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from my link log —
SELECT WAT FROM SQL;
https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/select-wat-from-sql/
saved 2020-04-17 https://

This Archivist Has Saved 175,000 Articles from 30 Years of Writing about Magic: The Gathering https://www.404media.co/this-archivist-has-saved-175-000-articles-from-30-years-of-writing-about-magic-the-gathering/

Writing off Aaron Rodgers misses the point. Why not just enjoy his final ride? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7296551/2026/05/21/aaron-rodgers-final-season-retirement-steelers/

Writing some Java code for a college course and it was suggested to use java.util.Date. So I'm writing tests for my code and need to create a Date in the past, which lead to my looking at the source code for the Date class. Wow. Just, damn, this made some interesting assumptions.
There is a basic constructor which uses the current date. Plus a full constructor which lets you to specify the year, month, and day. You can set the year via the 'setYear' method. Those latter two…

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@darkuncle/116778528340746246
“When writing is hard, it’s often not just because we are tired, underfed, or inefficient but because our mind is trying to tell us crucial things. How many draft texts to colleagues or family m…

Researchers found sandbox escapes or boundary bypasses in Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, and Antigravity by writing files trusted tools later use; most are patched (Ax Sharma/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securi…

I just want to say it's getting harder and harder to include daily AI developments that cyber folks should know without writing original, extensive summaries. Today's Metacurity will kick off with a nearly 1,800-word summary of the most important AI developments, just from Friday morning until now.

Of course, there will still be ads. And auctions as well. And not only will that determine which ads show up, but how many words the LLM is writing about a product. They call it “prominence allocation”. The ad is in the generated content.
(Thanks @… for the hint!)

David Lammy has announced he is also leaving government, having been the deputy prime minister for the past two years.
He too posted details of his departure on social media.
Writing on X, Lammy said:
It has been the greatest privilege of my life, coming from humble beginnings in Tottenham, to serve in government as @Keir_Starmer’s Foreign Secretary, Justice Secretary and Britain’s first Black Deputy Prime Minister.
I am immensely proud of what we achieved, in Opposition …

Reeves and Lammy exit cabinet as Andy Burnham reshuffles top team – UK politics live
Earlier the new PM said he wants to put ‘the right values and the right standards at the heart of government’

Every now and again I recall the best pun I’ve ever made in my life. I was in grade 12 about 60 years ago writing an essay on #Macbeth. I think. (Not 100% sure about that part.) The title of my essay was, Men’ll Pause, or The Chains of Life. I was sure I’d get at least a nod from Mr. Andrews, the teacher, but got crickets instead.

Writing a CM system is all fun and games until you realise you're using Unix and its a shitshow.
> The bug is most likely this: Store() uses fchown on the open temp file descriptor (tf.Chown(uid, gid)), while the chown CLI uses path-based chown. On certain bind-mount setups (Docker Desktop for
Mac/Windows with gRPC FUSE or VirtioFS, NFS, FUSE-backed mounts), fchown can silently no-op or fail to persist while path-based chown works fine.

Someone got giggles from writing the headline and hero image caption...
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2531117-gas-from-uranus-reveals-it-has-an-icy-centre/

Gas from Uranus reveals it has an icy centre
Carbon monoxide in Uranus's deep atmosphere indicates that the planet contains more ice than rock, suggesting it formed more like Neptune than we thought

Also, anyone doing #Anarchist #Writing (in German or English) submissions are open!
https://en.scrappycapydistro.info/submissions

