How do I find a drug dealer who will sell me these dank Canadian vaccine doses? Without needing to risk crossing a border myself. Will I need to use cryptocurrency for this, since buying illegal drugs is still the only use case for Dunning-Krugerrands? (Oh, that and paying ...

Today was the last day of A+'s week-long wheel-throwing afternoon summer camp at Parkdale Pottery in Toronto. She's focused on wheel throwing at the moment, not hand-building. It's hard to find pottery wheel lessons for 9-year-olds because of strength and safety concerns. A+'s been doing the all-ages 2-hour wheel-throwing workshops at Clay With Me independently around once a month, and she's also tried painting...

Billionaire Island Is in a Poop War With a Neighboring Town of Millionaires: Nestled on a man-made island off the coast of Miami, Indian Creek is a village that the likes of Jeff Bezos, Tom Brady, and Jared Kushner call home. It's got an exclusive golf course. Gated ...

ChatGPT release notes: Project-only memory The feature I've most wanted from ChatGPT's memory feature (the newer version of memory that automatically includes relevant details from summarized prior conversations) just landed: With project-only memory enabled, ChatGPT can use other conversations in that project for additional context, and won’t use your 

DeepSeek 3.1 The latest model from DeepSeek, a 685B monster (like DeepSeek v3 before it) but this time it's a hybrid reasoning model. DeepSeek claim: DeepSeek-V3.1-Think achieves comparable answer quality to DeepSeek-R1-0528, while responding more quickly. Drew Breunig

In yet another betrayal of the city's Vision Zero and Transit First commitments, Mayor Lurie clears Waymo, Lyft, Uber to turn Market Street back into a traffic sewer: "The mayor's escalation of his plan to add even more cars to Market Street while cutting Muni service will ...

Mississippi's approach would fundamentally change how users access Bluesky. The Supreme Court’s recent decision leaves us facing a hard reality: comply with Mississippi’s age assurance law—and make every Mississippi Bluesky user hand over sensitive personal information and...

San Francisco parks officials have requested the removal of the massive Vaillancourt Fountain from Embarcadero Plaza: If the commission votes to deaccession it, the sculpture will no longer be part of San Francisco's Civic Art Collection, in which case it would either be ...

There are a lot of support needs in life. That's great. We all need and help each other. What's not great is when the support needs turn you into support staff. The needs take all your time. They come first in the priority list. And your core activities, the things that are you and that you do for yourself, get shoved to last place which, inevitably, becomes not at all. Martyrdom may have its place but it’s not a great way to live.

too many model context protocol servers and LLM allocations on the dance floor Useful reminder from Geoffrey Huntley of the infrequently discussed significant token cost of using MCP. Geoffrey estimate estimates that the usable context window something like Amp or Cursor is around 176,000 tokens - Claude 4's 200,000 minus around 24,000 for the system prompt for those tools. Adding just the popular GitHub MCP...

It seems Emacs breaks several HTML links in org-mode when converting to markdown. I had to go back in there and remove those code snippets and re-add them. Need to find an option that tells Emacs, “if you see something in HTML inside this org-mode buffer, don’t touch it.”

Mike Elgan has a piece about AI and its superior brainwashing capabilities: Puny humans are no match for AI

YouTube video about how hobbies aren’t fun anymore

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I’m considering removing the /notes section and just rolling everything into the main feed. Let’s try “Everything is just a post” for a while. Sure, it’ll be messy and too noisy for some, but it might help prevent the “is this a note or a post?” thing every time I start typing. I’ll be happy to talk to machines once I no longer need to learn their language in order to do so.

Gonna need all nerds of conscience to declare a complete moratorium on using 0xDEADBEEF in favor of 0xACAB8647, which has identical endianness and visual-repetition properties. 2896922183 is, while not greater than, superior to 3735928559.

The math on why exercise is a good deal.