# mostly (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 107 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover mostly. Page: Feed: --- ## [𝔲𝔫𝔡𝔢𝔞𝔡](https://bogleech.tumblr.com/post/825619407579611136) _2026-08-22 · sideblog for the siterunner of bogleech.com_ fleshwizard : ## [gentlemanbones:READER BEWEADER YOU’RE IN FOR A SCEADER](https://bogleech.tumblr.com/post/825609591663509504) _2026-08-22 · sideblog for the siterunner of bogleech.com_ gentlemanbones : READER BEWEADER YOU’RE IN FOR A SCEADER ## [The Atproto Spaces Alpha is Live](http://www.downes.ca/post/79684/rd) _2026-08-21 · Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily_ Daniel Holmgren , AT Protocol , Aug 21, 2026 One of the more controversial decisions made by the developers at Bluesky in the early days was to make all data public. That is, your personal data store (PDS) could be read by anybody. In what they describe as "the biggest update to atproto since it launched", the managers of the specification behind Bluesky have created 'Atproto Spaces': "You can… ## [Agentic AI is Available to Teachers at No Cost. Here's a Job Worth Giving It.](http://www.downes.ca/post/79683/rd) _2026-08-21 · Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily_ Jason Neiffer , Substack , Aug 21, 2026 This article describes how a teacher revisited curricular materials that have been untouched for years, organized them, and compared them against the current standard for gaps, then rebuilding them. "Look at what actually got built here without touching a single student record: a dusty, sixteen-year-old archive rebuilt, a 297-page College Board framework… ## [Vine reboot Divine is now open to everyone, no invite code required](http://www.downes.ca/post/79682/rd) _2026-08-21 · Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily_ Karissa Bell , Engadget , Aug 21, 2026 According to this and several otger articles, Divine has opened to the public and no longer requires invitation codes. Divine is a reboot of Vine , a short-video streaming app that was popular before the rise of TikTok and Loops and the like. The appeal of Divine (in theory at least) will be originality; videos will need to be created directly within the app,… ## [A Vision for PK–12 Computer Science Education](http://www.downes.ca/post/79681/rd) _2026-08-21 · Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily_ Computer Science Teachers Association , Aug 21, 2026 This is a proposed set of standards ( 218 page PDF ) from the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) for computer science education for primary and secondary students (aka. K-12). It depicts computer science as "a scientific and creative discipline focused on understanding and designing algorithms, data, and computing systems," with an… ## [Somewhere on top of a hill](https://www.kelake.org/blog/somewhere-on-top-of-a-hill) _2026-08-21 · Clark MacLeod · Kelake : Clark MacLeod's banal weblog_ Sheryl and I at the top of some hill. I did a lot of walking, hiking and running in Ireland, some days upwards of 40k, which my knees protested. ## [HI i checked your pokemon review page and realized ‘oh! an archive! I wonder if bogleech has done an applin review’ AND YOU HAD . i haven’t read the full thing but seeing the opening line has me excited. Let’s have applins as our faves together —applin](https://bogleech.tumblr.com/post/825584612631789568) _2026-08-21 · sideblog for the siterunner of bogleech.com_ Well yeah I review them exactly in pokedex order and traditionally began exactly as soon as all the official art was available! I used to upload one every single day, but last gen I spaced it out to every few days, and now I'm uploading one of the new megas just every couple weeks until the new gen comes out next year :) ## [It's not impossible](https://www.kelake.org/blog/its-not-impossible) _2026-08-21 · Clark MacLeod · Kelake : Clark MacLeod's banal weblog_ Coming back from Calgary on Monday we had what might be considered a normal flight experience. Normal is worth celebrating in light of the barrage of negative experiences we have had. It's not lost on me that my constant harping about the dire state of air travel might seem like someone complaining about the thread count at a four-star hotel — but I see it more as spending what little money we… ## [When in Dublin](https://www.kelake.org/blog/when-in-dublin) _2026-08-21 · Clark MacLeod · Kelake : Clark MacLeod's banal weblog_ Coffee experiences anchor any visit to whatever town or city we visit - it's not always specialty coffee, but even Sackville or Saint John , New Brunswick, have nice places to sit and have an espresso. Visiting Dublin, everyone kept mentioning the need to drink Guinness; I guess it's an institution with tourists because I saw many people topping off their morning breakfast with a pint. Succumbing… ## [A Friend Gave You $30 (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/AofpLSOzlWFk) _2026-08-21 · **Sponsored**_ Sign up, deposit $5 within 30 days, and start investing with expert guidance. ## [lowkey almost died for a battery](https://dartegnian.com/calendar/2026/08/21) _2026-08-21 · Dartegnian's Mood Calendar_ Mood: Above Average Significant Location: SM Sta Mesa Today was pretty interesting. Thankfully it was a holiday so I could stay up all night today and I did just that and mostly talked and chatted with someone throughout the whole evening. We didn't really get into a call, so I just spent some of the time checking out my iPhone Air case and noticed a crack on it. They opened up to making a… ## [Superslop, and How It Will Kill Your Book Deal](http://www.downes.ca/post/79679/rd) _2026-08-21 · Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily_ Aug 20, 2026 What I like about this article is that it gives us an extended extract from the beginning of Winter Takes One , "an 89,000-word upmarket thriller" that was written by an AI and "led to a four-way bidding war and a $3.5 million, two-book deal." It's an example of 'superslop', AI writing that actually fools professional editors. I also agree with the conclusions, two of them:… ## [The Most Expensive Private School in Oklahoma: And It Has No Teachers](http://www.downes.ca/post/79678/rd) _2026-08-21 · Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily_ Aug 20, 2026 This article might have a good story to report - an Oklahoma school that is completely automated that costs more than any other school in the state. But it's mostly an exercise in weak AI writing - see the process here . On the surface it seems to be well written, but oh! it goes on and on and on, doesn't have any real sense of a narrative arc (much less of the inverted pyramid), and… ## [mrsdazais-blog:captain-of-the-historicfuture: itsquietinsantafe: ...](https://bogleech.tumblr.com/post/825514865727799296) _2026-08-21 · sideblog for the siterunner of bogleech.com_ mrsdazais-blog : captain-of-the-historicfuture : itsquietinsantafe : the-mighty-tor : blakegdiamond : easyvirgin : happy Thursday the 20th I’d have to wait months or even years for another chance to reblog this, so why the fuck not? next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th August 2015 October 2016 April 2017 July 2017 September 2018 December 2018 June 2019 February 2020 August 2020 You… ## [𝔲𝔫𝔡𝔢𝔞𝔡𝔰](https://bogleech.tumblr.com/post/825514640900571136) _2026-08-21 · sideblog for the siterunner of bogleech.com_ fleshwizard : ## [I recently learned that molecular structures can change eachother like an infection and it is…](https://bogleech.tumblr.com/post/825504313974636544) _2026-08-20 · sideblog for the siterunner of bogleech.com_ I recently learned that molecular structures can change eachother like an infection and it is technically possible that the properties of an entire known material can be changed across the entire world irreversibly forever in case you know like you needed any more bizarre uncanny anxieties. This is the basis of a 1963 sci fi novel, Cat's Cradle, in which the military just wanted a better way to… ## [Tonight at 7! The guy hosting is really nice and was kinda let down by the low turnout of the last…](https://bogleech.tumblr.com/post/825502020808097792) _2026-08-20 · sideblog for the siterunner of bogleech.com_ bogleech : Bug trivia tomorrow !! Tonight at 7! The guy hosting is really nice and was kinda let down by the low turnout of the last one! ## [Literally the only fish shape more deranged than modern seahorses](https://bogleech.tumblr.com/post/825496297655222272) _2026-08-20 · sideblog for the siterunner of bogleech.com_ knuppitalism-with-ue : Posted my Maraldichthys the other day on Insta and as it is really hard to explain without visual aid I put this together. Every time I post about this guy people don't know how to look at it. I hope this helps. And yes, this is not taphonomy, there are several specimens and close relatives. For people unaware: Maraldichthys is a pycnodontiform fish from the Cretaceous of… ## [Tackling a Redesign Can Be Difficult](https://kpwags.com/posts/2026/tackling-a-redesign-can-be-difficult/) _2026-08-20 · Keith Wagner_ So I'm currently working on redesigning my personal site. So far, I think the hardest part is integrating all the little things I've built into my site over the course of the 13 years I've been building and writing on it. I'll give a simple example. If you go back to my early reading logs ( like this one ), you'll notice I have what I called in-depth pieces at the top. Eventually, they got… ## [Tumblr Archive!!](https://retiine.neocities.org/) _2026-08-20 · Aid's Little Site Updates_ \This is less of a direct site update and more of a long-term project I've taken on to archive some of my tumblr blogs, aka my two major RP blogs (maybe my super fuckin' old first RP blog if I ever remember her login details), and eventually my personal blog.\ \For now I finished with one of my RP blogs for \my retired gaymer boy\ with albinism!!