The Odyssey was 90% great, with a neat trick up its sleeve, but some of the dialogue associated with that trick should not have survived contact with the many discerning people involved…

Timely, but I wonder how potent this will be…

Of all the New Zealanders we claim as our own, I feel like Sam Neill might've given Australia something close to permission… what a mensch. 😢

Constitutional Clarion (Australian national treasure* Anne Twomey) with entertaining niche context on Farage and Count Binface * yes, we have a constitutional lawyer national treasure www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN38...

trump continues to be the turd in every bain marie

“In July of 1776, our city simmered under the yoke of oppression. The British had imposed a colonial rule so repressive…” even Mamdani shovels this bullshit 😆

Banger from @grogsgamut.bsky.social putting capital gains sooks in context www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

🤯😮 www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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If Chrome’s new tab page animations are annoying you, go to chrome://flags and…

“Maybe there should be a word for it.” waxy.org/2026/06/the-...

For my sins, I’m building something that hasn’t had a lot of good (public) example code, but has recently become a slop-magnet. Slopped code is just as bad as slopped prose. Shallow indicators of correctness… on a verbose and vacuous mess of ill-considered errors and shortcuts.

“We are now in a world where scams can be run in a `for` loop.” – @manishearth.bsky.social manishearth.github.io/blog/2026/06...

Seasons 4 and 5 of #ForAllMankind, while good, weren't as… astonishingly well-crafted… as earlier seasons. Not sure what the X factor was, but perhaps some of it moved to Star City, which is quietly gripping after only 5 episodes.

whoa, one of the best players in Star City is Ruby Ashbourne Serkis… daughter of!

Delighted that Google chose to name its agentic coding platform after a seductive thought bubble beyond known physics and infamous breeding ground for hucksters and charlatans.

Whether he's there because he's a fuckwit, or he's a fuckwit because he's there, he'll always be a fuckwit.

Neat: “The formal verification of the Nitro Isolation Engine was achieved using the Isabelle/HOL proof assistant, resulting in 330,000 lines of machine-checked mathematics, comparable in scale to the seL4 project.” www.amazon.science/blog/ec2s-fo...

Why do I barely remember this film, couldn’t even name it, and yet my brain knows this scene so thoroughly? www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIia...

Johannes Link’s jqwik mischief is Good Trouble 😊 blog.johanneslink.net/2026/06/09/t...

Haters hate and hypers hype, but @emilymbender.bsky.social's “stochastic parrot” framing is still delightfully dead on. I enjoyed her “Stochastic Parrots 🦜: Frequently Unasked Questions”… 😙👌🏻 medium.com/@emilymenonb...

The metaphor of the stochastic parrot is still helpful for understanding LLMs and anything built with them (called "AI agents" or whatever you like), ofc. But no, I didn't "describe AI agents are stochastic parrots."

Seemingly obvious predictions, but to nail my colours to the mast: - Fast-tracking Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX into market indexes will be regarded as an foolish mistake - Market investors in Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX will feel more pain than gain (for at least a few years)

I hope “thinkism” dies before it breaks out of AI bro containment. 😬

systemd[1]: Startup finished in 46ms (kernel) + 0 (initrd) + 31ms (userspace) = 78ms. okay that's reasonable

It could take a generation to fix what Trump and his goons have wrought. (What's fixable, anyway.) But it'll inflict more time and pain if Democrats keep putting up entitled, seat-warming, empty suits. Do they have the humility and courage to learn from Mamdani?

While too frequently watching people I once respected lose their minds, I'm surprised-to-be-unsurprised that @charity.wtf hasn't. charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-enthusi...

Linux Foundation YouTube title: “OpenTelemetry is the Kubernetes of Observability” accurate although i think they meant it as a good thing

The `assert_struct` crate is cool.

I will never stop talking about this: The lovely and profound "If we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known" is from an NYT article about the author accidentally being CC'd on an email where his friends were making fun of him for renting goats.

jesus nat

SNEAKERS: Woefully under-appreciated film, woefully under-appreciated score. Glorious to soundtrack your world-changing schemes and plots. Such a prescient, relevant film. 😙👌🏻 (A high quality version is available on Apple Music, it's not listed on James Horner's artist page?!)

ha ha local guitar store selling a DS-1 and Small Clone bundle in the year of our lord 2026 😆

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unfortunately what i hear when my brain reboots is the Windows 95 startup chime

In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9

Why do so many Americans (in particular, it seems) say “end-all, be-all”? It’s backwards! Shakespeare wrote it in the correct order. Don’t fuck with the bard.

I have some hope there’s a growing sense that publishing LLM generated prose should be regarded as witless and inconsiderate; reduced to the domain of grifters and spammers. The next cultural step is to avoid and protect ourselves against *reading* LLM generated prose, because…

“the spectrum” goes from thomas the tank engine to starlight express

For a long time, the foundational AWS services – stuff you'd interact with for almost every use case – remained fairly simple. Not only are they getting more complex, but everything suffers incidental complexity from surrounding pieces, e.g. Organisations, IAM Identity Centre, CloudWatch Logs, etc.

The GitHub Actions beta happened to ship while my team was reviewing candidates for our new CI platform. It was too new to consider, so I didn't need to dig into it… … until this year. And yikes it gives me serious ops and security heebie-jeebies. Practically every feature is a supply-chain risk?!

🧵 Democracy feels like it's in a rough state at the moment across the globe, and we hear various explanations, like polarisation, extremism, disinformation, and loss of trust. But what if those explanations are mainly symptoms and we've been trying to treat them rather than the underlying causes?

surely not #ThePitt methodically introducing the rest of the night shift in the form of absolute badass actors worthy of their own show surely not

I really think "give AI total control of my computer and therefore my entire life" is going to look so foolish in retrospect that everyone who went for this is going to look as dumb as Jimmy Fallon holding up a picture of his Bored Ape

There’s no such thing as the history of science (and this is a blog post about it) (inspired by a great 2017 article by Lorraine Daston) williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/t... 🗃️

RØDE is smashing it. The RØDECaster Video and Video S were cool, but the RØDECaster Video Core is *such* a great idea. And they've made it compose well with software control, or RØDECaster Pro for deeper audio production and control. rode.com/en-au/produc...

While the irrational exuberance crowd is over-indexing on utility-priced non-deterministic chaos, there's a quiet thread of more sensible and pragmatic enthusiasm ticking along in the background, using coding agents within more secure, rigorous, deterministic systems.

Do they have any hope of fusing the SNL style with UK humour? [first sketch: UnderAge] lol, okay, yes. #snluk

(Yikes, Sam Ruby's blog is just revolting slop now.)

So, @nikomatsakis.com's “Rust Project Perspectives on AI” [note: mostly about LLM-assisted coding] consultation and documentation is great project/social support work, and a great insight into OSS project challenges. nikomatsakis.github.io/rust-project...