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From a blog post by @…
“We’re living in this moment right now where everybody is using AI to write software.”
No. With add due respect, this is wrong. To say such a thing does harm.
I get what the author is trying to say, but I beg all authors to choose their words carefully.
As long as I continue to write software you can never say “e…

Security through irrelevance
Vibe coded bespoke apps are unlikely targets for hackers - an interesting observation about threat economics but definitely not a reason to skip security basics. (836 words)

https://write.as/bartux/briser-le-flux-leconomie-de-la-facilite
L'économie de la facilité

Briser le flux : l’économie de la facilité
Un flux sans fin, capable de nous faire scroller du petit matin au petit matin : voilà ce que nous offrent les réseaux dits sociaux. Derr...

If you didn't bother to write the PR or code yourself, why should I bother reading your slop?

An NYT reporter finds AI-generated, unauthorized biographies of herself and other journalists on Amazon, where AI-made books with elusive "authors" proliferate (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/…

Someone Used A.I. to Write an Unauthorized Biography of Me. I Don’t Recommend Reading It.
Someone used A.I. to write my biography. Thousands more of those books are polluting Amazon. Who is behind all this drivel?

We could write an RFC to implement IP over Ferrovian Carriers.
You give a data storage to a passenger boarding a train in the right direction.
From the series: Another day with my #adhdbrain

Sen. Elizabeth Warren and seven Democratic House members write to the DOJ, calling for an impartial antitrust review of Fox Corp's planned $22B Roku acquisition (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/…

Lawmakers Call For “Impartial” DOJ Probe of Fox’s $22 Billion Roku Buy
Democratic politicians, led by U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren and U.S. Representative Becca Balint, raised concerns of “recent rubber-stamping of deals” that may violate antitrust laws and impede enforcement.  

On a train to #Dagstuhl, I finally got to read the nice write-up about on-device local-web-to-app tracking: https://localmess.github.io/assets/bridges-to-self-loc…

Not in the know enough to recognize if this is the folks who got the swell long historical interview/write-up posted by the fabulous @… last night 🪩
(Won’t link in case it’s a spoiler, but you could check their feed)
#ListeningClub

I had the opportunity to write a chapter for the handbook *The Global Business of Education*, edited by Marcelo Parreira do Amaral, Sieglinde Jornitz, and S. Karin Amos.
“People Farming in Academia” analyzes how the increasing datafication of academia is increasingly modeling it after the platform economy as we know it - with all the accompanying phenomena: vendor lock-in, precarity, ghost work, geopolitical interference, and an increasingly questionable relationship with factual accur…

Do you remember the days when people used to write little notes, drawings and messages for people they cared about?
#blog

Friction as a form of appreciation - Finest Day
Every blog on Pika comes with an already built-in and hassle-free feature that I find amazing in its quirkiness and simplicity: guestbooks.  Do you remember the days when people used...

ok where gen-AI falls flat for images is it lacks intentionality. beyond what's prompted, everything is random and "average" in ways no person would do.
AI coding gets around this by having the agent first write out detailed intention-shaped documents that are basically different types of expansion of the prompt, which then become the cinematic universe of the prompt.
these intention-shaped docs are still uncanny, but they're enough of a simulacrum of intention …

If you were writing a story, how would you write "Who gives a?"
... this may be an Australianism. The implied last word of the sentence begins with f
Should it be "Who gives a _ _ _ _?"
In spoken English, the "a" is pronounced with emphasis, but that's not obvious on a page.
I'm also curious what level of politeness you'd say this has (whether you're Australian or not) #AmWriting

The 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.

The Box You Cannot Check | David Boles, Blogs
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 an…

#EroticMusings 55. How do you show the initial spark of lust or love between characters? Share!
I realised while I enjoy reading slow burn written by others, I don't write it when writing erotica. If it's slow it's mostly offscreen and allows some leaps while the main story has some progress.
Mela and Camelia slowly falling for each other? They stare at each other u…

