The YT algo showed me one of this person's videos but heck he's good. (Disclaimer: I've only watched the most recent 2 thus far.) And has a real website: chriswaves.com
"Publishing this as a dataset would muddle the idea of information at all - this is not actually information, it's a guess, labeled as a dataset. It'll get included in the 'training data' for future LLMs and will contribute to the dismal future of everything being kind of wrong and nothing being authoritative. Everything just being decayed echoes of the people long ago that cared and created primary sources."
github.com/tmcw/awesome-geojson/pull/75#issuecomment-4972924679
In the "there's nothing new..." dept. 2013: "lately I’ve been feeling a need to get back to the pre-Web-2.0 days of owning my own content...Remember when the people working on these products seemed so glamorous?"
daniel.industries/2013/03/13/the-rumors-of-google-readers-death-have-not-been-greatly-exaggerated/
(Had to fix a broken image on this one, which helped find the correct attribution, after some archive.org digging.)
Deep cut from my liked songs playlist
RE: mastodon.pnpde.social/@Bartimaeus/116940797417589297
This is what I do and it's fantastic/flawless. I'd forgotten it's a 3rd party service. Except why is it a 503 right now? I was going to see if they had a ko-fi or similar.
Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go
youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs
Good reminder that some things, like existential horrors, never change
/ht @davidvedvick
Paul Ford w/ the most cogent post about the Zig/Bun thing mailchi.mp/aboard/zkd26k8jzm-10347761?e=36aad005c9
"These feelings of loss drift through our bodies like ghosts. They settle in our cells, in our blood, gathering around days like this like weather patterns, shaping us in ways we cannot understand. It is a sad day. I can see it in my wife’s eyes. But it is an ordinary day too, a beautiful day."