… ## [Brisk AI News Briefings (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/OaFfWHdhohHD) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ Read AI summaries and listen to audio briefings for top stories. ## [SNES Games I finished ~30 years ago!](https://roytang.net/2026/08/snes-games/) _2026-08-20 · http://roytang.net/ :: Blog_ Previously: 30 NES/Famicom Games I finished as a kid , my list of completed console games from around 2002 Intro This is yet another entry in my (years/decades-long) attempt to chronicle the entirety of my gaming history. I wrote the NES post a couple of years ago, so I figured I should write the SNES post already while I can. My primary reference is the old file linked above, with some… ## [Well-deserved break tbh](https://dartegnian.com/calendar/2026/08/20) _2026-08-20 · Dartegnian's Mood Calendar_ Mood: Good Today started with me trying to wake someone up and then talking to them about this guy she's entertaining and playing with. It's really strange but I guess that's the chapter of life they're in and I kept reminding myself that I know how to handle this when shit goes sideways. I couldn't sleep because I keep thinking of something and I was kind of sad myself, in way. I did reveal to… ## [Link: Mojo is now open source](https://blog.poleprediction.com/posts/mojo-is-now-open-source/) _2026-08-20 · Allanderek's blog_ Mojo is now open source , via Simon Willison . I was also struck by the same quote as Simon in the Mojo road map : As Mojo matures through phase 3, we believe it will become increasingly compatible with Python code and deeply familiar to Python users, but more efficient, powerful, coherent, and safe. Mojo may or may not evolve into a full superset of Python, and it's okay if it doesn't. We're… ## [Book Recommendations: The Expanse](https://lyonhe.art/book-recommendations/the-expanse) _2026-08-20 · <matthew@lyonhe.art> (Matthew Lyon) · lyonheart_ The Expanse is a series of nine science fiction novels and a collection of nine novellas in the space opera tradition, set amid a politically tumultuous future in which humanity has colonized the solar system. It tells a story set across four decades and beyond the solar system about the political consequences of conspiracy which starts out as a missing persons case which will change the course of… ## [My Writing IS 100% Organic](https://hakkerman.eu/blog/thoughts-on-kcd1-copy/) _2026-08-20 · hakkerboi · (untitled)_ Response to My writing is not 100% organic anymore I am so tired of posts about AI, so I'll try to write about everything besides it. Believe it or not, I am not a native english speaker either. When I started blogging, I also used a LLM to proof read . I used it to help me formulate myself. It made my posts objectively better, it also made my posts SUCK . First of all, there is the cultural… ## [You can hear the squeak of sphincters closing](http://www.downes.ca/post/79677/rd) _2026-08-20 · Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily_ Aug 19, 2026 I don't use AI to write any of my text mostly because (a) I think I'm a better writer, and (b) the AI can't draw on my experience the way I can. The first may be hubris and is entirely subject to change, but I can't imagine the second ever changing. I don't have any opposition to AI, and I use it to generate code and to remove noise from my photos. And it's OK with me if other people… ## [The College Success Rulebook: Practical Advice for College and Beyond](http://www.downes.ca/post/79676/rd) _2026-08-20 · Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily_ Aug 19, 2026 I'm not sure what advice I would give to students any more. It wouldn't be this ( 24 page PDF ) - it would never have been this, which mostly amounts to "do what you're told" with a little bit of "show some initiative" added. That would never have worked for me, and would leave students falling far short of getting the best out of university. I think there are three keys to success… ## [Young people, learning, and generative AI: A rapid literature review and implications for PreK-12 education](http://www.downes.ca/post/79675/rd) _2026-08-20 · Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily_ Aug 19, 2026 This report ( 52 page PDF ) is styled as a 'rapid literature review', and while I'm not exactly sure what that means (I've asked) the result is still worth a look. The authors studied 271 of 975 papers considered to compile research which is admittedly still in its early stages. "Affective gains are common. GenAI use is often associated with increased interest, engagement, motivation,… ## [The Three Screens That Made Us Still](http://www.downes.ca/post/79674/rd) _2026-08-20 · Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily_ Aug 19, 2026 I am of the belief that television caused far more harm to society than social media ever did, or even could. As LarsGoran Bostrom writes, "Television did not assault its viewers. It invited them to surrender. The screen demanded attention but offered no resistance, no requirement for response beyond the passive receipt of images flowing at thirty frames per second." Into the passive… ## [Open edX & n8n: Build Powerful Dynamic Workflows](http://www.downes.ca/post/79673/rd) _2026-08-20 · Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily_ Aug 19, 2026 The details of this are useful mostly to OpenEdX users, but the concept generalizes and is worth noting. In a learning management