EFF is finally leaving X and here is a blog post about why: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Damn straight.

cause & effect

#GaussianSplatting is quite a rabbit hole. bsky.app/profile/grad...

Enhance. Enhance. Enhance. youtu.be/X8yRlA7jqEQ?...

All hail Demi Adejuyigbe. (Thumbnail deleted because it ruins everything.) youtube.com/shorts/G38oM...

Monterey Bay Aquarium fundraiser and a very cool video. www.youtube.com/live/NUnJc82...

A colorized map of the USA

led my first Seder (for busy people) with novelties such as a matzah QR code, Family Feud 10 plagues reveals, and yes, Elijah Jungle Juice! We kept it moving, 1hr3min from the start of the Seder to serving dessert

I've had some weird "waiting to see how the news plays out before I write a toon" weeks over the course of 35 years or whatever it's been but this is definitely an all time contender

Why those gorgeous shots from Artemis are courtesy of a 10-year-old Nikon camera, rather than anything shipped since then: https://petapixel.com/2026/04/06/the-10-year-old-nikon-d5-dslr-really-is-the-best-camera-for-artemis-ii/ #photography #nikon

Gave this the soundtrack it deserves. Kubrick was onto something when he picked the Blue Danube as the Theme of Objects Floating In Space. Call me, Nutella

The NY premiere of Kaija Saariaho's final opera Innocence just ended. I'm still shaken up. This is a devastating work that only gets more powerful as years go by. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/a...

If you ever have a chance to see this, see this. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/a...

The tl;dr here is that something that most people in Silicon Valley already know: Sam Altman lies a lot. Just constantly. About big and little things. And every effort to hold him accountable has failed. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Objective writing from engineering focused sources about AI is worth its weight in gold: lalitm.com/post/buildin...

Preserving history is good. Trapping a city in amber and converting a thriving, evolving, innovative and dynamic place for millions of people to live into a museum for the rich is bad. It is an economic, cultural and social justice nightmare. (Hope you're taking notes, Rhode Island)

I miss degaussing monitors and defragmenting hard drives.

The framing of ADHD in terms of hypercuriosity offers a more perspective than either the clinical 'disability' on the one hand or the overcompensation of 'superpower' on the other. aeon.co/essays/how-t...

Spare a thought for all the other forgotten saints who also got resurrected at Easter. ["And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose. And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many." Matt 27: 52, 53]

A different perspective. Always helpful.

Happy Easter!

On my morning's walk in #SanFrancisco at 20th and Irving, I once again noted a Kal Zakzouk sidewalk chalk piece of art: a lady with an umbrella kneeling by a pond. Was the artist inspired by news articles wondering if we were in for a drought this year? I know it was on my mind.

A non Disneyland thought for once: Information security professionals have a unique chance to save an entire generation from fraud and theft by blocking the ability to create the PIN 6767

The whole-Earth-at-night photo from the #Artemis II mission was brighter than many expected. That was mostly due to camera settings; here’s another pic taken just before with diff settings. Digital photography is always subjective—even before processing! (HT @swapnakrishna.com @jasonc0.bsky.social)

Free service for independent Android devs who don't have 12 test buddies lined up. get12testers.com

This seems outrageous, until you're Catholic and were taught by Jesuits and remember that Good Friday is the ONLY day of the year when Catholics aren't allowed to have Mass. Lapsed but remember that we do the Stations of the Cross, and the Liturgy of the Passion. That said, fuck Hegseth

Holy crap, Adam Greenman (running for mayor of Pawtucket) supports a Land Value Tax! 😍 I would love to see Pawtucket be a leader in property tax reform. We have so many idle speculators sitting on empty buildings downtown. Investors need to either renovate or get tf out of the way.

Timmy's at the train station in Alicante, Spain

Correction, southern lights! bsky.app/profile/zach...

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

18% at 18 Reasons. Maybe it's finally time to take that knife skills class. 18reasons.org/collections/...

See the northern lights?

Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/m...

Take the chicken run to the toilet In the above, designed from above club Makes ginger "Go on, you can do it!" Smile! #FallFriday www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3QR...

john waters at a No Kings rally in Provincetown (not my pic, Peter Toto, x)

The optimal Land Value Tax implies the existence of a minimally optimal Building Value Tax. I wrote about how a tax revolt led a Hawaiian island to invert its LVT — and how states considering their own LVTs can avoid similar backlash. www.niskanencenter.org/aloha-to-lan...

I built a tiny IntelliJ IDEA plugin for something that had been bothering me for years github.com/saket/intell...

I'm dreading re-entry.

forgot the most important of the genre

Actual live image from inside the Artemis II

important thread

After 2.5y of development, github.com/saket/teleph... is nearing ~600 screenshot tests that verify all possible combinations of usages. It's one of the most thoroughly tested UI libraries you'll find for Android. Shout out to my friends at emulator.wtf without whom this wasn't possible!

Hello from Northsky switching was fast, easy, and comprehensive

I have to say, based on how stressed I was watching that rocket take off for the Moon, I'm starting to think - and this is a surprise - I'm not temperamentally suited to actually being on a space mission myself.

If you'd like to follow along with the Artemis II launch, NASA has a live blog here: nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/01/live-artemis-ii-launch-day-updates/ or on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/live/Tf_UjBMIzNo?si=jMqBDrYtNGvvIgVd #NASA #Artemis #moon #space #crew

Artemis II launches today so I've mapped out the detailed flight path for those interested

Would like to stop living in a Pynchon novel now, thanks.