🔗 The other day I … | Alan Jacobs
Several people — surprisingly many — have asked me to expand on that.
“I dunno” - wrote Alan
With him - you only have to read a couple of posts either side of the original to get what he is talking about
🔗 Before I go: People like it when other people make things - daverupert.com
I’ve been watching the same guy make a musical marble machine for ten years.
Never heard of it until now.
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Originally Published: August 7th, 2024
Updated: April 3rd, 2026
In 2024 I originally wrote:
What’s not to love about Idris? Ok well not always, but this surprisingly worked.
Well - at least …
When I was a lad - this 1969 image had the music press agog at just how much equiment the band Pink Floyd had to go on tour with.
Hold My Beer
💬 Rammstein
🔗 Why Trump Didn’t Predict the Gas-Price Spike - The Atlantic
How did Trump get Hormuz so wrong? The answer reveals one of Trump’s most characteristic and most fateful mistakes: his steadfast refusal to acknowledge that Americans live in a world economy.
Sam Altman just went on record saying intelligence will soon be sold on a meter, “like electricity or water."
If you don’t understand what he just said, let me tell you.
He is not building a chat interface. He is building the grid for human cognition. And he intends to charge you for your own relevance.
They stole all this data from us, the people. Our life’s work, our creativity, our art. They devoured the open internet and blew through every copyright law on Earth.
And now they want to “sell it back to us” in the form of a utility?!
🔗 Daring Fireball: Jensen Huang Doesn’t Smell Anything
His answer, after taking a moment to think, “America’s unique advantage that no country could possibly have is President Trump.”
Opinion of Jensen drops off the bottom of my chart.
🔗 Decompiled the White House’s New App
Thereallo, after spelunking inside the APK bundle for the Android version:
Has a full GPS tracking pipeline compiled in that polls every 4.5 minutes in the foreground and 9.5 minutes in the background, syncing lat/lng/accuracy/timestamp to OneSignal’s servers.
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Loads JavaScript from a random person’s GitHub Pages site (
lonelycpp.github.io) for YouTube embeds. If that account is compromised, arbitrary code runs in the app’s WebView. […]
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Is any of this illegal? Probably not. Is it what you’d expect from an official government app? Probably not either.
🔗 Scripting News: Monday, March 30, 2026
I had to say this to Claude just now. “this is exhausting. you’re driving me around in circles and saying over and over ‘this is it!’ and it never is. us humans have protections built in to avoid that kind of wasted effort.”
You know sometimes I think it’s me - but if it happens to someone like @Dave - I can rest more easily. That said - friggin’ annoying.
🔗 Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds
Create the experience you want, and the platform custodians clearly want to make sure that customization isn’t limited to technical people. Accessibility is openness too.
💬 Ben Werdmuller