🔗 Self-driving - Matt Mullenweg - second order effects leading to third order effects.

🔗 Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings - all for it if we can start with him.

🔗 Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs - And They Have No Idea What They’re Doing | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Part one of the headline is news.

Part two is known lore.

🔗 Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs - And They Have No Idea What They’re Doing | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Part one of the headline is news.

Part two is known lore.

🤯 Prime Information: 🔗 Math Notes - Futility Closet

🔗 Same Thing - Futility Closet

So the name was changed to October Sky — the same 10 letters in a different order.

🤯 click through to see the other name of the film - or just treat it as today’s puzzle.

🔗 On 10 Years of Writing a Blog Nobody Reads

‘Only’ ten? But I get it. I really get it. In the same boat - just with more years.

🔗 File over app — Steph Ango

These days I write using an app I help make called Obsidian, but it’s a delusion to think it will last forever. The app will eventually become obsolete. It’s the plain text files I create that are designed to last. Who knows if anyone will want to read them besides me, but future me is enough of an audience to make it worthwhile.

Obsidian is the foundation of my new Blot Powered Wiki.

🔗 The Bluestocking 393: Orcas and popstar perks

How was my week, you ask? Well, it contained 100 percent more orcas than usual, which was delightful.

Not being picky now - BUT

There is only 1 Orca in the photo. So for ‘100% more’ the other is hidden? Because if Helen only saw one - and prior to that only saw zero - then the sentence should have read something like …

How was my week, you ask? Well, it contained infinitely more orcas than usual, which was delightful.

… “something like” - because I would need to check my Cantor if it is actually infinitely - or another order of infinite .. it has been a while.

Looks like someone’s lost the plot …

🔗 Russian oil has flowed into New Zealand despite sanctions

Then again imagine the price at the pump reduced profits of the gas companies if that hadn’t happened.

🔗 CDC Data Indicates We’re 2 Months Away From America Losing Its Measles Elimination Status

🔗 Job for 2027: Senior Director of Million-Dollar Regexes – O’Reilly

From $15,000/day to $0.96/day - I do think we’re about to see a lot of companies realize that a thinking model connected to an MCP server is way more expensive than just paying someone to write a bash script. Starting now, you’ll be able to make a career out of un-LLM-ifying applications.

And so we go round?

🔗 Federal Judge Spends Most Of 233 Pages Calling Out DHS, ICE, CBP, Border Patrol For Their Lies

The freezing over of hell.

Last week I am listening to MTG and wondering why I am agreeing with her - and then this week Musk releases a new feature that seems pretty much ‘like - yeah - right on’.

Techdirt reports “ 🔗 Why Trust & Safety Work Was Never About The ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’