system (LMS) things happen - a person registers, a grade changes, etc. - and this has an impact on external systems or should trigger actions. Most every LMS has a set of notifications - in OpenEdX they're Django signals - that are created when these events… ## [Open directory of blogs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/EheZiZLSWXdJ) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ Drop URLs or OPML — get per-blog pages plus machine-readable JSON, OPML, text ## [Engaging Digital Learners Through Affective Objectives](http://www.downes.ca/post/79672/rd) _2026-08-20 · Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily_ Aug 19, 2026 The 'affective domain' describes how we feel about things. "We know that interest, confidence, motivation, and commitment impact learner engagement and performance, but how do we design for these feelings in an intentional way?" That's the question posed in this article, and it draws on Krathwohl's Taxonomy to offer a response: receiving, responding, valuing, organization, and… ## [Senate Subcommittee Holds Hearing on How Corporations Use AI Surveillance to Set and Charge Consumers Higher Prices](http://www.downes.ca/post/79671/rd) _2026-08-20 · Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily_ Aug 19, 2026 This is a video recording of a Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism hearing titled "Your Data, Their Profit: The Consumer Cost of AI Surveillance Pricing." If you don't have the 90 minutes to watch the video, Liz Brandt has written a summary on LinkedIn . The idea here is that companies use surveillance technology to learn about you and then adjust… ## [(untitled)](https://bogleech.tumblr.com/post/825435774794301440) _2026-08-20 · sideblog for the siterunner of bogleech.com_ blankwisher64 : ## [Some Habits Linger](https://mikenmitch.wordpress.com/2026/08/19/some-habits-linger/) _2026-08-20 · melsar93 · Next Eleven Years_ In theory I should be down to one habit left at this point, but I let several days slip by without coding and there were days when I couldn’t go to bed on time – mostly vacation related, but not always. ## [I get it, honest, I completely sympathize with someone who, say, only just lost a pet and doesn’t…](https://bogleech.tumblr.com/post/825407328698384384) _2026-08-19 · sideblog for the siterunner of bogleech.com_ I get it, honest, I completely sympathize with someone who, say, only just lost a pet and doesn't want even the loosest reminder, so I mean this with affection and respect: it is funny all over again every time anybody adds a warning about "dog death" in any piece of media and the dog in context is a soul eating hellhound. ## [I thought it was just one of the basic template isekais, I didn’t know RE:ZERO was really about a…](https://bogleech.tumblr.com/post/825406961645436928) _2026-08-19 · sideblog for the siterunner of bogleech.com_ I thought it was just one of the basic template isekais, I didn't know RE:ZERO was really about a kid whose escapist fantasy adventures keep forcing him to solve his own murders in groundhog day loops. Does it keep being that interesting?? We watched through his whole first two loops. Like up to where he has to kill the evil dog. ## [It does appear to be that the game came first so yes it turns out this isn’t just the usual random…](https://bogleech.tumblr.com/post/825395674450444288) _2026-08-19 · sideblog for the siterunner of bogleech.com_ bogleech : Okay so there's a cheaply made throwaway naughty anime where the setup is that a woman buys an entire island with a functioning vacation home on it for 100,000 yen, only to discover that it already has an entire native civilization whose people were all transformed into sexy monsters, so she decides she just has to kill all the monsters with her gun (she has a gun) to have that perfect… ## [This has yet to happen to me personally but it seems a lot like if you make any fictional character…](https://bogleech.tumblr.com/post/825394778407616512) _2026-08-19 · sideblog for the siterunner of bogleech.com_ This has yet to happen to me personally but it seems a lot like if you make any fictional character outside gender norms, there's an extremely high chance will take it as an inconsiderate stereotype of a whole demographic rather than just the personality of that one unique character, so the only way to avoid making anyone angry ends up being to either avoid it altogether or make the character as… ## [Bug trivia tomorrow !!](https://bogleech.tumblr.com/post/825392476780134400) _2026-08-19 · sideblog for the siterunner of bogleech.com_ Bug trivia tomorrow !! ## [I’ve always been aware that this is alarmingly incorrect by all technical and cultural measures but…](https://bogleech.tumblr.com/post/825391808258457600) _2026-08-19 · sideblog for the siterunner of bogleech.com_ I've always been aware that this is alarmingly incorrect by all technical and cultural measures but tumblr has never stopped feeling to me like the main representative hub of all internet activity ## [If I Ain't Got You, You, You](https://dartegnian.com/calendar/2026/08/19) _2026-08-19 · Dartegnian's Mood