Read this whenever you are in doubt about pursuing goals because of what you think is moral or right or correct, when you question everything in the face of the prominent mouths “getting their bag.”| Josh Beckman
You can concentrate on the solo performance, or you can concentrate on the whole thing.| Josh Beckman
My tentative theory here is that a well-run crowdsourced project has less need of AI assistance than an individual, because it is already “superintelligent” through the human network interactions, with fewer gaps in knowledge and expertise that need to be plugged by AI. FROM: Terence Tao Terence Tao Source| Josh Beckman
We are at dinner with Steve and Heather and, in a quiet moment, Steve leans in to tell me:| Josh Beckman
That is, faced with the horror of women’s experience, Freud rejected the evidence in front of him. Rather than believe the women he had collaborated with, and so be forced to revise his image of the respectable men in his midst, he chose to maintain that respectability by refusing the validity of his own observations. He would go on to develop theories of human psychology that presumed women’s inferiority and deceitfulness—in a way, projecting his own lies onto his patients. Is this not...| Josh Beckman
I like the idea that even as our chips and disks get faster, enhancements are simultaneously being pushed through on the software level through the likes of io_uring. So even while every newly available hardware cycle in web or mobile apps is immediately burned away through increasingly deep stacks of JavaScript nonsense, at least our databases and server software should be getting strictly faster. FROM: brandur.org Postgres 18 Source| Josh Beckman
These block-by-block photo series from Mose Kane are a fun little photography.| Josh Beckman
The central idea is that asynchronous work is encapsulated in objects called Tasks. Instead of registering callbacks for different events, a central Dispatcher polls these tasks to see if they can make progress. The polling is informed because t...| Josh Beckman
Notes on my recent discovery of electronic literature.| tékhnē.dev
Playing with LEGO, thoughts, and some new ideas for my blog| véronique
As educators, we know that the most valuable lessons we teach often come outside the curriculum. Expressing genuine gratitude to a student can be the moment that sparks confidence, nurtures a lifelong love of learning, and confirms their worth. Finding the precise words for this crucial moment can be challenging, but your impact is profound. […]| Dreams Quote
Last May, I spoke at the Bike Windsor Essex's Pecha Kucha portion of their AGM. Today I presented another 20 slides @ 20 seconds each about games and libraries.| Librarian of Things
On September 20th, 2025, I spoke on a panel at THE LEGACY OF CCH CANADIAN LTD. v. LAW SOCIETY OF UPPER CANADA AND FUTURE OF COPYRIGHT LAW CONFERENCE 2025. Here is my talk.| Librarian of Things
Literacy standards have been falling, and the current generation of university students is the first in the post-war era to have declining IQs. Anecdotally, I’ve noticed that TV shows and movies have…| Derek Kedziora
A rather hectic week as work ramps up again and I start to progressively lose control of my calendar, but I’ve managed to slowly accrete som...| Tao of Mac
Ana explains perfectly my gripe with the concept of content creation. A photo, a post, a video, a podcast. These are among the things that are now called ‘content’ on social media. You create content and present it to your followers the right way, at the right time. Have you tried monetise it? Well, wouldn’t it be great to be paid to do what you love? It became common thinking that turning your hobbies into profit is a great idea. Except, when you do, they become something you have to d...| Design & other obsessions by Silvia Maggi
Thoughts on "The Beast within Capitalism" by Nathan J. Robinson| tékhnē.dev
Started sewing again — notes on how to do this, what the parts are, and where to find things. How to: How to use presser feet: Needl...| A parenthetical departure
More bookmarks of interesting things I saw this week, or remembered that I’d previously bookmarked this week. There is an upright piano in our back lane. Probably there to be taken away with the bins but I get the feeling it’s going to disappear into someone’s van before then. Someone will want a project. A […]| BrittHub
Week? Month? Some other, unspecified amount of time? I collect a lot of bookmarks but often don’t do anything with them after that. In an attempt to remedy this I’m going to start sharing interesting bookmarks on a somewhat regular basis. I am also going to attempt to collect them together in a useful way […]| BrittHub
In Summary I will not knowingly use AI in the process of creating my work. I make efforts to avoid AI in both personal and professional settings. I do not consent to my work being used to train any AI models. This website is not for robots, scrapers and AI models, I am taking active […]| BrittHub
