# boris (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 5 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover boris. Page: Feed: --- ## [The New York Times cannabis coverage has a numbers problem ➗](https://www.cultivated.news/p/the-new-york-times-cannabis-coverage-has-a-numbers-problem) _2026-08-21 · Jeremy Berke · Cultivated_ Plus, Tilray flexes EU capacity ## [Aurora fires back at Curaleaf 🥊](https://www.cultivated.news/p/aurora-fires-back-at-curaleaf) _2026-08-20 · Jeremy Berke · Cultivated_ Plus, Congress demands rescheduling answers ## [It’s official: Curaleaf is taking its bid directly to shareholders 🗳️](https://www.cultivated.news/p/it-s-official-curaleaf-is-taking-its-bid-directly-to-shareholders) _2026-08-19 · Jeremy Berke · Cultivated_ Plus, DEA admits cannabis is mostly safe ## [Curaleaf’s hostile bid for Aurora is official](https://www.cultivated.news/p/curaleaf-s-hostile-bid-for-aurora-is-official) _2026-08-18 · Jeremy Berke · Cultivated_ Curaleaf is bringing its hostile bid for Aurora directly to shareholders. The prize? Medical cannabis exports to the EU. ## [Yale study: Federal legalization could raise $57.9 billion over a decade](https://www.cultivated.news/p/yale-study-federal-legalization-could-raise-57-9-billion-over-a-decade) _2026-08-18 · Jeremy Berke · Cultivated_ Plus, Challenger Brands in Pennsylvania ## [Federal judge hands Curaleaf key victory in labor peace fight 🧑‍⚖️](https://www.cultivated.news/p/federal-judge-hands-curaleaf-key-victory-in-labor-peace-fight) _2026-08-17 · Cultivated_ Plus, Platform Cannabis Advisors raises $1.2 million ## ['We wanted to be friendly' - Boris Jordan on bid for Aurora](https://www.cultivated.news/p/we-wanted-to-be-friendly-boris-jordan-on-bid-for-aurora) _2026-08-14 · Jeremy Berke · Cultivated_ Plus, $GLAS results ## [Curaleaf CEO Boris Jordan defends hostile Aurora bid: 'We wanted to be friendly'](https://www.cultivated.news/p/curaleaf-ceo-boris-jordan-defends-hostile-aurora-bid-we-wanted-to-be-friendly) _2026-08-14 · Jeremy Berke · Cultivated_ Curaleaf CEO Boris Jordan says he tried to play nice before taking its $4-per-share Aurora bid public. ## [Talarico's Texas-sized hemp bet 🤠](https://www.cultivated.news/p/talarico-s-texas-sized-hemp-bet) _2026-08-13 · Cultivated_ Plus, Aurora fires back at Curaleaf ## [Talarico bets on hemp to win over Texas swing voters](https://www.cultivated.news/p/talarico-bets-on-hemp-to-win-over-texas-swing-voters) _2026-08-12 · Natalie Fertig · Cultivated_ The Texas Senate candidate's opposition to the state's new hemp ban shows how cannabis policy still works as a wedge issue in unlikely places. ## [Code Faster with Clear Tutorials (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ZFkGccq94Ttj) _2026-08-12 · **Sponsored**_ Short, step-by-step coding videos you can follow along ## [Curaleaf launches hostile bid for Aurora 🍽️](https://www.cultivated.news/p/curaleaf-launches-hostile-bid-for-aurora) _2026-08-12 · Jeremy Berke · Cultivated_ Plus, Spherex joins Cultivated Live ## [Tiny bytes 001: docker asserts](https://blog.smidt.dev/posts/0008/) _2026-06-29 · The Smidt Blog_ Intro I’m trying something new on this blog: Tiny Bytes. Instead of waiting until I have enough material for a long post, these are short write-ups about small ideas that I found useful. Today’s bite is inspired by TigerBeetle: asserting your Docker builds. Normally, we build an image, push it somewhere, deploy it, and only then find out something is wrong. Maybe a symlink points to… ## [BMC Next with Agentic Coding](https://bmannconsulting.com/blog/2026/06/28/bmc-next-agentic-coding/) _2026-06-29 · Boris Mann's Homepage_ I've avoided going deep with LLM usage, including for agentic coding. This is has been for a number of reasons. I don't want to be sending data to US tech platforms is a big one. I don't want to start there, and