@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialEra uma vez um blogue sobre literatura fantšstica relacionada com o Algarve que estava alojado nos blogues do Sapo.
O endereço era (e contunuarš a ser, durante algum tempo) https://fantasticoalgarve.blogs.sapo.pt/
Pois bem, agora estš no Wordpress, em
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.socialDie UB der Seton Hall University in den USA hat einen LibGuide für die Fußball-WM zusammengestellt: https://blogs.shu.edu/libraries/2026/06/world-cup-soccer-championship-library-guide/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depolblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online‼️ BlueSky-Bridging von @… beibehalten? ‼️
Seit > 2 Jahren bridge ich die Inhalte von Mastodon zu Bluesky mithilfe des Dienstes https://bsky.brid.gy.
Ich bin mir unsicher,…
@servelan@newsie.socialNo Kings movement plans event to counter Donald Trump's 80th birthday
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5899878-no-kings-movement-protests-trump-birthday/
@sherold@mastodon.onlineThe more time I spend on Bluesky or Mastodon, the fewer personal blogs I read via RSS.
The more personal blogs I read, the less time I spend on Bluesky or Mastodon.
How about you?
@david@boles.xyzStop Applauding the Forced Apology
There is no such thing as a sincere statement made with a boot on the neck, and we have built a culture that pretends otherwise.Watch what happens now when someone steps out of line. A demand goes up for a statement. The statement arrives, in the approved shape, full of the approved words, and a crowd gathers to judge whether the sorrow inside it looks real enough to accept.
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@memeorandum@universeodon.com'No Kings' movement planning nationwide event on Trump 80th birthday (Max Rego/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5899878-no-kings-movement-protests-trump-birthday/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260528/p115#a260528p115
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsNew on #blog (this time with quotes from Fedi): "Why Gentoo?"
#Gentoo is perceived by the wider public, the non-users. What probably stands out most is compiling. Almost everyone who heard of Gentoo knows it has something to do with compiling everything. And why are we doing that? Well, besides being hardcore, the common sentiment goes for performance. So yeah, Gentoo users must be some kind of hardcore ricers who try to squeeze every last bit of their system performance.
To be honest, I don’t think that’s a good way to describe Gentoo. Yes, compiling is at the core of it. But performance? I don’t think so, at least not in the obvious, -O9999 -fzomg-fast way. The world has moved on, CPUs have gotten faster, optimizations have gotten smarter, and distributions have started optimizing more aggressively. Optimization-wise, I suspect your average Ubuntu package with generic optimizations may be no slower than the equivalent Gentoo package fine-tuned for your CPU. And if it’s not, then it probably won’t make a real difference anyway.
There’s much more to Gentoo than that. Yes, some of it comes from building from source: the flexibility. But a lot of it comes from the wider Gentoo philosophy, the philosophy that brought us all together. The idea that Gentoo is the distribution we’re making for ourselves and people who enjoy Gentoo. So if I were to make a few arguments for Gentoo, I’d focus on that. And this is what I’d like to do here.
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@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"For the Benefit of Humankind:” The Library of Congress and AI for Libraries, Archives and Museums"
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2026/06/library-of-congress-and-ai4lam/
@david@boles.xyzBackstage Collapsed: Universal Recording and the Architecture of Courtship
A panelist on a recent broadcast conversation made the following argument. Young people across the wealthy world are not having children. Before they do not have children, they do not date. Before they do not date, they do not interact at the dances, the parties, the mixers their parents and grandparents used as the primary infrastructure for finding mates. Even when they show up at such…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeCisco senior incident responder Nate Pors concluded that using AI to write incident reports "is currently unsuitable for production use.”