Expertise, the strength of modern government, can become a monster which rules with no practical limits on its discretion. Absolute discretion, like corruption, marks the beginning of the end of liberty. - Justice William O. Douglas| Eric Krueger
What if we built a federation of Wikibases that belong to all of us? What if someone already did?| Librarian of Things
We are currently in a very particular period of time for Wikidata.| Librarian of Things
Know the problem.| Librarian of Things
Summer break is now completely over, so I did my usual Summer “cleansing”—disabling notifications from annoying apps, unsubscribing from a f...| Tao of Mac
It's almost the end of August and I've not made a post for this month's IndieWeb Carnival. The child has been on summer holiday, which leads to not much solo thinking time. Marisabel picked an excellent topic which I should have a lot to say about: Colors. Unfortunately my sleep deprived mind struggles to think…| BrittHub
The captain (boss) gets the final say. It’s important there is clarity about who is in charge. However being the boss doesn’t mean every decision is the right one. You (first officer) need a way you can convey your point of view if the decision(s) being made could have a very bad outcome. At work … Continue reading "Captain it’s imperative you listen"| Reasonable Doubt
Every interaction is like a roll of the dice. You aim to move forward. Yet in the game Snakes and ladders a roll of the dice can move you forward but then suddenly back down the rung of a ladder. A little way down or nearly back to square one. Every time your boss changes, your contact leaves at the place you had influence or the world around you changes it can feel like your tumbling back to the beginning. Better to know that and know the conditions of the rules than to keep focusing on chan...| Reasonable Doubt
Yes, it could be said the problem started here.| Eric Krueger
Last week, I passed 4,500 miles on my e-bike!| Eric Krueger
So according to WordPress this is my 500th post. I started this blog when I got my first job – I was installing Nortel equipment. The name was meant as “Nick versus Networking”, as I attempted to take on the trade and learn it. Going through CCNA, networking certs, I got way more into SIP/VoIP, … Continue reading Meta: 500 Posts Apparently→| Nick vs Networking
I did an exercise recently over two consecutive days, a Wednesday and Thursday, where I wrote down experiences I might like to have on a date. I ended up with a little over 5 notebook pages (perhaps A5 paper size?) of ideas. Later in the week, I ended up journaling| Joe Cecil
I threw this party with Mike Wang, who’s my collaborator at Long Journey. Everyone that came to this dinner party had to try on a pair of spectacles, and the spectacles had a role that they had to play written on the side. Jackson: Cool. C...| Josh Beckman
"I consider knowledge to be overvalued. Too many of us suffer from “infobesity.” Too much information, not enough action. But knowledge combined with action is priceless."| Geoff Graham
It’s yet another Trump action that also hurts his own voters.| South Side Weekly
Let’s make scholarly profiles for our colleagues. Together.| Librarian of Things
Over the past few months, I had been in a bit of a gaming slump. Of my two groups, neither group was gaming well, and I was starting to get those detached feelings that typically come from when I am not getting emotionally fed from my games. This was not my game or game group's fault. A lot of things have been going on, this first half of the year, and it was all just piling up. Recently, things started to change. Both of my groups picked new games to play, and I had a revelation about the ki...| Gnome Stew
I *thought* I had settled on Devonthink as my everything bucket, but now I am falling down an Obsidian shaped rabbit hole thanks to Steve Messer linking to this monster: Every few months I set aside time for a “random revisit”. I use the random note hotkey to quickly travel randomly through my vault. I ... Keep reading| Dave Briggs
Just keeping track of stuff with my old and new VR PC.| busybee
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Mental models - what they are, why we need them, and how to change them intentionally| Amir Rachum’s Blog
My system for reading books, writing literature notes and increasing retention| Amir Rachum’s Blog
I made a new icon for this website. It’s all been gradually and quietly getting updated over the last few months. First I changed the main typeface to Atkinson Hyperlegible. Then I added a nice subtle texture to the background, it reminds of early computer graphics but at the same time somehow feels like it […]| BrittHub
Libraries can support people developing and using LLMs by providing an alternative to LLMs| Librarian of Things
ドナルド・トランプは多くの顔を持つ。彼はレイシストであり、権威主義者であり、レイピストである。だが彼がはじめから、そして一貫して何であったかといえば……詐欺師だ。 The post 詐欺師国家と化したアメリカ first appeared on p2ptk[.]org.| p2ptk[.]org
