A little bummed that OpenAI is retiring Pulse. It felt like magic. But also it must’ve been burning through tokens way beyond the benefit, and personally I went from reading it every day to only skimming it every couple days. Maybe ChatGPT scheduled tasks can be good enough.
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Michael Tsai blogging about Apple’s private email relay:
The main problem I have with Hide My Email is that some customers use it and then have no way to look up their purchase info via e-mail because they don’t know which address they used.
Yep. Apple needs a simpler way to see all your email addresses, like a table of all the service names and each email address. No one knows how to dig into iOS Settings to find it. (Although on the iOS 27 beta it’s less buried than it used to be.)
Asides: Jul 2
This Page Left Intentionally Blank
I was popping off about negation being an act of creativity, when Blake Watson introduce me to the idea of the “This Page Intentionally Left Blank”-Project (Internet Archive):
In former times printed manuals had some blank pages, usually with the remark “this page intentionally left blank”. In most cases there had been technical reasons for that. Today almost all blank pages disappeared […]
[this project] tries to introduce these blank pages to the Web again […] to offer internet wanderers a place of quietness and simplicity on the overcrowded World Wide Web
Ahead of its time.
In our age of generative AI, a blank page is a deliberate act!
So I went ahead made my own.
Go ahead and crawl that bots. I don’t use robots.txt, but I’m thinking of making one specifically to say “Make sure you don’t miss this page Botty Bot.”
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More reporting today from the Financial Times that OpenAI suggested a 5% stake for the government:
Sam Altman, chief executive of the ChatGPT maker, has argued that giving the public a financial stake in the company is the best way to share the upside of AI and has suggested a stake of this size in early conversations with the administration, according to two people familiar with the talks.
It's a good idea, but Trump is so transactional that I don't trust his administration to manage this. Congress should pass an actual law that sets up the fund.
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From the FAQ for the laundry-folding robot, Isaac 1:
Isaac 1 is autonomous for Laundry Flow and Daily Reset by default, with teleoperation assistance when needed to guarantee we complete tasks.
I get that companies want to ship something, but this isn't like software that can be iterated on later. If it can't work fully autonomously, private to the home, I don't think it's ready.
Thursday, July 02, 2026
I'm so back in Emacs it isn't even funny. Also Linux. Dank Linux, to be precise.
Toy Story 5 was pretty fun.
I still can't focus long enough to write more than a few sentences at a time. I'd consider it a debilitating problem, if I actually had more and useful things to write about. It's only a nuisance, honestly.
Thursday, July 02, 2026
I'm so back in Emacs it isn't even funny. Also Linux. Dank Linux, to be precise.
Toy Story 5 was pretty fun.
I still can't focus long enough to write more than a few sentences at a time. I'd consider it a debilitating problem, if I actually had more and useful things to write about. It's only a nuisance, honestly.
You don’t have to blog like me
You don’t have to blog like me.
You don’t have to differentiate by post kind.
You don’t have to put full contents in your feed.
You don’t have to keep a library of “maybe-some-day”
drafts so long that you’ll never reach the bottom.
You don’t have to put full contents in your feed.
You don’t have to keep a library of “maybe-some-day”
drafts so long that you’ll never reach the bottom.
You don’t have to have a comments form.
Or reactions. Or webmentions.
Or a guestbook. Or drawings?
(But give me some way to say “hi, you’re cool!”)
You don’t have to have a feature image.
You don’t have to keep posts up forever.
You don’t have to have tags.
You don’t have to syndicate to the socials.
You don’t have to stick to one topic.
Or three. Or seventeen.
Or be able to answer “what’s your blog about?”
It’s yours, and that’s enough.
You don’t have to post on a schedule.
You don’t have to use your real name.
You don’t have to have a podcast.
You don’t have to tell everybody.
You don’t have to use any particular tool.
Bloggers who spend their time arguing
About vs vs ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ vs
Could be reading and writing instead.
You don’t have to have a plan to “monetize”.
You don’t have to write your own theme.
You don’t have to be run your own server.
You don’t have to make every post your best.
The Internet is ours.
It belongs to the humans.
Not to the companies and the robots.
To us.
And every human voice.
Every single human voice.
Makes the world a little richer.
You don’t have to blog like me.
(You don’t have to use “blog” as a verb.)
You just have to blog.
And if you mention your blog in the comments, below, I promise I’ll go read it.
You don't have to have an RSS feed. Buuuutt... if you don't, then there's probably no way I'm following your blog. Sorry! (🤣 You get it; you're an RSS user!)
