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Silent Towns by Martynas Pavilonis

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:49:53 +0300

whitewhitedog:

Silent Towns by Martynas Pavilonis
instagram.com/martynaspavilonis

some ukrainian memes about usa-iran war

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 10:36:26 +0200

some ukrainian memes about usa-iran war

The Mossad is not intimidated by the fact that you employ https://. If the Mossad wants your data,…

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 09:59:14 +0200

The Mossad is not intimidated by the fact that you employ https://. If the Mossad wants your data, they’re going to use a drone to replace your cellphone with a piece of uranium that’s shaped like a cellphone, and when you die of tumors filled with tumors, they’re going to hold a press conference and say “It wasn’t us” as they wear t-shirts that say “IT WAS DEFINITELY US,” and then they’re going to buy all of your stuff at your estate sale so that they can directly look at the photos of your vacation instead of reading your insipid emails about them. In summary, https:// and two dollars will get you a bus ticket to nowhere.

James Mickens / This World of Ours

Rather, I’m saying that the shock and awe of Day One has largely buried under rubble the pretense of…

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:49:55 +0200

Rather, I’m saying that the shock and awe of Day One has largely buried under rubble the pretense of a negotiation by Steve and Jared, a negotiation that was either so incompetent as to be worse than useless or — probably more likely — a negotiation that was so incompetent by design, to serve its paymasters.

Steve and Jared are both so venal it’s hard to pinpoint their agency.

Marcy Wheeler / emptywheel

I believe there are millions, maybe billions, of software products that don’t exist but should:…

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:51:32 +0200

I believe there are millions, maybe billions, of software products that don’t exist but should: dashboards, reports, apps, project trackers and countless others. People want these things to do their jobs, or to help others, but they can’t find the budget. They make do with spreadsheets and to-do lists.
My industry is famous for saying no, or selling you something you don’t need. We have an earned reputation as a lot of really tiresome dudes. But I think if vibe coding gets a little bit better, a little more accessible and a little more reliable, people won’t have to wait on us. They can just watch some how-to videos and learn, and then they can have the power of these tools for themselves.

Paul Ford

If you can push a button and get content, then that content is a commodity. Its value is next to…

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 09:13:59 +0200

If you can push a button and get content, then that content is a commodity. Its value is next to zero.

Counterintuitively, that’s my biggest reason to be optimistic about AI and creativity. When hard parts become easy, the differentiator becomes love.

Andy Coenen

Answering that question would require the harvesting of many fucks, and you will note that my field…

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 11:36:48 +0200

Answering that question would require the harvesting of many fucks, and you will note that my field is barren.

jwz

Sun, 07 Dec 2025 21:41:52 +0200

brucesterling:

*Good job, guys.

*Really farsighted planning

But in fact I think it’s much more straightforward and doable than the quest for the perfect set of…

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 23:15:12 +0200

But in fact I think it’s much more straightforward and doable than the quest for the perfect set of techniques, the perfect environment, or the perfect system. That quest is endless, and will torment you forever. Whereas self-mastery – or presence of mind, or whatever you want to call it – can only ever happen now. You’re forgiven all the times you failed in the past, and needn’t worry about the times you might fail in future. You just need to give it a shot now, accepting that it’ll probably make you feel a bit queasy: to choose the healthy option, close the social media app, write another hundred words, really listen to the other person, and so on. As soon as you try, you’ve succeeded – and along comes a fresh moment in which to try again.

Oliver Burkeman - You have to do the living yourself

unscheduled updates

Wed, 08 Oct 2025 23:05:25 +0300

I did not get any emails or notifications, but tumblr disconnected my domain from this blog. Custom domains became a premium feature which is a reasonable decision. I just wanted to be informed about this.

Of the Soviet Union’s fourteen non-Russian successor states, none was more important to Moscow than…

Sun, 14 Sep 2025 14:40:36 +0300

Of the Soviet Union’s fourteen non-Russian successor states, none was more important to Moscow than Ukraine. With more than 40 million inhabitants, a strategic location on the Black Sea, the world’s most fertile farmland, and a military-industrial sector deeply integrated into Russia’s own, Ukraine was in many ways the former crown jewel of the Soviet Union. It was also home to Sevastopol, where Russia operated its most critical warm-water naval port. “It cannot be stressed strongly enough that without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire,” wrote Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Polish-born former U.S. national security advisor, in 1994. An Oxbridge don put it in less delicate terms: “With the Ukraine, Russia is a USA; without, she is a Canada—mostly snow.”

CHOKEPOINTS by Edward Fishman

Other forms of engineering have to take into account the variability of the world. A structural…

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 08:34:37 +0300

Other forms of engineering have to take into account the variability of the world. A structural engineer builds in tolerance for all the factors she can’t measure. (I remember being told early in my career that the unique characteristic of digital electronics was that there was no concept of tolerances.) Process engineers consider that humans are executing tasks, and will sometimes be forgetful or careless. Software Engineering is unusual in that it works with deterministic machines. Maybe LLMs mark the point where we join our engineering peers in a world on non-determinism.

Martin Fowler

Yearly reminder why our battle flag has red and black as its colours

Sun, 31 Aug 2025 22:05:41 +0300

creidart:

Yearly reminder why our battle flag has red and black as its colours
Its our regular flag strained with blood

We’ve been living in the science fiction condition for a long time. To the point where sf written…

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 12:09:09 +0300

We’ve been living in the science fiction condition for a long time. To the point where sf written even at the turn of the century feels like of quaint and confused now.

- Warren Ellis

Calligraphy for the Space of Sports Communitie Šešios trim / Sporto bendruomenės Šešios trim erdvei…

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 08:55:01 +0200

plugas:

Calligraphy for the Space of Sports Communitie Šešios trim / Sporto bendruomenės Šešios trim erdvei skirta kaligrafija
Together with / Kartu su Karoliu Grubiu
Kaunas / 2004

The first child, as we observe it from our lofty parental peak, always has a fierce time of it. The…

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 08:53:12 +0200

The first child, as we observe it from our lofty parental peak, always has a fierce time of it. The parents are fighting through to a new understanding; they are pioneering (as one day you will see) into a new area of life; they have this extraordinary first child, and they want to do everything right (thus very frequently doing much that is wrong), and so a mutual torment occurs. Parents watch a first child more jealously, with greater anguish and concern than they do their succeeding children. The first child, on the other hand, reacts to this lack of experiences on the part of parents with certain protective devices necessary, I daresay, to the situation. Indeed, I sometimes think that a first child is regarded with so very much affection (and with such timidity) by its parents that the love itself must often seem to the child a reversal of love.

Dalton Trumbo

Dougie Wallace: What Do Artists Do All Day?

Mon, 14 Oct 2024 21:10:05 +0300

Dougie Wallace: What Do Artists Do All Day?

Background blur is for people who are hiding something.

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 16:03:45 +0300

Background blur is for people who are hiding something.

MythMakerMusik on CameraConspiracies video

It turns out my really big problem was thinking I might one day get rid of all my problems, when the…

Mon, 23 Sep 2024 09:09:05 +0300

It turns out my really big problem was thinking I might one day get rid of all my problems, when the truth is that there’s no escaping the mucky, malodorous compost-heap of this reality.

Oliver Burkeman

“If its shite, black & white” -Ansel Adams

Fri, 23 Aug 2024 14:07:37 +0300

“If its shite, black & white” -Ansel Adams

Rick Bebbington