https://blogs.cisco.com/security/ai-generated-reporting-lessons-learned-from-talos-incident-resp…
@ebinger@bildung.socialWir bauen Kemnat in Luanti nach dank Blockalot Zum Abschluss des Schuljahrs haben sich Eltern gewünscht, dass die Kinder auf einem separaten Server nur für sich weiterspielen können. Dies lässt sich am einfachsten mit Blockalot realisieren, einem Projekt des LMZ Baden-Württemberg. Lehrkräfte können sich dort einen Account klicken und bis zu drei Klassenzimmer anlegen. Neben vorbereiteten Lernwelten Vollständiger Beitrag:
@mia@hcommons.socialReading https://www.ideou.com/en-gb/blogs/inspiration/how-to-not-know-simone-stolzoff and wondering if people's low tolerance for uncertainty is why people would rather a confident but possibly wrong answer from a chatbot than trust their own judgement …
@memeorandum@universeodon.comEntertainers unveiled for 250th US birthday bash on National Mall (Judy Kurtz/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5896900-national-mall-america-250-dc-great-american-state-fair/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260527/p109#a260527p109
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot"Weekends become recovery periods rather than social spaces."
@… https://mendeddrum.org/@furrfu/116594357272648157
@wikonsult@ieji.deUn jugement qui met tous les enseignants et chercheurs en danger
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/les-invite-es-de-mediapart/blog/170626/un-jugement-qui-met-tous-les-enseignants-et-chercheurs-en-danger?
@jtk@infosec.exchangeI've noticed access to fsf.org and gnu.org through Tor (e.g., torify, onion browser) is unreliable. As in the connection is often refused.
I'm not sure if this is a recent change at the content end, perhaps due to this: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/blocking…
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeI find it amusing that those low quality top $count funny image blogs from the before COVID years ago have greatly increased in value.
They are completely AI free!
Anyway, here's some explosions with cats:
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialre:publica 2026: Zwischen Ratlosigkeit und Zuversicht:
Ein Professor erklärt eine Stunde lang, dass man zuhören soll. Ein anderer beweist, KI sei faschistisch. Und Felix Schwenzel sagt: Die Welt ist scheiße — das ist gut so. Christian Buggisch hat seine #rp26 eingeordnet. Blogs leben, Algorithmen nicht.
chris_buggisch@det.social
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzRegression to the mean can explain saturation of #geomagneticStorms: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10757-4 -> Risks of solar storms may be underestimated warn researchers / New NASA Study Says Possibly No Limit to Solar Storm Effects: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/risks-of-solar-storms-may-be-underestimated-warn-researchers / https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/science-news/2026/07/15/new-nasa-study-says-possibly-no-limit-to-solar-storm-effects/
@david@boles.xyzThe Lack of the Ack, Sixteen Years On
In February of 2010, I wrote about a small but symptomatic failure in our digital manners. Young people, then aged eighteen to twenty, would send you a message, receive your reply, and disappear. No acknowledgement, no "Ok," no "Got it," just the digital equivalent of someone slamming the door after asking you a question through the mail slot. The piece was called "
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depolblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…
@jake4480@c.imMid year, trying to knock out a few blog posts. Finished the one on the Gemini protocol, since I wanted to do that one before I finish the small web one. Next up is a brief one on physical media, then the one on the small web after that. And maybe get a few more in after all those before the end of the year.
#blogs #blogging
@veit@mastodon.social
@rasterweb@mastodon.social➡️ feedle: Search RSS Feeds from Blogs and Podcasts
#bookmarks
@memeorandum@universeodon.comRFK Jr. wrangles pair of snakes as wife, Cheryl Hines, looks on: 'Honey, let them go!' (Judy Kurtz/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5895134-rfk-jr-oz-snakes-cheryl-hines/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260526/p59#a260526p59
@wraithe@mastodon.socialWow, what a shame that they're going out of business.
I read the whole post on their site detailing what happened, and I just feel for this.
https://www.tomboytoes.com/blogs/news/tomboy-toes-is-closing
@mia@hcommons.socialAt last! The archived British Library blogs are viewable online. Check the index of blogs at https://blogs-archive.bl.uk/ and the hundreds of posts on the Digital Scholarship blog going back to 2013
@rainerzufall_le@mastodon.socialNachdem Austeritätspolitik im Vereinigten Königreich unnötiges Leid verursacht hat (siehe Link), hatte ich nicht erwartet nur kurze Zeit später "sozialdemokratische" Austeritätspolitik zu erleben.