So, I'm still experimenting with locally run LLMs (powered by solar cells!) for writing some inconsequential data mangling stuff for my "vintage cameras" hobby; it's quite interesting how the development cycle with these LLMs sort of drives home that LLMs are completely useless for almost anything they're advertised for, like writing (for humans).
The thing is: coding is the use case that LLMs are by far most suitable for and they still largely suck at it.
There's immense amounts of training data of correctly functioning code, there's tons of documentation, a lot of code is in repositories that include the full history of its development including why stuff was changed in small bits, code itself is the simplest of "human" languages and mathematically non-ambiguous, code can be checked in small bits for correctness by just running it, in many languages simple code snippets can be written to introspect on the code (e.g. find out what methods an object supports, so an LLM can query the language or libraries themselves in addition to the user) and perhaps most importantly: code is always and has always been very similar to other, existing code as most software serves the ever same repetitive use cases, both in detail and on a high level.
YET… using LLMs to code requires countless iterations to get there, both internally in the LLM (to get the code even running in the first place) and together with the user to make it do the right thing. And even when it's "there" the code is mediocre at best, and often veering into appalling.
And this is expected to just work on the first try on much more complex issues like writing for humans? Transcribing doctors? Having legal opinions? Identifying fraud? lol, sure

"Creating a writing and dissemination toolkit for faculty scholarly writing and publishing"
https://doi.org/10.3897/ese.2026.e183055

Arts Incite - Ballarat Arts Alive
We talk to arts people about all things related to music, visual art, theatre, heritage, architecture, writing etc...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/arts-incite-ballarat-arts-alive…

Draft: the Trump admin plans to use the UN General Assembly to push a global "freedom of expression" declaration that EU lawmakers call an attack on tech rules (Eliza Gkritsi/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-admi…

Trump administration will push ‘free speech’ declaration at UN that takes aim at European tech regulation
The White House and Republican party allies have repeatedly attacked EU rules that govern online platforms as censorship. Now they want the world to put the critique into writing.

The danger of taking a walk is having an interesting idea and not writing it down before it disappears again. This post is a tribute to the blogpost the world shall never know.

New obsession from Fiska: what if Pocky was larger and exploded in your mouth?

Free your mind of code formatting and focus on code writing in Neovim thanks to conform.nvim
#blog

Alistair Davidson @… on 'How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight': 'Build a web application that works on a playstation portable on a 3G connection - if you do, it will work for all your users, and it will still work 30 years from now'

How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
My client was a utility company, and they had a big problem...

UltraGeeking:
Using Slackware Mango to ssh into a new Gentoo install (musl, openrc, rust, cosmic, zfs if it all works out this time) and writing a install manual is a very nice way to spend this Saturday morning 🤓
#slackware #gentoo

Yeah, I'm a blogger. But I've written books, too. Did you know?
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/did-you-know-im-a-writer/

Did You Know I'm A Writer? – Bob Mueller
Reflecting on the writing I've done over the years and the people who know about it.

Made it out for my day lunchtime walk 🚶🏼‍♂️Lovely sunshine and much more comfortable temperatures. ☀️ Now back to writing and an important coaching session.

BBC commentators described the World Cup stadium temperature as "in the 80s", and as someone born after the 1960s I'll be writing to Points of View to complain.

As Autumn bears down on us from behind the heat, I think it's time to revisit some cabin-in-the-woods content. No, silly, not the Unabomber Manifesto. Thoreau *AND* the Unabomber Manifesto! You can hardly do better than Ken Kifer's annotated Walden. https://www.phred.org/~alex/kenkifer/www.k

Good technical writing is hard. Here's some tips to make it less hard.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/good-technical-writing

Draft: the Trump admin plans to use the UN General Assembly to push a global "freedom of expression" declaration that EU lawmakers call an attack on tech rules (Eliza Gkritsi/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-admi…

Trump administration will push ‘free speech’ declaration at UN that takes aim at European tech regulation
The White House and Republican party allies have repeatedly attacked EU rules that govern online platforms as censorship. Now they want the world to put the critique into writing.

I spent some time #blogging today.
Oh man, why does writing take so much time?! Honestly, this time I tried dictating (Speech-to-text) and curating afterwards ... but it feels like it takes the same amount of time 🤔 Maybe it's just a lack of practice - or a lack of articulation.
Anyways - a bit of story, a peertube video and a couple of photos are waiting to be watched! 😉
…

US supreme court justice
Ketanji Brown Jackson
issued a rare public rebuke of the nation’s highest court,
declaring that it “can and should be better”
in the wake of a string of controversial moves by its conservative supermajority.
Weeks after writing a solo dissent as the supreme court effectively gutteda key section of the Voting Rights Act,
Jackson – its newest member and fiercest liberal voice – delivered a stark warning over the risk of the court bei…

RE: #Markdown for years (long before it became part …

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@hex_m_hell/116603232724527092
Trying to get my technical writing back up too.

