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I’m thrilled to be teaching a class next week with the amazing Sarah Kokernot, fiction writer, essayist, dharma friend, and author of the monthly, Your Wild and Radiant Mind.
The class, More Than Seeing: Writing From Art, will meet online next week Thursday (August 27).
I’d love to see you there!
#Art #writing

More Than Seeing: Writing From Art
An online generative writing workshop with Sarah Kokernot and Sal Randolph coming August 27

Very nice, Mr @… !
Album - Consonance
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_llgsYr3-nyGK…

Consonance
Album • Marcio Riscado and Randy Resnick

I Don’t Care if A.I. is So Good We Can’t Tell it’s Not Human. That’s Not The Point.
#ai

Calibre v9.15 adds an AI-powered interactive fiction game | OMG! Ubuntu
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/calibre-ebook-app-ai-ficton-writing?v1

Calibre v9.15 adds an AI-powered interactive fiction game
The latest update to Calibre, the popular open-source ebook manager, features an AI-powered writing game. Calibre v9.15's "Create Your Own Adventure"

as someone who has worn knockoff raybans for decades, yet another sincere 'n' hearty "fuck you, creepizoids" to meta. https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/117123975744986279

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.

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’

Everything in life, at some level, is about storytelling, so they say. Yet, telling my own story, about my own work, the reasons/impetus, the processes, the details, mistakes, insights, lessons, connections etc. It is the hardest thing ever.
People don't buy the art, they buy the artist.
As much as I do love writing, I've always strongly disliked writing about my creative works/efforts, probably because I so often wanted The Work™ to stand on its own and also because I so frequen…

Anthropic’s Text Watermarking Proves AI Companies Do Not Care at All About Writing https://www.404media.co/anthropics-text-watermarking-proves-ai-companies-do-not-care-at-all-about-writing/

from my link log —
Tech ain't that deep - and that's a problem.
https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/tech-aint-deep
saved 2026-07-20 https://…

Tech ain't that deep - and that's a problem | deadSimpleTech
With that in mind, it became fairly clear to me that the tech industry these days has a depth problem: as much as tech is becoming quite a bit more complex, it's also becoming shallower. Learning new things in tech these days, as often as not, simply doesn't give me the same feeling of satisfaction or achievement as learning or writing C back in the first years of my career did. Being effective in tech these days feels as though it's less about understanding than it is about memorising a big li…

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.

Secret Creative Life
Hosted by award-winning screen editor and writer Adam Rainford, each episode is an in-depth conversation with people working across live-action film, animation, writing, illustration, design, photography, music, games and the arts...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.

Things I've learned today:
- Valgrind does not support AVX512 instructions. That was an adventure because I was writing purposefully bad code at the time...
- However, changed strategies and used `clang` with the `fsanitize=address,undefined` option which seems to work perfectly fine.
#clang

Who would've thought that #Rust becomes native for GPU kernels:
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/introducing-cuda-rust-two-tracks-for-writing-gpu-kernel…

Introducing CUDA Rust: Two Tracks for Writing GPU Kernels
In September 2026, NVIDIA announced it is leaning into native GPU programming in Rust. CUDA C++ and CUDA Python are mature, enterprise-grade toolchains…

The writing for Dean Winchester and the acting of Jensen Ackles are just peak, ngl.
They truly created a believable character that's flawed and carries secrets and insecurities but also wishes and a deep love for his broken family.
#DeanWinchester #Supernatural

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

wasn't the whole point of ID verification on W social that it should make AI slop impossible...
This is on the W Social landing page right now.
this does not scream "for verified humans" to me?

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

Anthropic's text watermark alters word probabilities to embed a fingerprint, which could degrade Claude's writing, despite its claim of no impact on quality (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/ant

Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing
It’s unacceptable for a tool to sacrifice an iota of clarity, coherence, meaning, quality, etc. for the purpose of embedding hidden clues within the text to suggest its provenance. The idea that anything other than *my* needs should factor into the generation of text *for me* is patently offensive.

I was sitting in the garden, busy reading and writing on my MacBook. I realised that the sun was going down, but I got engrossed in what I was doing, and when I looked up, it was completely dark. I miss the long light summer evenings already!

Worked with a #writing #coaching client on some ways to do screenplay outlining and also structure your own workflow so progress gets made even if time is tight. Great to help them have tools to keep their work, development of their craft and their material going.

Organising conferences I've tended to do a call for full papers but it's always felt awkward. Like why require people to write 4 pages to apply to do a talk? Especially when it's unpaid work (sometimes even pay-to-speak), and when people generally don't just read out their paper anyway so the paper ends up fairly unrelated to the talk.. Like writing and speaking can be just very different things.
So I think for the next @…

Perhaps I should be writing press releases, because most journalists know no better than to copy or paraphrase these.