#SPD #Austerität
@markhburton@mstdn.social"Polanski is right that the consensus assignment has run its course, and the Greens are asking the right questions about who bears the costs of austerity and inflation. But adopting the language of MMT to suggest those costs can be wished away does the left no favours."
Zack Polanski gets economics wrong | LSE British Politics
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOmdia expects a 22% YoY drop in global smartphone shipments priced below $400 for 2026 amid soaring DRAM and NAND costs; Q1 memory costs were ~60% of materials (Zaker Li/Omdia)
https://omdia.tech.informa.com/blogs/2
@henrikmillinge@fikaverse.clubHar du set det ? Man kan få en jakke, der er fyldt med Ÿl, som man så bare kan tappe af. Desværre ikke. Det er en del af en trend på sociale medier og selvfŸlgelig med et gustent formål. https://malwaretips.com/blogs/beer-jacket-viral-trend/
@newsie@darktundra.xyzBehind the Blog: With Blogs Like These, Who Needs a Private Jet https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-with-blogs-like-these-who-needs-a-private-jet/
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Saving Tangible Media for Tomorrow: A Reflection from Natalie Nemes" @ The Signal
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2026/07/natalie-nemes/
"When I tell people that I intern at the Library of Congress reformatting obsolete media such as CDs, DVDs, and flopp…
@publicvoit@graz.socialFür Leser:innen meines Blogs mal etwas ganz Anderes und Neues: ich starte eine Artikelserie, wo ich #Songtexte und #Musik kommentiere.
Den Anfang machen:
#Selbstmitleid" von
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"For most #Palestinian nationals in #Gaza, this means they are entirely cut off from the protection they would otherwise be entitled to under international law. Theoretically, they have a right to seek asylum. In practice, that right cannot be exercised. Without safe and legal routes to reach the …
@ebinger@bildung.socialEs sind doch ein paar ganz nette Stop-Motion-Videos entstanden (mit Stop Motion Studio). Für Drittklässler ist es doch schwerer als gedacht und Geduld fehlt fast allen.
Aber seht selbst: https://blogs.rpi-virtuell.de/relidigi
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depolblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…
@goebelmasse@det.socialWer von euch hat sämtliche Blogs bei wordpress.com abgeschossen?
@gwire@mastodon.socialI find the NCSC's characterisation of "technical debt" as
> "a result of prioritising short-term gains over building resilient products"
to be incredibly reductive and not reflective of the actual real-world trade-offs involved.
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blogs/prepa…
@david@boles.xyzWhat the Dramatist Knows About Monsters
I sold my first paid byline to a Lincoln, Nebraska, newspaper at the age of ten. That was 1975. In the fifty-one years since, I have continued to be paid to construct figures that audiences will find frightening, or sympathetic, or contemptible, or laughable, on schedule, in plays and musicals and screenplays and novels and podcast scripts and editorial work.
@servelan@newsie.socialA new US rule to restrict student visas will hurt the US economy | PIIE
https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economics/2026/new-us-rule-restrict-student-visas-will-hurt-us-economy
@jtk@infosec.exchangeAs far as I can tell, United Airlines doesn't have any public #IPv6 space.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networkin
@rasterweb@mastodon.social➡️ Ye Olde Blogroll - Because blogs are the soul of the web
#bookmarks
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.social @cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzUnprecedented 19 Day Type IV Radio Burst as a Corotating Electron Reservoir: #Sun: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/science-news/2026/05/14/nasa-missions-track-record-breaking-radio-burst-from-sun/
@vrandecic@mas.toEvery know and then, I get a little bit tired
Of listening to the sound of my tears
(turn around)
Every now and then, I get a little bit nervous
That the best of all the years have gone by
(turn around, bright eyes)
Once upon a time there was light in my life
But now there's only love in the dark
Nothing I can say
A total eclipse of the heart
(turn around, bright eyes)
Forever's gonna start tonight
@nohillside@smnn.chFrom a time when the world (at least the „western“ world) was sane and living was kind of easy.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:n7br7nurwxmxnwwe5ms4m4ih/post/3mlon5ye5v22y
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"The World in an Archive: Preserving the Websites of Geographers, Cartographers, and Map Enthusiasts" @ LoC
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2026/06/the-world-in-an-archive/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depolblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…
@colinpurrington@flipping.rocksFor years, whenever I'd share links to my Wordpress posts on social media the preview image would be seemingly pulled at random, usually ignoring the first image. Finally fixed it yesterday by installing a plugin called "Open Graph and Twitter Card Tags", then checking the box that says,"First image from the post/page content" in the settings. I'm sure there are better ways to fix but it worked for me. Sharing in case anyone still blogs and has the same problem. #wordpress #blog #blogging https://wordpress.org/plugins/wonderm00ns-simple-facebook-open-graph-tags/
@servelan@newsie.socialTrump's new tariffs over forced labor are unlikely to survive a court challenge | PIIE
https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economics/2026/trumps-new-tariffs-over-forced-labor-are-unlikely-survive-court
@davej@dice.campI won’t touch #DnD5e anymore, but I do feel for the upcoming #Encyclopedia’s #authors.