The 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....

The Voice Goes Off: Writing My Half of Back to Willowbrook | David Boles, Blogs
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 …

Let's get this straight: anything created with "AI" is #slop.
It doesn't have to be vibe-coded. It doesn't have to be horrible code. It doesn't matter that you've spent hours perfecting the prompt. It doesn't matter that ten people have spent a week reviewing it in detail.
As long as an "AI" took part in writing it, it's slop. It's an unethical technology, and anything created with it is tainted. It's an inhuman technology, and you're supporting it. You're being disrespectful to your users and contributors. You're putting your own convenience over humanity. You're aiding the worst murderous assholes in the history of humanity. And what's perhaps worst, you quite likely believe that you are making a net positive contribution, that you're helping people, while you're actually disrespecting and harming them.
#NoAI #NoLLM

/me writing, describing the uber evil villain
"They were the type of person who flicked cigarette butts out their #cybertruck window, claiming they are biodegradable."

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

Just a reminder that the author who ghost-wrote “The Art of the Deal” expressed regret for writing it once Trump turned to politics, apologized profusely for helping to create the illusion that Trump actually knew anything about deal-making, and argued that the book should be recategorized as fiction.

A UK MP reported a constituent to the police for the 'crime' of writing to him about #Gaza
What's worse, she was arrested at 04:33 -- which presumably means they went into her house in the middle of the night to arrest her. I've had this happen to me fifty years ago -- over a plan to ship schoolbooks to

Brighton woman acquitted on charge of persistent emails to cause annoyance to Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and local MP about Israel’s conduct in Gaza | Doughty Street Chambers
A Brighton woman, CK, was charged with a single offence under s.

@Opfoss@c.im Scotland and Wales are specifically addressed in the linked-to report from Chart 2. And, as I’m writing in Ireland, I do not think I am conflating England and Britain. What the charts do address is the English results of the local elections under FPTP and the Labour Westminster response to them.

When you are a SwiftUI developer, every day is Xmas!
Tinkerble by https://edwardsanchez.design/
https://github.com/edwardsanchez/Tinke

Edward Sanchez – Medium
Read writing from Edward Sanchez on Medium. I’m a UI designer and developer with 25+ years of experience, including 9 years at Apple. I’m passionate about iconography, animation, and Swift development.

Just finished the game "Arco". It's a masterpiece. Wonderfully evocative setting and writing, excellent systems with top-notch ludonarrative harmony, and complex characters that you love while also seeing their not-so-great sides.
For once in a violence-centric game I get to be murdering colonizers instead of metaphorical stand-ins for indigenous people? Feels excellent.
The systems and abilities did a great job of keeping things balanced too, with definite power growth but growing costs too, letting the tactics remain important throughout. After playing Flamberge, I was worried it might feel too fiddly, but it doesn't at all, and the ghosts mechanic really pushes you to play quickly.
#Games

This week I’m writing from the season of storms.
https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/lightning-ragini

Lightning Ragini
In the season of storms

Well, what I’m wondering is, what are these people who “work very closely with Claude” gonna do when they or their institutions have to pay the full price for access to the chatbots?
Go back to writing mediocre articles themselves?
[EDIT: removed the link, because things may not have been quite the way they were presented. More generally, and not wrt. to a specific individual, the question posed above is still valid, though.]

Well, what I’m wondering is, what are these people who “work very closely with Claude” gonna do when they or their institutions have to pay the full price for access to the chatbots?
Go back to writing mediocre articles themselves?
[EDIT: removed the link, because things may not have been quite the way they were presented. More generally, and not wrt. to a specific individual, the question posed above is still valid, though.]

