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Note: This review spoils the book pretty badly, because I can't talk about its issues without doing so The best books always have Opinions, with a capital "o."

It's been busy times 'round these parts.

And now for something completely different.

1 poisoned apple. 🍏 7 banished dwarfs. 32 days. 📅 One Queen. 👸 Then I asked the Magic Mirror to tell it like it is.

I’d like to propose a corollary to Chekhov’s Gun - Kait’s Carabiner - that states any two (even possibly) queer people who are single in the first romance novel have to get off by the third book.

I've been in a reading slump, y'all.

Software engineers: AI isn’t coming for your job. 🚨 It’s coming for your humanity.

Regardless of one’s opinion on AI’s “soul” or whatever, it’s actually pretty on-brand as a species for humans to try to create an artificial version of something (consciousness) before we bothered to understand how it works.

I was hitting a wall at 2 AM.

AI has been very useful to me as a developer, especially if you count the number of times I go to type my problem and, in the process of doing so, figure out the solution.

This entire thing with non-deterministic agents where you can’t be sure what’s going to happen each time has always felt like Sorcerer Mickey and the Mop and the unintended consequences.

I waited, but he said no more.

Palo Alto Networks described OpenClaw as embodying a “lethal trifecta” of vulnerabilities: access to private data, exposure to untrusted content, and the ability to communicate externally.

An interesting read on the decline of literary fiction, though I think it overall is drastically underestimating the impact of the rise of alternative media consumption possibilities, inasmuch as the slice of attention/time that literary fiction was fight…

We started with text, and then moved to photos when we got phones with cameras, and then moved to video when mobile networks got fast enough.

I have a-maze-ing ideas.

The progression of my opinion on AI has been ... elliptical?

Every time I’ve tried to involve AI in one of my creative pursuits it has spit out the exact same level of meh.

I recently stumbled on a serialized webnovel (that I will not name for reasons that willl soon be clear), and got invested.

I implore you to violently ignore the synopsis below.

I love the concept of reviews.

There's a particular kind of narrative laziness that irks me.

I have made no secret of my displeasure with a lot of the hype and uses for AI.

I like how Wicked: For Good ends with Elphaba and Fiero, a green lady and a man made of straw, are traveling to (presumably) earth.

Saw Twenty-Sided Tavern at the Balboa last night.

After we went to two bookstores, we wanted to get some food on the way home.

I’m not sure if this is a special section or an ongoing series, but it’s basically the entire who’s-who of good digital journalism of the 00s/early 10s.

I think we're all aspirational, in different ways.

I've mentioned previously my opinion that books written about books and bookstores are cheating and, while my distaste hasn't changed much, I am at least more willing to be forgiving when judging authorial intent.

Apologies for the abrupteness of the transition for anyone who suddenly found themselves navigating to a general interest/tech blog and instead got dozens of recommendations for queer books.

I always love finding a new favorite bookstore!

Looking back at technological innovation in the past few decades, we've seen a decided pivot away from true communication and artistry to the veneration of artifice.

As I was reorganizing my digital media (again, again, again) the other day, I came across Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow.

This is easily the coolest Barnes & Noble I've ever seen.

The Supreme Court ruled in US v.

TIL that if you run out of hard drive space Mac OS will ... shut off your external monitors through DisplayLink?

From: Michael@cursor.so To: Kait Subject: Here to help Hi Kaitlyn, I saw that you tried to sign up for Cursor Pro but didn't end up upgrading.

One reason non-tech people are so in awe of AI is they don’t see the everyday systemic tech malfunctions.

I quite often find myself paraphrasing Ira Glass, most famously the host of This American Life, in his depiction of the creative process.

Look, I know expectations can be killer.

As someone who's flown out of Newark recently and has to do so again, trust me when I say you don't want this.