The thesis I was reading spent the majority of it's time focused on John Boyd's OODA loop as a tool for critical analysis in high pressure or constrained situations. Table top exercises could also benefit from using these steps to slow down the thought process, expose what's actually happening, and sharpen these tools.
So each step could start by observing (which is generally what the GM will tell you, but you may ask additional questions to refine observational thinking). What do you look for in any given situation? How do you gather data? What sources do you use?
Next you would orient. Talk through this out loud. What does that data mean? How this fit what you already know, or does it challenge your assumptions? Are you observing something related to a previous action? What does that tell you about your previous action or actions? How do you turn the data you observed into intelligence you can act on? How do your observations narrow the options for the next possible action?
Then you decide your action. But you're not simply deciding, you're coming up with a hypothesis that your action will test. Anything you do is an opportunity to learn something about the world, about your situation, about the accuracy of the model you're using to make decisions. What belief does your next action imply? How will you know if that action was correct or incorrect? What observations would challenge your hypothesis? What observations would confirm it? Are those mutually exclusive, or are there additional observations or actions you must make to clarify things?
Then act. Finish your turn by choosing your action or actions (individually or collectively). Perhaps take a moment to write down notes, like what your observations, your hypothesis, and if you think your previous hypothesis was confirmed or refuted. You can review these all later to refine your thinking.
By exploring these ideas in a safe environment, you can train your brain to run through the process at high speed when under pressure. This helps you avoid panic. It's a lot like slowly practicing marshal arts moves until they become muscle memory, which then just happen without thought when needed.

Creation and destruction often come hand in hand.
On my free Substack, I write about holding tension without falling apart—and building something beautiful in the midst of unraveling. https://substack.com/@bricchapman

Bri Chapman | Substack
➡️ systems thinking ➡️ multi-passionate leadership ➡️ climate change solutions ➡️ success, impact, and meaning

Why do I want this stupid fucking "Commodore" phone? I never had or wanted a flip phone, and I don't long for the 1990s or 2000s (I remember them: they sucked).
I think I know why:
I wanted to be rid of my fartphone in 2018, and bought a Nokia KaiOS device. It wasn't all that useful because it lacked WhatsApp and Signal, making it unappealing to write a podcast client for it if I still had to carry around a second device to, you know, communicate with people.

Not since the days of Colonial Pipeline and SolarWinds have I felt the need to write a special report for Metacurity.
But the intense level of activity on Friday and over the weekend surrounding the White House crackdown on Anthropic and its impact on cybersecurity prompted me to write a special Metacurity report this morning. The report presents a timeline of how we have arrived at the first major clash between frontier AI cyber capabilities and government authority.
I hope you …

Special report: Anthropic and the first great AI cyber showdown — a timeline
Over the past few days, a dispute over AI safety guardrails escalated into a White House crackdown, a global sovereignty debate, and the first major clash between frontier AI cyber capabilities and government authority.

Hopefully, Idaho legislators won't write a less-vague law to follow this p.o.s.
Federal Judge Blocks Idaho Law Criminalizing Transgender Bathroom Use - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/us/transgender-idaho-bathroom-law.html

Something I tell myself several times a day: stop trying to write replies to emails so quickly. It takes Outlook a few seconds to catch up, meaning that the "a" in "Dear" will only result in the email being archived.
Also, WTF MS? Can't you produce a less shitty web app?

"Why do I find it hard to write the next line"
Guitar, tenor sax, grand piano, drum kit, Tony's vocals & 5 dudes in really sharp suits...that'd play in 2026, wouldn't it, ladies? 😁
▶️ Spandau Ballet - True (HD Remastered)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=AR8D2yqgQ1

Tired of writing Swift code like an animal?
Recent Swift compiler improvements cut your bathroom quality time short?
AgenticSwift to the rescue, write what your function is supposed to do, list inputs and outputs, and let your agent do the work for you.
Inspired by @… 's visionary outlook.

GitHub - migueldeicaza/AgenticSwift: Tired of having to write Swift code like an animal? Let the AI macro do the work for you.
Tired of having to write Swift code like an animal? Let the AI macro do the work for you. - migueldeicaza/AgenticSwift

An NYT reporter finds AI-generated, unauthorized biographies of herself and other journalists on Amazon, where AI-made books with elusive "authors" proliferate (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/…

Someone Used A.I. to Write an Unauthorized Biography of Me. I Don’t Recommend Reading It.
Someone used A.I. to write my biography. Thousands more of those books are polluting Amazon. Who is behind all this drivel?

do you know the thing where you wanna write a thing and then you type something that you didn't actually wanted to write, but it, like, plausibly fits there?
fricking language models, smh.

When I was first learning to write,
my letters and words ran from right to left, reversed as if in a mirror.
Being left-handed, I was imitating the hand strokes of my right-handed teachers instead of reversing their strokes to replicate the letters.
I gradually got the hang of writing in the correct direction, but it still feels natural for me to mirror-write.
I have a mirror-written childhood diary. Leonardo da Vinci, another lefty, did that too

Why Am I Left-Handed? | Quanta Magazine
An invisible difference in 10% of humans poses deep mysteries in several fields at once.