A lot of people are writing lots of things about A.I here already, all of which are more important than my complaint...but man, trying to buy a new NVMe drive at this juncture is utter insanity.
Really wish I'd gone for a bit more RAM and especially storage back when you could actually afford them.
Time to delete some of my praying mantis video collection to make space for less essential things, like work files.

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 …

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.

Good advice for writers
How to Use a Writing Cleanroom to Avoid Plagiarism - Plagiarism Today
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2016/08/10/how-to-use-an-writing-cleanroom-to-prevent-plagiarism/

How to Use a Writing Cleanroom to Avoid Plagiarism
A writing cleanroom is the easiest and most effective way to avoid plagiarism in your work. Best of all, it’s the easiest way to write, period.

Writing science papers. https://colinpurrington.com/tips/write-ups/

I'm the first to recognize AI is transforming writing, but for Harvard to shutter its Writing Center—where I once worked as a peer tutor—is to ignore the fact that we need even more attention to writing during this critical transformation https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/7/

Harvard College Lays Off Writing Center Director, Consolidates Center | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Harvard College Writing Center will no longer operate as a standalone unit after its director was laid off and its functions were consolidated as part of a restructuring in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, prompting swift backlash from current and former writing tutors.

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! 😉
…

Grades are a 1-pixel approximation to a large, complex picture.
https://dandrake.github.io/writing/grades_1_pixel/grades_are_a_1-pixel_approximation_to_a_complex_picture.html
I think a lot about grades and assess…

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

What is a Morgan Motor Car?
More than a car, an English tradition
https://medium.com/never-stop-writing/what-is-a-morgan-motor-car-9889583729f8?sk=e97350ac198546785974a0949598faa6

Happy 5787 to all my Jewish friends.
This Olam is getting a little long in the tooth, isn't it?
Shanah Tovah!
#ShanaTova

I wish I had a free week to work on writing code that I don't get paid for. Instead, I have to spend time writing code that I do get paid for.

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

Aynone using #libreoffice or #collabora that writes in #yiddish ? What good tools are there? Would be really great if someone had something for writing yiddish with a latin keyboard

Azeez Al-Shaair on NFL fine for tribute to slain Palestinian girl: 'What’s a life worth?' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7608726/2026/09/18/azzez-al-shaair-texans-fine-palestine-eye-black/

Dear friends
You know I've been writing a lot lately about people in #Gaza whose verified accounts have been suspended in the crackdown on #Palestinian accounts on mastodon.social.
Nourhan is someone I've been corresponding with for some time; she's an academic, a very dignified…

via @…
https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/117263797571082570
se her @…

Honestly, I really like writing code. As I'm writing, I think about ways to put things together, ways things could change. I run across awkwardness that reveals internal design problems. Just sitting and writing code puts my mind in a really calm and creative place.
An LLM just slams out code. A lot of the time it's garbage, but it's never creative. It's never making something beautiful or challenging. And if you're using an LLM to generate code you're missing that.
Now, there's plenty of boiler-plate code that can be automated effectively. But even automating that that is suppressing a signal.
Code doesn't exist to make computers go. It exists to communicate what the computer is doing. If you just want to make a computer go, you write assembly (or perl, I guess). But if you want to communicate ideas then you use a language that facilitates that.
Programming is a creative process, and statistics aren't creative.
I've been on medical leave for a while and I'm finally getting back to getting my feet under me (which is also why I haven't written human language stuff in a while). Last week I spent a bunch of time coding and I didn't realize how much I missed it, or how much I got out of 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

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.

#WritersCoffeeClub Sep 17: Do you try to have a regular writing goal? Why or why not?
200 words/day
It's a very obtainable goal for me that allows me to feel satisfaction every day.
In ten days, that's 2 000 words.
In a year it's 73 000 words.
Everything counts, though it's harder to keep score in the notebook. And some days I don't write…

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…

So help me, I am pondering writing my own DI container. What is wrong with me? (Or with the existing market, for that matter.)
#php

#TechnicalWriting Style Guide
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Technical_Writing_Style_Guide

They say nobody reads poetry. Almost nobody reads *anything* any more except for posts and tweets and toots. But keep on writing. Maybe someday ...
#poetry

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.”

🎬 #auteur is a #ClaudeCode #AgentSkill that directs a website like a film: one art direction committed in writing before any markup, and an executable anti-slop linter that gates every shi…

When the Justice Department indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center in April on controversial fraud charges, the storied civil rights organization faced a major threat to its lifeblood
— the flow of donor dollars.
Not because it was convicted or because the Internal Revenue Service revoked its tax-exempt status.
Not even because individual donors stopped writing checks.
Instead, three Wall-Street-affiliated grantmaking giants each made a decision,
one they ref…

Wall Street’s Nonprofits Use Selective, Opaque Logic to Defund Charities
A quarter of all individual giving in the U.S. is made through donor-advised funds. A ProPublica investigation reveals how these high-stakes decisions to cut off funding often leave charities, donors and the public in the dark.

