So “Maybe the new Golden Age begins with a simple post that references someone who stirred you,”

💬 Jim Groom

… via 🔗 Stephen Downes

I am aware that I share a lot of links, with one or more of these traits;

• no explanation
• appending a little commentary
• surrounded by a lot of commentary
• in a sentence
• with snark
• a little more cryptic than some would like

… but the common thread through them all is that they all ‘stir’ me in some way.

‘Stirred’ mind you - not ‘shaken’ - though on occasions both.

🔗 A Template You Might Find Useful

Thanks to whoever thought of me for the kind invitation, which I must regretfully decline. I’m Canadian and as a matter of principle feeling negative about visiting a neighboring country whose leader has repeatedly threatened our sovereignty and shown massive disrespect for our nationhood. Particularly when that leader has followed up similar statements about other nations with military action. I could probably work around that. But there’s also the issue of entering the US; if I roll up at the border and am asked to disclose my social media output, there’s a significant risk of an extremely negative outcome. I have a family to support and really can’t afford that risk. I still consider myself a friend of your organization, and one with strong opinions about the subjects scheduled for discussion; my regrets about having to decline are entirely sincere.

💬 Tim Bray

Slight edits depending on context. For example if you are English, switch to English spelling.

🔗🤯 A Seat on the Rocket Ship

The education company Cengage found that just 30% of last year’s graduates landed full-time work, down from 41% the year before.

💬 Parker Molloy

🔗 The four pillars of modern media

A recent issue of Casey Newton’s Platformer newsletter made an offhand remark that I think both sums up how the modern media word operates – and which I know many media businesses haven’t completely assimilated as an idea yet:
The mass audience has now moved fully to video; the personal audience now lives in the group chat. Professionals are getting their information from newsletters and podcasts.

💬 Adam Tinworth

Must be ‘offhand’ - because it is certainly not thought through.

Charity Is Doomed To Fail argues that traditional charity reacts to symptoms instead of addressing causes of issues like trafficking. The author calls for a proactive, well-funded, business-driven approach as embodied by The Future Found, highlighting Dan Pallotta’s point that new thinking, capital, and strategy are needed for real change - shifting from reactive aid to tackling root problems at scale.

💬 Sadly - unknown - so far

I need to go find the source, because someone talking about Dan Pallotta in the same breath as 🔗 The Future Found is definitely someone I need to talk to.

🔗 LLCs essentially create a precedent for AIs

Companies can own property, sign contracts, sue, be sued, spend money, and shape elections. But companies cannot be killed nor can they go to jail. They have many of the rights of people. They are not people.

💬 Brad Barrish

I guess Mitt forgot to tell us that?

A question of understanding - because when I first read this post - I was attempting to reconcile zip (as in zip code) with ‘incompatible’ - confused because I had never heard of such a thing. As I am shuffling out my Drafts it dawned on me - of course - he’s talking Zip formats. 🤦🏼‍♂️

🔗 Why Is Everything Proprietary These Days?

how the fuck can a ZIP be incompatible??

💬 Kev Quirk

This from the end of March and only posting now as I am playing around with the Drafts MCP from @agiletotoise and discovering a few ‘lost in the stream’ drafts.

🔗 More Magic Math from OpenAI?

The real product here is not AI. It is an IPO prospectus.

💬 Om

Irony is dead.

🔗 The Youth AI Safety Institute Has Margrethe Vestager’s Backing

I love that the dickpanel is titled “We value your privacy” and then begins with the sentence, “With your agreement, we and our 399 partners use cookies or similar technologies to store, access, and process personal data like your visit on this website, IP addresses and cookie identifiers.”

💬 John Gruber

🔗 Wired on the Dark Mood Inside Meta

Unanswered remains my question from earlier this week: is MCI installed on Bosworth’s computer too? (And Zuck’s?)

💬 John Gruber

Given that Zuck keeps sticky tape over his computer camera - I am going to go with no.

Really? Is this right? I know nothing to be able to question - but it does seem to be an extreme that I would have heard about before?

The real problem is that Vercel doesn’t let you set a spending limit. Someone could DoS your app while you’re asleep and you’d wake up to a $10,000 bill with no recourse. It’s 2026 — AI crawlers and bots are everywhere, constantly hitting endpoints, triggering serverless functions. Vercel charges for CPU execution time, not bandwidth, so every bot visit costs you money. This isn’t a theoretical edge case. I couldn’t justify the risk anymore.

💬 Assaf Arkin

🔗 coolify-deploy — Vercel-style deploys on your own hardware — Labnotes

🔗 What data sovereignty means for New Zealand

Data sovereignty is often viewed as a technical problem with a technical solution. In reality it is a question of accountability: who has the right to access information, under what rules and in whose interests. For New Zealand organisations, the answer increasingly depends less on where data is stored and more on whose law governs it, who controls the infrastructure and whether those arrangements can be trusted to hold when they are tested.

💬 Bill Bennett

We are learning - fast - that our laws seem to count for less and less. If a country has no rights - imagine how the the citizens of that country are faring.