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Currently reading: Mona Lisa overdrive by William Gibson 📚

Finished reading: Count Zero by William Gibson 📚

Went on a ghost tour of Fox Theater last night.

Treat your to-read pile like a river | Oliver Burkeman I think this is good advice!

Anthropic IPO leak is insane : r/stocks I always thought the purpose of a business was to make more money than they spend.

Pixel Area Check out this cool project to feature independent blogs!

Finished reading: A Bold Return to Giving a Damn by Will Harris 📚 I’ve been on a bit of a White Oak Pastures kick lately.

Introducing Claude Opus 5.5 \ Anthropic Because Opus 5.5 is comparable to Claude Mythos 5.1 in biology and cybersecurity, we’re deploying it with safeguards similar to those on Claude Fable 5.1.

Hearing the news of the OpenAI Hugging Face hack didn’t alarm me in the sense of “this is clearly the end of humanity.”

Finished reading: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton 📚 This book could easily be interpreted as a commentary on AI, especially some of the quotes from the character Malcolm, who is very critical of science and scientific progress.

Finished reading: The Grid by Gretchen Bakke 📚

Currently reading: Count Zero by William Gibson 📚

Finished reading: Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It by Cory Doctorow 📚 Good book, it’s really eye opening to see all the ways things have been enshittified.

After Iceland, we traveled to Oslo, Norway.

Currently reading: Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It by Cory Doctorow 📚

The lunar landscape of Iceland

We traveled to Iceland for my sister-in-law’s wedding, congrats Ginny & McKenzie!

Just turned on cross posting to Grain.social for images posted here!

Currently reading: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton 📚 Re-reading Jurassic Park, last time I read it was maybe 20 years ago.

Life finds a way.

Finished reading: Palaver by Bryan Washington 📚

Ghost Pipe flower (not a fungus!)

How to Hate AI • Steve Simkins I read a blog post recently saying that it was ok to hate AI.

Nobody Pushed Back: Why Engineers Stay Silent Until It’s Too Late | How to Center a Div Someone walks through an architectural decision and nobody in that room actually agrees — they just act like they do, because saying what you really think is socially…

Ad Infinitum · Matthias Ott For 25 years, Google Search was built on a contract.

Free stuff unintentional (?)

Some photos taken outside Taos, NM from last year that I don’t think ever made it to the blog.

If you like classic Macs and home automation, you’ve got to check out the Cydintosh project: https://github.com/likeablob/cydintosh I assembled mine and it’s working great!

BEWARE SOFTWARE BRAIN | The Verge I’ve reviewed a lot of tech products over the past decade and a half, and all I can tell you is that it is a failure when you ask people to adapt to computers.

A few friends convinced me that I should give film photography a try so I took the plunge!

This barred owl lives in this magnolia tree right near our home!

Trump’s latest salvo to upend offshore wind: Pay firms… | Canary Media In its efforts to block U.S. offshore wind development, the Trump administration has halted project construction, rolled back tax credits, and spread misinformation.

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