Sean Penn to direct January 6 drama with Bradley Cooper set to star
#news

Sean Penn to direct January 6 drama with Bradley Cooper set to star
Oscar-winning actor to write and direct fact-based movie that will follow a police officer mixed up in 2021 Capitol riot

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Shopware 6 Hidden Gems #2: Bulk imports done right — taming the indexers
Every Shopware developer has been here: you push 50,000 products through the Sync API and the import crawls. The writes themselves are fast. What kills you is everything that happens after each write — inheritance updates, cheapest price calculation, search keyword generation, category denormalization. Shopware calls all of this "indexing", and by default it runs synchronously, per request,…

Shopware 6 Hidden Gems #2: Bulk imports done right — taming the indexers - Winkelwagen GmbH
Every Shopware developer has been here: you push 50,000 products through the Sync API and the import crawls. The writes themselves are fast. What kills you is

Today an intern stopped by my desk and said "ah, you're the programmer who doesn't use AI". And I don't know if his tone was more "oh that weird dinosaur" or more "OMG he's one of the ancient ones who can still write without AI".
I really don't know. That makes me uneasy.
I said my task isn't so much pumping out lines of code. It's more about finding a solution to problems that requires the least amount of changes to the e…

Dion Dawkins says Bills are reaching 'climax of a movie' in 2026: 'It's kill or be killed' https://www.nfl.com/news/dion-dawkins-says-bills-are-reaching-climax-of-a-movie-in-2026-it-s-kill-or-be-killed

Google renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook and rolls out an update giving every notebook a secure cloud computer, letting it write and execute code natively (Josh Woodward/Google)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-notebook/note…

NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook
NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook: the same standalone product with deeper Google integration and a secure cloud computer.

I really like #Rust for making it easy to compose functions and write tests.
My current task involves migrating logic from another language, and the testability makes it super nice to develop.
10/10 #DX 🧡🦀

from my link log —
Write tracking for Nim.
https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/09/01/write-tracking.html
saved 2020-09-02 https://

Write Tracking for Nim (Part 2)
7 years ago I wrote how Nim would get “write tracking” as an alternative to adding const to Nim’s type system. This year it finally made it into Nim nightly! Since then the feature was reimplemented and all the details how it works did change.

If we let the orbital datacenter scams get to the point of launching, we deserve the Kessler Syndrome we get.
Sun-synch terminator-riders are in a limited orbital space. Many current residents belong to governments, as it’s a useful surveillance orbit. Once upon a time it’s the sort of thing that a U.N. body might regulate. Suggesting that now just seems like a joke…

asking an LLM to write tests that constrict it's output is like asking an industry to regulate itself.
See the sum of US domestic policy in the past 50 years if you're curious how that goes.

Just typed in a RAM test program on my Series 7 BBC Model B - it passes clean; hmm - doesn't explain the instability then.
Also, I don't seem to be able to (reliably?) write to a floppy - hmm. save file, *. and find it's nto there. Hmm. Tried formatting and it's verifying bad. So some more debug todo.
(Also, hth did I type so much on a Model B keyboard, the keys are HARD)

Es gibt wohl mal wieder eine LPE im #linux kernel: #DirtyFrag. POC läuft zumindest mal auf nem Testsystem mit älterem Kernel. Laut Seite ist es in den Distros bisher *nicht* gepatched.

Linux folks, question:
I setup a common directory under `/home` (`/home/common`) with `root:common` ownership and 775 permissions. I'd like the group to be set automatically to `common` whether I write the file or someone else does, so I think using `chmod -R 2775` would achieve that. Is there a way I can similarly automatically set the ownership to `root`? Or do I manually have to do that each time I add new files/directories?