金持ちは文字通り、明日が来ないかのようにマシュマロを貪り食う。 The post なぜ金持ちの子供は我慢ができて、貧しい子供は我慢できない（ように見えた）のか first appeared on p2ptk[.]org.| p2ptk[.]org
マスクは米国行政機関の切実な問題を解決しようとしているのではない——彼はそれを破壊したい。審判を解雇したい。なぜなら審判がいなくなれば、ルールなしでゲームを続けられるからだ。 The post トランプ／マスクが望むのは「公正なゲーム」ではなく「審判のいないゲーム」だ first appeared on p2ptk[.]org.| p2ptk[.]org
Depuis la fin des années 90, une partie des représentants politiques français, emmenés par l’extrême-droite, brandissent la double menace d’un tsunami migratoire et d’un fossé culturel freinant l’intégration des populations nouvellement arrivées. Occultant l’intégration des migrants comme fait majeur, ce refrain stigmatisant attribue l’érosion de la cohésion sociale et nationale à la seule responsabilité individuelle des personnes migrantes ou de leurs descendants. Pa...| Institut Rousseau
For this post I traded titles with Zachary Kai. He suggested the title of this post and in return I suggested "A Sense Of Place" for him - a post title that has been sitting in my drafts for nearly a year as I try to gather the thoughts attached to it. Zachary's approach to…| BrittHub
I use Zotero when I am doing research or scholarly writing but I also have a handful of other reasons why I use Zotero which I thought I’d share.| Librarian of Things
I’ve spent way too much time productivity hacking and fiddling with the perfect PKM (personal knowledge management) system. And I’d increasingly been coming to the same conclusions as Joan Westenberg…| Derek Kedziora
I had a conversation with a friend who described sitting in a workshop where clients and the people they hired were working on problems. As you do. Happens in every consultingy kind of job. But what has totally become normalized is for the people hired, the “experts” to use ChatGPT and similar services to come […]| Smashing Frames
This post is part of the IndieWeb Carnival, June’s topic was chosen by Nick Simson and is explained as Take Two/time travel. A post I made the other day (Updates and Renewals) feels like it would fit very well into this theme as the post was half written in April and half written in June, […]| BrittHub
After all these years I have decided to tidy up my computing devices and make replacing/restoring them easier. One way to do this is by creating a Brew bundle that makes reinstalling all of my apps easier. It is pretty simple really if you use Homebrew as your package manager. This command output a list […]| James King
A repost from my Facebook. Original December 1, 2015. Worldreaders is a U.S. non-profit organization using “quiet tech” — technologies that disappear with their environment — to deploy digital libraries around the world. Worldreader’s digital catalog of books contains 6,699 titles with an average readership of 184,000 people per month. By deploying e-ink readers, Worldreaders […]| James King
A repost from my Facebook. Original November 30, 2015. The Navy Department Library was established by a letter from President John Adams to the first Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stoddard in 1800. It was established to be the most comprehensive naval library of its kind. Today it is housed at the Washington Navy Yard […]| James King
A repost from my Facebook. Original November 29, 2015. The Laurentian Library in Florence, Italy, is interesting for many reason, not least of which is its fantastic architecture. Most importantly, the Laurentian Library holds the oldest manuscript of Herodotus’ Histories. Sources:Laurentian LibraryThe Older, the Better: Forging a Neo-Pagan Tradition in Co-Production with Christianity and Islam| James King
A repost from my Facebook. Original November 28, 2015. The Washington University Library in St. Louis is the third-largest holder of Jefferson’s books. They received the Jefferson collection through a donation in 1880, but it took 131 years to identify and confirm the original owner of these books was Thomas Jefferson. This collection contains what […]| James King
A repost from my Facebook. Original November 27, 2015. Originally built in 1876, the Library of Parliament is an architectural marvel. With flying buttresses on the outside and a stunning interior, one might say it is too nice a facility for the sole use of politicians. The library contains 600,000 items covering a couple hundred […]| James King
A repost from my Facebook. Original November 26, 2015.After the British sacking of Washington D.C. in 1815, Thomas Jefferson sold his extensive library to Congress. This formed the basis for what is now the Library of Congress. Today, Jeffersons books are setup as its own exhibit inside the Library of Congress. Sources:Library of Congress: Jefferson's LibrarySale [...]| James King
I cannot ask my library catalogue to give me a list of Canadian Law Reviews and Journals we currently subscribe to but I *can* ask Wikidata which Canadian Law Review titles are open access..| Librarian of Things
I’ve previously written about how there’s something creepy and very sexual lurking behind a lot of the people into “AI”, primarily men who can’t handle being told no. Others have noticed this trend…| Derek Kedziora
