Less than a week away. Fully in the "fretting over which camera and lenses" stage of prep.

I found this link in an anti-DHH screed that has some issues of its own, so I went in a little skeptical after multiple paragraphs of willful misreading. But speaking as someone who was a journalist during the Klan Lite era in the 80s and 90s -- a journalist who interviewed a literal Imperial […]

I wonder how the M-mount Pixii is doing, and I wonder how niche is too niche for a company entering the body market in 2025. https://petapixel.com/2025/09/25/a-brand-new-camera-company-is-making-a-spiritual-successor-to-the-lumix-gm5/

lol https://rakhim.exotext.com/benjamin-button-reviews-macos

Tahoe's Spotlight adds rudimentary clipboard history, along with a bunch of other stuff. I can't tell if there's a way to invoke the clipboard history with two keystrokes (⌘ space ⌘4), and it's got an eight hour limit. There's also an "Actions" layer that does some Raycast-like placeholder […]

I did some math on the anecdotes in this story. Not counting one neutral outcome, there are 12 anecdotes about relationships badly affected by AI. Of the 12, 8 involve men reporting that their woman partner pushed their relationship into crisis using AI, one involves two women, and 3 involve […]

"For Struggling Workers, Appeals to Democracy Aren’t Enough" https://jacobin.com/2025/09/workers-democracy-inequality-economics-trump/

Just posted: OotB https://lmno.lol/puddingtime/ootb

Noooo! Not the marshmallow test! https://aethermug.com/posts/famous-cognitive-psychology-experiments-that-failed-to-replicate%22

I'm definitely gonna turn on iOS 26's new call screening features. Under normal circumstances I might not, but at some point my number got into a sales database, and the vast majority of non-contact voice calls I get are IT vendor SDRs. I've tried a few screening apps, but they've had glitches […]

Got a mail from 1Password w/a Perplexity Comet invite, so now I've got invites to share. DM if you'd like one. Funny, because yesterday I was inventorying what I've been doing with tech in general, and LLMs/AI specifically, and I realized I have not done much. Or rather, I haven't done any […]

This week's "mend the fishing nets" task was "get my stuff out of Evernote and finally delete my data." They make it a little pesky: Max of 100 notes exported at a time, or one notebook at a time. There is no "just dump it all out" option. Oh. Huh. Was gonna say more but social.lol has dropped […]

Samsara and the dukkha of a new iOS update.

I don't think people in Portland's home county understand the ways in which small-l libertarianism is baked into our governmental systems. Like, you can't swing a cat by the tail without hitting someone complaining about "neoliberalism" or "late capitalism," but […] [Original post on social.lol]

Chills y'all.

I think this is relatively balanced reporting. We just went through an RV encampment cycle here. Two blocks' worth, end-to-end. They're usually here for several weeks, then there's some stickering/posting, the block is clear for as long as the posting holds (ten days), and then a new […]

Just posted: Two cameras https://lmno.lol/puddingtime/two-cameras

Just posted: Aspiration https://lmno.lol/puddingtime/aspiration

... watching Star Trek: The Motion Picture Alison: Was this well reviewed? Me: Nope. Alison: Is it good, though? Me: Oh gosh no.

My original Camp Snap didn't quite take the way I thought it might. This looks a little more usable. https://social.lol/@rameez/115175107225792454

I appreciate Apple's subscription management features. They seem to get smoother over time, meaning this time around it was pretty easy to find my way to them and there were no mystery-meat timeouts or glitches when I clicked "unsubscribe" each time. It was a big pass this time, too. The usual […]

DMBQ was an amazing opening act, too.

Thee Oh Sees were great. 90 minutes without a lot of letup. I've never seen Alison jump up and down like that.

Dude. The "stare off into the distance while angling your camera 45 degrees off your eyeline" trick works if you're not sitting bolt upright, boring a hole in the middle distance with your stare and holding the camera just under your chin. C'mon now. Next time just walk up and tell me to look […]

Up to see Thee Oh Sees in Seattle, so it's gonna be an X100 weekend. I fed some of my recent SF/Chinatown photos with the OM-3 into FujiChef and have a preset I'm gonna try out.