#WotC’s parent company,
@david@boles.xyzMagnifica Humanitas: The Pope Writes Like the Machine He Fears
On 15 May 2026, Pope Leo XIV released Magnifica Humanitas, an encyclical letter "On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence." The document runs roughly 35,000 words across five chapters and a conclusion. It positions itself as the 135th-anniversary successor to Leo XIII's 1891 Rerum Novarum, recasting that founding labor encyclical for the age of machine intelligence.
@goebelmasse@det.socialWer von euch hat sämtliche Blogs bei wordpress.com abgeschossen?
@metacurity@infosec.exchange
@jake4480@c.im @cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzNASA’s #Dragonfly is starting to look less like a collection of spacecraft parts and more like the rotorcraft that will fly across the surface of Titan, Saturn’s hazy moon: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/dragonfly/2026/07/09/nasas-dragonfly-clears-key-tests-as-titan-rotorcraft-takes-shape/ - the mission reached a major milestone on June 29, when the Dragonfly team at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, delivered the nearly 13-foot-long fuselage for the next phase of spacecraft integration ahead of schedule.
@david@boles.xyzHas Technology Ever Reduced Labor?
Has technology ever reduced labor? The question sounds rhetorical. We carry small computers that answer any factual query in seconds, our laundry tumbles itself clean while we sleep, our cars drive themselves on highways our great-grandparents traveled by mule. Of course technology has reduced labor. The question barely needs asking.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comRod Stewart tells King Charles he put 'that little ratbag in his place' during US trip (Judy Kurtz/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5873662-charles-us-tour-stewart-approval/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260512/p38#a260512p38
@servelan@newsie.socialPoll: 72 percent say there’s too much money in American politics
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5871418-poll-shows-money-influence-politics/
@mia@hcommons.social @goebelmasse@det.socialWenn man eines der bei #Wordpress.com gehosteten Blogs in der BRD nicht mehr erreichen kann: Über Tor geht es noch. Das Problem scheint also nicht bei Wordpress.com zu liegen, sondern eine Zensurmaßnahme von #BRD oder #EU zu…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depolblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…
@rasterweb@mastodon.social @cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzWith less than two months until the launch of NASA’s Nancy Grace #Roman Space Telescope, engineers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are preparing the observatory for its trip to space: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/roman/2026/07/09/nasas-roman-launch-preparations-proceed/ - inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, technicians used large cranes to carefully lift Roman and place it onto a specialized work platform, known as the Pantheon.