I don't want to get used to it. And I didn't want to have a mental model that was "these… ## [Responses to “A Necessary Critique Of Fontcuberta’s Algorithmic Photography”](https://www.eldagsen.com/chatonsky/) _2026-05-02 · boris · boris eldagsen_ Published on chatonsky.net on April 13th: The arguments made by Eldagsen and Astray against Fontcuberta s hypotheses seem to rest on an ontological conservatism that misses the ongoing epistemological revolution. By clinging to a binary distinction between “light” (photography) and “code” (AI), they commit a fundamental category error. They perceive generative AI as an informatics of… ## [A Necessary Critique of Fontcuberta’s Algorithmic Photography](https://www.eldagsen.com/fontcuberta/) _2026-04-23 · boris · boris eldagsen_ This article was first published on PetaPixel , April 12, 2026: This March, Spanish conceptual artist and photographer Joan Fontcuberta published a new book in Italy. Immagini Latenti concludes with a chapter on AI and photography, referencing the debates surrounding Boris Eldagsen’s submission of an AI-generated image to the Sony World Photography Awards in 2023 and Miles Astray’s submission of a… ## [WHY WE NEED UGLINESS! An Essay on Ian Haig’s Work](https://www.eldagsen.com/ianhaig/) _2026-04-15 · boris · boris eldagsen_ People keep asking the same museum-shop question, the one that arrives wearing perfume and a lanyard: Why do you need to make such an ugly image? Why this horror? It’s a question that pretends to be moral but is superficial. It assumes beauty is the default setting and ugliness is an ethical deviation. It assumes images should soothe, decorate, and reassure us that the world (and our bodies) are… ## [STRASBOURG | “Hauntology for Beginners” solo exhibition @ La Chambre & La Cryogénie](https://www.eldagsen.com/hauntology/) _2025-11-30 · boris · boris eldagsen_ I’m delighted to invite you to Hauntologie pour les débutant·es my biggest solo exhibition in France, unfolding across La Chambre , La Cryogénie , and the Atrium façade of Université de Strasbourg. “ HAUNTOLOGY FOR BEGINNERS Part I: La Chambre, Strasbourg / France, 22.11. – 25.01.26 4 place d’Austerlitz F-67000 Strasbourg Wednesdays to Sundays: 2 7pm Part II: La Cryogénie, University of Strasbourg… ## [JOHANNESBURG | Curating “PSYCHOPOMP!” at Roger Ballen Centre for Photography](https://www.eldagsen.com/psychopomp/) _2025-09-30 · boris · boris eldagsen_ On September 3, 2025, the new Roger Ballen Centre for Photography opened in Johannesburg, South Africa, with the exhibition PSYCHOPOMP!, curated by Boris Eldagsen. Roger Ballen is regarded as one of the most influential visual artists of our time. His work—oscillating between photography, installation, and drawing—is world-renowned for its unmistakable, psychologically charged visual language. The… [Listen](https://www.eldagsen.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/credo_RogerBallen.mp4) ## [Strike team calling for duty](https://blog.smidt.dev/posts/0007/) _2025-06-24 · The Smidt Blog_ Intro Does your company have technical debt spanning multiple teams. Has been lingering for many quarters? Is it still on nobody’s roadmap despite many rounds of lobbying? Do you consider it a low hanging fruit within your reach? Then consider yourself lucky, Bobby and I have a perfect solution. But before we get into the good stuff, a business announcement from our favorite… ## [June 9th, 2025 Daily](https://bmannconsulting.com/blog/2025/06/09/daily/) _2025-06-10 · Boris Mann's Homepage_ Today was a heck of a day. I was supposed to fly out to Barcelona, for an Ink & Switch team retreat.