My installation of Feedland is one of the services I currently do not have access to due to the Proxmox host failure. Fortunately my installation of River5 is on another host, but this circumstance gives me the opportunity to try out FreshRSS . Learning a new RSS aggregator takes some time, but I am working my way through.
Quick update. We celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary last week, first with one night of camping and then a planned night in Frankenmuth, Michigan. We survived the campout ok, but on our anniversary night I accidentally shaved off a chunk of my right index finger so we spent a few hours at urgent care. Not a big wound but enough to make typing difficult. To top it off, when we got home I found…
Trades at the Major League Baseball deadline do not make champions, championship teams are built during the off season and through development of young players. Good teams that need one or two players at the deadline and get them can make themselves a great team. By most measures, the Chicago Cubs became a better team at this year’s deadline by getting the players they needed. The problem…
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making Nikhil Suresh https://hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decisionmaking “Unfortunately, we live in a dark timeline. All of the AI projects we have observed as a team are failing. Every single one – we have seen 0% success in a year and a half, not only amongst projects we have been asked to participate in 2 2 We have rejected…
I am catching up with sharing some quotes from what I read during our recent road trip. Today’s batch presents some ideas that I think are useful for self reflection. On the Importance of Rituals Protesilaos https://protesilaos.com/commentary/2026-07-27-importance-rituals/ “God is everywhere, but to the person with the tunnelled conscience God does not exist even if they consider…
We drove from our home in southeast Michigan to Fort Collins, Colorado and rented a 2026 Hyundai Tuscon for the trip. Our 2013 GMC Terrain has too many miles on it for us to want to pile on thousands more in a matter of weeks, and renting enables me to experience some of the latest vehicle technology. The amount of new technology can be overwhelming, and I imagine that can be concerning for…
The following articles that I have recently read provide some deeper thought about artificial intelligence as it relates to humans. Theologian Ilia Delio says: “AI unsettles us because it is a mirror, and what we see in it is what we have been refusing to see in ourselves.” Notebooks and the Extended Mind Steven Johnson from Adjacent Possible…
Finally back home to mornings on the patio being sernaded by the cicadas. We saw a lot of the following during our road trip.
Taking in all the sights
Manton has added a new feature that displays books that I have read by month . You will find a like to the page from the Reading page , it is called Finished Reading By Month .
A year ago I was working in the basement for my job of 37 years, today I am in a coffee shop in Loveland, Colorado casually drinking a latte and reading. Nothing more than realizing how my life has changed.
Road tripping, any guess where?
Sounds to me like at least for the moment RSS chat is like old school Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) before things like Fido net. I imagine people will quickly want some form of federation because most people aren’t old enough to have been experienced BBSes and the idea of small, sandboxed, online communities.
Can you correctly answer the questions on the civics test that people who wish to be U.S. citizens must be able to correctly answer?
Among the many RSS feeds that I subscribe to there are a few that contain posts that share other people’s writing. I find the posts valuable because they provide me links to articles to read that I may not otherwise find and tend to be thoughtfully curated. I want to provide my own “quoteblog” posts and landed on a method for creating them using the knowledge management app…
Two articles I think are worth reading on this, the 250th birthday of the United States because they describe how far we have come, yet still the same, while fighting against what we tell ourselves is the norm of civilization. America, 1926: What a Forgotten 100-Year-Old Report Says About Who We Are Derek Thompson https://www.derekthompson.org/p/america-1926-an-absurdly-deep-dive “In other…
Terry Cowan, Predestinated America : Greed has ever been with us, in all places and all times; but this hunger for money had always been called for what it was: avarice . Calvinism, combined with Luther’s concept of a calling in life, ennobled this vice into a virtue Link added.
Joan Westenberg : A normal life has room for contradiction. You can care about nutrition and eat cake at a birthday party. You can care about sleep and stay up late sometimes. You can care about politics and have friends who don’t share your every worldview. You can care about your work and still close your laptop when your kid wants you to play Uno. You can be spiritually curious and still be…
Learned yesterday that Om Malik passed away . He was just 59 years old but had been living with a heart condition for several years. I did not know him personally but did follow his work and appreciated his writing. He will be missed by many.
Finished reading: The Permanent Problem by Brink Lindsey 📚Food for thought though I am not entirely sure of the solutions proposed.
The ACM’s proposition to redefine the software engineering profession sounds a bit like the Systems Engineer Development (SED) program of Electronic Data Systems (EDS) that I hired in to in 1989. Unfortunately I don’t think such a long term vision is compatible with the U.S. short term culture, so I doubt many companies nor the industry will take this approach.
Read a really good essay titled After AI Takes Everything written by a software engineer based in Singapore who goes by Airing . The link I am providing is to a copy of the essay I have in Readwise that includes my highlights. If you work in IT or know someone who does that is worried about what AI is doing to their future I recommend that you read the essay. A part of the essay I find most…
I shared this on my linkblog , but it’s too good to not share here. 40 Ways the Tech Industry Could Stop Being Such a Colossal Goddamn Pain in the Ass Bonus thought…now that Manton is working on integration between micro.blog and Wordpress , could he had an ability to cross post from a Wordpress blog to a micro.blog blog? Posting to my Timeline my own Wordpress linkblog items is…
Google has released Android 17 , and I just initiated the process to download and install it on my Pixel 10. 9to5Google has a video overview of all the changes, which are mostly cosmetic. For the last several years the Android version upgrades have not included significant functionality additions, rather they include UI and general performance improvements. Functional additions to Android come in…
I am of the opinion that one cannot begin to comprehend the risks of artificial intelligence without knowing oneself. We are embedded in a culture of “more” that teaches we should never be satisfied and we never see that “more” for what it is, an idol. The drive for the more, more wealth, more power and with that somehow a better life for oneself is the context in which…
I replaced the standard, original, Google One subscription with Google AI Plus , which provides more AI features for $4.99 per month. I now have access to the Daily Brief produced by Gemini using Gmail, Calendar, and Text Messaging that I find useful but surprised I am not receiving notifications about them each day, instead I have to go in to the Gemini app to read them, which makes no sense. I…