Notes
These short posts include "asides" from the my original blogs, a sample of "tweets" from Twitter, and more recently are often syndicated to my Fediverse profile.
Sad to see Margaret Hamilton go, but she had a long and productive life. My deep disappointment is that she had to watch our idea of “leader in computing” shift to people like Andreessen, Musk, and Altman.
First the LLMs claimed my use of em-dashes, and then Claude took “load-bearing” from me. Go emulate someone else, FFS.
Now that Tennessee has botched an execution, anyone want to bet that Trump calls for a return to hangings, or firing squads?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/30/tennessee-execution-halted-christa-pike
The Nvidia-branded sand heist is a decent work of science fiction, but I’d have preferred the thieves be rogue autonomous tractors from a competing firm. And maybe tell the story using the trendy “lessons learned from our software breaking the law” press release trope.
Maybe I’m in a honeymoon phase with my chosen country, but 14 years in I still enjoy how positive international social media is about the Netherlands and Dutch culture. YouTube is awash with jealous videos and this Instagram poking fun of Dutch tourists was met with a litany of “they are my favorite visitors” comments.
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