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The Raven Tattoo(opens in new tab)

I’ve long been envious of my friends with sweet sleeve tattoos. It’s a cool place for a tattoo. You get to see it yourself a lot. Some of it sticks out from a rolled-up shirt-sleeve which is fun and mysterious. ...

Apple deepfakes(opens in new tab)

Apple’s WWDC 2026 keynote was a snoozefest but one section left me rather perplexed. Early in the show Apple gave a performance about “child safety”. Apple ended the show with their new AI photo mangler. That’s some serious cognitive dissonance! ...

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Apple are big fans of “privacy-preserving” which is classic Big Tech doublespeak. It doesn’t mean “private” because otherwise they would just say “private” — or you know, not use any qualifier because it should be reasonable to assume software is ...

Being “Good” at Things(opens in new tab)

Golf content on social media is my online junk food and the other day I came across a video interviewing professional golfers that asks: “What does an amateur golfer have to shoot to be considered good?” It’s a leading question ...

Suing The Government with Cindy Cohn(opens in new tab)

If you've ever heard code is an expression of free speech you have Cindy Cohn to thank. Her decades of work in courtrooms and at the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been keeping Open Source, open and private communications, private. We ...

A human in control(opens in new tab)

There seems to be a fair amount of people in either extremes in the current AI landscape. At one side we see the “vibe coders” who use agents and allow them to merge code without any person even looking at ...

Gaslighting Openness(opens in new tab)

I have been a staunch supporter of Open Source for a long time, including experiments in funding it. I’m a true believer in the idea that Open Source always wins in the long run, but not automatically and not quickly. ...

The Most Durable Human Value(opens in new tab)

A maker offering a small glowing hand-built world to another person leaning in to receive it/images/the-most-durable-human-value.webp/images/the-most-durable-human-value.webp I think one of the most human and durable things will be able to offer to other humans is the creation of rich and ...

#483: Thanks Brian(opens in new tab)

Topics covered in this episode: Vulnerability and malware checks in uv HTTP GET requests with the Python standard library Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package alembic-git-revisions Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show ...

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“The widespread deployment of AI/LLMs constitutes an existential threat to labor whether or not it is an adept move by the adoptive industries. Thus it is essential for workers to stop asking whether or not AI works and start asking ...

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“Early Deno set the agenda. Web standards, the permission model, URL imports, JSR: Deno put these down and the ecosystem responded. What Deno is doing now runs in the opposite direction, catching up to what the ecosystem already has. I ...

How to Rate the AI We're All Chasing(opens in new tab)

A three-axis rating gauge: the customization spoke longest, integration medium, competence shortest/images/customization-beats-competence.webp/images/customization-beats-competence.webp I'm increasingly rating the AI we're all chasing on a few major axis: 1. How CUSTOMIZED is the harness to you, ...