Paul Jacobson

You’ve probably heard about the controversial film “NAZA” that apparently describes how the Israel Defence Forces draws up plans to kill large numbers of Palestinians.

If sci-fi stories about AI wiping out humans are any indication of when everything could go wrong after we create true AI (assuming we do), it seems to be when we panic and try kill this new intelligence.

The OpenStation team has released some really nice improvements to the mobile UI that noticeably improve the experience.

I just started listening to “Hannah Ritchie: The Future Is Not Bleak” from Hank Green’s “Humans” podcast.

My wife has a simple, almost life-changing, tip if you have short arms: I bought a pair of silicon tipped tongs to keep in my car, now when I pull up to a parking lot, I just push the button and grab the ticket with the tongs.

I’m not sure if this is just my devices but a couple native Android apps on my Tab S9 tablet feel less reliable and perform worse than PWA versions of those apps.

I really enjoyed this discussion between @astrokatie.com and @hankgreen.bsky.social in an episode of Hank’s podcast, Humans.

I’m not really a religious person.

I’m really looking forward to this.

If you’re a bit bored of the classic WP Admin dashboard of your WordPress site, try OpenStation (on GitHub) for a more computer desktop-style view.

People are worried that our soon-to-be AI overlords will take over our lives and run human civilization into the ground with their superior intelligence.

The world is more than a little crazy and has been for several years now.

These agents I use (mostly Opus 4.8 and, more recently, ChatGPT 5.6 Sol) are peculiar constructs.

I have been sitting in front of my screens watching various agents perform tasks for me, like I have been for several months now.

Now and then I need to upload something over SFTP (usually pretty large site backups) and I’ve been using FileZilla for this the last few months.

A positive development since October 7 is what I hope will be a long-lasting paradigm shift in Israeli security services and government that Israeli journalist, Amit Segal, described as follows: Israel made a commitment in the past few years: people calli…

Link rot is a growing problem on the Web.

Homework?!

At the risk of climbing on the “Bluesky vs Mastodon” bandwagon that seems to be making the rounds, I had a couple thoughts about the relative merits of both, at least from my perspective as someone who isn’t particularly dogmatic about either option.

Roughly 79% of American Jews voted for Harris.

I have had a jarring week with several conversations about various narratives about Palestinians in Gaza and what Israel is supposedly doing to them.

Renny Grinshpan published a video recently that left me utterly gobsmacked.

I just discovered a gem of a plugin by @alex that enables me to connect my Mastodon app to my #WordPress site and post from here.