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"I refuse to use anything that has touched A.I. in any way!"

...later...

::rubs sticks together to make fire::

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The dog's surgery went well yesterday. She had several large masses removed from her skin. This is the third time we've had to do this. The vet convinced me to send a sample out for a biopsy, even though the aspiration looked benign…

Do you know why have trouble finding things? Here's why...

• Ghostty. TUIs and CLI tools never get old. And I still like using Vim as $EDITOR
• Obsidian. My resistance to using Obsidian is sometimes overcome by its utility, ubiquity, and ease of use.
• Emacs. My everything tool…

In this ~30-minute video, I talk about the relationship between violence and safe spaces. How violence carves a space out of the wilderness and how it keeps it free from danger. I bring up several examples and also discuss the concept of inevitability as one of the three fates. The…

There won't be much time for farting around today and I'm already feeling twitchy about it.

People who can do stuff like this are not the same species of human as me. Redbull downhill urban biking POV

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This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Nicolas Solerieu, whose blog can be found at slrncl.com/blog.

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"I Can't Believe It's Not Software!" Paul Ford on AI and the Asterisk* - YouTube

Paul Ford is always so impressive and smart and sensible. I love reading and listening to him.

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I was catching up with some tech news yesterday and every time I read one of these “I woke up with a USD 18k bill in my Cloud account” articles, I am reminded about how fucking stupid—and predatory—this whole industry can be.

The ability to set hard spending caps should…