Been working on a Toshiba Satellite T1910 (vintage laptop) which had a dodgy floppy drive. 2 drives and 2 goteks later I've worked out the issue was the flat ribbon cable I was using! 🤦‍♂️ Needs to be the twisted type; pins are reversed. Will defo write this up for other poor souls when I'm done! #retrocomputing

"An AI system can reproduce ethical language because ethical language exists in its training data. It can discuss justice because humans discuss justice. It can talk about compassion because humans write about compassion. But discussing a value is not the same thing as possessing it. Repeating ethical language is not ethical behaviour. Generating moral arguments is not moral agency"
#GenAI

Last week I was reminded about this super-accessible article on 'The Seven Principles of Data Feminism' by Catherine d’Ignazio and Lauren Klein - especially for those who never got around to reading the book! https://responsibledata.io/anniversary/the-seven-pr…

The Seven Principles of Data Feminism
In November 2015, Catherine, who was based out of the MIT Media Lab at the time, was invited by Mushon Zer-Aviv to write a blog post for the Responsible Data Forum – an event he was co-organising for January 2016. At the same time, Lauren, who was working at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, was preparing to

I'll be attending the #DevGuild Write Only Code Summit in San Francisco tomorrow (Thursday May 6) if anyone else will be there, say hello!
https://luma.com/write-only-code-summit

This is so weird. I'm actually writing documentation *first*.
(well all right, I did already code the really stupid version of what I wanted, but now I'm having to write the less-stupid version, but there's also the small matter of deciding how insane we want the less-stupid version to be...
...guessing I've probably summarized All Software Development right there)
#LambdaMOO

@…
Sorry.
I deleted it, because sometime I write something and than it gets to me, that you might have already Thursday...
But I sometime switch Thursday and Tuesday in my brain.🤦
And...Now you know I still didn't get to "working conditions" after my vacation.🤦😂

“No one can write a 20-page essay without AI!”
[staring forlorn at the hundreds of books on my shelves]

Interesting perspective
https://nolanlawson.com/2026/05/25/using-ai-to-write-better-code-more-slowly/

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I spent my time trying to make it better. Not just write code, but find better or at least different ways to do so. Simpler, cleaner, more general, more comprehensible.
What's happening today is a complete repudiation of everything I was trying to achieve.

One of my strong suites in all the packaging work is the knowledge in my head.
"Why don't you write it down for others to benefit from, then?", you'd ask.
The thing is, this knowledge is basically "hot cache". I'm bumping hundreds of #Python packages in #Gentoo, so I remember stuff. And because of that, I can quickly notice some things or answer some questions.
If that were written down, the effort needed to find it would diminish all the gain. I mean, technically *it is* already written down, and the whole point is that I have it "cached".

“ChatGPT: please write an article aimed at NATO begging them to bail us out of the war we started. But try and make it sound like we’re not begging and it’s somehow their fault it all went in the shitter, not our incompetent ‘Commander In Chief’ and his equally talented staff. NO HALLUCINATIONS pls”
https://

Christoph Harig (@charig.bsky.social)
Celebrating a new addition to the "Thomas L Friedman Hall of Fame" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/opinion/israel-united-states-iran-hormuz-nato.html?unlocked_article_code=1.iFA.vlYD.Y98bduCJGFxw&smid=nytcore-android-share

A follow up here on action items (assuming you’re already using trusted publishers OIDC to scope releases to a single GitHub Action workflow):
1. Look for any `pull_request_target` GitHub Actions workflows! (this allows external forks/code to run your actions with write access ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️)
2. Look for use of `cache` in your GitHub Actions release workflow (cache was poisoned/compromised by `pull_request_target` trigger)
Learn more about `pull_request_target`:

I'm learning to write a short phrase (just six syllables) in Tamil and it is so hard. So many curves; so many similar ligatures. 😰
(I'm not even learning the entire script)
#learning #writing #struggle #Tamil

If you write family stories with multiple characters whose lives interveave, this post has some useful tips whether you are a Scrivener user or not. https://www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/compile-multiple-timelines-or-p…

Compile Multiple Timelines or Point-of-View Character Arcs in Your Scrivener Projects - Literature & Latte
Learn how to use Scrivener's compile filter and labels to isolate individual timelines or POV character arcs for editing and consistency checks.

I write a Gist approximately every two weeks. The idea, really, is to write a readable digest of a particular topic at a particular moment in time.
Sometimes I set out to explain something that is outside the main news cycle, but that I think is significant.
Sometimes I just feel like making jokes at the expense of British politicians.
And sometimes I am giving an opinion, as best I can.
But who knows what might bubble up in the future?

The Gist
News, Data policy, law and the absurdity of life. A round up of what Ireland's talking about.

«Kernel-Bug — FreeBSD-Exploit "Bumsrakete" verleiht Root-Zugriff:
Ein Exploit namens Bumsrakete gefährdet alle FreeBSD-Versionen der letzten fünf Jahre. Die Entdecker nehmen es mit reichlich Humor»
Weshalb wahrscheinlich einige Server kurz offline waren/sind. Sicherheitsrelevante Updates müssen auf der Stelle eingespielt werden, denn die par Minuten das die User einschränkt ist harmlos dem Bug gegenüber.
😈

POV: The Grand Nagus Zek didn't write the business rules just for fun.
Prove me wrong!

