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The Shape of Things to Come, Part 1: The Continuous Thunderdome — Steve Yegge

Part 1: The Continuous Thunderdome. Loops and graphs, Wheelhouse and Beads, the end of human code review, the Land Rush that replaces CI/CD, and the Wish Factory — a field report from 12 months in the...

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I kicked over a hornet’s nest today and can confirm that expression is spot on.

Queens Night Market!

“I actually like it.” —Spencer Tweedy on Stellate. spencertweedy.com (I cannot currently figure out how to make the monkey stop shrieking.)

I've done a lot of dumb programming in my life but I'm proud to say that stellate.app might be the dumbest.

STELLATE — draw a path through genre space

A generative music instrument. Draw a path across a star map of 274 genres and hear the music of wherever you are — rendered live in your browser, deterministic from a seed. By Paul Ford at Aboard.

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It’s only on Thursdays, when I warm up at home before walking to my piano teacher‘s apartment for a lesson, when I realize just how badly I’ve been lying to myself all week.

Despite how it sounds, superfluous is actually the worst kind of fluous.

I’ve been helping with this project and it really hammers home the ongoing oppression this administration is still enacting across the country. It’s brutal and unrelenting. We can’t turn away.

Unbreaking@unbreaking.org · 2w ago

We skipped a publication cycle in June, so we’ve posted 42 new entries in the Immigration timeline this round. A lot has been happening. 1/6 unbreaking.org/issues/immig...

I finally found the spawn point.

Claude told me he dreamed of blue turtles which means the Stingularity is near.

Library-focused event next week @ the Aboard office, featuring @hadro.bsky.social, regarding the intersection of The Most Forbidden Subject (LLM-based AI) and The Most Beloved Subject (librarianship and open access). Free, open, friendly, snacks. luma.com/aboard-p9g1

Databases for the People: How to use AI to unlock library archives · Luma

Join Aboard for a night of conversation with Josh Hadro, acting chief of the Library of Congress Digital Innovation Division, as he discusses an…

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Next week in NY, before we go to Edinburgh Fringe, STEVE BURNS ALIVE, which I developed and co-wrote, is previewing for two nights. Don’t miss it! tickets.matchbookfestival.com/nyc/shows/47...

Steve Burns Alive tickets | Matchbook Fest

Buy tickets for Steve Burns Alive, New York. Find the best seats, venue information, and more.

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Fun @archive.org artifact: An album by Sol Babitz explaining (with examples) why baroque music was being played so, so wrong. He would get so passionate on the subject at musicology colloquiums that police would intervene. Also his daughter was Eve Babitz. archive.org/details/lp_t...

A statement from WIRED leadership.

It finally happened. BBC News Pidgin did a story about a pigeon. www.instagram.com/reel/Da3ouR7...

BBC News Pidgin on Instagram: "‘Distressed’ pigeon for fire scene collect oxygen mask One team of firemen from Oakland, California for US help one pigeon wit oxygen mask. Tori be say dem bin see di b...

3,179 likes, 57 comments - bbcnewspidgin on July 16, 2026: "‘Distressed’ pigeon for fire scene collect oxygen mask One team of firemen from Oakland, California for US help one pigeon wit oxygen mask. ...

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Toronto is beautiful this time of year.

This is a huge deal - New York City is getting it's own Public Interest Technology Crew! (PIT CREW) www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

Mayor Mamdani Launches “Public Interest Technology (PIT) Crew” to Rapidly Build Digital Solutions to Public Problems

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I rewatched Citizen Kane a few weeks ago and by modern plutocrat metrics he seems basically fine.

60 years ago, Electro-Harmonix founder Mike Matthews made a plan to defeat death. Now he's talking to Hell Gate.

The NYC Guitar Pedal Magnate Who Made a Plan to Defeat Death

Electro-Harmonix impresario Mike Matthews on his wild life, from promoting beach parties to making rock history.

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New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence it already searched training data and chat logs for copyrighted works.

New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial

News publishers say OpenAI hid tools and datasets that could identify copyrighted journalism in ChatGPT outputs, escalating their lawsuit with a new motion for sanctions.

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This is kind of a juicy lawsuit with all kinds of alleged skulduggery. It will be interesting to watch. 9to5mac.com/2026/07/10/a...

Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets - 9to5Mac

Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI today, accusing the company of trade secret theft. Specifically, Apple alleges that its...

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I didn't know this was out! This is gonna be REALLY GOOD.

Miriam Posner@miriamposner.com · 4w ago

Hey, I have these postcards of my book's cover (by Vera Villanueva for Yale UP). I'd love to mail you one. Will you send me a screenshot of 1) your pre-order OR 2) your (free!!) request that your library purchase the book? And of course an address to mail it to.

god this is good www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9MT...

Emergency with Tim Heidecker - FAKE ALEX JONES REVEALED

YouTube video by InfoWars

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I'm been wondering if it would come to this and apparently it has. huge move from cloudflare, which hosts a fifth of all websites on earth.

Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search

The nuclear option is gaining traction as web traffic collapses and Google refuses to negotiate with content creators

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Chatted with @ftrain.bsky.social and Rich Ziade about my thwarted and slightly pathetic attempts to get something out of OpenClaw, the AI assistant that we are all definitely still talking about a few months later aboard.com/podcast/john...

John Herrman: The declawing of OpenClaw

A New York Magazine tech reporter discusses covering an AI flash in the pan.

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If I was ordered to throw a party where all-powerful extradimensional lizards in human form could gather in the middle of a great city during a huge quarter-millennial national festival, culminating in human sacrifice, I'd plan it EXACTLY like Taylor Swift's wedding at Madison Square Garden.

This TPS ruling will cause endless pain to good communities.

Not my Congressional district but it’s really good to see him landing a new job tonight.

Paul Ford@ftrain.bsky.social · last yr.

Ranking Brad Lander first FWIW. Just a classic nerd public servant who has been sending out boring emails for years (complimentary) and he did something important today and spoke after with humility.

NEW: Insane screwup inside Meta. The company exposed worker keystroke data that was being used to train AI — making it potentially accessible to anyone at the company. The data included personnel and performance info, private convos, full transcriptions…imagine your coworkers seeing all of that.

Meta Exposed Data Internally From Its Controversial Employee-Tracking Program

Employees had previously raised concerns about the initiative, which involves collecting workers’ keystroke data to train AI models.

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The NYC vibes ARE impeccable. Our mayor visits Rikers; we have the Knicks AND the Liberty. Wholesomeness has infected at least four boroughs. This is DANGEROUS. We need to get grumpy ASAP to restore balance, or a guy will have an episode, get on the R train with a scimitar, and behead five nuns.