They just opened a cowardly short 14-day public comment period. Make your voices heard. PLEASE. Link Below 🔗👇🏽 eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home...

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

We've heard a lot about #AgenticEngineering these past few months, whether we wanted to or not. @sperbsen.bsky.social post on our company blog summarises the results of our discussions at Active Group: funktionale-programmierung.de/en/2026/06/2...

Active Group GmbH@active-group.de · 5mo ago

Inmitten der laufenden Debatte zu #AgenticEngineering haben auch wir bei der Active Group uns mit der Thematik auseinandergesetzt. Die Ergebnisse unserer Debatte hat @sperbsen.bsky.social in einem Blogpost zusammengefasst, den Sie hier lesen können: funktionale-programmierung.de/2026/06/23/a...

This is worth your time. It's surprisingly difficult to find a sober answer to "Do we understand how LLMs work?," without the author basically going into crazy land.

A. H. Zakai@kripken.com · 5mo ago

New blogpost: We Don't Understand Neural Networks At The Algorithmic Level kripken.github.io/blog/neurosc... So, why is this even a question? Don't scientists agree on whether we understand LLMs?

Recommendations for a data-first, not-aggressively-anti-functional but still "acceptably" mainstream data structures textbook? Probably using Java? ... Sigh.

Oh! Can't believe I missed Drone Day! droneday.org Sigh

drone day - a global celebration of drone, sustained sounds, ambient worlds, tone clusters, and the communities who choose to make them

Every year we make a noise together that stretches around the world.

droneday.org

I have discovered that in the native Microsoft Outlook app for Mac, I can reliably disable autocomplete by inserting the text "A***ing crazy." in the email I am composing. I have not been able to significantly shorten this phrase, or to find any way to disable autocomplete using menus. Publishable?

Racket - the Language-Oriented Programming Language - version 9.2 is now available from download.racket-lang.org See blog.racket-lang.org/2026/05/rack... for the release announcement and highlights.

Did Gandi just get ... really expensive? 32 euros per year for a dot org?

A message for Donald J. Trump: dance *faster*, you impotent old clown ... your vaudeville act is getting dull.

The Scott Shambaugh thing has me totally freaked out. Here's a short blog post that I wrote in response: www.brinckerhoff.org/blog/2026/02...

Thanks DuckDuckGo, I enjoyed reading this blog post on what the heck is Gas Town? www.todayintabs.com/p/all-gas-to... .

All Gas Town, No Brakes Town

You sling beads to a hook which activates a polecat according to GUPP.

todayintabs.com

I'm so so impressed by the work that went into the Pyret error messages. It's not just that the language is designed to prevent this common source of beginner programming errors, but it goes above and beyond to suggest a solution. (Ob2026Aside: and this predates LLM-land)