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Huh.

I feel like I am constantly inventing new ways to convince my kids to do the laundry, eat lunch, or leave the house, endless variations on the same things like some sort of stochastic parent.

You know the Milgram experiment where people hit a button and heard people screaming in the other room but they kept doing it because they felt they had to?

Everyone else is worried about the AI apocalypse but I’ve been hearing about that for 30 years and I can’t get very worked up any more.

looks like the singularity is here folks Alt Text: A terminal transcript from Claude Code.

I wish David Bowie was alive to narrate this moment back to us.

On the bright side, if the robots kill us all, it means that your sworn enemies are in for it too.

I vibed up a weird music screensaver a month ago, but I kept thinking, “What if it was an imaginary failed 90s arranger keyboard called the Stellate that generated music in 500 genres?”

The Library Innovation Lab at Harvard University: “Binoc is a command-line tool and library that, given two snapshots of a dataset, efficiently summarizes the differences between the two snapshots in a human-readable changelog.” lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2…

Problems with your boss?

Bluesky provides a mobile web view that runs great on my four-year-old phone and never pushes me to download an app.

If you’re a Flatbush-area mutual aid type, this self-organizing distro happens every Friday at 5PM across the street from Kings Theatre.

We're doing an event September 15 with the brilliant Julia Stoyanovich of NYU, who is trying to get all these bots under control.

A neat project at work: We built an archive for Lapham's Quarterly as part of its (gradual, ongoing) relaunch—full access if you subscribe.

I firmly believe all online discourse reduces to this Perry Bible Fellowship comic. pbfcomics.com/comics/weeab...

The humans do this ceremony where they enter a dark room and are forced to account to some sort of priest for their past transgressions, and every time they speak they must eat a poison meat that causes them incredible pain.

All the investors are flocking to the Silicon Valley giants, but where is AI really making a difference on the ground?

Not seeing much mention in the discourse of Hard Candy Christmas, a modern holiday classic. youtu.be/bvK1F6bUrzU?...

It’s unrestrained summer fun, Paul Ford-style: Using AI tools to actually ship some software.

What would you do if your boss said he wanted your help to automate away your job?

“Contentbeheerder” is much better job title than “Content Manager.”

I'm at work emailing people who downloaded a white paper, in order to introduce our company.

Wrote meta about Meta in the Aboard newsletter aboard.com/the-shapeshi...

AI has radically changed the way software is built—so why aren’t we seeing a glut of cool new products as a result?

worst chili peppers album ever Alt Text: A small gas station named “Mobilubrication”

Person inventing the bread slicer: “This is superb.

In our workplace newsletter I was permitted to write about how the new AI, LLM, might be a trojan horse filled with the old AI, RDF triplestores. aboard.com/triple-threat/ Triple Threat: Has the new AI made the old AI relevant again?