England during the reign of Elizabeth I (~AD1600) was a dangerous time and place to write plays, such as Shakespeare’s “As You Like It”.
Better watch those metaphors. Public plays were studied closely for signs of treason.
Christopher Marlowe was arrested for atheism, a capital offense. Thomas Kyd was tortured on suspicion of treasonous activity. Ben Jonson was in dire trouble several times.
#History

🥳 JSDB¹ 7.1.0 release
Added:
• `JSTable.CHANGE` event. Fires when a value is changed (set) in memory. Guaranteed to fire before the `JSTable.PERSIST` event.
Full change log: https://codeberg.org/small-tech/jsdb/src/branch/main/CHANGELOG.md
To in…

jsdb/CHANGELOG.md at main
jsdb - A zero-dependency, transparent, in-memory, streaming write-on-update JavaScript database for the Small Web that persists to a JavaScript transaction log.

On LLMs, language, cultural references, and supressing the horrors of war. A worth-while read from @….
“Du må ikke sove”: a floating motif detached from its meaning (or: LLMs can write Norwegian but miss cultural references) – Jill Walker Rettberg

“Du må ikke sove”: a floating motif detached from its meaning (or: LLMs can write Norwegian but miss cultural references)
There’s a new ad for the train between Stavanger and Oslo in Norway that uses a line from Arnulf Øverland’s famous anti-fascist poem Du må ikke sove (“You must not sleep”). …

I never use AI because it's crap.
If you want I can write you a toot to say you don't use AI that is even more impactful.

Senate Republicans on the Armed Services Committee
have killed two election-related amendments from Michigan Sen.
Elissa Slotkin, brushing aside her attempt to write explicit new limits on military involvement in U.S. elections.
The proposals came during markup of the Fiscal Year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act
and went down on party-line votes, prompting Democratic warnings of a dangerous gray area heading into November.
In a statement posted by Senato…

How do people get asked to write "perspectives" for a paper that is just getting out? Is it usually reviewers of said paper? Is it the editor who asks them about it? Can you invite a colleague to write something on your own paper?
#AcademicChatter

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The Strange and Obscure Rituals of the Neurotypical Community: a collection of essays I never had the dopamine to write

Would be really great if
> nix run codeberg:user/repo
was possible. It works for #GitLab and #GitHub already. #Codeberg should also work. Instead, one needs to write this unergonomic thing:

feat: flake input type "`codeberg`" · Issue #14064 · NixOS/nix
Problem Flakes targeting a remote hosted on codeberg need to use the git type It is not as efficient as a dedicated "codeberg" flake input type, and cumbersome to write Proposed solution Feature a ...

RE: #ACAB

I think I'm too dumb to understand #JIRA API permissions...
I want to access:
/rest/api/3/issue
/rest/api/3/search/jql
The docs say I need:
read:issue-details:jira
read:audit-log:jira
read:avatar:jira
read:field-configuration:jira
read:issue-meta:jira
write:issue:jira
write:comment:jira
write:comment.property:jira
write:attachment:ji…

Trying to Write While Chair - A Tragedy.
#academia

Meta rolls out new features for Ray-Ban Display glasses, including neural handwriting support for all users, and opens up the device to third-party developers (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/930941/meta-ray-ban-display-…

Meta brings virtual writing to everyone with Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses
Meta will now let all Meta Ray-Ban Display smart glasses owners write messages with hand gestures. It’s also introducing developer tools for the glasses in preview.

i thought it was called system administration
https://alvarado.social/@dave/116529733173139204

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#076 I should probably write that down https://diagramclub.substack.com/p/076-i-should-probably-write-that

#076 I should probably write that down
Fox video / Trundling

"we are at the end of days. Our planet — which is, as far as we know, the only planet anywhere in the universe to support intelligent life — is literally burning as I write this, and it is burning because we are burning it. Building huge data centres to pursue the egocentric fantasies of kleptocrat pirates only accelerates that process"
#AGI

AGI Will Not Have a Lizard Brain
Rejoice, for even though we do, verily, walk through the valley of the shadow of death, not all the phantasms we see in the valley are as dark as they appear.

Saw a word processing app touting a new feature to “prove you’re human” which essentially is a keylogger, so people can follow the process of your writing.
How about people who don’t write themselves must declare so instead of humans being forced to proof they’re not robots?
Fucking misanthropic dystopian shit nightmare.

