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Soon as we skirted that ridge, the skies opened.

This is the flyer for the next talk in our speaker series at IU.

Nikki D & Sisters of Thunder at the 2026 Lotus Festival The idea was to get my photos from the latest Lotus Festival up right after the three-day event ended on Sunday the 4th.

I'm in Chicago for the Marathon and our son's birthday (he's running tomorrow).

AI isn’t just a “surf’s up” moment.

Didn't know there was one, but yeah Chick-fil-A takes a stand against fast-food drive-thru AI trend.

Now, roughly.

If you don’t, you’re a human AI Test: See if you don’t laugh at something as you scroll down through this.

I agree Dylan Tweeney says AI is going to increase demand for human writers.

In wasted dollars Our species began to get civilized when it invented clothing: the original privacy tech.

AI shit gets so weird.

Real hard forks NiemanLab: NPR, the quintessential audio news brand, adapts to a video-first future.

Ilmoonination Actually, we have a waning gibbous moon tonight.

Liblice II, the prettiest pair of guyed lattice towers in the world.

HT to Cory Doctorow for the original, which graced the cover of Enshittification.

This is the current model for personal AI.

Turned out to be yummy Thirteen years ago, I wrote this defense of QR codes, which friends were calling “robot barf.”

Anu Bradford‘s book, The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World (Oxford, 2019), hardly exaggerates the EU’s influence.

Meteor Crater in Arizona.

For many years, I have despaired of ever saving the contents of my old blog (1999-2007), my writing for Linux Journal (1996-2019), and countless other articles, essays, and posts, published mostly on the Web—which looks and sounds like a permanent place (…

The Moon has a new crater, called McGetchin.

WBT’s three Blaw-Knox towers and nineteen-acre transmitter site, looking toward Uptown Charlotte.

War prep redux Given the size of my corpus here, most visiting to it, on most days, is to old stuff.

The three towers of WBT/1110 in Charlotte, which I shot on departure from CLT in 1986.

There were whole forests of these, along the Wabash River in Southern Indiana.

A violinist entertains Linus Torvalds and Paul Kunz on the Linux Journal Geek Cruise where I shot this photo 23 years ago.

Via Jane Baines on Substack.

USGS: “This true-color image was taken by the Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) sensor aboard the Landsat 7 satellite on September 12, 2001, at roughly 11:30 a.m.

My original blog on 9/11/2001, twenty-five years ago.

Buy a new iPhone Duo 18 folding iPhone with max storage (2 TB, which is what I have in my iPhone 16 Pro Max) for the low-low price of just $3199.

So much doom and gloom about AI.

Dig your way through Bye Bye Workforce.

I can’t legally use a published shot of Josh Hoover, so this ChatGPT facsimile will have to do.

Me, age 4, at Easter, in Maywood, New Jersey.

If you’re in chair, in the sky, look out the damn window.

I shot this image of the great Leonard Cohen on the side of a building in Montréal in 2019 Canadian universities are poaching American academics who could use a more hospitable work and research environment.

Nvidia just bought Hugging Face for $12.9 billion.

Are they real?