when i see david strathairn on screen, "that's david strathairn"

lots of good jokes out there. not here though.

if bots were egressing from a russian data center, one might ask why the admins simply did not block that ASN.

the object store movement (or zero-disk architecture if you prefer) is going to help.

i think we are going to see some great innovation here, like pmtile levels of greatness.

what other places are named after features that currently do not exist

grand rapids muscle shoals fall river

i should go look at the archives at @reutherlibrary.bsky.social

i love that how andrew clements has made a career of writing kids stories about children going on strike and taking other forms of collective action

i flubbed it! i subbed bulgogi for corned beef instead of kimchi for sauerkraut. it was not wonderful!

we need the humanities so bad, brother.

the idea that tasks is what gives our lives meaning, or at least staves of nihilism and depression, is itself very depressing. this is a piece of what srnicek and williams talk about as the work ethic that will need to be overcome in /inventing the future/

for lots of computer people, llms are confronting them with the deepest existential questions about what life is for. and a common answer is doing tasks.

okay, i read the essay and it's not very good.

it *is* often true that you might have different and better experience if you do something in a slower more demanding way. this is not a very good argument for websites, because there's usually an even slower and more demanding way to do what the website does for you. but, the premise is not wrong.

a truly classic "why are you lying?" face

the photo editor made an in-kind contribution with this one.

there sure are a lot of phone numbers.

sorry. sorry.