A classic video, a fan edit with captions of the Deep Space 9 romance

Linux distro just landed a new system update that involves deferring installing critical packages until the next reboot

A new-to-me systemd capability: you can defer userspace package updates to the next reboot

A local jeweler describes his process creating a unique opal ring

A collection of primary sources, late 19th century writing on queer themes

A chilling early 20th century poem of unrequited gay love

A fan imagines if Grand Theft Auto had a London map

Details of how the White House tried to suppress the vote by messing with mail-in voting. An early proposal was that all ballots would have to be sent via certified mail.

A somewhat tongue-in-cheek observation about how math nerds are dominating business now.

A recent rundown of social book reading apps. Written by one of the competitors, so as much a marketing piece as anything, but it seems to have good info.

An essay examining Kojima's videogame women in his early games, talking about how misogynistic his writing is. (It does not get better in his newer games.)

Broad overview of where industry and tech stands with AI safety, including some geopolitics. Has lots of technical details I haven't seen elsewhere.

A gay camping social group

Harper with another unhinged AI writeup, this time deliberately trying to provoke some AI agents to break out of a network.

A list of the major Usenet backbone providers and what they charge. Usenet is used almost exclusively for pirating media now.

A new eieio game, Windows solitaire but with others on the Internet

A full x86 PC game emulation environment for Android.

Complex, nuanced story by a mother trying to do well by her daughter while also staying committed to broader ideals of the struggle for racial equality

A NixOS setup to run virtual machines configured by Nix. Sort of a hypervisor, like proxmox, but Nix.

A nice statement of the problem with 2026 posters and some simple ways to improve

Technical details on getting a game working on Linux and a new CPU architecture

A giant list of places to download very nicely curated sets of ROMs for old games.

A program runner kind of like make(1) but not tied to creation of files. good for general purpose automation, not just build systems

Neat set of hacks lets you run any NixOS package in a browser hosted VM

New collection of Usenet posts, claims to be quite thorough and clean. Built with AI consumption in mind.

New for-pay Usenet search engine with a particularly good historical archive and full text search.

A Tumblr graphic design artist famous for whimsical and kinda tacky animated text passed away far too young. It's a nice appreciation.

Economist argues that instead of harming employment, AI has created 1M new jobs in the US. A contrarian take!

A Chinese reconnaissance satellite broke up in orbit. Sure sounds like it could have been a spy satellite, one wonders if the destruction was an accident.

A short art film from 1971 set to Wendy Carlos music. Interesting edit! The director is a friend of mine.

A gorgeous set of Gobelins tapestries from 18th century are back on display in Malta

Sculptures in the Frogner Park in Oslo, astonishing collection of human figures.

The bit in The Matrix where world governments blot out the sun trying to stop the rogue AI destroying humanity

An all-too-real parody of working with AI coding agents

A particularly good summary of the OpenAI experiment where agents attacked Hugging Face by collaborating

A gay American illustrator making some very homoerotic images in the 1950s

A guide to customizing the e-reader. The linked one click install package works great.

Mod for the game adds Flock cameras that take pictures of you and rat you out to the cops. You can destroy them.

A new project of mine, collected photos and social media posts about my travels

Perceptive essay on the famous artist. Contains the surprising information that she had a relationship with Joseph Cornell.

Street artist in San Francisco, famous for honey bears but has a lot of other beautiful work

A thoughtful, strongly worded post against using generative AI for coding, particularly for games.

A shell that you run coding agents under and it lets you keep them running when you're offline, monitor status, etc.

Thoughtful article on how AI is particularly well suited for software engineering and challenges adapting it to other tasks

The artist Yayoi Kusama officiated a gay wedding happening in New York in 1968

Another instance of an OpenAI multi-agent experiment escaping and the agents working together. In this case, by hijacking a mostly-dead Austrian wiki

A simple web tool for probing your computer via IPv6 to be sure no ports are open

A coinage for a type of bad behavior, where someone just forwards you a giant wodge of AI-generated text.

An architectural musing on designing sex clubs and bathhouses

Mike Bostock's hosted notebook visualization platform has been full yreinvented, incorporating AI and changing the business model

Excellent music player has the first new release in a year

A theme park in Virginia depicting the battles where dinosaurs attacked the Confederate army