"The poet's job is to notice" quotes the footer of the site in GIANT letters. The best way to train yourself to notice is to offload your noticing and creativity, it would appear

Bryan Robinson@brob.dev · 23h ago

Write your own poetry. Even if it's crap. It'll be better than whatever this is

Write your own poetry. Even if it's crap. It'll be better than whatever this is

kottke.org@kottke.org · 23h ago

“poetry camera is a new way to see your world. take a photo with the camera… poetry camera thinks… and prints out a poem about the scene.” [poetry.camera]

📣 I’m excited to announce!! 📣 I’m partnering with Unstable Games to start a sister studio to them named… ✨ Ordinary Magic!! ✨ I’m so excited to bring 3 BRAND NEW GAMES under this new studio to you this Fall!!! 🍁

Ordinary Magic by Unstable Games - Gamefound

3 New Games, 1 Extraordinary World. Explore this visionary studio partnership between award-winning game designer Marceline Leiman and Unstable Games.

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Totally forgot about the time that I went on local news in 2020 to talk about the ridiculousness of speed ticket cameras and I drop language that's ALMOST "human in the loop" before I even thought I'd need to know that phrase. www.actionnews5.com/2020/02/27/i...

The Investigators uncover flaw with school zone cameras

A school zone camera erroneously issued speeding tickets to at least two drivers, and three people who reviewed those tickets didn’t catch the mistakes.

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So, let me get this straight. Instead of curtailing expansion of a ridiculously wasteful set of technologies, instead, let's give them carte blanche to be as wasteful as possible. Excellent. No notes

Reuters@reuters.com · last wk.

EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws reut.rs/3RzNU4A

EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws reut.rs/3RzNU4A

EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws

Power sources providing electricity only to data centers and not the public grid may not be subject to ​federal pollution laws, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on ‌Monday.

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In this era, the tech industry is just disappointment after disappointment. I don't think there's anything left that's truly worthwhile

Let's say you have a personal bot that saves you 5 minutes a day... Let's say it costs you an average of $3/day. That's $1095/year. That's mind-bogglingly bad economics, if you ask me. But you didn't ask me, so I'll just be quiet over here

Thinking about the next phase of my play library... As a proof of concept, I'm thinking of opening up free checkout of my library to my immediate neighborhood to see how things are before charging money for membership. Would you check out games from your neighbor?

A message for the class of 2026: We need more friction!

I keep hearing different use cases that "we could use AI" for. So far, EVERY TIME, I think "We have been able to do that use case for a decade without AI with lower incidence of incorrect data, lower cost, and higher reliability." EVERY. TIME.

Today the good people of the world commemorate the passing of Google Reader thirteen short years ago on July 1, 2013. To honor their memory (and in lieu of flowers) please add an RSS/Atom/JSON feed to your web site and keep building a web that connects people in meaningful and positive ways.

Ownership of media is so important. We get tricked by convenience into giving away our ability to actually own any sort of physical media... Sony announcing the death of game discs is just another step on a long street to remove agency and control over what we "own"

The creative process was not in need of "democratization" You have always had it within you to be creative.

He’s not even a good liar. He’s constantly stumbling around and sounding extremely unconvincing while he says this bullshit.

Dan O'Dowd@realdanodowd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Since 2011, Elon Musk has been promising to put a man on Mars within a few years. He failed. SpaceX burned through billions of dollars of venture capital. It still isn't profitable and Mars is now further away than it was in 2011. If you're buying the $SPCX IPO, you're the exit liquidity.

For people at companies that are adopting LLMs as large parts of workflow for those that want it: Does your company have an LLM governance board? A group of people defining both hard (caps, etc.) and soft rules (social, workflow, etc) for use?

Reading "Security guidelines" for WebMCP and my god what a disaster LLMs are going to be for the web... This should NOT be happening. There are so many more (non-obvious) attack vectors that will be opening up because of this hype cycle

Hi, my name is Bryan. I started coding before I started thinking. Now, I have to stop coding, think harder, uncode, then code some more.

waving lizard

Alt: CGI gecko enthusiastically waving when he notices you

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This is a fantastic piece, one of the best things I’ve read about using LLMs. It’s somewhat specific to software engineering but I think other folks can get a lot out of it. I immediately thought of that post about a week ago where a Chief Marketing Officer bragged about being up late vibe coding.

Niall Murphy@niallm.bsky.social · 2mo ago

nooneshappy.com/article/appe... Fairly uh take-no-prisoners approach here

Tech is moving toward a reckoning... Web3/NFTs were a ridiculous technology. Only some companies bit on that, so when the market fell out, there wasn't a big fall out. When the current LLM craze bursts, there's gonna be a lot of companies having issues pivoting after all the expense

if you are someone who makes anything, anything at all, with your own real brain and hands, I respect you so so much and am begging you to keep doing it.

dailynous.com/2026/05/27/d...

Does Your Department Have an AI Policy? Here’s Edinburgh’s - Daily Nous

Has your department instituted an AI policy? If so, whom does it govern, and what does it say? What should such a policy say? Has your department considered an AI policy but held off on writing or imp...

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"If you haven't figured out how to use [AI] by now, it's a signal [to hiring managers] about how you learn" This is quite a statement ... and yes, this is a sub-skeet. Being an AI advocate should be a red flag...

Annoyed that I had to open Chrome yesterday because a plumber's website's basic functionality required a popup that for some reason didn't work except in Chrome.

“My thoughts are precious and being able to form them through writing and socializing with others currently has no equal practice. Prompting appears to give the benefits of both the writing and socializing at once, but it actually steals the benefits of doing both of these acts from us.”

Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁@frank.computer · 3mo ago

I've heard great arguments for rejecting AI for environmental reasons (water, climate, energy) and for ethical reasons (like the theft of all digitizable intellectual property). But I also want to suggest another angle that can be used in conjunction with these: rejecting genAI for selfish reasons.

it’s hard not to see the “agentic” future as an illustration of vc’s stunted vision of the future. not more creative freedom, not new access to voices and ideas, rather the opportunity to simulate the true dream of capital: managing an army of makers whose work becomes yours.

This week a 7.1 million-square-foot hyperscale data center was approved for construction about 20 miles from my rural hometown. It will be the 3rd largest in the world and sit adjacent to the Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge. None of this makes me happy.

Commissioners uphold decision to allow a data center be built on 550 acres at Jefferson Proving Grounds

After a heated public hearing, Jefferson County upheld a decision allowing a controversial 7.1 million-square-foot data center on Ford family land.

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This is such a clever idea! Haven't gotten it yet, but will after work today!

Torfi@torfi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Klifur is now out on itch.io! mylittlecomputerfriends.itch.io/klifur

Totally agree. They’re going to sell making your website ready for agents as the new SEO. But then no one will have to visit your site. I used to love the web. It was useful, exciting, creative, a community, and I could get paid for joining in. That’s feeling impossible now. Fuck Google. Fuck AI.

Baldur Bjarnason@baldurbjarnason.com · 3mo ago

“On Google declaring war on the Web” https://tante.cc/2026/05/20/on-google-declaring-war-on-the-web/ > This is a literal revolution but one against the participatory web, against us: The goal is to take away the web and guide people into Google’s abstraction on top of it.