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We live in a time of wonders https:// youtu.be/NXwTRzywDSk
Danny O'B
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@ gruber re: https:// daringfireball.net/linked/2026 /04/14/calhoun-lemay -- success (or even just "shipped features") has many parents, but @ lisamelton thinks she and Steve Jobs simultaneously came up with the progress bar in the location field trick, not Steve Lemay https:// lisamelton.net/2023/10/05/memo ries-of-steve/#:~:text=In%20the%20page-,address%20field,-!%E2%80%9D
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i don't talk about AI here because i don't want to be run out of cybertown, but in the secret chats you mustn't know about, it's 50% how to organize your CLAUDE.md and 50% how to brush the hair of your smol language tulpa so that xe looks xer best at the next digital fae wedding
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he makes some good points but I suspect Thomas Paine is going to kick his ass
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@ lizzard # humblewhigg
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@ lizzard dared me to reveal on mastodon that I go to sleep listening to an audiobook of Edmund Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution in France", but I have explained that I still have some dignity left
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Gamifying Wikipedia: https:// wikigacha.com
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I have a hunch we are about to enter an Ornamental Age and this reminded me of that: https:// xcancel.com/instance_11/status /2034694139066077325?s=46
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Sad inditement of my Britishness: my American spouse leaves for a week and my treat is to boil some vegetables
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RE: https:// mastodon.social/@metabrainz/11 6124417998185706 This is such a great loss. Robert worked all his life for open data, and turned that project into a stable, persistent institution. Best wishes to everyone who knew him, and to the board for working to continue that vision.
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New blog post from me: As Was The Style At The Time: How We Became Cruel https://www. oblomovka.com/wp/2026/02/09/as -was-the-style-at-the-time-how-we-became-cruel/
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This is a really nice piece, in the middle of i hope a productive discussion about inequality: https://www. liberalcurrents.com/is-it-all- just-envy/ I like liberal currents!
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Harry Hill pass responsibility for the Internet to Stewart Lee and Stew blames me https:// youtu.be/GhJxiU1_5o0?si=aMqZOx TLLn7XswMV&t=799 (not really)
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realising that old people get old people things just by inheriting them from the last batch of old people
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New blog post from me: AI Psychosis, AI Apotheosis https://www. oblomovka.com/wp/2026/01/07/ai -psychosis-ai-apotheosis/
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trying out another terminal emuulator, which is *fast* but I'm like ohh but it feels kind of ... soft? Turns out it is fast at rendering but isn't as good at input latency, and ... I think maybe I felt that? i must be very special and sensitive. or just dislike change
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Hello! I am looking for a Governance PM at the Filecoin Foundation! This is one the most fascinating places I've had the good fortune to work at, and if you have a background in open source or decentralized organizing, I think you might think so too: https:// job-boards.greenhouse.io/filec oinfoundation/jobs/4615095006 As ever, if you're not sure whether this is the right role for you and you're…
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Trying to fight big tech by making copyright stronger is like fighting viruses with gain-of-function research: https://www. lawfaremedia.org/article/worri ed-about-ai-monopoly--embrace-copyright-s-limits
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for ^G
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New blog post from me: god shut up about AI, part 32 — open etiquette https://www. oblomovka.com/wp/2025/10/03/go d-shut-up-about-ai-part-32-open-etiquette/