\[^inkandswitchwork\] \[^inkandswitchwork\]: I haven't really talked about it or announced it very publicly, but I've been working with Ink & Switch (which is an industrial research lab focused on buildin… ## [Ship software peacefully (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/WymLmtc9mIGP) _2025-06-10 · **Sponsored**_ Deploy apps from your repo with auto-config, instant previews, scaling, and monitoring. ## [The terror of a "ZERO CVE" metric and how the bureaucrats lost](https://blog.smidt.dev/posts/0006/) _2025-05-25 · The Smidt Blog_ Intro: Fixing those CVE’s The manager walks in the room, face red. Behind him, the head of software security fumbling with his laptop like he has seen a ghost. Manager: Okay, everyone – listen up. As of today, we’ve started scanning our codebases and docker images for CVEs… and we already found over a thousand." Bobby starts muttering “We’re doomed our security… ## [OpenTelemetry Traces: A Powerful Alternative to JUnit XML for Integration Tests](https://blog.smidt.dev/posts/0005/) _2025-05-04 · The Smidt Blog_ Intro: Debugging integration tests Integration tests are very crucial to detect if our components still work as expected. But when they start failing then debugging integration test failures, especially in distributed systems, often presents significant challenges. Normally a test runner like jenkins will generate a static report formatted with JUNIT XML, Nunit etc which require a separate… ## [My 50th Birthday](https://bmannconsulting.com/blog/2025/02/22/my-50th-birthday/) _2025-02-22 · Boris Mann's Homepage_ Today is my 50th birthday. I've been putting words on the Internet in blog form for close to 25 years\[^domain\]. I feel good. I don't feel "old", although tweaking my back carrying some bags out to the cab for the trip to Berlin in October 2024 is when I realized that yes, my physical being was maybe… ## [Making Maps now at makingmaps.substack.com](https://makingmaps.net/2025/01/17/making-maps-now-at-makingmaps-substack-com/) _2025-01-17 · John Krygier · Making Maps: DIY Cartography_ ## [Bit Vectors and my first steps into assembly](https://blog.smidt.dev/posts/0004/) _2024-12-21 · The Smidt Blog_ Intro I’ve recently started reading “Writing an Interpreter in Go” as part of my journey to sharpen my programming skills. The main goal is actually to redo the book but in different languages like zig and rust. At the time of writing, I was working on the lexer component and decided to explore performance optimizations Since A lexer is a state machine which essentially splits… ## [Diving into eBPF: Building a Process Tracer from Scratch!](https://blog.smidt.dev/posts/0003/) _2024-11-11 · The Smidt Blog_ Today i want to share a story about how i ended up writing a simple process tracer for linux. Using eBPF in go to fix a github actions which i actually didn’t need. We will go over each piece and hopefully you will learn something form it. Todays characters are ‘Boris The Boss’ the part of me which keeps my distractions in check, and Bobby the curious sidekick which doesn’t… ## [Time to Bash the Bash Language](https://blog.smidt.dev/posts/2024-10-20-no-bash-script/) _2024-10-27 · The Smidt Blog_ Bashing Bash Bash a cryptic, unwieldy language that for some bizarre reason became the standard on many linux machine. This post will be a bit different than my usual posts. Today, its’ Bash vs my sanity, with our favorite naïve junior developer, Bobby, he will take the driving seat in discovering the wasteland of shell scripting. We will hope just like in mad max, to reach the other side of… ## [Improve the local dev environment](https://blog.smidt.dev/posts/2024-10-13-better-ci-pipelines/) _2024-10-13 · The Smidt Blog_ Aligning the Local development with the CI environment. Introduction In my development career, I’ve spent countless hours troubleshooting a failing CI pipeline. Through this experience, I’ve learned that even if you don’t use shell scripts to write your CI pipeline, you still need to install various build tools and their environments. For instance, when working with Scala , you…