We’re excited to introduce upgrades to two of Inoreader’s most valuable features for active readers and researchers. Highlighters and annotations… The post New and improved tools for active reading appeared first on Inoreader blog.| Inoreader blog
“God hates you wicked baby killing whores,” “cocksucker,” “fucking cunt,” and “shut your fucking mouth, you bitch” are statements that start fights. In 1791,... The post Fighting Words at the Founding appeared first on Harvard Law Review.| Harvard Law Review
The Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment provides that when the government takes private property for a public purpose, it must compensate the property... The post “Background Principles” and the General Law of Property appeared first on Harvard Law Review.| Harvard Law Review
The Gardner presumption, also known as the pro-veteran canon, is a substantive canon of interpretation named after the Supreme Court case Brown v. Gardner. The canon instructs courts to construe ambiguous statutes concerning veterans’ benefits in favor of the veteran. While the canon today rarely acts as a tiebreaker, it has historically represented a strong congressional intent to care for veterans. The post Codify <em>Gardner</em> appeared first on Harvard Law Review.| Harvard Law Review
Eighty-year-old Lavetta Langdon was convicted of shooting and killing her husband, Larry Langdon, while he slept. She later described decades of abuse by her... The post Making Equal Protection Protect appeared first on Harvard Law Review.| Harvard Law Review
Let's use old amazon kindles to make meeting room signs at your local library and organize!| Librarian of Things
From my friend and former colleague Autumn:| Derek Kedziora
DeepSeek released an updated version of their popular R1 reasoning model (version 0528) with – according to the company – increased benchmark performance, reduced hallucinations, and native support for function calling and JSON output. Early tests from Artificial Analysis report a nice bump in performance, putting it behind OpenAI’s o3 and o4-mini-high in their Intelligence| www.macstories.net
Machines reconfigure work. And yet, historians or other humanistic researchers rarely think about the way that our digital workflows—the tools that we use to do our work—enable or disenable the kinds of questions we pursue and the evidence that we marshal to answer them.| Clio and the Contemporary
L’investigation et les méthodes sont liées aux féminismes et aux décolonisationS| Xavier Coadic
There’s this weird phrase “agentic AI” which looks weid. But it’s a sign for how bad the state of the bubble is: Software agents are a very old concept, they are simple systems provided with a target function to optimize that operate somewhat autonomously. This fits in well with modern “AI” systems who can be […]| Smashing Frames
My personal knowledge management system for work is separate from my system for life due to different requirements. In this post, I'm sharing my requirements, the PKM tools I use at work, and how I use them.| the wordy habitat
The Dutch government recommends that people not eat eggs from backyard chickens: RIVM scientists assessed the PFAS content in eggs from 60 different locations across the country and found that eg…| Derek Kedziora
Unsure about how to gain permission to blog with your students or what guidelines you should have in place? We outline a straightforward 3 step process with example forms to get you started....| The Edublogger
https://hidekazu-konishi.com/entry/aws_mgn_architecture_lifecycle_usage_notes.html Summary of AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) Architecture and Lifecycle Relationships, Usage Notes - Including Differences from AWS Server Migration Service (AWS SMS).| Hidekazu Konishi - Profile / Biography | hidekazu-konishi.com
The company Boom is working to build a new supersonic airliner. In a recent interview, the founder extolled saving a few hours of flight time:| Derek Kedziora
It’s spring, which means it’s time for some garden inspiration and to get to work. I’ve really come to like the sort of no-lawn, more natural meadow style approach, and it’s perfect for the tiny garden we have. It’s not like we’re going to play a game of football on a five square meter lawn. Instead, we’re going to sit outside, enjoy the sunshine, have fun watching all the critters around—something green and living sure beats the cement pavers that are (were?) so popular in th...| Derek Kedziora
From the Guardian:| Derek Kedziora
Mit bis zu 200 Milliarden Euro will die Kommission die Entwicklung von KI in der Union anschieben. Davon sollen 20 Milliarden Euro für bis zu fünf neue “KI Gigafactories” zur Verfügung stehen. Source: EU-Kommission: “KI-Gigafabriken” sollen Standort Europa stärken | heise online Microsoft rollt seine Commitments, KI Data Center zu bauen, zurück, in China sind […]| Smashing Frames
