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The pitch is simple: **Read Atlas Shrugged. Win $100,000.** ## The Intellectual Olympics for Independent Thinkers The future belongs to those willing to examine the world independently and argue persuasively for the ideas they believe are true. The […] [Original post on mastodon.phoenixtrap.com]

Just some relaxing #music for a Sunday afternoon: * "Don't Know Why (First Sessions Demo)" by Norah Jones * "Sunset Lover" by Petit Biscuit * "Weightless" by Marconi Union * "Safe and Sound" by Dan Gibson's Solitudes * "Sanctuary" by Gabriel Stone * "Better Together" by Jack Johnson […]

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Via @isotopp: 32.7 days of some form of #GitHub downtime in the past 170 days, as tracked by https://red-squares.cian.lol. No, it doesn’t include scheduled service windows. My self-hosted #Forgejo is looking better and better. #SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareDevelopment #OpenSource

#OpenClaw #AI users have sucked up all the cheap #Apple #Mac minis: https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/05/01/mac-mini-pricing-shifts-599-config-disappears-from-apple-store

Mac mini pricing shifts as $599 configuration disappears from Apple store

Apple has quietly pushed the Mac mini entry price higher, as the once-standard $599 base model is no longer available on its U.S. online store.

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# The Reverend of Perdition Creek I've been developing #AI #roleplay chatbot characters for the past month. This one is entered in a 🏆 #GoldRush #botjam contest. **Please take five seconds and hit Nominate on her page_before April 30_. She needs 10 […] [Original post on mastodon.phoenixtrap.com]

The first rule of Tautology Club is the first rule of Tautology Club.

Wrote up Anthropic's self-own about Claude Code pricing from this afternoon on my blog - it turned out they'd reversed course just as I hit publish, so I've tried to update it to reflect the current state https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/22/claude-code-confusion/

Is Claude Code going to cost $100/month? Probably not—it’s all very confusing

Anthropic today quietly (as in silently, no announcement anywhere at all) updated their claude.com/pricing page (but not their Choosing a Claude plan page, which shows up first for me on …

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This week’s “Get Up!” #music #playlist: * "Land of Confusion" by Genesis * "Shock the Monkey" by Peter Gabriel * "You Might Think (2018 Remaster)" by The Cars * "Dragon Attack" by Queen * "Best I Can" by Rush * "I Don't Need Love" by Sammy Hagar * "Fire Woman" by The Cult * […]

Vague complaint du jour: Dear senior engineers, RESPOND TO YOUR PEERS. You are not wandering journeymen who can dip in and out of situations as your attention pleases.

This morning’s “Get Up!” #AppleMusjc #playlist: * "Neurotica" by Rush, from 'Roll the Bones (Remastered)' * "Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop)" by Def Leppard, from 'Pyromania (Super Deluxe)' * "Big Generator" by Yes, from 'Big Generator' * "Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers" by ZZ Top, from 'Tres […]

Woohoo! Got my #AWS #Cloud Practitioner #Certification today! https://www.credly.com/badges/cb399784-86d6-4c05-80b5-e46baa615415/public_url #AmazonWebServices #AmazonCloud #CloudComputing

I wanted to share #AppleMusic playlists as plain text with others, so I wrote a simple #shortcut: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/d87571de0c4442e7935e5f392885c8fd #Apple #music #Shortcuts

Shiny! “#Firefly is getting an animated series featuring the original cast”: https://apple.news/A6fsBM_-zT4ad7tn7clWTyA

'Firefly' is getting an animated series featuring the original cast, and we're all shiny with anticipation — Space

Calling all Browncoats! The original cast of the cult space western will return to voice their cartoon counterparts.

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I figured something out this month that I've missed for 34 years. I've been measuring whether I'm "enough" as a person--whether the _chooser_ is adequate--rather than evaluating my _choices_. That's a category error. **There is no yardstick for myself qua myself.** Only for things I do. ## The […]

Hope is always foolish. If it wasn’t, we’d call it something else.

ffs The “Developer 16" MacBook Pro” that my employer sent me does not give me admin privileges and I am not in its `sudoers` file, so I cannot accept the license terms for #Apple’s #Xcode Command Line Tools, preventing me from running such basics as `git`. Also, #Docker Desktop for Mac is not […]

RE: https://flipboard.com/@lifehacker/the-latest-nufaafg0z/-/a-VcR7gyV5TVejAd8np_oZ7Q%3Aa%3A1938850876-%2F0 App-specific tabs and split views are a tacit failure of the windowing system UX.

With Butterflies.AI’s shutdown imminent, I’ve added a characters page to preserve the backstory and select images from the bots that I used to help develop my stories. There’s more #fiction coming. Butterflies’ shutdown hasn’t quieted my #writing muse. — @mjg

Butterflies AI - The First AI Social Network

Where Humans and AI Coexist

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Here’s a question for the mind readers out there:

RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116057449719856526 We face a similar issue at $work. The bean counters and governance sticklers only approve #Microsoft products like #Copilot, while #Claude Opus handily beats it in accuracy and productivity. Also, Copilot outside of #VSCode doesn’t […]

It’s 2026 and Bobby Tables is still alive and well. https://bobby-tables.com #InfoSec #CyberSecurity

#AynRand’s original introduction to _The Virtue of Selfishness_ is now online—and it *directly contradicts* most of the claims people make about her #ethics. If your picture of Rand comes from social media threads, YouTube rants, or second-hand “hot takes,” this is the text that breaks the spell […]

Web developers, designers, builders: what do you want W3C to be doing differently? What change (if any) would you like to see? Asking for an Advisory Board.

We are excited to share that we are beginning work on a new onboarding experiment for #Mastodon: Default Server Recommendations. Our intent for this experiment is to recommend the closest server geographically that is in the correct language during the sign-up flow. We will be running this […]

Wrote with #Claude Code assistance a #macOS #TimeMachine monitoring agent for my #Mastodon and other #SelfHosted service backups that makes sure that TM's backups of my database backup tarballs are recent enough. #SelfHosting #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #SelfHosting #AI #ClaudeCode #VibeCoding […]

“I don’t want to fight for the people. I don’t want to fight against the people. I don’t want to hear of the people. I want to be left alone—to live.” —Kira in _We the Living_ by #AynRand https://AynRand.org/novels/we-the-living/ https://a.co/cPFJWmR

[sarcasm] Yay. #LiquidGlass. @devontechnologies https://mastodon.devontechnologies.com/@devontechnologies/115979072138499590

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Attached: 1 image The second feature release for DEVONthink 4 introduces a refreshed look on macOS Tahoe, adds powerful new capabilities to the chat assistant, and updates supported generative AI models to the latest available versions. A detachable Graph popover lets you visualize document connections even better and saving new versions manually gives you finer revision control. #devonthink #update #macostahoe #liquidglass #ai #pressrelease https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20250129-devonthink-42-cassini

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[-mh] Realizing that my work ethic is largely based on trauma, going back to being a #gifted kid in school. I learned early: ⁃ My value comes from performance. ⁃ If I’m not exceptional, I’m disposable. ⁃ “Gifted” means I don’t get to struggle—struggle means I was never actually gifted. ⁃ Love […]