NGL, my favorite one is the last one. If you don’t understand the actual definition of “collective punishment”, you probably shouldn’t use the term.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:y4kznwazezwlrpvo65qnt7s7/post/3mm2g7372yc2o

Dr. Holly Walters (@manigarm.bsky.social)
I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

from my link log —
Reducing tail latencies with automatic yielding in Tokio on Rust.
https://tokio.rs/blog/2020-04-preemption/
saved 2020-04-03 https://

#AI #fatigue is real and nobody talks about it
https://siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-fatigue-is-real

#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…

oh my: lucy sante is writing a book about (or perhaps just anchored by) the velvet underground, out sometime next year per her IG.

Writing with AI is the same as writing by AI https://jamescosullivan.substack.com/p/writing-with-ai

Writing with AI is the same as writing by AI
If you need a large language model to write, you are not a writer.

Recovering from (minor) brain and spine injury, I'm hand writing the same text phrase in eight distinct scripts (five new to me), with consecutive writings in "dissimilar" scripts to force my brain and hands to think each time. My goal is to repeat the whole octet 1250 times (total 10K). 🍎🏋️‍♂️🧠
#wip #wipWednesday #health

@… How are you, man? I've been missing you.

I've been listening to the audiobook for "Station Eternity" by Mur Lafferty.
I remember Mur from our early podcasting days, especially her "I Should Be Writing" podcast... and I am glad she kept writing!
I'm only a quarter into the book but I am loving it so far. (No spoilers please!)
https://

Station Eternity - Wikipedia

I haven't finished that quilt, its been quilted for a few weeks now but needs binding. I started on it tonight. Why? Because I should be writing a paper and I don't want to, so I found something else to do instead. The binding is now ready to go, its supposed to rain all day tomorrow so maybe I can finish it by tomorrow night.

We finally got round to watching #deathofaunicorn last night. Sure there was some fairly saccharine writing and shonky #cgi but we still found it a very funny creature feature with loads of Easter eggs and nods to classic horror tropes. Considering it's budget I think it understood the assig…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Father John Misty:
🎵 I'm Writing a Novel
#FatherJohnMisty
https://fatherjohnmisty.bandcamp.com/track/im-writing-a-novel-11
https://open.spotify.com/track/2gUwnJ5cpl40TSlqmjfqAC

Why do we let the greedy capitalists do this to our industry?
#LLM

Hilarious tale by Kevin Smith about writing and not writing the script for a Superman movie. I like how this is a super long monologue. Reminds me of the moth joke somebody once told on Conan's late night show 😁
Two-part youtube video, the 2nd part should get suggested immediately after this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#SundayMorning
- Three hours of classical sparkle
Join Sarah Walker for a wide-ranging Sunday mix, from Baroque elegance and Romantic piano writing to choral stillness and symphonic drama.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002w8f8

https://rs.bot/JoSHWc

Seek Peace at Home: End Nuclear Arms, Trident Expansion, and Space Weaponization
Join 59 people. I am writing to urge you to adopt a national security policy grounded in a simple but essential principle: peace must begin at home. The United… Sign and Resistbot delivers your letter in minutes.

Inside Travel Writing
Pull back the curtain on how travel writing actually works and how to come up with ideas editors want to commission, how to pitch those ideas and how to travel the world and get paid for writing about it...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods…

You could fill a (wildly boring) book with the emails I've started writing and failed to send.

Writing an ERWC-Style Module: Choosing Texts
I have written four ERWC modules and substantially revised several more. Most of my own modules turned out to be about full-length works, including Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, George Orwell’s 1984, and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Writing a module around a novel is an interesting, complex, and time-consuming task. I will take that up later.

Erin Wygant, writing for the University of North Carolina rag, wrote Connie Eberle quote in the
…1983…first…use of "shit happens."
…A female student turned in 'shit happens ', and wrote this: When informed that he flunked the test, the guy replied, 'That shit happens.'

