I was planning to write a reply to a post I read earlier today. I sat down in front of my computer, started typing, then a bunch of different people sent me messages for a variety of totally unrelated reasons, and I spent half an hour chatting with them.

When…

I Don’t Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots

My AI policy is "I don’t want any kind of interaction with that thing." And this should be all you need to know.

I don’t care if you call it AI, LLM, chatbot, or whateverGPT. I simply don’t want to interact with…

I woke up in excitement this morning. Today is the day I can start to access my course materials for next year. My second year of university doesn’t officially start for another few weeks, but from today I can start reading through the introductory material. I spent the morning reading…

The following is an excerpt from a private exchange. It builds on what I published before: Re: how do you manage your curiosity? (2026-09-05).

It can stand on its own, which is why I am publishing it separately. Again, I am doing it without disclosing the identity of my correspondent.

The eighteenth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out:

In Episode 18, I chat with Ava, the author of blog.avas.space about, among other things, data protection and privacy, consent in the context of privacy, the armchair of great blogging, and more.

I hope you enjoy the episode!

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Writing for The Guardian, Jon Henley notes that Europe’s centre fears nationalist wave after AfD victory but only has itself to blame. Jon explains how AfD’s win in Saxony-Anhalt should not be overstated yet it still is a telltale sign of things to come. The trends are there…

For this entry in the series, I have picked an emotional song titled Coral tear from the solo collection of songmaker Thanos Anestopoulos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOTQ4Lf0e38.

Thanos was a member of the band Diafan Krina. Roughly two years ago, I wrote an interpretation of one of their songs: https://protesilaos.com/interpretations/2024-06-29-krina-idle-days/.

I'm typing this in Emacs using a completely new config and it's so weird. I've been running Emacs v31 everywhere and thought I'd try leaning on more of the built-in completion behavior, and it spiraled out of control.

I ended up looking at emacs-solo because it's a fancy configuration that…

I’ve been thinking about this mountain for more than a decade at this point, for reasons I’m gonna explain later. I wanted to hike it a few weeks ago, but there was a raging wildfire not too far from it on a nearby mountain, so I had to wait. Wait…

This is an entry from my journal about kindred spirits.

When you read my articles, you gain access to my expansive thoughts. I write at length on a variety of topics. Sometimes I amuse you, at others I trigger you. At all times, I make you think. And if you…