some time with Neil’s Oceanside Countryside album today. It’s a lazy Sunday album.
Well, today I downloaded files from an Azure storage container. This was a first. It felt very Microsoft-y.
I just watched a nearly 30-minute video on dishwashers.
It took me several episodes to get into Severance. Now I’m ALL in. I watch so few shows. I see far fewer movies (that I actually want to see). I watched episode 7 of season 2 this week and it was an absolute jaw-on-the-floor stunner. One of the aspects that really caught my attention was the WoeMeter. And then I discovered that Make3 posted a whole behind-the-scenes thing on it.
I don’t think seeing this will spoil much, but if you haven’t watched the show, but intend to do so, maybe just bookmark the page, add it to your reminders and move on.
Just bought a TRMNL for the house. Very excited. Been looking for this exact thing and can’t believe I ran across it for the first time today.
I concur. A4 is king 👑
From Robin Sloan’s post, “The teacher lies sometimes.”
