Thursday, April 30, 2026

AI in command

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When I first heard about the story of PocketOS having its production database and backups deleted by an Anthropic AI I thought back to the ...
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Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Out of touch

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We bought a replacement car, which came with a trial of Sirius. I am getting fliers and emails urging me to sign up for the low (or "c...
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Monday, April 27, 2026

Won or not done?

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Althouse wrote : "The war is over. We won. Iran just won't admit it," I'm not sure that's true. I think we won the f...
Sunday, April 26, 2026

Another one

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Curious. The would-be assassin went to CalTech for his undergrad (I didn't get in), but for grad school went to Cal State Dominguez Hil...
Tuesday, April 21, 2026

In case you were wondering about drones

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People are learning how to use and counter drones in battle. By now it's common knowledge that a truck is a drone (followed swiftly by ...
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Sunday, April 19, 2026

You would think

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that having to lie abed sick would give you more time to read. Turns out you need energy to concentrate, and eyestrain is a problem.
Friday, April 17, 2026

After Saturday comes Sunday

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Is there a Muslim group that denounces the Little Satan that does not also hate the Great Satan? It seems that it has been this way all my l...
Sunday, April 12, 2026

Observation

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Watch people walk by, immersing themselves in too-often vicious social media, inattentive to all but their mo' bile devices.
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Thursday, April 09, 2026

Artemis

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Some people are excited about the Artemis mission, and others are pretty grumpy about it. Moon shots have been done before, of course, and ...
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Wednesday, April 08, 2026

Webcam and zoom

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(Logitech C615, ubuntu 22.04.5, gnome/wayland) Under cheese the resolution looks quite decent, but under zoom it's fuzzy, as though it...
Monday, April 06, 2026

Speeds

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When I learned to type we measured speed in words per minute. Did Incan scribes measure their quipu speed in knots?
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Friday, April 03, 2026

Judas

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We get some detail about Judas, but not a huge amount. The story isn't mainly about him anyway. He was a thief, and helped himself to w...