Flip side of this: ~3 years ago, I got automated calls from “RBC Visa”. I ignored them.
Then my card stopped working.
So I called the number on the back of my card and said as much.
The agent gave me a hard time: “So you JUST IGNORED our calls about this?”
“No; I didn’t know they were you calling.”
“How did you not know they were us?! It says ‘this is RBC Visa’ when you answer!”
“That’s indistinguishable from fraud.”
He did not like that. He thought …
The ideas that finally bubbled up to the surface in The Point of No Return last night have been festering in the back of my brain for months. Because, although it's a bit inchoate, it's only saying out loud what most of us already know.
The job now is no longer to turn the ship around. We don't have the wheel, and those who do will not listen.
The task now is to build lifeboats. To build resilient spaces in which fragments of humanity can survive.
Drake Maye played 'a hell of a game' in Patriots' victory over Dolphins https://www.nfl.com/news/drake-maye-played-a-hell-of-a-game-in-patriots-victory-over-dolphins
Der Angriff auf das Hanukkah-Fest in Sydney ist erschütternd. Wir sind in Gedanken bei den Betroffenen und in Verbundenheit mit der jüdischen Gemeinschaft. Gegen jeden Hass, Gewalt und vor allem gegen jeden Antisemitismus!
Nie wieder heißt nie wieder wehrlos. Wir müssen jüdisches Leben mit allen Mitteln schützen! 🚩
The most probable order of a random permutation
Adrian Beker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11698 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11698
The Smashing Magazine comment form is still broken, so I’m memorializing the comment I _wanted_ to leave about CSS carousels:
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/05/my-request-to-google-on-accessibility.html#Update06 (anchor)
Includes quote fr…
Oh no the YouTube bullshit of substituting perfectly fine real videos (shorts) with very obvious AI without the creators consent just reached my timeline
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This evening I have been listening to one of @… 's podcasts and thinking about my failure in trying to lead the village's planning working group, and about the cognitive dissonance underlying my Tricycle project. I suspect this essay will be a grim read; it's not well formed in my mind as I sit down to write.