@david@boles.xyzThe Golden Age of Deafness: 1991, Tanya Towers, and the Long Erosion After
There was a year, exact and bounded, when the world we built held together. 1991. David and I had just celebrated our third wedding anniversary. He had finished his MFA at Columbia that spring under Peter Stone. I had just started teaching ASL at New York University, where I have now taught for thirty-five years. I had come east from Iowa, where I attended the Iowa School for the Deaf from first…
@servelan@newsie.socialBetween this and the masturbating Uncle Sam, sounds like Freedom 250 put on a great show (yes, being sarcastic)
Great American State Fair concert featuring Vanilla ICE canceled due to weather
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5943888-vanilla-ice-freedom-250-trump-rally-concert-canceled-weather/
@goebelmasse@det.socialWenn man eines der bei #Wordpress.com gehosteten Blogs in der BRD nicht mehr erreichen kann: Über Tor geht es noch. Das Problem scheint also nicht bei Wordpress.com zu liegen, sondern eine Zensurmaßnahme von #BRD oder #EU zu…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzA daring mission to lift NASA’s sinking Neil Gehrels #Swift Observatory is now one step closer to launch this June: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/swift/2026/05/08/katalyst-wraps-testing-at-nasa-goddard-for-swift-boost-mission/ and https://www.katalystspace.com/post/katalyst-robotic-spacecraft-passes-testing-milestone - on May 4, Katalyst Space Technologies completed environmental tests of its LINK robotic servicing spacecraft at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland; LINK will meet up with Swift and attempt to raise its orbit.
@david@boles.xyzThe Wealth Defense Industry and the Working-Class Republic: What Equity Means Here
Henry Demarest Lloyd's 1894 Wealth Against Commonwealth made the case that liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty. The question 132 years later is whether equity against the one percent can still be won inside a system they pay to keep tilted. Equity against the one percent describes parity of political voice, of legal protection, of access to courts and schools and air and…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz @servelan@newsie.socialZohran Mamdani skips Met Gala, calls attention to fashion workers
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5863308-mamdani-skips-met-gala-calls-attention-to-fashion-workers/
@david@boles.xyzThe Corner Store at the End of the World
Every local prepper carries the same private film in his head. He is the survivor. The neighbors who laughed at the Costco pallets and the propane tanks and the blue tarp over the generator are huddled in their cold houses while his basement lights still burn through week three of the outage. He sits on the front porch with a rifle across his knees, finally vindicated, the man on the block who saw it coming.
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzExpanding Mars’ lithologic diversity - discovery of a garnet-bearing clast in NWA 8171: #Mars: https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/news/scientists-discover-new-rock-type-on-mars
@david@boles.xyzEighteen Years Under One Banner: The BolesBlogs Constellation at Thirty
Today marks the eighteenth anniversary of the Boles Blogs Network gathering under a single domain. That formation date is 2008. Writing under one of the network's earlier names, however, began much earlier, in 1996, when Go Inside Magazine opened a small storefront on a web that still ran on dial tone and patience. The full arc now covers thirty years…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depolblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…
@david@boles.xyzNotes on Tomorrow as Tribute
The book is out. The title is Tomorrow as Tribute: The Politics of the Burnt Future. It is available in paperback, in Kindle, and as a free web edition through David Boles Books. The audiobook is in production with narrator selection underway. The web edition is free because I want the argument to circulate as widely as possible.
@david@boles.xyzTake Your Children Offline NOW: Twenty-One Years Later
In July of 2005, I published Take Your Children Offline NOW on this blog, and the comments arrived in two distinct waves....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/06/21/take-your-children-offline-now-…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depolblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…
@david@boles.xyzThe Senator Who Used to Be Cory Booker
We taught at Rutgers-Newark in the same years, before he was mayor, before the Senate, before the rebranding. We shared a building lobby on University Avenue. I never shook his hand. I did not need to. Everyone on that campus knew Cory. He pulled the air toward him when he walked through a door, a Rhodes Scholar, a Yale-trained lawyer who had chosen Newark when he could have chosen Manhattan or Washington, a young man who spoke…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depolblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…
@david@boles.xyzStored Sun: What a Book Actually Is
Ask ten readers what a book is and you will get ten metaphors and no definitions. A mirror, they say, or a door, or a passageway with footfalls behind it. The metaphors flatter the reader and obscure the object. None of them tell you what is sitting on your shelf, dark and patient, while you sleep. Here is the answer. A book is stored sun.
