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August 10, 2026 This started off life as a thread on Mastodon, about Google’s upcoming decision to restrict all software installation to be beholden to Google Play’s chain-of-custody developer...
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July 12, 2026 By weight: - Two parts peeled ginger, and - Two parts green onion, both roughly cut. - Two parts peeled garlic and - One part whole red Thai birds’ eye chilies.
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June 24, 2026 It’s pretty weird that water isn’t compressible. You wouldn’t think so, but should you find yourself at the very the bottom of the Marianas Trench, the water pressure around you will...
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June 12, 2026 I had the aging-computer-toucher’s blessing-slash-curse of introducing my son to the Yin and Yang of Windows Problem Solving this week, with the emergence of an absolutely relentless...
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June 12, 2026 Ted Chiang recently wrote that: The term deepfake traditionally refers to photos, audio, and video, but when it comes to discussions of consciousness, we need to regard text as a...
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June 2, 2026 I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: A vast and jagged temple Stands in the desert.
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May 29, 2026 A few days ago, over on Mastodon I asked if there were existing tools that can provide warnings about whether or not a video might be seizure-inducing.
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May 28, 2026 Jimmy Wales once said that the biggest reason Nupedia – the predecessor to Wikipedia you’ve never heard of – failed was insisting on control instead of trust.
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May 2, 2026 This is fun. I was into the cheese banter with some friends over on Mastodon – as one does – and I came up with a clever phrase that I thought would make a clever joke.
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