Calendar_ Mood: Good Today started with me trying to wake up someone. I had a feeling that they had slept through their alarms and I just had this feeling to wake them up. They were able to wake up and they told me this weird dream that they had, which just made me feel a bit alienated, but whatever. I was able to sleep and I woke up just in time in the morning. I got my raincoat on and it actually wasn't… ## [Video Link: Jayaprabhakar Kadarkarai - Create your own DSLs](https://blog.poleprediction.com/posts/link-video-kadarkarai-create-dsls/) _2026-08-19 · Allanderek's blog_ Video Link: Jayaprabhakar Kadarkarai - Create your own DSLs This is technically a link to a talk contained within a video. The entire video is worth watching it's the lightning talks at the first Software Should Work conference. In this particular lightning talk, Jayaprabhakar Kadarkarai explains why he thinks you should be more willing to create your own DSLs. He gives an example of one for… ## [Thoughts on Kingdom Come Deliverence 1](https://hakkerman.eu/blog/thoughts-on-kcd1/) _2026-08-19 · hakkerboi · (untitled)_ I've been playing through KCD I again ( for the 3rd time ) and the biggest problem is that I really want to play the second one. Not because the first game is bad, it's really good. It's just that the second is even better. I'll keep this post mostly spoiler free, but I'll speak of the story in vauge terms, just so you know. Currently I'm at the siege, and I've just done all the siege things… ## [Trying Out Garuda Linux](https://roytang.net/2026/08/garuda-linux/) _2026-08-19 · http://roytang.net/ :: Blog_ Early this year, I set up Linux Mint dual boot with Windows 11, coming back to desktop Linux after so many years: Return to Linux While my time with Linux Mint has generally been good, I have been meaning to try some other distros for some time now, for a few reasons: First and foremost is that back in May, Ubuntu (from which Mint is derived) announced that they're starting with the GenAI… ## [do you think doctor rotten really went to medical school](https://bogleech.tumblr.com/post/825346913560920064) _2026-08-19 · sideblog for the siterunner of bogleech.com_ transdimensionalelevator : Rotten Gummy Cruncheez do you think doctor rotten really went to medical school ## [How Claude's text watermarking works](http://www.downes.ca/post/79670/rd) _2026-08-19 · Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily_ Aug 18, 2026 There has been a lot of discussion about Anthropic's proposed 'watermarking' of AI-generated content. This article explains how it works, which in turn informs our intuitions about why it's so objectionable. Basically, what the system does is to subtly alter word selection when generating text, creating a difference in the probability of what it outputs as compared to what it would… ## [rabbithole: type a word, fall in](http://www.downes.ca/post/79668/rd) _2026-08-19 · Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily_ Aug 18, 2026 This is a clever tool that helps the reader explore deeper and deeper into a topic. Pick something to explore and it surfaces a bunch of related resources: "surprising associations, facts, links and short videos around anything." You can read the resources or pick one of the new associated concepts to dig even deeper (click on the title, then the 'dig deeper button' - the interface… ## [I didn't set a cookie.](http://www.downes.ca/post/79667/rd) _2026-08-19 · Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily_ Aug 18, 2026 This is "a live demonstration of everything a website learns about you before you click anything. No cookies, no permissions, no consent dialog. Nothing is stored." And yet, it can create a precise 'fingerprint' of your browser and computing environment detailed enough to create a profile that can be reused over time. It's a nice, effective demonstration that makes a compelling point.… ## [Dickovers, baggravation and botiquette: 18 new words to describe our tech hellscape](http://www.downes.ca/post/79666/rd) _2026-08-19 · Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily_ Aug 18, 2026 We've all experienced the many irritants that tech has brought into our everyday lives - everything from panes that cover up the content (aka 'dickover'), one of which you'll experience on this article as you go to read it, to anoying email subscriptions following product purchases ('limpitlisting'), self-checkout travails ('baggravation'), parking lots that require you to download an… ## [They used an umbrella as a microphone to report a broken road; 3 Maharashtra schoolgirls went viral and got results](http://www.downes.ca/post/79665/rd) _2026-08-19 · Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily_ Aug 18, 2026 Readers by now know how much I like stories like this. Here, three schoolgirls recorded a video 'news report' (using an umbrella as a microphone) to document the potholes in the road they use to walk to school. You can see the video in this report on OneIndia . According to this article authorities saw the report, which went viral, and repaired the road. OneIndia reports, though, that…