What truly distinguishes Google, Airbnb, Spotify, Vinted or Amazon as world-class product companies? This talk goes beyond the conventional “agile” framework to explore how these organizations create a seamless flow across discovery, delivery, and innovation, ensuring that impactful products are delivered consistently.| ThinkingLabs
Humans make mistakes, it’s a fact of life. Despite our best intentions, and no matter how many checks we put in place, sometimes things go wrong. It’s no different with software. To move at speed then it’s inevitable that production issues will happen. Sometimes it’s your code that doesn’t work as expected, sometimes dependencies break, sometimes infrastructure breaks. Sometimes that once in a lifetime event happens. Again.| ThinkingLabs
“If you hate OKRs, someone is doing them wrong. Maybe you, maybe your boss.” -Christina Wodtke.| ThinkingLabs
We see the world through the lens of all our experiences. This is probably obvious to most, but what is probably less apparent is that we also carry a coherent mental model of how we expect the world around us to behave. A preconceived notion of what to expect in any given situation, one that even goes beyond the basic laws of nature and common human behaviour. It is so ingrained that we do not know we even have it until made aware of it. Like do you assume predictability because science assu...| ThinkingLabs
The Open Source Initiative is doing … something again, now it’s working against regulation protecting people from certain uses of AI systems: In particular, previous drafts of the Code of Practice mandated acceptable use policies, and a prohibition of certain uses of the AI system. But having these restrictions conflicts with the freedom of use […]| Smashing Frames
These are notes taken during and after the 38C3 conference in Hambourg. Notes might be a bit sketchy at times A honeypot This was a pretty cool talk from somebody who found out that a lot of connections to openssh server were going on, and wanted to know more. So …| (not) my ideas
These are notes taken during and after the 38C3 conference in Hambourg. Notes might be a bit sketchy at times I met with a collective of people behind the "Hello, Quit X" project. They are trying to help folks to get out of X / Twitter, and prepared a presentation about …| (not) my ideas
These are notes taken during and after the 38C3 conference in Hambourg. Notes might be a bit sketchy at times I went to this session because I don't know anything about BGP and how it works. It was a bit hard to follow, but I got some knowledge out of …| (not) my ideas
These are notes taken during and after the 38C3 conference in Hambourg. Notes might be a bit sketchy at times Subtitle: the evolution of Commercial Spyware on iOS A talk by a researcher on how exploits are being used on iOS devices over time. He is the VP of research …| (not) my ideas
These are notes taken during and after the 38C3 conference in Hambourg. Notes might be a bit sketchy at times This was a talk to discuss what makes a "good" community, and a good Tor network. I liked how it was focused on politics mainly, rather than tech stuff. So …| (not) my ideas
These are notes taken during and after the 38C3 conference in Hambourg. Notes might be a bit sketchy at times 19 countries have been impacted by attacks on journalists and the civil society. Spyware systems are sold for millions of euros. Each successful attack may cost 10-20+ thousand euros, according …| (not) my ideas
This was a fairly technical talk, in which the speaker explained how the cypher scheme used for NATO radion encryption works, why it was weak, and how he broke it. Intro to symmetric cryptography Alice, Benjamin and Chalie are used as a replacement for Alice and Bob. AES is Advanced …| (not) my ideas
These are notes taken during and after the 38C3 conference in Hambourg. Notes might be a bit sketchy at times High value targets (politicians, journalists, activisits) can hardly hide right now. TL; DR 5G Roaming is done to avoid/prevent billing fraud, not to enhance security. It is difficult for …| (not) my ideas
These are notes taken during and after the 38C3 conference in Hambourg. Notes might be a bit sketchy at times Datarights is a new NGO in Europe, coming from LQDN in France. It's goal is to have a broader look at what's going on in Europe. See the Defend the …| (not) my ideas
Arguments?! Return values?! What's crazier, you can use functions right now in Chrome Canary! So, after reading and playing around, here are my key insights on what you need to know about CSS Functions.| CSS-Tricks
| Le blog de la revue Temps Critiques | revue critique
In der taz argumentiert Annekathrin Kohout, man dürfe “KI”-Kunst und Bildgeneratoren nicht nur mit rechtem Gedankengut assoziieren, es nicht “den Rechten” überlassen: Wer KI-Bilder vorschnell als „rechts“ abtut, verkennt ihre eigentliche Sprengkraft. Sie sind Ausdruck einer kollektiven visuellen Imagination und kraftvolle „Wunschmaschinen“, Source: Wie rechts ist die KI-Ästhetik?: Bildpolitiken des Affekts | taz.de Ich glaube, […]| Smashing Frames