GenZ is doing great. Leave them alone. https://youtube.com/watch?v=iWKmiTwjjHA&si=8i9WJAy7WPfRk21D

Trump/Cuomo agree to vote blue no matter who in sex pest unity pact "But in early August, the New York Times reported that Trump himself had talked to close Democratic allies of Cuomo, who attempted to convince the president that the former governor had the best shot at beating Mamdani in […]

I'm okay with Alien: Earth. Part of media life in the 21st century is the IP-ification and franchization of everything. If you look back at the top 20 box office for the last 35 years, you can see a distinct shift from original material to adaptations, franchises, and assorted cinematic […]

"Canon sold more DSLRs in 2024 than most camera companies sold digital cameras in total, including Fujifilm (740,000), Panasonic (280,000), OM Digital (160,000), and Ricoh Imaging (70,000). " Interesting that dSLRs are still chugging along. I think my last one was a Nikon D5000? My last one I […]

I have this oldish ThinkPad Carbon X1 (Gen 7, maybe?) I had Fedora on it, but ended up sticking Win11 on it just out of curiosity. I think I'm going to give it a week, because I never really got power management dialed in with Linux and I'd like to see what I was missing there. Main observation […]

If the presence of an em dash is a sign of "slop," then I mourn more than AI debasing our writing, because apparently we don't have very much ability to discern what is good. Gonna keep using em dashes and will cheerily extend a merry, fraternal "fuck you" to any resulting callouts. Don't care […]

As much as I love OM cameras, and generally think M43 is a good system for many people, I'm not sure how OM stays in the game. The OM-3 seems big with the YouTuber set, and a revamped PEN-F could be even bigger, but entering M43 at $2k for a premium ILC has gotta be a tough pill for influencers […]

Hacker News trending stories often help me understand where I am at. Today, for instance, I am at "pin the Hugo version and stop whining. You are creating a problem to suffer over." https://commaok.xyz/post/on_hugo/

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine an MBA moving you to the wrong side of the acceptable losses line on a spreadsheet—forever.” If you were on team "at 30% vacancy, maybe that downtown office space could be converted into housing stock," but had people who have slipped beyond a state […]

Rent-seeking finds everyone who burned a development team on hooking a form up to an LLM and adding the sparkle button.

LinkedIn is so deeply weird. Like, who was this written for? Future employers or ?

Probably not for me but it does sound like a nice set of improvements. https://petapixel.com/2025/08/28/ricoh-gr-iv-review-a-successor-worth-waiting-for/

Kind of a milestone. https://everything.typepad.com/blog/2025/08/typepad-is-shutting-down.html

DHH unveils beat-by-beat recreation of Linux advocate sites ca. 2000 (popular discontent rising! thing you like is akshually running Linux! vague intimations that the author's time truly is worth nothing!) Shoulda reused the E codebase for this. Er, sorry. I meant to say "DHH is one of today's […]

A few more from the OM-3 in SLC, also without any post. The two pictures of the paintings are with mostly the same settings, but one has OM's "keep warm tones" turned on, and is much more accurate.

Around SE Portland with the OM-3. Not usually the type to note that something is SooC, but I really like what I'm getting from the OM-3 without much post.

Around SLC 2/2

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Around SLC

Too late in life I learned to say to myself, "you don't have to read the whole thing." Works for books where I've become disinterested, articles where the lede served to inform, and posts that suggest someone is trying to enlist me in their weird fetish without my consent. e.g […]

One reason I shut down a few of my more ambitious MCP projects: I had gotten past what I could comfortably review and validate. Using Claude Code and a few MCPs, I'd successfully stood up cloud infra with complex auth flows and multiple nodes of compute/data, but […] [Original post on social.lol]

Three Democrats, one Republican. https://jacobin.com/2025/08/colorado-polis-ai-consumer-protection/ "The bill’s three Democratic sponsors are members of the newly formed Colorado Opportunity Caucus ..." I'm guessing they've all got signed copies of "Abundance" out on the coffee table. Don't […]

I think this is my picture of the year, not because it is the best picture I will take this year, but because it is the best picture I have taken of this year.

This is one I keep coming back to. And @mononcqc is a good follow generally. https://ferd.ca/the-gap-through-which-we-praise-the-machine.html

I coined the phrase "cosmically illiterate" this afternoon, mostly as a negative reaction to a story about someone claiming they "deserved" something. I sorta delighted and amused myself and said I was going to keep it. Alison told me to be careful with whom, which is completely fair it super […]