@… IMO updating the code would be overkill, to your own point in the book: It's not supposed to be a book about writing react apps in typescript.
If I were in your shoes, I would leave an open issue and/or update the Readme on the example repo, so anyone like me in the future can relatively easily find the information that: The code still works, if you use the…

[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…

"Software for One"
https://www.ajwaxman.com/writing/software-for-one

Narrative Keyframing for Generative Creative Writing
Chao Zhang, Abe Davis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10337 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.10337 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.10337
arXiv:2608.10337v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We introduce narrative keyframing, an interaction technique for AI-assisted creative writing that lets writers specify different types of narrative constraints at selected moments in a story, then use AI to generate intervening prose. Inspired by the use of keyframing in animation, narrative keyframing offers a flexible way to connect story planning with adaptive control over generated text. We explore three types of keyframes: plot keyframes define significant events in a story, character keyframes represent how individual characters change over the narrative, and perspective keyframes capture how individual characters experience different events through first-person narratives. Plot and character keyframes offer a flexible way to adapt the type of high-level conditioning explored in previous AI writing tools to more customizable, iterative, and fine-scale control, while perspective keyframes add a new way to control characterization and focalization by using first-person narratives as an intermediary. Through a user study, we show that narrative keyframing supports a more controllable, transparent, and engaging way to use generative AI in creative writing.
toXiv_bot_toot

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.

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

'ShieldFont is an open-source project that offers a practical opt-out from unauthorized AI training and disrupts what is collected when that choice is ignored. It swaps 45.8% of content words (around 24.4% of all words) in a page’s source code for other (partially) random words, while the font restores the original text on screen. Readers see the work as intended; mass scrapers collect an altered version.'
(Unfortunately, it's an accessibility nightmare, but I just like to …

ShieldFont
Publish for humans, not for crawlers. A web font that swaps the words in your HTML, so readers see your writing and AI training gets a stale copy.

RE: https://writing.exchange/@paulk/117297324761521577
😅😅😅
In a short while it can promiss you those things.

I'm corresponding with a person where I'm certain the writing is AI; they say absolutely not, they spent an hour on it; but the rest of the reply has the same smell.
They seem to really want me to respond, so I presume they're telling the truth. Have people ALREADY lost writing?

#today has already started, with some frantic document writing for my supervisor to present today at a meeting!

Generative AI’s per-query footprint can be small compared to flying, eating meat, or even Zoom. Until agents show up and compute goes through the roof.
How I updated my AI footprint calculator accordingly https://jonippolito.substack.com/p/agents-are-where-ais-energy-bil…

Morning all!
A day of podcast edits, blog writing, client meetings and online community admin. I also need to make some progress on a new guide to beating #procrastination that I'm writing.
(Grateful for my coffee machine ☕️)

from my link log —
Ruminating about mutable value semantics.
https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/ruminating-about-mutable-value-semantics/
saved 2026-08-12

Am I an LLM? Just out of interest, I checked different variations of a piece of my very own writing I've done this weekend with GPTZero, and each time it says it's 100% AI generated, literally for every single sentence...
Such great motivation on a Monday AM! 😭
#Writing #LLM…

Ukraine is the victim of a lawless, brutal, unprovoked invasion by a politically backward and dysfunctional would-be empire ruled by a murderous autocrat.
That assessment was obvious on Feb. 24, 2022 when the full-scale invasion was launched,
and it was obvious in 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea.
The challenge of writing about the war is that once you’ve said that,
saying it again just feels repetitive.
This is a bigger problem than one columnist’s selfish de…

Column: The war in Ukraine is becoming very inconvenient for Trump
It is utterly dishonorable to watch the president excoriate and victim-blame Ukrainians on a geopolitical scale.

@… I generally don’t. I may share a link to my blog here, or in a private text chat with my spouse or friends, but only insofar as I think they’d genuinely be interested in reading that particular thing.
Writing is, by and large, an exercise I do *for* me. It doesn’t need to ever be read for me to achieve that benefit.

OpenAI launches Astra for Law, combining GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index and instructions for legal analysis and writing, initially for select law firms (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/astra-for-law

Investigation: YouTuber Caleb Chan appears to be behind channels using AI-assisted scripts and paid actors to publish political clickbait targeting Democrats (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/02/2026

Exclusive: Paid actors, AI writing: How a new kind of video business cashed in on America’s divided politics
‘Ghost creators’ are reaching millions of viewers with nearly identical, sensationalized videos that take aim at Democrats.