For me this age of AI is the time we should appreciate less polished handwritten texts for their authenticity. I see this happening during selection of job applications.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026…

How AI is changing language
As allegations of LLM use rock the literary and media worlds, linguists explain what really distinguishes human and machine writing, while novelists including Jennifer Egan and Jeanette Winterson reflect on the future of fiction in an age of ChatGPT

I am likely to be chastised for my latest post in a (private) mailing list, but IDGAF.
"I do appreciate your transparency in making it clear that your message was from a LLM. If you didn't bother writing what you submit, I certainly will not bother reading it.”

from my link log —
Mainstream adoption and Agile's second chasm.
http://williampietri.com/writing/2011/agiles-second-chasm-and-how-we-fell-in/
saved 2019-09-29

How China-born journalist Cheng Lei, who spent three years as a prisoner in Beijing, is rebuilding her life in Australia, including writing a memoir and a play (Rod McGuirk/Associated Press)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/

An Australian journalist turns her harrowing China prison ordeal into a memoir and play
Cheng Lei is rebuilding her life after three years in a Beijing prison

[1/3]
A couple weeks ago, Jonathan Mosen shared his thoughts on ‘AI’:
https://mosen.org/ai/
Last night, Léonie Watson did the same:
https://

Artificial Intelligence, History, and Blindness: Lessons and Musings
Why I’m Writing This There are certain taboo subjects one is encouraged to steer clear of during get-togethers in polite society. Religion is one. Politics, even before the highly polarized world o…

I think that ConservativeHome should now *delete* every single article they cannot positively attribute.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jun/13/head-commons-media-committee-caroline-dineage-denies-writing-arti…

Head of Commons media committee denies writing article accusing BBC of bias
Excoriating article under Caroline Dinenage’s name remains on ConservativeHome website

Enjoyed reading /A City on Mars/ by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith. I was impressed by the breath of topics, depth of research, and quality of writing (though a bit less puerile prose could have helped). They had fun writing it. Haters can just view it as a todo list. #BookReview

Wonder what happened here? It looks like someone was trying to tweet at #MattGaetz while writing copy for this #HP #monitor. The weirdness shows up at

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@scrappy_capy_distro/116595476430224824
Oh hey! I've been part of a writing group and this recent edition has our work in it. I'm pretty happy with it, and everyone else's work is great. Really excited to be in this.

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

Today in #Albuquerque, reading and signing:
Ribbons of Green: The Rio Grande and the Making of Modern Albuquerque.
Author John Fleck in conversation with Enrique Lamadrid.
At Bookworks on Rio Grande.

Writing the Wild: John Fleck, Ribbons of Green: The Rio Grande and the Making of Modern Albuquerque
A local, independent bookstore in Albuquerque, NM since 1984. Bookworks offers new books, children's titles, gifts, and a variety of special events.

How does an MIT fiction professor handle students using AI, especially at a university that launched one of the world’s first AI research programs?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/10/fiction-writing-professor-ai

Ischia is Burning: The Novel I Have Been Writing for Thirty-Six Years
Most books are written. A few are excavated. Ischia is Burning is a book I excavated from a steel filing cabinet in a Manhattan apartment, where it had been sitting for more than three decades inside a folder marked Ischia, in the form of a screenplay I wrote at twenty-five years old in the second year of an MFA program at Columbia.

Ischia is Burning: The Novel I Have Been Writing for Thirty-Six Years | David Boles, Blogs
Most books are written. A few are excavated. Ischia is Burning is a book I excavated from a steel filing cabinet in a Manhattan apartment, where it had been sitting for more than three decades insi…

RE: https://veganism.social/@Geri/116752857735212855
“…widely alleged Israeli human rights abuses…”
Were The Guardian writing during the Holocaust, they would have been saying “…widely alleged Nazi German human rights abuses…”

from my link log —
Mainstream adoption and Agile's second chasm.
http://williampietri.com/writing/2011/agiles-second-chasm-and-how-we-fell-in/
saved 2019-09-29

Ballroom! Ballroom! Ballroom!
A Ballroom Would Have Solved This
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/04/why-we-need-ballroom/686979/?gift=TPTA7XiYh9IfxjJRv3IEoDzV2Cu1NPpfOqzd1aeCWeI

A Ballroom Would Have Solved This
Many historical disasters would have been prevented if we had one of these in the White House.