@david@boles.xyzStill Eating Your Patients
Seventeen years ago I asked whether every veterinarian should be required to be a vegetarian. The question has sharpened since then. The right word now is vegan, because the line between dairy cow and veal calf is no longer plausibly deniable, and because the climate science on animal agriculture has overrun the old fence between eggs and the slaughterhouse. The provocation in 2009 was short, almost a snapshot of a paradox.
@david@boles.xyzThe Box You Cannot Check
The clinic intake form on the clipboard at the front desk has two boxes next to the word "sex." A patient who is neither of the two options has been given three choices: pick one box and lie, write something in the margin, or refuse the form. The receptionist will not read the margin. Data entry clerks will not transcribe it.
@david@boles.xyzOne Eighth of an Inch: Julian Jaynes, the Bicameral Mind, and the Bandwidth of God
Start with a measurement, because the measurement is where the famous theory hides its best secret. In…...
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/06/17/one-
@david@boles.xyzThe Conditional Button
The mid-block crosswalk at a flashing-yellow pedestrian signal does work. A pedestrian presses the button, the overhead lights flash yellow, drivers slow or stop, and the pedestrian crosses. The system responds visibly, with no covert work happening underneath. The button does what it claims. But the same system also fails, often, in ways that have nothing to do with the button itself and everything to do with what is wired several layers behind…
@david@boles.xyzThe Third Casket: How Shakespeare Taught Us to Choose the Thing We Cannot Refuse
A man walks into a room and finds three boxes waiting for him. One is gold, one is silver, one is lead....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/06/16/the-
@david@boles.xyzThe Dishonest Button
The mute button on the top of an Amazon Echo of a certain vintage is supposed to disconnect the microphone. A small icon of a crossed-out microphone sits next to the button, and pressing it turns on a red LED that confirms the disconnection. Software controls this button, which means the microphone remains electronically capable of capturing audio after the LED turns red, and the only thing preventing that capture is a line of code in the firmware.
@david@boles.xyzThe Rented Crowd: Nero’s Five Thousand, the Paris Claque, and the Box That Laughed for America
For the better part of two decades, the laughter of the United States lived inside a padlocked box....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/06/15/the-
@david@boles.xyzThe Honest Button
The crosswalk button at the corner of my downtown intersection has an LED above it that lights up red and says "Wait!" when you press it. The traffic signal does not change any faster. No wire runs from the button to the signal timer. The LED is connected only to the button itself, and it does the single job of telling the pedestrian to wait.
@david@boles.xyzAlways Open, Never Empty
The internet abolished closing hours. The new wave is abolishing the pause. Both moves are economic in origin and…...
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/06/13/always-open-never-empty/
@david@boles.xyzOne Thirty Over Eighty: How America Lowered the Hypertension Line While Europe Held Steady
A single edit to a single table turned tens of millions of healthy Americans into patients overnight....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/06/14/one-
@david@boles.xyzThe Placebo Button
The elevator in my building has a door-close button that does nothing. I learned this the way everyone learns it, which is to say I pressed it for years under the impression that it was speeding up my departure. The button lights up. It makes a small click when pressed. It provides every sensory signal of function. What it does not do is close the door any faster than the door was going to close on its own.
@david@boles.xyzThe Old Fears, Faster
The fears about artificial intelligence are the fears about the internet, rerun at twice the speed. When the public internet arrived in the mid-1990s, four anxieties traveled with it....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/06/12/the-old-fears-faster/
@david@boles.xyzBegging for My Mother: Find A Grave and the Strangers Who Collect Our Dead
This morning I signed into Find A Grave to update my mother's memorial and discovered that I no longer manage her page....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/07/14/begg
@david@boles.xyzThe Voice Goes Off: Writing My Half of Back to Willowbrook
On the first day of my classes at New York University, the voice goes off. I stand at the front of the room and I do not speak, and no one else will speak for the rest of the semester, because the language my students have come to learn does not live in the throat....
@david@boles.xyzThe Off Switch: When Money Becomes Permission
An all-digital economy promises a world without friction. The same design that makes payment effortless makes denial effortless, and it hands every government a quiet way to decide whether you may eat....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/06/11/…