#WritersCoffeeClub – 10th Sept. What's something you believe about writing which can't really be proven?
That your research, your knowledge, and your spirit shows in your writing. It shines through in the words you chose, the rhythm of your prose.

from my link log —
Solaris Turnstiles for mutex priority inheritance.
https://rdmsr.github.io/writing/turnstiles/
saved 2026-09-09 https://

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

from my link log —
Speeding up (small) Ruby hashes with SWAR.
https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2026/08/13/speeding-up-ruby-hashes.html
saved 2026-08-14

An analysis using Pangram: 10 out of 310 guest submissions to WSJ, WaPo, and NYT over the past month were 80% AI-generated, and 40 were partially AI-generated (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/08/26/2026/ai-writing-has-…

Exclusive: AI writing has already begun to appear on the opinion pages
About 10 — of 310 — contributions to The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and the New York Times over the past month appear to have been written by AI models.

How AI gutted Kenya's essay-writing industry, which at its peak paid 40,000 people in Nairobi to do overseas students' homework, leaving few paths back to work (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/technol

Kenyans Made a Living Writing College Essays. Then A.I. Arrived.
Thousands of Kenyans made a living writing essays for overseas students. With A.I., the work has dried up, a warning for online gig work that has been a global lifeline.

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."

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.

Fields Medalist Timothy Gowers says most famous mathematics problems solved by LLMs so far have almost all been with counterexamples rather than proofs (Timothy Gowers/Gowers's Weblog)
https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/what-sort-of-maths-are-llms-good-a…

What sort of maths are LLMs good at?
For the sake of anyone who might read this blog post in the distant future (a month from now, say), let me mention that I am writing it a few days after OpenAI announced that it had solved ten majo…

New York Magazine says it will stop publishing Ross Barkan's column because his work did not live up to its standards and updates 67 of his columns in archives (Max Tani/@maxwelltani)
https://x.com/maxwelltani/status/2088356584686583896

Max Tani (@maxwelltani) on X
Ross Barkan is no longer writing for New York Mag, per a statement. In a statement, the magazine says Barkan “did not adhere to our editorial standards,” cites 67 columns that did not have proper attribution.

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.

Anthropic details Claude's text watermark: it only shows Claude was likely involved, is sparse in code and factual text, and disappears after a full rewrite (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-text-watermark

How Claude's text watermarking works
Future Claude models will generate text that contains a watermark. This is a way of determining the likelihood that Claude was involved in writing the text, and we, along with several other major AI providers, are implementing this change to comply with the EU AI Act. In this article, we share answers to some of the questions we’ve received about how our chosen watermarking method works, whether it affects Claude’s outputs, and why we’re making this change.

Ukraine will only halt attacks on Russian energy targets if the enemy does likewise and the US guarantees it,
Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
The announcement came after Donald Trump’s uncorroborated claim that both sides have agreed to such a ceasefire.
Neither Ukraine nor Russia had said so at time of writing.
The US president regularly claims to have brokered what turn out to be nonexistent or extremely shortlived deals between foreign adversaries or with his o…

Ukraine war briefing: No energy ceasefire until Russia stops, Zelenskyy confirms after Trump claim
Moscow would need to commit ‘honestly and on a long-term basis’ to ending the war before Kyiv would de-escalate. What we know on day 1,665

A New Jersey judge ordered New Brunswick Today to remove surveillance footage of a school lockdown and barred the outlet from writing about the event (Matthew Haag/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/nyregion/news-site-video-school-arrest.html

A News Site Published a Video of a School Lockdown. Then It Was Gone.
A New Jersey judge ordered New Brunswick Today to remove the video and barred it from writing about the episode, alarming First Amendment advocates.

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.

from my link log —
Memory-mapped IO registers in Zig.
https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/mmio-in-zig/
saved 2021-03-07 https://

Anthropic has revealed that it will soon watermark content that is processed
(not just generated!)
by any of its models.
In a support article, Anthropic explained that it was rolling out machine-readable watermarks to comply with the European Union’s AI Act,
which requires all AI system providers to watermark AI-generated or manipulated audio, image, text, and video outputs.
The law applies to any AI model released after August 2 and provides a grace period unt…

Claude's new Scarlet Letter watermark is invisible—for now
The mark flags anything Claude processed, even human writing it only edited.

How Congressional lawmakers and aides are using AI tools with little oversight to write speeches and news releases, sort constituent mail, and more (Anna Liss-Roy/Washington Post)

Chatbots are doing the work of Congress with little oversight
From writing speeches to sorting constituent mail, AI is spreading through Congress faster than the rules governing its use.

ugh trying not to flame some shitty disjointed punchy writing, whose author complains about being accused of writing like an llm … i mean if they aren’t using an llm maybe they should put their effort into writing like a human

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.

The US urged G20 members to avoid writing entirely new AI regulations, and instead focus on writing rules for "novel" situations that involve the tech (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-urges-hands-o…