Obama and his writing team sure had the guy pegged — right down to the gold paint.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#SundayMorning
- Three hours of classical sparkle
Join Sarah Walker for a wide-ranging Sunday mix, from Baroque elegance and Romantic piano writing to choral stillness and symphonic drama.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002w8f8

Which of the following faithfully *transliterates* the text "shree krishnaaya namaha" to #Russian: preserve sounds and syllables; lower case preferred. Need to be correct, though not "common".
1. ш́рӣ криш́на̄йа намаха
2. шри кришнайа намаха
3. шри кришнайя намаха
Thanks for replies and boosts. 🗨️ 🔃 🙏
#help #writing

Venture funding of fintech startups grew 22.7% YoY in H1 2026 to $28.6B globally, but deal count fell 25.7% and funding fell 17.3% vs. H2 2025's $34.6B funding (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/fintech/funding-rises-deals-slump-h1-2026/…

Fintech Funding Surges 23% In H1 2026 As Investors Concentrate Their Bets On AI And Financial Infrastructure
Venture funding into fintech startups climbed nearly 23% year over year in H1 2026, even as deal count fell more than 25%, Crunchbase data shows, a sign that investors are writing fewer, but much larger checks into the sector as they focus on areas such as wealth management, financial infrastructure and enterprise automation. We take a look at the numbers.

I like the idea that the world population (of humans) may actually start decreasing.
The Great Depopulation
The birth rate is dropping in every country on Earth, @DKThomp writes. He spoke with the economist Jesús Fernšndez-Villaverde about why the birth rate is dropping, why it matters, and just how steep the decline is likely to get:

The Great Depopulation
Why is the birth rate declining in every country on Earth?

from my link log —
How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight.
https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/html-first/
saved 2026-06-10 https://

How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
My client was a utility company, and they had a big problem...

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#SundayMorning
- Three hours of classical sparkle
Join Sarah Walker for a wide-ranging Sunday mix, from Baroque elegance and Romantic piano writing to choral stillness and symphonic drama.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002w8f8

Trump praises ICE following killings:
'Doing a great job'
The felon-president called for traffic stops to resume, despite the administration ordering the agency to pause them on Tuesday
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/poli

Trump Praises ICE Following Killings: ‘Doing a GREAT Job’
Donald Trump responded to the uproar following ICE killing two men in vehicles in less than a week, writing that the agency is "doing a GREAT job."

This is hilarious, crushing, zany, bleak, beautiful, and true.
https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp
(ht @…)

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.

Beth Macy built her career writing about the plagues inflicted on rural America,
most famously the opioid epidemic in “Dopesick,”
but also the job losses from trade agreements that devastated communities across Appalachia.
Now running as a Democrat in the kind of House district she says she is uniquely qualified to reach,
she recited the 4-H pledge from memory
— “I pledge my head to clearer thinking,
my heart to greater loyalty,
my hands to larger se…

Can Democrats Win Rural Voters Turning Away From Trump? It’s a Tough Sell.
House candidates like Beth Macy, author of “Dopesick,” have crafted messages based on lifetimes in rural regions. But messages need an audience, and many minds are closed to the party.

The Reflecting Pool Water’s Fine
The Reflecting Pool episode captures most of Trump’s governing pathologies—without any of the normal attendant consequences, Jonathan Chait argues.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/

The Reflecting Pool Water’s Fine
It’s easy being green.

Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp, says his terminal application Ghostty will move off GitHub, citing GitHub's frequent outages (Mitchell Hashimoto)
https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github

from my link log —
6 things Markdown got wrong.
https://www.swyx.io/writing/markdown-mistakes/
saved 2020-04-04 https://dotat.at/…

from my link log —
Why writing correct software is hard.
https://pron.github.io/posts/correctness-and-complexity
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Why Writing Correct Software Is Hard
We try to understand the relationship between programs and correctness, and in particular, why writing correct programs must be hard. We will review results from computability theory and complexity theory, and see that programs and complete understanding – which is required for correctness – are fundamentally at odds.