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#EroticMusings 54. Why/when/how did you start making erotica?
I started writing and doing stuff like "making social media accounts and a website" in 2019. At first, it was "I want to write mainstream erotica to get some additional money" but I soon realized I can't write anything I don't actually enjoy writing - so it turned into "sapphic why choose …

“Think about how you relate to your compiler. You write C , Rust, Go, and the toolchain spits out a binary. Do you open that binary and read through the assembly? Do you schedule a meeting with a colleague to review the object code before shipping?
Of course not. That would be absurd. And not because you blindly trust compilers, you don't. Compilers have bugs. Compilers have had famously catastrophic bugs. But you've constructed an entire apparatus that makes reviewing the output unnecessary: you write tests against observable behavior, you have type systems that constrain what the output can do, you have reproducible builds, you have fuzzing and sanitizers and formal verification in high-stakes domains. You trust the process, not the artifact.
We haven't built that apparatus for coding agents. And that, not the output itself, is what's actually missing.”
#AgenticSoftware
https://skiplabs.io/blog/codegen_as_compiler

“Influencers and thought leaders stand to gain from this practice where a self-sustaining industry of humans and bots generates an illusion of engagement,”
https://restofworld.org/2026/virtual-a

The Filipino virtual assistants behind LinkedIn’s “thought leadership” content mill
For $7 an hour, virtual assistants use AI tools to write LinkedIn posts and comments on behalf of Western executives.

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Bumsrakete Exploit.
And Comic Sans Cruelty
#freebsd #exploit

Please don't assume anything about the author of the piece you've been asked to peer review. Although you might get it right, you might also get it horribly wrong. In that case, your comments may be inadvertantly incredibly insulting.
Focus on the paper: what works? what doesn't? how can it be improved? Oh, and don't try to force the author to write the article you'd have written. Instead, help them write the best paper they want to write.

Excerpt from an essay I may or may not write:
Ontologies evolve to fulfill functions. They serve a purpose, and will be adapted until they fulfill this purpose. There are, occasionally, things that exist within those ontologies which do not actually exist.
Programming bugs are an example. There is no such thing. Code is code. It can't be right or wrong, it just is or isn't. The mismatch between the intent and the execution creates a side effect. We may confidently assert such a thing exists. We may name such things. But they don't exist. This becomes apparent when you try to figure out how to suppress one specific instance of a bug in one specific place through multiple revisions.
At some level, a lot of things don't actually exist. We only need to follow through the logic of The Ship of Theseus to see how our ontologies break down.
One thing that doesn't exist, that is a side effect rather than an object, is the personal self. You do not exist. Your perception of your existence is an illusion, a necessary side effect.
Every day you wake up a different person. Every second you are not who you were. That person is as dead as you will be the next instant, as all versions of you will be every second until there are no more. These selves are bound together by imperfect memories. The person you remember as yourself, all those people, never existed. You created them based on your current experience, your current iteration.
You could, just as easily, wake up an unrecognizable person, in some Dark City, and never know the difference. Continuity is absurd. And yet, some people believe they'll still experience the same self after being frozen or "uploaded." It's a silly illusion.
Once you can get over that illusion, you can let go of the need to thrash against the void. You can let go of the various furious dreams of immortality.
At a high enough level, all ontologies are illusions. Useful illusions, but illusions none-the-less. There is only the undifferentiated universe, and you are experiencing it. You are the universe. You will always persist, long past the time this specific iteration or any iteration experiences it.
This implies a certain obligation then to all the others experiencing the same self, the future iterations that may remember being someone like you, and any other person you, the universe, could wake up as tomorrow.

from my link log —
Finding a goroutine bug with TLA .
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/tla-golang/
saved 2020-09-25 https://dotat.a…

I really don't want to write this peer review. The ms is fine, on a topic that interests me and that could use more work. But, meh. I think I'll go for a walk instead, maybe that'll help.

Oh look, someone wrote the "cars are fascist" essay I wanted to write and it's pretty good:
https://brockpress.com/editorial-is-the-automobile-fascist/

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Diplo: 7-14 June
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I need to write that "Bicycle Anarchist Manifesto" I've had in my notes for a while.

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-USA: 31 May - 7 June
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H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-USA: 7 June - 14 June
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H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Devil: 31 May - 7 June
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H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Asia: 7 June - 14 June
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H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Buddhism: 7 June - 14 June
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